Written answers
Tuesday, 29 April 2008
- Department of Health and Children
- Hospital Accommodation
Question 15: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her view on the Irish Heart Foundation's national audit of stroke care; if the six acute stroke units announced by the Health Service...
- Child Protection
Question 16: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her view on the findings of the national review of child protection and welfare services that health authorities are failing some of the...
- Hospital Expenditure
Question 17: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will explain the value for money achieved by the hike in the hospital cleaning costs which increased by almost €50 million...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 18: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on the report on the affect on the health services of the abuse of alcohol in society here; her further views on whether the...
- Patient Care
Question 19: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her view on the finding of the Health Information and Quality Authority report into the misdiagnosis of a person (details supplied) that...
- Child Protection
Question 20: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will make statutory the guidelines on child protection; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16233/08]
- Hospital Services
Question 21: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will ensure that the commitment given to the people of the north east that no service will be removed until a better service is in...
- Health Service Executive Appointments
Question 22: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the criteria used in the decision to appoint persons (details supplied) to the board of the Health Service Executive; and if she will...
- Hospital Inquiries
Question 23: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will instigate an external inquiry into the circumstances in which a healthy kidney was removed from a child in a hospital...
- Health Care Associated Infections
Question 24: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on the impact financial cuts are having on laboratory testing for MRSA and other hospital acquired infections; the way she...
- Childhood Obesity
Question 26: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she has developed or is developing, a strategy to address the growing problem of childhood obesity in view of recent statistics which...
- Hospital Staff
Question 29: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will ensure that additional staff, particularly midwives, are allocated to Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda as a matter of...
- Hospital Services
Question 30: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will re-affirm the pre-election commitment to the people of County Clare with regard to the €39 million redevelopment of Ennis...
- Health Services
Question 31: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the cuts that have taken place in the provision of respite for people who are being cared for in the...
- Accident and Emergency Services
Question 32: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason in view of her description of the accident and emergency crisis as a national emergency in March 2006, the subsequent...
- Health Services
Question 34: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the way she will ensure that families who would rely on access to respite care in Leopardstown Park Hospital in south Dublin will be able...
- Hospital Services
Question 35: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of operations carried out in 2007 and to date 2008; the number of operations cancelled for same period; and if she will make a...
- Mental Health Services
Question 36: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason €24 million of the €51 million allocated was spent on the implementation of the recommendation of A Vision for Change, the...
- Hospital Services
Question 37: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the discussions she has had with the Health Service Executive regarding the review of services at Roscommon County Hospital; and if she...
- Health Care Associated Infections
Question 39: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the information her Department has on the prevalence of C-difficile in hospitals here; her views on the recent report of the Health...
- Palliative Care
Question 40: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will provide a commitment that the planned roll out of palliative care here over a five year period is adhered to; and if she will...
- Suicide Prevention
Question 41: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason there is no increase in funding the national suicide prevention office to facilitate the implementation of the report of the...
- Hospital Accommodation
Question 42: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the progress made on the promises made to cystic fibrosis patients to provide a number of isolation beds in summer 2008 for adult cystic...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 43: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will receive an appointment for an MRI scan in the Cork University Hospital; the number...
- Hospital Services
Question 44: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason the expansion of Waterford Regional Hospital will not go ahead in the planned timeframe promised before the general election...
- Hospital Staff
Question 45: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the Cork University Hospital report into the appointment of a pathologist (details supplied) which was commissioned in August 2007...
- Cancer Screening Programme
Question 46: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will ensure that the process of accreditation of cytology laboratories which carry out tests for cervical cancer is completed as...
- Tobacco Control
Question 47: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on the report from the Office of Tobacco Control that 48% of national retailers were willing to sell cigarettes to underage...
- Health Services
Question 48: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the eligibility review unit was established in her Department; the progress made in developing proposals to update and clarify the...
- Nursing Home Subventions
Question 49: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the serious financial hardship being suffered by many elderly people in nursing homes due to the...
- Hospitals Building Programme
Question 50: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the control she will have on the running of the proposed private co-located hospitals; if she has had discussions with a group (details...
- Health Services
Question 51: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of respite beds that have been closed around the country; the number of respite beds she expects to close over the coming...
- Health Service Staff
Question 55: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of staff employed throughout the country in the delivery of health services; the number of consultants, doctors, nurses or...
- Health Services
Question 56: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the cost-cutting measures imposed by the Health Service Executive in the north-east region since September 2007; and if she will make a...
- Drug Treatment Services
Question 57: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her Department funds a 24 hour telephone helpline for persons affected by drug use; the amount of finance allocated to such a project;...
- Hospitals Building Programme
Question 59: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the discussions she has had with the Health Service Executive regarding the proposed regional hospital for the north east; the role of...
- Health Services
Question 60: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she plans to provide funding and supports for vital services and resources for children who have a drink or drug dependency; and if...
- Hospital Services
Question 61: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the provision of kidney dialysis services for patients here; the number of patients who have to travel outside their own region for...
- Hospital Accommodation
Question 62: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when she will provide urgently needed step down beds in the Dublin area in order that patients in acute hospitals who are ready to be...
- Hospital Services
Question 63: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the discussions she has had with the Health Service Executive regarding the transformation plan for hospital services in Counties Cavan...
- Health Services
Question 64: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the cost-cutting measures imposed by the Health Service Executive in the southern region since September 2007; and if she will make a...
- Mental Health Services
Question 65: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the measures in place to retain profits from the sale of property currently used for psychiatric care within the mental health budget;...
- Patient Care
Question 67: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will extend the remit of the Health Information and Quality Authority to include private health care facilities and hospitals; her...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 68: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on the recent report by the Irish Council for Bioethics on stem cell research; if she will introduce legislation in this area;...
- Hospital Staff
Question 72: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will require the Health Service Executive to urgently address the acute staff shortage at Tralee General Hospital; and if she will...
- Hospital Accommodation
Question 73: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason the promised six extra beds which were to have been in place by March 2008 for the child and adolescent psychiatric service...
- Hospital Staff
Question 74: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the plans in place to provide access to a microbiologist in all hospitals here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16266/08]
- Nursing Home Standards
Question 75: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the standards for nursing home care, recently approved by the board of the Health Information and Equality Authority, will be...
- Health Services
Question 76: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will act to prevent the closure of 12 respite care beds at Cherry Orchard Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Drug Treatment Services
Question 77: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the provisions being put in place to provide treatment for the ever growing number of polydrug users in society; and if she will make a...
- Child Protection
Question 78: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the ongoing programmes in place in each Government Department and State agency to ensure appropriate training on child protection issues...
- Health Services
Question 79: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will act to prevent the closure of the 12 bed respite care unit at St. Oliver Plunkett's Hospital, Dundalk; and if she will make a...
- Cancer Screening Programme
Question 80: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will report on the promise she has made to introduce a national cervical cancer screening programme; and if she will make a...
- Patient Care
Question 81: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the structures she has put in place to ensure that the recommendations of the Health Information and Quality Authority report on the...
- Health Services
Question 82: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the steps her Department is taking to combat depression and isolation among members of the farming community; and if she will make a...
- Hospital Services
Question 83: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the status of the acute hospital services review; the steps she will take in view of this review; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Health Services
Question 86: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the terms and conditions of arrangements between the Health Service Executive, on the one hand, and Mercy University Hospital Cork in...
- Department of An Taoiseach
- Official Engagements
Question 88: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his discussions with the European Commission President Mr. Jose Manuel Barroso on a visit to Dublin recently; if he discussed the...
- Census of Population
Question 89: To ask the Taoiseach if he will include a question on the next national Census form asking if any person or persons in each household has autism, as such information is important to...
- Data Protection
Question 90: To ask the Taoiseach the steps he will take in his Department to protect computer systems from theft and from the release of sensitive personal information which is held on these...
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 91: To ask the Taoiseach the number of new persons transferred from Dublin under the decentralisation programme since 1 January 2008; and the number of persons transferred under this...
- Official Engagements
Question 92: To ask the Taoiseach the meetings, in Ireland or abroad, he has had for each of the past three years in an official capacity with Heads of States, Government Ministers or other...
- Department of Finance
- Financial Services Regulation
Question 93: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he will advise on a matter (details supplied). [15955/08]
- Flood Relief
Question 94: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the steps which he is taking to address the summer flooding in the Shannon Callows which is having a dramatic impact on wildlife with a...
- Capital Allowances Schemes
Question 95: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance his view as to whether publicly funded hospitals, meaning hospitals which provide services to persons pursuant to their entitlements...
- Garda Stations
Question 96: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance when a new Garda station will be provided at Ballyvary, Castlebar, County Mayo; if his attention has been drawn to the dilapidated...
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 97: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he will provide in tabular form, details regarding the numbers of civil servants awaiting transfer to locations within the...
- Capital Allowances Schemes
Question 98: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he will include micro combined heat and power systems as part of the energy efficient technologies under the enhanced capital...
- Tax Collection
Question 99: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if a person (details supplied) in County Kildare has received all of their tax repayments and tax allowances; and if he will make a...
- Public Works Projects
Question 100: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the progress to date by the Office of Public Works in implementing the recommendations of the Towards a Liffey Valley Park report...
- Money Advice and Budgeting Service
Question 101: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance his views on the recommendation directed to him in respect of the Money Advice and Budgeting Service in the Consumer Strategy Group...
- Land Registry
Question 102: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance when he expects the go ahead for the new Land Registry offices in County Roscommon to be sanctioned; and if he will make a statement...
- Tax Code
Question 103: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he will introduce tax relief for the costs of structural works to a home necessitated by a disability; and if he will make a...
- Data Protection
Question 106: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the steps he will take in his Department to protect computer systems from theft and from the release of sensitive personal information...
- Tax Code
Question 107: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance his views on reducing the rate of VAT on defibrillators from 21% to 13.5% in view of the fact that they can save lives and are badly...
- Economic Competitiveness
Question 108: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the measures he proposes to take to address the issue of competitiveness in the economy thereby protecting inward investment; and if...
- Tax Code
Question 109: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the reason holders of UK bank and credit cards living here are being penalised with having to pay stamp duty from Ireland when their...
- Customs Service
Question 110: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he is satisfied that the number of customs and excise officers at international and regional airports here and the number of checks...
- Financial Services Regulation
Question 112: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he has made a decision on raising the level of deposits protected under deposit protected schemes in view of the greater...
- Disabled Drivers
Question 113: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he will change the medical criteria for qualification for the disabled drivers and passengers tax relief scheme to include people...
- State Property
Question 114: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the position regarding an estate (details supplied) in County Cork; if he is satisfied that the State received adequate consideration...
- Official Engagements
Question 115: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the meetings, in Ireland or abroad, he has had for each of the past three years in an official capacity with Heads of States,...
- Residential Property
Question 116: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the value of all residential property here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16539/08]
- Department of Health and Children
- Health Services
Question 117: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the home care grant will be awarded in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [16405/08]
- Health Service Staff
Question 118: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the Health Service Executive recruitment freeze has had the effect of making it...
- Accident and Emergency Services
Question 119: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason patients are spending unacceptable amounts of time on trolleys in accident and emergency in view of the implementation of her...
- Health Care Associated Infections
Question 120: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on the impact financial cuts having on laboratory testing for MRSA and other hospital acquired infections; and if she will...
- Hospital Accommodation
Question 121: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans for a new ten-bed spinal injuries unit at Beaumont Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15936/08]
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 122: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason emergency admissions to psychiatric institutions are being delayed for several days due to the lack of such specialist...
- Hospital Staff
Question 123: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she proposes to introduce specialist transplant co-ordinators in all of the regional acute hospitals here in order to increase the...
- Hospital Services
Question 124: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to a six year audit of cancer services at St. James's Hospital which has shown dramatic increases in...
- Hospital Accommodation
Question 125: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will arrange funding, which is both appropriate and necessary, to facilitate the opening of the recently completed dementia unit...
- Health Service Staff
Question 126: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on a recent comment by a person (details supplied), that general practitioners are in danger of suffering...
- National Diabetes Policy
Question 128: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if there is a national strategy for the treatment and prevention of diabetes in place; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Health Services
Question 130: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will respond positively to the reasonable and finite demands of post polio survivors; and if she will make a statement on the...
- National Lottery Funding
Question 131: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if there is funding available to financially support a conference (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 132: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will look into the matter of the six-year-old child (details supplied) in County Tipperary who, despite several referrals from...
- Health Services
Question 135: To ask the Minister for Health and Children further to Question No. 431 of 26 September 2007, if the briefs have been completed for the subgroups recommended by the Report of the...
- Ambulance Service
Question 136: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that Cork University Hospital has been without a helipad for the past number of years; the...
- Irish Blood Transfusion Service
Question 137: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the plans in place for the future development of the regional centre of the Irish Blood Transfusion Service in Cork City. [16022/08]
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 138: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in County Mayo who needed an urgent appointment in a hospital in Dublin three weeks ago has not...
- Mental Health Services
Question 139: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will support a proposal (details supplied). [16058/08]
- Health Services
Question 141: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will assist a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12. [16061/08]
- Asylum Support Services
Question 142: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the general practitioners services available to asylum seekers during their first weeks as asylum seekers while they are awaiting their...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 143: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of children over the age of seven waiting to have an appointment with an occupational therapist in each Health Service...
- Food Safety Authority
Question 144: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she is proposing to introduce a ban on additives in children's food as called for by an association (details supplied). [16086/08]
- National Reference Laboratory
Question 145: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she is proposing to provide the necessary resources to create a national reference laboratory to identify types of clostridium...
- Health Services
Question 146: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of grants her Department and the Health Service Executive provided to assist with the purchase of digital directional hearing...
- Hospital Services
Question 149: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will examine the case of a person (details supplied) in County Cork who was first referred to St. Finbarr's Hospital for...
- Services for People with Disabilities
Question 150: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will assist a service (details supplied). [16118/08]
- Health Services
Question 151: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will support a person (details supplied). [16119/08]
- Medical Cards
Question 152: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of medical cards applied for in January, February and March 2007 and January, February and March of 2008. [16122/08]
- Psychological Service
Question 153: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the publication of the Health Service Executive's national review showing that children with urgent...
- Health Services
Question 154: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of speech therapists in County Laois; the average length of waiting lists to see a speech and language therapist; the...
- Ambulance Service
Question 156: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if patient transport will be provided to a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [16153/08]
- Child Care Services
Question 157: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of child care workers attached to the south Lee area in Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16154/08]
- Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme
Question 160: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive payment under the health repayment scheme in view of the fact that a...
- Hospital Services
Question 162: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the services available for stroke victims in County Louth; the proposed improvements for such services; and if she will make a statement...
- Medical Cards
Question 163: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a medical card will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16180/08]
- Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme
Question 164: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason people attending an oral hearing in respect of the repayment scheme understand from correspondence the hearing will be...
- Health Service Prosecutions
Question 165: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the Health Service Executive has on a yearly basis in the past five years taken prosecutions in the courts against nursing home...
- Child Care Services
Question 166: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when she expects to receive the Health Service Executive review report on its child and family services for 2007; and the action she has...
- Health Services
Question 168: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the guidelines set down by her Department for orthodontic treatment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16195/08]
- Child Care Services
Question 170: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the date when she or the Minister of State with responsibility for Children first received the Health Service Executive review report on...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 171: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the health budget for each year from 1994 to date in 2008; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16199/08]
- Child Care Services
Question 172: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will explain the changes which will take place in regard to the level of funding of child care programmes and the NCIP after June...
- Hospital Services
Question 173: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the proposed plan to amalgamate the male and female wards at St. Conal's Hospital is to go ahead; her views on whether the patients...
- Child Care Services
Question 174: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if in view of an adjournment debate (details supplied) she will review the funding crisis that exists; and if she will make a statement...
- Parliamentary Questions
Question 175: To ask the Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 318 and 319 of 5 February 2008, the reason Dáil Éireann was mislead even though the Health...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 176: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Kildare will receive a date for surgery for a knee replacement operation; and if she will...
- Hospital Staff
Question 177: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the plans in place by the Health Service Executive to appoint a full-time cardiologist at Sligo General Hospital; and if she will make a...
- Hospital Services
Question 178: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the hospitals and the number of respite places which the Health Service Executive is cancelling in 2008; the alternatives that are to be...
- Health Services
Question 179: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the assistance given to adults suffering from Asperger's syndrome; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16333/08]
- Services for People with Disabilities
Question 181: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the measures that have been put in place to enable the residential house in Marian Avenue, Ballymahon to open, as it is completed but...
- Departmental Funding
Question 183: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will confirm that funding will be made available for research into muscular dystrophy as requested by an organisation (details...
- Health Services
Question 184: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Meath will get a place at St. Joseph's in Trim, County Meath; and if she will make a...
- Medical Cards
Question 185: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason she has not availed of her power under section 45(3) of the Health Act 1970 to specify by regulations the classes of persons...
- Health Services
Question 186: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she is satisfied that the Health Service Executive has complied with its obligation to publish, in accordance with section 16 of the...
- Health Service Contracts
Question 189: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the bodies with which the Health Service Executive has contracts, agreements or arrangements carried over and given effect by virtue of...
- Health Services
Question 192: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a voluntary hospital, meaning a hospital which is substantially funded by means of an arrangement with the Health Service Executive...
- Tobacco-Related Diseases
Question 198: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the amount of education carried out by her Department on the dangers of cigarettes among the youth here; her views on whether she is...
- Hospital Services
Question 199: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason the Health Service Executive is downgrading the level of service at Mallow General Hospital; if her attention has been drawn...
- Care of the Elderly
Question 200: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the alternative arrangements she has made to replace the provision of a respite care for elderly patients at Leopardstown Park Hospital...
- Health Services
Question 201: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will assist a person (details supplied) in Dublin 3. [16421/08]
- Health Service Staff
Question 202: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if there are Health Service Executive employees working outside the State; if so, the number and the locations in which they work; and...
- Health Services
Question 203: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason persons (details supplied) in Dublin 12 were refused a respite care grant; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Grant Payments
Question 205: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will assist in having a grant made available to a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [16459/08]
- Hospital Services
Question 206: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding a project (details supplied). [16480/08]
- General Medical Services Scheme
Question 208: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when her Department will abolish the mandatory retirement of GMS doctors on age grounds solely as advocated by the Irish Medical Council...
- Hospital Services
Question 209: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if funding will be provided for provision of a day procedure unit at Mallow General Hospital; the state of development of these...
- National Treatment Purchase Fund
Question 213: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if there are changes in the qualifying conditions relating to the National Treatment Purchase Fund; if it is still the case that when a...
- Health Services
Question 214: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the guidelines with regard to the seeking of parental consent for procedures, investigations and interventions carried out by the Health...
- Official Engagements
Question 215: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the meetings, in Ireland or abroad, she has had for each of the past three years in an official capacity with Heads of States,...
- Services for People with Disabilities
Question 216: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the intellectual disability database does not specifically record the incidence of...
- Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme
Question 217: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the procedure employed in long-stay institutions for the acceptance or rejection of offers under the nursing home repayment scheme; the...
- Health Services
Question 218: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the procedure employed in long-stay institutions for use of funds in patients' personal accounts; the audit procedures on the spending...
- Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme
Question 219: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Sligo will receive payment on their claim under the health repayment scheme. [16591/08]
- Health Services
Question 223: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the report into the death of a person (details supplied) has been finalised by the Health Service Executive; when this report will be...
- Cancer Incidence
Question 225: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the extent to which she has studied the incidence of the various forms of cancer, on a county, city or regional basis throughout the...
- Ambulance Service
Question 226: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the degree to which the strength of the ambulance service personnel, vehicles and equipment is adequate to meet or expected...
- Hospital Services
Question 227: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the clean air theatre at Naas Hospital, Naas, County Kildare is expected to become operational; and if she will make a statement on...
- Health Services
Question 229: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she is satisfied that the network of health centres here could be further utilised in the delivery of primary or community care; and...
- Health Care Associated Infections
Question 230: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of incidents of MRSA or other hospital based infections reported in each of the past three years to date in 2008; the degree...
- Health Service Staff
Question 231: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans or proposals to ensure the appointment of sufficient nurses to meet requirements throughout the health services over the next...
- Hospital Services
Question 233: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of hospital beds currently available throughout the health service; the number required at any one time; the number currently...
- Health Service Staff
Question 234: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of personnel at all levels required by the Health Service Executive to provide a comprehensive health service; the number of...
- Health Services
Question 235: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the extent to which she or her Department have input into the formation of health policy and strategy for the health services or if the...
- Health Service Staff
Question 237: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of personnel employed in the delivery of the health services; the extent to which this number has fluctuated in each of the...
- Department of Transport
- Road Traffic Offences
Question 239: To ask the Minister for Transport the number of persons penalised to date under the penalty points system; the number who have exceeded the various categories; and if he will make...
- Pension Provisions
Question 240: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has sought a report on the funding base of the pension fund for airline and aviation workers in the public sector; if they are in a position...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 241: To ask the Minister for Transport if his Department provided briefings to date on the recently published Dublin Transport Authority Bill 2008; if so, the persons to whom they were...
- Departmental Legislation
Question 242: To ask the Minister for Transport the number of days, in respect of every Bill and Act produced by his Department since 1997 to date in 2008, between their publication and their...
- Road Network
Question 243: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will appoint a senior executive engineer from Donegal County Council to sit on the technical group dealing with the route selection between...
- Road Signage
Question 248: To ask the Minister for Transport his plans in relation to improving road markings throughout the country in view of the fact that better quality road markings on roads here would...
- Port Development
Question 249: To ask the Minister for Transport the investment in ports here for each year since 2000 to date in 2008. [16429/08]
- Coast Guard Service
Question 251: To ask the Minister for Transport if his attention has been drawn to a 60 year old agreement signed by the British and Irish Governments insisting that Malin Head Coastguard...
- Official Engagements
Question 252: To ask the Minister for Transport the meetings, in Ireland or abroad, he has had for each of the past three years in an official capacity with Heads of States, Government Ministers...
- Department of Foreign Affairs
- Passport Applications
Question 253: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will review regulations preventing foster parents obtaining passports for their Irish born foster children; and if he will make a...
- Departmental Funding
Question 254: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the amount of discretionary funds allocated to the US-Ireland Alliance group by any of the four Irish consulates in the United States of...
- Departmental Legislation
Question 255: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of days in relation to every Bill and Act produced by his Department since 1997 to date in 2008; the number of days which elapsed...
- Human Rights Issues
Question 256: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the contacts he has had with the Government of China and its representatives following the criticism by the Minister for Environment,...
- Overseas Development Aid
Question 257: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the amount of foreign aid Ireland contributes overseas with a breakdown on that aid; the amount of the aid used for education; and if he...
- Official Engagements
Question 259: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the meetings, in Ireland or abroad, he has had for each of the past three years in an official capacity with Heads of States, Government...
- Citizenship Status
Question 260: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will provide an estimate of the number of individuals in South Africa and in Argentina who are eligible for, but do not currently...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 261: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of Libyans who hold Irish citizenship; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16540/08]
- Emigrant Support Services
Question 262: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the funding available to the next of kin of a person (details supplied) who was an Irish citizen but had emigrated to England 40 years ago...
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Work Permits
Question 263: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if a decision has been made on the appeal which has been lodged by a person (details supplied) in County Dublin against the...
- Health and Safety Regulations
Question 264: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has considered, or will consider, the level of risk of displaying CFLs in retail outlets; the potential risk to...
- National Science Museum
Question 265: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if there are proposals for a science museum in the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16577/08]
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 266: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the total sum spent to date in each year of the €3.8 billion Government allocation under the Strategy for Science,...
- Consumer Protection
Question 267: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views in relation to the recommendation directed to him by the Consumer Strategy Group to commission research into...
- Industrial Development
Question 268: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the Industrial Development Authority will transfer lands in its ownership in Gorey, County Wexford to the local chamber...
- Company Closures
Question 269: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, further to Parliamentary Question No. 169 of 5 December 2007, if a company (details supplied) has honoured or will honour...
- Work Permits
Question 270: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will reassess an application for a work permit for a person (details supplied). [16187/08]
- Job Creation
Question 271: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the net new jobs position produced by both the Industrial Development Authority and Enterprise Ireland in the first quarter...
- Community Employment Schemes
Question 272: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on launching a new jobs scheme in close liaison with business with the objectives of reintegrating graduates of...
- Job Losses
Question 273: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the estimated net jobs gains or losses in the economy in the first quarter of 2008; the special measures he is putting in...
- Economic Competitiveness
Question 274: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the measures he propose to take to address the issue of competitiveness in the economy, thereby protecting jobs and inward...
- Industrial Development
Question 275: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the measures he is taking in view of the recent job losses in the midlands to encourage initiative and innovation in...
- Job Losses
Question 276: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps he is taking to prevent the further loss of manufacturing jobs here; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Industrial Development
Question 277: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the investment by the Industrial Development Authority in County Wicklow and County Carlow by location by year since 2000...
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 278: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide in tabular form, details regarding the numbers of civil servants awaiting transfer to locations within...
- Job Losses
Question 279: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the information available to his Department on the closing down of a hotel (details supplied) in Dublin 9, and the...
- Job Creation
Question 280: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will detail those announcements made by his Department for each of the past five years in relation to new...
- Industrial Properties
Question 281: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of IDA factories which are vacant for longer than one year, for longer than two years, for longer than three...
- Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism
- Sports Funding
Question 282: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism when an application for funding under the sports capital grant will be finalised for club (details supplied) in County Tipperary....
- Natural History Museum
Question 285: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the progress made on displaying some on the artefacts on display in the Natural History Museum in alternate locations for the...
- Sports Funding
Question 286: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the support or grant aid available for a swimming pool and sports complex in a town (details supplied) in County Monaghan; when the...
- Official Engagements
Question 287: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the meetings, in Ireland or abroad, he has had for each of the past three years in an official capacity with Heads of States,...
- Department of Social and Family Affairs
- Social and Affordable Housing
Question 290: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will establish a review of the treatment of people who are working and renting privately on low income, who currently are...
- Pension Provisions
Question 291: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his plans to increase the permitted part-time earnings ceiling of €38 a week for a person to quality for a State transition...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 292: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason, when a child is placed in foster care their child benefit and child care allowance remains payable to the natural...
- Data Protection
Question 293: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the steps he will take in his Department to protect computer systems from theft and from the release of sensitive personal...
- Waste Management
Question 294: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will introduce a national waste services waiver scheme for old age pensioners and other social welfare recipients; if his...
- Customer Services
Question 295: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if his Department intends using voice recording for all telephone queries to it by members of the public as a tool for quality...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 296: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of outstanding applications for child benefit that require processing with a breakdown of this figure on a county...
- Official Engagements
Question 298: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the meetings, in Ireland or abroad, he has had for each of the past three years in an official capacity with Heads of State,...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 299: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9 will be assisted. [16665/08]
- Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
- Community Employment Schemes
Question 300: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs his views on launching a new jobs scheme in close liaison with the community and commercial sectors with the...
- Dormant Accounts Fund
Question 301: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if funding from the Dormant Accounts Fund for the purchase of a mini bus by a voluntary organisation (details...
- Official Engagements
Question 302: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the meetings, in Ireland or abroad, he has had for each of the past three years in an official capacity with Heads of...
- Department of Agriculture and Food
- Proposed Legislation
Question 303: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if she has proposals to reform the Foreshore Act 1933; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16066/08]
- Turbary Rights
Question 305: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if lands in County Mayo taken from a person (details supplied) in order that people could turf, will be given back to the...
- Grant Payments
Question 306: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when the remaining grant aid will be paid to beet producers; the rate of payment; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Rural Environment Protection Scheme
Question 307: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive their REP scheme 4 payment. [16140/08]
- Afforestation Programme
Question 308: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the criteria for farmers to plant trees on their land; the planning involved in same; the locations where this has to be...
- Farm Retirement Scheme
Question 309: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the reason recipients of the early retirement scheme payment (details supplied) in County Wexford are unable to receive...
- Rural Environment Protection Scheme
Question 310: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will receive their REP scheme payment; and if she will make a statement on...
- Coastal Protection
Question 311: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food further to a previous Parliamentary Question regarding the re-instatement of the sea bank at Cromane and recently released...
- Harbours and Piers
Question 312: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the reason funding has been refused in 2008 for essential work on Helvick Pier, County Waterford; when such funding will be...
- Rural Environment Protection Scheme
Question 314: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if she will extend the deadline of 16 May 2008 for the submission of REP scheme four plans. [16186/08]
- Grant Payments
Question 316: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if she will approve the top up grant on the farm waste management grant for a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon;...
- World Trade Negotiations
Question 317: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the actions she is taking to safeguard the interest of Irish agriculture at the World Trade Organisation negotiations; and...
- Fisheries Protection
Question 318: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if it is her intention to review the law regarding the operation of the Sea Fisheries Protection Authority and the use of...
- Forestry Programme
Question 319: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the details of her commitment to providing adequate funding for training for personnel employed in the forestry sector...
- Rural Environment Protection Scheme
Question 320: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the situation in relation to REP scheme payments to a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; and if all their payments...
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 321: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if she will provide in tabular form, details regarding the numbers of civil servants awaiting transfer to locations within...
- Grant Payments
Question 322: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the feedback in her Department from farmers regarding the payment of grants by electronic means from October 2008; the...
- Official Engagements
Question 325: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the meetings, in Ireland or abroad, she has had for each of the past three years in an official capacity with Heads of...
- Grant Payments
Question 326: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when an application will be processed for a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on...
- Department of Education and Science
- Schools Building Projects
Question 327: To ask the Minister for Education and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 179 of 21 February 2008, the status of the application; when she will make an announcement on...
- Irish Language
Question 329: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her plans, to consider the possibility of giving formal recognition to the Irish sign language; and if she will make a statement on...
- Health and Safety Regulations
Question 330: To ask the Minister for Education and Science further to her response to Parliamentary Question No. 792 of 2 April 2008, if she will supply a copy of the agreement (details...
- Higher Education Grants
Question 331: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the grants or mechanisms available to a person to pay their second year college fees (details supplied) in view of the fact that they...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 335: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when she will announce the next group of post primary schools to proceed to design stage; and if she will make a statement on the...
- School Staffing
Question 340: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the rate of payment to a secondary school teacher working as a substitute in a primary school; and if there is a limit on the length...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 341: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the application for a special needs assistant by persons (details supplied) in County Meath for September 2008....
- Schools Building Projects
Question 342: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the status of the application for an extension at a school (details supplied) in County Meath; and if the educational provision for...
- School Transport
Question 343: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will make a statement regarding a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [16051/08]
- Schools Building Projects
Question 344: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will support a school (details supplied) in County Cork. [16062/08]
- School Accommodation
Question 346: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a financial allocation will be made to a school (details supplied) in County Kilkenny in order to carry out renovations that are...
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 347: To ask the Minister for Education and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 578 of 5 February 2008, when it is expected that the new building will be ready for occupation;...
- School Staffing
Question 348: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if an appeal by a school (details supplied) in County Wexford to be granted mainstream teaching staffing numbers for the 2008-2009...
- Institutes of Technology
Question 349: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if further consideration has been given to the application of Waterford Institute of Technology to be upgraded to university status...
- School Transport
Question 350: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding a matter (details supplied). [16107/08]
- Schools Building Projects
Question 352: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when she will provide a new building for a school (details supplied) in County Cork. [16141/08]
- School Enrolments
Question 353: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of primary schools in County Roscommon with a waiting list for admissions; the number on the waiting list in each school;...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 355: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when the summer works scheme which has been cancelled will resume again; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16201/08]
- Teachers' Remuneration
Question 356: To ask the Minister for Education and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 671 of 2 April 2008, the way a teacher may receive the higher pay increment when the institution...
- School Staffing
Question 357: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of visiting teachers employed by her Department; the number of same who work with visually impaired students; and if she...
- Vocational Education Committees
Question 358: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will reconsider the refusal to formerly sanction funding by Westmeath Vocational Educational Committee for a project (details...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 359: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason her Department has failed to progress a proposed new school building (details supplied) in County Westmeath despite the...
- Schools Refurbishment
Question 360: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the measures she has put in place to advance the refurbishment of a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 361: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the status of an application for funding for a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary; when she expects a decision to be made;...
- Higher Education Grants
Question 363: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason a student who is eligible for a means tested student support grant, attending a university or institute of technology, does...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 364: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will support a project (details supplied) in Dublin 5. [16423/08]
- Pupil-Teacher Ratio
Question 366: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will respond to a request (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16431/08]
- English Language Support
Question 367: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of students in primary and post primary education where English or Irish is not their first language; the figures for the...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 368: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will give approval for a school (details supplied) to proceed with a new school; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Departmental Funding
Question 369: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the grant aid available from her Department in respect of a group (details supplied) in County Cork who need funding. [16460/08]
- Schools Building Projects
Question 370: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when she next expects to be in a position to sanction new building works under the school building and modernisation programme; and if...
- Schools Refurbishment
Question 371: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she is satisfied that conditions at a school (details supplied) in Dublin 20, where there are problems with leaking roofs, rising...
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 373: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will provide in tabular form, details regarding the numbers of civil servants awaiting transfer to locations within the...
- Third Level Fees
Question 374: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the proposals she has to extend free fees at third level education to students who are the children of non EU citizens who are legally...
- School Transport
Question 375: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if it is possible to transfer a school transport service being provided under the closed school amalgamation rule to another school in...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 376: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position in relation to the construction of a new school building (details supplied) in County Galway; if this school is included...
- Higher Education Grants
Question 377: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when a person (details supplied) in Dublin 11 will be approved for the higher education grant, as they are being allowed to remain...
- School Accommodation
Question 378: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the action her Department will take to secure permanent accommodation for a school (details supplied) in County Laois; and if she will...
- Official Engagements
Question 379: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the meetings, in Ireland or abroad, she has had for each of the past three years in an official capacity with Heads of States,...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 380: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a site or sites have been acquired or are in the process of being acquired in the Kellystown area of Dublin 15 for primary and...
- School Accommodation
Question 381: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if special consideration is being given to the accommodation needs of a school (details supplied) in Dublin 24; if she will give...
- Education Schemes
Question 384: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if, further to a meeting (details supplied) at which an understanding was reached as to an investigation which would be made on the...
- State Examinations
Question 385: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if an application by a person (details supplied) in County Mayo to sit the leaving certificate as an external student. [16686/08]
- Department of Defence
- Defence Forces Recruitment
Question 386: To ask the Minister for Defence if it is his understanding that form AF340, which provides consent to release Garda information under the Data Protection Act 1988, also covers the...
- Naval Service Vessels
Question 387: To ask the Minister for Defence if, in future, when civilian ships have to be chartered to transport units of the Defence Forces or their equipment to and from overseas missions...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 388: To ask the Minister for Defence if his Department has a certificate guaranteeing that the software used on all computers within his Department is fully paid for; and if he will...
- Departmental Surveys
Question 389: To ask the Minister for Defence if he proposes to set up an independent expert to lead a study on the way medical services for the Defence Forces might best be delivered. [16088/08]
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 390: To ask the Minister for Defence the cost of preparing, printing and delivering the programme planning for major emergencies. [16120/08]
- Industrial Relations
Question 392: To ask the Minister for Defence the date it is expected the negotiations between PDFORRA and his Department under the conciliation and arbitration scheme on payment of the...
- Overseas Missions
Question 394: To ask the Minister for Defence the position in relation to a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16453/08]
- Defence Forces Property
Question 395: To ask the Minister for Defence if he will report on negotiations between his Department and Cork County Council regarding Department owned land (details supplied) in County Cork;...
- Official Engagements
Question 397: To ask the Minister for Defence the meetings, in Ireland or abroad, he has had for each of the past three years in an official capacity with Heads of States, Government Ministers...
- Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
- Requests for Support
Question 398: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will support a request (details supplied). [16223/08]
- Crime Levels
Question 399: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the breakdown of the convictions for drink driving in respect of blood, urine and breath samples in each of the years 2000...
- Garda Deployment
Question 400: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of gardaí and the location of each Garda Traffic Corps unit for each year since 2005 to date in 2008; the...
- Registration of Title
Question 401: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will review, by way of order, land registry fees in respect of Land Registry Dealings; and if he will make a...
- Residency Permits
Question 403: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason a person (details supplied) in Dublin 11, who first came to Ireland from the US ten years ago and, who has been...
- Asylum Applications
Question 404: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 22 who arrived here with their brother and father from Nigeria in 2005....
- Residency Permits
Question 405: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views on an application by a person (details supplied) in County Laois who were told that they did not fulfil the...
- Crime Prevention
Question 406: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress made in relation to the roll-out of Garda youth diversion programmes; and when the next announcement of...
- Asylum Applications
Question 407: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the basis on which somebody from New Zealand with a legitimate work permit would be considered by his office to be asylum...
- Departmental Bodies
Question 408: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views as an interim measure, pending the report of the high level interdepartmental committee on multi-unit...
- Law Reform
Question 410: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will establish a working group to reform the law to ensure that transgendered people are given recognition by the...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 411: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when he expects applications for persons (details supplied) for citizenship to be decided on; and if he will make a...
- Visa Applications
Question 414: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if a person resident in a foreign country (details supplied) can make an application for a holiday visa to come to here in...
- Asylum Applications
Question 415: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the implementations for direct provision in respect of asylum seekers can also allow those individuals to be considered...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 416: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when an application for naturalisation will be processed for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
- Court Procedures
Question 417: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views on the recommendation of the Consumer Strategy Group report to increase the maximum award to €3,000 in the...
- Garda Divisions
Question 418: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in relation to a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16079/08]
- Gaming Industry
Question 419: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his proposals to regulate the gaming industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16097/08]
- Proposed Legislation
Question 422: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will introduce legislation on adverse possession; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16100/08]
- Garda Deployment
Question 423: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of Garda Reservists who have been appointed to Garda stations in County Limerick. [16121/08]
- Residency Permits
Question 424: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the current or expected residency status of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if he will make a statement...
- Visa Applications
Question 425: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will allow an extension of nine months to the visa of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry. [16185/08]
- Citizenship Applications
Question 426: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will intervene on behalf of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal, who has applied for citizenship; and if he...
- Residency Permits
Question 427: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 179 of 28 February 2008, the status of a request by person in Dublin 24; when a...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 429: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will take steps to expedite an application for naturalisation by a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath...
- Deportation Orders
Question 430: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status of the application to have the deportation order revoked for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a...
- Crime Prevention
Question 431: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the measures he is taking to build a safe society here by protecting citizens and enforcing the law; and if he will make a...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 432: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a decision will be made on an application for naturalisation by a person (details supplied) in Dublin 7; and if he...
- Asylum Applications
Question 433: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a decision will be made on an application for asylum by a person (details supplied) in Dublin 8; the status of the...
- Ministerial Request
Question 434: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding a case and outstanding matters. [16422/08]
- Asylum Support Services
Question 435: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the payments made under all headings to all companies involved in providing accommodation to asylum seekers and refugees...
- Residency Permits
Question 437: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in relation to an application for residency by a person (details supplied) in County Limerick. [16471/08]
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 438: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will provide in tabular form, details regarding the numbers of civil servants awaiting transfer to locations within...
- Official Engagements
Question 439: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the meetings, in Ireland or abroad, he has had for each of the past three years in an official capacity with Heads of...
- Asylum Applications
Question 440: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the case of a person (details supplied) will be reconsidered following their son's extensive operation in Temple Street;...
- Asylum Support Services
Question 441: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the number of complaints from each of the centres operated under the Reception and...
- Departmental Reports
Question 450: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when the interim report of the National Commission on Restorative Justice will be published; and if he will make a...
- Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
- Control of Dogs
Question 451: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when a rottweiler dog is regarded as a dangerous dog (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
- Local Authority Housing
Question 452: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will provide this Deputy with a report as to the reason the Ballymun regeneration went over budget and...
- Public Service Charges
Question 453: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on an exemption for water rates for a charity (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
- Air Pollution
Question 454: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if, arising from air pollution monitoring outposts here, he has noticed an increase in particular forms of...
- Local Authority Housing
Question 455: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on the request of the Dublin City Council on 7 March 2008 in respect of the designation of Ballymun...
- Planning Issues
Question 456: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his plans to amend the planning Acts to prevent the practice of applicants paying for objectors or appellants...
- Archaeological Sites
Question 457: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding an application by a club (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if he will make a...
- Social and Affordable Housing
Question 458: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will establish a review of the equity of treatment of people in the private rent sector, who currently...
- Planning Issues
Question 460: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has plans to introduce an independent inspectorate to examine local authority applications for rezoning...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 462: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will introduce legislation regarding voluntary housing which would allow long term tenants of voluntary...
- National Parks
Question 464: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the details of the National Parks and Wildlife Service farm plan scheme for 2008; the level of compensation...
- Local Authority Housing
Question 465: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the issues delaying a decision regarding the request of Dublin City Council for the re-development of D Block...
- Departmental Correspondence
Question 468: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will consider a waiver for an organisation (details supplied) in County Kerry towards the fee due to...
- Water and Sewerage Schemes
Question 469: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the status of the Waterford grouped towns and villages sewerage scheme; when the sewerage scheme in each of...
- Local Authority Funding
Question 470: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the way he will provide funding for local authorities in view of serious financial difficulties, large...
- Departmental Correspondence
Question 472: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when the moneys due to a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath will be awarded; and if he will make a...
- Local Authority Funding
Question 473: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the proposals he has to provide sufficient funding to meet the demand of Waterford County Council under the...
- Fire Safety
Question 475: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if adequate fire safety plans are in place at Dublin Port; and the safety plans in place to deal with a...
- Port Development
Question 476: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding a project (details supplied). [16420/08]
- EU Directives
Question 477: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 507 of 11 March 2008, if he will provide a copy of the defence...
- Grant Payments
Question 478: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the progress made regarding the grant assistance available to householders who have septic tanks older than...
- Building Regulations
Question 480: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when he expects Part 3 of the Building Control Act 2007 to be fully enacted and a technical assessment board...
- Noise Pollution
Question 481: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding the draft legislation being prepared to govern house alarms and noise pollution; when...
- Housing Aid for the Elderly
Question 482: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the assistance available to an elderly resident who wishes to insulate the walls of their home in a bid to...
- Gender Balance
Question 483: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will introduce reforms to make it easier for women to participate in politics; and if he will make a...
- Official Engagements
Question 485: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the meetings, in Ireland or abroad, he has had for each of the past three years in an official capacity with...
- Planning Issues
Question 486: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his plans to review the legislation regulating the licensing of outdoor music events; and if he will make a...
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Department Schemes
Question 487: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when the details of the pilot grant scheme to incentivise home insulation which was announced in budget 2008...
- Electricity Generation
Question 488: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a semi-State company (details supplied) plans to cease...
- Alternative Energy Projects
Question 489: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when details of the pilot grant scheme to incentivise the use of wind turbines will be made available and the...
- Data Protection
Question 490: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the steps he will take in his Department to protect computer systems from theft and from the release of...
- Fisheries Protection
Question 491: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will allow the draft-net fishermen of Cromane, County Kerry to fish for any period this season; and if he...
- Telecommunications Services
Question 492: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the progress that has been made to deliver next generation broadband to this State; when broadband will be...
- EU Treaties
Question 493: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if the protocol annexed to the Lisbon treaty on the treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community...
- Official Engagements
Question 494: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the meetings, in Ireland or abroad, he has had for each of the past three years in an official capacity with...
