Written answers
Wednesday, 30 April 2008
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Consumer Protection
Question 10: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the contact he has had with the National Consumer Agency regarding the large price differences for the same goods sold in...
- State Bodies
Question 11: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of staff employed by the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement; if he has an outstanding request for...
- Economic Competitiveness
Question 12: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the growing strength of the euro, which is projected by economists to reach above $1.60 in the months ahead, is having an...
- Employment Rights
Question 13: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to concerns expressed by SIPTU that the treatment of some foreign workers employed as...
- Job Losses
Question 14: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the breakdown of types of employment that account for the job losses since the start of 2008; the way he accounts for the...
- Financial Regulation
Question 15: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is satisfied that there are adequate legislative measures in place to deal with the issue of insider trading,...
- Unemployment Levels
Question 16: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will revise the projected unemployment figures for 2008; his views on the scale of increase in unemployment; his views...
- FÁS Training Programmes
Question 17: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his plans to retrain the significant number of recently unemployed construction workers; if he has a strategy to migrate...
- Services Sector
Question 19: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on the figures showing a decline in business activity in the services sector in the first three months of 2008,...
- World Trade Negotiations
Question 20: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the measures he is taking to ensure a positive outcome for Ireland in the current World Trade Organisation negotiations; and...
- Employment Rights
Question 22: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when the national employment rights authority will be established on a statutory basis; and if he will make a statement on...
- Grocery Industry
Question 23: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is satisfied that the abolition of the groceries order has resulted in the reduction in prices that were forecast by...
- Job Losses
Question 24: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of manufacturing and service jobs lost in each of the past five years to date in 2008; the number lost due to a...
- Work Permits
Question 25: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on the proposed EU blue card scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16738/08]
- FÁS Training Programmes
Question 27: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason FÁS failed to train enough people to allow the safety certificate requirement to be implemented on time; and if...
- Consumer Protection
Question 29: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is satisfied with the work to date of the National Consumer Agency; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- EU Directives
Question 30: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of EU directives for which his Department has responsibility, remaining to be implemented; the directives that...
- Economic Competitiveness
Question 31: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps he is taking to ensure that price competitiveness of industry here is improved; and if he will make a statement on...
- Job Losses
Question 32: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of redundancies notified to his Department during 2007; the way this compares with the same period in each year...
- Tax Code
Question 33: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on the lengthening of the ten year look back period for the research and development tax credit that applies to...
- Joint Labour Committees
Question 34: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the impact the recent High Court settlement between the Labour Court and the Irish Hotel's Federation will have on joint...
- Competition Authority
Question 35: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of recommendations made to Government by the Competition Authority since 2002 to date in 2008; the number of...
- World Trade Negotiations
Question 37: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the main obstacles to a comprehensive World Trade Organisation agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- National Minimum Wage
Question 38: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason for the decline from 2002 in 2006 to 1750 in 2007 in the number of inspections to check that the minimum wage was...
- Job Creation
Question 40: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of new jobs he expects to be created during 2008 in regard to manufacturing and other sectors; the way these...
- Official Engagements
Question 42: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the Government Ministers from non-OECD countries he has met in an official capacity since his appointment as Minister; the...
- EU Directives
Question 43: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on whether the EU Directive on the Posting of Workers, as referenced in the recent European Court of Justice...
- Employment Rights
Question 47: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps being taken to reduce waiting times for hearings at the Employment Appeals Tribunal ; if he has had a request for...
- Workplace Accidents
Question 48: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on the significant increase in the number of deaths recorded in workplace accidents in the construction sector...
- Economic Competitiveness
Question 49: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the way he will support small to medium enterprises here to adapt to the changing economic environment; and if he will make...
- Consumer Protection
Question 50: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps being taken to implement the commitment in the programme for Government that steps would be taken to ensure that...
- Site Investigations
Question 52: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 691 of 30 January 2008, the further progress that has been made with the future...
- EU Directives
Question 53: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the position in regard to the proposed EU Directive on Agency Workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16557/08]
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 55: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the progress made to date with regard to the implementation of the programme of decentralisation in respect of his...
- Job Protection
Question 56: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the decision he has made on the request that the Government should guarantee a loan in respect of Waterford Crystal; the...
- Job Creation
Question 57: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of jobs created by multinational companies which have located here for each year since 2005 to date in 2008; and...
- Industrial Disputes
Question 61: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will intervene in a dispute at a hotel (details supplied) in Dublin where workers have been let go because of dispute...
- Consumer Protection
Question 62: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his proposals for a consultation process regarding the prohibition of credit card and other relevant methods of payment...
- Job Losses
Question 64: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if there is a dedicated section within his Department responsible for identifying plants that may be at risk, in order that...
- Equality Issues
Question 69: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the average industrial wage earned by a male worker and female worker respectively; the average male earnings and average...
- Unemployment Levels
Question 71: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is concerned that according to figures published by the Central Statistics Office that 18 of the 28 towns with a...
- Consumer Protection
Question 72: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the action being taken to implement the commitment in the programme for Government that steps would be taken to ensure that...
- Employment Support Services
Question 77: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 34 and 36 of 28 February 2008, if the reviews of the wage subsidy scheme and...
- Department of Finance
- Financial Services Regulation
Question 78: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the extent to which mortgage protection insurance policies are monitored by his Department with a view to ensuring that opt out clauses...
- Tax Code
Question 80: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if there is a reason, other than budgetary, the reforms of residential stamp duty contained in budget 2008 did not include incentives...
- Department of Health and Children
- Health Service Allowances
Question 82: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in Dublin 11 has been declined domiciliary care allowance; the appeal procedures applying to this...
- Health Services
Question 83: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the funding allocated for short-term respite care in budgets 2007 and 2008; the amount of the funds allotted to 2008 that have been used...
- Hospital Services
Question 84: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the amount of investments made and the services they have been invested in, in a hospital (details supplied) in County Mayo in each of...
- Health Services
Question 85: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the amount of investments made and the services they have been invested in, in facilities at a location (details supplied) in County Mayo...
- Health Service Staff
Question 88: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that carers working in a nursing home (details supplied) in County Donegal have been asked to...
- Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme
Question 89: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position of an application for a refund of nursing home charges by a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if she will make...
- Health Service Staff
Question 90: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position of an application for a transfer within the Health Service Executive to either Galway or Roscommon by a person (details...
- Pharmacy Training
Question 91: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the difficulties facing graduate pharmacists in securing pre-registration employment here; her plans...
- Health Service Reports
Question 92: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she received first or subsequent drafts of the recent report into the proposed new regional hospital for the Dublin north east area;...
- Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme
Question 93: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the amount of money being paid to private companies pursuant to an act (details supplied) giving details on an annual basis. [16923/08]
- Health Services
Question 94: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position in relation to a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow; if they will be seen as a matter of urgency; and if she will...
- Services for People with Disabilities
Question 95: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the progress that has been made by the Health Service Executive working group, which includes representatives from disability...
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Question 96: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of applications for an assessment of need that have been received following the commencement of Part 2 of the Disability Act...
- Department of Transport
- State Bodies
Question 97: To ask the Minister for Transport the number of staff, and the operational cost of the taxi regulator's office. [16807/08]
- Taxi Regulations
Question 99: To ask the Minister for Transport if, in the powers delegated to the taxi regulator, it was understood that taxi driving would be a sustainable livelihood; if further such a...
- Road Network
Question 101: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has made applications for INTERREG III for funding for roads in County Donegal; and if so, the roads for which funding applications were...
- International Agreements
Question 102: To ask the Minister for Transport his views on an air transport agreement with Egypt; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16889/08]
- Department of Foreign Affairs
- Accidents Overseas
Question 103: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of Irish citizens who have died while on holidays abroad in each of the past three years; the number who died from drowning; and...
- Foreign Conflicts
Question 105: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will clarify Ireland's position regarding recent revelations in relation to Colombian politicians being closely associated with...
- Extraordinary Rendition
Question 106: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he has sought written assurances from the US Secretary of State to confirm that no unlawful combatants or prisoners of war have been...
- Diplomatic Representation
Question 107: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if persons (details supplied) will be assisted. [16907/08]
- Passport Applications
Question 108: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs when a passport was issued to a person (details supplied); if the passport was issued through the Passport Office in Dublin or an Irish...
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Services for People with Disabilities
Question 109: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the position regarding employment opportunities for people with a physical disability. [16870/08]
- Economic Competitiveness
Question 110: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his assessment on the way the strength of the euro is affecting Irish exports; and if he will make a statement on the...
- EU Funding
Question 111: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on Ireland's contribution to funding EU embryonic stem cell research; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Industrial Development
Question 112: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has plans to tackle the growing unemployment rate in County Donegal; if he has investigated the possibility of...
- Regulatory Functions
Question 114: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of regulatory systems under the aegis of or in any way accountable to or created by legislation sponsored by his...
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 115: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the costs incurred to date by his Department arising from the Governments decentralisation proposals; the extent of further...
- Job Losses
Question 118: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of jobs in the service sector lost throughout County Kildare to more competitive economies in the past five...
- Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism
- National Aquatic Centre
Question 122: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if a subsidy has been paid to date in 2008 to the National Aquatic Centre for running costs and so on; and if he will make a...
- Sports Capital Programme
Question 125: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he will look favourably on an application for grant aid under the 2008 sports capital programme for a club (details supplied)....
- Department of Social and Family Affairs
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 127: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be approved and awarded child benefit; and if this payment will be backdated...
- Advocacy Services
Question 129: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if a director has been appointed to the new personal advocacy service provided for under the Citizens Information Act 2007; when...
- Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
- Community Development
Question 130: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the reason for the delay in providing local partnerships with formal approval to extend their boundaries; and when he...
- Department of Agriculture and Food
- Foreshore Licences
Question 132: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food her views on a case (details supplied). [16906/08]
- Grant Payments
Question 133: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a slatted shed grant will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if she will make a statement on...
- Fisheries Protection
Question 135: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of verbal warnings and written warnings issued by the Sea Fisheries Protection Authority since 1 January 2008....
- Third Level Education
Question 137: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food further to Parliamentary Question No.180 of 24 April 2008, if assistance is available for crew members of decommissioned...
- Department of Education and Science
- Schools Building Projects
Question 138: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position in relation to having work commence on two school building projects (details supplied) in County Donegal; if there is a...
- Grant Payments
Question 141: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will respond to a query in relation to a school (details supplied) in Dublin 13; and if she will make a statement on the...
- 1916 Proclamation
Question 142: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her views on making a framed copy of the 1916 Proclamation of the Irish Republic available to all primary and secondary schools here...
- School Staffing
Question 143: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of additional teachers which would need to be employed in order to ensure that class sizes are reduced by one in primary...
- School Accommodation
Question 144: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the list, on a county basis, of all schools that are currently using prefabs as classrooms; and the age of these prefabs. [16857/08]
- Schools Building Projects
Question 147: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the list of all schools, on a county basis, that have applied to her Department for extensions to their existing facilities. [16860/08]
- School Accommodation
Question 149: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the measures being taken to address the serious issue of overcrowding at a school (details supplied) in County Donegal. [16862/08]
- Pre-School Services
Question 150: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the provision of a play-school on the grounds of a national school (details supplied) in County Mayo. [16875/08]
- Site Acquisitions
Question 151: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the timeframe for the delivery of a secondary school (details supplied) in County Dublin; the status of the application for this...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 152: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will give consideration to an application by the board of management of a school (details supplied) in County Galway to build a...
- Schools Amalgamation
Question 156: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress that has been achieved to date towards the rationalisation of primary schools (details supplied); when she will approve...
- Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
- Asylum Applications
Question 157: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the response he gave to the mass application by Iraqi Chaldean Christians for asylum here; and if he will make a statement...
- Courts Service
Question 159: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if there are service sectors excluded from the remit of the Small Claims Court; if the rules operating in the Small Claims...
- Asylum Support Services
Question 160: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to or if he will inquire, of the Reception and Integration Agency, the details of the case...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 161: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his plans to deal with the issues raised by the Mental Capacity and Guardianship Bill 2007. [16787/08]
- Garda Deployment
Question 162: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status of the review of Garda boundaries and divisions, as to the boundaries and divisions that will be considered for...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 163: 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...
- Garda Deployment
Question 164: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of gardaí in each individual garda station in the Carlow-Kildare division who are assigned to normal policing...
- Visa Applications
Question 165: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the further documentation and verification of work experience required for the application to be granted for a visa...
- Residency Permits
Question 166: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will give consideration to the application by a person (details supplied) for leave to remain in the State; and if he...
- Good Friday Agreement
Question 167: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of prisoners currently in prison who have at any stage made an application for their release under the terms of...
- Asylum Applications
Question 168: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position of an application for asylum by a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 169: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 859 of 2 April 2008, when an application will be processed for persons (details...
- Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
- Housing Aid for the Elderly
Question 170: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amount of funding allocated in budget 2008 to the housing aid for the elderly scheme in total and to each...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 172: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the reason he is introducing new legislation on dog breeding establishments as secondary legislation when it...
- Turbary Rights
Question 173: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when a person (details supplied) in County Galway will receive payment for the sale of bog; and if he will...
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Alternative Energy Projects
Question 174: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the reason Sustainable Energy Ireland is not renewing its contract with a partnership (details supplied)...
- Telecommunications Services
Question 175: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the status of the proposed national broadband scheme. [16789/08]
- Fisheries Protection
Question 176: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if it is envisaged that seafood processors will be eligible for compensation via the wild salmon community...
- Regional Fisheries Boards
Question 177: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if the State, through the Northern Regional Fisheries Board, hold fishing rights on the Gweebarra River, County...
- Appointments to State Boards
Question 178: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the date on which each member of the board of the ESB was first appointed; when they were subsequently...
