Written answers

Thursday, 5 June 2008

  • Department of Health and Children
    • Infectious Diseases
      Question 9: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on the progress being made in tackling hospital acquired infections; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22256/08]
    • Health Services
      Question 10: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she has been briefed by the Health Service Executive on the withdrawal of the hospital in the home scheme; the measures in place to...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 11: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans for the development of services at Roscommon County Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19795/08]
    • Health Service Staff
      Question 12: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she has discussed with the Health Service Executive the decision to discontinue the post of specialist liaison nurse in Cavan-Monaghan...
    • Health Services
      Question 13: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason dedicated palliative care funding, announced by her in 2006 and 2007, were not expended on palliative care services; if she...
    • Health Service Staff
      Question 14: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the Bacon Report on physiotherapy will be fully implemented that is the filling of vacant posts in the health services as the...
    • Health Services
      Question 15: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the Health Service Executive in its present form is capable of delivering a comprehensive health service to the people here in the...
    • Mental Health Services
      Question 17: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will reconsider the decision to relocate the Central Mental Hospital to the site of the new prison complex; and if she will make a...
    • Health Services
      Question 18: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason the primary care strategy has not been rolled out in line with the commitments given in the Social Partnership Agreement,...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      Question 19: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to provide appropriate adult placements for the autistic students leaving a school (details supplied) in County Dublin at the...
    • Health Services
      Question 20: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if guidelines have been changed in the number of home help hours that are allocated to elderly people; if so the way the needs are...
    • Sports Health Assessment
      Question 21: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the Cormac Trust and the proposal put forward by the group calling for the introduction of a mobile...
    • Health Services
      Question 22: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she is satisfied that the finance allocation to the Health Service Executive in 2008 will enable it to deliver the 2007 level of...
    • Accident and Emergency Services
      Question 23: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on whether a culture of acceptance of trolley waits in hospital accident and emergency departments exists; when she expects...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 24: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her specific plans in place to implement the recommendations of the Health Information and Quality Authority Report on the misdiagnosis...
    • Health Service Staff
      Question 25: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the progress made in filling the 183 occupational therapy posts that remained unfilled at the end of 2007; and if she will make a...
    • Hospital Accommodation
      Question 26: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she has been informed of the design and construction problems which the Health Service Executive says are delaying the delivery of...
    • National Drugs Strategy
      Question 28: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she is satisfied with the roll-out of the National Drug Strategy treatment programmes for drug addiction; the new measures planned for...
    • Medical Cards
      Question 29: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that no procedures are in place for the replacement of a European health insurance card,...
    • National Drugs Strategy
      Question 30: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will provide the necessary funding for a media campaign highlighting the devastating effects of illegal drugs on the lives of...
    • Departmental Agencies
      Question 31: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her Department will complete an efficiency review and audit of all State agencies and bodies under the responsibility of her...
    • Health Services
      Question 33: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when she will publish the report which was completed several months ago on neurology services; the reason for the delay in publication;...
    • Care of the Elderly
      Question 34: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the portion of the €110 million that was allocated to implement the Fair Deal legislation in 2008 that has been spent on the needs of...
    • Hospital Staff
      Question 35: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the changes that will be brought about in the context of the new contract for hospital consultants; the timeframe for increasing the...
    • Patient Referrals
      Question 37: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on the proposal that patients would be able to refer themselves to consultants; if this proposal applies to public patients;...
    • Medical Inquiries
      Question 38: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will meet a group (details supplied) who have been seeking to meet with her in relation to the Dunne Inquiry; and if she will make...
    • Suicide Incidence
      Question 39: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on the level of suicide and self-harm in rural Ireland and on whether more action is needed at local level to protect the most...
    • Child Abuse
      Question 41: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the exact timescale for the implementation of recommendations contained in the report published in December 2007 into services provided...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      Question 42: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of persons with an intellectual disability and those with autism accommodated in psychiatric hospitals; the number of same...
    • Mental Health Services
      Question 44: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the progress made in developing inpatient beds for child and adolescent psychiatry; when the promised beds in Cork and in Fairview,...
    • Legislative Programme
      Question 45: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the elements of the Disability Act 2005 which relate to her Department that have not been commenced; when they will be commenced; and if...
    • Proposed Legislation
      Question 47: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she expects to be able to take the proposed fair deal legislation through both Houses of the Oireachtas before the summer recess,...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 48: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on whether the allocation for acute hospitals in the Health Service Executive budget for 2008 represents a cut in real terms of...
    • Infectious Diseases
      Question 49: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the immediate action she will take to implement in full the recommendations of the health protection surveillance centre on the spread of...
    • Hospitals Building Programme
      Question 50: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to reconfigure the delivery of hospital services in the north east; if it is true there is not a red cent available to build a...
    • Proposed Legislation
      Question 51: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she has plans to introduce legislation to ban female genital mutilation here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22153/08]
    • Alcohol Advertising
      Question 52: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of meetings she has had with the national sports organisations regarding advertising and sponsorship of such organisations by...
    • Accident and Emergency Services
      Question 53: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the progress made in implementing the report by the emergency department task force; her views on the statement by the Irish Association...
    • Mental Health Services
      Question 54: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of people who have been sent abroad for treatment for eating disorders and other mental health treatment to date in 2008; when...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      Question 56: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the progress made in the provision of suitable accommodation for patients with cystic fibrosis who need to be hospitalised; the number of...
    • Alcohol Advertising
      Question 57: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the recommendations issued by the report, The Relationship Between Alcohol Misuse and the Drinks Industry Sponsorship of Sporting...
    • Nursing Home Subventions
      Question 58: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she has proposals to provide additional support for nursing home subvention in 2008 in view of the inadequacy of the maximum rates of...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      Question 59: To ask the Minister for Health and Children how she will progress the National Disability Strategy; the timeframe for same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22169/08]
    • Health Service Staff
      Question 61: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on the proposals by the Health Service Executive to offer voluntary redundancy and retirement to approximately 1,000...
    • Vaccination Programme
      Question 62: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when she expects to implement the proposal in the programme for Government to introduce a vaccination scheme for the prevention of...
    • Health Services
      Question 64: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will address the problems faced by people with muscular dystrophy living in the community, which include difficulty in accessing...
    • Cancer Screening Programme
      Question 65: To ask the Minister for Health and Children how she will ensure that the skills-base in cytology laboratory screening will be maintained in the context of the decision of the...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 67: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the role she will have in making decisions on proposed changes to the roles of hospitals in the various regions that are awaiting reports...
    • Departmental Agencies
      Question 69: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she has any plans to extend the remit of the Health Information and Quality Authority to include private health service providers; and...
  • Department of Finance
    • Flood Relief
      Question 70: To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the flood alleviation project as proposed for the Springfield area of Clonlara, County Clare. [22315/08]
    • Departmental Advertising
      Question 71: To ask the Minister for Finance if agencies, boards, quangos or other bodies within the remit of his Department have carried out advertising campaigns to promote policies or...
    • Price Inflation
      Question 74: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on setting a ceiling on the price of diesel fuel after which no extra Government excise duty would be imposed in order to alleviate the...
    • Consultancy Contracts
      Question 75: To ask the Minister for Finance the estate agents, auctioneers and valuers which have been contracted to do work for the Office of Public Works for each year since 2002 and to date...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 76: To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of interest paid to suppliers by his Department under the prompt payment system in each of the past five years; the persons who were the...
  • Department of Health and Children
    • Mental Health Services
      Question 78: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if resources received by the Health Service Executive west through the sale of a property (details supplied) in County Galway will be...
    • Departmental Advertising
      Question 79: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if agencies, boards, quangos or other bodies within the remit of her Department have carried out advertising campaigns to promote...
    • Medicinal Products
      Question 82: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason sun cream which is required by persons with albinism cannot be obtained on the medical card despite it being prescribed by...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      Question 83: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the Health Service Executive allocation of funding for people with disabilities has been released for 2008; if services have been...
    • Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme
      Question 84: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the role of a company (details supplied) in the health repayment scheme; if that company is authorised to initiate phone calls to...
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund
      Question 85: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding a person (details supplied) in County Cork; the position they are at on the National Treatment Purchase Fund; and...
    • State Property
      Question 86: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when written approval will be issued by the Health Service Executive to show that it is willing to sell a site in Clonmel to either South...
    • Mental Health Services
      Question 87: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of people on the waiting list for child psychology services in south Tipperary; the length of time the longest person on that...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      Question 88: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be called for an MRI scan in Galway. [22423/08]
    • Health Services
      Question 89: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position in regard to an application for additional nursing care funding for a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow; if in...
    • Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme
      Question 90: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will intervene and ensure payment under the nursing home repayments scheme will be made at an early date to a person (details...
    • Health Services
      Question 91: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a reply will issue from the Health Service Executive to Parliamentary Question No. 56 of 29 April 2008. [22435/08]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 93: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the amount of interest paid to suppliers by her Department under the prompt payment system in each of the past five years; the persons...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      Question 94: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will support a group (details supplied). [22456/08]
    • Medical Cards
      Question 95: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will assist a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5. [22457/08]
    • Care of the Elderly
      Question 96: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding provision of a home care package for a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a...
    • Health Service Staff
      Question 97: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of staff previously employed throughout the public health services prior to the dissolution of the health boards; the cost of...
    • Medical Cards
      Question 99: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of full medical cards issued in each of the past six years; the number refused in the same period; and if she will make a...
    • Health Services
      Question 101: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of children receiving orthodontic treatment throughout the country; the number on waiting lists; the length of time on such...
    • Hospital Accommodation
      Question 102: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of public and private hospital beds in the system in 1990; the number of each now available; and if she will make a statement...
    • Health Services
      Question 103: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the extent to which she will upgrade existing health centres throughout County Kildare; if it is intended to provide new facilities; the...
    • Pharmacy Regulations
      Question 104: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position in regard to negotiations between her Department and the Health Service Executive and the pharmacists; when she expects...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 105: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position in regard to the future of St. Luke's Hospital Dublin 6; the extent of negotiations that have taken place with any body or...
    • Hospital Accommodation
      Question 106: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the costs to date to the Exchequer associated with co-location projects in respect of each of the projects proposed or under review; and...
    • Ambulance Service
      Question 107: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position in regard to provision and availability of an air-ambulance service throughout the country; and if she will make a...
    • Hospitals Building Programme
      Question 108: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position in regard to the completion of the final phase of the Naas Hospital development plan; the number of beds and other...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      Question 109: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when she will be in a position to provide a comprehensive diagnostic assessment and support structure for the parents of children with...
    • Medical Cards
      Question 113: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a medical card will issue in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare who is in need of same; and if she will make...
  • Department of Transport
    • Garda Investigations
      Question 114: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has requested information or reports from Dublin Bus regarding the Wellington Quay bus crash; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Advertising
      Question 115: To ask the Minister for Transport if agencies, boards, quangos or other bodies within the remit of his Department have carried out advertising campaigns to promote policies or...
    • Rail Safety
      Question 118: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has established a task force to develop the next railway safety programme for the period 2009 to 2013 as indicated in Parliamentary Question...
    • Rail Accident Investigations
      Question 119: To ask the Minister for Transport if the results of an investigation (details supplied) have been published; and if not, when he expects them to be made available. [22395/08]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 120: To ask the Minister for Transport the amount of interest paid to suppliers by his Department under the prompt payment system in each of the past five years; the persons who were...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs
    • Departmental Advertising
      Question 121: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if agencies, boards, quangos or other bodies within the remit of his Department have carried out advertising campaigns to promote policies...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 124: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the amount of interest paid to suppliers by his Department under the prompt payment system in each of the past five years; the persons who...
  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
    • State Agencies
      Question 125: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if there is funding available from any Government body or agency for a proposed enterprise (details supplied)...
    • Work Permits
      Question 126: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if she will review the decision made in a case (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Advertising
      Question 127: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if agencies, boards, quangos or other bodies within the remit of her Department have carried out advertising...
    • Company Closures
      Question 130: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if she has received an update in relation to negotiations between the liquidators and a group (details...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 131: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the amount of interest paid to suppliers by her Department under the prompt payment system in each of the...
  • Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism
    • Consultancy Contracts
      Question 135: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the number of reports commissioned by his Department since 2006 which were produced by outside consultants; if he will list these...
    • Departmental Advertising
      Question 136: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if agencies, boards, quangos or other bodies within the remit of his Department have carried out advertising campaigns to promote...
    • Sports Capital Programme
      Question 139: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism when a project (details supplied) in County Mayo will be approved funding. [22422/08]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 140: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the amount of interest paid to suppliers by his Department under the prompt payment system in each of the past five years; the...
  • Department of Social and Family Affairs
    • Departmental Advertising
      Question 141: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if agencies, boards, quangos or other bodies within the remit of her Department have carried out advertising campaigns to promote...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      Question 144: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason rent supplement for a person (details supplied) in County Kildare was reduced; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Social Welfare Code
      Question 145: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if teachers who retired after 35 year's service are automatically entitled to claim credits towards their contributory old age...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 146: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the amount of interest paid to suppliers by her Department under the prompt payment system in each of the past five years; the...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      Question 147: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she will assist persons (details supplied) in Dublin 9. [22458/08]
  • Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
    • Departmental Advertising
      Question 148: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if agencies, boards, quangos or other bodies within the remit of his Department have carried out advertising...
  • Department of Agriculture and Food
    • Tree Felling Licences
      Question 151: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if Meath County Council was consulted in relation to a forestry licence (details supplied); and the response of Meath County...
    • Departmental Advertising
      Question 152: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if agencies, boards, quangos or other bodies within the remit of his Department have carried out advertising campaigns to...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 155: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the amount of interest paid to suppliers by his Department under the prompt payment system in each of the past five years;...
  • Department of Education and Science
    • Decentralisation Programme
      Question 156: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the status of plans to decentralise his Department's headquarters to Mullingar in 2010; the staff numbers presently employed in the...
    • School Enrolments
      Question 157: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of newcomer children registered in primary schools and secondary schools for 2007/2008; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 158: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the amount of money budgeted for and spent for the years 2005, 2006 and 2007 on legal fees and related costs arising out of civil...
    • Departmental Bodies
      Question 159: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will establish an Office of an Ombudsman for third level education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22322/08]
    • Foreign Students
      Question 160: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of meetings that have taken place between the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform, the Department of Foreign...
    • School Accommodation
      Question 161: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will provide a progress report on the compilation of a database on the number of primary schools that have prefab classrooms;...
    • University Status
      Question 162: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress made in pursuing companies registered here purporting to be Irish universities which are not recognised in law as...
    • Adult Education
      Question 163: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if negotiations have commenced with the Department of Social and Family Affairs and the Department of Finance in order to improve the...
    • Inquiry into Child Abuse
      Question 164: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will request the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse to publish the negotiated settled costs of approximately €13 million...
    • School Enrolments
      Question 165: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of students in the primary school system for 2007/2008; the projected increases for the ten years from 2008/2009 to...
    • Health and Safety Regulations
      Question 166: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the steps taken to advise the boards of management and principals of primary schools on the procedures that they must undertake to...
    • School Staffing
      Question 167: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of primary school principal teacher posts that are vacant; his views on whether there is a reluctance among deputy...
    • Water Charges
      Question 168: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of primary schools that have informed his Department of their inability to pay the local authority water charges; the...
    • School Staffing
      Question 169: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if his attention has been drawn to the growing feminisation of the primary school profession; if he has a view on this issue; his...
    • Departmental Agencies
      Question 170: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will, in respect of all bodies, agencies, commissions or quangos reporting to his Department give the name, the purpose, the...
    • School Curriculum
      Question 171: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will ensure that a school (details supplied) in Dublin 10 will be provided with the resources to ensure that music can be made...
    • Departmental Advertising
      Question 172: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if agencies, boards, quangos or other bodies within the remit of his Department have carried out advertising campaigns to promote...
    • Telecommunications Services
      Question 175: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if the IBEC-sponsored programme which resulted in funding of over €5 million a year since 2005 for the provision of broadband in...
    • Medical Training
      Question 176: To ask the Minister for Education and Science his views on the fact that medical cytology students at Dublin Institute of Technology are being trained at public expense for a...
    • School Staffing
      Question 177: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of schools that had successful appeals in relation to retention of a teacher for 2008-09; and if he will make a statement...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 179: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when the conservation architect was appointed to deal with the proposed refurbishment and extension building works at a school...
    • Residential Institutions Redress Scheme
      Question 182: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason an institution (details supplied) in Dublin 6 was not included in the schedule of the Residential Institutions Redress Act...
    • Site Acquisitions
      Question 183: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the status regarding the provision of a site for the Gaelscoil in Clonmel, County Tipperary; if the site has been acquired from the...
    • Schools Refurbishment
      Question 184: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if, in view of the fact that the summer works scheme will not be running for 2008, he will allocate funds for the immediate and...
    • School Transport
      Question 185: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will meet with private school bus operators to address concerns regarding the rapid rise in the cost of motor fuel; and if he...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 186: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the amount of interest paid to suppliers by his Department under the prompt payment system in each of the past five years; the persons...
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 187: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will extend the July provision to include special needs assistants for a school (details supplied) in County Cork. [22480/08]
  • Department of Defence
    • Departmental Advertising
      Question 189: To ask the Minister for Defence if agencies, boards, quangos or other bodies within the remit of his Department have carried out advertising campaigns to promote policies or...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 191: To ask the Minister for Defence the amount of interest paid to suppliers by his Department under the prompt payment system in each of the past five years; the persons who were the...
  • Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
    • Garda Telecommunications
      Question 192: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if a targeted programme with specific timeframes is in existence to ensure that all Garda stations have the means to...
    • Residency Permits
      Question 193: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status of an application for long-term residency for a person (details supplied) in County Wexford; if this application...
    • Departmental Advertising
      Question 194: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if agencies, boards, quangos or other bodies within the remit of his Department have carried out advertising campaigns to...
    • Prison Building Programme
      Question 197: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the full costs of providing a women's prison at Thornton Hall; the position regarding the present provisions at Dochas....
    • Probation and Welfare Service
      Question 198: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the arrangements in place for the follow-up on the implementation of community services orders that were given out through...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 199: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when the National Property Services Authority Office was opened; the cost of the lease of the building per annum and per...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 200: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the funding crisis facing an organisation (details supplied); if he is himself there is...
    • Road Traffic Offences
      Question 201: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason this Deputy has not received an answer to Parliamentary Question No. 527 of 12 February 2008 and 544 of 17 April...
    • Change of Name Licence
      Question 202: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status of an application by a person (details supplied) in County Kildare for a licence to change their name; when a...
    • Prisoner Releases
      Question 203: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform further to his reply to Parliamentary Question No. 135 of 29 May 2008, the specific length of sentence already served by...
    • Prison Medical Service
      Question 204: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform further to his reply to Parliamentary Question No. 136 of 29 May 2008, if he is satisfied himself that all long-term...
    • Garda Operations
      Question 205: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the cost of Operation Anvil to date; the successes achieved by An Garda Síochána during Operation Anvil; and if he will...
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 206: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will process an application for Irish citizenship on behalf of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick. [22438/08]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 207: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the amount of interest paid to suppliers by his Department under the prompt payment system in each of the past five years;...
    • Anti-Social Behaviour
      Question 208: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will assist persons (details supplied) in Dublin 5. [22460/08]
  • Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
    • Housing Aid for the Elderly
      Question 209: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will support persons (details supplied) in Dublin 5. [22459/08]
    • Departmental Advertising
      Question 210: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if agencies, boards, quangos or other bodies within the remit of his Department have carried out advertising...

    • Question 212: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his Department has in the year to date or intends by year end to carry out any advertising campaigns to...
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      Question 213: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the reason local authorities acquiring housing units under Part V of the Planning and Development Act 2000...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 215: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amount of interest paid to suppliers by his Department under the prompt payment system in each of the...
    • Housing Grants
      Question 216: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the resources being made available to local authorities and the powers that have been given to them to carry...
  • Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
    • Departmental Advertising
      Question 217: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if agencies, boards, quangos or other bodies within the remit of his Department have carried out advertising...
    • Price Inflation
      Question 220: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on the high cost of oil and the affect that this continuing hike in prices is having on the Irish...
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      Question 221: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the target set by his Department in relation to helping reach the 3% reduction in carbon emission for 2008 in...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 222: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the amount of interest paid to suppliers by his Department under the prompt payment system in each of the past...