Written answers

Thursday, 10 July 2008

  • Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
    • Telecommunications Services
      Question 4: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when commitments six and seven in his next generation policy paper, that is, regulations to mandate the...
    • Electronic Metering
      Question 6: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the progress made in the pilot scheme for smart electronic metres; the initial time-frame given for delivery of...
    • Telecommunications Services
      Question 7: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on the MANs programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28199/08]
    • Mobile Telephony
      Question 9: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if, in the context of the EU measures on roaming charges for mobile voice communications, he has plans to address...
    • Telecommunications Services
      Question 10: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will explain in greater detail his plans to improve the international broadband connections between...
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      Question 11: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on the best use for the ESB windfall gains levy on free carbon allowances; and if he will make a...
    • Alternative Energy Projects
      Question 12: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the status of the price support scheme for offshore wind announced earlier 2008; if this scheme has received...
    • Decentralisation Programme
      Question 14: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on whether the decentralisation programme has had an adverse effect on his Department's ability to...
    • Motor Fuels
      Question 15: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the average price of petrol and diesel in June 2004 and in June 2008; the percentage difference between the...
    • Postal Services
      Question 16: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his policy on postcodes; the cost of implementation; the cost of consultancy on this issue to date; and if he...
    • Energy Resources
      Question 17: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views, in relation to the draft directive on the promotion of energy from renewable sources, on the top...
    • Foreshore Acts
      Question 20: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on the state of the foreshore legislation; the person who currently has responsibility for updating...
    • Natural Gas Grid
      Question 21: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the amount of public funding his Department has provided since 2007 and to date in 2008 for developing and...
    • Motor Fuels
      Question 22: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on calls from an organisation (details supplied) for an investigation into the increase in the price...
    • Electricity Supply
      Question 24: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the steps he is taking to ensure that all homes have a reliable electricity service; and if he will make a...
    • Energy Resources
      Question 25: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the extent to which he has had discussions together with his EU colleagues or otherwise with a view to a...
    • Telecommunications Services
      Question 26: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position in relation to the awarding of the national broadband scheme and its subsequent rollout; if it is...
    • Mining Industry
      Question 27: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if, in view of the recent gold discovery in County Monaghan he will confirm that measures are in place to ensure...
    • Energy Costs
      Question 28: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on the warning by an organisation (details supplied) for the need for Government action in view of...
    • Electricity Sector
      Question 29: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position regarding his plans to transfer ownership of electricity transmission assets from the ESB to...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 30: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if cutbacks are planned in the services provided for or funded through his Department; and if he will make a...
    • Energy Efficiency
      Question 31: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position regarding the commitment contained under the environment heading in the Programme for Government to...
    • Telecommunications Services
      Question 32: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when he will announce the date in September 2008 on which the public forum on his next generation broadband...
    • Advertising Codes
      Question 33: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the level of consultation he has had with public health agencies with regard to the ban on advertising of junk...
    • Departmental Reviews
      Question 35: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of studies and reviews carried out in his Department in the past year; the cost of these studies and...
    • Mining Industry
      Question 38: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the timeframe for the completion of the remediation of mines (details supplied). [28034/08]
    • Broadcasting Services
      Question 40: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the steps he will take to ease the effects of the close down of analogue television in Wales on Counties...
    • Alternative Energy Projects
      Question 41: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the amount and percentage of wind power with access to the national grid; the number of applications awaiting...
    • Telecommunications Services
      Question 42: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position regarding the fees paid to date paid to outside consultants and consultancies for the national...
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      Question 43: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position regarding his target as part of the Programme for Government's target of a 3% cut in carbon...
    • Postal Services
      Question 44: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position regarding the consultation process on the postal sector; if he will provide a detailed timetable of...
    • Alternative Energy Projects
      Question 45: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if the site for the connection for wave energy into the National Grid has been agreed; the location of same; if...
    • Energy Resources
      Question 46: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position regarding the Corrib gas terminal and the proposed routes; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 49: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of staff in his Department; the number of staff per section; if there are anticipated staff cuts; if...
    • Energy Resources
      Question 51: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide the most recent figures of the oil reserves held by the National Oil Reserves Agency; and if...
    • Post Office Network
      Question 53: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the extent to which Government policy in regard to the future development of An Post has been clarified; if the...
    • Broadcasting Services
      Question 55: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his position on the funding allocated to independent radio production in the Independent Programme Account as...
    • Electricity Generation
      Question 56: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position regarding the north south interconnector and the report into overhead versus underground...
    • Telecommunications Services
      Question 57: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on the growing digital divide across rural and urban Ireland as outlined in a recent Central...
    • Electricity Generation
      Question 59: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on the recommendations of the Expert Group on Health Effects of Electro Magnetic Fields published in...
  • Department of Finance
    • Tax Code
      Question 61: To ask the Minister for Finance the status and details of proposals on the introduction of a carbon tax or a carbon levy in view of the recent increases in the price of petrol and...
    • Airport Development Projects
      Question 64: To ask the Minister for Finance if the National Development Plan Central Monitoring Committee has examined the terminal two project and the new runway at Dublin Airport; if so, the...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 65: To ask the Minister for Finance the expenditure by his Department on consultants for each of the past six calendar years, including to date in 2008; the breakdown of these figures...
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 66: To ask the Minister for Finance the pay and emoluments granted to the chief executive officer, or equivalents, of all of the agencies under the control of his Department; and if he...
    • Tax Code
      Question 67: To ask the Minister for Finance the plans he has to allow unmarried couples living together on a long-term basis to utilise their partner's tax credits and allowances similar to...
    • Flood Relief
      Question 68: To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 87 of 24 April 2008, if the consulting engineer has been hired; and if so, when he expects their report to be...
    • Tax Code
      Question 69: To ask the Minister for Finance when a Med 1 refund will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare. [28531/08]
    • Pension Provisions
      Question 71: To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the Air Corps service of a soldier (details supplied) in Dublin 5 who ended their service in October 1970 is not eligible for transfer to...
    • Fiscal Policy
      Question 72: To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to extend the mid Shannon tourism investment scheme; his views on the submission to him by a county council (details supplied); and if he...
    • Motor Fuels
      Question 73: To ask the Minister for Finance the details of seizures of marked diesel for the past three years, analysed by county, quantity, and value; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Financial Services Regulation
      Question 74: To ask the Minister for Finance the discussions that have taken place with the Irish banks and the Irish Bankers Federation in respect of schemes of support for the liquidity of the...
    • Departmental Offices
      Question 75: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of clients on average that call each day to the new Revenue Commissioners offices at the Linn Dubh complex in Cork; the number of car...
    • Garda Stations
      Question 76: To ask the Minister for Finance if there are plans by the Office of Public Works to refurbish and renovate Coolock Garda Station; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Off-Licence Regulations
      Question 77: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of off-licences that are currently authorised in the postal districts of Dublin 5 and 13; the number that have been licensed in each of...
    • Fiscal Policy
      Question 78: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will reconsider the previous decision not to ringfence Criminal Assets Bureau moneys for use as additional funds for local drugs awareness or...
    • Tax Code
      Question 79: To ask the Minister for Finance his views, in the interest of public health, on removing the VAT on nicorette and other such products that help reduce or end dependence on nicotine;...
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 83: To ask the Minister for Finance his plans for recruiting clerical staff in the Laois and Offaly areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29109/08]
    • Ministerial Travel
      Question 84: To ask the Minister for Finance the cost and frequency of travel per month since the beginning of this new Government by Ministers and Ministers of State by means of bus transport,...
    • Departmental Agencies
      Question 85: To ask the Minister for Finance if he is confident that all agencies and bodies under his Department's responsibility comply fully with the Department of Finance procurement...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 86: To ask the Minister for Finance the cost saving measures he plans to introduce in the second half of 2008; if such measures will affect the delivery of front line services to the...
  • Department of Health and Children
    • Drug Treatment Programme
      Question 88: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the progress made in relation to the Programme for Government proposal to open two cocaine specific treatment centres; and if she will...
    • Health Services
      Question 89: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the progress made in relation to the Programme for Government proposal to improve health facilities on the offshore islands to ensure...
    • Health Service Allowances
      Question 92: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the promised review of the cost of disability payment will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28869/08]
    • Community Care
      Question 93: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position in relation to the home care package application for a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow; if funding will be...
    • Health Services
      Question 96: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if assistance will be given in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 11. [28288/08]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      Question 98: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if assistance will be given in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary. [28290/08]
    • Nursing Home Subventions
      Question 99: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the money set aside for the implementation of the Fair Deal scheme for long-term residential care for older people for the years 2008,...
    • Health Service Staff
      Question 100: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the amount in bonus payments paid to the chief executive officer of the Health Service Executive in each of the years 2005, 2006 and...
    • Care of the Elderly
      Question 104: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the services or facilities available for elderly people who are discharged from hospital and have nobody to care for them at home; and...
    • Nursing Home Subventions
      Question 106: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the rate of nursing home subvention; the breakdown of the way this rate is assessed; the number of payments being issued in north...
    • Community Care
      Question 108: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to reinstate the Borrisoleigh community welfare officer to Borrisoleigh, County Tipperary in view of the fact that the officer...
    • Medical Cards
      Question 109: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of children and young people under 18 years covered by the full medical card; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Suicide Incidence
      Question 111: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the amount of funding allocated to the National Office on Suicide Prevention for the implementation of Reach Out National Strategy for...
    • Codes of Practice
      Question 112: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will commit to consulting with children's and youth organisations when the revised voluntary alcohol marketing, communications...
    • Health Services
      Question 116: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the status of occupational therapy and speech and language therapy applications for a person (details supplied) in County Meath. [28348/08]
    • Departmental Properties
      Question 117: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the purpose for which a building (detail supplied) in County Dublin is being used; if it used as a hostel for the homeless or a half way...
    • Health Service Staff
      Question 118: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of social workers employed by the Health Service Executive in Dublin's north east inner city; the number of vacancies that...
    • Child Protection
      Question 119: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of children on waiting lists in the Dublin's north east inner city Dublin in need of immediate assessment and families...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 123: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the breakdown of transferring patients from Mallow General Hospital to Cork for CAT scans over the past 24 months while a CT scanner...
    • Health Service Staff
      Question 125: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will make additional staff and staffing cover for maternity leave, sick leave replacement and so on available to an organisation...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 126: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the expenditure by her Department on consultants for each of the past six calendar years, including to date in 2008; the breakdown of...
    • Health Service Staff
      Question 127: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the pay and emoluments granted to the chief executive officer, or equivalents, of all of the agencies under the control of her...
    • Health Services
      Question 128: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Cork who applied for orthodontic treatment in March 2005 will be granted a treatment...
    • Housing Aid for the Elderly
      Question 129: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the average timeframe for processing applications under the housing aid for the elderly scheme in the midlands Health Service Executive...
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund
      Question 131: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the qualifying criteria for eligibility under the National Treatment Purchase Fund; the length of time a person has to be waiting for...
    • Community Development
      Question 132: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the amount her Department has provided to rural development and LEADER programmes; the way this money has been allocated and spent; and...
    • Hospital Staff
      Question 133: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the vacancies in the developmental co-ordination disorder unit in St Finbarr's Hospital in Cork; her plans, to arrange for these...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      Question 134: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the funding made available for supported employment in an enterprise (details supplied) in Dublin 16 for adults with learning...
    • Blood Disorders
      Question 135: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the implementation of the recommendations of the report on haemochromotosis; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Health Services
      Question 136: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will expedite an appointment for a child (details supplied) in County Cork to see an occupational therapist; and if she will make...
    • Mental Health Services
      Question 139: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she, in conjunction with the Health Service Executive, has plans to provide a mental health unit in north Tipperary; the locations...
    • Health Services
      Question 141: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position in relation to the takeover of a unit (details supplied) in County Tipperary; when she expects the takeover to be...
    • Hospitals Building Programme
      Question 143: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will include phase 3C of Naas General Hospital in the Final 2008 Health Service Executive capital plan. [28518/08]
    • Health Services
      Question 144: To ask the Minister for Health and Children further to the response from the Health Service Executive to Parliamentary Question No. 78 of 22 May 2008, the waiting list for eye...
    • Cancer Screening Programme
      Question 145: To ask the Minister for Health and Children further to parliamentary Question No. 494 of 30 January 2008, when she will extend breast screening to women aged 65 to 69 years. [28520/08]
    • Health Services
      Question 146: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the services provided individually in Maynooth, Celbridge, Leixlip, Kilcock, Clane, and Naas Health Centres in County Kildare. [28521/08]
    • Health Service Staff
      Question 148: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the post of head audiology and senior medical officer in audiology in the Health Service Executive Dublin north east have been...
    • Parliamentary Questions
      Question 149: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a response will issue from the Health Service Executive in relation to Parliamentary Question No. 83 of 22 May 2008. [28524/08]
    • Nursing Home Subventions
      Question 152: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views, with regard to the €110 million ring-fenced for the implementation of the fair deal for nursing home care, on allowing fair...
    • Health Service Reform
      Question 153: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of health care regions and the geographical area they will encompass with regard to Health Service Executive reforms; the...
    • Health Service Staff
      Question 154: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the proposed Health Service Executive staff redundancy programme; the number and categories of staff involved;...
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 155: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of non-Civil Service staff employed in her Department; the roles of these staff; the cost of these staff to the Exchequer;...
    • Health Service Expenditure
      Question 156: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the amount spent by Health Service Executive officials on transport costs, including air travel, public transport and mileage costs, per...
    • Infectious Diseases
      Question 161: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of cases of Clostridium difficile that have been reported to the Health Protection Surveillance Centre since it became a...
    • Health Service Expenditure
      Question 162: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the amount spent by the Health Service Executive per annum on taxis and private ambulances for patients, per HSE area, since 2005 to...
    • Mental Health Services
      Question 163: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of child and adolescent community mental health teams that have been established in relation to the Vision for Change...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      Question 166: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the Health Service Executive has terminated funding for a development supported...
    • Vaccination Programme
      Question 167: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the maternity units or PCCC areas which do not administer the BCG to newborn babies; the number of newborns without such cover in each...
    • Health Services
      Question 168: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when it is envisaged that patients who attended the audiology clinic in Roscommon in April 2008 and were advised at that clinic they...
    • Nursing Home Subventions
      Question 170: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if, in connection with fair deal scheme for assisting families with older people in long-term residential care and to which €110...
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 171: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason for the delay in providing funding for the autism unit in a school (details supplied) in Dublin 15; if this funding will be...
    • Community Care
      Question 172: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the shortage of funding for home help services; and her plans to address this shortage to ensure that...
    • Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme
      Question 174: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of applications received under the nursing home repayment scheme from applicants with an intellectual disability or their...
    • Health Service Staff
      Question 175: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of paramedical grade posts in each profession which are currently vacant in primary, acute and long stay services in County...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 177: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when she expects the review of radiology at the Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, County Louth to be finalised and published; and...
    • Health Service Staff
      Question 179: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of nursing vacancies in the health services at the end of June 2008; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28860/08]
    • Health Services
      Question 180: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will establish a structured tinnitus support service including clinical and audiological services, professional support and peer...
    • Child Care Services
      Question 181: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will report on the roll-out of the community child care subvention scheme including the number of additional child care places...
    • General Practitioners
      Question 182: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of general practitioners in practice here; the estimate of the number required to meet the primary care needs of the growing...
    • Health Services
      Question 183: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of new primary care centres, that is, general practitioner and other services delivered in one location or premises, provided...
    • Regional Health Forums
      Question 187: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the cost to date since their establishment of the regional health forums; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28868/08]
    • Hospital Accommodation
      Question 188: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of dedicated public only hospital beds in June 2007 and the number in June 2008; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Youth Services
      Question 192: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her proposals with regard to the transfer of youth work responsibilities from the Department of Education and Science to her Department;...
    • Health Services
      Question 193: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of in-patient medically managed alcohol and drug detoxification services available to patients under 18 years of age; the...
    • Mental Health Services
      Question 195: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of hospital beds in each Health Service Executive area dedicated exclusively to adolescents with mental health problems, in...
    • Substance Abuse
      Question 199: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if research has been completed by her Department regarding the development of strategies to work with pre-adolescents at risk of...
    • Mental Health Services
      Question 200: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the mental health expert group has been established as outlined in "A Vision for Change"; the membership of same; and if she will...
    • Health Services
      Question 201: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will clarify a matter (details supplied). [28991/08]
    • Child Care Services
      Question 202: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the discontinuation of staffing grants to community child care services is...
    • Health Services
      Question 209: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath will receive an intense hearing test and access to early intervention for autism....
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      Question 210: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will confirm the regulations under which the Health Service Executive have the right to refer a person with an intellectual...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 211: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will report on the provision of outpatient cystic fibrosis services at Beaumont Hospital; the number of dedicated cystic fibrosis...
    • Drug Treatment Programme
      Question 215: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason there has been a reduction of services to heroin users, intravenous drug-users and methadone dependent clients in Inchicore,...
    • Suicide Incidence
      Question 219: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the rate of suicide in the Dublin 8 area; the rate State wide; the initiatives she has taken aimed at areas where there is an identified...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      Question 220: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will confirm that the Health Service Executive have withdrawn funding for new adult day places and training places for young...
    • Parliamentary Questions
      Question 221: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of parliamentary questions referred by her to the Health Service Executive which were replied to within 20 working days; the...
    • Health Services
      Question 223: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will ensure that a person (details supplied) in Dublin 8 is assigned suitable accommodation in a facility that caters for...
    • Commissions of Investigation
      Question 224: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the progress to date in the Leas Cross inquiry; when a final report is expected; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29110/08]
    • Nursing Home Inspections
      Question 225: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the details regarding nursing home inspections for each year on a county basis since 2002 to date in 2008; if all nursing homes have...
    • Medical Cards
      Question 226: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of medical card and general practitioner visit card applications received for Counties Louth, Meath, Cavan and Monaghan for...
    • Hospital Staff
      Question 227: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the progress made in the provision of a clinical education building and the appointment of clinical education consultant teaching staff...
    • Health Care Funding
      Question 228: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the official level of debt at Letterkenny General Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29126/08]
    • Ministerial Travel
      Question 231: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the cost and frequency of travel per month since the beginning of this new Government by Ministers and Ministers of State by means of...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      Question 232: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be called for an angiogram at University College Hospital Galway. [29158/08]
    • Departmental Agencies
      Question 233: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she is confident that all agencies and bodies under her Department's responsibility comply fully with the Department of Finance...
    • Medical Cards
      Question 234: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a medical card will issue to a person (details supplied) in Dublin 22; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29175/08]
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      Question 235: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if funding will be made available to a service for day services for 2008 in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare;...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 237: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on cost saving measures she plans introducing in the second half of 2008; if such measures will affect the...
  • Department of Transport
    • Airport Development Projects
      Question 238: To ask the Minister for Transport if a cost benefit analysis has been carried out for terminal two and the proposed new runway at Dublin Airport; if project managers have been...
    • Park and Ride Facilities
      Question 241: To ask the Minister for Transport the progress made in relation to the Programme for Government proposal to provide park and ride services in all appropriate locations; and if he...
    • Motor Fuels
      Question 242: To ask the Minister for Transport the situation regarding the fuel rebate for bus operators for 2008/2009; if he will assure these operators that they will not lose their fuel...
    • Road Safety
      Question 243: To ask the Minister for Transport if all breathalysers would have to be replaced or recalibrated if there was a change in the drink driving limit; the length of time this process...
    • Road Traffic Offences
      Question 244: To ask the Minister for Transport the way the new protocol on mutual recognition of disqualified drivers between Ireland, Northern Ireland and Britain will operate; the starting...
    • Public Transport
      Question 246: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will introduce a general statute for the licensing of wheelchair adapted buses; the regulations and standards that presently apply to...
    • Light Rail Project
      Question 248: To ask the Minister for Transport the completion date for the feasibility studies on light rail transit systems in respect of Limerick, Cork, Waterford and Galway; and if he will...
    • Public Transport
      Question 249: To ask the Minister for Transport further to Parliamentary Question No. 184 of 2 July 2008, if he will provide the details of the examination of the application by Dublin Bus for...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 250: To ask the Minister for Transport the expenditure by his Department on consultants for each of the past six calendar years, including to date in 2008; the breakdown of these...
    • Departmental Agencies
      Question 251: To ask the Minister for Transport the pay and emoluments granted to the chief executive officer, or equivalents, of all of the agencies under the control of his Department; and if...
    • End-of-Life Vehicles
      Question 252: To ask the Minister for Transport the control in place to prevent unroadworthy cars being sold by garages and mechanics to the unsuspecting public. [28424/08]
    • Community Development
      Question 253: To ask the Minister for Transport the amount of money his Department has provided to rural development and Leader programmes; the way this money has been allocated and spent; and...
    • Rail Network
      Question 254: To ask the Minister for Transport further to parliamentary Question No. 103 of 22 May 2008, if there has been progress on this issue. [28530/08]
    • Rural Transport Services
      Question 255: To ask the Minister for Transport the progress made in relation to the programme for Government proposals to build on the success to date of the rural transport initiative and...
    • Rail Network
      Question 256: To ask the Minister for Transport the progress made in relation to the Programme for Government proposal to re-open the western rail corridor from Ennis to Claremorris and examine...
    • Rail Accidents
      Question 257: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will request CIÉ to send accident investigation findings to his Department for their consideration; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Public Transport
      Question 258: To ask the Minister for Transport the public transport infrastructure projects he expects to start within the next 12 months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28784/08]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 260: To ask the Minister for Transport the cutbacks he is making in order to reduce expenditure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28786/08]
    • Motor Fuels
      Question 261: To ask the Minister for Transport if he agrees with the Minister for Finance when he states that in the current economic climate an alternative scheme to the public transport...
    • Integrated Ticketing
      Question 262: To ask the Minister for Transport the status of the integrated ticketing project; the person who is currently responsible; the amount spent on the project to date; the estimated...
    • Rail Services
      Question 263: To ask the Minister for Transport the actions he has taken to encourage greater use of rail freight; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28790/08]
    • Road Network
      Question 265: To ask the Minister for Transport the cost of buying out the West Link toll bridge; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28793/08]
    • Harbours and Piers
      Question 266: To ask the Minister for Transport his views on whether Ireland has enough port capacity to meet increased import and export levels; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Freedom of Information
      Question 267: To ask the Minister for Transport the number of freedom of information requests submitted to his Department since 2006 to date in 2008; the number accepted, partly accepted,...
    • Public Transport
      Question 268: To ask the Minister for Transport if he expects all funding allocated for public transport investment to be spent in 2008; if delays in projects will result in funds not being...
    • Road Network
      Question 270: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has provided funding to Cork County Council under the local tertiary road restoration grant scheme in 2008; the amount made available in...
    • Road Traffic Offences
      Question 272: To ask the Minister for Transport when the 14 newly appointed transport inspectors will be able to fully discharge their duties in tandem with the Garda Síochána under the...
    • Road Safety
      Question 273: To ask the Minister for Transport when he will publish the report on the alleged presence of unroadworthy car write-offs on roads here; his views on the introduction of a...
    • Road Network
      Question 275: To ask the Minister for Transport the number of service and rest areas planned for the inter-urban and national road network here; the estimated completion date of each of these...
    • Public Transport
      Question 276: To ask the Minister for Transport the number of buses in the Bus Éireann fleet each year since 2001 to date in 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29040/08]
    • Road Network
      Question 278: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has ruled out the imposition of congestion charges on any inter-urban, national or secondary road; if proposals for congestion charges have...
    • Road Haulage
      Question 280: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will report on his recent meeting with the Irish Road Haulage Association; the proposals he is considering to address the impact of...
    • Road Traffic Offences
      Question 282: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will report on the operation of the national vehicle driver file in Shannon; the information contained on each motorist on this; the other...
    • Alternative Energy Projects
      Question 283: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has a target for the conversion of a large percentage of the captive public transport fleet to bio-fuels or another alternative source of...
    • Road Traffic Offences
      Question 284: To ask the Minister for Transport the number of people who have been tested on suspicion of driving under the influence of drugs each year since 2005 to date in 2008; the level of...
    • Light Rail Project
      Question 285: To ask the Minister for Transport the deadline for the completion of metro north; the estimated cost of metro north; the amount of funding ring-fenced for the Metro North project;...
    • Public Transport
      Question 287: To ask the Minister for Transport the number of applications for bus licences within Dublin and outside of Dublin that have been submitted to his Department and are awaiting...
    • Light Rail Project
      Question 288: To ask the Minister for Transport the position regarding plans for a comprehensive traffic management plan and proposals to minimise disruption for residents and businesses in...
    • Proposed Legislation
      Question 289: To ask the Minister for Transport when he will introduce promised legislation for the mandatory testing of all drivers involved in road collisions; if he has met the campaigning...
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      Question 290: To ask the Minister for Transport the action he will take to reach the target in his Department regarding the programme for Government commitment of a 3% annual reduction on carbon...
    • Ministerial Travel
      Question 291: To ask the Minister for Transport the cost and frequency of travel per month since the beginning of this new Government by Ministers and Ministers of State by means of bus...
    • Departmental Bodies
      Question 292: To ask the Minister for Transport if he is confident that all agencies and bodies under his Department's responsibility comply fully with the Department of Finance procurement...
    • Air Services
      Question 293: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will make a statement detailing the approach of the Garda Síochána to private helicopters in view of the threat they can pose to public...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs
    • Northern Ireland Issues
      Question 295: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the progress made on the programme for Government proposal to support the introduction of a languages Act in Northern Ireland as provided...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 296: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the expenditure by his Department on consultants for each of the past six calendar years, including to date in 2008; the breakdown of these...
    • Departmental Agencies
      Question 297: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the pay and emoluments granted to the chief executive officer, or equivalents, of all of the agencies under the control of his Department;...
    • Community Development
      Question 298: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the amount of money his Department has provided to rural development and Leader programmes; the way this money has been allocated and spent;...
    • Foreign Conflicts
      Question 299: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will support the German development and foreign policy towards Sri Lanka and give the country sustained support on its way to peace....
    • Visa Applications
      Question 303: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if, in view of correspondence from a person (details supplied) he will take steps to address the issues raised therein; and if he will make...
    • Ministerial Travel
      Question 304: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the cost and frequency of travel per month since the beginning of this new Government by Ministers and Ministers of State by means of bus...
    • Departmental Agencies
      Question 305: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he is confident that all agencies and bodies under his Department's responsibility comply fully with the Department of Finance...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 306: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will make a statement on cost saving measures he plans introducing in the second half of 2008; if such measures will affect the...
  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
    • Employment Action Plan
      Question 307: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of people who were referred to FÁS under the Employment Action Plan in 2007 and to date in 2008;...
    • Regulatory Reform
      Question 308: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the progress made regarding the programme for Government proposal to review the regulatory regimes to better...
    • Job Losses
      Question 309: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the amount of the 2008 budgetary allocation under benefits redundancy and insolvency payments spent by 1 July...
    • Music Industry
      Question 310: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of musicians employed here; the amount that musicians and the music industry contribute to the...
    • Job Creation
      Question 311: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of jobs created by the IDA in Thurles, County Tipperary, since a delegation from the Joint...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 312: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the expenditure by her Department on consultants for each of the past six calendar years, including to date...
    • Departmental Agencies
      Question 313: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the pay and emoluments granted to the chief executive officer, or equivalents, of all of the agencies under...
    • Industrial Development
      Question 314: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of factories in the city and County of Waterford, on which the Industrial Development Agency has...
    • Job Losses
      Question 316: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if she will provide a listing by firm of job losses announced or notified by Shannon free zone firms from 30...
    • Job Creation
      Question 319: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of companies located in Ennis and in County Clare, excluding the Shannon free zone, from 30 June...
    • International Trade
      Question 320: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the volume of trade between Zimbabwe and Ireland; the industries and companies currently involved in this...
    • Decentralisation Programme
      Question 321: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of staff who have been moved to date to decentralised locations; the number who moved with their...
    • Traffic Management
      Question 323: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the amount on average congestion costs the economy here each year; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Job Creation
      Question 324: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of jobs created in County Louth for each year since 2002 to date in 2008 by organisation and...
    • Departmental Reports
      Question 329: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the report into cross-media ownership will be published ahead of the Broadcasting Bill 2008 debate in...
    • Ministerial Travel
      Question 330: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the cost and frequency of travel per month since the beginning of the new Government by Ministers and...
    • Departmental Agencies
      Question 331: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if she is confident that all agencies and bodies under her Department's responsibility comply fully with the...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 332: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if she will make a statement on cost saving measures she plans introducing in the second half of 2008; if...
  • Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism
    • Arts Funding
      Question 333: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the grants, financial supports or incentives available to encourage the development and sustainability of the music industry here;...
    • Sports Capital Programme
      Question 335: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the number of applications received for funding under the 2008 sports capital programme; the breakdown of applications received from...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 337: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the expenditure by his Department on consultants for each of the past six calendar years, including to date in 2008; the breakdown...
    • Departmental Agencies
      Question 338: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the pay and emoluments granted to the chief executive officer, or equivalents, of all of the agencies under the control of his...
    • Community Development
      Question 339: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the amount of money his Department has provided to rural development and LEADER programmes; the way this money has been allocated...
    • Sports Capital Programme
      Question 340: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the number of sports capital grants withdrawn since 2000 due to the sunset rule where clubs are unable to match funding; the number...
    • Arts in Education
      Question 341: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism his views on the Arts and Education Committee Report, Points of Alignment; the steps he is taking to implement the recommendations...
    • Sports Capital Programme
      Question 342: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if funding is available under the sports capital grant scheme for the development of public walks and the maintenance of such walks...
    • Ministerial Travel
      Question 345: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the cost and frequency of travel per month since the beginning of this new Government by Ministers and Ministers of State by means...
    • Departmental Agencies
      Question 346: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he is confident that all agencies and bodies under his Department's responsibility comply fully with the Department of Finance...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 347: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he will make a statement on cost saving measures he plans introducing in the second half of 2008; if such measures will affect...
  • Department of Social and Family Affairs
    • Farm Assist Scheme
      Question 348: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the progress made in relation to the Programme for Government proposal to continue to support low-income farmers through the farm...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      Question 349: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if a person (details supplied) in County Kildare is availing of all the entitlements due to them from her Department; and if she...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 351: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the expenditure by her Department on consultants for each of the past six calendar years, including to date in 2008; the breakdown...
    • Departmental Agencies
      Question 352: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the pay and emoluments granted to the chief executive officer, or equivalents, of all of the agencies under the control of her...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      Question 353: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of people in receipt of a local authority mortgage interest supplement at the latest date for which figures are...
    • Live Register
      Question 354: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the breakdown of the live register figures by nationality and by duration of period on the live register at intervals of three...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      Question 355: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason rent supplement has been stopped for a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on...
    • National Employment Action Plan
      Question 357: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she will provide details of the work of the National Employment Action Plan interdepartmental committee; the number of times it...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 358: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she will provide a monthly schedule of the actual expenditure for each estimate sub-heading for each of the months from March...
    • Industrial Disputes
      Question 359: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she has issued a response to an e-mail sent by a person (details supplied); the response to same; and if she will make a...
    • Pension Provisions
      Question 360: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the extent to which revised Central Statistics Office population projections and the impact of the economic downturn and hence...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      Question 361: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the level of fraud associated with the free travel scheme; the number of cases of fraud that have been reported to her Department...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 362: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the amount of the 2008 budgetary allocation under the salaries, wages and allowances subhead spent by 1 July 2008; and if she will...
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 414: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs her plans for recruiting clerical staff in the Laois and Offaly areas; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29108/08]
    • Money Advice and Budgeting Service
      Question 415: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the position regarding the Money Advice and Budgeting Service in County Louth; the number of offices and employees; the number of...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      Question 416: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she will ensure a person (details supplied) in County Leitrim will receive the back to school clothing and footwear allowance....
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 417: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the number signing on the live register at the Cork local office has increased by...
    • Ministerial Travel
      Question 418: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the cost and frequency of travel per month since the beginning of this new Government by Ministers and Ministers of State by means...
    • Departmental Agencies
      Question 419: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she is confident that all agencies and bodies under her Department's responsibility comply fully with the Department of Finance...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      Question 420: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when rent allowance will be awarded in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 22; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 422: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she will make a statement on cost saving measures she plans introducing in the second half of 2008; if such measures will...
  • Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
    • Community Development
      Question 423: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the local development groups of the seven urban operational areas and 38 rural operational areas that have formally...
    • Consultancy Contracts
      Question 424: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the expenditure by his Department on consultants for each of the past six calendar years, including to date in 2008;...
    • Departmental Agencies
      Question 425: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the pay and emoluments granted to the chief executive officer, or equivalents, of all of the agencies under the...
    • Community Development
      Question 426: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the amount of money his Department has provided to rural development and LEADER programmes; the way this money has...
    • Conradh na Gaeilge
      Question 427: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he has sanctioned the payment of a grant to Conradh na Gaeilge for the purchase of a building in Dublin; and if he...
    • Community Development
      Question 428: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the progress made in relation to the Programme for Government proposal to establish the new programme for rural...
    • Departmental Properties
      Question 431: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the progress made in relation to the Programme for Government proposal to conduct an enterprise audit to review the...
    • Rural Social Scheme
      Question 432: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the progress made in relation to the Programme for Government proposal to expand the rural social scheme to provide...
    • Community Development
      Question 433: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the progress made in relation to the Programme for Government proposal to provide a well funded rural enterprise...
    • Tourism Development
      Question 434: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the progress made in relation to the Programme for Government proposal to initiate a study in consultation with...
    • Planning Issues
      Question 437: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the progress made in relation to the Programme for Government proposal to ensure that a farmer's application for...
    • National Drugs Strategy
      Question 438: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the progress made in relation to the Programme for Government proposal to pilot projects for cocaine approved under...
    • Youth Services
      Question 441: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the progress made in relation to the Programme for Government proposal to continue to use the young people's...
    • Offshore Islands
      Question 442: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the progress made in relation to the Programme for Government proposal to complete the infrastructure programme on...
    • Community Development
      Question 443: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the progress made in relation to the Programme for Government proposal to develop the potential of language based and...
    • Community Employment
      Question 446: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the progress made in relation to the Programme for Government proposal to invest through the community employment...
    • Recreational Facilities
      Question 447: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the progress made in relation to the Programme for Government proposal to ensure that play facilities are being...
    • Irish Language
      Question 448: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the progress made in relation to the Programme for Government proposal to develop a 20 year strategic plan for the...
    • Tourism Promotion
      Question 455: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the progress made in relation to the Programme for Government proposal to provide extra funding to market language...
    • Decentralisation Programme
      Question 456: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the number of staff who have been moved to date to decentralised locations; the number who moved with their post; the...
    • National Drugs Strategy
      Question 458: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if research has been conducted on heroin use in Cork city and County, in particular in relation to persons under 18;...
    • Ministerial Travel
      Question 460: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the cost and frequency of travel per month since the beginning of this new Government by Ministers and Ministers of...
    • Departmental Agencies
      Question 461: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he is confident that all agencies and bodies under his Department's responsibility comply fully with the...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 462: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will make a statement on cost saving measures he plans introducing in the second half of 2008; if such measures...
  • Department of Agriculture and Food
    • Foreshore Licences
      Question 463: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the progress made in granting the foreshore licences requested by Waterford County Council in connection with sewerage...
    • Afforestation Programme
      Question 464: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of hectares of trees planted in each of the past five years by species; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Consultancy Contracts
      Question 465: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the expenditure by his Department on consultants for each of the past six calendar years, including to date in 2008; the...
    • Sheep Sector
      Question 466: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will deliver fully on the commitment to provide the full €3 million to a federation (details supplied) for the...
    • Farm Waste Management
      Question 467: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will extend the 31 December 2008 deadline for completion of farm waste management scheme applications in view of the...
    • Community Development
      Question 468: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the amount of money his Department has provided to rural development and LEADER programmes; the way this money has been...
    • Natural Heritage Areas
      Question 469: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food his plans to ensure that no fishery activity is undertaken in areas designated for the protection of birds and their...
    • Environmental Policy
      Question 470: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he is satisfied that the strategic environment assessment undertaken of the forestry and agricultural plan as part of the...
    • Fisheries Protection
      Question 472: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the status of the draft forestry and freshwater pearl mussel requirements and the moratorium on felling in the areas hosting...
    • Aquaculture Licences
      Question 474: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will provide a list of aquaculture licences issued for shellfish production outside areas designated for aquaculture...
    • Aquaculture Development
      Question 475: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will provide a list of the aquaculture areas closed, the period of their closure, and the reason for their closure in...
    • Fisheries Protection
      Question 476: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the measures taken by him to inform stakeholders and to assist them to contribute to the development of the regulations...
    • Hazardous Substances
      Question 478: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will assure this Deputy that forestry workers are not in danger from the use by the State Forestry Board, Coillte Teo,...
    • Agricultural Policy
      Question 479: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the progress made on the programme for Government proposal to support farm families in order to maximise their choice as to...
    • Food Industry
      Question 481: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the progress made on the programme for Government proposal to invest in developing the new products and new food markets...
    • Agricultural Policy
      Question 484: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the progress made on the Programme for Government proposal to invest in improving competitiveness, enhancing the environment...
    • On-farm Investment Schemes
      Question 486: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the progress made on the programme for Government proposal to introduce a new on-farm investment scheme, which will include...
    • Rural Development Programme
      Question 487: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the progress made on the programme for Government proposal to fully implement the rural development programme in order that...
    • Farm Household Incomes
      Question 488: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the progress made in relation to the programme for Government proposal to implement measures, including taxation measures,...
    • Rural Environment Protection Scheme
      Question 489: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the progress made on the programme for Government proposal to further promote the benefits of the REP scheme and achieve a...
    • Organic Farming
      Question 490: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the progress made on the programme for Government proposal to convert a minimum 5% of acreage to organic farmland by 2012;...
    • Proposed Legislation
      Question 491: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the progress made on the programme for Government proposal to introduce a new animal health bill to consolidate and amend...
    • Animal Diseases
      Question 492: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the progress made on the programme for Government proposal to establish biosecurity Ireland as a division within his...
    • Genetically Modified Organisms
      Question 493: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the progress made on the programme for Government proposal to seek to negotiate the establishment of an all-Ireland...
    • Food Labelling
      Question 494: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the progress made on the programme for Government proposal to further exploit the potential of existing animal traceability...
    • Health Promotion
      Question 497: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the progress made on the programme for Government proposal to expedite the delivery of a national strategy for tackling...
    • Animal Welfare
      Question 500: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the progress made on the programme for Government proposal to continue to expand and develop herd health policies here to...
    • Food Industry
      Question 504: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the progress made on the programme for Government proposal to ensure that beef processing facilities here are substantially...
    • Animal Welfare
      Question 505: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the progress made in relation to the Programme for Government proposal to continue to support the suckler herd quality and...
    • Dairy Industry
      Question 508: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the progress made on the programme for Government proposal to assist in the creation of an efficient dairy processing sector...
    • Food Industry
      Question 512: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the progress made on the programme for Government proposal to fully implement the recommendations of the sheep industry...
    • Quality Assurance Schemes
      Question 516: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the progress made on the programme for Government proposal to assist and expand the quality assurance schemes in the...
    • Farm Improvement Scheme
      Question 517: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the progress made on the programme for Government proposal to aid grain storage through the farm improvement programme; and...
    • Horticulture Industry
      Question 519: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the progress made in relation to the Programme for Government proposal to work with growers to continue to support import...
    • Forestry Sector
      Question 520: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the progress made in relation to the programme for Government proposal to promote a diverse forestry culture with an...

    • Question 526: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the progress made in relation to the programme for Government proposal to initiate a review of the Forestry Acts and...
    • Alternative Energy Projects
      Question 527: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the progress made in relation to the programme for Government proposal to implement a comprehensive strategic plan to...
    • Farmers' Markets
      Question 532: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the progress made in relation to the programme for Government proposal to encourage more direct selling from farmer to...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 536: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the progress made in relation to the programme for Government proposal to work with the implementation group established...
    • Food Industry
      Question 538: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the progress made in relation to the programme for Government proposal to implement policies to ensure Ireland's clean and...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 544: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the progress made in relation to the programme for Government proposal to continue to offer a range of supports to young...
    • Tax Code
      Question 545: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the progress made in relation to the programme for Government proposal to retain stamp duty relief that continues to play an...
    • Farm Waste Management
      Question 546: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the progress made in relation to the programme for Government proposal to support farmers here by promoting measures for the...
    • Adult Education
      Question 548: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the progress made in relation to the programme for Government proposal to support education and training courses for both...
    • Food Industry
      Question 552: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the progress made in relation to the programme for Government proposal to increase the level of funding committed to...
    • Research Funding
      Question 553: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the progress made in relation to the programme for Government proposal to ensure all non-core funding is allocated in a...
    • Fisheries Protection
      Question 554: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the progress made in relation to the programme for Government proposal to maintain world-class fishery harbours at...
    • Aquaculture Development
      Question 555: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the progress made in relation to the programme for Government proposal to progress the major infrastructure projects in...
    • Fishing Industry Development
      Question 556: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the progress made in relation to the programme for Government proposal to ensure the full potential of each of the fisheries...
    • Fishing Fleet Modernisation
      Question 561: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the progress made in relation to the programme for Government proposal to increase supports to assist fishermen to make the...
    • Aquaculture Development
      Question 562: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the progress made in relation to the programme for Government proposal to increase grant funding to the aquaculture sector...
    • Marine Research
      Question 563: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the progress made in relation to the programme for Government proposal to further develop Ireland's reputation as a centre...
    • Marine Biotechnology Initiative
      Question 564: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the progress made in relation to the programme for Government proposal to instigate a national marine biotechnology...
    • Fishing Fleet Modernisation
      Question 565: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the progress made in relation to the programme for Government proposal to ensure that voluntary fishing vessel...
    • Fisheries Protection
      Question 566: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the progress made in relation to the programme for Government proposal to continue to work with coastal communities to...
    • Seafood Exports
      Question 569: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the progress made in relation to the programme for Government proposal to encourage and support the development of high...
    • Fisheries Protection
      Question 570: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the progress made in relation to the programme for Government proposal to implement a system of instant electronic logging...
    • Fishing Industry Development
      Question 571: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the progress made in relation to the programme for Government proposal to fully implement a comprehensive electronic...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 572: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the position regarding the matter of recouping from Coillte Teoranta, circa €8 million of forestry premium grants awarded...
    • Farm Waste Management
      Question 574: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will extend the December 2008 deadline for completion of projects under the farm waste management scheme; when the...
    • Fisheries Protection
      Question 575: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the request he has made to the Attorney General to examine the possibility of introducing administrative rather than...
    • Fishing Industry Development
      Question 576: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food his views on the commitment of the European Fisheries Commissioner to examine the possibility of increasing the access of...
    • Fisheries Protection
      Question 577: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food his proposals to introduce regulations on illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing following the agreement of a new...
    • Fishing Industry Development
      Question 578: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the progress to date in implementing the recommendations of the Cawley report; when he expects the recommendations to be...
    • Fishing Fleet Protection
      Question 579: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will introduce a temporary tie-up support scheme for fishermen in view of the crisis in the fishing sector; his...
    • Fishing Industry Development
      Question 581: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the amount of the Cawley report still to be implemented; if he fully intends to provide the €600 million necessary to...
    • Fisheries Protection
      Question 582: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when the Community Fisheries Control Agency will re-locate to Vigo; the impact the new agency will have on the enforcement...
    • Departmental Programmes
      Question 583: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the initiatives he is taking to ensure that native Irish species of flowers, trees and so on are preserved, cultivated and...
    • Fishing Industry Development
      Question 584: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will respond to correspondence from a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29104/08]
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 585: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food his plans for recruiting clerical staff in the Laois and Offaly areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29106/08]
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      Question 586: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the action he will take to reach the target in his Department in relation to the programme for Government commitment of a 3%...
    • Ministerial Travel
      Question 587: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the cost and frequency of travel per month since the beginning of this new Government by Ministers and Ministers of State by...
    • Food Labelling
      Question 588: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food his views on the introduction of a country of origin labelling system for all fish products sold here. [29153/08]
    • Fishing Industry
      Question 589: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of people employed in fish processing; and the counties in which they were employed in 1998. [29154/08]
    • Grant Payments
      Question 591: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of farmers in each of the Munster, Ulster and Connacht counties who have ceased production since the introduction...
    • Land Commission
      Question 593: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the searches that took place, by the Land Commission in the 1970s, to discover surviving family members in relation to lands...
    • Departmental Guidelines
      Question 594: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he is confident that all agencies and bodies under his Department's responsibility comply fully with the Department of...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 595: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will make a statement on cost saving measures he plans introducing in the second half of 2008; if such measures will...
  • Department of Education and Science
    • School Curriculum
      Question 596: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress made in relation to the programme for Government proposal to introduce a new syllabus for leaving certificate...
    • Offshore Islands
      Question 597: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress made on the programme for Government proposal to maintain all existing second level schools where at all possible and...
    • Research Funding
      Question 598: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress made on the programme for Government proposal to build on the work done by the Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies and...
    • Computerisation Programme
      Question 599: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of County Clare primary and secondary schools that have received broadband connectivity under the broadband for schools...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 600: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the County Clare national schools which are awaiting funding under the schools building programme for large-scale projects and the...
    • Schools Amalgamation
      Question 601: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the proposed amalgamation of schools (details supplied) in County Waterford; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 602: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the amount spent on renting and purchasing temporary accommodation by schools (details supplied) in County Waterford, in each of the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 604: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the status of an application for building works for a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary; when he expects a decision to be...
    • School Enrolments
      Question 611: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of students currently enrolled in part-time education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28346/08]
    • Third Level Fees
      Question 612: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the cost of implementing the commitment in the programme for Government to introduce a new system of means tested free fees for...
    • Consultancy Contracts
      Question 613: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the expenditure by his Department on consultants for each of the past six calendar years, including to date in 2008; the breakdown of...
    • Departmental Agencies
      Question 614: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the pay and emoluments granted to the chief executive officer, or equivalents, of all of the agencies under the control of his...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 615: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding a new school (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28420/08]
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      Question 619: To ask the Minister for Education and Science his views on correspondence from a school (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28463/08]
    • School Curriculum
      Question 621: To ask the Minister for Education and Science his views on the arts and education committee report, Points of Alignment; the steps he is taking to implement the recommendations of...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 622: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason he has failed to sanction the acceptance of a tender for the required extension to a school (details supplied) in County...
    • Site Acquisitions
      Question 623: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason he has suspended negotiations on the purchase of a site for a permanent school building for a school (details supplied) in...
    • School Enrolments
      Question 624: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the year in which he expects to have the information requested in Parliamentary Question No. 240 of 28 November 2007. [28509/08]
    • Irish Language
      Question 625: To ask the Minister for Education and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 200 of 22 May 2008, the other secondary schools in north County Kildare who offer the option of...
    • School Accommodation
      Question 626: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will confirm that his Department approached the board of management of a school (details supplied) in County Kildare regarding...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 627: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position in respect of the provision of a permanent school for a school (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will...
    • School Accommodation
      Question 628: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when a design team will be appointed for the required extension to a school (details supplied) in County Kildare. [28513/08]
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 629: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he has received the stage 2a submission in respect of a new school for Ardclough, County Kildare; and if he will sanction capital...
    • School Staffing
      Question 632: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress in regard to the commitment given in the programme for Government to increase the number of primary teachers by at least...
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      Question 633: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress in regard to the commitment given in the programme for Government to prioritise reductions in the size of classes in the...
    • Teaching Qualifications
      Question 634: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress in regard to the commitment given in the programme for Government to reform the initial teacher training programmes,...
    • Capitation Grants
      Question 635: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress in regard to the commitment given in the programme for Government to increase day-to-day funding for schools in real...
    • School Funding
      Question 636: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress in regard to the commitment given in the programme for Government to complete the process of equalisation of funding at...
    • Waste and Water Allowances
      Question 637: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress in regard to the commitment given in the programme for Government to examine the provision of waste and water allowances...
    • Disadvantaged Status
      Question 638: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress in regard to the commitment given in the programme for Government to establish a developing areas unit in his Department...
    • Site Acquisitions
      Question 639: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress in regard to the commitment given in the programme for Government to improve the arrangements for acquiring sites. ...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 640: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress in regard to the commitment given in the programme for Government to ensure the maximum use of the top class standard...
    • School Accommodation
      Question 644: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress in regard to the commitment given in the programme for Government to increase the minor works grant 1599 to improve...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 645: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress in regard to the commitment given in the programme for Government to ensure that where the State builds a new school on...
    • Departmental Schemes
      Question 646: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress in regard to the commitment given in the programme for Government to increase the number of release days for teaching...
    • In-Service Training
      Question 647: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress in regard to the commitment given in the programme for Government to provide improved training options for principals,...
    • School Management
      Question 648: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress in regard to the commitment given in the programme for Government to review the role of middle management and put a new...
    • School Enrolments
      Question 649: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress made in relation to the programme for Government proposal to maximise the use of information technology to cut down on...
    • School Management
      Question 650: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress made in relation to the programme for Government proposal to ensure that the new boards of management that took up office...
    • Schools Refurbishment
      Question 651: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress made in relation to the programme for Government proposal to provide a dedicated fund for investment in physical...
    • School Curriculum
      Question 652: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress made in relation to the programme for Government proposal to make physical education mandatory at second level and put a...
    • School Staffing
      Question 654: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress made in relation to the programme for Government proposal to increase the number of guidance councillors at second level....
    • School Curriculum
      Question 655: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress made in relation to the programme for Government proposal to ensure that education is provided in road safety at...
    • Stay Safe Programme
      Question 656: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress made in relation to the programme for Government proposal to require all primary schools to implement the Stay Safe child...
    • Student Councils
      Question 657: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress made in relation to the programme for Government proposal to encourage the establishment of student councils and provide...
    • School Curriculum
      Question 658: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress made in relation to the programme for Government proposal to complete the senior cycle review that is currently being...
    • Transition Year Programme
      Question 659: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress made in relation to the programme for Government proposal to review the format and content of transition year. [28708/08]
    • Scientific and Technological Fund
      Question 660: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress made in relation to the programme for Government proposal to ring-fence funding for science laboratories, improve science...
    • Education Schemes
      Question 661: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress made in relation to the programme for Government proposal to increase resources and services for gifted children. [28710/08]
    • School Curriculum
      Question 662: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress made in relation to the programme for Government proposal to offer alternative curricula such as the junior certificate...
    • Youthreach Programme
      Question 663: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress made in relation to the programme for Government proposal to increase the number of Youth Reach places in line with...
    • Gaeltacht Scholarship Programme
      Question 664: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress made in relation to the programme for Government proposal to provide a scholarship scheme for children from disadvantaged...
    • School Curriculum
      Question 665: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress made in relation to the programme for Government proposal to give the opportunity to second level students to acquire an...
    • Disadvantaged Status
      Question 666: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress made in relation to the programme for Government proposal to complete the roll-out of the DEIS action plan to ensure a...
    • Literacy Levels
      Question 667: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress made in relation to the programme for Government proposal to ensure that all children are tested in literacy and numeracy...
    • Education Welfare Service
      Question 668: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress made in relation to the programme for Government proposal to recruit extra staff to the Educational Welfare Board and the...
    • Psychological Service
      Question 669: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress made in relation to the programme for Government proposal to prioritise early assessment and increase the number of...
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 670: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress made in relation to the programme for Government proposal to provide each child with special needs with the right to an...
    • School Staffing
      Question 673: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress made in relation to the programme for Government proposal to further increase the number of language support teachers...
    • Adult Education
      Question 674: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress made in relation to the programme for Government proposal to provide access to English language classes for adult...
    • School Transport
      Question 675: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress made in relation to the programme for Government proposal to review the school transport system, including the catchment...
    • Adult Education
      Question 676: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress made in relation to the programme for Government proposal to expand the number of adult literacy training places by 4,000...
    • Youth Services
      Question 678: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress made in relation to the programme for Government proposal to provide extra resources to progress the implementation of...
    • Access to Higher Education
      Question 680: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress made in relation to the programme for Government proposal to further increase third level participation rates, with a...
    • Higher Education Infrastructure
      Question 683: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress made in relation to the programme for Government proposal to provide a multi-annual capital fund of €2 billion for...
    • Departmental Bodies
      Question 684: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress made in relation to the programme for Government proposal to appoint two student representatives to each of the Higher...
    • Teacher Training
      Question 686: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress made in relation to the programme for Government proposal to ensure that all teachers and assistants have access to...
    • Adult Education
      Question 687: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress made in regard to the commitment given in the programme for Government to provide for improved access to lifelong...
    • School Transport
      Question 688: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he plans to increase the charge to parents of transporting primary and post-primary children to school; the amount of any such...
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 690: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when an initiative (details supplied) will be rolled out to other parts of the country. [28774/08]
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 691: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if his attention has been drawn to the extra costs which have arisen with a project at a school (details supplied) in County Dublin...
    • School Enrolments
      Question 692: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of pupils enrolled in a school (details supplied) in Dublin 9 in each of the past three years; the number of teachers...
    • Decentralisation Programme
      Question 693: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of staff who have been moved to date to decentralised locations; the number who moved with their post; the number who have...
    • School Places
      Question 695: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will provide additional places at a school (details supplied) in County Roscommon in view of the increased demand for the...
    • Youth Services
      Question 696: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if the responsibility for youth services as outlined in Sections 9, 13 and 19 of the Youth Work Act 2001 is to be transferred to the...
    • School Curriculum
      Question 697: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he has examined the possibility of introducing drug and alcohol awareness education programmes in primary and post primary...
    • Third Level Grants
      Question 698: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will arrange for conditions to be put in place to allow a person (details supplied) in County Cork to receive a scholarship and...
    • School Management
      Question 699: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if it is proposed to exercise powers granted to him under the Education Act 1998 to introduce regulations to replace rules for...
    • School Enrolments
      Question 700: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when a review of the general allocation model will be completed; if it is proposed that a similar model will be introduced at second...
    • School Staffing
      Question 701: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of administrative principal and administrative deputy principal posts occupied from 2006 to 2008; the number of such posts...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 702: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of schools that have contacted his Department in the 2007-08 school year to report difficulties relating to annual running...
    • Capitation Grants
      Question 703: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of start-up schools during the years 2000 to date in 2008 provided with front-loaded full ancillary grants in addition to...
    • School Staffing
      Question 704: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if retrospective vetting of teachers recruited before 1 September, 2006 has commenced; if so, the number of teachers vetted to date;...
    • School Management.
      Question 706: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of section 29 appeals received to date in 2008; the breakdown as to whether such appeals related to enrolment, suspension...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 709: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of the projects announced on 1 February, 2008 that have commenced construction; the number expected to be fully completed...
    • Education Projects
      Question 714: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a drugs rehabilitation fund has been set up in line with recommendations under the current national drugs strategy; the extent of...
    • Decentralisation Programme
      Question 716: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress made to date in relation to the decentralisation process underway in his Department; the number of existing staff...
    • Telecommunications Services
      Question 718: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the discussions that have taken place with regard to the development of a new agreement with industry partners for the roll out of...
    • Computerisation Programme
      Question 719: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when the schools information, communications and technology strategy will be made publicly available; if he has received formal...
    • Psychological Service
      Question 721: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the percentage of primary and secondary schools covered by the National Educational Psychological Service; and if he will make a...
    • School Management
      Question 723: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when it is expected Section 30 of the Teaching Council Act 2001 will be commenced; if amendments to this section of the Act have been...
    • School Staffing
      Question 724: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of classes with 30 children or more in schools for the current school year; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 725: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of children that will be considered eligible for the July home tuition scheme in 2008; the number of children who have...
    • Home-School Liaison Scheme
      Question 726: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of home tutors listed on his Department's database; the rate of pay tutors receive under the home tuition scheme; and if...
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 727: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if the National Council for Special Education has submitted a report to his Department regarding future policy on deaf education; if...
    • Information and Communications Technology
      Question 729: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress made in relation to the development of a new information technology system for the vocational educational committee...
    • Irish Language
      Question 730: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress in relation to the provision of a support and development initiative for the Irish language in Baile Bhúirne, in the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 732: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the latest projected costs for new schools in developing areas originally announced on 1 February, 2008; and if he will make a...
    • School Accommodation
      Question 733: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of primary schools in County Westmeath using prefabricated accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 738: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position of an application by a school (details supplied) in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28986/08]
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 740: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will review the decisions made by a special education needs organiser which confirmed reduced access to special needs assistants...
    • School Curriculum
      Question 741: To ask the Minister for Education and Science, further to Parliamentary Question No. 79 of 9 April 2008 on the circular regarding early immersion education, the significantly wider...
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 744: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath will receive an intense hearing test and access to early intervention for autism....
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 745: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position of an application by a school (details supplied) in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29023/08]
    • Education Programmes
      Question 749: To ask the Minister for Education and Science his views on the withdrawal and closure of third level access programmes by University College Dublin in Baldoyle and by Trinity...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 750: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of schools given sanction to proceed with a new building project in the years 2002 to date in 2008; and the number that...
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 751: To ask the Minister for Education and Science his plans for recruiting clerical staff in the Laois and Offaly areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29107/08]
    • Teaching Qualifications
      Question 752: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason a person (details supplied) has been refused recognition of their degree from Northern Ireland by the Irish Teaching...
    • Ministerial Travel
      Question 753: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the cost and frequency of travel per month since the beginning of this new Government by Ministers and Ministers of State by means of...
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 754: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the help and support that will be put in place for a child (details supplied) in County Mayo from September 2008, in view of their...
    • Departmental Guidelines
      Question 755: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he is confident that all agencies and bodies under his Department's responsibility comply fully with the Department of Finance...
    • School Enrolments
      Question 756: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a school place is available at a school for a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 757: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will make a statement on cost saving measures he plans introducing in the second half of 2008; if such measures will affect the...
  • Department of Defence
    • Departmental Programmes
      Question 760: To ask the Minister for Defence the amount of money his Department has provided to rural development and Leader programmes; the way this money has been allocated and spent; and if...
    • Pension Provisions
      Question 761: To ask the Minister for Defence the reason the Air Corps service of a soldier (details supplied) in Dublin 5 who ended their service in October 1970 is not eligible for transfer...
    • Ministerial Travel
      Question 762: To ask the Minister for Defence the cost and frequency of travel per month since the beginning of this new Government by Ministers and Ministers of State by means of bus...
    • Departmental Guidelines
      Question 763: To ask the Minister for Defence if he is confident that all agencies and bodies under his Department's responsibility comply fully with the Department of Finance procurement...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 764: To ask the Minister for Defence if he will make a statement on cost saving measures he plans introducing in the second half of 2008; if such measures will affect the delivery of...
  • Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 765: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a person (details supplied) in County Wexford was informed by his...
    • Illegal Immigrants
      Question 766: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the immigration status of a person (details supplied) in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Prisoner Transfers
      Question 767: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if an application has been received for a person (details supplied) under the repatriation scheme; the status of the...
    • Departmental Properties
      Question 768: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the proposals for the development of farmland at Dromard, Templemore, County Tipperary which was purchased for further...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 769: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the expenditure by his Department on consultants for each of the past six calendar years, including to date in 2008; the...
    • Departmental Programmes
      Question 771: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the amount of money his Department has provided to rural development and Leader programmes; the way this money has been...
    • Legislative Programme
      Question 772: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 1060 of 26 September 2007, if he will report on the issues and the progress to date;...
    • EU Directives
      Question 773: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status of the negotiations between his Department and the European Commission regarding Ireland's transposition of the...
    • Visa Applications
      Question 774: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will advise on the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 6. [28491/08]
    • Crime Levels
      Question 775: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when the information promised in Parliamentary Question No. 187 of 13 March 2008 will be supplied. [28506/08]
    • Drug Courts
      Question 776: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress that has been made in relation to the programme for Government proposal to expand the successful drug court...
    • Garda Deployment
      Question 777: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress made in relation to the programme for Government proposal to increase Garda search powers in relation to drug...
    • Educational Projects
      Question 778: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress made in relation to the programme for Government proposal to support targeted Garda anti-drug use programmes...
    • Crime Prevention
      Question 779: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress made in relation to the programme for Government proposal to expand the Criminal Assets Bureau operational...
    • State Bodies
      Question 781: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to fact that the President of Irish Human Rights Commission, who reports to the Department...
    • Asylum Applications
      Question 782: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in the case of citizenship on humanitarian grounds for a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon. [28761/08]
    • Deportation Orders
      Question 783: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason for the deportation of persons (details supplied); if he will exercise his discretion to allow them to remain in...
    • Garda Equipment
      Question 784: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status of replacing roadside hand held units used to record penalty points; if the new units will be able to make...
    • Asylum Applications
      Question 785: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason for the rejection of an application for asylum by a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will...
    • Decentralisation Programme
      Question 787: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of staff who have been moved to date to decentralised locations; the number who moved with their post; the...
    • Bullying in the Workplace
      Question 789: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of bullying and harassment cases that have been taken within his Department in the past five years; and the...
    • Garda Deployment
      Question 794: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of Gardaí attached to Coolock, Raheny, and Howth Garda Stations each year since 2002 and to date in 2008; his...
    • Garda Stations
      Question 795: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will establish a Garda station to serve Donaghmede and Clongriffin, Dublin 13 and environs in view of the significant...
    • Garda Equipment
      Question 796: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of breathalysers currently in use by the Garda Síochána; his plans to increase the number of breathalysers...
    • Garda Operations
      Question 797: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding Operation Anvil; the successes achieved by this operation to date; the cost of Operation Anvil; and...
    • Garda Deployment
      Question 798: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of Garda personnel that are currently attached to the traffic corps; when the Garda traffic corps will reach its...
    • Cash Seizures
      Question 799: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the amount seized and returned to the Exchequer under sections 39 and 62 of the Criminal Justice Act 1994 for each year...
    • Garda Operations
      Question 800: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will report on Operation Safeguard; the length of time this operation will run for; the objectives of same; the...
    • Proposed Legislation
      Question 801: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the law as it currently stands for finding an accused person not guilty for reasons of insanity; if he is currently...
    • Garda Checkpoints
      Question 802: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of Garda road check points in operation in 2005, 2006, 2007 and to date in 2008; the number of Garda road check...
    • Road Traffic Offences
      Question 803: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of drivers charged and the number found guilty of driving with no tax, insurance or a national car test...
    • Stardust Tragedy
      Question 805: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status of the inquiry into the new evidence pertaining to the Stardust disaster of 1981 which resulted in the deaths of...
    • Ministerial Transport
      Question 806: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of cars currently in the ministerial and State fleet; the person to whom each vehicle is assigned; the year and...
    • Road Safety
      Question 807: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding the roll out of the national speed camera programme; the stage the tendering process is at; if all...
    • Road Traffic Offences
      Question 808: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number charged and the number convicted for drunk driving in each year since 2005 to date in 2008; the number of people...
    • Residency Permits
      Question 811: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding an application for long term residency by a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath; and if he...
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 813: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason a person (details supplied) in County Leitrim whose papers were requested on 22 May 2008 and who was number one...
    • Ministerial Travel
      Question 814: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the cost and frequency of travel per month since the beginning of this new Government by Ministers and Ministers of State...
    • Departmental Guidelines
      Question 815: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he is confident that all agencies and bodies under his Department's responsibility comply fully with the Department of...
    • Residency Permits
      Question 816: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the current or expected position in respect of an application for leave to remain in the State in the case of a person...
    • Asylum Applications
      Question 817: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the current or expected residency status in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Sligo; and if he will make a...
    • Residency Permits
      Question 818: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding an application for family reunification in the case of persons (details supplied); and if he will...
    • Asylum Support Services
      Question 819: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will consider offering alternative accommodation to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will...
    • Asylum Applications
      Question 820: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will reconsider cause for refusal of subsidiary protection under European Regulation IN0518 of 2006 in the case of a...
    • Asylum Support Services
      Question 821: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason persons (details supplied) in Dublin 22, are being transferred to County Tipperary; if this matter will be...
    • Asylum Applications
      Question 822: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if residency status on humanitarian grounds will be considered in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 6; and...
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 823: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding the residency status or application for naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied) in...
    • Asylum Applications
      Question 824: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in respect of the residency application in the name of a person (details supplied) in County Meath; and if he...
    • Deportation Orders
      Question 827: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will review the proposals to deport in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if he will...
    • Asylum Applications
      Question 828: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if permission to remain in the State on humanitarian grounds will be offered to persons (details supplied) in County Clare;...
    • Residency Permits
      Question 830: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the current or expected residency status in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 22; and if he will make a...
    • Asylum Applications
      Question 831: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the current or expected residency status in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 6; and if he will make a...
    • Residency Permits
      Question 833: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the current or expected residency status in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 8; and if he will make a...
    • Asylum Applications
      Question 834: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the current or expected residency status in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Meath; and if he will make a...
    • Visa Applications
      Question 837: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the current or expected residency status in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 1; and if he will make a...
    • Residency Permits
      Question 838: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in respect of the application for residency or renewal of green card in the case of a person (details...
    • Visa Applications
      Question 839: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the procedure to be followed in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if he will make a statement...
    • Asylum Applications
      Question 840: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the current or expected residency status in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Louth; and if he will make a...
    • Residency Permits
      Question 841: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the current or expected residency status in the case of persons (details supplied) in County Meath; and if he will make a...
    • Garda Operations
      Question 842: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if a copy of a Garda report will be given to a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Residency Permits
      Question 843: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position on the application for naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15; and if he will...
    • Asylum Applications
      Question 844: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in respect of the application for residency in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Louth. [29240/08]
    • Civil Registrations
      Question 849: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will authorise a wedding between persons (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Residency Permits
      Question 850: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in relation to the application for residency in the case of persons (details supplied) in County Dublin; and...
    • Asylum Applications
      Question 852: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in relation to the residency status in the case of persons (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will...
    • Residency Permits
      Question 856: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if extended leave to remain in Ireland will be offered to persons (details supplied) in County Meath; and if he will make a...
    • Refugee Status
      Question 857: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the current or expected residency status in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Meath; and if he will make a...
    • Asylum Applications
      Question 859: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if further consideration will be given to the application for residency in the case of a person (details supplied) in...
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 860: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason naturalisation was previously refused in the case of persons (details supplied) in County Kildare; if it is...
    • Residency Permits
      Question 861: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will grant extended residency in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Meath; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 862: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will make a statement on cost saving measures he plans introducing in the second half of 2008; if such measures will...
    • Visa Applications
      Question 863: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a visa extension will be offered to the spouse of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a...
  • Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
    • State Property
      Question 864: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the status in relation to the purchase of bog lands by a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; the...
    • Homeless Persons
      Question 865: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the person responsible for inspecting guest houses or hostels used by clients of the Health Service Executive...
    • Housing Aid for the Elderly
      Question 870: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amount allocated to the housing aid for the elderly scheme from 2003 to date in 2008 in the midlands...
    • Sport and Recreational Development
      Question 871: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the progress made in relation to the programme for Government proposal to implement a community development...
    • Planning Issues
      Question 873: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the progress made in relation to the programme for Government proposal to set up a national monitoring...
    • Community Care
      Question 874: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the progress has been made in relation to the programme for Government proposal to extend the pilot scheme of...
    • Planning Issues
      Question 875: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the progress made in relation to the programme for Government proposal to build on recent planning laws by...
    • Local Authority Housing
      Question 877: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the procedures in place to ensure that social or affordable housing acquired by local authorities complies...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes
      Question 880: 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...
    • Planning Issues
      Question 881: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if there are by laws in place with regard to the requirement of county or town councillors to obtain advice...
    • Local Authority Housing
      Question 882: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the funding allocated to local authorities by his Department and the Private Residential Tenancies Board for...
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      Question 883: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on the submission from the Dublin inner city partnership regarding the need for his Department to...
    • Waste Disposal
      Question 884: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will explain the process whereby contractors were appointed for the clean-up of the former Irish Steel...
    • Departmental Funding
      Question 888: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amount his Department allocated to the country as a whole for housing capital grant; the amount allocated...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 889: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the expenditure by his Department on consultants for each of the past six calendar years, including to date...
    • Departmental Funding
      Question 891: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding the provision of funding by his Department to a local authority for the purchase of...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes
      Question 892: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his plans to introduce registration and monitoring of the indirect discharges into ground water of domestic...
    • Housing Policy
      Question 895: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of one-off houses outside areas zoned for development in county development plans 2000 to 2005....
    • Waste Disposal
      Question 896: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amount by county of waste farm plastic collected under the scheme introduced in May 2006 to clear...
    • EU Directives
      Question 897: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when, in view of the fact that public consultation on the regulatory impact analysis of the European...
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      Question 901: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the way he is adapting to the increased need for one and two bedroom social housing to cope with the demand...
    • EU Directives
      Question 902: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the status of the negotiations between his Department and the European Commission over the Commission's...
    • Local Authority Staff
      Question 906: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will effectively seek the lifting of the embargo on recruitment for local authorities in the Greater...
    • National Monuments
      Question 907: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 768 of 26 June 2007, if his attention has been drawn to the fact that...
    • Public Private Partnerships
      Question 909: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a number of Dublin inner city regeneration areas, designated...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 910: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the costs incurred by his Department to run the recent advertising campaign regarding special areas of...
    • Local Authority Housing
      Question 911: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the reason the valuation of affordable housing by local authorities seems to be significantly higher than the...
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      Question 912: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on whether it is acceptable that a person who has been offered an affordable home for €182,000...
    • Local Authority Housing
      Question 913: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if the onus is on a local authority to provide temporary accommodation for a person (details supplied) in...
    • Planning Issues
      Question 914: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the extent to which the impact of the economic downturn and hence lower immigration levels and housing demand...
    • Environmental Policy
      Question 916: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has considered, or will consider, the level of risk when displaying compact fluorescent lamps in retail...
    • Election Management System
      Question 918: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the cost to date of the consultancy design, manufacture, transport, security, storage and training in each...
    • Decentralisation Programme
      Question 920: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of staff who have been moved to date to decentralised locations; the number who moved with their...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes
      Question 922: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 567, of 18 December, 2007, the status of the approval process; and if...
    • Local Authority Boundaries
      Question 924: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the status of the proposal by Waterford City Council for a boundary extension to the north of the city; if he...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      Question 925: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has received correspondence from a company (details supplied) regarding the proposed incinerator at...
    • Departmental Statistics
      Question 926: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of house completions each year since 2002 to date in 2008; the estimate of the number of house...
    • Waste Disposal
      Question 927: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding the illegal dump on the Industrial Development Authority lands (details supplied);...
    • Sustainable Development Strategy
      Question 928: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will report on what were and are the implications of Ireland signing up to the Bristol Accord 20 in...
    • Environmental Policy
      Question 929: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his policy on light pollution, in view of the problems of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and...
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      Question 930: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the action he will take to reach the target in his Department in relation to the programme for Government...
    • Ministerial Travel
      Question 931: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the cost and frequency of travel per month since the beginning of this new Government by Ministers and...
    • Departmental Guidelines
      Question 932: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he is confident that all agencies and bodies under his Department's responsibility comply fully with the...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 933: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will make a statement on cost saving measures he plans introducing in the second half of 2008; if such...
  • Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
    • Energy Efficiency
      Question 934: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his proposals to improve energy efficiency in residential properties, particularly for older people; and if he...
    • Telecommunications Services
      Question 937: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the progress made in respect of the roll-out of the technology for the elderly scheme which was announced...
    • Alternative Energy Projects
      Question 938: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the progress made in respect of the proposal in the programme for Government to optimise the amount of...
    • Telecommunications Services
      Question 939: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the progress made in respect of the proposal in the programme for Government to invest in the provision of...
    • Alternative Energy Projects
      Question 941: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the progress made in respect of the proposal in the programme for Government to introduce a scheme for offshore...
    • Mining Licences
      Question 942: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of mining licences issued in the Fingal local authority area; the duration, and terms and conditions...
    • Telecommunications Services
      Question 943: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the proportion of the €435 million allocated to information communication technology projects under the...
    • Alternative Energy Projects
      Question 944: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the grants available to a person who is building a house including solar panels; the way a person can avail of...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 946: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the expenditure by his Department on consultants for each of the past six calendar years, including to date in...
    • Departmental Agencies
      Question 947: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the pay and emoluments granted to the chief executive officer, or equivalents, of all of the agencies under the...
    • Telecommunications Services
      Question 948: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide information on expenditure for 2007 and 2008 and predictions for 2009 to 2013 under the...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 949: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the amount of money his Department has provided to rural development and Leader programmes; the way this money...
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 950: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if there is an embargo on the filling of vacant permanent posts within his Department or any body or agency...
    • Decentralisation Programme
      Question 951: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the status of the decentralisation of the Central Fisheries Board; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Agencies
      Question 952: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when it is next proposed to have elections to the regional fisheries boards; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Decentralisation Programme
      Question 954: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of staff who have been moved to date to decentralised locations; the number who moved with their...
    • Nuclear Power
      Question 958: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on whether nuclear power has become more economically feasible in view of the large rise in oil...
    • Alternative Energy Projects
      Question 960: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the percentage of the vehicle fleet here that is run on bio-fuels or other alternative energy sources; and if...
    • Carbon Capture Technology
      Question 961: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position regarding his policy for carbon capture technology; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      Question 962: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the action he will take to reach the target in his Department in relation to the programme for Government...
    • Ministerial Travel
      Question 963: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the cost and frequency of travel per month since the beginning of this new Government by Ministers and...
    • Departmental Guidelines
      Question 964: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he is confident that all agencies and bodies under his Department's responsibility comply fully with the...
    • Postal Services
      Question 965: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the extent to which research was carried out into the possible use of post codes; the cost of such studies; if...
    • Offshore Exploration
      Question 966: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the extent of discovery of precious ores or metals on or off shore in the past five years; and if he will make...
    • Energy Supply
      Question 967: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the full extent to which he envisages storage facilities in respect of gas and oil to be improved with a view...
    • Electricity Generation
      Question 968: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of applications for admission to the national electricity grid; their expected generation capacity...
    • Alternative Energy Projects
      Question 973: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans for enhancing the development of the alternative energy sectors with particular reference to the need...
    • Television Broadcasting
      Question 976: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if his attention has been drawn to the need for greater use of subtitles in appropriate circumstances having...
    • Corrib Gas Project
      Question 977: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the extent to which he expects the Corrib gas field to supply the market here; when he expects gas from this...
    • Broadcasting Services
      Question 978: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his preferred options for the development and the provision of the full range of Irish broadcasting services at...
    • Telecommunications Services
      Question 979: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources Ireland's current rating in the European and international league in regard to broadband availability in...
    • Postal Services
      Question 983: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will issue direction in regard to the future of the postal service with particular reference to the need...

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