Written answers
Wednesday, 19 November 2008
- Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism
- Public Private Partnerships
Question 81: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the number of public private partnership projects underway which are under the remit of his Department; the number that are at the...
- Sports Facility Strategy
Question 82: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the status of the promised sports facility strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41294/08]
- Swimming Pool Projects
Question 83: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he envisages that the next phase of the local authority swimming pool programme will be initiated in 2009; if there is funding for...
- Film Industry Development
Question 85: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if his attention has been drawn to the Irish Film Board Review; the steps being considered on foot of this report; and if he will...
- National Aquatic Centre
Question 86: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the subsidy that is required for the National Aquatic Centre for the year 2008; the subsidy that was paid in 2007; and if any subsidy...
- Arts Funding
Question 87: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if his Department has completed its active internal discussions on the position paper prepared by the Arts Council which deals with...
- Sports Promotion
Question 88: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the ways in which his Department promotes or supports participation by people with a disability in sport and physical activity; and...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 90: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism his views on whether the guarantees for Arts and Sport provided in the Programme for Government will not all be provided; and if he...
- Film Industry Development
Question 91: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if a decision has been made on the future of Ardmore Studios; if he has had contacts since he became Minister with the owners; and if...
- Olympic Games
Question 94: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if Ireland will have the facilities to attract top class athletes to these shores in the run up to the 2012 London Olympics; if there...
- National Lottery Funding
Question 96: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the amount of the funding for the Arts Council and the Irish Sports Council that is provided through National Lottery funding; the...
- Horse and Greyhound Racing Industries
Question 97: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he has plans to advise the Department of Finance to reform the gambling legislation in order to ensure the Horse and Greyhound...
- Employment Rights
Question 98: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he has received representations from within the hotel industry or from their representative bodies in respect of the Joint Labour...
- National Library
Question 99: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism when the tenders for the new repository and extension for the National Library will be sought; and if he will make a statement on the...
- National Conference Centre
Question 102: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism when he expects the National Conference Centre to be completed; the estimated cost of this project; the way the centre is to be...
- Appointments to State Boards
Question 103: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism when he will announce the appointments to the board of the Arts Council; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the delay...
- Natural History Museum
Question 104: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the contact he has had with the Office of Public Works to ensure the early refurbishment and repairs required at the Natural History...
- Sports Capital Programme
Question 106: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he is satisfied with the support given to amateur boxing clubs in view of the success achieved by our boxers at the Olympics over...
- Sports Funding
Question 107: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if it is appropriate that the Horse and Greyhound Fund, which supports two sports will get more funding than the Irish Sports...
- Departmental Agencies
Question 108: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if the senior executives in the bodies under the aegis of his Department will be taking a 10% pay cut; and if he will make a...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 110: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism his views on the fact that the only area under his Department which has secured an increase in 2009 is the administration section;...
- Arts Funding
Question 111: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if the cuts in funding to the Arts Council will have a similar detrimental affect on the arts as those in 2002; and if he will make...
- Animal Welfare
Question 112: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the progress on the production of the Green Paper on Animal Welfare in Sport and Recreation as promised in the Programme for...
- Sports Capital Programme
Question 113: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if the sports capital programme will proceed in 2009; if there is funding for a new round of this programme in Budget 2009; and if...
- Arts Funding
Question 114: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the progress made on introducing multi-annual funding for the Arts Council; when this will be introduced; and if he will make a...
- Abbey Theatre
Question 116: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if it is planned to progress the relocation of the Abbey Theatre to the docklands; the amount of money that is secured for this...
- National Cultural Institutions
Question 117: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism his views on the extended opening hours of the National Museums during the summer; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Department of An Taoiseach
- Consumer Price Index
Question 118: To ask the Taoiseach the weight used in compiling the consumer price index for biofuels; and the monthly movements in the retail price of this product over the past three years....
- Department of Finance
- Tax Collection
Question 119: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of occasions in respect of which the Revenue Commissioners have acted in tax arrears cases with businesses here in respect of each of the...
- Tax Code
Question 120: To ask the Minister for Finance the position of an application for a tax rebate by a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Tax Yield
Question 123: To ask the Minister for Finance the yield to the Exchequer of the introduction of a new tax rate of 45% on incomes above €52,000 for a single person, above €61,000 for married...
- Departmental Properties
Question 124: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a list of all the disused, vacant, derelict, and unoccupied State buildings here; the amount each of these buildings cost the...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 126: To ask the Minister for Finance the amount the State has spent annually over the course of the past five years on the renting and leasing of property. [41813/08]
- Motor Vehicle Registration
Question 127: To ask the Minister for Finance the costs of a specific vehicle registration number; and if in view of the case of a person (details supplied) in County Cork he will make the...
- Departmental Properties
Question 128: To ask the Minister for Finance the details of the sale of all State properties since 2004 to date in 2008; the locations of each property; and the price received by the State in...
- Department of Health and Children
- Health Service Allowances
Question 129: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position of an appeal for domiciliary carer's allowance by a person (details supplied) in County Meath. [41785/08]
- Assisted Human Reproduction
Question 130: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the proposed scheme to provide financial assistance for IVF treatments referred to by her in an article of 3 November 2008 (details...
- Hospital Services
Question 132: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the recompression chamber at University College Hospital Galway will re-open; the staffing plans and hours of operation for this...
- Cancer Screening Programme
Question 133: To ask the Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No. 179 of 12 March 2008, if she will report on the progress to date on the roll-out of the...
- Ambulance Service
Question 134: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will report on the strength of the ambulance service in County Clare as of 31 October 2008; if the National Spatial Analysis...
- Health Services
Question 136: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason the funding for admissions to organisations such as an organisation (details supplied) has not been increased in line with...
- Hospital Accommodation
Question 138: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if there are plans to provide beds for the long-term nursing care of older patients in any of the proposed co-located hospitals; and if...
- Health Services
Question 139: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason the Health Service Executive have taken a course of action (details supplied) in County Wexford; and if she will make a...
- Services for People with Disabilities
Question 140: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will confirm that a disability database for children is maintained by the Health Service Executive in order to plan for future...
- Private Health Insurance
Question 144: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the specific measures she is considering to keep health insurance for older people affordable; and if she will make a statement on the...
- State Property
Question 145: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will enumerate the Health Service Executive's annual rental expenditure on leased and rented property since 2003 to date in 2008...
- Vaccination Programme
Question 146: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the amount of money that was spent on the advertisement of the cervical cancer vaccination programme; the number of civil servants who...
- Health Services
Question 148: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will provide a national diabetic retinopathy detection programme; her views on whether there is a need for a national diabetic...
- Illegal Substances
Question 149: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will support a matter (details supplied). [41829/08]
- Services for People with Disabilities
Question 150: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the concern being expressed by various organisations in relation to the funding situation for...
- Department of Transport
- Job Protection
Question 151: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will facilitate a compromise between the HMRC and a transport company (details supplied) in County Donegal in respect of that company's...
- Tax Code
Question 152: To ask the Minister for Transport the alternative support mechanisms that will be given following the termination of the excise duty refund for public transport services; and if he...
- Fuel Duty
Question 153: To ask the Minister for Transport the action taken by his Department on a submission from a council (details supplied). [41920/08]
- Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
- Garda Operations
Question 154: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will make a statement on the case of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick. [41698/08]
- Citizenship Applications
Question 155: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a decision will be made on the application by a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [41719/08]
- Registration of Title
Question 156: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the name given on a folio (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41730/08]
- Citizenship Applications
Question 157: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if an application for naturalisation will be concluded in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; and if he...
- Asylum Support Services
Question 158: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the payments made under all headings to all companies involved in providing accommodation to asylum seekers and refugees...
- Crime Prevention
Question 160: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of licensed firearms being held in each garda district in County Donegal. [41743/08]
- Garda Deployment
Question 161: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will request a detailed report from the Garda authorities regarding the level of policing in the East Wall area of...
- Property Services Regulation
Question 162: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding the need for legislative powers to be given to the National Property Services Regulatory Authority...
- Illegal Substances
Question 163: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will support a matter (details supplied). [41828/08]
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 164: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the amount of funding given to the Minister for Integration's Office directly as a proportion of the annual budget given to...
- Official Engagements
Question 165: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of launches and openings the Minister for Integration attended in 2007 and to date in 2008; and if he will make...
- Integration Plans
Question 166: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the details of the Taskforce for Integration including its role and membership; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Department of Foreign Affairs
- International Agreements
Question 168: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the situation with respect to Belarusian children visiting here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41733/08]
- Northern Ireland Issues
Question 169: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the efforts made to encourage members of the Democratic Unionist Party and the Ulster Unionist Party to attend meetings of the Joint...
- Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism
- Arts Plan
Question 170: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the progress made towards implementing the recommendation of the Arts and Education Committee; and if he will make a statement on...
- Sports Funding
Question 171: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism his views on lowering the matching funding threshold for sports clubs and organisations in CLÁR and RAPID areas from the 10%...
- Tourism Industry
Question 172: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the uptake from the mid-Shannon tourism investment to date; if he will review the scheme in terms of the deadline set and the lack...
- Film Industry Development
Question 173: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism his plans to promote the film industry here in the next two years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41837/08]
- Arts Funding
Question 174: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he has proposals to offer financial support to any of the arts groups, musical or dramatic societies throughout County Kildare...
- Tourism Industry
Question 177: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism his plans to ensure the future expansion of the tourism sector here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41841/08]
- Sports Funding
Question 180: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the expenditure in the development, support and promotion of active sporting activities in each of the past five years to date; his...
- Arts Funding
Question 184: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism his plans to encourage the development of and interest in, the promotion of the arts at local and international level; the...
- Youth Services
Question 186: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if his attention has been drawn to the need to provide extra grant aid to fund community based and financially assisted local...
- Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 187: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will increase the grant provided to an organisation (details supplied) from the Regional Drugs Task Force in...
- Department of Social and Family Affairs
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 188: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the position in relation to a disability allowance appeal for a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [41683/08]
- Social Insurance
Question 189: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the procedure in instances where an employee has discovered on the sale of the business that the employer has not paid PRSI...
- Unemployment Levels
Question 190: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 217 of 6 November 2008, the number of people on the live register by nationality with a...
- Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
- Water and Sewerage Schemes
Question 191: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding the upgrading of a sewerage scheme (details supplied) in County Donegal; if tender...
- Fire Stations
Question 192: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when finance will be sanctioned for the provision of a new fire station (details supplied) in County...
- Planning Issues
Question 193: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if, in respect of Parliamentary Question No. 507 of 11 March 2008, he will provide a copy of the defence...
- Joint Policing Committees
Question 194: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if, in relation to the joint policing committees in local authority areas, there will be duplication of the...
- Local Authority Housing
Question 195: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of local authority owned houses which are closed or boarded up for more than three months; and if...
- Local Authority Funding
Question 196: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amount local Government funding will be reduced by on a county basis in tabular form. [41804/08]
- Social and Affordable Housing
Question 197: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when the next tendering process will take place to underwrite mortgages supplied under the shared ownership...
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Alternative Energy Projects
Question 198: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the cost of production of biofuels; the way this has moved over the past three years; and the way it compares...
- Telecommunications Services
Question 199: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the action he is taking to hasten the provision of broadband to Bredagh Glen, Moville, County Donegal; his...
- Electricity Generation
Question 201: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when the pilot micro electricity programme by Sustainable Energy Ireland will be commenced; and if he will make...
- Department of Agriculture and Food
- Foreshore Licences
Question 204: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the progress made within his Department on an application for a foreshore licence (details supplied); if all the prescribed...
- Food Labelling
Question 205: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the outcome of the meeting of the Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health on 13 October 2008 regarding food...
- Grant Payments
Question 206: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of applications under the CFP grant scheme approved for payment in each of the past six months in the southern...
- Animal Feedstuffs
Question 208: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the action being taken to assist the poultry and pig industries in the sourcing and supply of non-genetically modified feed;...
- Sheep Sector
Question 209: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food his plans for the roll-out of the €30 million maintenance grant for ewes; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Farm Waste Management
Question 210: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the cost to the State of an extension of the farm waste management scheme to June 2008. [41808/08]
- Veterinary Inspection Service
Question 212: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will support a matter (details supplied). [41827/08]
- Department of Education and Science
- Schools Amalgamation
Question 213: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the provision of a new school for a school (details supplied) in County Louth; and if he will make a statement...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 215: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the extent of the visiting teacher service for children and young people with a hearing or visual impairment, VTHVI, provided by his...
- School Staffing
Question 219: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will provide assurances that the future of a school (details supplied) in County Sligo will be safeguarded, in the wake of the...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 220: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding a school building project at a school (details supplied) in County Meath; when he expects work to begin; and if...
- School Transport
Question 221: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will furnish a response to a representation made to his Department regarding school transport to a school (details supplied) in...
- Disadvantaged Status
Question 222: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the effects of the budget 2009 cutbacks on a school (details supplied) in County Mayo that is located in a disadvantaged area but is...
- School Enrolments
Question 223: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will reply to a query (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41725/08]
- Schools Building Projects
Question 226: To ask the Minister for Education and Science his plans for giving approval in respect of the building of new schools in 2009; when he will inform interested applicants about the...
- Pupil-Teacher Ratio
Question 227: To ask the Minister for Education and Science his views on the representations from a school (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- School Accommodation
Question 228: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the cost per year of providing prefabricated buildings for the past ten years at a school (details supplied) in County Waterford; and...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 229: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position with regard to an application for a new school building for a school (details supplied) in County Waterford in view of...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 230: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will address the anomaly whereby students with psychological reports advising the provision of resource teaching hours and...
- School Accommodation
Question 232: To ask the Minister for Education and Science his Department's specification in respect of classroom space per pupil, toilet facilities per pupil, ancillary rooms required, play...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 233: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will reassess the case of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41801/08]
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 234: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the nature of the cutbacks in funding in respect of the school for gifted children at Dublin City University. [41816/08]
