Written answers
Thursday, 20 November 2008
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Consumer Protection
Question 11: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps being taken to implement the commitment in the programme for Government that steps would be taken to...
- Social Partnership Agreements
Question 12: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if she has received a request for a meeting from the Construction Industry Federation regarding the...
- Prompt Payment System
Question 13: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment her plans to promote a culture of paying bills quicker in the small and medium enterprise sector, if she will...
- EU Funding
Question 16: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if her Department collects, collates and analyses statistics on redundancies and job losses in such a way that...
- Appointments to State Boards
Question 17: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the appointments she has made to boards, agencies or other bodies operating under the aegis of her Department...
- Grocery Industry
Question 18: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the extent to which grocery prices have fallen since she came into office; if she is satisfied with the...
- Ministerial Staff
Question 19: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number, in respect of her and of her Ministers of State, the constituency office and the private office,...
- Labour Inspectorate
Question 20: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of labour inspectors employed by the National Employment Rights Authority; the number of labour...
- Foreign Direct Investment
Question 21: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment her plans to make contact with the incoming administration in the United States in view of reports that...
- Export Levels
Question 24: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the work being undertaken by her Department to increase the number of exports made by Irish owned companies....
- Economic Competitiveness
Question 25: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment her plans to improve competitiveness in the manufacturing and service sectors here; and if she will make a...
- Fuel Prices
Question 26: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when she expects to receive the National Consumer Agency's report on petrol and diesel prices; the action she...
- Redundancy Levels
Question 28: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of redundancies notified to her Department during 2007; the number notified to date in 2008; the...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 29: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when she will conclude her review of the Competition Act 2002; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Prompt Payments System
Question 31: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if she has met with representatives of Irish small and medium enterprises to discuss the issue of the length...
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 32: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the revised arrangements for decentralisation of those bodies for which her Department has responsibility,...
- FÁS Training Programmes
Question 33: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if additional FÁS training places are to be made available in the wake of her decision to cut jobseekers...
- Employment Rights
Question 34: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the progress made with regard to the implementation of the temporary agency workers directive, agreed at the...
- Regulatory Reform
Question 35: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps she has taken to alleviate some of the red tape and form filling related to the small business...
- Equal Opportunities Employment
Question 36: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the average industrial wage earned by a male worker and female worker respectively; the average male earnings...
- Job Creation
Question 37: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment her plans for job creation in Limerick in view of the announcement of the loss of 700 jobs at a plant (details...
- Departmental Agencies
Question 38: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the proposals for rationalisation of State agencies for which her Department has responsibility, arising from...
- Consumer Protection
Question 39: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of on-the-spot fines for breaches of consumer law imposed to date under the terms of the Consumer...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 40: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if she will make a statement on her Department's Estimate for 2009; and the main areas where savings will be...
- National Employment Rights Authority
Question 41: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when the National Employment Rights Authority will be established on a statutory basis; and if she will make a...
- Grocery Industry
Question 42: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if she has received a report from the Competition Authority following its request to the Authority to monitor...
- Workplace Accidents
Question 43: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of workplace accidents and of workplace fatalities recorded to date in 2008; the way this compares...
- Job Creation
Question 44: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the discussions that are taking place between Enterprise Ireland or the Industrial Development Authority and...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 45: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the legislative measures she plans to introduce arising from the new social partnership agreement; the...
- Tax Code
Question 46: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment her views on whether the 0.5% increase in VAT will affect consumer spending in any way in the next 12 months....
- Consumer Protection
Question 48: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the action being taken to implement the commitment in the Programme for Government that steps would be taken...
- EU Directives
Question 49: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number, in respect of EU directives for which her Department has responsibility, remaining to be...
- Job Protection
Question 50: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the Industrial Development Authority has made contact with representatives of a company (details supplied);...
- Job Creation
Question 53: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the efforts she has made to encourage hi-tech industry or otherwise into the Border areas particularly County...
- Work Permits
Question 56: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if she intends to retain the requirement for nationals from Bulgaria and Romania to have work permits in order...
- Industrial Relations
Question 57: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the legislative or other measures she will take to uphold the right to collective bargaining and in particular...
- Small Business Sector
Question 58: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the progress that has been made at EU Council level towards fast-tracking the approval of the European Small...
- Departmental Agencies
Question 59: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the action she has taken to address financial misspending concerns in FÁS; and if she will make a statement...
- Credit Availability
Question 60: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the action she has taken to address concerns of small and medium sized enterprises that they cannot access the...
- Job Protection
Question 61: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the Industrial Development Authority has contacted representatives of a company (details supplied); and if...
- Trade Statistics
Question 62: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if she will provide a breakdown of the number and names of Irish businesses carrying on business with any...
- Community Employment Schemes
Question 63: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of people who were employed on a community employment scheme in each of the past three years; the...
- Work Permits
Question 64: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when a work permit will issue to a person (details supplied) in Dublin 8 which was submitted to her office...
- Consumer Protection
Question 66: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if she or her Department have investigated the situation whereby it appears that recent currency fluctuations...
- Economic Competitiveness
Question 67: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps she has taken or will take to reduce manufacturing costs here with particular reference to ensuring...
- FÁS Training Programmes
Question 72: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if adequate funding has been or will be made available to FÁS to facilitate the provision of adequate...
- Economic Competitiveness
Question 74: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the extent to which research has been undertaken to ascertain the most likely reason for foreign inward...
- Industrial Development
Question 76: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the position in relation to a factory (details supplied) in County Roscommon; if these premises should be...
- Job Creation
Question 78: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of jobs created and the number of jobs lost in County Waterford and Waterford City in each of the...
- Department of Finance
- Tax Collection
Question 79: To ask the Minister for Finance when a P21 statement will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42029/08]
- Tax Code
Question 80: To ask the Minister for Finance the reason a refund of VAT for an unregistered farmer was refused on a slated shed in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Leitrim....
- Tax Collection
Question 82: To ask the Minister for Finance the reason a tax clearance certificate has not issued to a person (details supplied) in view of the fact that assurances were given that the...
- National Monuments
Question 83: To ask the Minister for Finance his plans in relation to a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42102/08]
- Departmental Staff
Question 84: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of public servants other than Ministers and Department secretaries-general who have responded to his call for a voluntary pay surrender;...
- Department of Health and Children
- Human Rights Issues
Question 85: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will introduce legislation to ban the practice of female genital mutilation here in view of recent reports of its prevalence....
- Health Services
Question 86: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the level of speech and language therapy available in the Cork area for children diagnosed with autism; and if she will make a statement...
- Medical Cards
Question 88: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will approve a blue card status for a small number of applicants (details supplied), which would cover their requirements for...
- Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme
Question 89: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if an application under the health repayment scheme by a person (details supplied) in County Cork will qualify for payment. [42023/08]
- Departmental Facilities
Question 90: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of car park spaces available nationally to those working in her Department and in the bodies and agencies under the aegis of...
- Departmental Investigations
Question 91: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the internal review into a case (details supplied) which was initiated a year and a half ago will be completed; when she expects to...
- Hospital Services
Question 92: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on providing funding for a scalp cooling machine in the oncology departments of hospitals that cater for cancer patients; and...
- Health Services
Question 93: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the announcement that a new bus was to be provided to service the needs of radiotherapy patients commuting between...
- Hospital Staffing
Question 94: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a cystic fibrosis specialist consultant will be appointed for the Mid-west Regional Hospital, Dooradoyle, Limerick to treat adult...
- Departmental Investigations
Question 95: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason the report into the misdiagnosis of X-rays and CT scans in the north east does not contain recommendations; the reason there...
- Vaccination Programme
Question 96: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the cost of the yearly flu vaccination for Health Service Executive staff; the rate of uptake for this staff vaccination; and if she will...
- Health Services
Question 97: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position of an application for dental treatment in respect of a child (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a...
- Services for People with Disabilities
Question 98: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number, under the multi-annual funding commitments in relation to disability services, of residential places committed to that were...
- Health Services
Question 100: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the situation with respect to the provision of transport for patients in the north east Carlow area for medical appointments; and if she...
- Departmental Agencies
Question 102: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the date, in relation to the announcement in Budget 2009 to subsume the National Council on Aging and Older People into the Office of...
- Department of Transport
- Regional Airports
Question 113: To ask the Minister for Transport the grant aid allocated to a regional airport (details supplied) in each of the past five years and to date in 2008, providing details of the...
- Public Transport
Question 115: To ask the Minister for Transport further to Parliamentary Question No. 280 of 29 October 2008 the progress that has been made in his engagement with the parties concerned; and if...
- Dublin Transport Authority
Question 116: To ask the Minister for Transport the date, with regard to the establishment of the Dublin Transport Authority to incorporate the Dublin Transport Office, the Commission for Taxi...
- Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
- Judicial Appointments
Question 117: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if an appointment of a permanent District Court judge in the Waterford district has been made; the reason for the delay in...
- Stardust Inquiry
Question 118: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding a matter (details supplied). [41979/08]
- Prison Building Programme
Question 119: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when, with respect to the dedicated road to the site of the proposed new prison at Thornton Hall, the route of the new road...
- Garda Reserve
Question 120: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of Garda reserves who have been appointed to Cork City and county to date; the stations to which they have been...
- Visa Applications
Question 121: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if a person (details supplied) in County Cork who has been allocated a class c visa can be considered for a class d visa....
- Garda Deployment
Question 122: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a resident Garda presence will be restored to Cárna Village, Connemara, County Galway following the damage to the...
- Garda Equipment
Question 123: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he has raised with the Garda Commissioner this Deputy's proposal, articulated during statements on the killing of a...
- Residency Permits
Question 124: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress to date in the application for residency and when a stamp will be renewed in the case of a person (details...
- Deportation Orders
Question 126: 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 Clare; and if he will make a...
- Asylum Applications
Question 127: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding an application for residency in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Monaghan; and if...
- Residency Permits
Question 130: 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...
- Asylum Applications
Question 131: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the current or anticipated residency status in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if he will...
- Residency Permits
Question 133: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the current or expected residency and citizenship status in the case of persons (details supplied) in Dublin 24; and if he...
- Asylum Applications
Question 134: 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...
- Drug Courts
Question 136: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when he will publish the report on his Department's examination of the Drug Treatment Court; and if he will make a...
- Department of Foreign Affairs
- Foreign Conflicts
Question 137: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the financial aid being given to the Governments of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo; and if he will make a statement on the...
- State Visits
Question 139: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the reason the Government protested to the Czech Government regarding the meeting of Irish dissidents when its own official policy is of...
- Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism
- Departmental Agencies
Question 140: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the date, in respect of the announcement in budget 2009 to combine the Irish Museum for Modern Art, the Crawford Art Gallery and the...
- Department of Social and Family Affairs
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 142: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she will ensure that the application for assistance with mortgage payment for a person (details supplied) in County Dublin is...
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 145: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if a review can or will be undertaken in the case of an application for supplementary welfare allowance or rent supplement in the...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 146: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the outcome of an application for a State non-contributory pension for a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [42095/08]
- Departmental Agencies
Question 147: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs in respect of the announcement in Budget 2009 to integrate the Combat Poverty Agency and the Office of Social Inclusion within her...
- Department of Defence
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 149: To ask the Minister for Defence the cost of the recent investigation by consultants into the possible risks posed by hazardous waste to Defence Force personnel on Haulbowline...
- Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
- Election Management System
Question 150: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the ongoing cost on a monthly and yearly basis of storing and maintaining electronic voting machines. [42091/08]
- Local Authority Housing
Question 151: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his plans to review the differential rent scheme for local authority accommodation; if he will review the...
- Election Management System
Question 152: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, further to Parliamentary Question No. 220 of 13 November 2008, the tendering process and the storage...
- Planning Issues
Question 153: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, further to Parliamentary Question No. 19 of 27 February 2008, the local authorities which have implemented...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 155: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amount expended to date on investigations by consultants on site conditions on Haulbowline Island; the...
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Offshore Exploration
Question 156: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of exploration wells drilled off the Irish coast to date in 2008; the locations of the drilling...
- Department of Agriculture and Food
- Grant Payments
Question 157: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a decision will be made on a 2008 single payment scheme application on behalf of a person (details supplied) in County...
- Disadvantaged Areas Scheme
Question 159: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be awarded the disadvantaged area scheme payment. [41970/08]
- Food Labelling
Question 160: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if new labelling arrangements are being introduced here or in the European Union regarding poultry meat imported from Third...
- Rural Environment Protection Scheme
Question 161: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of applicants approved for benefit under the REP scheme four; if his Department has a ceiling on the number of...
- Fish Quotas
Question 162: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the proposals he has for the allocation of the 3% increase in the mackerel quota; the way this increase in quota will be...
- Harbours and Piers
Question 163: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when decisions will be reached following the cost benefit analysis of the proposed development at Dunmore East Fishery...
- Grant Payments
Question 164: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive their REP scheme payment. [42045/08]
- Department of Education and Science
- Special Educational Needs
Question 165: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if the value for money audit into special needs assistants has been completed; if so, when the review will be made publicly available;...
- School Staffing
Question 167: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will support a matter (details supplied). [41997/08]
- Schools Refurbishment
Question 168: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if, in the interest of the safety of students, staff and parents attending a school (details supplied) in County Galway he will...
- Higher Education Strategy
Question 169: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the persons who will be members of the steering group tasked with developing a new national strategy for higher education; the reason...
- Higher Education Budgets
Question 170: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the cases in which a university's governing authority has informed the Higher Education Authority of expenditure in excess of their...
- Higher Education Strategy
Question 171: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the way the doubling of the output of PhD students from the higher level sector by 2013 is, in and of itself, a quantifiable step...
- School Placement
Question 172: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the primary schools and the number of places available in each school in the Dublin 2, Dublin 4 and Dublin 6 areas. [42009/08]
- School Staffing
Question 173: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the primary schools and the number of teachers in each school in the Dublin 2, Dublin 4 and Dublin 6 areas. [42010/08]
- Residential Institutions Redress Scheme
Question 179: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if the Residential Institutions Redress Board will extend its remit to those who were abused in institutions up to 21 years of age in...
- School Transport
Question 183: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if it costs more for a child to use the LUAS to travel to school than using the DART because the school transport scheme does not...
- DEIS Programme
Question 184: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the schools (details supplied) which are included in the DEIS programme; the benefits of participation in this programme; and if he...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 185: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the decision on the allocation of a special needs assistant to a child (details supplied) in County Meath; and if this child is...
- School Enrolments
Question 186: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will deal with a matter in relation to a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Schools Building Programme
Question 187: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the Ballinamore school building programme, County Leitrim. [42085/08]
- School Staffing
Question 189: To ask the Minister for Education and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 489 of 4 November 2008, if the cost neutral early retirement scheme for secondary school...
