Written answers
Tuesday, 9 December 2008
- Department of An Taoiseach
- Departmental Travel
Question 121: To ask the Taoiseach if his Department and all agencies under his remit are in compliance with the Department of Finance guidelines on foreign travel; and the mechanisms in place...
- Ministerial Staff
Question 122: To ask the Taoiseach the number of persons employed in each of the Ministers of State private offices and their constituency offices; the annual amount paid in respect of salaries...
- Unemployment Levels
Question 123: To ask the Taoiseach the number of persons registered unemployed in County Kildare in the 12 months to date and in each 12 month period in the previous five years; and if he will...
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Departmental Agencies
Question 124: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the person who approved the severance package for the Director General of FÁS; and if she will make a...
- Attachment Orders
Question 125: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment her views on whether the business environment here is hindered from the current structure of attachment...
- Industrial Development
Question 126: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the efforts of the Industrial Development Authority over the past two years to attract investment to...
- FÁS Training Programmes
Question 128: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if she is satisfied that grants made by FÁS to business representative organisations and trade union...
- County Enterprise Boards
Question 129: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the proportion of the budget of each county and city enterprise board which is spent on salaries,...
- Enterprise Ireland
Question 130: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the proportion of the budget for Enterprise Ireland that is spent on salaries, administration, overheads and...
- Shannon Development
Question 131: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the way Shannon Development is funded, with a breakdown of its spending; and if she will make a statement on...
- Departmental Agencies
Question 132: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of letters raising concern regarding financial mismanagement in FÁS which were received by her...
- Employment Rights
Question 135: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the action to be taken by her Department following the meeting between the Irish Hotels Federation and...
- Industrial Development
Question 136: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the position regarding the buildings of a company (details supplied) in County Louth; if they are in the...
- Job Creation
Question 138: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the progress in job creation in County Louth for each year since 2002 by location and amount invested by each...
- Job Losses
Question 139: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the jobs lost in County Louth for each year since 2002 by location; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Job Creation
Question 140: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment her plans to improve employment creation in County Louth by location; the plans of each State agency for each...
- Departmental Travel
Question 141: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if her Department and all agencies under her remit are in compliance with the Department of Finance...
- Industrial Development
Question 142: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps she is taking to support enterprise development in the midland and western regions; and if she will...
- Small Business Sector
Question 143: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps she is taking to support small businesses in view of the credit crunch; and if she will make a...
- Employment Rights
Question 144: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if she will carry out an investigation of a company (details supplied) in Dublin 24 to ensure that the...
- North-South Economic Development
Question 145: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of times she has met with Minister Arlene Foster in 2008 to discuss the integration of the two...
- Ministerial Staff
Question 146: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of persons employed in each of the Ministers of State private offices and their constituency...
- Job Losses
Question 147: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment her views on correspondence (details supplied); the level of inspection she has in place; if she has ever...
- Job Creation
Question 148: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of Industrial Development Authority backed jobs created in County Roscommon in each of the past...
- FÁS Training Programmes
Question 153: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment her intended role for FÁS in the future with particular reference to the need to meet the challenges arising...
- Manufacturing and Services Sectors
Question 154: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment her plans to improve the prospects for the manufacturing and service sectors in the future; and if she will...
- Job Losses
Question 155: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of jobs lost to the economy in the 12 month period to date; the extent to which this corresponds...
- Job Creation
Question 156: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the type of jobs created in the economy in the 12 months to date in both the manufacturing and services...
- Economic Competitiveness
Question 157: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the way she proposes to improve the competitiveness of the economy; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Job Creation
Question 159: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps she has taken or will take to discourage the relocation of manufacturing or service jobs to lower...
- Irish Exports
Question 160: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if her attention has been drawn to the particular economic indicators arising from the growth or fall in...
- FÁS Training Programmes
Question 161: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if she is satisfied that adequate training and re-training places are available to FÁS and similar bodies in...
- Job Losses
Question 162: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of jobs lost and created in County Kildare in the past 12 months; and if she will make a statement...
- Economic Competitiveness
Question 163: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of jobs relocated from County Kildare to more competitive economies in the 12 months to date and...
- Job Creation
Question 164: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment her future plans for job creation in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45308/08]
- Department of Finance
- Health and Safety Regulations
Question 165: To ask the Minister for Finance if a risk assessment (details supplied) has been carried out with particular reference to reducing the risk of a disease. [44775/08
- Taxation Policy
Question 166: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether the Irish and British Governments' diverging indirect taxation strategies contradict the Hain-Ahern 2006 assertion that...
- Departmental Schemes
Question 167: To ask the Minister for Finance if the cycle to work scheme is available to teachers in primary and second level schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44658/08]
- Tax Code
Question 168: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will refund money to a person (details supplied) in County Dublin in view of the fact that their landlord at the time has established to the...
- Non-Resident Accounts
Question 169: To ask the Minister for Finance the responses which were put in place following consideration of the Aide Memoir F255/187, Progress Report On the Non-Resident Accounts/DIRT...
- Financial Institutions Support Scheme
Question 170: To ask the Minister for Finance if he is satisfied that the financial advisers and the legal advisers to Government in the current banking crisis do not overlap with advisers to...
- Tax Code
Question 171: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will support a matter (details supplied). [44772/08]
- National Lottery
Question 172: To ask the Minister for Finance the breakdown of the allocation of national lottery funding for each of the past five years; the projects within each Department that have been...
- Departmental Travel
Question 173: To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department and all agencies under his remit are in compliance with his Department's guidelines on foreign travel; and the mechanisms in place...
- Parking Facilities
Question 174: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will re-negotiate the contracts they have on parking on long-term leases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44839/08]
- Disabled Drivers
Question 175: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has received a request for disabled driver concessions from a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Pension Provisions
Question 176: To ask the Minister for Finance the value of the National Pension Reserve Fund at 1 January for each of the past five years; the contribution from the taxpayer into this fund each...
- Financial Institutions Support Scheme
Question 177: To ask the Minister for Finance the way he is monitoring and the action he is taking to ensure that section 44 of the Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Scheme SI 411 of 2008,...
- Financial Services Regulation
Question 178: To ask the Minister for Finance the reason for the delay in the appointment of the new Financial Regulator consumer consultative panel in view of the fact that the mandate of the...
- Ministerial Staff
Question 179: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons employed in each of the Ministers of State private offices and their constituency offices; the annual amount paid in respect...
- Pension Provisions
Question 180: To ask the Minister for Finance the holding of the National Pension Reserve Fund, whether held directly or through funds, in banks quoted on the Irish stock exchange, and in banks...
- Departmental Agencies
Question 181: To ask the Minister for Finance the progress made for each of the 41 State agencies and bodies which he proposed to merge in his Budget 2009 statement; the timetables set; the...
- Financial Institutions Support Scheme
Question 182: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will support a matter (details supplied). [45131/08]
- Tax Code
Question 183: To ask the Minister for Finance if the 1% levy recently introduced in the Finance (No. 2) Bill, 2008 will apply to the gross income of family farmers; and if an allowance will be...
- Financial Institutions Support Scheme
Question 184: To ask the Minister for Finance the expertise being recruited to help manage the new relationship and protect the taxpayer in view of the dramatically changed relationship between...
- Departmental Staff
Question 185: To ask the Minister for Finance if the Departmental schemes of performance related rewards have in all cases taken up the entire pool of 10% of the pay bill in each Department...
- Tax Yield
Question 186: To ask the Minister for Finance if the unexpected shortfall in taxation has led to the placing of additional loans by the National Treasury Management Agency during 2008; the...
- Tax Code
Question 187: To ask the Minister for Finance the reason tax relief is not granted on third level tuition fees paid by students to a college (details supplied) in County Kildare; if it is an...
- Company Closures
Question 188: To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a company (details supplied) went into liquidation; if in these circumstances it is the case that...
- Tax Code
Question 189: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will respond to a query in relation to the application of the income levy on redundancy payments (details supplied). [45286/08]
- Asylum Applications
Question 192: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on extending the remit of the Ombudsman to the handling of asylum and immigration cases; the reason he did not include these in the...
- Insurance Industry
Question 193: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on reports that he is considering the sale of the State's stake in VHI. [45367/08]
- Job Protection
Question 194: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether the significant changes in the international financial services sector resulting from the ongoing upheaval in global finance...
- Fiscal Policy
Question 195: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the introduction of a debt ceiling which would limit the national debt to a certain proportion of national income; and if he will make...
- Department of Health and Children
- Foreign Adoptions
Question 196: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the bilateral arrangement on adoptions between Ireland and Vietnam, due to end in April 2009, will be renewed. [45028/08]
- Hospital Staff
Question 197: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will carry out an inquiry into all aspects of a case (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45535/08]
- Hospital Services
Question 198: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the delays in obtaining appointments for consultation or orthopaedic treatment in Cork and the fact...
- Health Services
Question 199: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the progress being made regarding the provision of a primary care centre in Listowel, County Kerry; the location of this centre; and the...
- Health Service Staff
Question 200: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will ensure that the current staffing services are retained at Health Service Executive headquarters in Manorhamilton and that...
- Mental Health Services
Question 201: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will bring forward her review of the Mental Health Act 2001 in view of the fact that she had to introduce the Mental Health Act...
- Medicinal Products
Question 202: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason wholesale cost of medicines here are higher than the over the counter or retail cost of medicines in Spain; her proposals to...
- General Medical Services Scheme
Question 203: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will report on the issue of doctors receiving capitation grants and fees for patients who are deceased more than three months;...
- Nursing Education
Question 204: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will reverse the cut in undergraduate nurse training places; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44732/08]
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 205: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will provide a breakdown of the current expenditure and revenue budget allocated to a delivery organisation (details supplied)...
- Computerisation Programme
Question 206: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will provide details on the new computer system planned to replace PPARS; the cost to implement this system; the annual running...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 207: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number and length of time patients have been waiting on outpatient waiting lists in hospital for orthopaedics, cardiology,...
- Departmental Correspondence
Question 208: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she and the chief executive of the Health Service Executive received a letter from a group (details supplied) criticising the...
- Departmental Reports
Question 209: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she has received the Dr. Michael Barry report; when she will publish the report; the amount of money expected to be saved if the...
- Legislative Programme
Question 210: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if legislation is required to introduce the new health insurance levy to facilitate community rating; and if she will make a statement...
- Inter-Country Health Services
Question 212: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the payments received and made for each of the past four years and estimated for 2008 in respect of medical treatment accorded to...
- Health Services
Question 213: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will review the case of a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath. [44787/08]
- Proposed Legislation
Question 214: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the progress to date on the public health (miscellaneous provisions) Bill; when she expects the Bill will be introduced; and if she...
- Medical Cards
Question 215: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in County Cork who is a medical card holder is required to pay for medication which up to now...
- Departmental Travel
Question 216: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her Department and all agencies under her remit are in compliance with the Department of Finance guidelines on foreign travel; and...
- Services for People with Disabilities
Question 217: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of assisted living hours and the number of new hours allocated by the Health Service Executive in 2007 and to date in 2008...
- National Treatment Purchase Fund
Question 218: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of people with acquired brain injury who have been sent to the UK for treatment through the National Treatment Purchase Fund...
- Hospital Services
Question 219: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will take steps to have a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath admitted to St. James's Hospital, Dublin; and if she...
- Hospital Staff
Question 220: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of consultants who have signed up to a new contract; the number of consultants who remain on the old contract; the number of...
- Hospital Services
Question 226: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the Royal Hospital, Donnybrook, Dublin has decided to close Iona unit which is...
- Community Care
Question 227: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will approve the Health Service Executive service plan for 2009; if this includes a provision for non-pay costs associated with...
- Hospital Services
Question 228: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the progress made in opening a facility (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44877/08]
- Health Services
Question 229: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will review the case of a person (details supplied) in County Leitrim; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44936/08]
- Hospital Services
Question 230: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will support a matter (details supplied). [44940/08]
- Integration of Health Services
Question 231: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of times she has met with her Northern Ireland ministerial counterpart Michael McGimpsey in 2008 to discuss the integration...
- Ministerial Staff
Question 232: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of persons employed in each of the Ministers of State private offices and their constituency offices; the annual amount paid...
- Health Services
Question 234: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her proposals in regard to the future of a house (details supplied) in County Waterford; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Hospital Services
Question 235: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the amount of funding that was provided for the two replacement linear accelerators that were commissioned at St. Luke's Hospital,...
- Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme
Question 236: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when an application for the health repayment scheme will be issued to a person (details supplied) in County Monaghan; the reason for...
- Foreign Adoptions
Question 237: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason it is proposed not to renew the bilateral agreement between Ireland and Vietnam for inter-country adoption; and if she will...
- Medical Cards
Question 238: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will support a matter (details supplied). [45132/08]
- Health Services
Question 241: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will intervene in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 16; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45240/08]
- Hospital Staff
Question 244: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if provision will be made in the Health Service Executive's services plan for the additional 50 staff required to make the new Dingle...
- Infectious Diseases
Question 245: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that a case of botulism presented at Beaumont Hospital, Dublin on 21 November 2008; the...
- Child Care Services
Question 247: To ask the Minister for Health and Children further to Question No. 123 of 30 October 2008, the proposed level of funding for 2009 as advised to each group in Counties Roscommon...
- Health Services
Question 248: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will resolve a funding dispute in relation to the provision of a home dialysis unit for a person (details supplied) in County...
- Departmental Correspondence
Question 250: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will furnish a response to correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45291/08]
- Department of Transport
- Grant Payments
Question 251: To ask the Minister for Transport if discretionary funding is available to schools to enable them to encourage more cycling, such as grants to help them install bicycle stands....
- State Airports
Question 252: To ask the Minister for Transport his views on whether by providing grants, with no coherent policy, the Government will undermine all regional airports. [44675/08]
- Coast Guard Services
Question 253: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will guarantee that Shannon is no longer being considered as a possible site for a new Coast Guard station. [44692/08]
- Departmental Travel
Question 260: To ask the Minister for Transport if his Department and all agencies under his remit are in compliance with the Department of Finance guidelines on foreign travel; and the...
- Comharthaí Bóithre
Question 261: To ask the Aire Iompair an ndéanfaidh sé raiteas faoi chomhstádas don Ghaeilge agus don Bhéarla ar ár gcomharthaí bóthair. [44838/08]
- Planning Issues
Question 262: To ask the Minister for Transport if his attention has been drawn to the effect that construction of the proposed metro north line will have on a school (details supplied) in...
- Ministerial Staff
Question 263: To ask the Minister for Transport the number of persons employed in each of the Ministers of State private offices and their constituency offices; the annual amount paid in respect...
- Rail Network
Question 264: To ask the Minister for Transport when he will initiate the promised review of the Transport 21 programme for investment; the way the review will take place and the persons who...
- School Transport
Question 265: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will provide an exemption for the owners of eight to 16 seater school buses from the €2,000 charge for tachographs; if he accepts that...
- Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
- Registration of Title
Question 266: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views on whether the land register should be reformed to record all interests in property and that all property should...
- Ministerial Travel
Question 267: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the expenditure on the Ministers' car pool for 2008 and for 2009; if, in the context of current economic difficulties, he...
- Garda Remuneration
Question 268: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if an allowance (details supplied) is being granted; and if so, when it will be granted. [45249/08]
- Residency Permits
Question 269: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a decision will be made on an application for residency stamp four in respect of a person (details supplied) in County...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 271: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a decision will be made on an application for citizenship in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Wexford;...
- Dublin-Monaghan Bombings
Question 272: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will support a matter (details supplied). [44768/08]
- Anti-Racism Measures
Question 273: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will support a matter (details supplied). [44769/08]
- Garda Operations
Question 274: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of dedicated check points in collaboration with the Road Safety Authority that have been carried out to check...
- Deportation Orders
Question 275: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status of a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon. [44786/08]
- Departmental Travel
Question 276: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his Department and all agencies under his remit are in compliance with the Department of Finance guidelines on foreign...
- Sexual Offences
Question 277: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress made to date in the review being undertaken of the existing arrangements for the management of sex offenders...
- Garda Stations
Question 279: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he is satisfied with the level of service at Dunshaughlin Garda station, County Meath; if there are plans to enhance or...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 280: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 329 of 4 November 2008, when an application will be processed for persons (details...
- Garda Stations
Question 281: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he is satisfied with conditions for gardaí employed at Wexford Garda station; when he expects the new Wexford Garda...
- Residency Permits
Question 282: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, further to Parliamentary Question No. 340 of 11 November 2008, if his Department will re-examine the person's files....
- Ministerial Staff
Question 283: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of persons employed in the private office of the Minister of State and his constituency office; the annual...
- Human Trafficking
Question 284: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of prosecutions and convictions for human trafficking and sexual exploitation in 2007 and to date in 2008; and...
- Prisons Act
Question 286: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of people who have been arrested on suspicion of an offence under section 36 of the Prisons Act, 2007; the...
- Garda Training
Question 287: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in relation to dedicated indoor firing range facilities for members of An Garda Síochána. [45243/08]
- Deportation Orders
Question 288: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will review the decision to deport persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45248/08]
- Visa Applications
Question 289: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will provide a person (details supplied) with a visa extension in view of the fact that the person suffers from...
- Asylum Applications
Question 290: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will immediately make a decision in relation to the status of persons (details supplied) in County Meath who have...
- Departmental Applications
Question 291: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, further to Parliamentary Question No. 119 of 7 November 2007, the position regarding waiting times; the steps taken to...
- Closed Circuit Television Systems
Question 292: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in relation to Parliamentary Question No. 278 of 7 October, 2008; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Asylum Applications
Question 293: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in relation to an application for leave to remain on subsidiary protection in the case of a person (details...
- Residency Permits
Question 295: 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 15; and if he will make a...
- Human Trafficking
Question 297: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if Ireland has ratified the protocol to prevent, suppress and punish trafficking in persons and ratified the optional...
- Crime Statistics
Question 298: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of cautions, arrests, prosecutions and convictions of both male and females in relation to prostitution here...
- Criminal Assets Bureau
Question 300: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of CAB officers stationed in Limerick. [45336/08]
- Services for People with Disabilities
Question 301: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the budget allocation and expenditure for the Centre of Excellence in Universal Design each year since its establishment;...
- Department of Foreign Affairs
- International Agreements
Question 302: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the position of the working holiday programme that was recently signed with the United States; if the application method has been agreed...
- Departmental Funding
Question 303: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the position regarding a matter (details supplied). [44770/08]
- Departmental Travel
Question 304: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his Department and all agencies under his remit are in compliance with the Department of Finance guidelines on foreign travel; and the...
- Human Rights Issues
Question 305: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on the humanitarian catastrophe taking place in Gaza; if he has made proposals at EU and UN level in this regard; and if he will...
- Visa Applications
Question 306: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if, in relation to children from Belarus who come here under the Chernobyl children's charity, there is a facility whereby group rather than...
- Ministerial Staff
Question 307: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of persons employed in each of the Ministers of State private offices and their constituency offices; the annual amount paid in...
- Visa Applications
Question 308: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will support a matter in relation to a person (details supplied). [45105/08]
- Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism
- Arts Funding
Question 309: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he is satisfied with the openness, fairness and transparency of a scheme (details supplied) since it was launched in 2004; and...
- National Aquatic Centre
Question 310: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the amount of the subsidy required by the National Aquatic Centre for its operation throughout 2008; and if he will make a statement...
- National Archives
Question 312: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the details of the location chosen for the new building to store the National Archives; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Sports Funding
Question 313: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if, in respect of the sports capital grant to a club (details supplied) in County Dublin, he will permit the club to draw down as...
- Departmental Travel
Question 314: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if his Department and all agencies under his remit are in compliance with the Department of Finance guidelines on foreign travel;...
- Ministerial Staff
Question 315: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the number of persons employed in each of the Ministers of State private offices and their constituency offices; the annual amount...
- Sports Funding
Question 316: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the reason there is a delay in having money granted to a group (details supplied) in view of the fact that the work is completed and...
- Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
- Harbours and Piers
Question 317: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if there are plans at present to proceed with the extension of the pier at Brandon, County Kerry; and if he will make...
- Community Development
Question 318: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if arrangements will be put in place to continue the support of a group (details supplied) in Dublin 8 despite the...
- Departmental Travel
Question 319: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if his Department and all agencies under his remit are in compliance with the Department of Finance guidelines on...
- Ministerial Staff
Question 320: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the number of persons employed in each of the Ministers of State private offices and their constituency offices; the...
- Security of the Elderly
Question 321: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the grants available for elderly people living in remote rural areas looking to install an alarm in a home for...
- Department of Social and Family Affairs
- Pension Provisions
Question 322: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the proposals she has in the short term to protect defined benefit pension funds from collapse; and if she will make a statement...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 324: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of people in receipt of supplementary welfare allowance in Waterford city and county; and the number of people in...
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 325: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the outcome of an appeal for a person (details supplied) in County Mayo relating to jobseeker's benefit refusal. [44748/08]
- Departmental Travel
Question 326: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if her Department and all agencies under her remit are in compliance with the Department of Finance guidelines on foreign travel;...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 327: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if a person (details supplied) in County Meath will be facilitated with an earlier appointment for means testing in view of the...
- Pension Provisions
Question 328: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if a person who is job sharing, working one week on and one week off, and paying a class D contribution and is working on the farm...
- Money Advice and Budgeting Service
Question 329: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of clients dealt with or on a waiting list at each Money Advice and Budgeting Service office to date in 2008; the...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 334: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she will investigate the case of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin in relation to the refusal to grant rent...
- Social Welfare Code
Question 336: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if, in context of disability allowance, non-contributory State pension and rent supplement under the supplementary welfare...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 338: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the circumstances under which her Department partially fund people to set up in the taxi business; and if she will make a...
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 339: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when a carers allowance appeal will be finalised for a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [45054/08]
- Ministerial Staff
Question 340: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of persons employed in each of the Ministers of State private offices and their constituency offices; the annual amount...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 341: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be approved and granted disability allowance; and if this case will be...
- Pension Provisions
Question 343: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs her views on respective justice for women who have reached pension age and find the years they have spent in unpaid care work has...
- Live Register
Question 344: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of people on the live register in the area of Cork city and county; the increase in these figures over the past 12...
- National Carers Strategy
Question 345: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the position regarding the national carer's strategy. [45287/08]
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 346: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if a review will be undertaken in the case of an application for supplementary welfare allowance or rent supplement in the case of...
- Department of Defence
- Commemorative Events
Question 347: To ask the Minister for Defence the position regarding plans for 2016 celebrations; and if he will report on the committee's work to date. [44767/08]
- Departmental Travel
Question 348: To ask the Minister for Defence if his Department and all agencies under his remit are in compliance with the Department of Finance guidelines on foreign travel; and the mechanisms...
- Defence Forces Training
Question 349: To ask the Minister for Defence the number of Reserve Defence Force personnel who have undergone potential NCO courses in each defence region in each of the past three years; the...
- Ministerial Staff
Question 350: To ask the Minister for Defence the number of persons employed in each of the Ministers of State private offices and their constituency offices; the annual amount paid in respect...
- Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
- Housing Aid for the Elderly
Question 351: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his plans to introduce grants for the insulation of houses for older persons; and if he will make a statement...
- Architectural Heritage
Question 352: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 1449 of 24 September 2008, the discussions since that date with the...
- Water and Sewerage Schemes
Question 353: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 922 of 10 July 2008, the status of the approval process; and if he will...
- Importation of Snakes
Question 354: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to an emerging wild snake population here; if there are plans to curb or...
- Departmental Travel
Question 355: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his Department and all agencies under his remit are in compliance with the Department of Finance...
- Building Regulations
Question 356: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will support proposals (details supplied). [44840/08]
- Housing Schemes
Question 357: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will make a decision on an application for funding from a council (details supplied) in County Cork;...
- Housing Aid for the Elderly
Question 358: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will support the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5. [44941/08]
- Social and Affordable Housing
Question 359: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on whether the provision of 10,000 new social housing units each year for the next three years is...
- Private Rented Accommodation
Question 360: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will support a matter (details supplied). [45040/08]
- Water and Sewerage Schemes
Question 361: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the situation regarding Clarinbridge sewerage scheme in view of the fact that the brief has been sent to his...
- Ministerial Staff
Question 362: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of persons employed in each of the Ministers of State private offices and their constituency...
- Planning Issues
Question 363: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the reason that a section of his Department will not meet with or discuss an important item with a group...
- Water and Sewerage Schemes
Question 364: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the person who has the responsibility for the maintenance of a small works group sewerage scheme subsequent...
- Cross-Border Projects
Question 365: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will encourage his Ministerial counterpart at Stormont to commit to jointly funding the North/South...
- Social and Affordable Housing
Question 366: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the decision of Dublin City Council to proceed with a revised plan for an...
- Water and Sewerage Schemes
Question 367: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position in relation to the provision of a sewerage scheme to service the village of Cloghane, County...
- Water Charges
Question 368: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if a special school (details supplied) in County Donegal will be excused from its water charges in view of...
- Planning Issues
Question 369: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his Department has issued guidelines, will issue guidelines or will offer a view to a local authority in...
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Question 370: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the Government views on the automatic trigger to increase Europe's greenhouse gas emission reductions from a...
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Bord na Móna Rail Network
Question 372: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will intervene in the proposed decision to close the Clonmacnoise and West Offaly Railway; and if he will...
- Grant Payments
Question 376: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the grant aid available from his Department to install insulation in family homes. [44862/08]
- Alternative Energy Projects
Question 377: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the funding available within his Department to research and develop a biomass boiler that uses renewable energy...
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 378: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will respond to a query (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44689/08]
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Question 379: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the Government views on the automatic trigger to increase Europe's greenhouse gas emission reductions from a...
- Departmental Travel
Question 382: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if his Department and all agencies under his remit are in compliance with the Department of Finance guidelines...
- Ministerial Staff
Question 383: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of persons employed in each of the Ministers of State's private offices and their constituency...
- Telecommunications Services
Question 384: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position in relation to the provision of broadband in an area (details supplied) in County Tipperary; when...
- Department of Agriculture and Food
- Harbours and Piers
Question 387: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the position in relation to works on Scraggane Pier, Castlegregory, County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Farm Inspections
Question 388: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will make a statement on the fact that an inspector (details supplied) from his Department made an initial verbal...
- Grant Payments
Question 390: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Galway will receive a REP scheme four payment. [44780/08]
- Departmental Travel
Question 391: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if his Department and all agencies under his remit are in compliance with the Department of Finance guidelines on foreign...
- Grant Payments
Question 392: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a top-up payment from the national reserve on the single farm payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in...
- Farm Waste Management
Question 393: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will follow his counterpart in Northern Ireland and extend the farm waste management scheme; and if he will make a...
- Fishing Industry Development
Question 394: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will ensure that courses for the re-training of fishermen at a college (details supplied) in County Cork will be made...
- Harbours and Piers
Question 396: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food his views on whether it is necessary to complete the Greencastle Harbour project, County Donegal, on time, in view of the...
- Ministerial Staff
Question 399: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of persons employed in the private offices and constituency offices of each of the Ministers of State; the annual...
- Grant Payments
Question 400: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be awarded their disadvantaged area scheme. [45097/08]
- Forestry Sector
Question 402: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if his Department has received an application for a felling notice from a person (details supplied) in County Offaly; when...
- Harbours and Piers
Question 403: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will upgrade the pier at Rathmullan, County Donegal, to enable heavy vehicles to use the pier for the loading and...
- Grant Payments
Question 404: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if his attention has been drawn to the fact that of farmers who apply for grant aid under the farm waste management scheme,...
- Departmental Staff
Question 405: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of personnel employed in each division in his Department based at Dockgate Office Block, Galway in each of the...
- Grant Payments
Question 406: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when payment will be made available to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry following their application for a farm...
- Department of Education and Science
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 408: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the amount allocated and expended each year respectively for the implementation of the Education for Persons with Special Educational...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 409: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when a school (details supplied) in County Laois will progress to the next stage under the schools buildings programme; the position...
- School Staffing
Question 412: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the staffing appeals process at primary level; the number of appeals that have been lodged for the school year 2007-08 which have been...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 413: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason a builder (details supplied) employed by his Department has not been paid in accordance with the legally binding contract;...
- Site Disposals
Question 414: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position in relation to his Department relinquishing its interest in a portion of a site (details supplied) in County Mayo. [44747/08]
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 415: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if, on behalf of a school (details supplied) in County Longford he will reverse the cutbacks outlined in budget 2009, which will...
- Vocational Training Opportunities Scheme
Question 417: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number and percentage of course participants who are in receipt of a VTOS training bonus of €31.80 in view of the fact that they...
- School Accommodation
Question 419: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of prefabs being used by primary schools in County Laois; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44794/08]
- Schools Building Projects
Question 422: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the proposed refurbishment at a school (details supplied) in County Carlow; and if he will make a statement on...
- Departmental Guidelines
Question 423: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if his Department and all agencies under his remit are in compliance with the Department of Finance guidelines on foreign travel; and...
- School Transport
Question 424: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the guidelines laid down by her Department regarding the length of time primary school children are allowed to spend travelling on...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 426: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason for the delay in sanctioning approval for an extension to a school (details supplied) in County Mayo; and if he will make a...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 427: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the impact, of recent cutbacks announced in budget 2009, in relation to all aspects of staffing and funding for a school (details...
- Schools Refurbishment
Question 428: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will provide grant aid to update a school (details supplied) in County Galway; if his attention has been drawn to the damp...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 429: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position in relation to the provision of a new school at a school (details supplied) in County Westmeath; and if he will make a...
- Third Level Grants
Question 431: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if his Department has received correspondence from a person (details supplied) in County Galway regarding an appeal for mature student...
- School Staffing
Question 432: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the details in relation to a process (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44869/08]
- School Accommodation
Question 433: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if his attention has been drawn to the effect that construction of the proposed metro north line will have on a school (details...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 434: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if schools whose building projects have been deferred in 2008 will be able to reuse the same building plans and documents that they...
- Third Level Institutions
Question 435: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason there is such a price variance between distance education courses offered here compared with those in the UK; if there has...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 436: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he has sanctioned the invitation of the tenders for the required extension to a school (details supplied) in County Kildare. [45039/08]
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 437: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of persons employed in each of the Ministers of State private offices and their constituency offices; the annual amount...
- Schools Refurbishment
Question 438: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when, further to his meeting earlier in 2008 with Wexford Deputies and the fact that premises of a school (details supplied) in County...
- School Accommodation
Question 441: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the development applications that have been made in regard to a school (details supplied) in County Cork; the status of such...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 445: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the changes on the bands of Clare schools awaiting capital works since the submission of Parliamentary Question No. 600 of 10 July...
- Schools Recognition
Question 446: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the criteria used in deciding the designation of new community colleges established under the auspices of County Dublin VEC, that is,...
- Higher Education Grants
Question 451: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will investigate an application by a person (details supplied) in County Carlow who applied for a higher education grant and was...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 452: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when funding will be available for a permanent school building in respect of a school (details supplied) in Dublin 7; and if he will...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 455: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will support a matter in relation to a person (details supplied). [45238/08]
- Schools Building Projects
Question 456: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a school (details supplied) in County Mayo will be allocated devolved funding towards the provision of a much needed new school;...
- Schools Amalgamation
Question 459: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding an application by a school (details supplied) in County Laois for amalgamation; and if he will make a statement...
- Disadvantaged Status
Question 460: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will meet his Department's 2007 commitment to provide funding for the DEIS programme at four schools in a parish (details...
- Grant Payments
Question 461: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will increase the capitation grant for primary level schools to the level designated to second level schools; and if he will...
- Health and Safety Issues
Question 462: To ask the Minister for Education and Science his proposals to eliminate overweight school bags from schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45273/08]
- Disadvantaged Status
Question 463: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the status of an application by a school (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45293/08]
- Schools Building Projects
Question 464: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the provisions being made to ensure that a unit in a school (details supplied) in County Dublin will open in September 2009; and if he...
- University Status
Question 465: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a decision will be reached on the application of Waterford Institute of Technology for upgrading to the university of the south...
