Written answers
Wednesday, 10 December 2008
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Departmental Agencies
Question 75: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the occasions, since 2000, in which spending on FÁS was included on a risk-register within her Department;...
- Small and Medium Enterprise
Question 76: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if she will report on her recent meeting with the Small Firms Association to discuss the difficulties facing...
- Employment Rights
Question 77: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when cross-Departmental joint labour investigation teams will be operational; and if she will make a statement...
- Economic Competitiveness
Question 78: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps she has taken or proposes to take to improve the competitiveness of Irish goods and services traded...
- Motor Fuels
Question 79: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when she expects to receive a report from the National Consumer Agency on the reason for high fuel prices...
- Employment Support Services
Question 80: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 34 and 67 of 28 February 2008, if the reviews of the wage subsidy...
- Economic Competitiveness
Question 81: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the measures being taken to tackle the deterioration of Irish manufacturing exports. [44918/08]
- FÁS Training Programmes
Question 82: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if she will carry out an independent review of the training and education programmes operating under the FÁS...
- Health and Safety Regulations
Question 83: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment her views on the significant increase in the number of deaths recorded in workplace accidents in the...
- Departmental Appointments
Question 84: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if she will review the appointment process of members of the board of FÁS. [44917/08]
- Business Regulation
Question 85: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the percentage by which she has reduced the administrative cost of regulation to business; the extent to which...
- Prompt Payment System
Question 86: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if she has met with representatives of the Irish Small and Medium Enterprises to discuss the issue of the...
- FÁS Investigation
Question 87: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when the examination by the Comptroller and Auditor General of the effectiveness of management and control...
- Industrial Development
Question 88: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the discussions either the industrial development agencies or her Department have had with senior management...
- Departmental Agencies
Question 90: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when she last exercised the powers available to her under the Schedule of the Labour Services Act, 1987 to...
- Departmental Appointments
Question 91: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the procedures for the appointment of a new chief executive of FÁS; when she expects the process to be...
- Job Losses
Question 92: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of redundancies notified to her Department up to the end of November 2008; the way this compares...
- FÁS Investigation
Question 94: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the grounds for her concerns in respect of FÁS; the scope of the investigation which she has asked the...
- EU Directives
Question 95: 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...
- Departmental Agencies
Question 96: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment her proposals for the merger of the Competition Authority and the National Consumer Agency; the savings she...
- Employment Support Services
Question 97: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 34 and 67 of 28 February 2008, the details of the budget and outturns...
- Departmental Agencies
Question 99: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when she last gave her consent under section 7(2)(a) of the Labour Services Act, 1987 to the remuneration and...
- Social Partnership
Question 100: 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...
- Job Creation
Question 101: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the net number of jobs being created on a weekly basis in the economy; the extent to which this varies with...
- Work Permits
Question 102: 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...
- Retail Sector Imports
Question 103: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if she has made contact with the larger retail stores in relation to their practice of importing supplies...
- Trade Union Recognition
Question 104: 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 particularly...
- Labour Inspectorate
Question 105: 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...
- Job Losses
Question 106: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment her views on the further rise in unemployment reflected in the live register over recent months; the steps...
- Departmental Agencies
Question 107: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the action she will take arising from recent disclosures regarding expenditure by FÁS on foreign travel and...
- Fuel Prices
Question 109: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment her views on recent EU figures which suggested that consumers here are being charged up to 20% more for...
- Departmental Agencies
Question 110: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if, in view of recent disclosures regarding expenditure at FÁS, she has plans to issue a direction under...
- Official Engagements
Question 112: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if she will report on her recent official visit to the Gulf; the results achieved; and if she will make a...
- Equal Opportunities Employment
Question 113: 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...
- FÁS Training Programmes
Question 114: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment her views on the reduction in the number of apprentices registered with FÁS, which has fallen from 29,273 in...
- Job Creation
Question 115: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of new jobs she expects to be created during 2008 in the manufacturing and other sectors; the way...
- EU Directives
Question 116: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of EU directives for which her Department has responsibility remaining to be implemented; the...
- Employment Rights
Question 119: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if her attention has been drawn to a television programme (details supplied) which outlined a systematic...
- Department of An Taoiseach
- Income Statistics
Question 120: To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide details from the survey on income and living conditions in Ireland 2007 on the values at each quintile of the net equivalised income of...
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Departmental Properties
Question 121: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if she will provide details of office accommodation rented or leased in Galway City by her Department or any...
- Small Business Sector
Question 122: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if she will support a matter (details supplied). [45541/08]
- Department of Finance
- Vehicle Imports
Question 123: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of motor vehicle imports in 2007 and to date in 2008; his views on the damage to employment in the motor trade arising from the inferior...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 124: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will ascertain if recent purchases made by the Office of Public Works (details supplied) are in line with a scheme. [45427/08]
- Departmental Offices
Question 126: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide details of office accommodation rented or leased in Galway City by his Department or any agency or non-governmental organisation...
- Tax Code
Question 127: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will postpone the introduction of the VAT for inward tour operators, at least until 2011, in order that it can be incorporated in quoted...
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 128: To ask the Minister for Finance the full extent of the overall costs of decentralisation to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45550/08]
- National Debt
Question 129: To ask the Minister for Finance the expected national debt at the end of 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45551/08]
- Economic Competitiveness
Question 130: To ask the Minister for Finance the steps he has taken or proposes to take to address the issue of competitiveness in this economy; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Banking Sector Regulation
Question 132: To ask the Minister for Finance if he is satisfied that adequate steps are being taken or are expected to be taken to restore traditional banking and lending practices in the...
- Financial Institutions Support Scheme
Question 133: To ask the Minister for Finance the extent of the undertakings received from the various lending institutions in return for Government support of the banking system; and if he will...
- Banking Sector Regulation
Question 134: To ask the Minister for Finance if it is intended to apply specific or particular regulatory conditions on the banking system in the future in view of recent experience; and if he...
- Financial Institutions Support Scheme
Question 135: To ask the Minister for Finance if he is satisfied that action taken to date to support and reorganise the banking system is adequate to meet requirements; and if he will make a...
- Economic Competitiveness
Question 137: To ask the Minister for Finance when he expects the full impact of the international financial crisis to impact on the economy here; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Department of Health and Children
- Health Services
Question 138: To ask the Minister for Health and Children, further to a letter (details supplied) regarding separated children, if she will provide updated figures on the numbers missing and in...
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Question 139: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the cost of health board transport other than the acute ambulance service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45416/08]
- Health Study
Question 140: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason for the delay in completing the All Ireland Traveller Health Study. [45421/08]
- Health Services
Question 141: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if, in view of the recent reported positive tests (details supplied) at a location, she will list the number of centres at which...
- Community Care
Question 143: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the role and responsibilities of the community care dietician in the care of obese patients; and if there will recruitment of community...
- Water Quality
Question 144: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of bottled water plants that have been inspected in 2007 and 2008 out of the total number, by category; the number of...
- Health Services
Question 145: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when an eight-bed ward for children with eating disorders in Bessborough, Blackrock, County Cork will be operational; the reason for the...
- Departmental Offices
Question 149: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will provide details of office accommodation rented or leased in Galway City by her Department or any agency or non-Governmental...
- Health Services
Question 150: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will support the case of a person (details supplied) in County Galway. [45538/08]
- Housing Aid for the Elderly
Question 152: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will support the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5. [45540/08]
- Transfer of Prisoners
Question 153: To ask the Minister for Health and Children, further to Parliamentary Question No. 304 of 2 December 2008 and the inconclusive reply thereto in respect of a person (details...
- Health Services
Question 154: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the types of cancer treatment available to Donegal cancer patients, both within and outside the county; the further plans and their...
- Hospital Services
Question 155: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans for the development of services at Roscommon County Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45691/08]
- Department of Transport
- State Airports
Question 157: To ask the Minister for Transport the targets which have to be delivered for particular grants (details supplied). [45429/08]
- Proposed Legislation
Question 158: To ask the Minister for Transport the status of the proposed road traffic Bill to provide for the lowering of the blood alcohol level limit to 50 milligrams and for compulsory...
- Departmental Offices
Question 159: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will provide details of office accommodation rented or leased in Galway city by his Department or any agency or non-governmental...
- Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
- Liquor Licensing Laws
Question 160: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he has reviewed the practice of giving away free alcohol in retail outlets as part of an alcohol promotion or marketing...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 161: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when an application for naturalisation will be processed in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and...
- Departmental Bodies
Question 162: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when he will establish the commission on integration; the proposed members of the commission; and if he will make a...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 166: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his office is providing funding to sporting bodies, faith based groups and local authorities; the amount being given...
- Traveller Community
Question 167: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the mechanism which will be put in place to pursue anti-racism strategies in relation to Travellers in view of the ending...
- Departmental Property
Question 169: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will provide details of office accommodation rented or leased in Galway city by his Department or any agency or...
- Child Protection
Question 170: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of investigations that occurred as a result of Operation Snow; the approximate number of children who were...
- Department of Foreign Affairs
- Departmental Property
Question 171: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will provide details of office accommodation rented or leased in Galway city by his Department or any agency or non-governmental...
- International Agreements
Question 172: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his Department has signed up to the bilateral agreement on child care requested by the Belarus Government in April 2007; if his attention...
- Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism
- Departmental Property
Question 173: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he will provide details of office accommodation rented or leased in Galway city by his Department or any agency or...
- Departmental Funding
Question 174: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there is no funding available for the support of local orchestras and local brass...
- Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
- Rural Transport
Question 176: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the cost of grant aid to voluntary transport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45414/08]
- Departmental Property
Question 177: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will provide details of office accommodation rented or leased in Galway city by his Department or any agency or...
- Department of Social and Family Affairs
- Child Poverty
Question 178: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs her views on what the main policy interventions by Government were which were responsible for the significant reduction in...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 179: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the justification for not paying a Christmas bonus to people in receipt of jobseeker's benefit; the cost of doing so; and if she...
- Departmental Statistics
Question 182: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of people on the live register by nationality with a further breakdown of the nationality figure by occupation, by...
- Departmental Property
Question 183: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she will provide details of office accommodation rented or leased in Galway city by her Department or any agency or...
- Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
- Housing Aid for the Elderly
Question 185: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the budget for the Health Service Executive in the mid west for the housing aid for the elderly scheme in...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 186: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will introduce legislation governing the use of metal and bag skips which are proliferating in...
- Private Rented Accommodation
Question 187: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if the Private Residential Tenancies Board provides the Revenue Commissioners with details of all landlords...
- Local Authority Housing
Question 188: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the reason his Department cancelled its scheduled meeting with representatives from a building (details...
- Public Private Partnerships
Question 189: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will meet with local representatives to agree to ringfence funding for areas (details supplied); and if...
- Traveller Accommodation
Question 190: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the success of local authorities in achieving targets set by the Traveller accommodation strategies in their...
- Local Authority Mortgages
Question 191: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will ensure that the European Central Bank rate cut of 0.75% is passed on in full to local authority...
- Planning Issues
Question 192: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to an EU decision regarding local need clauses imposed by several local...
- Local Authority Staff
Question 193: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his policy relating to the use of local authority vehicles by employees of those authorities outside of...
- Local Authority Funding
Question 194: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the effect the reduced funding available in budget 2009 will have on certain projects, including housing, and...
- Departmental Property
Question 195: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will provide details of office accommodation rented or leased in Galway city by his Department or any...
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Telecommunications Services
Question 196: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on the possibility that the preferred tender for the national broadband scheme will have unfair...
- Departmental Property
Question 197: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide details of office accommodation rented or leased in Galway City by his Department or any...
- Broadcasting Services
Question 198: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will support a matter (details supplied). [45542/08]
- Department of Agriculture and Food
- Animal Diseases
Question 199: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if research work is being undertaken on cattle tuberculosis vaccines which could be marked and identified in TB testing as a...
- Grant Payments
Question 200: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the reason for the delay in issuing the single farm payment to a person (details supplied) in County Leitrim. [45457/08]
- Proposed Legislation
Question 201: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the position regarding the animal health and welfare Bill; the extent of the uptake in the public consultation process; when...
- Land Dealings
Question 203: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a dealing (details supplied) will be completed in the Land Commission in view of the length of time which it has taken...
- Departmental Property
Question 204: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will provide details of office accommodation rented or leased in Galway city by his Department or any agency or...
- Grant Payments
Question 205: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon will receive their REP scheme three payment; the reason for the delay;...
- Department of Education and Science
- School Transport
Question 206: To ask the Minister for Education and Science his views on alternative assistance to school bus operators in view of the ending of the derogation of the excise tax on diesel for...
- Traveller Community
Question 208: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason the advisory committee on Traveller education has not met since 2006. [45419/08]
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 210: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the impact the budget 2009 cutbacks will have on a school (details supplied) in County Mayo; the way he will address the problems...
- School Completion Programme
Question 212: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if it is his intention to challenge national pay agreements in his request to cut payroll costs in the social inclusion unit by 3%....
- Schools Building Projects
Question 213: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if his attention has been drawn to an application by a school (details supplied) in County Offaly under the permanent accommodation...
- Youth Services
Question 214: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when youth organisations will be informed of their actual allocations under the youth service grant scheme and the special projects...
- School Curriculum
Question 215: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason geography is a compulsory subject for the junior certificate and science is not; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Departmental Funding
Question 216: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the funding status of the Centre for Deaf Studies at Trinity College, Dublin; the funding allocated to this centre for 2009; and if he...
- Departmental Property
Question 217: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will provide details of office accommodation rented or leased in Galway city by his Department or any agency or non-governmental...
- School Staffing
Question 218: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will confirm details of the announcement made on 4 December 2008 in respect of substitution in second level schools; and if he...
- Departmental Funding
Question 219: To ask the Minister for Education and Science his views on correspondence from a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45568/08]
- School Staffing
Question 220: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of teachers teaching the English language as a foreign language in second level schools, community and comprehensive...
