Written answers
Tuesday, 3 February 2009
- Department of Social and Family Affairs
- Pension Provisions
Question 110: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the date the long-term pension framework will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3246/09]
- Carers Strategy
Question 111: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the date the National Carers Strategy will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3259/09]
- Pension Provisions
Question 112: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if, in the context of the growing number of company failures, she intends to protect employees who have contributed to insolvent...
- Public Service Expenditure
Question 114: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if her Department has met with the special group on public service numbers and expenditure programmes; and if she will make a...
- Family Income Supplement
Question 115: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs further to parliamentary Question No. 11 of 11 November 2008; if the ESRI research project regarding take up levels of family...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 117: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs her recent proposals to assist lone parents; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3254/09]
- Social Welfare Fraud
Question 124: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she is satisfied with the progress made in tackling welfare fraud; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3327/09]
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 125: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she will engage with the European Commission to ensure that reduced rate welfare payments made by her Department that are...
- Mortgage Interest Supplement
Question 129: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the measures that have been put in place by her Department in conjunction with other Departments to meet the growing applications...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 130: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the efforts she has made to ensure that the restrictions introduced in the Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2008 to...
- Employment Support Services
Question 137: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she is satisfied with the level of co-operation between local employment services and her Department's local area offices; the...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 141: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of Irish citizens refused social welfare payments, including rent support, on foot of the habitual residency clause...
- Departmental Funding
Question 142: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she is satisfied that the level of funding her Department is providing to the Health Service Executive in respect of the...
- Services for People with Disabilities
Question 145: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when she will provide for a personal advocacy service in respect of people with disabilities; the target date to which she is...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 146: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs her views on whether the new PRSI requirements for jobseeker's benefit unfairly penalises young people who may have lost their...
- Social Insurance Fund
Question 160: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the action she will take to ensure that the social insurance fund is kept in surplus. [3225/09]
- Department of An Taoiseach
- Live Register
Question 165: To ask the Taoiseach the number of people on the live register in the area of Cork city and county; the increase in these figures over the past six months; and if he will make a...
- Unemployment Levels
Question 166: To ask the Taoiseach the unemployment figures at the Tallaght social welfare office, Dublin in the past three months for which figures are available. [3183/09]
- Dáil Reform
Question 167: To ask the Taoiseach further to his reply during the Order of Business on 27 January 2009, the members of the working group on Dáil Éireann reform who he referred to in his...
- Irish Language
Question 168: To ask the Taoiseach the cost to his Department, in each year since its introduction, of implementing the provisions of the Official Languages Act 2003; and if he will make a...
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Departmental Publications
Question 169: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason the report on media mergers was only published on-line and not in hard copy; her views on whether...
- Redundancy Payments
Question 170: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to a previous Parliamentary Question of 8 December 2008, the position of the application by a person...
- Departmental Funding
Question 171: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the amount of funding provided to FÁS in 2009 in respect of the local employment service; the breakdown of...
- Redundancy Payments
Question 172: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the contact her office has made with a company or the Singapore Government to secure a redundancy settlement...
- Industrial Development
Question 174: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to a meeting (details supplied) the progress made to date in addressing the issues raised; and if she...
- Task Forces
Question 175: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when she will establish the special task force arising from the announcement of 1,900 redundancies at a...
- Redundancy Payments
Question 176: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when a person (details supplied) in County Cork who was made redundant in early October 2008 will receive...
- Pension Provisions
Question 177: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the severance package, pension and so on awarded to a person (details supplied); and the extent to which...
- Sales Law
Question 178: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the position regarding the work of the sales law review group since its establishment; and if she will make a...
- Employment Support Services
Question 179: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if she will support the establishment of a FÁS office in Ashbourne, County Meath to serve the needs of the...
- Irish Language
Question 180: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the cost to her Department, in each year since its introduction, of implementing the provisions of the...
- Consumer Protection
Question 181: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the legal protections for consumers who buy products or services on layaway; and if she will make a statement...
- Department of Finance
- Disabled Drivers
Question 182: To ask the Minister for Finance his views, in view of the large number of cars on the road, on reviewing the rules for the disabled drivers and disabled passengers scheme to take...
- Pension Provisions
Question 183: To ask the Minister for Finance the severance package, pension and so on awarded to a person (details supplied); and the extent to which performance in office is linked to the...
- Planning Issues
Question 184: To ask the Minister for Finance if there is a legal impediment to him imposing a bar on developers who do not comply with planning legislation or building regulations from...
- Tax Code
Question 185: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on extending tax relief to cover the payment by employers on behalf of their employees of two commuter tickets per working day in view of...
- Pension Provisions
Question 187: To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department has acquired responsibility for the administration of pensions in universities or if it is still at a legislative stage; when the...
- Crime Prevention
Question 188: To ask the Minister for Finance the date on which the new cutter vessel will be assigned to operating around the northwest coast; the port at which the vessel will be based; if his...
- Tax Code
Question 189: To ask the Minister for Finance the safeguards in place to prevent an individual from purchasing machinery and equipment in Northern Ireland or in the United Kingdom using the VAT...
- Financial Services Regulation
Question 190: To ask the Minister for Finance if, in view of the protection of the banking system, as evidenced by the bank guarantees, recapitalisation and nationalisations, he will intervene...
- Tax Code
Question 191: To ask the Minister for Finance the steps he has taken to ensure that tax exiles pay tax here; if he has examined tax systems in other countries that have been successful at...
- Tax Collection
Question 192: To ask the Minister for Finance if a person (details supplied) in County Kildare has received all their tax entitlements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3155/09]
- Financial Services Regulation
Question 193: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will support a matter (details supplied). [3333/09]
- Crime Prevention
Question 194: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of ships or boats which were searched for drugs and tobacco products by customs officers at all ports in County Donegal and County Sligo...
- Financial Services Regulation
Question 195: To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the Financial Legislation Advisory Forum. [3366/09]
- Deposit Guarantee Scheme
Question 196: To ask the Minister for Finance the period for which bank depositors would have to wait for payment in the event that the deposit guarantee scheme was invoked arising out of the...
- Financial Services Regulation
Question 199: To ask the Minister for Finance the measures and actions he will take to examine the reasons behind the regulatory failure in the financial services sector here to determine the...
- Tax Yield
Question 200: To ask the Minister for Finance when he expects the report which he has requested the Revenue Commissioners to undertake into the cost of cross-Border shopping to the Exchequer to...
- Tax Collection
Question 201: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will take steps to have correspondence from a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath dealt with particularly in the context of the...
- Irish Language
Question 202: To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to his Department, in each year since its introduction, of implementing the provisions of the Official Languages Act 2003; and if he will...
- Pension Provisions
Question 203: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide details of the provision within the additional voluntary contribution pension scheme which allows for the spreading back of the...
- Tax Yield
Question 204: To ask the Minister for Finance further to the table produced in reply to Parliamentary Question No. 115 of 2 October 2008, if he will provide the figure for tax year 2006 and the...
- Financial Institutions Support Scheme
Question 205: To ask the Minister for Finance if, in relation to the credit institutions (financial support) scheme, he will provide a full listing of all the institutions being protected under...
- Tax Collection
Question 206: To ask the Minister for Finance if special consideration in extending the four year refund limit for DIRT will be given to a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if he...
- Department of Health and Children
- Child Care Services
Question 207: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the budget for an organisation (details supplied); if funding is provided by this organisation for county childcare committees; if so...
- Mental Health Services
Question 208: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason for the delay in implementing the comprehensive recommendations for mental health service reform set out in the Vision for...
- Health Repayment Scheme
Question 209: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the status of an application made in respect of a person (details supplied) under the long-stay repayment scheme; the reason for the...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 210: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position with regard to the fair deal legislation; when she foresees the Health Service Executive having a legislative framework to...
- Health Services
Question 211: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will support a person (details supplied) in Dublin 3. [3056/09]
- Medicinal Products
Question 212: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason a plant (details supplied) is not available across the counter here as is the case worldwide; and her plans to create the...
- Health Services
Question 213: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding an application by a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [3088/09]
- Hospital Services
Question 215: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Carlow will receive a hospital appointment for investigative surgery; and if she will make a...
- Medical Cards
Question 216: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will issue a report on the means test for the over 70 years medical card (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
- Child Care Services
Question 217: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason funding for a development (details supplied) in Dublin 12 was decommitted; when an appeal on this case will be heard; and if...
- Health Services
Question 218: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if budget 2009 cuts will affect the provision of drug and alcohol detoxification beds; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Child Care Services
Question 220: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her Department has received a request for funding under schemes financed from proceeds of the national lottery from an organisation...
- Suicide Incidence
Question 221: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will report on her supports to tackle suicide here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3179/09]
- Dáil na nÓg
Question 222: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will present a report on a meeting (details supplied); the issues raised; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3180/09]
- Hospital Staff
Question 223: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if progress has been made in relation to the appointment of a dedicated adult consultant in respect of cystic fibrosis patients...
- Health Services
Question 224: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will support a case (details supplied). [3335/09]
- Health Service Procurement
Question 225: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the location from which the Health Service Executive west source pork, ham and bacon products; the country of origin this product comes...
- Health Service Staff
Question 226: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a second consultant geriatrician will be appointed in County Clare as currently the system is overstretched; and if she will make a...
- Health Services
Question 227: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a refund will issue to persons (details supplied). [3341/09]
- Hospital Services
Question 228: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in County Mayo appeared for surgery and was told that there was no intensive care bed available....
- Health Repayment Scheme
Question 231: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position in relation to the application for the health repayment scheme by a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and when a...
- Hospital Services
Question 232: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will reinstate as a matter of urgency the elderly care unit at Ennis General Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Health Service Staff
Question 233: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the details of the new arrangements for the regulation of dental technicians; the qualifications and criteria required in order to...
- Irish Language
Question 234: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the cost to her Department, in each year since its introduction, of implementing the provisions of the Official Languages Act 2003; and...
- Health Services
Question 235: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will support a person (details supplied). [3423/09]
- Inter-Country Adoptions
Question 237: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will make every effort to secure a bilateral adoption agreement with Russia which meets the Hague Convention standards; her views...
- Hospital Charges
Question 238: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that it is apparently the policy of accident and emergency units in Cork city to post...
- Health Services
Question 239: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will investigate the proposals by the Health Service Executive to relocate the primary care unit situated at Springfield,...
- Department of Transport
- Roads Network
Question 241: To ask the Minister for Transport when he will inform Kerry County Council of the 2009 specific improvement grants for roads; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3038/09]
- Dublin Transport Authority
Question 242: To ask the Minister for Transport when he expects the Dublin Transport Authority to begin operations; when the process to appoint a chief executive began; the progress which has...
- Legislative Programme
Question 243: To ask the Minister for Transport if he expects to introduce legislation to establish a national transport regulator; when he expects to publish this legislation; the way a...
- Public Transport
Question 244: To ask the Minister for Transport if his Department has made findings in relation to complaints by private operators of unfair competition from State operators; and if he will make...
- State Bodies
Question 247: To ask the Minister for Transport further to Parliamentary Question No. 188 of 18 December 2008, the reason he will not give his full confidence to the chairman of Dublin Port...
- Road Safety
Question 248: To ask the Minister for Transport his views on amending Regulation 3 of the Road Traffic (Licensing of Drivers) Regulations 2006 to allow a person whose name is entered on the...
- Light Rail Projects
Question 249: To ask the Minister for Transport the status of the proposed metro north infrastructural project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3048/09]
- Public Transport
Question 250: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will support a matter (details supplied). [3052/09]
- Air Services
Question 252: To ask the Minister for Transport his policy on the disposal of its share in Aer Lingus; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3191/09]
- EU Directives
Question 253: To ask the Minister for Transport when he will begin proceedings to transpose European Union Directive 2008/96/EC on Road Safety Infrastructure Management; if he will extend the...
- Irish Language
Question 254: To ask the Minister for Transport the cost to his Department, in each year since its introduction, of implementing the provisions of the Official Languages Act 2003; and if he will...
- Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
- Visa Applications
Question 255: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status of an application for a visitor visa in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Wexford; and if he will...
- Temporary Release of Prisoners
Question 256: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the basis on which temporary Christmas releases from prison are granted; the conditions attaching to such releases; the...
- Legal Aid Service
Question 257: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the 2008 and 2009 estimate for payments to lawyers under the legal aid service; the respective rates for these payments in...
- Tribunals of Inquiry
Question 258: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the 2008 and 2009 estimate for payments from the operation of the various tribunals, including the payment for third party...
- Traffic Fines
Question 259: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the amount of uncollected fines imposed by the courts and the Garda Síochána, to include driving related offences for...
- Garda Remuneration
Question 260: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the overtime budget spent for the Garda Síochána and the Prison Service for each year since 2004; and if he will make a...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 261: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the additional cost to employ a garda to do work which did not require garda skills and could be done by a civilian in both...
- Garda Deployment
Question 262: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of gardaí allocated to community policing duties by Dublin policing district at the end of December 2008; and...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 263: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if applications for naturalisation are being unnecessarily delayed due to backlogs at the Garda Síochána; the average...
- Deportation Orders
Question 264: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will rescind the decision to deport in the case of persons (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a...
- Visa Applications
Question 265: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in relation to an application for family reunification in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 8;...
- Departmental Offices
Question 266: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason the repatriation section of the immigration service is only contactable by post; the logic behind such an...
- Asylum Applications
Question 267: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a decision will be made on an application by a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if in view of the delay...
- Legislative Programme
Question 268: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will make amendments to the law regarding incest offences committed by women; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Residency Permits
Question 269: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress made to date on the application for long term residency by a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny....
- Citizenship Applications
Question 270: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will confine the higher €950 charge for naturalisation certificates only to persons whose application was lodged...
- Refugee Status
Question 271: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if family members who have come here under family reunification have the same entitlements as the family member who has...
- Legislative Programme
Question 272: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will respond to a query (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3141/09]
- Citizenship Applications
Question 273: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status regarding an application by a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if he will make a statement on...
- Garda Deployment
Question 274: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of gardaí employed in the national drugs squad when it was first set up in 1996; the number of gardaí...
- Asylum Applications
Question 275: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied) in County Limerick against the suspension of their basic allowance...
- Garda Investigation
Question 276: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if there has been progress in the investigation into the murder of a person (details supplied) which has been raised at...
- Departmental Staff
Question 277: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of staff in his Department, including whole-time equivalent numbers from clerical officer grade to assistant...
- Irish Language
Question 279: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the cost to his Department, in each year since its introduction, of implementing the provisions of the Official Languages...
- Garda Training
Question 280: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the opening hours of the gymnasium facilities at the Garda College, Templemore, County Tipperary; his views on whether...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 281: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if an application for naturalisation has been decided on in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a...
- Department of Foreign Affairs
- Diplomatic Representation
Question 282: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the contact his Department had with the family of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal who was taken seriously ill and subsequently...
- Visa Applications
Question 283: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of applications for American, Australian and Canadian visas his Department has received from citizens in County Donegal since 1...
- Human Rights Issues
Question 284: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the requests he has made with regard to the release of persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3023/09]
- Foreign Conflicts
Question 285: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on the aerial bombing, shelling and killing of Tamil civilians in Sri Lanka; the steps he will take of a humanitarian nature...
- Illegal Immigrants
Question 286: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he has raised with the new US Administration the issue of the undocumented Irish in the USA; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Irish Language
Question 287: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the cost to his Department, in each year since its introduction, of implementing the provisions of the Official Languages Act 2003; and if...
- Foreign Conflicts
Question 288: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs his views and the action he has taken in relation to the contents of a submission (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
- Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism
- Sports Capital Programme
Question 289: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the reason a group (details supplied) in County Kildare has not been allocated the capital sports grant as determined by him; and if...
- Irish Language
Question 292: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the cost to his Department, in each year since its introduction, of implementing the provisions of the Official Languages Act 2003;...
- Sports Capital Programme
Question 293: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the amount of sports capital funding allocated under the sports capital programme 2003; the amount allocated under that year's...
- Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
- Community Support
Question 299: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if funding is provided by his Department in respect of security measures in the homes of older people; and if he will...
- National Drugs Strategy
Question 300: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs his views on whether the dial to stop drug dealing is an effective means of apprehending drug dealers; the number of...
- Community Development
Question 301: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the reason hub towns here such as Ballina and Castlebar, County Mayo are exempted from the new Leader programme....
- Offshore Islands
Question 304: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if, in relation to a contract (details supplied), a boat has been selected; if so if that boat is compliant with the...
- Departmental Funding
Question 306: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if the necessary funding will be provided to ensure the reopening of a community centre (details supplied) in Dublin...
- Departmental Programmes
Question 307: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if there are grants a society (details supplied) in County Tipperary can avail of; and if he will make a statement on...
- Irish Language
Question 308: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the number of times the sub-committee tasked with examining the recommendations of an staidéar teangeolaíochta ar...
- Water and Sewerage Schemes
Question 311: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the position of the application for CLÁR funding in respect of Lemanagh group water scheme County Clare; and if he...
- Departmental Bodies
Question 312: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs his plans to bring a group (details supplied) in County Cork under the aegis of Údarás na Gaeltachta; and if he...
- Department of Social and Family Affairs
- Departmental Correspondence
Question 313: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs her views regarding a submission received from a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; the position in relation to the case...
- Departmental Strategy Statements
Question 314: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the date the national carers strategy will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3540/09]
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 316: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be approved and granted jobseeker's allowance. [3014/09]
- Departmental Staff
Question 317: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the increase in the number of staff employed in social welfare offices to deal with any backlog due to the increase on the live...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 318: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason income from the jobseeker's allowance payment is deducted in its entirety for rent subsidy payments for a person...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 320: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she will respond to correspondence from a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3066/09]
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 321: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the amount of capital disregard for means test purposes for all social welfare payments; if same applies to special saving...
- Departmental Schemes
Question 324: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 1006 of 27 January 2009, the expected savings to the Exchequer which will accrue in a full...
- Irish Language
Question 325: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the cost to her Department, in each year since its introduction, of implementing the provisions of the Official Languages Act...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 326: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the changes which have been made to the eligibility criteria for disability allowance since budget 2009; if changes have been made...
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 327: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when an appeal will be heard for a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 328: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the backlog in dealing with applications for contributory and non-contributory State pensions, one parent family allowance,...
- Department of Defence
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 338: To ask the Minister for Defence the annual financial savings that will be made for the State by the closures of Rockhill and Lifford Army barracks, County Donegal; if he will...
- Public Order Offences
Question 339: To ask the Minister for Defence if he had recent discussions with the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform regarding the possible use of the Defence Forces under their...
- Irish Language
Question 340: To ask the Minister for Defence the cost to his Department, in each year since its introduction, of implementing the provisions of the Official Languages Act 2003; and if he will...
- Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
- Ferry Services
Question 341: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will engage with the Northern Ireland First Minister, Mr. Robinson and Deputy First Minister, Mr....
- Tax Code
Question 342: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the rationale used to arrive at an across the board €200 tax imposed in budget 2009 on all second houses...
- Housing Aid for the Elderly
Question 343: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will make funding available under the housing adaptation grant schemes for older persons and persons...
- Environmental Policy
Question 344: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his removal of the national ban on incandescent light bulbs is an admission that his plans for the phasing...
- Local Authority Housing
Question 345: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding regeneration projects (details supplied); the efforts he is taking to support these...
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 346: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the status of the decentralisation to an area (details supplied); if there are vacancies which members of the...
- Grant Payments
Question 347: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will issue payment due to a group (details supplied) in County Limerick. [3084/09]
- Proposed Legislation
Question 348: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding amending legislation to ensure that the Private Residential Tenancies Board can make...
- EU Directives
Question 349: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if, under the terms of Article 17 of the European Communities (Good Agriculture Practice for the Protection...
- Local Authority Staff
Question 350: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will provide a list of all payments and bonuses to the director of services in each county council for...
- Social and Affordable Housing
Question 351: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his plans for social housing and accommodation on land (details supplied) in Dublin 7; when funds will be...
- EU Directives
Question 352: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when he proposes to delete sections 23(7)([i]a[/i]) to ([i]c[/i]) of the Wildlife Act 1976, as amended by the...
- EU Directives
Question 353: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the location at which practical information on access to administrative and judicial review procedures is...
- Irish Language
Question 355: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the cost to his Department, in each year since its introduction, of implementing the provisions of the...
- Social and Affordable Housing
Question 356: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of local authority direct starts, the number of Part V social rented units, the number of Part V...
- Local Authority Funding
Question 357: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when and the way in which his Department will issue the previously allocated budget funding to local...
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Fisheries Protection
Question 358: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the rationale for the decision to ban eel fishing here with the approval of the European Commission; the...
- Housing Grants
Question 359: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if there are grants available for the insulation of a house and for the replacement of windows in a house; and...
- Energy Resources
Question 362: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the amount of the €26 million grant for ocean energy research which has been released; the progress...
- Telecommunications Services
Question 363: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position in relation to the provision of broadband to an area (details supplied); the person who is...
- Housing Grants
Question 364: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will introduce schemes to encourage the carrying out of energy efficiency audits on older housing stock,...
- Telecommunications Services
Question 365: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when it is expected that broadband services will be available in the Bunaninver and Brinalack area of County...
- Irish Language
Question 366: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the cost to his Department, in each year since its introduction, of implementing the provisions of the Official...
- Energy Regulation
Question 367: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will amend legislation to compel the energy regulator to review and set electricity prices to customers...
- Telecommunications Services
Question 368: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the district electoral divisions in County Mayo that are not part of the national broadband scheme; the reason...
- Media Funding
Question 369: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he has made inquiries to ascertain if funding has been made available directly or indirectly through...
- Department of Agriculture and Food
- Garda Investigations
Question 370: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the progress made on a Garda inquiry into a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3164/09]
- Farm Waste Management Scheme
Question 371: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the waiting times for inspections on a county basis under the farm waste management scheme; and if he will make a statement...
- Rural Environment Protection Scheme
Question 373: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if new entrants are being accepted on to a scheme (details supplied). [3011/09]
- Grant Payments
Question 374: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a slatted house grant will be awarded to a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement...
- Food Labelling
Question 378: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when country of origin labelling will be displayed on all pork products sold here; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Grant Payments
Question 379: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if an applicant (details supplied) in County Cork has been approved for payment. [3085/09]
- Departmental Funding
Question 386: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the amount of money paid to a company (details supplied) in view of its closure following the restructuring of the sugar...
- Common Agricultural Policy
Question 387: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the amount of unspent CAP funds of 2008 available to his Department; the criteria that he will use in providing funding from...
- Rural Development
Question 388: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the amount of money received in 2008 from compulsory modulation; and the percentage of this fund which has been used for...
- Grant Payments
Question 389: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be awarded their REPS 4 payment. [3131/09]
- Aquaculture Protection
Question 393: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the preventive measures in place, including licence conditions to minimise risk of the Pacific oyster gigas spawning and...
- Aquaculture Licences
Question 394: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food his views on whether licensed dredging activities in Lough Swilly, County Donegal, are damaging the native oyster and that...
- Food Labelling
Question 397: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will provide commitment and date when country of origin labelling will be introduced into law for the white meat...
- Grant Payments
Question 398: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when he will make full payment of the farm waste management scheme. [3363/09]
- Information Request
Question 400: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will supply information (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3400/09]
- Grant Payments
Question 401: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when the REPS 4 scheme payment will be made to a person (details supplied) in County Sligo; if he will ensure that payment...
- Farm Inspections
Question 402: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, further to Parliamentary Question No. 1315 of 27 January, 2009, if he will supply the information requested; and if he will...
- Irish Language
Question 403: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the cost to his Department, in each year since its introduction, of implementing the provisions of the Official Languages...
- Grant Payments
Question 404: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the reason a hardship grant has not been awarded in view of the fact that reactors were found in a herd belonging to a...
- Installation Aid Scheme
Question 405: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if young farmers who had their farms transferred to them but had not applied for the installation aid grant will have their...
- Pigmeat Sector
Question 407: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when all of a fund will be awarded to a group of people (details supplied); if both categories have been awarded; and when...
- Department of Education and Science
- Schools Building Projects
Question 408: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when work will commence on the rebuilding of the main building of a school (details supplied) in County Dublin, the design for which...
- Schools Refurbishment
Question 410: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the status of the application from a school (details supplied) under the summer works scheme; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Disadvantaged Status
Question 411: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the difference in value to a school given the designation of urban DEIS as distinct from rural DEIS; the funding, resources and...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 412: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the provision of a new secondary school (details supplied) in County Galway, at the location of the second...
- Site Acquisitions
Question 415: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the provision of a site for a school (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on...
- School Enrolments
Question 416: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will support the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 3. [3050/09]
- Higher Education Grants
Question 417: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will support a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15. [3057/09]
- School Staffing
Question 418: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will support a matter (details supplied). [3058/09]
- School Accommodation
Question 419: To ask the Minister for Education and Science his plans to provide alternative permanent school premises for a school (details supplied) in Dublin 7 during the short to medium...
- Vocational Education Committees
Question 420: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the amount spent on the administration of all vocational educational committees here, that is the amount spent on the administration...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 421: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress his Department is making in the provision of a new school building (details supplied) in Dublin 7; and if he will make a...
- Whole School Evaluations
Question 432: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will estimate the amount that his Department will spend during 2009 on whole school evaluations. [3175/09]
- Schools Building Projects
Question 433: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will appoint an official to resolve the accommodation problems at a school (details supplied) in County Kildare in view of the...
- Early Childhood Education
Question 434: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the nature of both the recruitment process, and contracts offered, within his Department to the former director and assistant director...
- Garda Vetting Services
Question 435: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of teachers at first and second levels who have been vetted by the Garda vetting unit; and if he will make a statement on...
- Teaching Qualifications
Question 439: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of unqualified persons who are on a regular teaching contract of employment within the primary and secondary sectors; and...
- Teaching Council
Question 440: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when section 30 of the Teaching Council Act 2001 commenced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3378/09]
- School Management
Question 441: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if his Department has had contact with the boards of management of private fee-paying schools with regard to their desire to change to...
- Irish Language
Question 442: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the cost to his Department, in each year since its introduction, of implementing the provisions of the Official Languages Act 2003;...
- School Management
Question 443: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress made regarding the moving of a school (details supplied) in County Galway from the local vocational educational committee...
- School Transport
Question 444: To ask the Minister for Education and Science his views on re-routing a school bus at Ballymoe, County Galway which would take in the villages of Cloonruff, Cornamuckla, Treanboy,...
- Disadvantaged Status
Question 445: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will re-consider the loss of the home school community liaison teacher from September 2009 to those schools in the post-primary...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 446: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress made to date in providing a sports hall and extension to a school (details supplied) in Dublin 15; and if he will make a...
