Written answers
Wednesday, 4 March 2009
- Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
- Departmental Funding
Question 44: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if all groups operating under the LEADER funding programme are functioning and available for grant applications; if...
- National Drugs Strategy
Question 45: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs his views on the fact that the roll out of the new national drugs strategy will be postponed indefinitely in view of...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 46: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the way in respect of the announcement of 3 February 2009, it is intended to effect the 8% reduction in professional...
- British-Irish Council
Question 47: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will make a statement on his participation in the meeting of the British-Irish Council in Cardiff on 20 February...
- Departmental Programmes
Question 48: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will review the boundary areas under the CLÁR programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8911/09]
- Drugs Seizures
Question 49: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs his views on whether the record seizure of drugs in 2008 amounting to more than €210 million reflects the continuing...
- Acht na dTeangacha Oifigiúla
Question 50: To ask the Aire Gnóthaí Pobail, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta cén fáth nach bhfuil dul chun cinn i bhfad níos fearr déanta i leith líon na scéimeanna teanga atá daingnithe aige...
- Departmental Schemes
Question 51: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the number of applicants who applied for Scéim Labhairt na Gaeilge on a county basis for the past three years; the...
- Dormant Accounts Fund
Question 53: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the expected expenditure by his Department in 2009 from the proceeds of the dormant accounts fund; the figures for...
- Departmental Funding
Question 54: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if Waterways Ireland has made representations to his Department for the provision of funding for improvements to any...
- Dormant Accounts Fund
Question 55: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the amount of funding provided under the dormant accounts fund since its inception; the geographical spread of the...
- Drugs Use
Question 56: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he or his Department had consultations with the Department of Health and Children, any health organisations such as...
- Departmental Funding
Question 57: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the number of projects that have been assisted under the community service project scheme; the funding drawn down...
- Water and Sewerage Schemes
Question 58: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the number of top up grants made available to group water schemes in each year for the past three years; the funding...
- Job Creation
Question 59: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the action he will take arising from the report presented to him by the Western Development Commission which forecast...
- Departmental Funding
Question 60: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the position regarding funding under the various headings for funding or grants available from his Department; if...
- Rural Transport
Question 61: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the position regarding the rural transport scheme; the number of persons who have used the system to date; the number...
- Security of the Elderly
Question 63: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the level of funding which is available for community alert groups under the scheme of community support for older...
- Irish Language
Question 64: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs when the plan from the Government committee for the conservation of the Irish language will be published; and if he...
- National Drugs Strategy
Question 65: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the number of calls received by the Dial to Stop Drugs campaign; if there is a geographical spread attached to the...
- Departmental Programmes
Question 68: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the number of applications received for the provision of funding under the CLÁR programme in respect of the past two...
- Integration Issues
Question 69: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the role of his Department in migrant integration issues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8760/09]
- Commemorative Events
Question 70: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he has, as part of the Famine commemoration or otherwise, plans to introduce a programme of supports to restore and...
- Industrial Development
Question 71: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if his Department has been involved in discussions regarding Údarás na Gaeltachta being subsumed into or having a...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 72: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the way it is intended to effect the 10% savings reductions in the costs of his ministerial office, as announced on 3...
- Drugs Task Forces
Question 73: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will make further cuts to the local and regional drugs task forces in the second half of 2009; and if he has...
- Departmental Funding
Question 74: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the funding allocated to recreational and sporting clubs in each of the past three years to promote youth activities...
- National Drugs Strategy
Question 75: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the services in place to deal with children from the ages of ten to 18 years who are susceptible to drug misuse; the...
- Drugs Use
Question 76: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the steps he has taken to monitor and highlight the increase in use of crystal meths, crack cocaine and the...
- Departmental Programmes
Question 77: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the amount of funding drawn down in regard to the RAPID areas for an area (details supplied); the number of projects...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 78: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the way in respect of the announcement of 3 February 2009, it is intended to achieve the general administrative...
- Drugs Task Forces
Question 80: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the number of drugs task forces in place; the areas covered by such; the reports received by his Department from each...
- Forbairt Gaeltachta
Question 83: To ask the Aire Gnóthaí Pobail, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta cén dul chun cinn atá déanta i leith an triúr áisitheoir pobail sna Gaeltachtaí beaga, An Rinn, Ráth Cairn agus...
- Grant Payments
Question 84: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs when a decision will be made on applications under the school outdoors playing facilities enhancement scheme; and if...
- Polasaí don Ghaeilge
Question 85: To ask the Aire Gnóthaí Pobail, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta cad iad na ciorruithe atá curtha i bhfeidhm agus atá le cur i bhfeidhm i 2009 ó thaobh na Gaeilge de agus ó thaobh na...
- Job Creation
Question 86: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he has, under any of the schemes or funding available to him, created or is proposing to create initiatives to...
- Community Development
Question 87: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will incorporate a value for money review into the new rural development programme; and if he will make a...
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Departmental Statistics
Question 88: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the projects which have gone over the timescale and budget within her Department since September 2007 to date...
- Department of Finance
- Tax Yield
Question 89: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will estimate the revenue that would be gained and lost in a full year by a 1% change in the standard rate of tax; and if he will make a...
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 99: To ask the Minister for Finance the current and capital expenditure provided for in 2009 to progress decentralisation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9061/09]
- Banking Sector Regulation
Question 100: To ask the Minister for Finance the priorities and objectives for the operation of Anglo Irish Bank which would guide the risk management strategy referred to in his speech on 12...
- Tax Refund
Question 101: To ask the Minister for Finance when the deposit interest retention tax refund claim will be approved and granted in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Laois. [9088/09]
- Grant Payments
Question 102: To ask the Minister for Finance when a person (details supplied) in County Longford will be granted their urban renewal grant which has been sanctioned since 30 January 2009; and...
- Banking Sector Regulation
Question 103: To ask the Minister for Finance the components of the equity and liabilities of the six Irish guaranteed institutions which were not guaranteed at 30 September 2008 and 26 February...
- Department of Health and Children
- Nursing Home Subventions
Question 104: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding an application for nursing home subvention in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [9023/09]
- Health Services
Question 105: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding an appeal of domiciliary care allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal. [9067/09]
- Pharmaceutical Sector
Question 106: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention was drawn to the problem regarding the sale here of counterfeit pharmaceuticals (details supplied); and if she will...
- Eating Disorders
Question 108: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of recommendations of the Obesity Task Force that have been implemented in full; the recommendations which have been...
- Health Services
Question 109: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will examine the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15 whose child will have no day placement when they reach 18 years...
- Inter-Country Adoptions
Question 111: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when she will meet a group (details supplied) to discuss their concerns regarding changes to the Vietnamese inter-country adoption...
- Health Services Property
Question 112: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the Health Service Executive has approved land for sale in respect of the site of a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary;...
- Nursing Home Subventions
Question 114: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position with regard to the payment of funds under the nursing home repayment scheme in respect of a person (details supplied) in...
- Health Service Allowances
Question 115: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in County Longford has been refused the domiciliary care allowance in respect of their daughter,...
- Health Services
Question 117: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on the Health Service Executive's plans to centralise to Dublin, health schemes such as the medical card, drugs payment,...
- Department of Transport
- Public Transport
Question 118: To ask the Minister for Transport the status of an application by a company (details supplied) who have submitted an application for a bus route licence from Galway Airport to...
- Departmental Programmes
Question 119: To ask the Minister for Transport the projects which have gone over the timescale and budget within his Department since September 2007 to date in 2009; the length of time each...
- Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
- Garda Stations
Question 120: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position with regard to the building of a Garda station (details supplied); when he expects construction to get...
- Criminal Prosecutions
Question 121: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of prosecutions that took place in each of the years 2004 to 2008 in respect of shops, off-licences and other...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 122: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the recommendations of the Kopp report on the State Forensic Laboratory that have been implemented to date and which remain...
- Garda Deployment
Question 123: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of gardaí appointed to the Garda National Drugs Unit in each county; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Prisoner Transfers
Question 124: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will repatriate a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9212/09]
- Residency Permits
Question 125: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding the rule that was introduced in 2007, for volunteer workers from non-EU countries that come to work...
- Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism
- Sports Capital Programme
Question 126: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism when outstanding issues in relation to the payment of a grant under the sports capital programme to an organisation (details...
- Departmental Funding
Question 127: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if there is financial assistance available from his Department for a community (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
- Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
- Community Development
Question 128: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the funding to be made available for the staffing of the Collinstown Park Sports Hall, Clondalkin, Dublin; and if he...
- National Drugs Strategy
Question 130: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs his plans to increase or offer support to the various community groups throughout County Kildare in urban or rural...
- Departmental Programmes
Question 131: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the extent to which the CLÁR programme is intended to expand or retract in 2009; and if he will make a statement on...
- Community Development
Question 133: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the number of community based projects which received support from his Department in each of the past five years; the...
- Planning Issues
Question 136: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he has had discussions with the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government with a view to...
- Community Development
Question 138: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs his plans to support community based groups involved in the various projects which have previously received support...
- Department of Social and Family Affairs
- Child Support
Question 139: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of Irish nationals who were found not to satisfy the habitual residence condition in the periods July to December 2004,...
- Carer's Strategy
Question 140: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the position in relation to the publication of a carer's strategy. [9299/09]
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 141: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the position in relation to the reform of supports for lone parents. [9300/09]
- Social Insurance
Question 142: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the steps being taken to lift the PRSI ceiling. [6307/09]
- Department of Defence
- Asgard II Salvage
Question 143: To ask the Minister for Defence if he will reconsider his decision to leave the [i]Asgard II[/i] on the seabed (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
- Community Development
Question 144: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if there is financial assistance available from his Department for a community (details supplied); and if he...
- Departmental Statistics
Question 145: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the projects which have gone over the timescale and budget within his Department since September 2007 to date...
- Local Authority Boundaries
Question 146: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when a White Paper on his proposals for a boundary extension will be published; his views in relation to...
- Local Authority Staff
Question 147: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if, for the purposes of section 161 of the Local Government Act 2001, a person holds two employments with two...
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Question 148: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will abandon his plans to have taxpayers money spent on purchasing carbon offsets in respect of...
- Nuclear Plants
Question 149: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to a recent report by the British Nuclear Decommissioning Authority into the...
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Telecommunications Services
Question 150: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the dark fibre services that will be available through the technical solution proposed by a company (details...
- Department of Agriculture and Food
- Foreshore Licences
Question 153: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a foreshore licence will issue for a project (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Harbours and Piers
Question 154: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food further to Parliamentary Question No. 393 of 1 July 2008 the status of a project (details supplied); and if he will make a...
- Pigmeat Sector
Question 155: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when and the means by which the Dutch authorities contacted his Department in relation to the discovery of PCBs in pork fat...
- Grant Payments
Question 157: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will ensure that a REP scheme four payment is made in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Sligo; and if...
- Departmental Programmes
Question 158: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if there are further incentives and reliefs to assist a person (details supplied) in County Louth; and if he will make a...
- Grant Payments
Question 159: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be awarded a REP scheme three payment. [9120/09]
- Rural Environment Protection Scheme
Question 160: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will clarify the situation regarding REP scheme four; his plans to phase in payments in line with his recent decision...
- Department of Education and Science
- School Transport
Question 161: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason transport costs for pupils in Ticknevin, Carbury, County Kildare, attending a school (details supplied) in County Offaly...
- Pupil-Teacher Ratio
Question 162: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will review his decision to reduce the teacher-pupil ratio at a school (details supplied) in County Galway despite having the...
- Higher Education Grants
Question 163: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will explain what constitutes out of term time in relation to the calculation of reckonable income for a student grant...
- School Accommodation
Question 165: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the schools and the number of classroom units within each school in County Laois that are availing of accommodation under the...
- Grant Payments
Question 166: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the status in relation to an application for a Montessori grant made by a group (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if he will...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 167: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will confirm that a special needs assistant and access to an individual education programme will be made available to a person...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 168: To ask the Minister for Education and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 339 of 8 October 2008, the status of a school building project; when a technical visit will take...
- Departmental Bodies
Question 169: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the names of those on the panel of the staffing appeals board; the number of times the number of times the board has met; the number...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 170: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the companies which have been awarded the building contracts in relation to schools (details supplied) that are going ahead in Dublin...
- School Transport
Question 171: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the way in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Longford can justify an almost 100% increase in school transport charges...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 172: To ask the Minister for Education and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 338 of 8 October 2008, if he will report on the appointment of a design team for a school...
- Third Level Institutions
Question 173: To ask the Minister for Education and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 506 of 24 February 2009 the reason his Department is taking steps to have the management and...
- Higher Education Grants
Question 174: To ask the Minister for Education and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 447 of 24 February 2009, if an applicant for a maintenance grant can use a sworn affidavit to...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 177: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the need for a permanent school building for a school (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if he will make...
