Written answers

Thursday, 9 April 2009

  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
    • FÁS Training Programmes
      Question 1: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of people in Waterford city and county who have received an offer of training from FÁS each month...
    • Departmental Funding
      Question 3: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if, in view of the announcement (details supplied) for a fund up to €500 million, for a framework for...
    • Local Employment Services
      Question 4: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reasons for closing the Carrick-on-Suir jobs club, County Tipperary; the number of persons who were dealt...
    • Semi-State Bodies
      Question 5: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment her views on granting a special derogation to FÁS in order for them to be able to recruit the necessary...
    • Job Creation
      Question 6: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the subsidy or allowance paid to foreign direct investment companies in respect of each new job created; and if...
    • Departmental Funding
      Question 7: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the grants, financial supports or other funding are available to a counselling agency (details supplied)....
    • Redundancy Payments
      Question 9: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment her views, in view of the delay experienced by employers in having statutory redundancy payments rebated by her...
    • Unemployment Task Force
      Question 10: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of people on the task force for unemployment in the mid-west region; the Government agencies and...
    • Parliamentary Questions
      Question 11: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if she will clarify her statement in reply to a recent parliamentary question (details supplied); and if she...
    • Redundancy Payments
      Question 12: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if a person (details supplied) in County Mayo is entitled to be considered for a redundancy package. [15082/09]
  • Department of Finance
    • Pension Provisions
      Question 13: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on correspondence (details supplied). [14926/09]
    • Flood Relief
      Question 14: To ask the Minister for Finance if funding has been put in place in respect of flood relief works for Johnstown village in County Kildare. [14928/09]
    • Site Acquisitions
      Question 15: To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 188 of 24 March 2009, if the site acquired for the new Garda divisional headquarters has a lawful connection to...
  • Department of Health and Children
    • Inter-Country Adoptions
      Question 17: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when an Irish delegation will travel to Vietnam to discuss the proposed agreement with regard to the proposed agreement for inter country...
    • Legislative Programme
      Question 20: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when she expects the Adoption Bill 2009 to pass all stages and be enacted. [14889/09]
    • Ambulance Service
      Question 21: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will ascertain from the Health Service Executive the reason that they have not engaged with the Health Information and Quality...
    • Hospitals Building Programme
      Question 23: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position in relation to her decision not to proceed with the promise of having a dedicated 34 bed unit open in St. Vincent's...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      Question 25: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will expedite an outpatient appointment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork who has been waiting some time;...
    • Hospitals Building Programme
      Question 26: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if phase 3C of Naas General Hospital, County Kildare, is included in the Health Service Executive revised capital plan for the remainder...
    • Health Services
      Question 27: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the waiting times in respect of hearing tests for children in County Kildare, in Newbridge and at Tallaght health centres. [14948/09]
    • Health Service Staff
      Question 31: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of occupational therapists working in the Kildare and west Wicklow service; and the number of vacant posts which remain...
    • Health Services
      Question 32: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of children awaiting assessment for orthodontic treatment in Kildare; and the number of children awaiting orthodontic...
    • Medical Cards
      Question 38: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if account will be taken of the special circumstances of widowed persons over 70 years old, whose automatic entitlement to a medical card...
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund
      Question 39: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will prioritise a review of the National Treatment Purchase Fund and the consultants' contracts in view of ongoing budgetary...
    • Health Service Staff
      Question 40: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to reinstate a community welfare officer (details supplied) in County Tipperary; the timeframe for the move; the reason same...
    • Medical Cards
      Question 41: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the consequences of the proposed centralisation of the medical card section in a town (details supplied) in County Tipperary to Dublin;...
    • Hospital Staff
      Question 42: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will appoint two additional full time neurophysiologists to Beaumont Hospital, Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services
      Question 43: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will support persons (details supplied) in Dublin 5. [15010/09]
    • Child Care Services
      Question 44: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the way a child care centre (details supplied) can honour subventive places in between reviews; her proposals to ensure that these...
    • Proposed Legislation
      Question 45: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if there is legislation in place to curb head shops; and her plans to ensure head shops are properly controlled. [15018/09]
    • Medical Cards
      Question 46: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the over 70s GMS card will re-issue to a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon; and the reason they received a further...
    • Health Services
      Question 47: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will ensure four nursing care hours are not cutback in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon. [15020/09]
    • Cancer Screening Programme
      Question 48: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the percentage of women here being routinely screened by BreastCheck as at 31 January 2009; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      Question 49: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will confirm the amount of money spent to provide for artwork in the new disability centre in Athlone, County Westmeath; and if...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 50: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will ensure that cancer care facilities in Sligo will not be interfered with until proper and satisfactory alternatives are put in...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      Question 51: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Carlow who is on a waiting list will be admitted to Tallaght hospital in view of their...
    • Medical Cards
      Question 52: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the entitlement to a medical card in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Department of Transport
    • Rail Network
      Question 53: To ask the Minister for Transport if, further to Parliamentary Question No. 183 of 18 December 2008, there has been further progress on this issue; and the amount of capital funding...
    • Road Network
      Question 54: To ask the Minister for Transport the reason funding to Kildare County Council for regional and local road grants in 2009 was reduced by 13% when the national allocation only fell...
    • Rail Network
      Question 55: To ask the Minister for Transport the amount of capital funding allocated in 2009 for the Kildare route project; if the project is on schedule; and the expected completion date....
    • Road Network
      Question 56: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will provide details, including the location and nature of the proposed projects by the National Roads Authority and the estimated cost of...
    • Road Signage
      Question 57: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will incorporate the comhstádas-equal status on future road signage in the 20 year plan for the teanga; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Parking Regulations
      Question 58: To ask the Minister for Transport the circumstances under which wheel clamping is legal; the circumstances in which wheel clamping carried out by persons on public highways by the...
    • Pension Provisions
      Question 59: To ask the Minister for Transport the details of the retirement package for the former chief executive of Aer Lingus; if Government members on the board of Aer Lingus were consulted...
    • Road Safety
      Question 60: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has ordered a reduction in advertising used by the Road Safety Authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15034/09]
    • Taxi Regulations
      Question 61: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will respond to correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15079/09]
  • Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
    • Drug Treatment Programme
      Question 62: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason a person (details supplied) in County Waterford was not allowed to continue their methadone maintenance programme...
    • Garda Strength
      Question 63: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the Garda strength on 1 April 2009 in each of the Garda stations in the Leixlip Garda district and the Naas Garda district...
    • Proposed Legislation
      Question 64: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress made in preparing legislation to resolve the issue of unregulated management companies operating in apartment...
    • Closed Circuit Television Systems
      Question 65: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if funding has been allocated by his Department for the installation of a closed circuit television monitoring system in New...
    • Private Security Services
      Question 66: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he is satisfied with the performance of the Private Security Authority; if his attention has been drawn to complaints...
    • Visa Applications
      Question 67: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position of an application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14984/09]
    • Crime Levels
      Question 68: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of persons arrested and charged for knife related crime in Dublin for the years 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008 and to...
    • Residency Permits
      Question 69: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position of an application for residency by a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a...
    • Business Permission Applications
      Question 70: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, further to Parliamentary Question No. 169 of 2 April 2009, the number of applications on hand in the years in question at...
    • Garda Strength
      Question 71: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when additional gardaí will be allocated to Tipperary Town; when additional community gardaí will be allocated to...
    • Asylum Support Services
      Question 76: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if a person (details supplied) in County Galway will be transferred to self-catering accommodation; and if he will make a...
    • Asylum Applications
      Question 77: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the current or expected status in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; if they will be transferred to...
    • Residency Permits
      Question 80: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding the application for residency in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he...
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 81: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding the application for citizenship in the case of persons (details supplied) in Dublin 15; and if he...
    • Residency Permits
      Question 83: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the current or expected status regarding the application for residency in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin...
    • Deportation Orders
      Question 86: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will review the decision of deport in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 22; and if he will make a...
    • Residency Permits
      Question 87: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the current or expected status regarding the application for residency in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin...
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 88: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in relation to the application for family reunification in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin...
    • Deportation Orders
      Question 89: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15073/09]
    • Residency Permits
      Question 90: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in relation to the application for residency in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Sligo; and if...
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 92: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in relation to the application for family reunification in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 7;...
    • Residency Permits
      Question 93: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the current or expected position on the application for residency in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Cork;...
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 94: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 578 of 24 March 2009 in respect of an application for citizenship by a person (details...
  • Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism
    • Swimming Pool Projects
      Question 95: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he will reconsider his decision not to proceed with a new round of grants under the local authority swimming pool programme in...
  • Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
    • Grant Payments
      Question 96: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he is planning to support and fund 50% of the cost of building a new facility for a college (details supplied) in...
    • Community Development
      Question 98: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Pobal has withdrawn its contract from an organisation (details...
    • Closed Circuit Television Systems
      Question 99: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if funding has been allocated by his Department for the installation of a closed circuit television monitoring system...
  • Department of Social and Family Affairs
    • Anti-Poverty Strategy
      Question 100: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the amount of direct Exchequer financial support that has been provided to the Money Advice and Budgeting Service over the past...
    • Pension Provisions
      Question 101: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the average length of time it takes to process a claim for a contributory state pension for an Irish citizen when that citizen has...
    • Family Support Services
      Question 102: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if there are plans to increase funding for counselling service organisations; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      Question 104: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if there is scope for examining whether a person (details supplied) in Dublin 20 is entitled to a back to work scheme. [14967/09]
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 105: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if extra staff will be deployed to the social welfare offices in Kilbarrack and Coolock, County Dublin to cope with the increase...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      Question 106: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the amount paid in early child care supplement in 2006, 2007, 2008 and to the end of March 2009, respectively; and if she will...
    • Pension Provisions
      Question 107: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason there is no legal protection for the pension entitlements of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; the further...
    • Social Welfare Code
      Question 108: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the steps she is taking to ensure that persons with high monthly mortgage repayments such as a person (details supplied) in Dublin...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      Question 109: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the position in relation to an application for jobseeker's allowance in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare;...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      Question 110: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the extent of medical examinations by medical assessors of applicants for disability allowance bearing in mind the experience of a...
  • Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
    • Homeless Services
      Question 111: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the breakdown of the way the allocated 5% increase in expenditure for homeless services as outlined in budget...
    • Planning Issues
      Question 112: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the revenue which is raised on an annual basis from planning submission fees, broken down by category; and if...
    • Local Government Reform
      Question 113: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when he will publish the White Pater on Local Government Reform. [14931/09]
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes
      Question 114: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has received contract documents for the Castlewarden to Ballygoran water supply scheme in County...
    • Anti-Social Behaviour
      Question 115: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the responsibilities the local authorities have when tenants of social housing are being violent,...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes
      Question 116: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the status of the proposed new water and sewerage treatment plant for Magheranan, Letterkenny, County...
    • Legislative Programme
      Question 117: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his Department has completed its list of amendments to the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008;...
    • Local Authority Housing
      Question 118: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the action he will take in view of the fact that in excess of 4,000 vacant houses under the affordable...
    • Register of Electors
      Question 119: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will clarify the position whereby people who are registered on the register of electors in a certain...
    • Housing Statistics
      Question 120: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if statistics are held by his Department on the number and percentage of current household mortgages that are...
  • Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
    • Home Energy Saving Scheme
      Question 121: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on the exclusion of persons on low incomes from the home energy saving scheme; the reason there is a...
    • Telecommunications Services
      Question 122: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on directing State agencies and Departments to use both a lo-call number and local number for members...
    • Alternative Energy Projects
      Question 123: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the reason there is no retrospective payments of grants for micro-wind turbines; his views on whether this is...
    • Telecommunications Services
      Question 125: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if the 3G internet service offered by a company (details supplied) in the proposed national broadband scheme is...
  • Department of Agriculture and Food
    • Animal Welfare
      Question 127: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the steps taken to ensure the welfare of circus animals. [14897/09]
    • On-farm Investment Schemes
      Question 128: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if all applications received under the farm improvement scheme prior to its suspension on 31 October 2007 will be processed...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 129: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath will receive payment under the farm waste management grant scheme in...
  • Department of Education and Science
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 131: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the extension to a school (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • School Accommodation
      Question 141: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if the grant of €360,000 to the board of management of a school (details supplied) in County Kildare for the provision of three...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 142: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will sanction the appointment of a design team for the required extension to a school (details supplied) in County Kildare....
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 143: To ask the Minister for Education and Science, further to Parliamentary Question No. 1630 of 27 January 2009, the building projects in County Kildare in respect of new schools and...
    • School Accommodation
      Question 144: To ask the Minister for Education and Science, further to Parliamentary Question No. 1637 of 27 January 2009, if the forward planning section has completed its identification...
    • Higher Education Grants
      Question 146: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if grants or scholarships for postgraduate students will be abolished; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14981/09]
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 147: To ask the Minister for Education and Science his views on the position regarding a school (details supplied); the position regarding its prospects of securing funding in the next...
    • Institutes of Technology
      Question 148: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the future location of classes and facilities of an institute (details supplied) in County Tipperary; the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 149: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will support persons (details supplied) in Dublin 5. [15009/09]
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 150: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding a school (details supplied). [15017/09]
    • School Transport
      Question 151: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will provide an outline of the school transport boundaries in every country. [15021/09]
    • Site Acquisitions
      Question 152: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a site identified for Cluain Meala has been sanctioned; if not, when it will be sanctioned; and if he will make a statement on the...