Written answers

Wednesday, 22 April 2009

  • Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
    • Garda Reserve (1 comment)
      Question 73: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views on the progress of the Garda Reserve since its establishment; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 74: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the way, in respect of the announcement of 3 February 2009, he intends to achieve the general administrative reductions in...
    • Prisoner Deaths
      Question 75: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views on the number of prisoners who have died in custody in the past two years; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Guardianship Rights
      Question 77: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views on the guardianship rights of non-marital fathers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14417/09]
    • Prison Building Programme
      Question 78: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his plans in respect of capital projects in the prison sector in 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14401/09]
    • Departmental Reports
      Question 79: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the action he has taken or plans to take arising from the report of the Hartnett inquiry into the death of a person (details...
    • Proposed Legislation
      Question 80: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when he will introduce the legislation promised to increase jail sentences for possession of a knife; and if he will make a...
    • Prison Drug Treatment Services
      Question 81: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the recent statement by the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture that the absence of needle...
    • Legislative Programme
      Question 82: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress that has been made in respect of legislating for covert surveillance; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Proposed Legislation
      Question 83: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when he plans to bring proposals forward for management company regulation; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Prisoner Releases
      Question 84: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the arrangements in place to supervise prisoners following their release; the number of prisoners currently under...
    • Proposed Legislation
      Question 85: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he has plans to introduce legislation to allow for fines and civil debt to be paid incrementally; and if he will make a...
    • Legislative Programme
      Question 86: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress he has made in respect of the establishment of a Judicial Council; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Garda Retirement
      Question 87: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of applications received to date in 2009 for early retirement from members of the gardaí; the way this compares...
    • Crime Levels
      Question 88: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the degree to which he has monitored the number of break-ins at domestic or commercial premises in each of the past five...
    • Firearms Licences
      Question 89: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of licensed handguns in respect of each year from 2002 to date in 2009; the number of licensed handguns that were...
    • Drugs Offences
      Question 90: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views on the Central Statistics Office crime figures for 2008 and on the continued increase in the number of drug...
    • Crime Levels
      Question 91: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of cases of murder in which firearms were used in respect of each year from 1998 to date in 2009; the number of...
    • Proposed Legislation
      Question 92: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress that has been made in respect of the introduction of legislation to prevent money laundering in this...
    • Garda Complaints Procedures
      Question 93: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the fact that all files relating to complaints deemed finalised by the Garda Complaints...
    • Crime Levels
      Question 94: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of murders that have taken place each year during the past five years and to date in 2009; and the number of...
    • Prison Drug Treatment Services
      Question 95: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the drug rehabilitation programmes available in each of the State's prisons; the number of prisoners who have engaged in...
    • Garda Investigations
      Question 96: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of occasions in 2007, 2008 and to date in 2009 in which grenades, bombs or improvised explosive devices have been...
    • Proposed Legislation
      Question 97: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress that has been made in respect of the introduction of a DNA database here; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Community Policing
      Question 98: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he has received from the Garda Commissioner the report of the working group developing proposals for a comprehensive...
    • Garda Ombudsman Commission Report
      Question 100: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the steps taken in respect of the report of the Garda Ombudsman Commission following the death of a person (details...
    • Prison Building Programme
      Question 101: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he is satisfied regarding the capacity of the preferred bidder to deliver the Thornton Hall prison project; the progress...
    • Pre-nuptial Agreements
      Question 102: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views on the matter of pre-nuptial agreements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14413/09]
    • Garda Strength
      Question 103: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views on the claims made at the recent conference (details supplied) that cutbacks in the Garda force were hampering...
    • Garda Operations
      Question 104: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the information available to the Garda authorities regarding the extent of the threat posed by so-called dissident...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      Question 105: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in regard to the appointment of a new chief executive for the Equality Authority; when he expects an...
    • Prison Accommodation
      Question 106: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the way he will respond to the latest visiting committee report on Mountjoy Prison, Dublin, which reportedly found that...
    • Garda Investigations
      Question 107: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the basis on which the gardaí became involved in an investigation into the unauthorised hanging of caricatures of An...
    • Garda Equipment
      Question 108: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding the national speed camera programme; when the national speed camera programme will commence; the...
    • Programmes for Government
      Question 109: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress made to date with regard to implementation of the sections of the programme for Government under the headings...
    • Garda Investigations
      Question 111: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the discussions he has had with the financial institutions to prevent so-called tiger robberies; if new security measures...
    • Garda Deployment
      Question 113: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if, in view of the need for the deployment of the maximum possible number of trained gardaí in the battle against criminal...
    • EU Directives
      Question 115: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of EU directives for which his Department has responsibility remaining to be implemented; the directives that...
    • Departmental Reports
      Question 117: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress made to date with regard to the implementation of the recommendations of the report of the commission of...
    • Departmental Agencies
      Question 118: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when the value for money audit on the Equality Authority carried out by consultants (details supplied) at his behest in...
    • Garda Operations
      Question 119: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the gardaí have received a request for additional assistance from the Police Service of Northern Ireland following the...
    • Garda Strength
      Question 120: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the strength of the Garda Síochána at the latest date for which figures are available broken down by full members, those...
    • Legislative Programme
      Question 121: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will update bankruptcy legislation to bring it into line with other jurisdictions; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Official Engagements
      Question 123: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will report on the visit of his Minister of State, Deputy Lenihan, to Nigeria; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Asylum Applications
      Question 128: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the steps he will take to reduce the cost of current asylum applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Garda Operations
      Question 129: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the policy and practice reforms that have taken place in the area of garda handling of informers since the earliest related...
    • Proposed Legislation
      Question 130: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his proposals in relation to privacy legislation; if it is intended to proceed with such legislation; and the reasons...
    • Garda Stations
      Question 131: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his plans for the provision of adequate Garda accommodation at Tallaght, Dublin 24; if the provision of the new Garda...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 132: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the fact that his Department and the Irish Prison Service awarded contracts worth €100...
    • Crime Levels
      Question 135: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views on the view expressed by the Garda Commissioner in an interview (details supplied) that Ireland is becoming a...
    • Drug Seizures
      Question 137: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the quantity and value of seizures of heroin, cocaine, cannabis and other drugs here during 2007, 2008 and to date in 2009;...
    • Garda Operations
      Question 138: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the implications for the management of policing projects such as the new community policing model and major operations such...
    • Juvenile Offenders
      Question 139: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, further to Parliamentary Question No. 79 of 25 February 2009, if the report on the analysis of Garda youth diversion...
    • Departmental Reports
      Question 140: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the actions he has taken in response to the Coulter report on the operation of the family courts; and if he will make a...
    • Trafficking in Human Beings
      Question 141: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the measures that are being put in place at EU level to deal with the trafficking of human beings; and if he will make a...
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Council of Europe
      Question 142: To ask the Taoiseach the way he proposes to mark the 60th anniversary of the Council of Europe; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15167/09]
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 143: To ask the Taoiseach the number of uncertified sick days taken within all sections of his Department for the years 2007 and 2008 and to date in 2009; the number of employees who...
    • Official Engagements
      Question 144: To ask the Taoiseach if he has plans to invite the Australian Prime Minister Mr. Kevin Rudd to Ireland before the end of 2009 to strengthen ties between Australia and Ireland; and...
  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
    • Health and Safety Regulations
      Question 145: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the responsibility she has if the conditions of legislation as set out in the Mines and Quarries Act, 1965...
    • FÁS Training Programmes
      Question 146: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the amount the 51,000 training places allocated to FÁS will cost; if these 51,000 places will be the result...
    • Employment Rights
      Question 148: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the legislation which governs contract workers here; if she will introduce new legislation in this area; and...
    • Redundancy Payments
      Question 149: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if she will ensure that employers are reimbursed the 60% rebate of statutory redundancy payments to which...
    • Enterprise Ireland
      Question 150: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the cost to Enterprise Ireland of their annual budget for 2007 and 2008 on conferences, fairs, board...
    • SR Technics Group
      Question 151: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the progress of discussions with prospective interested parties in relation to the future of the workforce of...
    • FÁS Training Programmes
      Question 152: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of people in Cork city and county who have received an offer of training from FÁS each month to...
    • Job Losses
      Question 154: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if she will provide a breakdown of the number of apprentices who are unemployed or redundant by the type of...
    • Semi-State Bodies
      Question 155: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of staff who are employed in Science Foundation Ireland at present, and in 2007 and 2008; and if...
    • Work Permits
      Question 157: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if her attention has been drawn to the concerns expressed by an organisation (details supplied) regarding the...
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 158: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of uncertified sick days taken within all sections of her Department for the years 2007 and 2008...
    • Redundancy Payments
      Question 159: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the procedure for employees, whose employers do not provide the required paperwork, for receiving their...
    • Employment Appeals Tribunal
      Question 160: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if she will confirm the stated policy of the Employment Appeals Tribunal in relation to High Court judicial...
    • Employment Support Services
      Question 161: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if she will provide details of the new measure announced in the 7 April 2009 supplementary budget regarding...
    • Job Losses
      Question 162: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the position regarding the jobs task force in Limerick in the wake of the announced job losses at a company...
    • FÁS Training Programmes
      Question 163: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the location, when and the way the 12,000 places on 10 week training courses places announced by her are to...
  • Department of Finance
    • Departmental Programmes
      Question 167: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide details of the cycle to work scheme introduced in the Finance (No.2) Act 2008; the progress made to date to implement the scheme;...
    • Tax Code
      Question 168: To ask the Minister for Finance if a reduction on the VAT applied to the installation of domestic water softening units will be considered. [15197/09]
    • National Archives
      Question 169: To ask the Minister for Finance if there are plans to increase the space in the National Archives; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15266/09]
    • Disabled Drivers
      Question 171: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will make a statement on the case of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick. [15459/09]
    • Tax Code
      Question 172: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the representations from an organisation (details supplied). [15092/09]
    • Pension Provisions
      Question 173: To ask the Minister for Finance the basis, in view of the fact that retained fire officers have no public service pension entitlement and no access to a public service pension...
    • Tax Code
      Question 174: To ask the Minister for Finance when an application for a tax refund by a person (details supplied) made to the Office of the Revenue Commissioners will be decided on; the reason...
    • Financial Services Regulation
      Question 176: To ask the Minister for Finance if measures will be taken to request financial institutions, in view of current financial and economic circumstances, to allow mortgage holders who...
    • Departmental Programmes
      Question 177: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will supply a run down of various Government investment in the Cahir electoral area, County Tipperary, since 1997; and if he will make a...
    • Tax Code
      Question 178: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will amend the Finance (No. 2) Act 2008 to ensure that the daily requirement for residency in the State for tax purposes is 24 hours not a...
    • Tax Collection
      Question 180: To ask the Minister for Finance the position in relation to a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [15178/09]
    • Pension Provisions
      Question 181: To ask the Minister for Finance if persons who have applied for early retirement due to ill health but are not approved by 1 May 2009 will be forced to postpone 90% of their lump...
    • Financial Services Regulation
      Question 183: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will instruct the financial institutions, who have not already done so, to allow people to change from fixed rate mortgages to variable rate...
    • Tax Collection
      Question 184: To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the increasing annoyance and frustration felt by accountants and other such professions regarding their...
    • Pension Provisions
      Question 185: To ask the Minister for Finance if a person retiring from the public service at pension age, not an early leaver, will be liable for tax on the gratuity payment they receive; and...
    • Tax Code
      Question 186: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the issues raised by an association (details supplied) in the context of the forthcoming Finance Bill; and if he will make a statement...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 187: To ask the Minister for Finance the programme changes introduced in the 2009 Estimates published on 14 October 2008 designed to make savings in expenditure in 2009; and the amount...
    • Tax Code
      Question 188: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will explain the tax treatment of redundancy payments, particularly with regard to the income levy; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Pension Provisions
      Question 189: To ask the Minister for Finance, further to Parliamentary Question No. 7 of 8 April 2009, if he has received clarification of the comments made by CIROC in respect of pension...
    • Tax Collection
      Question 190: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of DIRT free deposit accounts operated here by the banks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15417/09]
    • Tax Yield
      Question 192: To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of revenue received by the Exchequer from DIRT tax each year from 2002 to 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15419/09]
    • Tax Collection
      Question 193: To ask the Minister for Finance if he is satisfied with the efforts made by his Department and the Revenue Commissioners to inform people about their potential entitlement to a...
    • Tax Yield
      Question 196: To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of revenue received by the Exchequer each year from 2004 to 2008 from the 2% levy on non-life insurance policies; the amount of same...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 197: To ask the Minister for Finance the breakdown of budgetary projections for 2009, 2010 and 2011, including all appropriations-in-aid, for expenditure receipts and balances; and if...
    • Tax Code
      Question 198: To ask the Minister for Finance if an exemption on mortgage income tax relief will be granted when a couple has a home loan for more than seven years but in the past couple of...
    • Financial Services Regulation
      Question 200: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on correspondence (details supplied); the action he will take to address the matter of the lack of available funds to small and medium...
    • Departmental Agencies
      Question 201: To ask the Minister for Finance when he will extend the special Civil Service incentive career break scheme and shorter working year scheme to the public service; and if he will...
    • Job Creation
      Question 202: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has examined ways in which to encourage persons who have investments abroad to redirect their investments into the domestic economy in order...
    • Tax Collection
      Question 203: To ask the Minister for Finance when a P45 will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15650/09]
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 204: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of uncertified sick days taken within all sections of his Department for the years 2007 and 2008 and to date in 2009; the number of...
    • Pension Provisions
      Question 205: To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that part-time fire-fighters, who are not members of a pension scheme, are being charged the public...
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 207: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on reallocating staff from other Government Departments and agencies to the Money Advice and Budgeting Service in an attempt to alleviate...
    • Tax Code
      Question 208: To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of tax foregone by the State in the past three years for which figures are available in respect of the off-setting of rental income...
    • National Assets Management Agency
      Question 211: To ask the Minister for Finance the talks he had engaged in with the EU Commission or Central Bank prior to the supplementary Budget on 7 April; if the EU had given approval or...
    • Financial Institutions Support Scheme
      Question 213: To ask the Minister for Finance if he, the Central Bank or the Financial Regulator have given instructions to the management at Anglo Irish Bank with respect to the treatment of...
    • National Assets Management Agency
      Question 214: To ask the Minister for Finance if loans at Anglo Irish Bank are to be included in the remit of the National Assets Management Agency; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 215: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has taken action or put in place measures to effect the 10% reduction in all expenses other than mileage rates, as announced by him in his 7...
    • Pension Provisions
      Question 217: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has taken action or put in place measures to effect the discontinuance of the arrangement whereby former Ministers are paid ministerial...
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 222: To ask the Minister for Finance when he will publish details of the public service early retirement scheme for public servants aged 50 years or over as announced in his 7 April...
    • Official Engagements
      Question 223: To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding his tour of financial capitals to restore Ireland's international reputation; the number of elected representatives and civil...
    • Tax Code
      Question 225: To ask the Minister for Finance the reason, in view of the fact that he admitted shortly before the 7 April 2009 budget that the 0.5% increase in the VAT rate in October 2008 had...
    • Financial Institutions Support Scheme
      Question 226: To ask the Minister for Finance the progress with the recapitalisation or other action with a building society (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Financial Services Regulation
      Question 230: To ask the Minister for Finance the legal provisions for the transfer of cash to a bank outside this jurisdiction; the restrictions on transfer of this cash back to Ireland; if his...
    • Pension Provisions
      Question 231: To ask the Minister for Finance when he proposes to approve the new RTÉ pension scheme, the 50/50 risk sharing scheme; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Financial Services Regulation
      Question 233: To ask the Minister for Finance if it is his intention to make provision to assist fixed rate mortgage holders who are required to pay a substantial penalty when changing to a...
    • Tax Code
      Question 234: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm that if a person who is eight years into their first time buyer mortgage trades up to another home they can avail of tax relief...
  • Department of Health and Children
    • Inter-Country Adoptions
      Question 236: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the decision by the Russian Federal Ministry of Education not to accept documents from adoptive...
    • Health Service Staff
      Question 237: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will report on proposed bonuses for management in the Health Service Executive and in particular a proposed bonus for the chief...
    • Child Abuse
      Question 238: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to introduce a 24-hour child protection service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15213/09]
    • Inter-Country Adoptions
      Question 239: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding inter-country adoption, in particular such adoptions between Ireland and Vietnam; the status of the agreement...
    • Mental Health Services
      Question 241: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if there is an inter-departmental working group or committee working on the reinvestment of funds received from the disposal of mental...
    • Health Services
      Question 242: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of refuge places for victims of domestic violence here annually for the past five years; the location of these places; and...
    • Inter-Country Adoptions
      Question 244: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the forthcoming Adoption Bill will provide for the continuance of the bilateral agreement with Vietnam and the introduction of...
    • Tax Code
      Question 245: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the types of income on which the health levy is currently payable; and the types of income that are currently exempt from the health...
    • Health Services
      Question 246: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will support the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5. [15094/09]
    • Child Care Services
      Question 247: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will address the concerns of the community child care workers (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Health Services
      Question 250: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will support a matter (details supplied). [15133/09]
    • Hospital Services
      Question 251: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if there are plans in place to move rheumatology services from Our Lady's Hospital, Manorhamilton, County Leitrim to Sligo General...
    • Hospital Accommodation
      Question 252: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will report on the bed capacity in relation to each category of patient over the past five years for hospitals (details...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 253: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of applicants awaiting placement for long stay in hospitals (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Medicinal Products
      Question 254: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the way she will ensure that the ban on happy pills is implemented and enforced; if she has written to the head shops which sell these...
    • Health Services
      Question 255: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will continue home support for children suffering from autism; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15174/09]
    • Traveller Community
      Question 257: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the moneys and resources in the letters of allocation to the Health Service Executive, the Eastern Regional Health Authority and former...
    • Nursing Education
      Question 258: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the recently advertised post-graduate degree in public health nursing (details supplied) is available to non-Health Service...
    • Mental Health Services
      Question 259: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on bringing forward a cross-departmental action plan regarding the implementation of A Vision for Change; and if she will...
    • Health Services
      Question 260: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the level of service provided to a child (details supplied) in County Louth; the reason this service falls short of that available to...
    • Bullying in the Workplace
      Question 261: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the amount of legal fees and costs and damages incurred in respect of 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and to date in 2009 by her Department on...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 263: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the additional space per hospital ward and theatre that has been put in place at University College Hospital Galway since it has been...
    • Ambulance Service
      Question 264: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of calls for private ambulances processed on behalf of privately insured patients in Health Service Executive facilities...
    • Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme
      Question 265: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be awarded payment under the health repayment scheme. [15230/09]
    • Hospital Accommodation
      Question 266: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a bed will be made available for a person (details supplied) in County Meath at the National Rehabilitation Hospital in Dún...
    • Mental Health Services
      Question 267: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the waiting time for child and adolescent mental health services in the south Lee...
    • Health Services
      Question 269: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the cost of chiropody services for elderly patients; if they are obliged to pay a top-up fee to their chiropodist; and if she will make...
    • Health Service Transport
      Question 271: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of vehicles owned by the Health Service Executive for transporting patients with disabilities; the cost of this service to...
    • Care of the Elderly
      Question 272: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she operates a scheme to provide house accessories and fittings for the elderly or infirm; the amount of money allocated for this...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 273: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the amount of money spent on taxis for transporting patients in 2008 and to date in 2009; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services
      Question 274: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of children undergoing orthodontic treatment which is paid for by the State; the number of children on a waiting list for...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 275: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the unit for cystic fibrosis sufferers will commence construction at Cork University Hospital; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Hospitals Building Programme
      Question 277: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the progress regarding the new hospital in Dingle, County Kerry; if the hospital and all its day services will be fully operational in...
    • Nursing Home Standards
      Question 278: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the residential homes for older people under the Health Service Executive considered to be not up to the standards set in the Health...
    • Health Services
      Question 279: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the Health Service Executive's plans for Bolands Meadow, Foynes, County Limerick; and if she will make a statement on the matter. ...
    • Medical Cards
      Question 280: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will provide a schedule to the full range of allowances and entitlements a holder of a medical card can avail of; and if she...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 281: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the breakdown of the capital cost of transferring the specialist breast centre from Cork's South Infirmary Victoria University Hospital...
    • Assisted Human Reproduction
      Question 283: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she has plans to introduce legislation in respect of embryonic stem cell research in this country. [15291/09]
    • Health Services
      Question 284: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12 will be provided with the necessary orthodontic treatment; and if she will make a...
    • Cardiovascular Health Strategy
      Question 287: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she is satisfied that enough is being done to implement the Cardiovascular Health Strategy; the number of its 211 recommendations...
    • Hospitals Building Programme
      Question 289: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when funding will be released to a hospital (details supplied) in County Wexford to allow completion of phase two of building works; and...
    • Mental Health Services
      Question 290: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the details of all applications for property related accelerated capital allowance schemes in relation to mental health centres. [15335/09]
    • Health Services
      Question 291: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will support a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5. [15349/09]
    • Proposed Legislation
      Question 292: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding a matter (details supplied). [15350/09]
    • Health Services
      Question 294: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) is to be moved from a centre on a full-time basis. [15399/09]
    • Medical Cards
      Question 295: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding application forms for medical cards (details supplied). [15406/09]
    • Health Services
      Question 296: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if it is proposed to increase the funding to an organisation (details supplied) in 2009; if her attention has been drawn to the fact...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 298: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of patients treated or admitted from St. Michael's Unit, South Tipperary General Hospital, Clonmel and St. Luke's Hospital,...
    • Tobacco-Related Diseases
      Question 299: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she has conducted a regulatory impact analysis on the effects of the costs incurred on foot of implementing the regulations governing...
    • Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme
      Question 302: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of claims, fully processed but not awarded under the health repayment scheme on a county basis in tabular form; and when...
    • Mental Health Services
      Question 303: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the average national waiting time for assessment by a child psychiatrist; the waiting time for patients in south Tipperary; the maximum...
    • Health Services
      Question 304: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the average national waiting time for assessment of a child by a speech and language therapist; the waiting time for children in south...
    • Health Service Staff
      Question 308: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position in relation to the case of persons (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15602/09]
    • Hospital Staff
      Question 309: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when she expects the specialist consultants with expertise in adult and in paediatric cystic fibrosis to be appointed for the...
    • Medical Cards
      Question 310: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will clarify the areas of dental care that are available to people with a medical card; if it includes fillings that are...
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 312: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of uncertified sick days taken within all sections of her Department for the years 2007 and 2008 and to date in 2009; the...
    • Medical Cards
      Question 313: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding a medical card application by a person (details supplied) in County Meath. [15680/09]
    • Hospital Services
      Question 315: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will provide a helipad at Beaumont Hospital, Dublin; if there is one, if she will advise about its usage; and if she will make a...
    • Health Service Executive Expenditure
      Question 316: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the amount of money spent by the Health Service Executive on private security firms across the State for the years 2006 to date in 2009,...
    • Health Services
      Question 317: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will expedite an application for shoes under the podiatry scheme by a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will...
    • Mental Health Services
      Question 318: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the average national waiting time for assessment by an adult psychiatrist; the waiting time for patients in south Tipperary; the maximum...
    • Medical Cards
      Question 320: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on issuing a medical card in respect of a child (details supplied) in County Cork. [15710/09]
    • Hospital Services
      Question 323: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will be called for an outpatient appointment; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services
      Question 324: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will support a matter (details supplied). [15726/09]
    • Hospital Services
      Question 325: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the way she will ensure that front-line services provided by nurses are protected in view of the moratorium on recruitment and promotion...
    • Hospitals Building Programme
      Question 330: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will clarify a matter (details supplied). [15744/09]
    • Health Services
      Question 331: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if persons (details supplied) will be supported. [15745/09]
    • Child Care Services
      Question 332: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views, in response to the funding difficulties that community child care groups are facing due to the changes introduced in the...
    • Health Services
      Question 333: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she is proposing to engage a private company to take calls regarding at-risk children and then to nominate short-term foster families...
    • Hospital Accommodation
      Question 334: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of beds at a facility (details supplied) in County Mayo that are being closed down. [15778/09]
    • Health Services
      Question 338: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the assistance available to a person (details supplied) in Dublin 7 to obtain the drug Tysabri which they have been told is unavailable...
    • Health Service Staff
      Question 339: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the concern of a growing number of parents and the potential damage that can be inflicted on young...
    • Health Services
      Question 340: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the numbers on the waiting lists for initial assessments for children referred to the speech and language therapy services in each of...
    • Youth Services
      Question 342: To ask the Minister for Health and Children, further to Parliamentary Question No. 73 of 7 April 2009, if the national youth work advisory committee has completed its review of the...
    • Patient Private Property Fund
      Question 343: To ask the Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 95 and 96 of 26 February 2009, the position regarding the issues raised; and if she will make a...
    • Care of the Elderly
      Question 345: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow who is in receipt of home help which has been reduced with the...
    • Proposed Legislation
      Question 346: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when she expects the Nursing Homes Support Scheme Bill 2008 to come before Dáil Éireann for Report Stage; when she expects the...
    • Health Services
      Question 348: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a decision has been made on the provision of capital funding for a new health centre (details supplied) in County Cork. [15893/09]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      Question 349: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if funding will be provided as soon as possible to purchase a wheelchair for a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will...
    • Health Services
      Question 350: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the provision that has been put in place to provide speech and language therapy for a child (details supplied) in County Meath; the...
    • Medical Cards
      Question 351: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the amount that is used in the calculation of income regarding the assessment of income for an over 70 years medical card and in...
    • Health Services
      Question 353: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the amount of money currently being spent on autism services here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15934/09]
    • Mental Health Services
      Question 354: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of children and young people who have availed of psychiatric, psychological and other such support services outside the State...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      Question 355: To ask the Minister for Health and Children, further to Parliamentary Question No. 190 of 2 December 2008, the progress which has been made by the Health Service Executive in the...
    • Medical Cards
      Question 356: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a decision will be made on an application for a medical card by a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [15940/09]
  • Department of Transport
    • Road Network
      Question 357: To ask the Minister for Transport the impact the reduction in the roads programme announced in the 7 April 2009 budget will have in relation to Westmeath County Council and in...
    • Port Authorities
      Question 358: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will publish the 2007 Deloitte report into Shannon Foynes Port Company; the reason there has been a delay on publishing this report; if he...
    • Taxi Regulations
      Question 359: To ask the Minister for Transport his views on appointing a deputy taxi regulator; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15209/09]
    • Public Transport
      Question 361: To ask the Minister for Transport the position regarding the feasibility studies for the provision of light rail and bus rapid transit in Waterford, Cork, Galway and Limerick; and...
    • Road Network
      Question 362: To ask the Minister for Transport the new allocations given to each local authority for local and regional road maintenance and repair work; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 363: To ask the Minister for Transport the number of uncertified sick days taken within all sections of his Department for the years 2007 and 2008 and to date in 2009; the number of...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 364: To ask the Minister for Transport the amount of money that has been spent on public transport projects in all counties under Transport 21 since its launch; and if he will make a...
    • Road Network
      Question 365: To ask the Minister for Transport the decrease in the 2009 non-primary roads allocation to Cork County Council; if he will tabulate the way this increase compares with all other...
    • Public Transport
      Question 366: To ask the Minister for Transport his plans to ensure that people with a disability have equal access to public transport and taxis in view of the decision in the supplementary...
    • State Airports
      Question 367: To ask the Minister for Transport the scale of the debt at each of the State airports at Shannon, Cork and Dublin at the end of 2007 and 2008; the current position regarding debt...
    • Road Traffic Offences
      Question 369: To ask the Minister for Transport the timetable for the introduction of outstanding penalty points to the schedule of penalty points offences which have yet to be implemented; the...
  • Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
    • Visa Applications
      Question 372: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his plans to amend the three year rule for American voluntary workers working with Irish churches of different...
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 374: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, further to Parliamentary Question No. 298 of 31 March 2009, if his attention has been drawn to the application for...
    • Residency Permits
      Question 376: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason a person (details supplied) in Dublin 7 who has an Irish born child since 2002 is not entitled to residency; and...
    • Prisoner Transfers
      Question 377: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if a person (details supplied) is receiving the proper medication for a condition during periods of transfer between...
    • Residency Permits
      Question 378: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when his Department expects to make a decision in respect of the application for long-term residency of a person (details...
    • Court Procedures
      Question 379: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will respond to correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15164/09]
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 380: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding citizenship in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15; and if he will make a statement...
    • Garda Training
      Question 381: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will report on the length of the waiting list for advanced driving courses for the Garda; his plans to provide...
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 382: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in the matter of residency in the case of persons (details supplied) in Dublin 15; and if he will make a...
    • Residency Permits
      Question 383: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if extended residency will be offered to a person (details supplied) in County Louth; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Asylum Applications
      Question 384: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in respect of the application for residency in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 6; and if he...
    • Residency Permits
      Question 385: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in relation to the application for residency in the case of persons (details supplied) in County Kildare; and...
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 386: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in relation to the application for citizenship in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 22; and if...
    • Residency Permits
      Question 388: 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 Galway; and...
    • Missing Persons
      Question 390: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in relation to the establishment of a dedicated missing persons unit including a response network similar to...
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 391: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the countries from which citizenship applications are made; and the numbers of applications for the past five years. [15247/09]
    • Residency Permits
      Question 393: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a person (details supplied) will receive their stamp four long term residency; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Asylum Support Services
      Question 394: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will be allowed to transfer to Dundalk, County Louth; and if he will make a...
    • Asylum Applications
      Question 395: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his officials, when looking at the situation in Nigeria and other countries in determining asylum applications, take...
    • Departmental Properties
      Question 396: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his plans for Spike Island; the steps taken since the closure of Spike Island prison in 2004 to date in 2009 to decide the...
    • Garda Stations
      Question 397: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the opening hours of all Garda stations here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15302/09]
    • Prison Building Programme
      Question 398: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will confirm that he followed tendering guidelines when dealing with construction companies in relation to building...
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 399: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views on introducing a system whereby citizenship applicants can check the status of their applications on-line in view...
    • Garda Operations
      Question 400: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if increased resources will be given to community gardaí, the garda juvenile diversion programme and garda youth diversion...
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 401: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will review the case of a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath. [15356/09]
    • Visa Applications
      Question 402: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding a visa application for a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a...
    • Crime Levels
      Question 404: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of suspected offenders who were on bail when they were arrested for possession of drugs for sale or supply; the...
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 405: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will review the case of a person (details supplied) in County Galway who has applied for and been refused renewal of...
    • Legislative Programme
      Question 408: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress made on his proposal to introduce a right for the State to recover from the perpetrators of crime the amount...
    • Legal Aid Service
      Question 409: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding his proposal to ensure that accused persons who can afford to defend themselves do not obtain legal...
    • Crime Prevention
      Question 410: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when he expects to establish a domestic violence prevention office for victims of domestic abuse; when he plans to set up...
    • Sexual Offences
      Question 411: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his plans to legislate for a new offence of supplying and administering date rape drugs. [15474/09]
    • Human Trafficking
      Question 412: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress regarding his proposal to bring in tougher penalties for trafficking, ensuring greater prosecution of...
    • Proposed Legislation
      Question 413: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his plans to provide legislation for the forfeiture of all material gains from the production, sale and distribution of...
    • Prisoner Releases
      Question 414: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when he will ensure that all sexual offenders are assessed before their release from prison to identify the level of...
    • Proposed Legislation
      Question 415: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when he will introduce a sexual offences Bill which will consolidate and modernise all criminal law in the area of sexual...
    • Human Trafficking
      Question 416: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when he will ratify the UN Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the...
    • Prison Accommodation
      Question 417: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of high security wings and sections in each prison here; the date of establishment of each; and the average cost...
    • Public Order Offences
      Question 418: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the penalties under the Public Order Act for alcohol related disorder; and his plans to increase this penalty. [15481/09]
    • Garda Powers
      Question 419: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he plans to increase Garda powers to issue stay away orders when there is harassment in public places or at the home of...
    • Closed Circuit Television Systems
      Question 421: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the closed circuit television grant aid system for community groups and organisations which has been offered by his...
    • Proposed Legislation
      Question 422: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his plans to legislate for mandatory jail terms for violent unprovoked assaults and to criminalise the practice of...
    • Garda Strength
      Question 423: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress of An Garda Síochána to date in providing for an increased number of promotional posts to ensure that...
    • Garda Inspectorate
      Question 425: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress to date on the development of a Garda charter; the recommendations the Garda Inspectorate has passed to him on...
    • Human Rights Issues
      Question 426: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the initiatives in place within An Garda Síochána for tackling racism, homophobia, and upholding the human rights...
    • Drug Treatment Programme
      Question 427: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of drug treatment programmes in each prison here; the number of places available in each prison for each year...
    • Sentencing Guidelines
      Question 428: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress on allowing the Director of Public Prosecutions to appeal against lenient sentences in the District Court and...
    • Proposed Legislation
      Question 429: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his plans to progress the role of the Judicial Studies Institute in assisting the professional development of the...
    • Court Procedures
      Question 430: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his plans to introduce new pretrial procedures to deal with admissibility of evidence to save overtime, and the time of...
    • Proposed Legislation
      Question 434: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his progress on providing for lawyers' clients, in non-criminal matters, with a right of application to the court where...
    • Garda Investigations
      Question 435: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress made to date on introducing new reforms on protecting the identities of witnesses and victims at...
    • Departmental Programmes
      Question 436: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will provide further details on the inter-agency programme, the strengthening families programme; the Department...
    • Sentencing Policy
      Question 437: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of persons who have been convicted annually over the past ten years who, as an alternative to a sentence of...
    • Garda Training
      Question 438: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of training places and courses available to gardaí in Templemore, County Tipperary; the number who have...
    • Sentencing Policy
      Question 439: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason he did not review section 33 of the Criminal Justice Act 2007 after its first year; and the further reason he...
    • Drugs in Prisons
      Question 440: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress made on making prisons drug free. [15503/09]
    • Prisoner Rehabilitation
      Question 441: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the annual rehabilitation goals and targets set within the prison service; and the level of resourcing it received annually...
    • Prison Drug Treatment Services
      Question 442: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of detox places available in each prison here. [15505/09]
    • Prisoner Remission
      Question 443: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress on his proposal to ensure that prisoner remission will only be earned by participation in rehabilitation...
    • Community Service Orders
      Question 444: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his plans to introduce a community pay back scheme requiring offenders to provide real services for the community; and the...
    • Crime Prevention
      Question 445: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding his proposal to create anti-social behaviour action teams. [15508/09]
    • Garda Recruitment
      Question 454: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in regard to Garda recruits; the number currently on the panel awaiting a call to Templemore, County...
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 455: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if it is possible to make an application for citizenship via naturalisation on the basis of Irish descent and associations...
    • Residency Permits
      Question 457: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will explain each of the numbered stamps that are issued to immigrants on their passports and to relate each number...
    • Sexual Offences
      Question 458: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason he is allowing convicted sex offenders up to three days to register with the gardaí on entering the country,...
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 459: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if availing of PRSI related benefits will damage an applicant's suitability for citizenship; and if he will make a...
    • Garda Investigations
      Question 460: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will ensure that appropriate action is taken by the gardaí in Blanchardstown following threats to kill made against...
    • Asylum Support Services
      Question 461: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if permission will be given for a transfer to Mosney Accommodation Centre, Julianstown, County Meath in the case of a...
    • Residency Permits
      Question 462: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in relation to an application for leave to remain here on humanitarian grounds in the case of a person...
    • Refugee Status
      Question 463: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 4; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15653/09]
    • Deportation Orders
      Question 464: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15654/09]
    • Residency Permits
      Question 466: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in the matter of residency in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Meath; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 469: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of uncertified sick days taken within all sections of his Department for the years 2007 and 2008 and to date in...
    • Deportation Orders
      Question 470: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the immigration status of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15690/09]
    • Proposed Legislation
      Question 472: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when he expects to publish the Mental Capacity Bill which is essential to progress Ireland's ratification of the UN...
    • Departmental Bodies
      Question 473: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of meetings the senior officials group and the National Disability Strategy Stakeholder Monitoring Group have...
    • Asylum Applications
      Question 475: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will review the case of a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath who has applied for leave to remain here on...
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 477: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of times in the past five years that he has exercised his discretion under section 16(a) of the Irish...
    • Prison Building Programme
      Question 478: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the recommendations of the recent UK House of Commons justice committee inspector for prisons report assessing the...
    • Human Trafficking
      Question 479: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of people, since the introduction in June 2008 of the Administrative Immigration Arrangements for the Protection...
    • Asylum Applications
      Question 481: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the immigration status of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Garda Deployment
      Question 482: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 137 of 5 February 2009, the Garda districts and sub-districts which are without a car...
    • International Agreements
      Question 483: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the Nigerian Government has ratified the agreement with the Irish Government on immigration matters; the discussions the...
    • Departmental Bodies
      Question 484: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the process announced in budget 2009 to fully integrate the facilities, back office and administrative services of the...
    • Proposed Legislation
      Question 485: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when the Property Services Regulation Bill will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15883/09]
    • Departmental Bodies
      Question 487: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status of the proposal contained within annex D of budget 2009 that the Censorship of Publications Board and its...
    • Proposed Legislation
      Question 488: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when he expects to publish his proposed civil partnership Bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15914/09]
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 489: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a decision will be made on the application for naturalisation by a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [15933/09]
    • Proposed Legislation
      Question 490: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the measures he proposes to introduce by way of legislation and other means to combat gangland crime in Limerick including...
    • Prisoner Statistics
      Question 491: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding prison capacity compared with prisoner numbers in each of the prisons here; the action he proposes...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs
    • Human Rights Issues
      Question 492: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the steps he proposes to take to have the 200 Roma families evacuated from the toxic lead encampments of North Mitrovica, Kosovo, in which...
    • Visa Applications
      Question 493: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if a reply has been issued to correspondence sent to him regarding a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Overseas Development Aid
      Question 494: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the cuts in the Irish Aid and Overseas Development Aid budgets following the budget of 7 April 2009; the locations at which these cuts were...
    • Human Rights Issues
      Question 495: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of cases which are currently before the European Court of Human Rights; the number before the court in the past five years; the...
    • Foreign Conflicts
      Question 497: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will contact his EU colleagues and seek their support for the Mexican position being advocated at the UN Security Council on the...
    • Human Rights Issues
      Question 498: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the membership of the UN Human Rights Council; if the State is proposing reform of the workings of the council; and if he will make a...
    • Middle East Peace Process
      Question 502: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs his position on the call for an immediate arms embargo on Israel, Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups to be in force until such time as...
    • Foreign Conflicts
      Question 503: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the position as it pertains in Georgia. [15514/09]
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 505: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of uncertified sick days taken within all sections of his Department for the years 2007 and 2008 and to date in 2009; the number...
    • Foreign Conflicts
      Question 506: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will seek an end to the killing of civilians in northern Sri Lanka as a matter of urgency. [15850/09]
  • Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism
    • Departmental Properties
      Question 507: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism his involvement in an inter-departmental committee to examine the future of Spike Island; when this committee was established; the...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 508: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the areas of funding which are to be reduced and the amount of same due to the reduction in funding to his Department; and if he...
    • National Archives
      Question 509: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism his views on the reduction from 30 years to 15 years of the quarantine period for public records before they are placed in the...
    • Swimming Pool Projects
      Question 511: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the reason there has been no progress in allowing the Loughrea, County Galway swimming pool project to go to construction; if the...
    • Arts Funding
      Question 512: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the status of the grant in relation to funding that was announced on 2 May 2008 amounting to the sum of €10 million for 13 major...
    • Sports Funding
      Question 514: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he will make a statement on the case of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick. [15457/09]
    • Irish Horseracing Industry
      Question 515: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he will provide statistics available to him regarding the number employed in the thoroughbred industry and the estimate available...
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 516: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the number of uncertified sick days taken within all sections of his Department for the years 2007 and 2008 and to date in 2009; the...
  • Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
    • Security of the Elderly
      Question 517: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will review the retrograde decision to end the grant scheme under which home security devices are provided for...
    • Inland Waterways
      Question 518: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the status of employees of Waterways Ireland; if they are public sector employees or otherwise; and if he will make a...
    • Community Development
      Question 519: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the services provided by a day care centre for elderly people...
    • Dormant Accounts Fund
      Question 524: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if there is a family drug support unit for an area (details supplied) in County Kildare; if there are plans to set up...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 525: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the level of funding being made available by his Department to each local authority for the scéim na mbóithre aise...
    • Dormant Accounts Fund
      Question 526: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the progress on the application by an association (details supplied) for a phased grant from the dormant accounts...
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 530: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the number of uncertified sick days taken within all sections of his Department for the years 2007 and 2008 and to...
  • Department of Social and Family Affairs
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      Question 533: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if the cut in jobseeker's allowance, which affects only persons under the age of 20, is in violation of European...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      Question 534: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when a decision will be given on an illness benefit appeal in the name of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if she...
    • National Carer's Strategy
      Question 535: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs, further to Parliamentary Question No. 263 of 7 April 2009, if she will reconsider her decision not to publish a national carer's...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 536: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the amount spent on rent supplement per Health Service Executive area in February 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009. [15394/09]
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      Question 537: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when an appeal was lodged for a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; and when this appeal will be heard. [15405/09]
    • Social Insurance
      Question 541: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs her views on lowering employer PRSI contributions when employers take on young people aged 18 to 19 years to assist them to...
    • Social Welfare Code
      Question 542: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the way, in relation to the proposed introduction of a requirement for social welfare recipients to produce photo identification...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      Question 545: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she will overturn the appeal decision in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      Question 546: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when social welfare payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; if interim basic payment will be...
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 547: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of uncertified sick days taken within all sections of her Department for the years 2007 and 2008 and to date in 2009;...
    • Family Support Services
      Question 549: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she will reinstate the Family Support Agency's capital grant scheme. [15751/09]
    • Social Insurance
      Question 550: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the contribution record of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [15784/09]
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      Question 552: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if the recent changes to social welfare will make provision for persons who have been in the care of social services from a young...
  • Department of Defence
    • Departmental Programmes
      Question 554: To ask the Minister for Defence the steps he is taking to ensure that the cycle to work bicycle scheme introduced in the Finance (No. 2 ) Act 2008 can be availed of by all...
    • Overseas Missions
      Question 555: To ask the Minister for Defence the position with regard to the overseas deployment of the Reserve Defence Force; his views on recent media articles which indicate that a stay has...
    • Defence Forces Ombudsman
      Question 556: To ask the Minister for Defence the number of final reports from the Ombudsman currently awaiting action and determination from him; the number of these final reports which were...
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 557: To ask the Minister for Defence the number of uncertified sick days taken within all sections of his Department for the years 2007 and 2008 and to date in 2009; the number of...
    • Departmental Properties
      Question 558: To ask the Minister for Defence his plans for the future of properties (details supplied) owned by his Department in County Cork. [15703/09]
    • Overseas Missions
      Question 559: To ask the Minister for Defence if members of the Irish mission serving with the UN forces in Chad will be granted a UN medal for military service; and if he will make a statement...
  • Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
    • Communications Masts
      Question 560: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the maximum electric field value in volts per meter allowed if a mobile phone transmitter is located in a...
    • Waste Management
      Question 561: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if the National Development Finance Agency has entered or considered or is considering entering a financial...
    • Local Authority Housing
      Question 562: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the reason tenants of housing associations are not allowed to purchase their homes; if he will introduce...
    • Departmental Schemes
      Question 563: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding grants in respect of re-roofing a church ( details supplied) in County Carlow; the...
    • Fire Services
      Question 564: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the criteria used by his Department to establish full-time or day manned fire services; if he is examining...
    • Local Authority Housing
      Question 565: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding a lease between housing association housing schemes and its tenants (details...
    • Local Authority Staff
      Question 567: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if county managers are entitled to bonus or performance related payments; the amount of these payments paid...
    • Building Regulations
      Question 568: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on the issues raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Water Quality
      Question 569: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if water softening at source will be provided in Clonmel, County Tipperary due to the costs incurred at...
    • Departmental Schemes
      Question 570: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the grant assistance available to a homeowner, whose property is a protected structure or has a conservation...
    • Coastal Protection
      Question 571: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if the Dublin local authorities have been informed that they are to fund the work of the Dublin Bay Task...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes
      Question 574: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the infrastructural projects that have been approved; and the infrastructural projects going ahead in County...
    • Motor Taxation
      Question 575: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the reason motor tax on a car imported from the UK is calculated using the old method as opposed to basing it...
    • Departmental Schemes
      Question 576: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when a decision will be made on the application by Clúid for a housing development at Blarney Street, Cork,...
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      Question 577: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the breakdown by local authority of the number of affordable housing units which are completed but remain...
    • Planning Issues
      Question 578: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 207 of 19 February 2009, if his attention has been drawn to the...
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      Question 581: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will respond to a query (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15323/09]
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 583: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the action he will take on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15338/09]
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes
      Question 584: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when the revised Environmental Protection Agency waste water treatment manual for single houses will be...
    • Local Authority Funding
      Question 585: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will make funding available to local authorities for disability grants in 2009; and if he will make a...
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      Question 586: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of voluntary housing organisations here that have purchased sites for housing and other related...
    • Local Authority Funding
      Question 587: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, further to Parliamentary Question No. 390 of 31 March 2009, the position regarding the allocation to...
    • Public Procurement Policy
      Question 588: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will issue guidelines to local authorities to review turnover threshold conditions being placed on...
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 589: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of uncertified sick days taken within all sections of his Department for the years 2007 and 2008...
    • Housing Statistics
      Question 590: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of houses and apartments sold in 2009; and the number of houses and apartments let in 2009. [15683/09]
    • Housing Grants
      Question 592: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on correspondence (detail supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15685/09]
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      Question 593: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his plans to introduce a housing product that allows a person renting to convert their rental payments into...
    • Fire Stations
      Question 594: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his Department has provided funding to Dublin City Council to refurbish Dublin Fire Brigade's training...
    • Building Regulations (1 comment)
      Question 595: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the reason fire safety applications prepared according to British Standard BS9999 are not being accepted by...
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      Question 596: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he plans to facilitate persons who purchased houses under the affordable housing scheme to re-mortgage...
    • House Prices
      Question 597: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the policy that he has adopted to reflect the falling values of house prices with reference to affordable...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes
      Question 598: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when he will approve the borrowing by Galway County Council to fund the non-recoupable element of Tuam Town...
    • Planning Issues
      Question 600: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on the rezoning of lands (details supplied) in County Galway from agricultural to residential in...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      Question 601: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when a substantive response will issue in relation to correspondence (details supplied). [15870/09]
    • Private Residential Tenancies Board
      Question 602: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the status of the proposal to merge the Rent Tribunal into the Private Residential Tenancies Board; the date...
    • Local Government Services Board
      Question 603: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the status in relation to the proposals in Annex D of Budget 2009 to merge the Local Government Management...
  • Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
    • Garda Communications
      Question 605: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if his attention was drawn to complaints that the new Tetra communication system being installed for An Garda...
    • Home Energy Saving Scheme
      Question 606: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will support a matter (details supplied). [15943/09]
    • Alternative Energy Projects
      Question 608: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position for those who have invested in onshore wind farms but who are outside the gate three process; the...
    • Missing Children's Helpline
      Question 609: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the common European Missing Children's Helpline number 116...
    • Electricity Network
      Question 610: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if, in relation to the Flagford, Carrick-on-Shannon to Srannagh, Sligo line being planned by ESB, he will...
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 611: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of uncertified sick days taken within all sections of his Department for the years 2007 and 2008 and...
    • Telecommunications Services
      Question 612: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position regarding the provision of broadband to an area (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will...
    • Pension Provisions
      Question 613: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when he proposes to approve the new RTÉ pension scheme, the 50/50 risk sharing scheme; the reason for the...
  • Department of Agriculture and Food
    • Alternative Energy Projects
      Question 614: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if a company (details supplied) has applied for a foreshore lease for the exploitation of wind power on the Codling Bank;...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 615: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Galway will receive their farm waste management grant; and if he will make a...
    • Bovine Disease Controls
      Question 617: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a herd number will be reactivated for a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 618: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a decision will be made on an appeal for the single payments scheme on behalf of a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Food Safety Standards
      Question 619: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the specific action that can be taken to ensure that DNA testing is no longer needed to determine the origin of smoked...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 620: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if a revised farm improvement scheme plan from a person (detail supplied) in County Cork was accepted by his Department; and...
    • Rural Environment Protection Scheme
      Question 629: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will award a retrospective derogation for a person (details supplied) in County Mayo in order that they can enter REP...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 630: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the reason a suckler cow payment has not been awarded to a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 636: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of uncertified sick days taken within all sections of his Department for the years 2007 and 2008 and to date in...
    • Fisheries Protection
      Question 637: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if research has been carried out into restrictions on inshore fishing of seabass; if he has plans to amend such...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 638: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be awarded REP scheme four. [15740/09]
    • Fallen Animal Collection Scheme
      Question 641: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the way, in view of the fact that he has ended his Department's contributions to the fallen animals scheme as and from 15...
    • Rural Environment Protection Scheme
      Question 642: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the impact to REP scheme three farmers as a result of funding from the environmental scheme being capped in the 7 April 2009...
    • Animal Feedstuffs
      Question 644: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the reason animal feed maize MON810 has been banned for sale in Germany; if he will review the sale of this product here;...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 645: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if queries on a REP scheme application submitted by persons (details supplied) in County Tipperary have been investigated;...
    • Rural Environment Protection Scheme
      Question 650: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of REP scheme four plans which have had a penalty imposed by his Department for a reason (details supplied)....
  • Department of Education and Science
    • Nursing Education
      Question 652: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a scheme is planned or is in operation whereby students from Saudi Arabia are educated as general nurses here; if so, the length of...
    • Higher Education Grants
      Question 653: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a student, who does not qualify for a grant in the first year of their third level course, may be considered for a grant for...
    • Pre-school Services
      Question 655: To ask the Minister for Education and Science his views, subject to the approval of the school and the patron body, on a proposal to locate a community preschool facility at a...
    • School Accommodation
      Question 656: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of prefabs being rented for the use of schools in Limerick City and county; the cost of these prefabs in the past year; the...
    • Site Acquisitions
      Question 657: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will discuss with South Dublin County Council the need for a suitable site for a school (details supplied) in Dublin 24; if his...
    • Disadvantaged Status
      Question 658: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position in relation to a school (details supplied) in County Donegal in receiving recognition as a DEIS school; and if he will...
    • Tax Code
      Question 659: To ask the Minister for Education and Science his views on putting a procedure in place in which tax exiles would have to pay for their children's primary, post-primary and third...
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 660: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will review the submission made by a school (details supplied) in Dublin 7 with regards to the discontinuation of their special...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 662: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the status of the application of a school (details supplied) in County Dublin for proposed refurbishment and the construction of a new...
    • Higher Education Grants
      Question 663: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason a person (details supplied), an applicant for a higher education grant, has been denied the grant aid; and if he will make...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 664: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when a design team will be formally appointed for a planned new school building for a school (details supplied) in County Cork. [15281/09]
    • School Transport
      Question 667: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will retrospectively pay the school transport grant for 2008 to persons (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 668: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will permit the usage of funds allocated by his Department for the rental of prefabs in a school (details supplied) in County...
    • Property Transfers
      Question 669: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will permit the sale of the site of a closed down school (details supplied) in County Carlow; if he will clarify the ownership...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 671: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when the building of the new second level school in Kingscourt, County Cavan, will commence; the number of pupils the new school will...
    • School Transport
      Question 672: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a bus service will be provided to bring a group of children (details supplied) to a school in County Limerick; if a 54 seater bus...
    • Schools Recognition
      Question 673: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will register Educate Together as a patron of second level schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15343/09]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 674: To ask the Minister for Education and Science, further to Parliamentary Question No. 251 of 12 March 2009, if he will forward the required information, in view of the fact that it...
    • School Accommodation
      Question 675: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he has received an application for approval of funding to facilitate a lease by a school (details supplied) in County Wexford; if...
    • Post-Leaving Certificate Courses
      Question 676: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will reverse a decision not to give sanction to a school (details supplied) in County Wexford to operate a post leaving...
    • School Staffing
      Question 678: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will make a statement on the case of a school (details supplied) in County Limerick. [15463/09]
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 679: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the status of the public procurement and tendering position in relation to the vocational education committee proposal for Blackrock...
    • Student Medical Services
      Question 680: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if third level students who are suffering from depression will be included in the mainstream services required rather than depending...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 681: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the cost to the Exchequer and public funds over the next 25 years, for the contract to build, operate and bring into public ownership...
    • Site Acquisitions
      Question 683: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when a permanent school building will be authorised to replace a prefabricated school (details supplied) in Dublin 7. [15597/09]
    • School Accommodation
      Question 684: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the amount his Department has spent on renting one prefabricated unit at a school (details supplied) in County Cork since the unit was...
    • School Curriculum
      Question 703: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will establish a time scale for the introduction of physical education as an examination subject; and if he will make a...
    • Schools Refurbishment
      Question 704: To ask the Minister for Education and Science, further to Parliamentary Question No. 1703 of 24 September 2008, the position in relation to same; and if he will make a statement on...
    • School Curriculum
      Question 705: To ask the Minister for Education and Science, further to Parliamentary Question No. 218 of 25 February 2009, the impact of this timetable in view of spending cuts within his...
    • School Transport
      Question 707: To ask the Minister for Education and Science, further to Parliamentary Question No. 581 of 30 September 2008, the position in relation to same; the provision to be made for...
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 708: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will authorise the establishment of an applied ASD unit in a national school (details supplied) in County Limerick to meet the...
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 710: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of uncertified sick days taken within all sections of his Department for the years 2007 and 2008 and to date in 2009; the...

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