Written answers
Thursday, 30 April 2009
- Department of Social and Family Affairs
- Pension Provisions
Question 10: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the date the long-term pension framework will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17066/09]
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 11: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the proposals she has to tackle the situation whereby people receiving family income supplement who suffer reduced hours at work...
- Departmental Staff
Question 13: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs her views on increasing the number of facilitators in her Department in view of the growing numbers of unemployed; and if she will...
- Pension Provisions
Question 14: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the steps she will take to facilitate women, forced out of employment due to the marriage rule, to avail of contributory pensions;...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 15: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of persons on a national basis and by local social welfare office waiting for their application for jobseeker's...
- Social Insurance
Question 16: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs her views on introducing a temporary holiday, either full or partial, on the payment of employers' PRSI as a means to create,...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 17: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she will improve expenditure control measures by requiring nursing homes to notify her Department once a patient has been in...
- Pension Provisions
Question 18: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs her plans to introduce a pensions protection fund to provide protection for defined benefit scheme members in the event that a...
- Social Insurance
Question 19: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she will amend legislation to allow a person who takes a career break during the recession to be credited with a full credit...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 20: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if the changes in the jobseeker's allowance are discriminatory against younger people; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Departmental Offices
Question 22: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the action she is taking to prevent the extensive queuing outside social welfare offices; and the way she proposes to tackle this...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 23: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the community welfare service are in some cases requiring fathers who are paying...
- Social Welfare Code
Question 24: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the proposals she has to change the definition of casual and short-term working. [16975/09]
- Employment Support Services
Question 25: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the way she envisages profiling first time jobseeker claimants that incentivise people back to education or training; and if she...
- Social Welfare Code
Question 26: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the proposals she has to tackle the significant disadvantages built into the welfare system if someone is put on short-time working...
- Departmental Staff
Question 28: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the additional supports which will be given to community welfare officers in view of the increasing demands on the supplementary...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 29: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the action she is taking to retrieve the €7 million that is lost each year by the non-retrieval of rent supplement deposits from...
- Employment Support Services
Question 31: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she is considering alternatives or proposals for young people, who are unemployed, to avail of opportunities, in tandem with...
- Child Support
Question 33: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the action she has taken in the context of the EU Council of Ministers meetings to put the case that Ireland is disadvantaged under...
- Departmental Staff
Question 35: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of staff and the grades of same, who have been transferred either on a full time or part time basis from dealing with...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 36: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if her attention has been drawn to the hardship increasing the minimum contribution to the rent supplement by a recipient by a...
- Social Welfare Payments
Question 37: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the welfare payments currently under review with the objective of imposing reductions in Budget 2010; and if she will make a...
- Departmental Staff
Question 38: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she is satisfied that there are sufficient resources with the habitual residence condition unit in her Department to allow for...
- Social Welfare Code
Question 39: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs her plans to amend the benefit and privilege rule for under 25 year olds. [16981/09]
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 44: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the progress in reviewing mortgage interest supplement; and her plans to amend this scheme and allow more people to qualify. [16986/09]
- Social Insurance
Question 45: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs her estimate of the impact of the changes in the Social Welfare Bill 2009, on the likelihood of the Social Insurance Fund requiring...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 46: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the position regarding core social welfare payments following the supplementary budget of 7 April 2009; and if she will make a...
- Employment Support Services
Question 48: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the measures put in place by her to incentivise people in employment action plan areas, who received redundancy to take up the back...
- Tax and Social Welfare Codes
Question 49: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the steps she proposes to take in conjunction with the Minister for Finance, to ensure that cohabitating couples are treated...
- Social Welfare Fraud
Question 50: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the fraud rate among jobseekers who are claiming from abroad. [16974/09]
- Departmental Investigations
Question 51: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if, in the course of investigations into social welfare applications it is considered appropriate that copies of bank statements...
- Social Welfare Fraud
Question 52: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the savings on social welfare fraud that would have to be made in order to restore in full the Christmas bonus for welfare...
- Departmental Estimates
Question 57: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she has reviewed the budgetary requirements of her Department for 2009 in view of increased levels of unemployment; if the level...
- Money Advice and Budgeting Service
Question 59: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she will instruct the Money Advice and Budgeting Service to collect statistics on waiting times in order that resources will be...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 61: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of people in each county availing of the rent income supplement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16960/09]
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Audit Exemption
Question 66: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment her views on removing the statutory audit requirement from all companies limited by guarantee with an annual...
- Departmental Reports
Question 67: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if she has received reports from bodies under the aegis of her Department in relation to their operation; if...
- County Enterprise Boards
Question 69: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the help available for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17252/09]
- Company Closures
Question 70: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when she will announce the representative of her Department on the Waterford Crystal Task Force; and if she...
- Department of Finance
- Registered Moneylenders (1 comment)
Question 71: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of registered moneylenders operating in each local authority area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17289/09]
- Ministerial Remuneration
Question 72: To ask the Minister for Finance the severance the sacked Junior Ministers are to be awarded. [17146/09]
- Financial Institutions Support Scheme
Question 75: To ask the Minister for Finance the reason NAMA is to be given €90 billion in view of the fact that the banks claim that their impaired loans are no more than 5% of their loan...
- Departmental Programmes
Question 76: To ask the Minister for Finance the details in tabular form of the programme changes compared to a no policy change estimate in the 2009 Estimates and the increases or savings...
- Departmental Reports
Question 77: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has received reports from bodies under the aegis of his Department in relation to their operation; if such will be laid before the Houses of...
- Tax Code
Question 79: To ask the Minister for Finance the reason for the delay in issuing a refund of tax for the years 2006 and 2007 to a person (details supplied). [17216/09]
- Drainage Schemes
Question 80: To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the commencement of a project (details supplied) in County Cork. [17228/09]
- Pension Provisions
Question 81: To ask the Minister for Finance if final details are available regarding the operation of the early retirement scheme in the public service for persons over 50 years of age; if he...
- Consultancy Contracts
Question 82: To ask the Minister for Finance the arrangements relating to the employment of an economist (details supplied) in the context of the bank rescue plan; if they are kept on retainer;...
- Tax Yield
Question 85: To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of revenue generated on VRT for each of the years from 2002 to 2008 and for the first three months of 2009 on a county basis; and if he...
- Financial Services Regulation
Question 86: To ask the Minister for Finance the measures he will introduce in order to help fixed rate mortgage holders to switch to variable rates in order to avoid a significant breakage fee;...
- Banking Sector
Question 87: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of employees working for Anglo Irish Bank at the time of nationalisation; the number at present; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Tax Code
Question 90: To ask the Minister for Finance his proposals to end the practice whereby the income levy is deducted from the income of couples who are under the €40,000 income threshold but...
- Department of Health and Children
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 91: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the average waiting time from the first appointment with the orthopaedic surgeon or a specialist at the Midlands Regional Hospital,...
- Medical Cards
Question 92: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when an appeal will be finalised for persons (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17118/09]
- Medical Aids and Appliances
Question 93: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the new digital hearing aids will be made available to persons with hearing problems; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that...
- Health Services
Question 94: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in County Galway has not been allocated a place at a nursing home near their home; and if she will...
- Health Care Payments
Question 95: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the situation regarding the overpayment to her Department by the UK Government, as reported recently; and if she will make a statement on...
- Medical Cards
Question 96: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will support the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5. [17133/09]
- Nursing Home Subventions
Question 97: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will issue guidelines clarifying the obligations of patients in nursing homes whose resources have been exhausted and who face...
- Child Care Services
Question 98: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the way the free preschool and early childhood scheme will operate; the children who will be eligible; the number of children who will be...
- Hospital Services
Question 100: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will intervene with the Health Service Executive and ensure sufficient resources are made available to a hospital for a...
- Inter-Country Adoptions
Question 101: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding inter-country adoption, in particular, such adoptions between Ireland and Russia and Ireland and Ethiopia; the...
- Departmental Reports
Question 104: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she has received reports from bodies under the aegis of her Department in regard to their operation; if such will be laid before the...
- Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme
Question 106: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when an application under the health repayment scheme will be awarded to a person (details supplied) in County Sligo; and if she will...
- Health Service Staff
Question 107: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will investigate the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17240/09]
- Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme
Question 108: To ask the Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No. 174 of 10 July 2008, the number of applications received under the nursing home repayment scheme...
- Health Services
Question 110: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the code of practice for parents accompanying their children to orthodontic clinics; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Medical Cards
Question 111: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason new GMS cards issued to persons (details supplied) in County Roscommon are only issued for two years despite the fact that...
- Health Service Staff
Question 112: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position in regard to an application for permanency by a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [17276/09]
- Health Services
Question 113: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a medical appointment for a person (details supplied) in County Cork will be rescheduled. [17279/09]
- Medicinal Products
Question 114: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will provide details of the Health Service Executive's dispose of unused medicines properly campaign, including details of the...
- Medical Cards
Question 115: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if there has been a change in entitlement to medical card for a person with a social security pension and an occupational pension from...
- Infectious Diseases
Question 116: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the type, brand and number of units of anti-viral medicines available to deal with a possible pandemic in view of the outbreak of swine...
- Accident and Emergency Services
Question 117: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the Health Service Executive's plans for changes to the delivery of accident and emergency services in Cork city; and the impact on the...
- Health Service Staff
Question 118: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of employees in the Health Service Executive west who received a bonus in 2008. [17310/09]
- Department of Transport
- Departmental Reports
Question 119: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has received reports from bodies under the aegis of his Department in relation to their operation; if such will be laid before the Houses of...
- Rail Network
Question 121: To ask the Minister for Transport the number of level crossings on national primary and secondary roads on a county basis; the approximate waiting time for road vehicles at these...
- Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
- Asylum Applications
Question 122: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will review a decision for refugee status in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if he...
- Prison Staff
Question 123: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if, in respect of the State fund to compensate prison officers in the line of duty and payable under the Criminal Injuries...
- EU Directives
Question 124: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the effects the new EU Equal Treatment Directive, if passed by the Council of Ministers, will have on religious schools in...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 125: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if, under the Revised Estimates under equality, E.7 gender mainstreaming and positive action, he will provide the breakdown...
- Departmental Reports
Question 126: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he has received reports from bodies under the aegis of his Department in relation to their operation; if such will be...
- Departmental Correspondence
Question 128: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform Further to his reply to Parliamentary Question No. 145 of 12 March 2009 when he will respond to correspondence dated 29...
- Garda Recruitment
Question 129: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the intake of applicants for An Garda Síochána in each of the quarters during 2008 and for the first quarter of 2009; the...
- Garda Deployment
Question 130: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the minimum number of gardaí needed to maintain front-line policing services in each garda division. [17283/09]
- Drug Addiction
Question 131: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of registered heroin addicts in the Cork City and Cork County areas in each year since 2000 to date in 2009; the...
- Probation and Welfare Service
Question 132: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding Harristown House, Castlerea, County Roscommon; when it will reopen; and the number of staff who will...
- Asylum Applications
Question 133: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding the application for residency in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15; and if he...
- Residency Permits
Question 134: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding the application for residency or citizenship in the case of a person (details supplied) in County...
- Asylum Applications
Question 135: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding the application for residency in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he...
- Residency Permits
Question 136: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding the application for residency in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he...
- Asylum Applications
Question 138: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding the application for residency in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Louth; and if he...
- Residency Permits
Question 142: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding the application for residency in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15; and if he...
- Asylum Applications
Question 143: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding the application for residency in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he...
- Residency Permits
Question 153: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding residency in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15; and if he will make a statement...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 154: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding residency or citizenship in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15; and if he will...
- Asylum Applications
Question 155: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding residency in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a...
- Deportation Orders
Question 157: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding residency in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if he will make a...
- Travel Documentation
Question 158: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if temporary travel documentation will issue in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Meath; and if he will...
- Asylum Applications
Question 159: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding residency in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Sligo; and if he will make a...
- Residency Permits
Question 161: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in regard to the application for residency in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 24; and if he...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 162: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in regard to the application for citizenship in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and...
- Deportation Orders
Question 163: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will review the decision to deport in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15; the extent to which their...
- Asylum Applications
Question 164: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the current or expected residency status in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a...
- Travel Documentation
Question 165: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if a temporary travel document will be issued to facilitate the application for a national passport in the case of a person...
- Deportation Orders
Question 166: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will review his decision to deport persons (details supplied) in County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Department of Foreign Affairs
- Departmental Reports
Question 167: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he has received reports from bodies under the aegis of his Department in relation to their operation; if such will be laid before the...
- Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
- Security of the Elderly
Question 171: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if formal communications have been sent to all community alert groups outlining the reason he is not taking more...
- Departmental Reports
Question 173: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he has received reports from bodies under the aegis of his Department in relation to their operation; if such will...
- Department of Social and Family Affairs
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 175: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason she does not collect information and statistics on the number of people who apply for mortgage interest supplement or...
- Departmental Reports
Question 177: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she has received reports from bodies under the aegis of her Department in relation to their operation; if such will be laid...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 179: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of social welfare recipients in the Kerry South constituency who will be affected by the withdrawal of the Christmas...
- Employment Support Services
Question 180: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she will incorporate the idea of find a worker into all literature and signage at social welfare offices; and if she will make...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 181: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when unemployment assistance will be awarded in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a...
- Pension Provisions
Question 185: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the average length of time currently taken to process an application for an old age pension; and if she will make a statement on...
- Departmental Staff
Question 186: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she proposes to deploy adequate staff throughout her Department in order to deal with the increased workload arising from the...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 187: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if adequate provision has been made to meet rent and mortgage support requirements for the duration of 2009; and if she will make...
- Live Register
Question 188: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of persons currently signing on the live register; the degree to which this represents an increase over the past two...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 189: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she will put in place measures to address the needs of persons who have suddenly become unemployed, in many cases for the first...
- Departmental Estimates
Question 190: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she is satisfied that the budget originally provided by her Department is adequate to meet the emerging needs with particular...
- Department of Defence
- Reserve Defence Forces
Question 192: To ask the Minister for Defence his proposals to disband the Reserve Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17172/09]
- Departmental Reports
Question 193: To ask the Minister for Defence if he has received reports from bodies under the aegis of his Department in relation to their operation; if such will be laid before the Houses of...
- Defence Forces Reserve
Question 195: To ask the Minister for Defence if he will support a matter (details supplied). [17209/09]
- Army Barracks
Question 196: To ask the Minister for Defence his plans for the upkeep and maintenance of Rockhill Barracks, County Donegal; the maintenance and security costs which will be incurred annually;...
- Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
- Building Regulations
Question 197: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will ensure the Private Residential Tenancy Board amend their registration forms to include the...
- Wildlife Conservation
Question 198: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will introduce a ban on the indiscriminate use of poisoned bait that does not differentiate between...
- Local Authority Housing
Question 199: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when a decision will be made on the application by Cork City Council for funding for the regeneration of...
- Electronic Voting Machines
Question 200: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the cost of storing electronic voting machines nationally, and in south Tipperary; the location at which the...
- Water and Sewerage Schemes
Question 201: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when he will sign the documents in respect of the treatment plant for a sewerage scheme (details supplied) in...
- Electronic Voting Machines
Question 203: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the person who is accountable for the loss of €51million on the electronic voting machines. [17141/09]
- Water and Sewerage Projects
Question 208: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding the Gort water scheme, Gort, County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Housing Grants
Question 209: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when funding will be released to Waterford City Council in regard to the various housing grants operated by...
- Special Protection Orders
Question 210: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the steps necessary to implement a special protection order on Dublin Bay; the progress he has made in...
- Departmental Reports
Question 211: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has received reports from bodies under the aegis of his Department in relation to their operation; if...
- Local Authority Rates
Question 213: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will suspend or reduce water rates and other local authority rates on school buildings, community...
- Fire Stations
Question 216: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position in relation to his moratorium for recruitment to fire services; if his attention has been drawn...
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Departmental Schemes
Question 221: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if a company which produces fireplace inserts that burn cut and seasoned wood but provide an energy efficient...
- Departmental Reports
Question 223: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he has received reports from bodies under the aegis of his Department on their operation; if such will be...
- Alternative Energy Projects
Question 225: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the reason grants are not available for the installation of domestic wind turbines in view of the fact grants...
- Department of Agriculture and Food
- Harbours and Piers
Question 226: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food his views on the funding difficulties Greencastle Breakwater and Pier is currently facing; and if he will reinstate the...
- Grant Payments
Question 227: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the reason forestry payments which were due for payment on 1 March 2009 have not been awarded; and if he will make a...
- Departmental Reports
Question 232: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he has received reports from bodies under the aegis of his Department in relation to their operation; if such will be...
- Grant Payments
Question 234: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, further to a previous parliamentary question (details supplied), if it was his Department's eREPS software which was...
- Animal Identification Scheme
Question 237: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the position regarding electronic tagging of sheep. [17224/09]
- Grant Payments
Question 238: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of farmers in the Kerry South constituency who will receive a forestry payment; and the average payment per head...
- Milk Quota
Question 239: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the volume of milk permitted to be sold directly by farmers to the consumer; the relevant criteria which must be met to...
- Rural Environment Protection Scheme
Question 240: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will provide an assurance that all current REP scheme 4 applicants whose applications have yet to be validated and...
- Aquaculture Development
Question 241: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the reason for the delay in finalising the Operational Programme for Fisheries 2007-2013; if his attention has been drawn to...
- Aquaculture Licences
Question 242: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will expedite the licence application of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a...
- Farm Waste Management
Question 243: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the banks that have been instructed by him to place a moratorium on interest rate payments for the farm waste management...
- Fishing Vessel Licences
Question 244: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food his views on introducing a temporary licensing system for the fishing of non-quota species only (details supplied); and if...
- Grant Payments
Question 245: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the reason for the delay in having forestry premium awarded to a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary. [17291/09]
- Department of Education and Science
- Higher Education Grants
Question 247: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when the final higher education grant will be awarded by a local authority (details supplied); the reason the final payment has not...
- Ministerial Meetings
Question 248: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the names of the delegations which he met while on a visit to County Mayo; the outcome of these meetings; and if he will make a...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 249: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the plan his Department has for meeting the educational needs of children in a community (details supplied) in County Galway; and if...
- Departmental Reports
Question 250: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he has received reports from bodies under the aegis of his Department in relation to their operation; if such will be laid before...
- Schools Recognition
Question 252: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will grant full recognition to a school (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Site Acquisitions
Question 253: To ask the Minister for Education and Science his plans to provide alternative permanent school premises for a school (details supplied) in Dublin 7 during the short to medium...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 254: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress he is making in the provision of a new school building for a school (details supplied) in Dublin 7; and if he will make a...
- Higher Education Grants
Question 255: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will support the case of a person (details supplied). [17281/09]
- Special Educational Needs
Question 256: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath, for whom it has been recommended that they receive remedial support and a...
