Written answers

Thursday, 21 May 2009

  • Department of Health and Children
    • Ambulance Service
      Question 9: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the Health Service Executive has failed to fund the Dublin Fire Brigade service in Swords...
    • Hospitals Building Programme
      Question 10: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the status of her co-location hospital plan; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20590/09]
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      Question 11: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on the implementation of direct payments to people with disabilities to allow consumer choice in accessing services and...
    • Medical Cards
      Question 12: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the centralisation of assessment of medical card applications is proceeding; the way, in that context, applications on hardship or...
    • Health Services
      Question 13: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that 133 terminally ill patients are seeking access to hospice care and are being forced to...
    • Child Protection
      Question 14: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the structures in her Department to oversee the extent to which the social services operated by the Health Service Executive are properly...
    • Foetal Alcohol Syndrome
      Question 15: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the incidence of foetal alcohol syndrome in the State; the policy of her Department in preventing, diagnosing and supporting children and...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      Question 16: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will ask the Health Service Executive to review its practice of not recycling Zimmer frames and crutches; and if she will make a...
    • Cancer Screening Programme
      Question 17: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she has received the Health Information and Quality Authority health technology assessment on colorectal screening; when this...
    • Children in Care
      Question 18: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the measure taken, in view of the failure of the local health office to respond to concerns regarding incidents of alleged attacks,...
    • Homeless Children
      Question 19: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when she will open a new unit to cater for homeless children; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20657/09]
    • Health Insurance
      Question 20: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she has received a decision from the European Commission with regard to the new health insurance levy; and if she will make a...
    • Pre-school Services
      Question 21: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she is satisfied that there is sufficient pre-school places to allow the rollout of the pre-school year due to commence in January...
    • Monageer Inquiry Report
      Question 22: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will publish, in full, the report of the Monageer inquiry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20656/09]
    • Medical Cards
      Question 23: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the percentage of people covered by the full medical card and the doctor only card respectively, in view of the recent downturn in the...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      Question 24: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will introduce a mechanism for independent inspections of care facilities for people with disabilities. [20660/09]
    • Child Protection
      Question 25: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to a report recently completed which confirms that there are hundreds of cases reported to the Health...
    • Children in Care
      Question 26: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that it cost the State €2,446,196 during 2008 to provide specialised residential care to...
    • Ambulance Service
      Question 27: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to licence or regulate the private ambulance services in the interest of prioritising and ensuring patient safety; and if she...
    • Mental Health Services
      Question 28: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the extra beds planned for 2009 for child and adolescent psychiatry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20470/09]
    • Accident and Emergency Services
      Question 29: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will report on progress since she declared accident and emergency services a national emergency in March 2006; her views on...
    • Hospital Accommodation
      Question 30: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the widespread concern at the closure of wards in various hospitals around the country; the impact...
    • Health Services
      Question 31: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason home help hours are being reduced in many parts of the country; if she will initiate an examination of the way home help might...
    • Child Protection
      Question 32: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will deliver a 24 hour social work service nationally to respond to all serious child protection and welfare concerns, as...
    • Youth Services
      Question 33: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of youth cafes she has funded here; the location and amount of funding provided; and if she will fund further such facilities....
    • Health Services
      Question 34: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the measures that are in place and will be put in place to give the professional help required to those who were abused by a doctor...
    • Food Labelling
      Question 35: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the progress that has been made with regard to ensuring foodstuffs of foreign origin cannot be labelled as having been produced here; and...
    • Hospital Staff
      Question 37: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when she expects the extra consultants promised under the 100 plus scheme to be all appointed; her plans for other consultant...
    • Health Services
      Question 38: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the action she will take to provide out-of-hours social work services, as recommended by the Monageer Report. [20662/09]
    • Hospital Services
      Question 40: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the Prospectus review of critical care services will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20414/09]
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund
      Question 41: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when, in view of the fact that the 2004 Comptroller and Auditor General report on the National Treatment Purchase Fund did not compare...
    • Screening Programmes
      Question 43: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when she proposes to have in place a national neonatal screening service for cystic fibrosis; her proposals to roll out such a service;...
    • Health Services
      Question 45: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position in regard to her plans for co-location; the full extent of funding already spent or committed in this regard; the degree to...
    • Mental Health Services
      Question 46: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on the annual report on the Mental Health Commission. [20659/09]
    • Hospital Accommodation
      Question 48: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she has found a way to address the financing of the promised beds for cystic fibrosis patients at St. Vincent's Hospital, Dublin; and...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      Question 49: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the proposal to have a single waiting list for colonoscopies as a consequence of the agreeing of the new consultants contract will...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 51: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if it is planned to close the stroke unit in Sligo General Hospital; if this will be reviewed; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Staff
      Question 53: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when her attention was first drawn to the issue of consultants who have opted for a public-only contract not being able to admit patients...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 54: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the funding that will be spent in 2009 to implement A Vision for Change; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20469/09]
    • Health Service Staff
      Question 56: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the major problems arising as a result of the moratorium on replacing health service staff which in...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 57: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will intervene to prevent the removal of all acute in-patient services from Monaghan General Hospital, as planned for 31 May 2009;...
    • Health Services
      Question 59: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she has been given an assessment of the long-term affects on services and waiting times of the widespread cutbacks to front-line...
    • Health Service Staff
      Question 60: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of grade VIII or above posts she has approved for the Health Service Executive in 2009; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Care of the Elderly
      Question 61: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she is satisfied with the home care systems available to the elderly and disabled in view of cases (details supplied); if this is...
    • Health Services
      Question 63: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on the introduction of a no-fault compensation scheme within the health services such as that which operates successfully in...
    • Commissions of Investigation
      Question 65: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she has received a copy of the final report into a nursing hone (details supplied); if she will publish the report; if, and when, she...
    • Ambulance Service
      Question 66: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if there are plans for a comprehensive air ambulance service here; her views on whether this service is more urgently needed in the...
    • Medicinal Products
      Question 67: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the steps, arising from a statement (details supplied) regarding the decision to ban benzylpiperazine, planned to enforce the ban and to...
    • Hospital Staff
      Question 68: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if it is the case that a new chief executive officer has been appointed for the proposed new tertiary paediatric hospital in Dublin; when...
    • Health Services
      Question 69: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she has plans to ensure safe practices, including throughput of patients to maintain expertise in specific specialties; and if she...
    • Drug Rehabilitation Programmes
      Question 70: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the discussions she has had regarding the provision of detox facilities for drug addicts who wish to detox their bodies in order to...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 71: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the plans to develop outpatient services at Roscommon and Portiuncula Hospitals; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20415/09]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 73: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the timescale for her consideration of a new way to finance the health system here; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Health Services
      Question 75: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the policy of not using blood regularly taken from patients with haemochromatosis for transfusion for other patients is being...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      Question 76: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the waiting time for access to dermatology services for public patients in each of the hospitals which provide this speciality; her plans...
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 77: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of staff working in her Department; if there are plans to redeploy or offer redundancy or early retirement to any of these...
  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
    • Job Losses
      Question 78: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if her attention has been drawn to the concerns of this Deputy regarding the growing unemployment figures in...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 81: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the average time, as of the end of April 2009, for payments to be made by her Department and each individual...
  • Department of Finance
    • Garda Stations
      Question 82: To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 174 of 2 December 2008, the progress made to date on this project; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Tax Code
      Question 83: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will clarify his position in relation to entitlement to PAYE tax allowance or tax credit; the difference in treatment of tax credits for...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 87: To ask the Minister for Finance the average time, as of the end of April 2009, for payments to be made by his Department and each individual agency of his Department to outside...
    • Tax Code
      Question 88: To ask the Minister for Finance if there is a tax concession available in respect of the payment of toll road charges. [20891/09]
  • Department of Health and Children
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      Question 90: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the services available to a child (details supplied) in County Cork who has recently been diagnosed as autistic; if she is satisfied that...
    • Health Service Allowances
      Question 91: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the parents of a child (details supplied) in County Cork are entitled to a domiciliary care allowance; and if she will make a...
    • Health Service Staff
      Question 92: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the rationale behind An Bord Altranais being included in the moratorium on recruitment and promotions in the public service in view of...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 93: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a decision will be reached in regard to the release of funding to proceed with the equipping of the new community hospital in...
    • Care of the Elderly
      Question 95: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the capital funding that has been allocated to public facilities for long-stay bed units to be upgraded in accordance with the new Health...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 96: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of new beds provided for acute hospitals since 2006; the number planned for 2009; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Proposed Legislation
      Question 97: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when she expects the nursing home Bill to be operational; if funding is ring-fenced for the later part of 2009 to implement the...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 99: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the new services for cystic fibrosis patients that will be delivered in the different Health Service Executive regions in 2009; and if...
    • Health Services
      Question 102: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that a person (details supplied) in Dublin 7 is being charged €2,500 for laser treatment...
    • Medical Cards
      Question 108: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a medical card will issue in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Patient Private Property Fund
      Question 109: To ask the Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No.343 of 22 April 2009, the position regarding the issues raised; when payment will commence; the...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 110: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Carlow can expect to have surgery to ensure the best outcome for them; the reason this...
    • Health Service Staff
      Question 111: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the amount which will be saved in 2009, in 2010 and in 2011 by implementing the recruitment ban and by not allowing the renewal of...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 112: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Leitrim will be admitted to Tullamore Hospital, County Offaly, for hip replacement surgery....
    • Departmental Correspondence
      Question 115: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if either she or the Health Service Executive has replied to the Office of the Ombudsman regarding the case of a person (details...
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund
      Question 116: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if an operation will be arranged under the National Treatment Purchase Fund for a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; the...
    • Health Service Staff
      Question 117: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will clarify a matter (details supplied). [20849/09]
    • Youth Services
      Question 118: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will reverse the recent decision not to provide funding for the young people's facilities and services small grants fund in 2009...
    • Care of the Elderly
      Question 121: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason the Health Service Executive is refusing to fund the nursing home stay of a person (details supplied) in County Galway....
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 122: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the average time, as of the end of April 2009, for payments to be made by her Department and each individual agency of her Department to...
    • Garda Vetting Services
      Question 124: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will resolve a matter in which a person (details supplied) in County Cork has applied for a service and has been unable to avail...
    • Health Service Allowances
      Question 125: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will investigate the reason domiciliary care allowance has been withdrawn from a person (details supplied) in County Cork without...
    • Medical Cards
      Question 126: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will investigate the circumstances in which a person (details supplied) in County Cork suffering from a life long illness no...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      Question 127: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will confirm when payment of supplementary welfare allowance will be made by the Health Service Executive south to a person...
    • Services to People with Disabilities
      Question 129: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will continue to provide funding in respect of a project (details supplied). [20890/09]
    • Hospital Services
      Question 130: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will provide an assurance that there are no plans currently available or proposed to reduce in any way the scale, quality or...
    • Departmental Reports
      Question 139: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of reports relating to the delivery of health and hospital services which were commissioned by her in the past ten years; the...
  • Department of Transport
    • Lighthouse Service
      Question 141: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will clarify a recent report regarding the possibility of a reduction in funding from the British Government towards the cost of shared...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 142: To ask the Minister for Transport the average time, as of the end of April 2009, for payments to be made by his Department and each individual agency of his Department to outside...
  • Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
    • Garda Investigations
      Question 143: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will support a matter (details supplied). [20851/09]
    • Asylum Applications
      Question 144: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in relation to the appeal in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Meath; and if he will make a...
    • Residency Permits
      Question 149: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in relation to the application for leave to residency in the case of a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Asylum Applications
      Question 151: 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 Meath; and...
    • Residency Permits
      Question 154: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in regard to residency status in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if he will make...
    • Deportation Orders
      Question 158: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the procedure to be followed in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15 who wishes to apply for revocation of...
    • Asylum Applications
      Question 159: 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 7; and if he will...
    • Residency Permits
      Question 160: 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 Kildare; and if he will make...
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 162: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in regard to the application for citizenship or family reunification in respect a person (details supplied) in...
    • Residency Permits
      Question 163: 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 Dublin; and...
    • Visa Applications
      Question 165: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a decision will be made on an application for a visa on behalf of a person (details supplied) in County Carlow. [20798/09]
    • Garda Stations
      Question 166: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status of a garda station (details supplied) in County Kildare; if the station is to be refurbished; the number of...
    • Garda Vetting Services
      Question 167: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a garda clearance certificate will issue to persons (details supplied) in County Roscommon. [20824/09]
    • Proposed Legislation
      Question 168: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will report on the status of cohabitation legislation; when he expects this legislation to be finalised; and if he...
    • Prison Reports
      Question 169: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will provide a hyperlink to the electronic versions of each of the annual reports of the Inspector of Prisons. [20848/09]
    • Residency Permits
      Question 170: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 366 of 6 May 2009, wherein it was indicated that a letter advising the person...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 171: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the average time, as of the end of April 2009, for payments to be made by his Department and each individual agency of his...
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 172: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if, arising from his discretionary refusal to grant naturalisation in the case of persons (details supplied) in County...
    • Prison Accommodation
      Question 173: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of prison cell and spaces available throughout the prison service; the number of such spaces currently occupied,...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs
    • Foreign Conflicts
      Question 174: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the position regarding his efforts to ensure a peaceful resolution to the conflict in Sri Lanka; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • International Agreements
      Question 175: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the position regarding Ireland's participation in talks regarding the island of Rockall and the surrounding seabed and waters; and if he...
    • Human Rights Issues
      Question 177: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on the jailing of Burma's pro-democracy leader (details supplied); if he will report on the international efforts being made to...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 178: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the average time, as of the end of April 2009, for payments to be made by his Department and each individual agency of his Department to...
  • Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism
    • Sports Funding
      Question 179: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if a lottery grant will be awarded to an association (details supplied) in County Kilkenny in view of the fact that all legal...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 180: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the average time, as of the end of April 2009, for payments to be made by his Department and each individual agency of his...
  • Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 181: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the average time, as of the end of April 2009, for payments to be made by his Department and each individual agency...
  • Department of Social and Family Affairs
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      Question 182: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the position with regarding a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9; if they are in receipt of the free schemes and the fuel...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 189: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the average time, as of the end of April 2009, for payments to be made by her Department and each individual agency of her...
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 190: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs, further to Parliamentary Question No. 8 of 30 April 2009, the number of advocacy resource officers currently employed across the...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      Question 191: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the correct level of one parent family allowance payable in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she...
  • Department of Defence
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 192: To ask the Minister for Defence the average time, as of the end of April 2009, for payments to be made by his Department and each individual agency of his Department to outside...
  • Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
    • Motor Taxation
      Question 193: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on allowing commercial transport operators who rely on seasonal business to tax their vehicles on a...
    • Local Authority Housing
      Question 194: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will provide funding in respect of phases two and three of the framework plan of regeneration for an...
    • Architectural Heritage
      Question 195: 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...
    • Social and Affordable Housing
      Question 196: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if the owner of an apartment under the affordable housing or shared ownership scheme is entitled to release...
    • Procurement Procedures
      Question 197: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the requirement imposed by some local authorities that companies tendering...
    • Local Authority Funding
      Question 199: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the money which has been allocated to Waterford County Council in regard to the construction of new fire...
    • Local Authority Staff
      Question 200: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will clarify a matter (details supplied). [20850/09]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 201: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the average time, as of the end of April 2009, for payments to be made by his Department and each individual...
  • Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
    • Telecommunications Services
      Question 203: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the reason for the delay in extending broadband to the village of Kilmessan, County Meath; the efforts made to...
  • Department of Agriculture and Food
    • Grant Payments
      Question 204: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be granted REP scheme four. [20731/09]
    • Grant Payments
      Question 205: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the payments that were issued to a person (details supplied) in County Galway in 2006; if these included REP scheme...
    • Tax Code
      Question 209: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will clarify the imposition of the income levy on forestry premiums and on the recent cuts to those premiums; if these...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 210: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will investigate the reason a person (details supplied) in County Mayo did not receive payment under the suckler cow...
    • Proposed Legislation
      Question 211: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if the recently published Sea Fisheries and Maritime Jurisdiction (Fixed Penalty Notice) (Amendment) Bill 2009 has been...
    • Rural Environment Protection Scheme
      Question 212: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the reason for introducing a 17% cut to the REP scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20812/09]
    • Farm Retirement Scheme
      Question 213: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will review the case of a person (details supplied) in County Carlow to determine if he or she will qualify for the...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 214: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the reason a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath, who has been in farming since 2004 and has made an application...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 215: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the average time, as of the end of April 2009, for payments to be made by his Department and each individual agency of his...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 216: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if the maximum payment has been issued to a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [20878/09]
  • Department of Education and Science
    • Psychological Service
      Question 217: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the category and number of staff working within the National Educational Psychological Service; if additional psychologists committed...
    • Education Welfare Service
      Question 218: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of staff employed by the National Educational Welfare Board in 2008; the number of staff currently employed by NEWB; if any...
    • School Accommodation
      Question 219: To ask the Minister for Education and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 447 of 12 May 2009, the 60 schools he suggests will participate in the cost saving accommodation...
    • School Building Projects
      Question 221: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the status of a post primary school building project (details supplied) in County Roscommon; when he expects the tenders to be signed...
    • School Accommodation
      Question 223: To ask the Minister for Education and Science his views on requests from the various gaelscoileanna of south County Dublin for the purchase by his Department of the former boys...
    • Pension Provisions
      Question 224: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be approved and awarded their pension and lump sum in view of the fact that they...
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 225: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the way children in special needs classes at a school (details supplied) in Dublin 5 will be accommodated from September 2009; and if...
    • Asylum Support Services
      Question 226: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if assistance or a grant will be offered to a person (details supplied) in County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      Question 227: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a school (details supplied) in County Dublin is having to introduce an aptitude test...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 228: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding a school (details supplied). [20823/09]
    • Higher Education Grants
      Question 229: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the circumstances that prohibit persons (details supplied) in Dublin 6W from qualifying for a higher education grant. [20831/09]
    • School Accommodation
      Question 230: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he proposes to continue with the rental arrangement of a number of prefabs for use at a school (details supplied) in Dublin 15....
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 231: To ask the Minister for Education and Science further to Parliamentary Question No 441 of 12 May 2009, if the outstanding document has been received; and if the letter of...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 232: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the average time, as of the end of April 2009, for payments to be made by his Department and each individual agency of his Department...
    • Schools Refurbishment
      Question 233: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the action which has taken place over the past 12 to 18 months regarding the substantial extension proposed for a school (details...
    • Higher Education Grants
      Question 234: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the way eligibility for a higher education grant is determined for holders of stamp four residency status; if this is done by...