Written answers
Wednesday, 27 May 2009
- Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
- Pre-Nuptial Agreements
Question 54: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views on the recommendation of his Department's report on pre-nuptial agreements published in 2007 which recommended...
- Drug Offenders Register
Question 55: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the delays in setting up the Drug Offenders Register; and if he will make a statement on...
- Prison Inspections
Question 56: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the amount of times he meets with the Inspector of Prisons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21549/09]
- Garda Equipment
Question 57: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of gardaí who have access to digital radio; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21594/09]
- Gangland Crime
Question 58: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of convictions that have been secured arising from gangland gun murders in each of the years 2005, 2006, 2007,...
- Domestic Violence
Question 59: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he has proposals to introduce legislation in the area of domestic violence; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Electronic Tagging
Question 60: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views on electronic tagging for those granted bail; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21558/09]
- Garda Reserve
Question 61: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of members of the Garda Reserve recruited to date; the stations to which they have been allocated; the number of...
- Proceeds of Crime
Question 63: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the value of assets seized by the Criminal Assets Bureau in each of the years 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and to date in 2009;...
- Gangland Crime
Question 64: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the steps he has taken or proposes to take to confront the ever increasing challenge of organised criminal gangs; his views...
- Prison Inspection Reports
Question 65: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the mechanisms in place to respond to the reports of the Inspector of Prisons; the specific changes that have been made...
- Sexual Offences
Question 66: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the action he proposes to take arising from the increase in rape and sexual offences; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Appointments to State Boards
Question 67: 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...
- Garda Stations
Question 68: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of garda stations here; the number of garda stations that have email access; and if he will make a statement on...
- Garda Training
Question 69: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of firing ranges available to gardaí for target practice; the number of times on average armed gardaí engage in...
- Prisoner Literacy Levels
Question 70: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his Department has commissioned studies on literacy rates among prisoners; the results of such reports; and if he will...
- Programmes for Government
Question 71: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress made to date with regard to implementation of those sections of the Programme for Government under the headings...
- EU Directives
Question 72: 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 which...
- Prison Building Programme
Question 73: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the amount paid to date on purchasing professional fees, site preparation, landscaping and security in relation to the...
- Crime Levels
Question 75: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his intentions to tackle the growing threat of gun crime with particular reference to the sourcing, distribution and control...
- Gangland Crime
Question 76: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of gun murders to have taken place since the beginning of 2009; his views on the spate of such gun murders in the...
- Gaming Regulations
Question 77: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a firm (details supplied) has introduced fixed odds bingo terminals into...
- Road Safety
Question 78: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status of the national speed camera programme; the difficulties that have arisen between his Department and the...
- Departmental Bodies
Question 79: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views on whether he gave proper consideration to the implications of his funding cuts to the independence and...
- Departmental Staff
Question 80: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to claims made at the recent Garda Representative Association conference that interpreters...
- Community Policing
Question 81: 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 Investigations
Question 82: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he has received the report from the Garda Commissioner on inquiries being carried out by an assistant commissioner into...
- National Drugs Strategy
Question 83: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason he has demonstrated a reluctance to take responsibility for tackling drug related intimidation in the context of...
- Crime Levels
Question 85: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views on the Central Statistics Office crime figures for the first quarter of 2009; and if he will make a statement on...
- Inquiry Report
Question 86: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the new instructions which have been issued to members of the Garda arising from the recommendations of the Monageer Inquiry...
- Data Protection
Question 87: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the new procedures planned by the Garda to ensure that officers do not access people's criminal records for anything other...
- Garda Investigations
Question 88: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the stage of the Garda investigation into the attempted armed robbery of a security van in Foxborough, Lucan, County Dublin...
- Crime Prevention
Question 89: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 410 of 22 April 2009, when he expects Cosc to complete the National Strategy on...
- Public Private Partnerships
Question 90: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will reject the use of public private partnerships for the delivery of justice projects in view of the growing body of...
- Prison Building Programme
Question 91: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will make a commitment that there will be no further delay in delivering the upgrade that is needed in relation to the...
- Garda Operations
Question 92: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when arrangements will be made to instruct members of An Garda Síochána that it is not necessary to take a longhand note...
- Anti-Social Behaviour Orders (1 comment)
Question 93: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will review legislation with regard to the operation of anti-social behaviour orders; and if he will make a statement...
- Garda Investigations
Question 94: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the stage of the Garda investigation into the robbery of €7.6 million from a bank (details supplied) in a so-called tiger...
- National Women's Strategy
Question 95: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason he is axing the principal planks of the National Women's Strategy just two years into its life. [21501/09]
- Citizenship Applications
Question 97: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason he issued an instruction of 1 July 2008 not to issue approval letters for citizenship applications pending the...
- Gangland Crime
Question 98: 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...
- Juvenile Offenders
Question 99: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 139 of 22 April 2009, if his officials have completed the examination of the report on...
- Garda Strength
Question 100: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the strength of An Garda Síochána at the latest date for which figures are available broken down by full members, those...
- Gangland Crime
Question 101: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the claims made at the recent conference of an association (details supplied) that...
- Garda Stations
Question 102: 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 a new garda...
- EU Directives
Question 104: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason for the failure to implement the 2005 EU directive on money laundering by the deadline of December 2007; when...
- Garda Stations
Question 105: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he or the gardaí are considering the closure of garda stations; if his attention has been drawn to the concerns...
- Drugs Seizures
Question 106: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the quantity and values of seizures of heroin, cocaine, cannabis, and other drugs here during 2007, 2008 and to date in...
- Ministerial Staff
Question 107: 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...
- Juvenile Offenders
Question 109: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in relation to the development of the new national child detention facility planned for Lusk, County Dublin;...
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Work Permits
Question 110: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will grant an application for an employment permit on behalf of a person (details supplied) in County...
- Community Employment Schemes
Question 111: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason the spousal swap arrangement for community employment is not permitted in the circumstances when...
- FÁS Training Programmes
Question 113: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if she will ensure that Skillnets Ltd will issue a letter of confirmation to skillnet networks on the final...
- Department of Finance
- Tax Code
Question 114: To ask the Minister for Finance the reason a person (details supplied) in County Cavan with a qualifying green certificate is being denied stamp duty exemption; if he will...
- Flood Relief
Question 115: To ask the Minister for Finance if funding which was promised by the Office of Public Works to a local authority (details supplied) was allocated to investigate a flooding problem;...
- Tax Code
Question 116: To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer in each of the past five years for which figures are available of the seed capital scheme; and the number of recipients...
- Procurement Procedures
Question 119: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will expand on Parliamentary Question No. 155 of 19 May 2009, and provide details on each formal complaint received by the Office of Public...
- Tax Code
Question 120: To ask the Minister for Finance if a VAT registered company is eligible for a VAT refund on services or goods purchased, which are entirely covered by their insurer, and for which...
- Department of Health and Children
- Pension Provisions
Question 121: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in County Kildare is subject to the pension levy despite the fact that they will derive no...
- Health Services
Question 122: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the waiting time for speech therapy assessments in respect of children in the Dublin 12 area as in...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 125: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position in relation to a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow who is waiting for a hip replacement; if they will be...
- Pre-school Services
Question 126: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the circumstances under which a child who is four days under the qualifying age for the new pre-school places can avail of the service;...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 129: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason a child (details supplied) in County Mayo is waiting three years to be called for an outpatient appointment. [21685/09]
- Health Services
Question 132: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position in relation to persons (details supplied); if there is financial assistance available; and if she will make a statement on...
- Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme
Question 134: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath will receive payment under the health repayment scheme. [21750/09]
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 135: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Laois will receive a date for an operation in view of the fact the original operation was...
- Primary Care Services
Question 136: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the plans being put in place to develop the necessary health infrastructure in Clonbrusk, Athlone, County Westmeath; if she is satisfied...
- Health Services
Question 137: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a reply will issue from the Health Service Executive to Parliamentary Question No. 333 of 22 April 2009. [21758/09]
- Health Service Staff
Question 138: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a reply will issue from the Health Service Executive to Parliamentary Question No. 339 of 22 April 2009. [21759/09]
- Medical Cards
Question 139: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the over 70s medical card will be given to persons (details supplied) in County Mayo. [21761/09]
- Drugs Payment Scheme
Question 140: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if it is possible for a cheque which issued to a person (details supplied) in County Mayo a number of years ago, to be redated due to...
- Long-Term Illness Scheme
Question 141: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the criteria required for an illness to be added to the long-term illness scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21768/09]
- Hospital Services
Question 150: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the average cost of running an acute hospital bed per week; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21859/09]
- Medical Cards
Question 151: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the average cost of a full medical card per week; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21860/09]
- Public Private Partnerships
Question 152: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will provide a list of health sector public-private partnership projects already underway or in planning stages; the terms or...
- Department of Transport
- Rail Network
Question 153: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will publish the report by a firm (details supplied) into the Shannon Airport rail link; the amount this study has cost; if it was funded by...
- Light Rail Project
Question 154: To ask the Minister for Transport when the study into a light rail or LUAS system for Galway City will be published; the estimated cost of the proposed system; if bus rapid transit...
- Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
- Garda Recruitment
Question 155: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if, in view of the reduced numbers entering Garda training, he will make a statement on the immediate short-term plans for...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 156: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when the citizenship application for a person (details supplied) is expected to be completed; the stage the process of the...
- Prison Accommodation
Question 157: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of prisoners currently in Mountjoy Prison, Dublin; the number for whom the prison was built; if he will...
- Removal Orders
Question 158: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the procedures and protocols in place to allow gardaí or the Courts to refer cases to his Department for consideration of...
- Gangland Crime
Question 160: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of organised criminal gangs currently operating here; the regions or areas in which they are most dominant; the...
- Crime Levels
Question 162: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of reported burglaries in respect of which no charges or convictions have taken place in each of the past four...
- Garda Stations
Question 164: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of Garda stations currently operating on a 24-hour basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21809/09]
- Witness Intimidation
Question 166: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of incidents in respect of which witness intimidation has been identified in recent years; the action taken or...
- Crime Levels
Question 167: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of persons apprehended carrying illegal firearms; the number of prosecutions, successful or otherwise, taken...
- Prison Security
Question 168: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the extent to which action has been taken to stamp out the running of criminal empires by prisoners serving sentences; and...
- Prison Accommodation
Question 169: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of prisons closed and cell spaces lost arising therefrom in each of the past ten years to date; and if he will...
- Anti-Social Behaviour
Question 170: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the action taken to date, or proposed, to stamp out anti-social behaviour throughout County Kildare with particular...
- Department of Foreign Affairs
- Lisbon Treaty Referendum
Question 171: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs his proposals for ratifying the Lisbon Treaty; the schedule and timescale of events leading up to the referendum; and if he will make a...
- Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism
- Arts Funding
Question 172: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he will support a group (details supplied). [21703/09]
- Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
- Departmental Bodies
Question 173: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs his proposals to meet the concerns of a person (details supplied) in County Cork in regard to the proposed takeover...
- Íocaíochtaí Deantas
Question 174: To ask the Aire Gnóthaí Pobail, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta an bhfuil iarratas ar dheontas litríochta faighte ó dhaoine (sonraí tugtha); an bhfuil deontas molta agus ceadaithe;...
- Department of Social and Family Affairs
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 175: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if a claim for disability allowance for a person (details supplied) in County Mayo has been reviewed following the submission of...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 176: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if there has been any change in the carer's allowance on foot of the supplementary Budget of 7 April 2009 which might effect the...
- Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
- Local Authority Staff
Question 178: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if an exemption will be made in the public service recruitment moratorium in relation to the recruitment of...
- Election Management System
Question 180: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the criteria which apply to the appointment of polling officers and clerks and presiding officers; if these...
- Urban Renewal Schemes
Question 181: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the breakdown of the final output figures for regeneration projects per local authority for 2008; and if he...
- Local Authority Funding
Question 182: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if the conservation grant scheme programme is operational; when the allocations will be announced in order...
- Water and Sewerage Schemes
Question 185: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position in relation to the Crossboyne sewage scheme, County Mayo, particularly the funding position,...
- Local Authority Housing
Question 188: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the reason for the delay in recommencement of the Mullaghmatt remedial works scheme, Monaghan town, County...
- Building Regulations
Question 189: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there is a 92% non-compliance in relation to the requirement...
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Energy Resources
Question 190: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the status of the proposed biomass district heating scheme under the Dundalk 2020 project; when final tender...
- Energy Efficiency
Question 191: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of applications for the home energy saving grants in Dublin City and County and nationally to date,...
- Telecommunications Services
Question 192: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the changes which have taken place to phase two of the MANS in view of the recommendations of the value for...
- Department of Agriculture and Food
- Aquaculture Licences
Question 197: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food further to Parliamentary Question No. 235 of 13 May 2009 and the subsequent written letter sent by him in connection with...
- Grant Payments
Question 198: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be awarded REP scheme four. [21665/09]
- Farm Waste Management
Question 199: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the status of the application under the farm waste management scheme for a person (details supplied); when their inspection...
- Grant Payments
Question 200: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the status of the application under the farm improvement scheme for a person (details supplied); when their inspection will...
- Fisheries Protection
Question 202: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the steps he is taking to protect native oysters and other native shellfish from extinction; and if he will make a statement...
- Grant Payments
Question 203: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the reason a person (details supplied) in County Clare did not receive full payment; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Department of Education and Science
- Schools Refurbishment
Question 205: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when funding will be made available for improvements works to a school (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if he will make a...
- Educational Disadvantage
Question 208: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if the commitment under DEIS to prioritise literacy and numeracy development at second level will be met; his views on whether the...
- Post-Leaving Certificate Courses
Question 209: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position in relation to a college (details supplied) in County Wicklow that has enrolled 943 post leaving certificate students but...
- School Accommodation
Question 210: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the steps being taken to address the accommodation crisis at a school (details supplied) in County Meath; and if he will make a...
- School Patrons
Question 211: To ask the Minister for Education and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 12 of 14 May 2009, if he has met with the Attorney General regarding this matter; the advice of...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 212: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the numbers of special needs assistants that are permitted to be employed by schools (details supplied) in County Dublin; if the...
- Child Abuse
Question 213: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason he withdrew funding for counselling for survivors of abuse in industrial schools (details supplied); and if he will make a...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 214: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the action he proposes to take in regard to a person (details supplied) in County Waterford who will lose their special needs...
- Departmental Funding
Question 215: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when a decision will be made as to the future funding arrangements for a centre (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 216: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding a building project at a school (details supplied) in County Meath; if a site has been acquired for this school...
