Written answers
Wednesday, 10 June 2009
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- FÁS Training Programmes
Question 1: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the training, education and programmes offered by FÁS in co-operation with her Department; the type of...
- Department of Finance
- Tax Code
Question 2: To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the length of time it takes a limited company or a partnership company to acquire its tax registration number to...
- National Asset Management Agency
Question 3: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will explain the valuation methodology that will be used for the purchase of assets by the National Asset Management Agency from the banks; and...
- Banking Sector Regulation
Question 5: To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to any service available to fixed rate mortgage holders whereby they are able to switch without paying the breakage...
- Disabled Drivers
Question 6: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will review the new emissions based car tax system as it applies to disabled drivers, with a view to raising the cap in view of the problems...
- Department of Health and Children
- Fluoridation of Water
Question 7: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding a nationwide study on the fluoride intake of the population here; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Hospital Services
Question 8: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will clarify if plans are in place for County Donegal cancer patients to be treated at Altnagelvin Hospital in County Derry; if she...
- Inter-Country Adoptions
Question 9: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the status regarding the bilateral agreement relating to inter-country adoption between Ireland and Russia; if a copy of the agreement...
- Voluntary Sector Funding
Question 11: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the remaining part of a grant aid will be awarded to an organisation (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a...
- Health Services
Question 12: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will investigate the provision of orthodontic treatment in respect of a child (details supplied) in County Cork. [23176/09]
- Medical Cards
Question 14: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon will receive a decision on the review of the over 70s medical card; the reason for...
- Mental Health Services
Question 15: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on the recent independent report examining the Government's A Vision for Change plan; the reason the Health Service Executive...
- Child Care Services
Question 16: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a community child care facility can charge parents for two week summer camps under the new early childhood care and education...
- Health Services
Question 17: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will put a plan in place to deal with a rat infestation in a house (details supplied) in County Leitrim. [23214/09]
- Hospital Services
Question 19: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the response she received regarding the public outcry following the closure of wards and cutbacks at Our Lady's Hospital for Sick...
- Health Services
Question 20: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the plans the Health Service Executive has to improve a health centre (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a...
- Department of Transport
- Rural Transport
Question 22: To ask the Minister for Transport his plans to enhance the rural transport option with particular reference to areas not covered by public transport; and if he will make a statement...
- National Car Test
Question 23: To ask the Minister for Transport the waiting time for the national car test in the Dublin area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23190/09]
- Air Services
Question 24: To ask the Minister for Transport if there are restrictions for flight training aircraft flying over housing estates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23211/09]
- Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
- Visa Applications
Question 25: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when an application will be decided on in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
- Residency Permits
Question 26: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will provide the data available on the labour market penetration of the 16,693 people granted residency under the...
- Control of Firearms
Question 27: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the changes to the format of the new gun licence when issued; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23174/09]
- Residency Permits
Question 29: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in regard to an application for residency in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if...
- Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
- Rural Transport
Question 30: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the number and location of community and rural transport schemes currently supported by his Department; his proposals...
- Departmental Programmes
Question 31: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs his proposals to assist rural or urban groups here who may be involved in urban regeneration; and if he will make a...
- National Drugs Strategy
Question 32: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the degree to which he will offer additional financial or other assistance to community based voluntary groups...
- Rural Development
Question 34: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the extent to which he expects to meet the challenge of rural depopulation; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Dormant Accounts Fund
Question 36: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the extent to which he will allocate funding from the proceeds of the dormant accounts fund in 2009 to County Kildare;...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 40: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the areas within his Department most likely to be affected by recently announced financial constraints due to the...
- Department of Social and Family Affairs
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 43: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the procedures in place for the processing of appeals for jobseeker's allowance and jobseeker's benefit claims; the possibility of...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 45: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when jobseeker's benefit will be awarded in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 22; and if she will make a statement...
- Employment Support Services
Question 46: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the level of co-operation that exists between her Department and FÁS; the role of the facilitator; and if she will make a...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 49: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the amount of money spent on and the number of people in receipt of the back to education allowance, back to work enterprise...
- Employment Support Services
Question 50: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the percentage of the number of people referred to FÁS in 2008 and to date 2009; the percentage who attended for interview; the...
- Departmental Staff
Question 51: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the locations at which job facilitators are based; the social welfare offices that do not have a job facilitator; the average...
- Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
- National Emergency Plan
Question 53: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the progress to date on the development by each local authority of an incident management plan; if all risks...
- Foreshore Development
Question 54: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the status of Dublin Bay's plan to infill 52 acres of Dublin Bay; the result of Dublin Port's appeal against...
- Local Authority Staff
Question 55: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his plans to extend the terms of the incentivised career break scheme for civil servants to employees of local...
- Disabled Drivers
Question 56: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will review the new emissions based car tax system as it applies to disabled drivers, with a view to...
- Department of Agriculture and Food
- Single Payment Scheme
Question 57: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a herd number will be transferred to a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [23178/09]
- Foreshore Licences
Question 58: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of foreshore licences outstanding in regard to the Waterford grouped towns and village sewerage schemes; when it...
- Single Payment Scheme
Question 59: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if a person (details supplied) in County Galway is entitled to an award from the estate of a person; if so, if such...
- Department of Education and Science
- Pension Levy
Question 60: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason part-time tutors, programme co-ordinators and administration staff for the adult education service in the vocational...
- School Transport
Question 61: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will report on the cost of providing school transport for the re-sitting of the leaving certificate English paper; and if he will...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 62: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position in relation to correspondence regarding a school (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on...
- School Accommodation
Question 63: To ask the Minister for Education and Science, further to Parliamentary Question No. 309 of 24 June 2008, the progress he has made in relation to the provision of primary school...
- Residential Institutions Redress Scheme
Question 64: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason, in view of the report of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse, an institution (details supplied) in County Wicklow...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 65: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the provision of a new school in respect of a school (details supplied); if his attention has been drawn to the...
- Third Level Education
Question 66: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if the siblings of Irish citizens are entitled to access third level education on the basis of fulfilling the three years residence...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 67: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will ensure persons (details supplied) in County Leitrim will not lose their special needs assistants in September 2009. [23215/09]
- Schools Building Projects
Question 68: To ask the Minister for Education and Science his views on making amendments to the annual financial turnover requirement from registered builders by his Department when tendering...
- School Placement
Question 69: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when a school placement will be offered to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the...
- State Examinations
Question 70: To ask the Minister for Education and Science his views on the presentation to leaving certificate students of the incorrect English paper; the cost involved in re-organising the...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 71: To ask the Minister for Education and Science, further to Parliamentary Question No. 150 of 14 May 2009, the progress in finalising an agreement (details supplied); and if he will...
