Written answers
Wednesday, 17 June 2009
- Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 34: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the cost of the new Waterways Ireland head office in Enniskillen; the cost to the Exchequer of their contribution to...
- National Drugs Strategy
Question 35: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs his views on the fact that the dial to stop drug dealing phoneline looks set to close in autumn 2009, if not earlier,...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 38: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the way the reduction of €47.4 million in the estimate for his Department, announced in Budget 2009, will be...
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 39: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the position in relation to the decentralisation programme of his Department; the cost incurred to date; the number of...
- National Drugs Strategy
Question 40: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the report published by the family support network entitled Intimidation of...
- Community Development
Question 41: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs his plans in relation to the future of the community development programme; the options he has considered in respect...
- Inland Waterways
Question 42: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the mileage of non-navigable canal here; the geographical areas where such exists; his plans to address this issue;...
- Irish Language
Question 43: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the action he has taken in regard to the breach of his Department's statutory language scheme in failing to ensure...
- National Drugs Strategy
Question 45: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs his views on the role of community organisations in the national drugs strategy; his plans to support community groups...
- Irish Language
Question 46: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the action he has taken in regard to the non-renewal by the end of 2008 of the three year language schemes for some 22...
- Departmental Funding
Question 47: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the number of applications received to date in 2009 and each of the past three years for grants under the Dormant...
- Irish Language
Question 48: To ask the Aire Gnóthaí Pobail, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta cad iad na bearta bainistíochta maidir le cur i bhfeidhm Acht na dTeangacha Oifigiúla 2003 atá déanta aige sa bhliain...
- Corrib Gas Pipeline
Question 49: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will make a statement on the position in regard to his efforts to resolve the Corrib gas dispute. [23857/09]
- Departmental Funding
Question 51: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the mechanism, in relation to the rural recreation grant scheme, which will determine successful applications; if the...
- Youth Services
Question 54: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if representatives of his Department, which has incorporated the functions of the national drugs strategy team, on the...
- Community Development
Question 55: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he expects to or will expand or extend the CLÁR or RAPID programmes with a view to making the schemes available to...
- Care of the Elderly
Question 57: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the progress made with regard to his discussions with a number of voluntary groups in relation to the suspension of...
- Industrial Relations Issues
Question 58: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the controversy which has arisen in relation to labour relations arrangements on...
- Community Development
Question 60: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the community development programmes in County Donegal; the funding provided to each group over each of the past three...
- Job Creation
Question 63: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 308 of 26 May 2009, the amount of money expended to date out of the €48.26...
- Grant Payments
Question 64: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the number of farmers who have sought a grant application in relation to the farm electrification grant programme; the...
- Enterprise Audit
Question 65: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 131 of 13 March 2008, the contact he has had with the Department of Enterprise,...
- Irish Language
Question 66: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if it is planned to locate the new Irish translation unit in the Galway west constituency; and if he will make a...
- Youth Services
Question 70: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the number of community based youth initiative measures that have been funded in each of the past two years under the...
- Dormant Accounts Fund
Question 72: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the amount currently in the Dormant Accounts Fund; if he has an estimate of the amount which will be paid into the...
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Community Enterprise Boards
Question 74: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment her plans to review the operation of county enterprise boards to allow them respond to the new challenges...
- Work Permits
Question 75: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the position regarding the investment recently announced in the meat processing sector; if she will publish...
- Departmental Publications
Question 76: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the policies, strategies or initiatives published on her behalf for each of the past five years; if, in each...
- Department of Finance
- Tax Code
Question 77: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will withdraw the imposition of the €10 travel tax on passengers using Shannon Airport in the interest of balanced regional development; and...
- Information Society Fund
Question 79: To ask the Minister for Finance the value of the information society fund annually since 2000; the number and names of projects which have benefited from it since 2004; and if he...
- e-Government Report
Question 80: To ask the Minister for Finance if the recommendations identified in the Comptroller and Auditor General's report on e-Government have been put into action; and if he will make a...
- Department of Health and Children
- Care of the Elderly
Question 82: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the evidence available concerning abuse inflicted on elderly people by members of their own families or other close relatives; if her...
- Health Services
Question 83: To ask the Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No. 129 of 29 April 2009, the reason that no response has been received from the Health Service...
- Suicide Incidence
Question 84: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the action she will take on the recommendations made in the new report on the high level of suicide in Irish society launched by the...
- Child Care Services
Question 85: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will provide for flexibility on the age limit for the new pre-school support scheme when a child has had only limited access to...
- Health Services
Question 86: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when staffing will be available to allow residents to move into houses (details supplied). [23933/09]
- Health Service Investigations
Question 87: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the details of each trust in care investigation carried out by the Health Service Executive during each of the past three years; the...
- Hospital Patients
Question 88: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of patients who died at the Central Mental Hospital, Dublin, and were cremated during the period of 1900 to 1980; their...
- Homeless Children
Question 89: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will increase the time for researching homelessness status for children who leave State care to be extended to ten years after...
- Health Services
Question 90: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the legal advice provided to her which led to redaction of the Monageer report; the date she will apprise the Joint Oireachtas Committee...
- Departmental Bodies
Question 94: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when she will reconstitute the National Children's Advisory Council; the details that need to be resolved before completing same; and if...
- National Nutrition Policy
Question 95: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the date she will publish the new national nutrition policy. [23959/09]
- Proposed Legislation
Question 96: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will introduce legislation that will allow the Ombudsman for Children the power to intervene as an [i]amicus curiae[/i] in...
- Children in Care
Question 98: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the private companies that are providing residential and foster care services for children here. [23967/09]
- Mental Health Services
Question 101: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that there are only 22 child and adolescent mental health beds here when there were at least...
- Child Care Services
Question 104: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the details of the legal issues she is considering with regard to the implementation of the children's first guidelines. [23973/09]
- Proposed Legislation
Question 105: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will initiate legislation to protect against the practice of female genital mutilation here and to protect against children being...
- Housing Aid for the Elderly
Question 107: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when funding will be made available to the Health Service Executive west to enable payment to elderly people for works carried out under...
- Hospitals Building Programme
Question 108: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if refurbishment works will be carried out at a hospital (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Youth Services
Question 109: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason the small grants fund has been suspended for 2009; if she will review this decision and ensure that local groups can access...
- Health Services
Question 110: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when home help will be arranged in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Health Repayment Scheme
Question 111: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason the family were refused a refund of nursing home fees in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if she...
- Hospital Services
Question 112: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if an operation will be arranged for a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if she will expedite a response. [24028/09]
- Health Services
Question 113: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a replacement speech and language therapist will be provided at Kill Health Centre, County Kildare; if the recruitment embargo is...
- Medical Council Inquiry
Question 114: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will set up a comprehensive inquiry to report into the abuse of patients at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, County Louth,...
- Department of Transport
- Marine Accidents
Question 115: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will provide a preliminary report from the Marine Casualty Investigation Board on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a...
- Air Services
Question 116: To ask the Minister for Transport when his attention was drawn to Aer Lingus's decision to remove its winter schedule between Shannon and New York and Chicago; the direction he...
- Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
- Crime Levels
Question 117: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of convictions secured for each of the past seven years in which the motive for the crime has been suspected or...
- Departmental Publications
Question 118: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the policies, strategies or initiatives published on his behalf for each of the past five years; if, in each of these...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 119: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will ratify the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child...
- Human Rights Issues
Question 120: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason only four of the 151 suspected victims of human trafficking identified in 2008 and to date in 2009 were granted...
- Garda Investigations
Question 121: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will investigate incidents in an area (details supplied) in County Mayo; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Residency Permits
Question 122: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding a residency application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Sligo. [23983/09]
- Garda Training
Question 123: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when this Deputy will receive replies from the Garda Commissioner regarding the future of Templemore Garda college, County...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 125: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when an application for citizenship by a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath will be processed; if he will...
- Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism
- National Cultural Institutions
Question 126: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he will make provision to compensate individuals, bodies corporate and institutions that received or purchased grants of arms...
- Sports Capital Programme
Question 128: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the position in relation to the lottery funding grant for an organisation (details supplied); if this will be awarded as a matter of...
- Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
- Water and Sewerage Schemes
Question 129: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs when CLÁR funding will become available for a group water scheme (details supplied) in County Sligo. [23938/09]
- Grant Applications
Question 130: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the number of applications for grant aid from County Kildare under the various schemes operated by his Department...
- Dormant Accounts Fund
Question 131: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the extent to which the availability of funding to his Department from the Dormant Accounts Fund is expected to...
- Community Development
Question 133: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs his views on an expansion of the CLÁR programme with a view to making funding available to a broader spectrum; and...
- National Drugs Strategy
Question 137: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the extent to which he expects to meet the requirements of urban and rural community groups currently involved in...
- Íocaíochtaí Deontas
Question 139: To ask the Aire Gnóthaí Pobail, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta cén fáth go bhfuil líon ceanncheathrú eagrais na hearnála deonaí ag déanamh tinnis dó ag am go bhfuil post nua á...
- Department of Social and Family Affairs
- Tax and Social Welfare Codes
Question 140: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs her views on legislation which attempted to amend the anomaly whereby cohabiting couples are assessed as married for the purposes...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 141: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she will examine the case of a person (details supplied) in County Cork in receipt of disability allowance; and if she will...
- Social Welfare Code
Question 144: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the administrative and other costs associated with the payment of all social welfare claims in all areas of social welfare; and if...
- Department of Defence
- Departmental Properties
Question 145: To ask the Minister for Defence the agreement reached, following a meeting of his officials with the residents association of an estate (details supplied) in County Kildare on 16...
- Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
- Building Energy Rating
Question 146: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will review the protocol for the registration of building energy rating assessors in order that persons...
- Departmental Programmes
Question 148: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the policies, strategies or initiatives published on his behalf for each of the past five years; if, in each...
- Waste Management
Question 149: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if all plastic bag levy receipts together with landfill levy receipts are paid into a ring fenced environment...
- Noise Pollution
Question 150: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will support a matter (details supplied). [23997/09]
- Turbary Rights
Question 151: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding the case of a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if he will make a...
- Department of Agriculture and Food
- Grant Payments
Question 152: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon will be awarded a REP scheme four payment; the reason for the delay in...
- Fisheries Protection
Question 153: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food further to Parliamentary Question No. 202 of 27 May 2009, the location at which the Gigas oyster has settled; and if he will...
- Turbary Rights
Question 155: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if a map has been drawn up (details supplied). [23948/09]
- Grant Payments
Question 156: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a slatted house grant will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on...
- Farm Retirement Scheme
Question 161: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when farm retirement payments will be awarded to a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if he will make a...
- Grant Payments
Question 162: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a balance of REP scheme and single farm payments will be awarded to a person (details supplied) in County Offaly; if...
- Department of Education and Science
- Pension Provisions
Question 166: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason a person (details supplied) in County Kerry is being deducted the pension levy when he or she are not eligible to be...
- School Transport
Question 167: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of students who travel on a school bus to school in each of the counties Cavan and Monaghan; his views on whether the...
- Home-School Liaison Scheme
Question 168: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will review the case of a person (details supplied) in County Longford. [23939/09]
- Special Educational Needs
Question 169: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding a school (details supplied) in County Galway; and if this school will be allocated sufficient support to make a...
- Departmental Publications
Question 170: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the policies, strategies or initiatives published on his behalf for each of the past five years; if, in each of these cases,...
- Youthreach Programme
Question 171: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of early school leavers who applied for places in Youthreach programmes but were refused a place from 2006 to 2009. [23966/09]
- Schools Building Projects
Question 172: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the construction of a new primary school in an area (details supplied) in County Dublin; when construction will...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 173: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will support the case of persons (details supplied) in Dublin 5. [24039/09]
- Schools Building Projects
Question 174: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will support a matter (details supplied). [24040/09]
- Child Abuse
Question 175: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of files that existed in his Department relating to a person (details supplied) in County Laois; when each of these files...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 179: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the construction of a new national school at a location (details supplied) in County Limerick. [24088/09]
