Written answers
Wednesday, 7 October 2009
- Department of Social and Family Affairs
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 109: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the average processing time for a claim for jobseeker's benefit to be dealt with; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Pensions Board
Question 113: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the steps she is taking to ensure greater efficiencies at the Office of the Pensions Ombudsman; and the amount of savings or the...
- Departmental Staff
Question 115: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the additional supports which have been provided to job facilitators to deal with the increased demand for access to support; and...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 116: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the processing time for one parent family payments in each social welfare office; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Departmental Staff
Question 117: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of job facilitators; the average waiting times to access support from a job facilitator; and if she will make a...
- Social Welfare Fraud
Question 118: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she is satisfied that the current methods employed by her Department to detect fraud and error on welfare payments is...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 119: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she has assessed the number of farmers who may qualify for farm assist payments, following the closure of REP scheme four; and...
- Money Advice and Budgeting Service
Question 123: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she is satisfied with the capacity of the Money Advice and Budgeting Service to negotiate on people's behalf with financial...
- Departmental Staff
Question 126: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the measures in place to replace social welfare inspectors in view of the delay in processing applications for social welfare...
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 128: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs is she is satisfied with the average time it takes to process social welfare appeals; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 129: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs her plans to reduce the child benefit payment. [34386/09]
- National Carers Strategy
Question 132: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs her future plans for carers following the decision not to publish the National Carers Strategy; and if she will make a statement...
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 133: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the action she is taking to provide better clarity for deciding officers in the case of applications for social welfare payments...
- Departmental Reports
Question 134: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she will cut social welfare payments across the board; and if so, the amount in relation to same. [34379/09]
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 138: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she is satisfied that the current means-testing for self-employed people seeking jobseeker's allowance is operating to...
- Money Advice and Budgeting Service
Question 142: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the steps she is taking to ensure greater efficiencies at the Money Advice and Budgeting Service; and the amount of savings or the...
- Social Welfare Code
Question 146: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason for the delay in introducing legislation to provide for changes to the law in relation to social welfare benefits for...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 148: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of applications for carer's allowance, respite care, respite grant, unemployment benefit and jobseeker's allowances...
- Civil Registrations
Question 157: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason birth certificates for adopted persons are not available from Joyce House in Dublin on the same basis as all other...
- Asylum Applications
Question 161: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs her plans to review the habitual residency condition rules in view of the recent decisions of the appeals office concerning cases...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 162: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs her plans to allow self-employed persons pay additional social insurance in order that they are covered for jobseeker's benefit in...
- Social Welfare Fraud
Question 163: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs her projection of the amount that will be saved from anti-fraud and control work by her Department; and if she expects that these...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 164: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs her plans to abolish the family income supplement. [34384/09]
- Departmental Reports
Question 173: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs her views on the recommendations in the Report of the Special Group on Public Service Numbers and Expenditure Programmes in...
- Departmental Schemes
Question 174: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she will undertake to amend the private investment profit system scheme in order that contributors to an organisation's pension...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 178: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the steps she proposes to take to alleviate hardship in cases in which social welfare payments have been terminated without...
- Department of An Taoiseach
- Departmental Schemes
Question 180: To ask the Taoiseach if his Department is taking part in the cycle to work scheme or plans to do so in the near future; the agencies and bodies under the aegis of his Department...
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Work Permits
Question 182: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if her attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 3; when their work...
- Company Closures
Question 183: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if her attention has been drawn to the fact that a company (details supplied) is planning to close 14 shops...
- Industrial Development
Question 187: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the amount of the Enterprise Stabilisation Fund that has been drawn down to date in 2009; if expansion of the...
- EU Directives
Question 190: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the level of EU fines imposed on her Department for breaches of EU audit rules from 2003 to date in 2009; the...
- Industrial Relations
Question 192: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the Labour Court recommendation, 19544, regarding the life...
- Departmental Properties
Question 193: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the cost to the Exchequer for the rental or lease of property for her Department in Waterford city in each of...
- Tax Yield
Question 198: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the amount of moneys collected from airport charges and taxes for 2006, 2007, 2008 and up to the end of...
- Redundancy Payments
Question 199: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason for the delay in payment of a redundancy refund of €44,041 to company (details supplied) in...
- Departmental Bodies
Question 200: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if she has requested all chairpersons and members of boards and agencies under the aegis of her Department to...
- Department of Finance
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 201: To ask the Minister for Finance the cost of running the second Lisbon Treaty referendum; the cost of preparation, publication and distribution of all related material, including...
- Departmental Properties
Question 202: To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer for the rental or lease of property for the Property Registration Authority in Waterford City in each of the past five...
- Departmental Schemes
Question 203: To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department is taking part in the cycle to work scheme or plans to do so in the near future; the agencies and bodies under the aegis of his...
- Consultancy Contracts
Question 204: To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the criteria laid down by him in respect of tendering for Government contracts for public works...
- Tax Code
Question 205: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether further policy measures are needed to help parents to provide financially for their children who have disabilities in the event...
- Price Inflation
Question 206: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the best measure of price inflation facing social welfare recipients, whether it be the consumer price index, the harmonised index of...
- Tax Code
Question 207: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will commit to compensating social welfare recipients given the higher fuel intensity of their spending with respect to the carbon tax that he...
- Budget Statement
Question 208: To ask the Minister for Finance the date he will deliver budget 2010. [34643/09]
- Departmental Staff
Question 209: To ask the Minister for Finance the terms of the severance package awarded to the former Financial Regulator (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Tax Yield
Question 210: To ask the Minister for Finance the tax revenue which would be raised on a 2010 and full year basis by limiting the application of business relief for capital acquisition tax to...
- Tax Yield
Question 223: To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of tax revenue which would be raised on a 2010 and full year basis by limiting the size of tax free lump sum pension payments to...
- Tax Code
Question 232: To ask the Minister for Finance if, as a goodwill gesture to former employees of a company (details supplied) in Waterford, he will exempt them from being liable for tax and...
- Departmental Properties
Question 233: To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer for the rental or lease of property for his Department in Waterford city in each of the past five years; the individual...
- Pension Provisions
Question 236: To ask the Minister for Finance when he will approve a scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34912/09]
- Financial Institutions Support Scheme
Question 237: To ask the Minister for Finance the expected monetary gain to the State from the State guarantee to the banking sector in the years 2008, 2009 and 2010; and if he will make a...
- Tax Yield
Question 239: To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of moneys collected from airport charges and taxes for 2006, 2007, 2008 and up to the end of September 2009 by airport in tabular form;...
- Departmental Bodies
Question 242: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has requested all chairpersons and members of boards and agencies under the aegis of his Department to take a reduction in their salary, fee...
- Department of Health and Children
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 243: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the status of an appeal regarding the reduction of rental supplement for a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will...
- Departmental Schemes
Question 244: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her Department is taking part in the cycle to work scheme or plans to do so in the near future; the agencies and bodies under the...
- Health Services
Question 245: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a case has been expedited in respect of persons (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34630/09]
- Nursing Home Subventions
Question 246: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position of an application for a nursing home subvention payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if...
- Nursing Homes Support Scheme
Question 247: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the fair deal will apply to people who suffer from lifelong disabilities and require residential care; and if she will make a...
- Hospital Services
Question 250: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the problem at Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, regarding the non-availability of paediatric...
- Medical Cards
Question 252: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding a medical card renewal application for a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a...
- Inter-Country Adoptions
Question 253: To ask the Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No. 303 of 16 September 2009, if she will confirm that following receipt of the two reports referred...
- Medical Cards
Question 254: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a medical card will issue in the case of persons (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Preschool Services
Question 255: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if additional funding will be provided for child care facilities to assist in the provision of the early childhood care and education...
- Hospital Services
Question 258: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will take steps to admit a person (details supplied) in County Longford for a dexa scan at the Midland Regional Hospital...
- Health Services
Question 259: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will support a matter (details supplied). [34908/09]
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 260: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Kildare can expect to be called for a hip replacement operation at Tallaght Hospital. [34924/09]
- Health Service Staff
Question 262: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if approval has been sought by the Health Service Executive for the filling of four dentists' posts in County Meath which is a majority...
- Departmental Bodies
Question 263: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she has requested all chairpersons and members of boards and agencies under the aegis of her Department to take a reduction in their...
- Department of Transport
- Departmental Schemes
Question 264: To ask the Minister for Transport if his Department is taking part in the cycle to work scheme or plans to do so in the near future; the agencies and bodies under the aegis of his...
- Public Transport
Question 265: To ask the Minister for Transport if a system of electronic information signage indicating public transport services will be introduced at bus stops; if he will fund a project to...
- Rural Transport Services
Question 267: To ask the Minister for Transport the future of the rural transport scheme; if it will continue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34696/09]
- Road Network
Question 268: To ask the Minister for Transport the reason he asked the National Roads Authority to take over some of the management functions of the non-national roads from the Department of...
- Departmental Properties
Question 269: To ask the Minister for Transport the cost to the Exchequer for the rental or lease of property for his Department in Waterford city in each of the past five years; the individual...
- Departmental Properties
Question 273: To ask the Minister for Transport the cost to the Exchequer for the rental or lease of property for the Port of Waterford Company in Waterford City in each of the past five years;...
- Departmental Bodies
Question 274: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has requested all chairpersons and members of boards and agencies under the aegis of his Department to take a reduction in their salary, fee...
- Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
- Departmental Schemes
Question 275: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his Department is taking part in the cycle to work scheme or plans to do so in the near future; the agencies and bodies...
- Garda Deployment
Question 276: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if a matter (details supplied) will be supported. [34717/09]
- Citizenship Applications
Question 277: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status of an application by a person (details supplied) in Dublin 1 for a certificate of naturalisation; and if he will...
- Drug Offences
Question 279: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of convictions secured under Section 15 of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1984 in 2008 and to date in 2009; the number...
- Temporary Release of Prisoners
Question 280: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of prisoners who were given temporary release in 2008 and to date in 2009; and if he will make a statement on...
- Prison Staff
Question 282: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of psychologists currently appointed to the Irish Prison Service; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
