Written answers
Wednesday, 21 October 2009
- Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism
- Departmental Funding
Question 106: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he has received representations relating to difficulties being experienced by persons seeking access to grants for tourist site...
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 107: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he is satisfied that the decentralisation of his Department has been a successful initiative; and if he will make a statement on...
- Tourism Competitiveness
Question 109: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism his views on the competitiveness indicators developed by the World Economic Forum for the world travel and tourism competitiveness...
- National Asset Management Agency
Question 111: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he has had contact with the Department of Finance regarding the National Asset Management Agency legislation and the impact it...
- Sports Capital Programme
Question 112: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if his attention has been drawn to the concerns relating to an unfair allocation of national lottery funding under the sports...
- Tourism Promotion
Question 113: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism his views on a call to offer free travel to senior citizens from the whole of the United Kingdom and on whether this would help...
- Tax Code
Question 114: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the direction he will provide the Department of Finance on the issue of the artists tax exemption scheme; and if he will make a...
- Culture Ireland
Question 115: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if Culture Ireland will be protected; his views on the recommendation to abolish this body in the Special Group on Public Service...
- Tourism Industry
Question 116: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the option open to him to encourage development in the tourism sector in 2009 with particular reference to competing with other...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 117: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the percentage of the tourism marketing fund budget which is spent on administrative and office costs; the plans he has introduced...
- Arts Funding
Question 118: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if, within the reduced budget to the Arts Council, he will secure a significant portion of the funding to the Arts Council to be...
- Tourism Promotion
Question 119: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the polices or initiatives he has undertaken to increase public perception of the importance of tourism to the economy here; and if...
- Departmental Funding
Question 120: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism his priorities in 2009 in respect of the allocation of funding to appropriate and qualifying bodies, groups or agencies from the...
- National Concert Hall
Question 121: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he will complete the restoration of the National Concert Hall at Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin; the estimated cost of this programme;...
- Tourism Promotion
Question 123: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he has published a strategy to develop the cultural tourism product; the action he has taken with regard to developing a strategy...
- Department of An Taoiseach
- Departmental Bodies
Question 124: To ask the Taoiseach the number of State agencies or organisations under the remit of his Department which are paid up members of the Irish Business and Employers Confederation;...
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Departmental Statistics
Question 125: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the value of exports from foreign owned firms based here in 2009 and for each of the past ten years. [37552/09]
- Departmental Bodies
Question 127: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of State agencies or organisations under the remit of her Department which are paid up members of...
- Redundancy Payments
Question 128: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will make a statement on the case of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick. [37629/09]
- Legislative Provisions
Question 129: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the legislation in place to ensure the payment of building subcontractors on public sector and private...
- State Agencies
Question 130: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the contracts granted by FÁS to a company (details supplied) which was subject to a recent FÁS audit; the...
- FÁS Training Programmes
Question 137: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if she will support a matter (details supplied). [37811/09]
- Departmental Agencies
Question 139: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 86 to 88, inclusive, of 22 September 2009, if she is in a position to...
- Industrial Disputes
Question 140: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps she proposes to take to resolve a dispute at a company (details supplied); if she will refer the...
- Department of Finance
- Interdepartmental Committees
Question 141: To ask the Minister for Finance if the interdepartmental committee appointed to examine the investment policies of the National Pensions Reserve Fund will ensure that the...
- Departmental Staff
Question 142: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has been informed of the result of the Revenue Commission investigation which he refers to in his reply to Parliamentary Question No. 118 of...
- Departmental Bodies
Question 143: To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the Office of Public Works has a lease on a building (details supplied) in Dublin 1; the bodies or interests located there; and if he...
- Non-Resident Accounts
Question 147: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will investigate the number of Irish residents who have bank accounts in Liechtenstein; if there is a loss to the Exchequer as a result of...
- Tax Code
Question 148: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will clarify a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37607/09]
- Pension Provisions
Question 149: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on modifying the age at which a person is required to assign money to an approved minimum retirement fund in view of the fact that it is...
- Ministerial Travel
Question 150: To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 89 of 8 October 2009, when a reply will be issued; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37654/09]
- Financial Services Regulation
Question 151: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has satisfied himself that the law is flexible enough to allow persons who have their homes repossessed in the course of the current economic...
- Interdepartmental Committees
Question 152: To ask the Minister for Finance if the internal committee established to look into the review of the ethical investment policies of the National Pensions Reserve Fund is due to...
- Tax Code
Question 153: To ask the Minister for Finance if a register is kept of the number of subcontractors who de-list to go on the unemployment register; his plans to introduce a bonding system for...
- Tax Collection
Question 156: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of PAYE workers earning less than €10,000; the number of PAYE workers earning less than €20,000; the number of PAYE workers earning...
- Pension Provisions
Question 157: To ask the Minister for Finance the progress made to date in developing the pension insolvency payment scheme. [34584/09]
- Tax Code
Question 160: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the introduction of a carbon tax; if he will ensure that such a carbon tax will not adversely impact on the most vulnerable in society,...
- Departmental Funding
Question 161: To ask the Minister for Finance the expected funding level of the Horse and Greyhound Fund; the initiatives he has progressed to reduce the direct Exchequer contribution by...
- Tax Code
Question 162: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will make a statement on the air travel tax; and his views on the call by the tourism renewal group to abolish this fee. [37383/09]
- Local Authority Funding
Question 163: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has had meetings with local authorities to encourage them to adhere to the valuation methods as introduced in the Valuation Act 2001; if his...
- Banking Sector
Question 164: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has responded to the letter to him from a person (details supplied) regarding the decision of a bank to reject a Labour Court recommendation...
- Department of Health and Children
- Departmental Agencies
Question 165: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of State agencies or organisations under the remit of her Department which are paid up members of the Irish Business and...
- Health Service Staff
Question 166: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will instruct the board of the Health Service Executive not to award Professor Brendan Drumm a €70,000 performance bonus for...
- Health Services
Question 167: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when an outpatient's appointment will be given to a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [37574/09]
- Water Quality
Question 168: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if he will improve the regulation of the bottled water production and description to provide more information for the consumer on the...
- Health Services
Question 169: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the benefit that use of a pharmaceutical (details supplied) can give to spinal cord injury sufferers and the fact that it is available...
- Health Repayment Scheme
Question 170: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason a number of people who successfully appealed their offer under the Health (Repayment Scheme) Act 2006 were initially offered...
- Health Services
Question 171: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason for the delay in responding to correspondence (details supplied). [37618/09]
- Cancer Screening Programme
Question 173: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of women screened per month through CervicalCheck since September 2008 to September 2009; and if she will make a statement on...
- Medical Cards
Question 176: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will receive a decision on their medical card application; and if she will make a...
- Parliamentary Questions
Question 177: To ask the Minister for Health and Children, further to Parliamentary Question No. 93 of 8 October 2009, when a reply will be issued; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Health Services
Question 186: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the mechanism for which a person (details supplied) must apply to ensure that they can attend their clinic appointments on time; and if...
- Health Service Executive Reports
Question 189: To ask the Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No. 202 of 7 July 2009, when a reply will issue from the Health Service Executive. [37832/09]
- Parliamentary Questions
Question 190: To ask the Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No. 358 of 16 September 2009, when a reply will issue. [37833/09]
- Hospital Staff
Question 191: To ask the Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No. 383 of 16 September 2009, when a reply will issue from the Health Service Executive; and if she...
- Medical Cards
Question 192: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) will have their medical card issued to them; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37836/09]
- Child Care Services
Question 193: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if parents whose children will commence school in September 2010 and who were born after 30 June 2006 will not avail, partially, or...
- Medical Cards
Question 194: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a decision will be made on an application for an over-70 medical card in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Galway;...
- Health Services
Question 196: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the way a person (details supplied) in County Longford can access medication following the discontinuance of the hardship scheme; and if...
- Health Service Executive Remuneration
Question 197: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if bonus payments have been approved by the Health Service Executive for hospital network managers and other senior hospital...
- Long-Term Illness Scheme
Question 198: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason Crohn's disease is not classified as a long-term disease due to the fact that symptoms may be alleviated but not cured; and...
- Medical Cards
Question 199: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a general medical card will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Leitrim; if her attention has been drawn to the fact...
- Health Services
Question 200: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will ensure an appointment will issue from University College, Galway to a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon.
- Nursing Home Subventions
Question 201: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will confirm that a hospital (details supplied) in County Limerick will receive a budget for the ongoing care of long-stay...
- Health Services
Question 202: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a primary care medical certificate will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement...
- Medical Cards
Question 203: 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...
- Department of Transport
- Departmental Agencies
Question 204: To ask the Minister for Transport the number of State agencies or organisations under the remit of his Department which are paid up members of the Irish Business and Employers...
- Port Development
Question 205: To ask the Minister for Transport the investment made in Dublin Port and Dún Laoghaire Harbour for each year since 2002 to date in 2009; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Public Transport
Question 206: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will provide a breakdown of the subsidy provision made to Bus Éireann in 2009 and the subsidy provided to other rural transport providers...
- Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
- Garda Deployment
Question 209: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will advise on a matter (details supplied). [37551/09]
- Departmental Agencies
Question 210: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of State agencies or organisations under the remit of his Department which are paid up members of the Irish...
- Garda Deployment
Question 211: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will support a matter (details supplied) in Dublin 3. [37620/09]
- Crime Levels
Question 212: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of persons arrested for vehicle crime in Dublin for the years 2006 to date in 2009 inclusive; the number of...
- Garda Operations
Question 213: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to ongoing open-air drug dealing in Jobstown, Tallaght, Dublin 24; the steps he will take...
- Garda Deployment
Question 214: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will support a matter (details supplied) in Dublin 3. [37636/09]
- Criminal Justice Act
Question 215: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the structures, arrangements or procedures that exist to facilitate access to solicitors by suspects in Garda custody; and...
- House Repossessions
Question 216: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he is satisfied that the law is flexible enough to allow persons who have their homes repossessed in the course of the...
- Garda Operations
Question 217: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if she will support a matter (details supplied). [37814/09]
- Citizenship Applications
Question 218: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding the residency status in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if he will make...
- Residency Permits
Question 220: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in relation to an application for residency in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if...
- Department of Foreign Affairs
- Departmental Agencies
Question 221: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of State agencies or organisations under the remit of his Department which are paid up members of the Irish Business and...
- Police Investigation
Question 222: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the reason a person (details supplied) whose daughter was murdered abroad was told by his Department to contact the British Foreign Office...
- Foreign Conflicts
Question 224: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will support a matter (details supplied). [37667/09]
- Northern Ireland Issues
Question 225: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the concern expressed by the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission regarding the delay on the part of...
- Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 226: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the additional cost of keeping the national cultural institutions open late at least twice a week to allow working people to visit...
- Tourism Promotion
Question 227: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if an audit has been carried out to ensure that the tourism marketing fund is within best practice guidelines in terms of spending,...
- Departmental Agencies
Question 228: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the number of State agencies or organisations under the remit of his Department which are paid up members of the Irish Business and...
- National Lottery Funding
Question 229: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the amount he expects from the proceeds of the national lottery to become available for spending by his Department in 2009; and if...
- Sport and Recreational Development
Question 230: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the number and location of sporting and recreational groups throughout County Kildare that is expected to receive funding from his...
- Tourism Industry
Question 233: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the degree to which he has studied tourism figures for each of the regions; if he plans to take steps to address imbalances; and if...
- Arts Funding
Question 237: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the action he will take to encourage the arts at community level with particular reference to funding support for local groups with...
- Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
- Departmental Agencies
Question 240: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the number of State agencies or organisations under the remit of his Department which are paid up members of the...
- Clár Forbartha Áitiúil
Question 241: To ask the Aire Gnóthaí Pobail, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta an bhfuil sé ar intinn aige deireadh a chur leis an scéim oifigeach forbartha faoi oiliúint atá ar siúl in ionad...
- Community Development
Question 243: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will respond to correspondence (details supplied). [37844/09]
- Department of Social and Family Affairs
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 244: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the position regarding a supplementary welfare allowance appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [37647/09]
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 245: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she has received correspondence from an organisation (details supplied) in Dublin 18; her plans to address this issue; and if...
- Departmental Agencies
Question 246: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of State agencies or organisations under the remit of her Department which are paid up members of the Irish Business...
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 247: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the position in relation to the second illness benefit appeal for a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and when a medical...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 249: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the facilities she plans to put in place to assist community welfare officers to deal with the extra workload from applications...
- Department of Defence
- Departmental Agencies
Question 252: To ask the Minister for Defence the number of State agencies or organisations under the remit of his Department which are paid up members of the Irish Business and Employers...
- Civil War Operations
Question 253: To ask the Minister for Defence if he will supply details of the official report into the deaths of persons (details supplied). [37570/09]
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- Urban Renewal Schemes
I refer to the reply to Question No. 496 of 20 October 2009. My Department is fully committed to the Limerick regeneration project, which has been underway since mid 2007. Accordingly, it is...
- Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
- Waste Management
Question 256: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on the expansion of the plastic bag levy to cover both plastic bottles and aluminium cans; the...
- Departmental Agencies
Question 257: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of State agencies or organisations under the remit of his Department which are paid up members of...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 258: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has drawn up a list of large dog farms producing puppies for commercial gain; and if he will make a...
- Local Authority Housing
Question 260: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he and the Minister of State for housing will make a commitment to visit a project (details supplied) in...
- Ministerial Travel
Question 261: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 189 of 8 October 2009, when a reply will be issued; and if he will make...
- Local Authority Charges
Question 262: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if it is legally permissible under the Local Government (Charges) Act 2009 for a local authority to introduce...
- Departmental Schemes
Question 263: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when he will approve funding for the reconstruction of a property (details supplied) in Dublin 1. [37821/09]
- Planning Issues
Question 264: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the legislation in place in relation to the minimum proximity a telecommunications mast can be located to...
- Local Authority Housing
Question 265: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 273 of 14 October 2009, the number of the 60 households transferred by...
- Tax Code
Question 266: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if the non-principal private residential tax has to be paid by a person on a second property where relatives...
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 267: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of State agencies or organisations under the remit of his Department which are paid up members of...
- Ministerial Travel
Question 268: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources further to Parliamentary Question No. 193 of 8 October 2009, when a reply will be issued; and if he will make a...
- Telecommunications Services
Question 269: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the terms used to determine the areas that will receive broadband services under the national broadband scheme;...
- Pension Provisions
Question 272: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if persons employed as telephonists in the Department of Posts and Telegraphs by the Civil Service Commission...
- Department of Agriculture and Food
- Animal Welfare Inspections
Question 274: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the guidelines and instructions inspectors are given when they carry out inspections in relation to fur animal inspection...
- Departmental Agencies
Question 275: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of State agencies or organisations under the remit of his Department which are paid up members of the Irish...
- Dairy Industry
Question 276: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the amount of revenue raised in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008 from the milk check levies for, An Bord Bainne, development...
- Ministerial Travel
Question 278: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food further to Parliamentary Question No. 197 of 8 October 2009, when a reply will be issued; and if he will make a statement on...
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 279: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the status and proposed usage of the new Bord Iascaigh Mhara facility at Clonakility, County Cork; and if he will make a...
- Grant Payments
Question 280: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive their disadvantaged area scheme payment and 70% single payment...
- Department of Education and Science
- School Curriculum
Question 284: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the action he will take to promote interest in the arts at primary and second level schools; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Departmental Agencies
Question 285: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of State agencies or organisations under the remit of his Department which are paid up members of the Irish Business and...
- Bullying in Schools
Question 286: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if schools here are obliged to put guidelines and policies in place to tackle homophobic bullying in the classroom and to ensure that...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 287: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the assessments required for a person to qualify for a special needs assistant; the person who carries out the assessments; the person...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 290: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if his attention has been drawn to the fact that tender documents for capital works at a school (details provided) in County Wexford...
- State Examinations
Question 291: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the date of the release of leaving certificate examination results in August 2010. [37606/09]
- Schools Building Projects
Question 292: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when permission to proceed to tender will be given to a school (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if he will make a statement...
- Ministerial Travel
Question 294: To ask the Minister for Education and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 205 of 8 October 2009, when a reply will be issued; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Teaching Qualifications
Question 295: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of maths teachers at second level who do not have maths as a subject in their degree; if this issue has been addressed by...
- Mature Students
Question 296: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will support a matter (details supplied). [37813/09]
- Telecommunication Masts
Question 297: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the legislation in place in relation to the minimum proximity a telecommunications mast can be located to schools or houses; the...
- Higher Education Grants
Question 298: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of local authorities that have commenced paying out third level maintenance grants on a county basis; and if he will make a...
- School Transport
Question 300: To ask the Minister for Education and Science further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 1273 of 6 October 2009 and 513 of 13 October 2009, the position regarding the cost of rerouting...
- School Accommodation
Question 301: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if his attention has been drawn to the overcrowding at a school (details supplied) in County Galway; if his attention has been further...
- Higher Education Grants
Question 302: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason a person (details supplied) in County Longford has not been provided with a third level grant through Longford County...
- Whole School Evaluations
Question 304: To ask the Minister for Education and Science further to Parliamentary Question 529 of 17 February 2009, the steps he has taken to address the issues identified in the whole school...
- Institutes of Technology
Question 305: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if his attention has been drawn to the fact that sports and others facilities at Dublin Institute of Technology have ceased, due to...
- Third Level Fees
Question 306: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the amount of revenue raised through registration fees at each third level university here for each year since 2002 and to date in...
- School Transport
Question 307: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when a decision will be made on the appeal in respect of persons (details supplied) in County Waterford regarding school transport;...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 308: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when a special needs assistant will be provided for a child (details supplied) in Dublin 9. [37894/09]
