Written answers
Thursday, 5 November 2009
- Department of Transport
- Public Transport
Question 10: To ask the Minister for Transport his strategies to make CIÉ financially more self-sufficient; his plans to reduce subvention to CIÉ; the amount of public money given in both...
- State Airports
Question 11: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has been briefed by the Directors he appointed to the board of Aer Lingus on proposals by Aer Lingus management to cut annual costs by around...
- Departmental Bodies
Question 13: To ask the Minister for Transport if the new chairperson and chief executive officer designates of the Dublin Transport Authority will become the chair and CEO of the new National...
- Air Services
Question 14: To ask the Minister for Transport his contingency plans in the event of wide scale strikes at major airports here; if, further to Parliamentary Question No. 173 of 15 October 2009,...
- Light Rail Project
Question 15: To ask the Minister for Transport the contacts that he has had with the Department of Finance regarding the Metro North project; when he expects a decision on commitment to the...
- Public Transport
Question 17: To ask the Minister for Transport the progress made to date in the implementation of the Deloitte Report dealing with bus market reform; if he has set a timeframe for Dublin Bus to...
- Vehicle Testing
Question 18: To ask the Minister for Transport the progress made in implementing the 2007 report on Commercial Vehicles Testing Review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39657/09]
- Proposed Legislation
Question 19: To ask the Minister for Transport when the proposed new Road Traffic Bill will be published; the way this Bill will deal with drug driving; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Rural Transport Services
Question 20: To ask the Minister for Transport if discussions have taken place with regard to the future of the rural transport programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34097/09]
- Motor Insurance
Question 21: To ask the Minister for Transport his views on the implications for road safety of proposals by motor insurers to increase motor insurance costs by 10% even though motor insurance...
- Ports Security
Question 22: To ask the Minister for Transport if he is reviewing security at ports here in view of the recent seizure of 120 million contraband cigarettes at Greenore Port, County Louth; his...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 24: To ask the Minister for Transport when he will introduce the Sustainable Travel and Transport Bill to the Houses of the Oireachtas; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Road Haulage Industry
Question 25: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will explain the changes to his policy on the employment of a full time transport manager for road haulage companies with 50 or less...
- Travel Projects
Question 26: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has established a fund to support innovative sustainable travel projects, which can help in changing travel behaviour or reducing...
- Air Services
Question 27: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has met or been briefed by representatives of the travel and tourism industry in view of continuing falling volumes of passengers especially...
- Public Transport Safety
Question 29: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has received any of the reports by the Department of Transport, An Garda Síochána, the Railway Safety Commission, Dublin Bus or Veolia...
- Road Network
Question 30: To ask the Minister for Transport the reason he has requested the National Roads Authority to take over the management functions of the non-national road network on a non-statutory...
- Taxi Industry
Question 31: To ask the Minister for Transport his views on the recent reforms announced by the Commission on Taxi Regulation; his plans to incentivise the purchase of wheelchair accessible...
- Departmental Properties
Question 32: To ask the Minister for Transport the status of all leases of port company lands; if all of the chairpersons of the ten State commercial port companies have replied to the request...
- Public Transport Safety
Question 34: To ask the Minister for Transport if a departmental review of the systems for checking and monitoring safety across the whole transport sector is taking place in view of the number...
- Port Development
Question 35: To ask the Minister for Transport his views on the Dublin Port National Development Plan Study conducted by Indecon Consultants for his Department; his views on his favoured...
- Irish Rail
Question 37: To ask the Minister for Transport his views on the recently published and CIÉ commissioned Baker, Tilly, Ryan, Glennon Report on alleged irregularities in the procurement process...
- Emergency Communications Systems
Question 38: To ask the Minister for Transport the reason he has not signed up for the new EU-wide in-car emergency communication system, eCall that could save up to 2,500 lives a year on the...
- Road Safety
Question 40: To ask the Minister for Transport the status of his road safety strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39519/09]
- Public Transport
Question 41: To ask the Minister for Transport when construction of the DART underground will begin; the action being taken to compensate inner city communities for the disruption caused by the...
- Light Rail Project
Question 46: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will clarify the status of LUAS line E; if it will be included in Vision 2030; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39682/09]
- Port Development
Question 47: To ask the Minister for Transport the position regarding the development of Bremore Port, County Meath; if he has reviewed the recent viewing arrangements for key planning...
- Rail Network
Question 48: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will undertake a review of the performance of the Railway Safety Commission and Irish Rail safety procedures in view of the collapse of the...
- Public Transport
Question 49: To ask the Minister for Transport the timescale for the implementation and full operation of plans for an automatic vehicle location system, real time information system and...
- Road Network
Question 50: To ask the Minister for Transport the full extent of funding provided by his Department and spent by each local authority on the county roads structure on a local authority basis...
- Road Safety
Question 52: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will report on his meeting with Northern Ireland's Environment Minister at the North South Ministerial Council Meeting in terms of moves to...
- Rail Network
Question 54: To ask the Minister for Transport the position regarding the collapsed Broadmeadow railway bridge, County Dublin; when the bridge will re-open and services will return to normal; if...
- Departmental Agencies
Question 55: To ask the Minister for Transport the reason he has decided to amalgamate the Commission for Aviation Regulation and the regulatory functions of the Irish Aviation Authority into...
- Job Creation
Question 56: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has liaised with the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment on all proposals to establish a successor business at the SR Technics...
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Business Initiatives
Question 57: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the position regarding a project (details supplied); her views on the impact to date on Border businesses; and...
- Redundancy Payments
Question 58: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when redundancy payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; the reason for the...
- Work Permits
Question 60: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if a work permit will be renewed in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare who has been...
- Department of Finance
- Departmental Properties
Question 61: To ask the Minister for Finance the cost of the acquisition of the site outside Killarney, County Kerry, which was purchased for the decentralisation of the Department of Arts,...
- Disabled Drivers
Question 62: To ask the Minister for Finance when a decision will be made on an appeal of an application for a primary certificate for disabled drivers in the case of a person (details supplied)...
- Tax Code
Question 63: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of recipients of each of the personal tax credits; the PAYE tax credit for the years 2007, 2008, 2009; the number of recipients of each of...
- Financial Services Regulation
Question 65: To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a company (details supplied) can transfer large sums of cash to any financial institution in the...
- Tax Yield
Question 66: To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated revenue from the income levies expected in 2010. [39744/09]
- Flood Relief
Question 67: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide funding to protect an area (details supplied) from further devastation and to protect residents from further flooding; and if he...
- Tax Code
Question 69: To ask the Minister for Finance the measures he plans to put in place to prevent the influx of coal produce with high sulphur content from Northern Ireland that will follow the...
- Tax Yield
Question 70: To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated tax take from the reintroduction of the 1% betting levy on on-course gambling; the estimated revenue generated if this figure as 1.5%;...
- Architectural Heritage
Question 72: To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 300 of 27 January 2009, the funding that has been made available for a project (details supplied) in County...
- National Asset Management Agency
Question 73: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will make a statement on the reports that loans at a bank (details supplied) relating to the purchase of shares in a company may be transferred...
- Department of Health and Children
- National Drugs Strategy
Question 74: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the proliferation of head shops which have opened here; her views on same; if her further attention...
- Inter-Country Adoptions
Question 75: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the status of a bilateral adoption agreement between Ireland and Ethiopia; the talks which have taken place between the two countries to...
- Hospital Services
Question 78: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will ensure that further consultation is expedited in respect of a hip operation for a person (details supplied) in County Cork;...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 79: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of children with arthritis from North Tipperary who are waiting on the only paediatric rheumatologist here in Our Lady's...
- Medical Cards
Question 80: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that a person (details supplied) in County Dublin is waiting more than six months for a...
- Departmental Correspondence
Question 83: To ask the Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No. 249 of 20 October 2009, if she will confirm the status of new procurement processes within the...
- Services for People with Disabilities
Question 84: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will respond to a query (details supplied). [39745/09]
- Homeless Persons
Question 85: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the breakdown of the figures for homeless children according to each local health office area here; and if she will make a statement on...
- Hospital Services
Question 86: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in County Longford had an operation cancelled in October 2009 although the surgeon was available;...
- Health Service Staff
Question 87: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the purpose of the national recruitment panel for physiotherapists; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39764/09]
- Hospital Services
Question 93: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that persons with arthritis living in County Kildare must wait for up to three years to see a...
- Health Service Staff
Question 94: To ask the Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No. 191 of 13 October 2009, if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the community welfare...
- Health Services
Question 95: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason for the delay in opening a community welfare public office in Naas, County Kildare. [39778/09]
- Care of the Elderly
Question 96: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of home care packages allocated to new applicants in each year since the scheme was put in place and in particular the number...
- Services for People with Disabilities
Question 97: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of adults with an intellectual disability that are currently accessing day services in the Dublin area; the location of each...
- Pre-school Services
Question 98: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the status of the free pre-school year scheme; if she will provide an overview of the way this scheme is to operate; the number of...
- Inter-Country Adoptions
Question 99: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the options available to parents who will receive the declaration for adoption purposes in the next few weeks; the countries that are...
- Pharmacy Regulations
Question 102: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if, in view of the reduction in dispensing fees paid to pharmacists under the general medical scheme she will instruct a union (details...
- Inter-Country Adoptions
Question 103: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the outcome of the meeting with the Deputy Prime Minister of Vietnam on 23 October 2009; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Youth Services
Question 104: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the funding levels for each of the past ten years in the Young People Facilities and Services Fund; the name and location of each...
- Medical Aids and Appliances
Question 105: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a person (details supplied) in County Cork is entitled to get a digital hearing aid or financial contribution towards a hearing aid;...
- Infectious Diseases
Question 106: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she or the Health Service Executive is monitoring the effect of the swine flu outbreak in schools; and if she will make a statement...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 107: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will be facilitated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39844/09]
- Vaccination Programme
Question 108: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of general practitioners signed up to administer the H1N1 vaccine; the number of those who did not receive the vaccine by 9...
- Representations to Ministers
Question 109: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she has received representations in relation to lands (details supplied) in County Dublin; if she is satisfied that this matter is...
- Health Service Staff
Question 110: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the details of the incentivised career break scheme in the Health Service Executive; the eligibility criteria for the scheme; if there...
- Services for People with Disabilities
Question 114: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of persons with autism in the State; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39927/09]
- Children in Care
Question 117: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of children in care in the State; the number who are in residential facilities operated by private care organisations; the...
- Health Service Staff
Question 118: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the formula used in the calculation of allowances or bonuses paid to Health Service Executive staff; and if she will make a statement on...
- Health Services
Question 120: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the progress made to date in services and assistance for women who have had symphysiotomies; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Nursing Home Subventions
Question 121: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will include respite care and respite grants in the new nursing home scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Health Services
Question 122: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the follow-up breast clinic in Sligo for those women who have had surgery is closing; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Department of Transport
- Cycle Facilities
Question 123: To ask the Minister for Transport the status of plans for a new cycle path in Dublin city; if these plans will include works to provide cycle paths along the Grand Canal in the...
- State Airports
Question 124: To ask the Minister for Transport the marketing campaign or strategies which have been rolled out to promote Shannon Airport as a customs and border protection facility; and if he...
- Air Services
Question 125: To ask the Minister for Transport if progress has been made in regard to issues raised by an association (details supplied) in a recent submission relating to group bookings; and...
- EU Directives
Question 126: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has had consultations with the European Commission in relation to the planned stakeholder consultation to be held in October with regard to...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 128: To ask the Minister for Transport the amount of funds already spent on the Metro North project. [39755/09]
- Rail Network Property
Question 130: To ask the Minister for Transport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that toxic railway sleepers have been illegally sold into the domestic garden market (details...
- Road Network
Question 131: To ask the Minister for Transport the funding provided by his Department for national, primary or minor roads directly to the National Roads Authority or the various local...
- Rail Network
Question 132: To ask the Minister for Transport if consideration has been given to the provision of a spur to provide extension to rail services at Naas, County Kildare; and if he will make a...
- Airport Charges
Question 133: To ask the Minister for Transport the extent to which airport charges at the various airports here compare with charges at other airports throughout Europe; and if he will make a...
- Road Safety
Question 134: To ask the Minister for Transport the total number of road traffic accidents reported in each of the past five years and to date in 2009; if an accident report was completed in...
- Transport 21
Question 135: To ask the Minister for Transport the degree to which the objectives set out in Transport 21 have been achieved to date or are more likely to be so achieved in accordance with the...
- Rail Services
Question 136: To ask the Minister for Transport the anticipated date for the further augmentation of commuter rail facilities to and from Dublin in the context of the national development plan...
- Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
- Proposed Legislation
Question 137: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress made to date regarding proposed legislation to control management companies and their agents; and if he will...
- Work Permits
Question 138: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the requirements for a non-national person to be self employed here. [39742/09]
- Crime Levels
Question 139: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of times legislation (details supplied) has been effected on a county to county basis. [39713/09]
- Garda Stations
Question 141: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his plans to upgrade Garda stations in Dublin city and around the country; if there is a budget in place for basic repair...
- Garda Equipment
Question 142: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he is satisfied that each Garda station has sufficient basic IT equipment such as PCs and printers, for members to...
- National Drugs Strategy
Question 143: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the proliferation of head shops which have opened here; his views on same; if his...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 144: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 339 of 7 July 2009, the status of an application by a person (details supplied) in...
- Asylum Applications
Question 145: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding the residency status in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Meath; and if he will make...
- Residency Permits
Question 146: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if it is accepted that all documentation has been submitted to facilitate the determination of an application for residency...
- Asylum Applications
Question 148: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if leave to remain will be granted in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare on humanitarian or...
- Asylum Applications
Question 149: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress made to date in 2009 in the determination of residency in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 8;...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 152: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding an application for naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Laois; and if...
- Residency Permits
Question 154: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding family reunification in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Laois; and if he will make...
- Asylum Applications
Question 155: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding to an application for residency and citizenship in the case of persons (details supplied) in County...
- Residency Permits
Question 158: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when renewal of travel and residency documentation will issue in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 24; and...
- Asylum Applications
Question 159: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress made to date regarding an application for residency and citizenship in the case of a person (details supplied)...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 160: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in regard to residency and citizenship in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Carlow; and if he...
- Refugee Status
Question 163: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when temporary travel documents will issue in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12; and if he will make a...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 164: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in regard to an application for citizenship in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if...
- Road Traffic Offences
Question 167: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of Garda checkpoints which have been specifically put in place to breathalyse for drunk driving in the Cavan and...
- Department of Foreign Affairs
- Foreign Conflicts
Question 168: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a humanitarian convoy which has been organised by the Palestinian Return Centre and other...
- International Agreements
Question 169: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if Britain has recently engaged his Department in discussions regarding the implementation of the Schengen Agreement here; and if he will...
- Child Abductions
Question 170: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the progress made on the attempts in respect of a person (details supplied) to reunite them with their daughter; if he has raised this...
- Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism
- Departmental Programmes
Question 171: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the way he will fund the continuation of a programme (details supplied) which has directly engaged thousands of people with...
- Departmental Funding
Question 172: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he will recognise that the needs of cultural cinema require State support, in particular, the case of a cinema (details supplied)...
- Sports Capital Programme
Question 173: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism his plans regarding the sports capital grant scheme; if he will renew the sports capital grant scheme; or if he will replace it; and...
- Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
- National Drugs Strategy
Question 177: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the proliferation of "head" shops which have opened here; his views on same; if...
- Department of Social and Family Affairs
- National Carer's Strategy
Question 178: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she will publish the report on a national carer's strategy; if she will make a statement outlining the reason for the delay in...
- Registration of Births
Question 179: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when approval will be given in respect of registry of birth in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 20; and if she...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 180: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the fixed amount paid each month to the CIÉ Group for journeys made using the free travel pass in the years 2004 to 2008...
- Employment Support Services
Question 181: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of people on jobseekers benefit who have been referred to FÁS for interview to date in 2009; the age-profile of those...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 183: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of people that are in receipt of the one parent family payment; the cost of this payment in 2007, 2008 and to date in...
- Registration of Births
Question 184: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs her views on the mandatory inclusion of fathers' names on birth certificates, which would assist in securing maintenance payments...
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 185: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if a person (details supplied) in County Kildare will have their appeal expedited in respect of their disability payment; and if...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 186: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the extent of rent support payable in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement...
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 189: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the position in relation to an appeal for carer's allowance in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 190: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason there has been a delay in processing a disability benefit application in respect of a person (details supplied) in...
- Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
- Local Authority Charges
Question 193: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on if it is equitable that a person (details supplied) in County Longford who owns a house in a...
- Waste Management
Question 196: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if the financial analysis of the proposed incinerator in Poolbeg in Dublin 4, as recommended by the Attorney...
- Departmental Staff
Question 197: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will support the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 3. [39731/09]
- Motor Taxation
Question 198: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will respond to a query (details supplied) regarding the refund of motor tax. [39749/09]
- Statutory Registration
Question 200: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has prepared an advice note for companies (details supplied) which, for the past ten, 20 or 30 years...
- Motor Taxation
Question 201: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his plans to address the cost anomaly in road tax for couples recently made redundant who have four or more...
- Housing Developments
Question 202: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the local authorities that have complied with his request to put in place a protocol for taking housing...
- Local Authority Funding
Question 203: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on the proposal in the special group on public service numbers and expenditure programme for the...
- Local Authority Members
Question 204: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the sanction or penalty for breach of a regulation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
- Local Authority Funding
Question 205: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if exemptions are in place for the payment of the non-principal private residential tax for persons (details...
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Housing Aid for the Elderly
Question 206: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the grants and supports available for persons in the 60 to 65 years age group seeking to re-roof and insulate...
- Telecommunications Services
Question 208: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when broadband will be available to a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if he will make a...
- Telecommunications Regulation
Question 209: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of legal challenges that have been initiated by Eircom against ComReg in the past 12 months; the...
- Telecommunications Services
Question 210: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if the locations for satellite broadband have been identified under the national broadband scheme awarded to a...
- Córas Postchóid
Question 211: To ask the Aire Cumarsáide, Fuinnimh agus Acmhainní Nádúrtha an mbeadh sé sásta córas postchóid nua na hÉireann a bhunú ina iomláine ar logainmneacha Gaeilge, ar...
- Department of Agriculture and Food
- Departmental Offices
Question 212: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the rental cost of all Department offices in Cork City; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39724/09]
- Grant Payments
Question 213: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a single farm payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; the reason for delay in payment;...
- Website Access
Question 214: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if access to a public representative's website is barred on computers in his Department's offices; if this applies to all...
- Grant Payments
Question 215: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the reason a person (details supplied) in County Cork has not yet received their single farm payment; and if he will make a...
- Department of Education and Science
- Adult Education
Question 220: To ask the Minister for Education and Science his views on the work being carried out by a centre (details supplied) in County Clare; the possible implications for this centre of...
- School Staffing
Question 221: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of secondary school principals who retired in north Tipperary in the first ten months of 2009; the percentage this is of...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 222: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when work will begin on a school (details supplied) in County Limerick; when he expects a decision to be made; if his attention has...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 223: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the accommodation and resources which he has provided to meet the needs of second level students on the autistic spectrum at a new...
- Grangegorman Development Agency
Question 225: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if the funds to proceed on schedule with the Grangegorman development project, Dublin, will be allocated in the 2010 budget; and if he...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 227: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the status of a school building project (details supplied) in Dublin 12 which was to undergo a re-tendering process; if he will...
- School Grants
Question 228: To ask the Minister for Education and Science his views regarding correspondence (details supplied); the actions he will take to address the concerns raised; if so when such...
- School Transport
Question 229: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will provide school transport for children (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Vocational Education Committees
Question 230: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the length of time that students, who have successfully completed their applications to the Donegal Vocational Education Committee and...
- Teaching Qualifications
Question 231: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the situation regarding primary school teachers who have secured their qualification from outside the jurisdiction and who have to...
- School Closures
Question 232: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he is monitoring the effect of the swine flu outbreak on schools; the assessment of the effect so far in terms of temporary...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 233: To ask the Minister for Education and Science further to Question No. 429 of 26 May 2009, the status regarding an application by a school (details supplied); and if he will make a...
- Schools Recognition
Question 234: To ask the Minister for Education and Science further to Question No. 671 of 9 June 2009, the status regarding the application by a group (details supplied); and if he will make a...
- Residential Institutions Redress Board
Question 235: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he has received the results of the audit of assets belonging to the 18 Religious Teaching Orders that signed the 2001 Indemnity...
- Schools Recognition
Question 236: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when he will grant recognition to a proposed Gaelcholáiste (details supplied) in County Dublin; the reason for the delay; the date...
- Higher Education Grants
Question 237: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if the eligibility of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo for the maintenance grant will be reviewed. [39923/09]
- Teaching Qualifications
Question 238: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will establish a conversion course for trained Montessori teachers to enable them to become fully recognised teachers in the...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 239: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when a decision will be made on a grant for an extension to a school (details supplied). [39939/09]
- School Transport
Question 240: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of children availing of the school transport scheme over the past five years on a county basis. [39941/09]
- Pension Provisions
Question 243: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if the contributions made by teachers for their pensions were invested into a fund or if these contributions were used as income for...
- Grant Payments
Question 244: To ask the Minister for Education and Science, further to Parliamentary Question No. 746 of 20 October 2009 in respect of the three schools that have yet to submit invoices for...
