Written answers

Tuesday, 26 January 2010

  • Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
    • Alternative Energy Projects
      Question 99: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to amend the gate three system to facilitate commercially viable new wind farm proposals getting grid...
    • Energy Costs
      Question 100: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of applications received for home energy saving schemes to start in 2010; and if he will make a...
    • Broadcasting Services
      Question 101: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position regarding the provision of commercial digital terrestrial television here; the further position...
    • Alternative Energy Projects
      Question 102: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the research carried out by and supports available from his Department to encourage harvesting combustible...
    • Smart Meters
      Question 103: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position regarding the installation of pilot scheme smart electronic meters; when same will be rolled out...
    • Alternative Energy Projects
      Question 104: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the measures he plans to introduce to promote bio-fuel production domestically here in view of the setting of a...
    • Broadcasting Services
      Question 105: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the way in which he intends to support community television and radio; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Electric Vehicles
      Question 106: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the progress made on the roll out of an infrastructure for charging electric vehicles; and if he will make a...
    • Telecommunications Services
      Question 108: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he has established an implementation task force chaired by his Department regarding the setting up of a one...
    • Cyber Security
      Question 109: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will report on his commissioned report into the state of readiness here in the event of a cyber attack;...
    • Energy Resources (1 comment)
      Question 110: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will report on the use of liquefied natural gas here; if he will address concerns that risks associated...
    • Telecommunications Services
      Question 112: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will introduce independent monitoring of broadband speeds here as in other jurisdictions; his views on...
    • Energy Costs
      Question 113: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the new measures he will take to ensure that the cost of energy here is tackled in view of concerns expressed...
    • Energy Efficiency
      Question 114: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the measures that have been implemented from the national energy efficiency action plan published in 2009; the...
    • Telecommunications Services
      Question 115: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on the claims that although there are up to 12,000 homes and businesses that cannot access broadband...
    • Post Codes
      Question 116: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on An Post's geodirectory; his further views on the different technologies available for postcodes;...
    • Telecommunications Services
      Question 120: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will seek a strategic partnership with Eircom under the new partnership with a company (details supplied)...
    • EU Directives
      Question 127: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on the European Commission stating that Ireland is one of the Member States that has failed to...
    • Energy Costs
      Question 128: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on combined heat and power in public buildings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3390/10]
    • Electricity Generation
      Question 131: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to address the issue of windfall profits being made by electricity generators on the back of charging...
    • Telecommunications Services
      Question 132: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on the OECD figures that ranks Ireland 20th out of a table of 30 OECD nations for households with...
    • Energy Costs
      Question 134: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when he will change the regulatory model for setting the price of domestic household electricity in order to...
    • Energy Policy
      Question 136: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he has had discussions with the Department Education and Science regarding the need for an energy related...
    • Alternative Energy Projects
      Question 137: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on proposals on a European Supergrid; the implications this would have here; the work he has done on...
    • Energy Costs
      Question 139: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if there the has been a reduction in the price of a cylinder of domestic gas in the past five years; if so, the...
    • Job Creation
      Question 141: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of the 15,400 jobs in the green economy announced on 2 December 2009 that have been created; the...
    • Energy Resources
      Question 143: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his target for ocean energy technology; the mega wattage of ocean energy connected to the grid; the number of...
    • Broadcasting Services
      Question 145: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the target date for the switch off of analogue television broadcast services. [3352/10]
    • Grant Payments
      Question 148: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the amount of money allocated in respect of home insulation grants and the greener home scheme in the years...
    • Prospecting Licences
      Question 149: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of oil, gas or other mineral exploration licences sought, granted or refused in each of the past...
    • Departmental Agencies
      Question 150: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if the annual accounts for 2008 of the Central Fisheries Board have been published and laid before Dáil...
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Sugar Imports
      Question 151: To ask the Taoiseach the volume and value of sugar imported in 2008 and 2009 respectively; the countries of origin of the sugar; the volumes and values from each country; and if he...
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 152: To ask the Taoiseach, further to Parliamentary Question No 67 of 1 December 2009, when a reply may be expected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3128/10]
    • Capital Projects
      Question 153: To ask the Taoiseach the new capital projects associated with his Department gone to tender that will begin in 2010; the new capital projects gone to tender that were due to start...
    • Departmental Reports
      Question 154: To ask the Taoiseach the number of reports and task forces set up and commissioned in his Department in 2007, 2008 and 2009; the reason for each report; the number of reports...
    • Tribunals of Inquiry
      Question 155: To ask the Taoiseach the number of tribunals of inquiry conducted by his Department; the title of each; the cost of each to date in 2010; the expected date of conclusion of each;...
    • Departmental Bodies
      Question 156: To ask the Taoiseach the number of bodies and agencies operated under the remit of his Department; the cost of each on a yearly basis; the name and number that have been abolished...
    • Employment Statistics
      Question 158: To ask the Taoiseach the number of persons aged under 25 years in the labour force broken down by region and gender for the third quarter of 2007 and the third quarter of 2009; and...
  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 161: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, further to Parliamentary Question No. 72 of 1 December 2009, if she will provide the requested information...
    • FÁS Training Programmes
      Question 162: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of places in each training centre dedicated to phase two apprentices; and if she will make a...
    • Benchmarking Awards
      Question 163: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the validation process that was undertaken to pay phase three and four of the Towards 2016 pay agreement from...
    • Departmental Agencies
      Question 164: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the way the FÁS budget was allocated each year from 1997 to 2009; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Employment Support Services
      Question 165: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the evaluations for each of the 56 jobs clubs nationwide each year from 1997 to 2009; and if she will make a...
    • Local Employment Service
      Question 170: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the budget provided to the local employment service network each year from 1997 to 2009; and if she will make...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      Question 200: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 84 of 1 December 2009, when a reply will issue; and if she will make a...
    • Departmental Agencies
      Question 201: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 83 of 1 December 2009, when a reply will issue; and if she will make a...
    • FÁS Training Programmes
      Question 202: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 88 to 99, inclusive, of 9 December 2009, when a reply will issue; and...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      Question 203: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 118 to 129, inclusive, of 8 December 2009, when a reply will issue;...
    • Job Losses
      Question 204: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the legal position in respect of persons being temporarily laid off; the length of time an employee may be...
    • Capital Projects
      Question 206: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the new capital projects associated with her Department gone to tender that will begin in 2010; the new...
    • FÁS Training Programmes
      Question 207: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if she will investigate the allegation that a FÁS manager tried to induce a member of staff to approve...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      Question 208: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of persons engaged in community employment programmes on a county basis in 2008 and 2009; the...
    • FÁS Training Programmes
      Question 209: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of persons in employment who availed of FÁS and Skillnets training in 2009 on a county basis; the...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      Question 210: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reduction she will make to the community employment and jobs initiative allowances; if her attention has...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 211: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if she will provide a detailed breakdown of the €2,327,000 expended in 2009 under the heading of...
    • Company Law
      Question 213: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment her views on the requirement that limited liability companies engage legal representation for all court-based...
    • Employment Rights
      Question 215: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of premises and restaurants in County Kildare that have been inspected fully by the National...
    • Industrial Development
      Question 216: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of Industrial Development Authority visits to counties Laois and Offaly each year for the past...
    • Job Creation
      Question 217: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if she will contact a company (details supplied) to discuss its plans regarding jobs in counties Dublin and...
    • Redundancy Payments
      Question 218: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when statutory redundancy will be awarded to a person (details supplied) in County Limerick. [3490/10]
    • Community Employment Schemes
      Question 219: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment her plans to increase the number of training places on community employment schemes during 2010 in view of...
    • FÁS Training Programmes
      Question 220: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of persons in north County Tipperary waiting on FÁS training schemes; the waiting time for...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      Question 223: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the rate of payment for community employment participants in 2009; the rate that applies in 2010; and the...
  • Department of Finance
    • Mortgage Arrears
      Question 225: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of householders who are in arrears of mortgage payments at present; the number of householders who defaulted on payments in each of the...
    • Legislative Programme
      Question 226: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will bring forward legislation to protect both householders and businesses who were previously insured and are now being refused insurance due...
    • Tendering Procedures
      Question 227: To ask the Minister for Finance the thresholds whereby State agencies must implement and comply with tendering procedures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3522/10]
    • Tax Collection
      Question 228: To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of tax forgone under the section 481 tax relief in each of the past ten years in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 230: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of staff employed by his Department in 1997 and 2009 broken down by job title and grade; the pay bill for each job title and grade for...
    • Capital Projects
      Question 231: To ask the Minister for Finance the new capital projects associated with his Department gone to tender that will begin in 2010; the new capital projects gone to tender that were...
    • Housing Aid for the Elderly
      Question 232: To ask the Minister for Finance if works carried out under the housing aid for elderly grant scheme in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin are exempt from VAT....
    • Flood Relief
      Question 233: To ask the Minister for Finance if the funding of €10 million, recently announced by the Minister of State at the Office of Public Works, for flood relief works in Bandon, County...
    • Tax Code
      Question 234: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will respond to the concerns of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12. [3284/10]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 235: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a detailed breakdown of the €405,000 provided under A.9 of the Public Appointment Service vote in the Estimates Book 2010; and...
    • Tax Code
      Question 236: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of mortgage holders in north Tipperary and nationally who lost entitlement to mortgage interest relief following his decision to abolish...
    • Coastal Protection
      Question 239: To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the proposal to build a sea wall (details supplied) in Dublin 13; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3590/10]
    • Financial Institutions Support Scheme
      Question 240: To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the State guarantee of customer deposits in participating institutions beyond 30 September 2010. [3596/10]
    • Tax Code
      Question 241: To ask the Minister for Finance if it is intended that locums working as substitutes in general practitioner practices are in future to be taxed under PAYE rather than as sole...
    • Departmental Properties
      Question 243: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on the proposed use of a premises (details supplied) in Dublin 11 when it is vacated shortly. [3656/10]
    • Tax Code
      Question 246: To ask the Minister for Finance the reason persons on short term contracts have been made subject to the recent public service levy. [3717/10]
  • Department of Health and Children
    • Health Service Allowances
      Question 247: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the status of an application for domiciliary care allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Wexford; if a decision...
    • Health Levy
      Question 248: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the threshold below which a person's total annual income in 2009 must have been to enable them claim back the health levy. [3642/10]
    • Vaccination Programme
      Question 249: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans, in view of the recent unexpected reversal of Government policy, to compensate parents who paid for their daughters' cervical...
    • Medical Cards
      Question 250: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will intervene in a situation whereby the client registration unit in Finglas, Dublin 11, is sending letters to applicants for...
    • Health Services
      Question 251: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the primary health care centre planned for Inchicore, Dublin 8; if funding has been allocated; and if so, when...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 252: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a priority appointment in the rheumatology department of Cork University Hospital will be given to a person (details supplied) in...
    • Health Services
      Question 253: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the provision of orthodontic services at St Finbarr's Hospital, Cork; the length of time the service has been...
    • Foreign Adoptions
      Question 255: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to negotiate a bilateral adoption agreement with the Government of Haiti; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Medical Cards
      Question 256: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will establish an all-party Oireachtas committee to review the background to the decision to centralise medical card applications...
    • Departmental and Health Service Staff
      Question 258: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of staff on career breaks from the Health Service Executive and from her Department; the average length of career break; the...
    • Parliamentary Questions
      Question 259: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the guidelines for the response to questions by the parliamentary affairs division of the Health Service Executive; if there is a limit...
    • Inter-Country Adoptions
      Question 260: To ask the Minister for Health and Children, further to Parliamentary Question No. 253 of 7 October 2009, if she will report on her decision to suspend negotiations on an...
    • Hospitals Building Programme
      Question 261: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when works will commence on new accident and emergency unit at Kerry General Hospital; the completion date; and if she will make a...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 262: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a travel arrangement will be put in place in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny who has to travel to Cork...
    • National Drugs Strategy
      Question 263: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of head shops here; if the opening of these shops is regulated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3101/10]
    • Hospital Services
      Question 264: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if funding will be provided for an operation to be carried out in Tallaght Hospital, Dublin, in respect of a person (details supplied)...
    • Foreign Adoptions
      Question 265: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the measures that she will put in place to assist couples that are in the process of adopting children from Ethiopia and Russia; and if...
    • Inter-Country Adoptions
      Question 267: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will clarify a statement (details supplied) issued in January 2010; the steps she took to ensure she was satisfied prior to...
    • Vaccination Programme
      Question 275: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will confirm that the human papillomavirus cervical vaccine will continue free of charge into the future; the age group that will...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      Question 276: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will support a matter (details supplied). [3131/10]
    • Accident and Emergency Services
      Question 277: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of patients presenting to accident and emergency departments at hospitals (details supplied) for the months of September,...
    • Medical Cards
      Question 278: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a medical card will be renewed for a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [3144/10]
    • Capital Projects
      Question 282: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the new capital projects associated with her Department gone to tender that will begin in 2010; the new capital projects gone to tender...
    • Ambulance Service
      Question 283: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the advanced paramedic service will be rolled out in north Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3193/10]
    • Medical Cards
      Question 285: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a medical card will be renewed in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [3198/10]
    • Hospital Staff
      Question 286: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a consultant radiologist has been appointed for Mallow General Hospital, County Cork; the terms of their rotation therein; and if she...
    • Hospital Charges
      Question 287: To ask the Minister for Health and Children, further to Parliamentary Question No 167 of 22 September 2009 if she will provide an update; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services
      Question 288: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the developments in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Galway in relation to his request to return here and receive...
    • Medical Cards
      Question 289: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will review an appeal for a medical card which was refused for a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if she will...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      Question 290: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will review the response issued by the Health Service Executive to a parliamentary question by this Deputy relative to the...
    • National Lottery Funding
      Question 291: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding an application for funding in respect of an organisation (details supplied) in County Clare. [3294/10]
    • Medical Cards
      Question 292: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will review a medical card refusal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if she will make a statement...
    • Health Services
      Question 293: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when home help hours will be increased in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Mental Health Services
      Question 295: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason 80% of children under five years of age referred to five Linn Dara child and adolescent mental health services in counties...
    • Hospitals Building Programme
      Question 296: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the new hospital for Kenmare, County Kerry will begin construction; if this project has been included in the capital programme for...
    • Inter-Country Adoptions
      Question 297: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding a bilateral adoption agreement with Ethiopia; if she has been in discussion with an organisation (details...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 298: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a person (details supplied) in County Cork will be considered for a long-stay bed; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Health Services
      Question 299: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Meath will receive medical treatment. [3527/10]
    • Hospital Services
      Question 301: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Laois will receive an appointment to see a consultant neurologist at University Hospital...
    • Pre-school Services
      Question 304: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on whether national schools should set up facilities to provide for the early childhood care and education scheme in spite of...
    • Health Services
      Question 305: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will support the case of a person (details supplied). [3591/10]
    • Medical Cards
      Question 306: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the changes that have been made to the entitlement of an unemployed person to retain their medical card when they take up employment;...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 307: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the Health Service Executive has introduced a new regulation in which transport for patients receiving outpatient treatments is to be...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme
      Question 308: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the fair deal nursing home grant is payable from the date of application rather than from the date of approval in view of the fact...
    • Child Care Services
      Question 309: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of unattached homeless children known to the Health Service Executive on 31 March 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009. [3598/10]
    • Medical Cards
      Question 310: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the difficulties that persons, many of whom are elderly, are having in contacting to the Health...
    • Ambulance Service
      Question 311: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the future of the ambulance service in County Dublin; the improvements that have taken place in recent times to...
    • Health Services
      Question 312: To ask the Minister for Health and Children, further to Parliamentary Question No. 230 of 17 December 2008, the operational status of the units; the number of cases received since...
    • Hospital Accommodation
      Question 313: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of beds in Mallow General Hospital, County Cork; if the number of beds in use in Mallow General Hospital has been reduced in...
    • Health Services
      Question 321: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if home care packages are available to persons living within the primary, community and continuing care north Cork area; and if she will...
    • Health Service Allowances
      Question 325: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a pharmacist (details supplied) in County Longford will be awarded payment of more than €3,000 under the hardship scheme; and if...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      Question 327: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on providing prosthetic limbs free of charge to amputees who face bills of thousands of euro whenever their limb needs to be...
    • Medical Cards
      Question 330: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will review an application for a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 331: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the guidelines for the admission to hospital for surgery of persons diagnosed with breast cancer; the recommended waiting time for a...
    • Medical Cards
      Question 332: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will assist with the renewal of medical cards in the case of persons (details supplied) in Dublin 11. [3711/10]
    • Health Service Staff
      Question 334: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will lift the recruitment embargo on the appointment of nurses in Roscommon primary, community and continuing care in which...
    • Health Services
      Question 336: To ask the Minister for Health and Children, further to Parliamentary Question No. 175 of 10 November 2009, the steps she is taking to resolve this situation; the timetable for the...
  • Department of Transport
    • Rail Network
      Question 338: To ask the Minister for Transport his views on rail transportation and the way it may contribute to national economic development; his further views on the development of a...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      Question 339: To ask the Minister for Transport further to Parliamentary Question No. 156 of 26 November 2009, if he will further respond to a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 340: To ask the Minister for Transport further to Parliamentary Question No. 185 of 1 December 2009, if the requested information has been supplied as has been completed by the...
    • Public Transport
      Question 341: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will grant approval to Dublin Bus allowing it to operate all outbound Dublin Bus 41X services through the Dublin port tunnel; and if he will...
    • Departmental Agencies
      Question 342: To ask the Minister for Transport the timescale for the provision of funding in respect of the development of a modern rescue centre by the Doolin unit of the Coast Guard; and if...
    • Parking Regulations
      Question 343: To ask the Minister for Transport the statutory provision that bans parking within five metres of a junction; and the maximum penalty that applies. [3068/10]
    • Capital Projects
      Question 350: To ask the Minister for Transport the new capital projects associated with his Department gone to tender that will begin in 2010; the new capital projects gone to tender that were...
    • Driving Tests
      Question 353: To ask the Minister for Transport the various charges and fees set by him in relation to driving licenses, applications for driving licenses and tests of driving ability in...
    • Road Network
      Question 354: To ask the Minister for Transport if additional funding will be made available to counties Cavan and Monaghan to help cover the cost that each of the councils incurred in keeping...
  • Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
    • Debt Management
      Question 356: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his plans for the introduction of a scheme, similar to the United Kingdom individual voluntary arrangements, to assist...
    • Legislative Programme
      Question 357: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding the Multi-Unit Developments Bill; when he intends to progress the passage of this Bill; and if he...
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 358: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, further to Parliamentary Question No. 201 of 1 December 2009, if he will provide the requested information as has been...
    • Legislative Programme
      Question 359: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he has agreed to ratify the UN Convention against Corruption; when he will ratify this convention; and if he will make a...
    • Asylum Applications
      Question 360: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will investigate the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3044/10]
    • Garda Operations
      Question 361: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will support a matter (details supplied). [3054/10]
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 362: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding an application for citizenship in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Longford. [3055/10]
    • Garda Strength
      Question 363: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if garda personnel are going to be replaced in Ballycastle, County Mayo. [3081/10]
    • Refugee Status
      Question 364: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of unaccompanied children who have come here, aged six years and under, aged between seven years and 12 years,...
    • Mental Health Services
      Question 365: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the establishment of a new children's mental health coalition; if he will act on its...
    • Proposed Legislation
      Question 367: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his plans to amend the existing legislation relating to begging; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3126/10]
    • Crime Levels
      Question 368: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the latest crime statistics for Blanchardstown, Dublin 15; the comparable figures for the past three years; and if he will...
    • Garda Strength
      Question 369: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of gardaí and community police stationed at Blanchardstown Garda station, Dublin 15; the comparable figures for...
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 370: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will review a decision on an application for naturalisation in respect of a person (details supplied) in Cork; and if...
    • Garda Recruitment
      Question 371: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when the next round of recruitment will take place to the Garda Síochána; the position regarding persons who already...
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 372: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding an application by a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Capital Projects
      Question 373: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the new capital projects associated with his Department gone to tender that will begin in 2010; the new capital projects...
    • Registration of Title
      Question 375: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason registration has not been completed for land registry in respect of land certificate folios (details supplied)...
    • Prison Building Programme
      Question 376: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform further to Parliamentary Question No 247 of 13 October 2009 if a decision has been made on undertaking further additional...
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 377: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of whole-time equivalents serving in the grades of Secretary General, deputy secretary general, assistant...
    • Asylum Applications
      Question 378: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding residency in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Meath; and if he will make a statement...
    • Crime Levels
      Question 379: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of murders recorded in which a firearm was used in 2006; the number of convictions that have been secured...
    • Garda Vetting Services
      Question 384: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of the 40,000 teachers nationally waiting to be cleared by the Garda Vetting Unit that are working in the...
    • Garda Retirement
      Question 385: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of members of An Garda Síochána who have received early retirement nationally and in north Tipperary since the...
    • Decentralisation Programme
      Question 386: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding a decentralisation project (details supplied) in County Tipperary; the stage at which this project...
    • Garda Training
      Question 387: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when the proposed development of land in north Tipperary purchased by a group (details supplied) will become operational...
    • Garda Stations
      Question 388: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of Garda stations in each Garda district in County Mayo; the number in operation; the number of gardaí assigned...
    • Security of the Elderly
      Question 393: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his plans to strengthen the protection of old age pensioners and vulnerable people in their homes; and if he will make a...
    • Control of Firearms
      Question 394: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if, further to recently enacted legislation regulating the issue of gun licences, his attention has been drawn to the fact...
    • Deportation Orders
      Question 395: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon who is potentially due for deportation; and if he...
    • Garda Strength
      Question 396: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, further to Parliamentary Question No. 226 of 15 December 2009, when the number of gardaí, for each rank, that have...
    • Garda Deployment
      Question 398: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the Anglesboro area of County Limerick will continue to be policed by the Mitchelstown Garda division following the...
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 399: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status of an application for citizenship in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Longford; and if he will...
    • Asylum Applications
      Question 400: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding an appeal by a person (details supplied) in County Longford for asylum and permission to remain...
    • Garda Deployment
      Question 401: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of postings overseas of members of An Garda Síochána in the past five years; the remit of the posting; the...
    • Work Permits
      Question 402: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding the undocumented scheme in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
    • Garda Staff
      Question 403: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views on the employment of civilians to do routine paper work in Garda stations in order to free up gardaí to carry...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs
    • Disaster Relief
      Question 404: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs his response to the earthquake in Haiti; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3045/10]
    • International Money Laundering
      Question 405: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his attention has been drawn to reports suggesting that North Korean public funds are being concealed in bank accounts in Luxembourg; his...
    • Human Rights Issues
      Question 406: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the ongoing plight of a person (details supplied); if he has had contact with the Tunisian authorities...
    • Capital Projects
      Question 407: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the new capital projects associated with his Department gone to tender that will begin in 2010; the new capital projects gone to tender that...
    • Foreign Property
      Question 408: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will support a matter (details supplied). [3191/10]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 409: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs his plans to implement savings and efficiencies in running the Irish embassy and consular offices globally in 2010; and if he will make a...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 410: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the details of grants that he issued in 2009 which will include all press statements issued on the occasion of the announcement of the...
    • Passport Applications
      Question 411: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the reason a passport has not been returned to a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15 who mislaid their passport and applied for a...
    • Diplomatic Representation
      Question 412: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the level of financial assistance available to a family who wish to repatriate a member of their family (details supplied) who was seriously...
  • Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 413: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism further to Parliamentary Question No. 231 of 1 December 2009, if he will provide the requested information as has been done by the...
    • Capital Projects
      Question 414: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the new capital projects associated with his Department gone to tender that will begin in 2010; the new capital projects gone to...
    • Sports Capital Programme
      Question 415: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the funding sources available to a group (details supplied) in Dublin 12; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3285/10]
  • Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
    • Capital Projects
      Question 416: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the new capital projects associated with his Department gone to tender that will begin in 2010; the new capital...
    • Community Development
      Question 417: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the funding available under axes three and four of the rural development programme; the planned expenditure for each...
  • Department of Social and Family Affairs
    • Civil Registration Act 2004
      Question 420: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she will introduce changes to the Civil Registration Act 2004 with particular reference to recognising the registration in this...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      Question 421: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if small business owners who go out of business are eligible to claim jobseeker's allowance or jobseeker's benefit; if not, her...
    • Social Welfare Code
      Question 423: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if persons who are granted temporary leave to remain on humanitarian grounds by the Department for Justice, Equality and Law...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      Question 424: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of cases where her Department has been instructed by the courts to deduct part of someone's social welfare payment as a...
    • Pension Provisions
      Question 425: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if an urgent appeal will be arranged in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny regarding their State...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      Question 430: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if an appeal for supplementary allowance will be expedited and granted in respect of a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Pension Provisions
      Question 432: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if an application for old age contributory pension in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick will be...
    • Capital Projects
      Question 434: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the new capital projects associated with her Department gone to tender that will begin in 2010; the new capital projects gone to...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      Question 435: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when domiciliary care allowance will be awarded in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make...
    • Social Welfare Code
      Question 436: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she will intervene in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [3225/10]
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      Question 438: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if an appeal for supplementary welfare will be expedited in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny. [3280/10]
    • Social Welfare Code
      Question 441: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she will review the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will supply this Deputy with a policy comment on same....
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      Question 442: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs, further to Parliamentary Question No. 789 of 19 January 2010, the reason for the discrepancy between the 2008 figures provided in...
    • Social Welfare Fraud
      Question 444: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of fraudulent claims that have been identified by her Department for both Galway City and County in 2009; the amount of...
    • Money Advice and Budgeting Service
      Question 445: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the percentage increase in the number of clients seen in the north Tipperary money advice and budgeting service offices to year...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      Question 446: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason for refusal of disability allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Meath. [3513/10]
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      Question 448: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the position regarding a jobseeker's appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 6; if this appeal will be dealt...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      Question 450: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if the reduction in farm assist awarded in respect of a person (details supplied) is consistent with the percentage reduction...
    • Social Welfare Code
      Question 453: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason lump sums payments received as compensation for injuries incurred is treated the same way as savings when dealing with...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      Question 454: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when a decision will be made on an appeal, submitted in June 2009, against the decision refusing an application for carer's...
    • Social Welfare Code
      Question 455: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the rules for tapered withdrawal of rent supplement or mortgage interest supplement in the case of person returning to work under...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      Question 458: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when social welfare assistance will be awarded in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Longford; and if she will make...
    • Social Welfare Code
      Question 465: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if the qualifying criteria, in terms of age and PRSI contributions history, remains the same for a person to benefit from the free...
    • Pension Provisions
      Question 466: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if her attention has been drawn to the fact that her press release on 3 July 2009 encouraged women who had been working in...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      Question 469: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when an application for domiciliary will be processed in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick. [3814/10]
    • Flood Relief
      Question 470: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the amount that has been made available under the emergency flood relief for flood victims; the criteria governing the use of this...
  • Department of Defence
    • Defence Forces Deployment
      Question 471: To ask the Minister for Defence if he or the officer in command in Sarsfield Barracks, Limerick, received a formal request from Limerick County Council for assistance during the...
    • Capital Projects
      Question 472: To ask the Minister for Defence the new capital projects associated with his Department gone to tender that will begin in 2010; the new capital projects gone to tender that were...
    • Defence Forces Property
      Question 474: To ask the Minister for Defence his plans to dispose of a property (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3585/10]
    • Overseas Missions
      Question 475: To ask the Minister for Defence the remit and the duties carried out by Irish soldiers operating in Afghanistan with the international security assistance force; the number of...
  • Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
    • Grant Payments
      Question 477: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Local Authority Staff
      Question 478: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if the public service embargo prevents the movement of public servants such as planners from one local...
    • Emergency Planning
      Question 479: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 841 of 19 January 2010, if he will confirm whether the Minister of each...
    • Proposed Legislation
      Question 480: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his plans to prepare national health and welfare standards in respect of commercial dog breeding...
    • Departmental Offices
      Question 481: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the proposed opening date for his new Department headquarters at Newtown, County Wexford; and if he will make...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes
      Question 482: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if a full water rate reimbursement scheme will be considered with local authorities for businesses in...
    • Local Government Elections
      Question 483: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if the proposed new mayor for Dublin will represent the entire county of Dublin; and if he will make a...
    • Housing Forum
      Question 484: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the statement in the Towards 2016 policy document that the housing forum...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes
      Question 487: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding the Lough Mask regional water supply scheme; the further position regarding the Shrah...
    • Local Authority Housing
      Question 488: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when will the provision which allows tenants of apartments and maisonettes to buy out their properties be...
    • Capital Projects
      Question 490: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the new capital projects associated with his Department gone to tender that will begin in 2010; the new...
    • Health and Safety Regulations
      Question 491: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of personal injuries claims settled by each local authority in the years 2006, 2007 and 2008...
    • Local Authority Housing
      Question 492: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the housing related legislation expected to come before Dáil Éireann in 2010; if he will indicate a...
    • Turbary Rights
      Question 493: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will give the date for payment for a bog in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway;...
    • Recycling Policy
      Question 494: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the role his Department has in ensuring that all bio-cycle units installed as a condition of planning meet...
    • Planning Issues
      Question 496: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on the anomalies that appear to exist between the decisions of planning departments of local...
    • Waste Disposal
      Question 497: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amount collected nationally by Limerick County Council and by Limerick City Council under the 2009...
    • Local Authority Charges
      Question 498: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if local authorities have the discretion to waive, discount or issue a credit note against commercial rate...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 499: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown of the €14,317,000 provided under I.2 of his Department's vote in the...
    • Turbary Rights
      Question 501: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding an application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway for...
    • Fire Stations
      Question 502: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when an application for funding for a new fire station facility (details supplied) in County Tipperary will...
    • Motor Taxation
      Question 503: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will respond to correspondence regarding the motor tax system from a person (details supplied). ...
    • Local Authority Charges
      Question 504: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he is satisfied with the level of payment of the €200 non-principal private residence charge to local...
    • Local Authority Boundaries
      Question 505: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the boundaries of Dublin Corporation's administrative area on the south side of Dublin in 1961; and if he...
    • Animal Welfare
      Question 507: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if a deer was killed during a hunt (details supplied) on 29 December 2009; and if he will make a statement...
    • Local Authority Levies
      Question 508: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amount of development levies owed to each local authority for the years 2007, 2008 and any indicative...
  • Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
    • Fisheries Protection
      Question 509: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his decision in respect of the Fisheries Bill 2009 in the context of its implications for the retention of...
    • Salmon Management Report
      Question 510: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he is satisfied that the persons worst affected by the ban on salmon fishing have been adequately...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 511: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when the application for an attic insulation grant will be approved in respect of a person (details supplied)...
    • Capital Projects
      Question 513: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the new capital projects associated with his Department gone to tender that will begin in 2010; the new...
    • Cyber Security
      Question 514: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources further to Parliamentary Question No. 41 of 19 November 2009, if the strategy has been finalised; and if he...
    • Job Creation
      Question 515: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of the 15,400 jobs announced on 2 December 2009 that are in the private sector; and if he will make...
    • Telecommunications Services
      Question 516: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the group, body or agency responsible and accountable for monitoring or regulating the extent and quality or...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 518: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the breakdown of expenditure for the €7.4 million allocated to the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland for...
    • Telecommunications Services
      Question 519: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position regarding the provision of proper broadband facilities at Kilmovee, County Mayo; and if he will...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 525: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if, in order to be eligible for wall insulation under the sustainable energy grant scheme, a wall must be of a...
    • Telecommunications Services
      Question 526: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position regarding the provision of broadband facilities at Clonahussy, Edgeworthstown, County Longford on...
    • Economic Competitiveness
      Question 528: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the extent to which energy price costs to the manufacturing or service sectors here compares with the prices...
    • Smart Meters
      Question 530: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of households currently equipped with smart metering technology; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Television Licence Fee
      Question 531: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the extent of the television licence fund reserve; the annual income from television licences; the way in which...
    • Industrial Development
      Question 532: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the extent to which the digital hub project is progressing with original intentions and objectives, costs and...
    • Energy Resources
      Question 533: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when product from the Corrib gas field will be available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3827/10]
    • Alternative Energy Projects
      Question 536: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of alternative energy generation projects operational or pending throughout County Kildare; and if...
    • Telecommunications Services
      Question 539: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if the highest quality broadband and other telecommunication services are available to the health and financial...
    • Information and Communications Technology
      Question 541: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the initiatives he has taken at national or European level to combat spam and the spread of viruses on the...
    • Official Engagements
      Question 542: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of occasions on which he has met with representatives of management or staff of the public and...
    • Postal Services
      Question 544: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans for the development of the postal service with particular reference to the delivery of other services...
    • Digital Terrestrial Television
      Question 545: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position regarding the development and availability of digital television throughout the country; and if he...
  • Department of Agriculture and Food
    • Fishing Industry Development
      Question 546: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food his plans regarding the granting of permission to allow commercial fishermen fish for bass at sea; the way he will ensure...
    • Harbours and Piers
      Question 547: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the progress made in providing a new pier for the fishermen of Cromane, County Kerry due to the fact that this project was...
    • Animal Carcase Disposal
      Question 548: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Longford will be issued a licence to re-open a tannery; and if he will make a...
    • Aquaculture Licences
      Question 549: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the position regarding the usage of salmon aquaculture sites by third parties; if he will indicate within the relevant...
    • Rural Environment Protection Scheme
      Question 550: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of farmers per county due to finish REP scheme three in 2010 and 2011 that have not transferred to REP scheme...
    • Animal Welfare
      Question 551: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when animal health and welfare legislation will be brought forward to replace the 1911 act; and if he will make a statement...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 552: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive a payment under REP scheme four; and if he will make a...
    • Rural Environment Protection Scheme
      Question 553: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when guidelines will issue to agricultural and environment structures offices in relation to REP scheme plans that have...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 554: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a REP scheme payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [3146/10]
    • Capital Projects
      Question 555: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the new capital projects associated with his Department gone to tender that will begin in 2010; the new capital projects...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 556: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of REP scheme four participants whose application for payment are delayed due to a discrepancy in relation to...
    • Fisheries Protection
      Question 560: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the qualifying criteria for the compensation awarded to fishermen in Castlemaine Harbour, County Kerry for storm damage in...
    • Crop Losses
      Question 561: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will introduce a support scheme for the many producers of vegetables and potatoes who have had losses due to the...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 562: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the reason a higher area based payment has not been issued to a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will...
    • Farm Retirement Scheme
      Question 563: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food further to Parliamentary Question No. 212 of 12 November 2009, the status of an application (details supplied) in County...
    • Horse Sport Ireland
      Question 564: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of employees of Horse Sport Ireland in 2008, 2009 and to date in 2010. [3563/10]
    • Pigmeat Sector
      Question 566: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the amount of money awarded to primary and secondary processors and retailers under the pig meat recall scheme; the number...
    • Proposed Legislation
      Question 567: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the action being taken to ensure a co-ordinated approach in animal health and welfare legislation between here and Northern...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 568: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a REP scheme four payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement...
    • Turbary Rights
      Question 570: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food further to Parliamentary Question No. 1025 of 3 November 2009, the progress made to date in 2010 on the case; and if he will...
    • Animal Health Ireland
      Question 571: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food his plans to extend Animal Health Ireland to include sheep, pigs and poultry; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Grant Payments
      Question 572: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will sanction the payments of the 537, REP scheme four payments in County Donegal that are still outstanding from...
    • Animal Welfare
      Question 576: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the results of the assessments carried out on the problem of abandoned horses; the action he will take to assist the...
    • Flood Relief
      Question 577: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the amount that has been made available under the emergency flood relief for farmers; the amount that has been drawn down by...
  • Department of Education and Science
    • Third Level Fees
      Question 578: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the cost to the Exchequer of abolishing third level tuition fees in respect of part-time courses; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Third Level Staff
      Question 579: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if the remuneration of a person (details supplied) in County Cork will be affected by measures introduced in Budget 2010; and if he...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 580: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if, in view of the fact that physical activity is part of the primary school syllabus, he is required to fund the cost of swimming...
    • Child Protection
      Question 581: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he has in place child protection guidelines for schools when they are required to use swimming pools and sports facilities changing...
    • Schools Refurbishment
      Question 582: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will support a school (details supplied) in Dublin 5. [2974/10]
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 583: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when funding will be sanctioned for an extension to a school (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if he will make a statement on...
    • School Management
      Question 584: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding a school (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3059/10]
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 585: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding a building project at a school (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • School Staffing
      Question 586: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the teacher supply panel; if it is proposed to make any changes to this scheme; and the details of same. [3062/10]
    • Residential Institutions Redress Scheme
      Question 587: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the arrangements made to create an independent trust to support the needs of survivors of institutional abuse for general education...
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 589: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will restore full-time provision of a special needs assistant to a person (details supplied) in County Louth; his views on the...
    • School Management
      Question 590: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if it is permissible for non-teaching staff like caretakers to be appointed to the board of management of a school by the patron in...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 591: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the new capital projects associated with his Department gone to tender that will begin in 2010; the new capital projects gone to...
    • School Funding
      Question 592: To ask the Minister for Education and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 383 of 17 December 2009, the position regarding same; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 593: To ask the Minister for Education and Science further to Parliamentary Question No 1262 of 16 September 2009 the status of this application; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • School Accommodation
      Question 594: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of lease portacabins at schools in each of the counties of Cavan and Monaghan; the number of years the portacabins are...
    • Site Acquisitions
      Question 595: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the funding that has been made available for 2010 in respect of the construction of schools at Tyrellstown, Dublin 15; when the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 598: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding a school building (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; if he will expedite a decision to allow the project to...
    • Student Support Schemes
      Question 599: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of students in County Donegal who received financial assistance from the millennium partnership fund in the most recent...
    • Higher Education Grants
      Question 601: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of students in County Donegal who were eligible for the student maintenance grant in 2008. [3290/10]
    • Youthreach Programme
      Question 603: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of persons in training and education in Youthreach and vocational training opportunities schemes in County Donegal. [3292/10]
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 605: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of schools at the various stages of architectural planning in December 2008. [3307/10]
    • School Accommodation
      Question 610: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if and when the Primrose Gate Estate entrance of a school (details supplied) in County Kildare will be opened, in view of the...
    • Schools Refurbishment
      Question 611: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will provide funding under the summer works scheme to a school (details supplied) in County Kerry to carry out extensive...
    • School Staffing
      Question 612: To ask the Minister for Education and Science his views on the fact that only 73% of second level teachers here are in permanent teaching posts, which is in contrast with most...
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 613: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will report on the number of special needs assistants employed in schools in County Clare as of 31 December 2009; and if he will...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 615: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the stage of development of a proposed new school in Kilfinane, County Limerick. [3521/10]
    • Departmental Projects
      Question 616: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will support a project (details supplied) in Dublin 5. [3523/10]
    • School Staffing
      Question 617: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding a school (details supplied) in County Wicklow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3544/10]
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 618: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when a permanent building will be provided to a national school (details supplied) in County Kilkenny to replace the temporary...
    • School Transport
      Question 619: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a person (details supplied) in County Dublin is entitled to financial assistance from his Department in respect of their child to...
    • Higher Education Grants
      Question 620: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when a person (details supplied) in County Longford will be awarded their maintenance grant; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Schools Refurbishment
      Question 621: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if funding is available to schools for repairs caused by flooding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3649/10]
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 623: To ask the Minister for Education and Science his plans to open a new school at a location (details supplied) in County Galway in September 2020; and if the patronage of this...
    • Departmental Bodies
      Question 626: To ask the Minister for Education and Science his plans to appoint parents of children with special needs to the National Council for Special Education; and if he will make a...
    • Schools Refurbishment
      Question 627: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the summer works scheme for 2010; and the cuts under the budget 2010. [3818/10]
    • Site Acquisition
      Question 629: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding a school (details supplied) in Dublin 11; if he intends to purchase a property in acknowledgement of the...