Written answers
Thursday, 28 January 2010
- Department of Education and Science
- Special Educational Needs
Question 15: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if the National Council for Special Education has concluded its review of special needs assistants; if he will publish the final...
- School Accommodation
Question 16: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he has received applications for permanent accommodation from schools (details supplied) in County Cork; the progress made in...
- Higher Education Grants
Question 18: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will reverse the proposed budget cut of 5% to the student maintenance grant. [4231/10]
- Vocational Training Opportunities Scheme
Question 19: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will reverse his decision to cut the allowances of participants on vocational training opportunities scheme, Youthreach and...
- Higher Education Grants
Question 20: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will reverse the decision of budget 2010 to remove the eligibility criteria of those availing of the back to education allowance...
- School Staffing
Question 22: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the amount that will be saved by the abolition of the supply panel of teachers in Budget 2010; if the equivalent amount of substitution...
- Millennium Partnership Fund
Question 23: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will reverse the budget decision to abolish funding to the millennium partnership fund. [4234/10]
- Special Educational Needs
Question 24: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of schools here equipped with special autism units; the number and location of schools still awaiting such provision; the...
- School Staffing
Question 27: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a special needs assistant will be provided in respect of a pupil (details supplied) in a school in County Monaghan; his views on...
- Schools Refurbishment
Question 28: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will reverse the proposed budget cut of 27% for new school buildings and repairs in primary schools. [4235/10]
- Special Educational Needs
Question 29: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the terms of the home tuition scheme for children with autism; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the funding for...
- Pupil-Teacher Ratio
Question 30: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the highest and lowest pupil-teacher ratios at primary schools here, on a county basis; the degree to which this has fluctuated in the...
- School Closures
Question 31: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the policies that are in place on the closure of schools due to weather; if schools have been informed of these policies; and if he...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 32: To ask the Minister for Education and Science his plans to review the allocation of special needs assistants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3674/10]
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Redundancy Payments
Question 33: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 77 of 1 December 2009, if her attention has been drawn to the fact that...
- Industrial Disputes
Question 34: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if she will make a statement on a matter (details supplied). [4275/10]
- Departmental Correspondence
Question 35: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if correspondence submitted to her Department on 7 January 2009 from a company (details supplied) in County...
- Company Closures
Question 36: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if she will assist employees of a company (details supplied) in Dublin 11, following the recent announcement...
- Departmental Agencies
Question 37: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the titles, responsibilities, grades and professional qualifications of all 50 staff employed in the Office of...
- FÁS Training Programmes
Question 39: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the way in which a person's eligibility to apply for the FÁS work placement is affected by a break in their...
- Employment Support Services
Question 40: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if there is assistance available to employers who are prepared to provide employment and training to a person...
- FÁS Training Programmes
Question 41: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if it is the position that there is 100% funding available from FÁS for courses ran by companies (details...
- Departmental Staff
Question 42: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of days taken off for trade union leave in her Department by civil servants in 2007, 2008 and 2009;...
- Department of Finance
- Personal Debt Management
Question 43: To ask the Minister for Finance the work that has been completed in view of the revised Programme for Government; the new initiatives that will be announced in relation to helping...
- Flood Relief
Question 44: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will support a matter (details supplied) in Dublin 5. [4271/10]
- Tax Reliefs
Question 45: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will introduce a rebate in the MED1 form for those who privately accessed cervical cancer vaccination following the Department of Health and...
- Consumer Price Index
Question 46: To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No 80 of 19 November 2009, if he will publish the full analysis of his Department and provide a copy to this...
- Architectural Heritage
Question 47: To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of money that was spent by the Office of Public Works on a building (details supplied) in County Donegal; the number of days the building...
- Public Service Pay
Question 48: To ask the Minister for Finance if the public sector pay cuts apply when contract employees in a university here have their funding 100% sourced from philanthropic or private...
- Banking Sector Regulation
Question 49: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of prosecutions brought for offences under the Central Bank Acts 1942 to 2004 in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008. [4331/10]
- Land Rates
Question 50: To ask the Minister for Finance if lands developed for horticulture and used solely in connection with carrying on horticultural activities is rateable under the Valuation Act 2001;...
- Tax Code
Question 51: To ask the Minister for Finance the reason a person who purchased houses in both November 2003 and November 2007 is being penalised in respect of mortgage interest relief in view of...
- Departmental Staff
Question 52: To ask the Minister for Finance the value of the union subscriptions collected from the payroll of civil servants in any given year; the breakdown of such by the union or staff...
- Tax Code
Question 54: To ask the Minister for Finance if his budget day announcement in relation to mortgage interest relief means that a person with a mortgage since 2000 is entitled to claim mortgage...
- Pension Provisions
Question 55: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of retired civil servants who have made a voluntary surrender of all or part of their pension since April 2008; and if he will make a...
- Department of Health and Children
- Inter-Country Adoptions
Question 57: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the Hague Convention will be ratified here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4249/10]
- Medical Cards
Question 58: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding a renewal of a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a...
- Youth Services
Question 59: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding funding for Longford youth services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4266/10]
- Health Services
Question 60: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding an application for a primary medical certificate in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Longford; and...
- Vaccination Programme
Question 61: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to reimburse persons who have privately accessed the cervical cancer vaccination treatment following her decision not to...
- Pension Provisions
Question 62: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the backlog will be cleared regarding the revised method for reckoning variable pensionable allowances for pension purposes in the...
- Medical Cards
Question 63: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a person (details supplied) in County Galway qualifies for a medical card; and if so, if one will be provided. [4302/10]
- Youth Services
Question 69: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the day of action event organised by a coalition of Dublin youth projects on 27 January 2010 at...
- Hospital Services
Question 70: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Kildare will receive a date for an MRI scan; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Medical Cards
Question 71: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) will receive a date for a medical procedure; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4341/10]
- Proposed Legislation
Question 72: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the Garda Vetting Bill will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4343/10]
- Nursing Homes Support Scheme
Question 73: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding a person (details supplied) in County Cork, who has made an application under the fair deal nursing home support...
- Departmental Staff
Question 74: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the value of union subscriptions collected from payroll by her Department or agencies under the aegis of her Department from doctors,...
- Medical Cards
Question 75: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if she will make a statement on...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 77: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the cost of implementing the Mental Health Act 2001 since it was fully implemented from 1 November 2006; and if she will make a statement...
- Pre-school Services
Question 78: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the take up under the early child care and education scheme in crèches here to date in 2010; if her attention has been drawn to the fact...
- Inter-Country Adoptions
Question 81: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason he has appeared to ignore the pleas made during the second stage of the Adoption Bill to facilitate those applicants who are...
- Departmental Staff
Question 82: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of days taken off for trade union leave in her Department by civil servants in 2007, 2008 and 2009; and if she will make a...
- Department of Transport
- Road Traffic Offences
Question 84: To ask the Minister for Transport his views on correspondence from persons (details supplied) in Dublin 9. [4292/10]
- Cycle Facilities
Question 85: To ask the Minister for Transport if he is satisfied that the road traffic laws make sufficient provision to protect the safety of cyclists in the city where inadvertent opening of...
- Departmental Staff
Question 86: To ask the Minister for Transport the number of days taken off for trade union leave in his Department by civil servants in 2007, 2008 and 2009; and if he will make a statement on...
- Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
- Garda Vetting Services
Question 88: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of sporting organisations that have made applications to the Garda Central Vetting Unit in 2009 for vetting of...
- Closed Circuit Television Systems
Question 89: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when digital closed circuit television will be provided to a Garda station (details supplied) in County Wicklow to replace...
- Crime Levels
Question 90: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of prosecutions brought for the offence of false accounting contrary to section 10 of the Criminal Justice (Theft...
- Criminal Prosections
Question 91: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of prosecutions brought for an offence contrary to section 6 of the Criminal Justice (Theft and Fraud Offences)...
- Departmental Staff
Question 93: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the value of the trade union and staff association subscriptions collected from payroll by his Department from members of...
- Residency Permits
Question 94: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding an application for family reunification in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Carlow;...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 96: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding an application for citizenship in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 22; and if he...
- Asylum Applications
Question 97: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding an application for residency in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 98: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding citizenship in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Carlow; and if he will make a...
- Asylum Applications
Question 100: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding an application for residency in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Waterford; if new...
- Deportation Orders
Question 103: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding an application for residency or naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied) in County...
- Garda Investigations
Question 104: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will commit to a full re-investigation of the case of a person (details supplied). [4424/10]
- Illegal Immigrants
Question 105: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of persons who have entered the country through airports here with Taiwanese or Republic of China travel...
- International Students
Question 106: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of international students attending colleges here broken down by sub-group (details supplied) annually since...
- Departmental Staff
Question 107: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of days taken off for trade union leave in his Department by civil servants in 2007, 2008 and 2009; and if he...
- Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism
- Sports Funding
Question 111: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he will make a statement on the case of persons (details supplied) in County Limerick. [4278/10]
- Garda Vetting Services
Question 113: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism his views on the need to vet all sports leaders and coaches who work with children and if such vetting should be compulsory; his...
- Departmental Staff
Question 114: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the number of days taken off for trade union leave in his Department by civil servants in 2007, 2008 and 2009; and if he will make a...
- Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
- Community Development
Question 115: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will give assurances for continued funding in 2011, 2012 and onwards for a community development project...
- National Drugs Strategy
Question 118: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the action he will take regarding head shops; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4327/10]
- Inland Waterways
Question 119: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will give a date for the opening of the Royal Canal from Dublin right through to the River Shannon due to the...
- Departmental Staff
Question 120: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the number of days taken off for trade union leave in his Department by civil servants in 2007, 2008 and 2009; and if...
- Department of Social and Family Affairs
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 123: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the position regarding a carer's allowance application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she...
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 129: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the status of an appeal application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on...
- Pension Provisions
Question 130: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary is entitled to a contributory pension; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 134: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if her attention has been drawn to the fact that all required or requested documentation has already been furnished in respect of...
- Community Development
Question 135: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when will a jobs facilitator be appointed for Castlerea, County Roscommon. [4432/10]
- Social Welfare Code
Question 137: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if her attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin whereby through an anomaly,...
