Written answers
Wednesday, 3 February 2010
- Department of Finance
- Financial Institutions Support Scheme
Question 95: To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to any recent interest from foreign investors in taking strategic or controlling stakes in any of the credit...
- National Asset Management Agency
Question 96: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has instructed, or will instruct, the National Asset Management Agency board of directors to prepare a new, realistic and updated business plan...
- Departmental Staff
Question 98: To ask the Minister for Finance if applicants from outside the public sector are considered for the filling of top posts in his Department. [5257/10]
- Judicial Remuneration
Question 99: To ask the Minister for Finance the salaries which would be payable to members of the Judiciary if the legislation enacted to provide for the public sector pension deductions and...
- Banking Sector Recapitalisation
Question 100: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has met with the board of Anglo Irish Bank regarding options for the development of the bank. [5195/10]
- National Asset Management Agency
Question 101: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has been approached by interested parties with respect to taking shareholdings in the National Asset Management Agency special purpose...
- Financial Institutions Support Scheme
Question 102: To ask the Minister for Finance the progress made to date with the putative merger of building societies (details supplied); the amount of financial support he expects the...
- Banking Sector Regulation
Question 103: To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the establishment and operations of the credit review system on business lending, announced in budget 2010; and if he will...
- Banking Sector Recapitalisation
Question 104: To ask the Minister for Finance if and when he will convert the State's preference shareholdings, through the National Pension Reserve Fund, in banks (details supplied) into...
- Public Service Remuneration
Question 105: To ask the Minister for Finance if he is satisfied that bonus pay linked to performances of public service managers should be regarded as part of core pay. [5251/10]
- Capital Expenditure
Question 106: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on new sources of funding for infrastructural development; and his further views on disposing of certain State assets to provide seed...
- Commissions of Inquiry
Question 107: To ask the Minister for Finance if the proposed banking inquiry will have any constraints on its investigations and the publication of findings; and if he will make a statement on...
- Banking Sector Recapitalisation
Question 108: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether Anglo Irish Bank is an appropriate vehicle for expanding small medium enterprise lending; and if he will make a statement on...
- Financial Services Sector
Question 109: To ask the Minister for Finance the principles that will underlie his legislative proposals to deal with distressed financial institutions; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Tax Yield
Question 110: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will make a statement on the December 2009 Exchequer returns. [5309/10]
- Capital Expenditure
Question 111: To ask the Minister for Finance the details of the national solidarity bond, announced in budget 2010; if the intention is to ring-fence all money borrowed through this mechanism...
- Banking Sector Regulation
Question 112: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether changes in bank legislation are warranted. [5261/10]
- Mortgage Debt
Question 113: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of meetings which have taken place to date on the issue of developing policy on mortgage arrears and home repossessions; and if he will...
- Banking Sector Regulation
Question 114: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has had discussions with the European Commission regarding the future structure of the banking sector here in view of State aid decisions and...
- Price Inflation
Question 115: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the fact that price inflation continued during 2009 in the sub-indices of education and miscellaneous goods and services at a time when...
- Fiscal Policy
Question 116: To ask the Minister for Finance his forecast for net migration patterns here for 2010 and 2011; the way he expects these patterns to impact on tax revenues, welfare payments,...
- National Asset Management Agency
Question 117: To ask the Minister for Finance if he envisages any changes in the operation of the National Asset Management Agency in the context of EU approval; and if he will make a statement...
- Financial Institutions Support Scheme
Question 118: To ask the Minister for Finance the progress that is being made with respect to the viability and business plans for the credit institutions covered by the bank guarantee submitted...
- Banking Sector Recapitalisation
Question 119: To ask the Minister for Finance the way he plans to fund a recapitalisation programme for the banks during 2010. [5217/10]
- Services for People with Disabilities
Question 120: To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 115 of 13 May 2009, the amount allocated and expended each year over the period 2006 to 2009 under the...
- National Asset Management Agency
Question 121: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has had cause to revise any of the assumptions made in the draft National Asset Management Agency business plan, particularly with respect to...
- Financial Services Regulation
Question 122: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether any of the events or actions of parties involved in the collapse of the banking and property sector, which occurred since...
- Pension Provisions
Question 123: To ask the Minister for Finance his projections for the level of funding in the National Pension Reserve Fund over the next three years; if he will continue to divert funding from...
- Financial Institutions Support Scheme
Question 127: To ask the Minister for Finance the way he expects the losses and loss provisions on the mortgage loan books of the credit institutions covered by the bank guarantee to evolve over...
- EU Funding
Question 129: To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 103 to 106 of 1 December 2009, the progress made in making the funding available in order that the INTERREG...
- Public Service Contracts
Question 130: To ask the Minister for Finance if, in the interest of value for money for the taxpayer, he will alter the pre-qualification criteria in respect of tendering for public projects in...
- Public Sector Pay
Question 131: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will impose pay cuts on employees of commercial semi-State bodies and agencies during 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- National Asset Management Agency
Question 132: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm comments (details supplied) that the National Asset Management Agency will rent properties for the purpose of social housing with...
- Insurance Industry
Question 134: To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which he monitors developments in the insurance industry with particular reference to the level of premium increases in the past 12...
- Flood Relief
Question 135: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide funding for a relocation grant to families severely affected by the recent flooding; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Fiscal Policy
Question 136: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has adopted a set of measures drawn from the Special Group on Public Service Numbers and Expenditure Programmes Report; the level of savings...
- Flood Relief
Question 137: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has sought funds under the European Union Solidarity Fund for victims of the recent flooding; if he has secured such funding; if he has sought...
- Tax Code
Question 138: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has any plans to adjust the stamp duty regime to take account of the drop in house prices and the collapse in the property market. [5104/10]
- National Asset Management Agency
Question 139: To ask the Minister for Finance if the average discount to be paid on assets transferred to the National Asset Management Agency is expected to be less than the 30% initially...
- Tax Code
Question 140: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has any plans to reform the criteria relating to the artists' tax exemption; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5334/10]
- Departmental Agencies
Question 141: To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the proposed merger of the Competition Authority, the National Consumer Agency and the consumer protection function of the...
- National Asset Management Agency
Question 142: To ask the Minister for Finance the month on month percentage transfer of toxic properties to National Asset Management Agency envisioned over the next six months. [5101/10]
- Banking Sector
Question 143: To ask the Minister for Finance the role he sees for Anglo Irish Bank in the future of Irish banking. [5098/10]
- Tax Yield
Question 145: To ask the Minister for Finance the further details on measures announced in budget 2010 with respect to the treatment of non-residents for tax purposes; the revenue he expects...
- Banking Sector
Question 148: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the oft quoted assertion that the collapse of the economy was in some way attributable to low interest rates which were dictated by the...
- Price Inflation
Question 149: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will make a statement on the 2009 outturn for both consumer pricing index and harmonised index of companies' prices measures of inflation; his...
- Banking Sector Regulation
Question 150: To ask the Minister for Finance the cost of nationalising Anglo Irish bank to date in 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5097/10]
- Capital Expenditure
Question 151: To ask the Minister for Finance the details of the 2009 to 2014 capital expenditure programme envisaged in the latest stability programme update, published alongside budget 2010;...
- Cross-Border Trade
Question 152: To ask the Minister for Finance if an estimate has been carried out by his Department into the amount of VAT and excise duty lost through cross-Border shopping; if he is satisfied...
- Banking Sector Recapitalisation
Question 153: To ask the Minister for Finance the impact on the general Government balance of the refusal by the European Commission to approve the payment of interest dividend on the preference...
- Banking Sector Regulation
Question 154: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the viability of a banking division at a bank (details supplied) as an independent going concern in view of its unsustainable loans to...
- Tax Code
Question 155: To ask the Minister for Finance the parameters of the revised arrangements for the artists' tax exemption as outlined in his recent budgetary statement; and if he will make a...
- Credit Availability
Question 156: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will make a statement on the current small and medium enterprises lending environment; the proposals he has planned which would ameliorate...
- National Asset Management Agency
Question 158: To ask the Minister for Finance if he envisions the National Asset Management Agency receiving some form of income from the State for the purposes of the provision of social...
- Flood Relief
Question 159: To ask the Minister for Finance the steps he is taking to address the River Shannon catchment flooding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5047/10]
- Public Sector Remuneration
Question 161: To ask the Minister for Finance if the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Act 2009 will impact on any employees, such as employees at Health Service...
- Financial Services Regulation
Question 162: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the creation of a European systemic risk board; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46848/09]
- Department of An Taoiseach
- Unemployment Levels
Question 163: To ask the Taoiseach the number of persons unemployed on 1 January to 31 December 2009 and 1 January to 31 January 2010 in each district office (details supplied); and if he will...
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 165: To ask the Taoiseach if she will state, in view of the decentralisation programme announced in December 2003, the properties rented or acquired as a consequence of the...
- Appointments to State Boards
Question 166: To ask the Taoiseach the names addresses of all nominees to bodies or agencies under the remit of his Department that were appointed since 26 June 1997, detailing by whom they were...
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Economic Competitiveness
Question 167: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the action she has taken or proposes to take to bring competitiveness in the manufacturing, commercial and...
- FÁS Training Programmes
Question 168: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the rules and regulations in relation to persons in receipt of jobseeker's benefit taking up a FÁS course;...
- Redundancy Payments
Question 171: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the redundancy payment a person (details supplied) in County Meath will be entitled to since they were made...
- FÁS Training Programmes
Question 172: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of persons that have registered on-line for FÁS training courses in the past 12 months; the...
- Job Initiative Programme
Question 174: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason salaries have been linked to the national wage agreement for participants in job initiative...
- Job Creation
Question 175: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if special attention will be given to the job creation needs of Tallaght, Dublin 24, where there has been an...
- FÁS Training Programmes
Question 176: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if her attention has been drawn to the fact that redundant apprentices from a company (details supplied) are...
- Community Employment Schemes
Question 177: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the percentage of the labour market activation programme funding that is absorbed by community employment...
- FÁS Training Programmes
Question 178: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if a person (details supplied) in County Mayo can remain on their FÁS scheme for an extended period. [5627/10]
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 180: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if she will state, in view of the decentralisation programme announced in December 2003, the properties...
- Appointments to State Boards
Question 181: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the names addresses of all nominees to bodies or agencies under the remit of her Department that were...
- Department of Finance
- Financial Institutions Support Scheme
Question 182: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has met with the board of Anglo Irish Bank regarding the options for the development of the bank. [5684/10]
- Departmental Correspondence
Question 183: To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 103 of 9 July 2008, the position regarding an application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County...
- Tax Code
Question 184: To ask the Minister for Finance her estimate of the added costs of the mortgage interest relief scheme to the Exchequer for every general and average 1% rise in interest rates....
- Public Sector Pay
Question 185: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has utilised his powers under Section 6 of the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No.2) Act 2009; if so, the details of his...
- Tax Code
Question 188: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on providing tax relief at 33% on buying a bicycle under his tax initiative which would be equal for all taxpayers instead of providing...
- Pension Provisions
Question 189: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will exclude researcher officers at universities from the pension levy, in view of the fact that researchers rarely have full-time employment,...
- Tax Code
Question 190: To ask the Minister for Finance the tax implications for a person who wants to swap land with a neighbouring person; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5531/10]
- European Central Bank Policy
Question 191: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the economic situation in Greece, the pressure applied on it by the European Central Bank to close its fiscal deficit and the ECB...
- Financial Institutions Support Scheme
Question 192: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the recent downgrade of bonds issued by Anglo Irish Bank; the way this is affecting the ability of the bank to raise liquidity or to...
- EU Funding
Question 193: To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 201 of 27 January 2010, if he has made the application for emergency funding under the EU Solidarity Fund and...
- Economic Competitiveness
Question 194: To ask the Minister for Finance the action he has taken or proposes to take to improve the competitiveness in the economy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5555/10]
- Insurance Industry
Question 196: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has compared the cost of various forms of insurance cover here with that applicable in other EU member states; the extent to which the charges...
- Mortgage Interest Rates
Question 199: To ask the Minister for Finance if mortgage borrowers are likely to become the victims following the overuse of tracker mortgages by lending agencies; the action or actions he...
- Tax Yield
Question 201: To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which VAT, income tax, corporation tax and indirect taxation returns are so far in keeping with budgetary projections; and if he will...
- Credit Availability
Question 202: To ask the Minister for Finance if a specific request has been made to the lending agencies to facilitate first-time home buyers; the response to such requests; and if he will make...
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 204: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will state, in view of the decentralisation programme announced in December 2003, the properties rented or acquired as a consequence of the...
- Appointments to State Boards
Question 205: To ask the Minister for Finance the names and addresses of all nominees to bodies or agencies under the remit of his Department that were appointed since 26 June 1997, detailing by...
- Department of Health and Children
- Services for People with Disabilities
Question 206: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will ensure that the right to preschool and primary school access is fully vindicated in respect of a person (details supplied)...
- Nursing Homes Support Scheme
Question 207: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of applications awaiting approval in the Health Service Executive west area under the fair deal scheme; and if she will make...
- Hospital Accommodation
Question 210: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of long-stay patients who are occupying acute hospital beds in each of the hospitals in the Health Service Executive west...
- Medical Cards
Question 211: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding a medical card application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; and if the medical card will...
- Health Services
Question 212: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason a day care centre (details supplied) in County Cork has not operated for the past number of weeks. [5433/10]
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 213: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will arrange an appointment for a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [5435/10]
- Medical Cards
Question 215: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if patients suffering from cancer have an automatic entitlement to a medical card; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5449/10]
- Accident and Emergency Services
Question 216: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if drinking water is provided free of charge to patients in hospital accident and emergency departments here; and if she will make a...
- Health Service Staff
Question 217: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if dentists have been redeployed to administer the H1N1 flu vaccination; if so, the number of dentists that have been redeployed; the...
- Vaccination Programme
Question 218: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the details of the new cervical cancer vaccination programme; if she will vaccinate girls in second year up to sixth year in view of the...
- Preschool Services
Question 219: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of parents that have signed up for the new early childhood care and education scheme; the number of child-care providers...
- Health Services
Question 220: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the steps she is taking to provide a better service regarding an in-house psychologist at a location, (details supplied) in County...
- Health Service Staff
Question 223: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of doctors assigned to provide medical examinations for Australian visa applicants in the eastern region. [5491/10]
- Thalidomide Survivors' Compensation
Question 224: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her Department and the Health Service Executive are cognisant of the fact that, among the small cohort of thalidomide victims...
- Medical Cards
Question 225: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will ascertain the position regarding an application submitted for an over-70s medical card in respect of a person (details...
- Hospital Security
Question 226: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of incidents in which hospital patients have reported property stolen; the number of such cases which have resulted in a...
- Accident and Emergency Services
Question 227: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will confirm that it is intended to cease all emergency care at the South Infirmary Victoria University Hospital, Cork, under the...
- Hospital Charges
Question 228: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if patients who are undergoing courses of chemotherapy treatment are obliged to pay the daily public ward charge on each occasion that...
- Health Services
Question 229: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will support the case of a person (details supplied). [5532/10]
- Hospital Staff
Question 230: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the long standing term-time scheme arrangement which applied to the staff at Saint Ita's Hospital, Portrane, County Dublin, has been...
- Tobacco Control
Question 231: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans for the future of the Office of Tobacco Control; the person who will carry out the ongoing work of this office into the...
- Medical Cards
Question 234: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a medical card will issue in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 24; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Vaccination Programme
Question 235: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a parent who is now unemployed and who paid a total of €760 during 2009 to have their two teenage daughters vaccinated against...
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 236: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will state, in view of the decentralisation programme announced in December 2003, the properties rented or acquired as a...
- Medical Cards
Question 237: To ask the Minister for Health and Children, further to Parliamentary Question No. 305 of 20 October 2009, if she will contact the Health Service Executive to insist on a...
- Nursing Home Subventions
Question 238: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if nursing homes and community hospitals that were supported by the State before the introduction of the nursing home support scheme...
- Appointments to State Boards
Question 239: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the names addresses of all nominees to bodies or agencies under the remit of her Department that were appointed since 26 June 1997,...
- Medical Cards
Question 240: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of adults with medical cards at 1 January for each year from 2005 to 2009 on a county basis. [5671/10]
- Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme
Question 242: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason a sum of money was deducted as owing to the Health Service Executive with reference to the health repayment scheme in respect...
- Stem Cell Research
Question 243: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will support a matter (details supplied). [5678/10]
- Inter-Country Adoptions
Question 244: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding a couple who have already adopted a child from Russia and have met with a second child from the same country that...
- Department of Transport
- Public Transport
Question 245: To ask the Minister for Transport the number of buses in the Bus Éireann and Dublin Bus fleet for the years 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and to date in 2010; and if he will make a...
- Road Safety Authority
Question 246: To ask the Minister for Transport the budget for the Road Safety Authority in 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5487/10]
- Roads Network
Question 247: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will direct the National Roads Authority, under section 41 of the Roads Act, 1993, or otherwise, to upgrade and maintain the N17 between...
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 248: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will state, in view of the decentralisation programme announced in December 2003, the properties rented or acquired as a consequence of the...
- Public Transport
Question 249: To ask the Minister for Transport if his Department's project to install real time passenger information for bus stops will be extended beyond the greater Dublin area; if it will...
- Appointments to State Boards
Question 251: To ask the Minister for Transport the names addresses of all nominees to bodies or agencies under the remit of his Department that were appointed since 26 June 1997, detailing by...
- Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
- Border Controls
Question 252: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will address the concerns of a person (details supplied) regarding Schengen Visas; and if he will make a statement on...
- Prison Drug Treatment Services
Question 253: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of prisons that are currently operating a methadone maintenance programme; the number of prisoners that are...
- Garda Investigations
Question 254: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the file in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Sligo will be reviewed in order that an investigation will...
- Irish Prison Service
Question 255: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the cost of keeping one prisoner in St. Patrick's Institution, Dublin, for one year; if health and education schemes are...
- Garda Investigations
Question 256: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the culprits to the 78 hoax call-outs of the explosive ordnance disposal team from the period from 1 January to 15...
- Neighbourhood Watch Schemes
Question 257: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of neighbourhood watch schemes in operation; the number in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on...
- Community Graffiti Reduction Programme
Question 258: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the amount of moneys allocated under the community graffiti reduction programme; the communities at which this funding was...
- Garda Stations
Question 259: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will consider funding in respect of additional accommodation for Coolock Garda station, Dublin 5; and if he will make...
- Garda Deployment
Question 260: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of gardaí stationed at Coolock, Finglas, Store Street, Blanchardstown, Kevin Street and Donnybrook Garda...
- Garda Recruitment
Question 262: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason for the delay in recruiting new gardaí who have passed the relevant examinations and interviews; when the next...
- Cross-Border Projects
Question 263: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the detail of all cross-Border programmes, initiatives, areas of co-operation and similar which his Department is currently...
- Garda Transport
Question 264: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a garda car will be made available to a Garda station (details supplied) on a full-time basis; and if he will make a...
- Departmental Correspondence
Question 265: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will support the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5. [5510/10]
- Refugee Status
Question 266: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of programme refugees to be accepted here in 2009; the number of other persons provided with residency through...
- Garda Operations
Question 267: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of Garda hours spent as a result of a licensed premises (details supplied) on Friday and Saturday nights; the...
- Asylum Applications
Question 268: 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...
- Visa Applications
Question 269: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if a student visa will be granted to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Asylum Applications
Question 270: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when an application for leave to remain will be determined in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Meath; and...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 271: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 266 of 13 October 2009, the basis under which a person (details supplied) in County...
- Residency Permits
Question 272: 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 Dublin; and if he...
- Refugee Status
Question 273: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a garda national immigration bureau card will be renewed in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15; and...
- Residency Permits
Question 274: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding an application for residency and citizenship in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin...
- Asylum Applications
Question 277: 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 Dublin 1; and...
- Residency Permits
Question 278: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding a review of residency status in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15; and if he will...
- Visa Applications
Question 279: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if travel documents will issue to a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15 in order that they can travel to Congo to obtain...
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 280: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will state, in view of the decentralisation programme announced in December 2003, the properties rented or acquired...
- Appointments to State Boards
Question 281: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the names and addresses of all nominees to bodies or agencies under the remit of his Department that were appointed since...
- Garda Investigations
Question 282: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding a case (details supplied). [5676/10]
- Department of Foreign Affairs
- Human Rights Issues
Question 284: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his attention has been drawn to a large number of Roma families living in camps in north Mitrovica, Kosovo, which are highly toxic with...
- International Agreements
Question 285: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs his plans to allow flexibility to African, Caribbean and Pacific countries in the negotiation of economic partnership agreements, in view of...
- Cross-Border Projects
Question 286: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the detail of all cross-Border programmes, initiatives, areas of co-operation and similar which his Department is currently engaged in or...
- Northern Ireland Issues
Question 287: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will report on his efforts during January and February 2010 to find solutions in respect of his contacts at the Northern Ireland...
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 288: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will state, in view of the decentralisation programme announced in December 2003, the properties rented or acquired as a consequence...
- Appointments to State Boards
Question 289: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the names and addresses of all nominees to bodies or agencies under the remit of his Department that were appointed since 26 June 1997,...
- Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism
- Departmental Properties
Question 290: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism his views on providing land for allotments on his lands at Abbotstown, County Dublin, pending the completion of the sports campus;...
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 291: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he will state, in view of the decentralisation programme announced in December 2003, the properties rented or acquired as a...
- Appointments to State Boards
Question 292: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the names addresses of all nominees to bodies or agencies under the remit of his Department that were appointed since 26 June 1997,...
- Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
- Drugs Education
Question 293: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs his plans to curb the proliferation of head shops here; the way he will inform and educate young persons regarding...
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 294: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will state, in view of the decentralisation programme announced in December 2003, the properties rented or...
- Appointments to State Boards
Question 295: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the names addresses of all nominees to bodies or agencies under the remit of his Department that were appointed since...
- Department of Social and Family Affairs
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 296: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if her attention has been drawn to the fact that an application for jobseeker's allowance in respect of a person (details...
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 298: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the position regarding an disability allowance appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [5397/10]
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 299: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason a person on jobseeker's allowance will lose their payment if they take up a place on a FÁS training course; and if she...
- Money Advice and Budgeting Service
Question 304: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of persons that have used the Monetary Advise Budgeting Services in County Donegal in 2009; and if she will make a...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 305: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she will expedite an application for a social welfare payment in respect of a person (details supplied) to enable them to avail...
- Pension Provisions
Question 307: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if her attention has been drawn to the distress caused to a person (details supplied) in County Dublin by her Department's...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 308: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the social welfare payments a person (details supplied) in Dublin 14 will be entitled to when their job comes to an end. [5462/10]
- Pension Provisions
Question 309: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the details of the Homemakers Act; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5463/10]
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 310: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when jobseeker's benefit arrears in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Offaly will be calculated and awarded; and if...
- Pension Provisions
Question 312: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if a decision has been made on an application for non-contributory pension in respect of a person (details supplied) in County...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 313: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason a person (details supplied) has not received payment of jobseeker's allowance; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Social Welfare Code
Question 314: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if persons on industrial action or on strike from the work place can claim social welfare; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 316: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the position regarding a child benefit application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; and when payment will...
- Pension Provisions
Question 322: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if, in relation to an application for a non-contributory State pension in respect of a person (details supplied) in County...
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 323: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she will state, in view of the decentralisation programme announced in December 2003, the properties rented or acquired as a...
- Appointments to State Boards
Question 326: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the names and addresses of all nominees to bodies or agencies under the remit of her Department that were appointed since 26 June...
- Pension Provisions
Question 327: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the position regarding an application for invalidity pension in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she...
- Department of Defence
- Cross-Border Projects
Question 329: To ask the Minister for Defence the detail of all cross-Border programmes, initiatives, areas of co-operation and similar which his Department is currently engaged in or about to...
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 330: To ask the Minister for Defence if he will state, in view of the decentralisation programme announced in December 2003, the properties rented or acquired as a consequence of that...
- Appointments to State Boards
Question 331: To ask the Minister for Defence the names and addresses of all nominees to bodies or agencies under the remit of his Department that were appointed since 26 June 1997, detailing by...
- Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
- Local Authority Staff
Question 332: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the details of the mandatory retirement age (details supplied). [5513/10]
- Foreshore Licences
Question 333: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if all the recommendations of the marine licence vetting committee were implemented in respect of a foreshore...
- Social Housing Leasing Initiative
Question 335: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the rationale and criteria for the long-term leasing scheme for the rental of accommodation from the private...
- Planning Issues
Question 336: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will support a matter (details supplied). [5391/10]
- Construction Industry Review
Question 337: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the progress made on the recommendations of the National Consumer Agency Report Putting the Consumer First in...
- Water and Sewerage Schemes
Question 338: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the progress that has been made to date in delivering a scheme (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if...
- Housing Grants
Question 339: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when funding will be available to Mayo County Council under the mobility grant scheme; and if he will make a...
- Social and Affordable Housing
Question 342: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his plans to provide social housing through long-term leasing and the rental accommodation scheme from...
- Flood Relief
Question 343: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his plans to introduce a relocation scheme for houses affected by the recent flooding; if full market value...
- Register of Electors
Question 344: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his plans to extend the postal voting provision in future elections for persons unable to visit polling...
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 345: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will state, in view of the decentralisation programme announced in December 2003, the properties rented...
- Appointments to State Boards
Question 346: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the names addresses of all nominees to bodies or agencies under the remit of his Department that were...
- Local Government Elections
Question 347: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the powers that will be transferred from county managers to the directly elected mayor of Dublin; and if he...
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Telecommunications Services
Question 348: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the progress to date in ensuring that broadband is made available to a community (details supplied) in County...
- Fishing Vessel Licences
Question 349: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he has had communications (details supplied) with the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food on the...
- Electricity Storage
Question 350: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on large scale electricity storage technologies; the efficiency or such technologies; the emissions...
- Electricity Generation
Question 351: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the amount and value of electricity and emissions expected to be saved annually up to 2020 in the electricity...
- Alternative Energy Projects
Question 353: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if his attention has been drawn to the wind energy strategy unanimously approved by members of Clare County...
- National Electricity Grid
Question 354: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if his attention has been drawn to the fact that in July 2009, the east west electricity interconnector was...
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 355: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will state, in view of the decentralisation programme announced in December 2003, the properties rented...
- Appointments to State Boards
Question 356: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the names and addresses of all nominees to bodies or agencies under the remit of his Department that were...
- Department of Agriculture and Food
- Grant Payments
Question 357: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a REP scheme four payment will be awarded in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if he will...
- Animal Welfare
Question 359: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food his views on the lack of regulation on the commercial export trade of live dogs; if the regulations governing the conditions...
- Departmental Properties
Question 360: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food his views on providing land for allotments on his lands at Abbotstown, County Dublin, pending the completion of the sports...
- Crop Losses
Question 361: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the assistance that will be provided to potato growers who had their crops damaged during the recent adverse weather...
- Grant Payments
Question 362: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the reason a single payment grant has not been awarded in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; and if he...
- Aquaculture Licences
Question 365: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a company (details supplied) was granted a salmon farm licence on 15...
- Animal Welfare
Question 367: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the persons who received funding in County Sligo under the animal welfare ex gratia funding 2009; the amounts in each case;...
- Crop Losses
Question 368: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if vegetable growers will be included in any compensation package for potato growers; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Grant Payments
Question 369: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the position regarding the farm waste management grant in respect of a person (details suppled); if this can be re-examined...
- Crop Losses
Question 370: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if his Department are in negotiations with potato grower representative groups for compensation due to the recent weather...
- Seafood Industry
Question 371: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when the seafood operational programme will be launched in view of the effect the delay is having on the seafood processing...
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 372: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will state, in view of the decentralisation programme announced in December 2003, the properties rented or acquired as...
- Dairy Industry
Question 373: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the supports that are in place for farmers who are encountering decreases in the price paid for milk per litre; and if he...
- Appointments to State Boards
Question 374: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the names addresses of all nominees to bodies or agencies under the remit of his Department that were appointed since 26...
- Department of Education and Science
- Special Educational Needs
Question 375: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason a person (details supplied) cannot obtain a place at a school when they have a diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity...
- Grangegorman Development Agency
Question 376: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will support a matter (details supplied). [5410/10]
- Physical Education Facilities
Question 377: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when funding will be available for the provision of a sports hall in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if...
- Schools Recognition
Question 378: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if there is an inconsistency in the matter of granting permanent recognition to second level all Irish schools in view of the fact...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 379: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if contractors will be appointed for the construction of two permanent school buildings (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if he...
- School Closures
Question 382: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will allow the pupils at a school (details supplied) in County Limerick to complete their second level education at the school;...
- Higher Education Grants
Question 383: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if mature students will continue to receive a mature student grant and back to education allowance when entering third level colleges...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 384: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding an application for a school (details supplied); when his Department received this application; when...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 386: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will restore the educational supports in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Carlow; if the reports submitted by...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 387: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when approval will be given for a new building in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Kerry which was committed to by his...
- School Accommodation
Question 390: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will provide the necessary temporary accommodation at a school (details supplied) in County Kildare to accommodate the extra 30...
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 391: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will state, in view of the decentralisation programme announced in December 2003, the properties rented or acquired as a...
- Appointments to State Boards
Question 392: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the names addresses of all nominees to bodies or agencies under the remit of his Department that were appointed since 26 June 1997,...
