Written answers

Wednesday, 3 March 2010

  • Department of Health and Children
    • Health Service Staff
      Question 55: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will waive the moratorium on staff recruitment in the mental health community teams and child and adolescent teams to ensure that...
    • Private Health Insurance
      Question 56: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will fulfil her legal obligation to bring the Voluntary Health Insurance within the remit of the Financial Regulator by the end of...
    • Medicinal Products
      Question 57: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason consumers here are paying almost twice as much for over the counter medicines as persons in the UK; and if she will make a...
    • Hospital Accommodation
      Question 58: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if funds will be provided to restructure and extend, if necessary, St. Mary's Hospital, Castleblayney, County Monaghan to ensure that bed...
    • Health Services
      Question 59: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to build further primary care units from public moneys; the locations and timeframe for same; and if she will make a statement...
    • Private Health Insurance
      Question 60: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to introduce risk equalisation legislation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10516/10]
    • Organ Transplants
      Question 61: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to establish an organ transplant authority; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10531/10]
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      Question 62: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the discussions she has had with the Health Service Executive and the Department of Education and Science in relation to the commencement...
    • Hospital Accommodation
      Question 63: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of acute hospital beds which will be closed as a result of the implementation of Health Service Executive plan for 2010....
    • Combating Obesity
      Question 64: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the progress made in implementing the recommendations of the Task Force on Obesity; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Medical Cards
      Question 65: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the average time it takes to process medical card applications in the centralised service; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Legal Services
      Question 68: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the details on Health Service Executive plans to set up its own law office while at the same time outsourcing its legal services needs;...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 69: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to reform hospital laboratory services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10535/10]
    • Hospitals Building Programme
      Question 70: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if construction plans for the proposed new National Children's Hospital have been affected by the current economic climate; and if she...
    • Hospital Accommodation
      Question 71: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason a 25-bed ward at Our Lady's Hospital, Crumlin, Dublin 12 remains closed in view of the fact that seriously ill children are...
    • Health Warnings
      Question 72: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when legislation to introduce graphic images to cigarette packs will be introduced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. ...
    • Redress Schemes
      Question 75: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when she expects to receive the State Claims Agency report on a possible redress scheme for thalidomide victims; and if she will make a...
    • Health Service Staff
      Question 76: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to increase the number of general practitioner training places; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10472/10]
    • Mental Health Services
      Question 77: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the Mental Health (Amendment) Bill will be published; if it will address issues of consent to treatment; and if she will make a...
    • Accident and Emergency Services
      Question 78: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on the findings of the recently published report of the Comptroller and Auditor General which found that there has been an...
    • Hospital Facilities
      Question 81: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when sterilisation facilities at Roscommon County Hospital will be upgraded; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10267/10]
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme
      Question 82: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of applications that have been processed for the fair deal scheme since its inception; the approximate time it takes to...
    • Medical Cards
      Question 83: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the assessment that has been made on the likely number of extra people who will qualify for a medical card in 2010; the funding that has...
    • Primary Care Services
      Question 84: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she has received the report from the Joint Oireachtas Health and Children Committee Report on Primary Care; the action she proposes to...
    • Industrial Relations
      Question 86: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she is seeking to re-engage with the trade union on implementing a reform plan for the health service which was agreed in principle in...
    • Medical Cards
      Question 87: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if persons whose medical cards are due for renewal need to reapply or if cards are automatically renewed when circumstances have not...
    • Health Services
      Question 88: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her Department will develop a national strategy for Alzheimer's disease and dementia; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Hospitals Building Programme
      Question 89: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the proposed regional hospital for the north east region; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10451/10]
    • Organ Transplants
      Question 91: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of heart and lung transplants conducted here in 2009; if she is satisfied with the number of heart and lung transplants that...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      Question 92: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if all patients awaiting a colonscopy are seen within the 30 day target set by her; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Mental Health Services
      Question 93: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views that vulnerable patients continue to be housed in archaic psychiatric institutions in which they fail to get adequate care and...
    • Cancer Screening Programme
      Question 94: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views that Ireland will be able to achieve the targets set in a draft report by the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety...
    • Community Welfare Officers
      Question 95: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the transfer of community welfare officers from her Department to the Department of Social and Family Affairs will take place; if...
    • National Drugs Strategy
      Question 96: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to introduce legislation to regulate head shops and the products sold within head shops; the timeframe for same; and if she...
    • Proposed Legislation
      Question 97: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when legislation will be published to clarify eligibility for health and personal social services; the discussions she has had with...
    • Cancer Screening Programme
      Question 98: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason the breast cancer family risk assessment clinic in Tallaght Hospital, Dublin, has closed; the location at which patients who...
    • General Medical Services Scheme
      Question 99: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if pharmacists will be reimbursed for the full cost of drugs purchased prior to the 1 February 2010 when the new lower rates were...
    • Hospital Staff
      Question 100: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will provide details of a recent meeting she had with employees and union representatives of Portiuncula Hospital, Ballinasloe...
    • Proposed Legislation
      Question 101: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the progress made in drafting the proposed National Vetting Bureau Bill; if the consultation phase of preparation for the legislation...
    • General Medical Services Scheme
      Question 102: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to introduce reference pricing; when this will be introduced; the estimated savings from same; and if she will make a...
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 104: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if bonuses will be authorised for staff in her Department or in the Health Service Executive in 2010; and if she will make a statement...
    • Hospitals Building Programme
      Question 105: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the degree to which her hospital co-location programme has been put in place; the extent to which the administrative issues including...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme
      Question 106: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the fair deal scheme; the number of applications to this scheme; the number of applications approved for this...
    • Cancer Screening Programme
      Question 107: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will roll out the cervical cancer vaccine; if she will confirm that arrangements will be put in place with all schools in order...
    • Health Services
      Question 109: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the progress which has been made in implementing the recommendations of the orthodontic review group; and if she will make a statement...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 110: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the action she will take to address the situation whereby there were 611 delayed discharges of patients from hospitals in 2007 and 733...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 111: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will protect the funding of the Irish Motor Neurone Disease Association from cutbacks in view of the vital services the...
    • Mental Health Services
      Question 112: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the practice of placing children and adolescents with mental health problems in adult wards will end; the plans for the period...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 113: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she sanctioned the removal of services from St. Davnet's Hospital, County Monaghan, to the basement of Cavan General Hospital; her...
    • Adoption Services
      Question 115: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the response of the Health Service Executive to the requests to do everything possible to reduce the waiting times and assessment times...
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 116: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to reduce or redeploy staff in her Department in 2010; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10418/10]
    • Organ Transplants
      Question 117: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of persons waiting for kidney transplants here; her views on whether she accepts that it is not acceptable that kidneys...
    • National Nutrition Policy
      Question 118: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the national nutrition policy will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10428/10]
    • Hospital Services
      Question 119: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of medical assessment units in place in acute hospitals; if an audit has been carried out on the way these units have...
    • School Curriculum
      Question 121: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the consultations she has had with the Department of Education and Science on the content and delivery of health and sexuality...
    • Medical Cards
      Question 122: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to leave a frontline service in place for medical card applicants in the context of centralisation of the processing of these...
    • Public Sector Reform
      Question 124: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the main findings of the assessment undertaken under the Organisational Review Programme; the steps she plans to take arising from these...
  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
    • Work Permits
      Question 125: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of new work permits issued in each employment category since introduction of the revised scheme in...
    • Job Protection
      Question 126: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the action she will take to protect jobs at a company (details supplied) in County Louth; her views on the...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      Question 127: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the competencies sought from applicants for appointment to the FÁS board and the weighting attached to each...
    • Redundancy Payments
      Question 130: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if a person (details supplied) in Dublin 10 is entitled to statutory redundancy; the way they can access this...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      Question 132: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the appointments or nominations made by her to bodies, boards or organisations under the aegis of her...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      Question 133: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the cost of increasing the number of community employment places by 5,000; and the cost of increasing the...
    • Redundancy Payments
      Question 134: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when a person (details supplied) will be awarded their full redundancy payment; and if she will make a...
    • EU Directives
      Question 135: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the position regarding the services directive; the impact this will have on the Casual Trading Act...
  • Department of Finance
    • Flood Relief
      Question 141: To ask the Minister for Finance the works proposed to ensure that flooding will not take place in Hollymount, County Mayo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10900/10]
  • Department of Health and Children
    • Youth Services
      Question 143: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if sufficient funding will be provided for a youth service (details supplied) in Dublin 12. [10632/10]
    • Health Services
      Question 145: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the extent the recent measures to centralise administration in respect of rent or mortgage allowances has affected customer access; if...
    • Medical Cards
      Question 147: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the refusal of a medical card to a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12 will be reviewed; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Health Service Staff
      Question 148: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will request the Health Service Executive to make records of mileage available to a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny...
    • Controlled Substances
      Question 149: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans on revisiting the listing of benzylpiperazine as a single addition to Schedule 1 to the Misuse of Drugs Act 1977 and...
    • Hospital Accommodation
      Question 150: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of beds that are closed in St. Joseph's Hospital, Ardee, County Louth; the locations to which these beds are being...
    • Preschool Services
      Question 151: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding an application under the early childhood care and education scheme in respect of a person (details supplied) in...
    • Combating Obesity
      Question 152: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on the introduction of legislation to require eateries to indicate on their menus the calorie content of the dishes they serve...
    • Health Services
      Question 153: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will review the decision to remove the genetic outpatient clinics in the west to ensure that persons who live in isolated areas...
    • Health Service Investigations
      Question 154: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the stage of an investigation (details supplied); and the reason for the delay in progressing the investigation; and if she will make a...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      Question 155: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason there is a long waiting time for ultrasounds at a hospital (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services
      Question 156: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a building for a primary health care team (details supplied) will be progressed this year; if funding has been assigned for this...
    • Rural Transport
      Question 157: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will reply to Parliamentary Question No. 259 of 23 February in response to which the Department of Transport indicated that the...
    • Health Services
      Question 158: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of persons who have received final treatment for orthodontics in each of the past five years to date in 2010; and if she will...
    • Hospital Acquired Infections
      Question 159: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number and location of cases of MRSA reported in each of the past five years to date in 2010; the hospitals or institutions that...
    • Hospital Services
      Question 161: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of persons treated in each of the public hospitals throughout the country in each of the past five years to date in 2010; and...
    • Hospital Charges
      Question 163: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the cost to the Exchequer and the medical insurers of medical and surgical treatments in all public and private hospitals throughout the...
    • Health Service Staff
      Question 164: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of personnel employed in the delivery of health services throughout County Kildare; the number employed in 2000; and if she...
    • Nursing Education
      Question 165: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the extent to which the number of nurses in training is likely to be adequate to meet requirements; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Hospital Hygiene Audits
      Question 166: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the cost of hospital hygiene audits to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10879/10]
    • Hospital Accommodation
      Question 167: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of hospital wards in the various hospitals throughout the country which have for one or other reason been decommissioned or...
    • Health Services
      Question 168: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the extent to which home help hours to individual qualified recipients has been cut back in the past two years; and if she will make a...
    • Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme
      Question 169: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the process associated with the health repayment scheme; when she expects such payments to be...
    • Ambulance Service
      Question 170: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she is satisfied regarding the strength of the ambulance service nationwide; her plans for increasing staffing levels, equipment or...
    • Accident and Emergency Services
      Question 171: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if adequate accident and emergency staff are available at all hospitals throughout the Country; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services
      Question 172: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of health centres in County Kildare; the number of these that require extension, refurbishment or upgrading in line with...
    • Health Service Staff
      Question 175: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she is satisfied regarding the adequacy of the numbers of psychologists available through the various health boards; her plans to...
    • Health Services
      Question 176: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she is satisfied regarding the adequacy of respite care for parents and carers of children and adults with special needs throughout...
    • Health Service Staff
      Question 178: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when it is intended to provide the full complement of speech and language therapists throughout County Kildare; if the full requirement...
    • Child Care Services
      Question 179: To ask the Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No. 309 of 26 January 2010, when a reply will issue from the Health Service Executive. [10897/10]
  • Department of Transport
    • Road Network
      Question 180: To ask the Minister for Transport his views on whether savings can be made on street lights on motorways and major national routes without compromising safety; and if he will make...
    • Tourism Industry
      Question 181: To ask the Minister for Transport the progress made to date in implementing the commitments as outlined in the economic and tourism development plan for the Shannon catchment area...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      Question 182: To ask the Minister for Transport the appointments or nominations made by him to bodies, boards or organisation under the aegis of his Department since 1 January 2009 and to date...
    • Light Rail Project
      Question 183: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has received a copy of a report by consultants (details supplied) for Galway City Council on the Galway light rail system proposal; his...
    • Decentralisation Programme
      Question 184: To ask the Minister for Transport the position regarding the proposals to decentralise offices under the remit of Bus Éireann to Mitchelstown, County Cork; and if he will make a...
    • National Transport Authority
      Question 185: To ask the Minister for Transport the person to whom the National Transport Authority will be accountable. [10742/10]
    • Public Transport
      Question 186: To ask the Minister for Transport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that due to cutbacks in Bus Éireann many rural villages will now be without transport to their local...
  • Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
    • Departmental Correspondence
      Question 187: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service has not answered correspondence (details supplied) sent to them...
    • Passport Forgeries
      Question 188: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to a matter (details supplied). [10646/10]
    • Probation and Welfare Service
      Question 189: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the probation service is housing released prisoners in an area (details...
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 190: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will have a decision made in respect of their applications for citizenship....
    • Garda Deployment
      Question 191: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if a garda who has been transferred to a station in a different county will be replaced in the area (details supplied)...
    • Crime Levels
      Question 192: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of gun murders recorded, detected, subject to proceedings and resulting in convictions in 2009; and if he will...
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 193: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a person (details supplied) will be issued with a certificate for naturalisation; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Investigations
      Question 194: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the stage of an investigation (details supplied); and the reason for the delay in progressing the investigation; and if he...
    • Prison Staff
      Question 195: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if recruitment is ongoing for prison officers; and when the next round will be advertised; and if he will make a statement...
    • Asylum Applications
      Question 196: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding the matter of residency and citizenship in the case of a person (details supplied) in County...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs
    • Foreign Conflicts
      Question 200: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will support Argentina on the Malvinas oil dispute at the United Nations. [10645/10]
    • Departmental Property
      Question 201: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on a matter (details supplied). [10851/10]
  • Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism
    • Tourism Promotion
      Question 202: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he has received correspondence relating to a tourism proposal (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
    • Drugs Task Forces
      Question 203: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the cost to date of the dial to stop drug dealing anonymous phone line; the number of calls made to it in the...
    • Departmental Funding
      Question 204: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs his views on the fact that the national advisory committee on drugs has no researcher as a result of the moratorium...
    • Community Development
      Question 205: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the discussions he has had about a centre (details supplied) in Dublin 24; if his attention has been drawn to the...
  • Department of Social and Family Affairs
    • Social Welfare Code
      Question 207: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if the outstanding issues on the rights of former workers of a company (details supplied) to retain their social welfare benefits...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      Question 209: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the position regarding an application for carer's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick. [10631/10]
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 213: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if her attention has been drawn to the fact that there is currently no job facilitator working in the Navan Road social welfare...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      Question 214: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she will reply to a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10672/10]
    • Social Welfare Code
      Question 215: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 84 and 91 on 23 February 2010 regarding the resuming residence guideline, the way a person...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      Question 216: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she will review the case of a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath who was refused for domiciliary allowance. [10680/10]
    • Pension Provisions
      Question 217: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason a person (details supplied) in Dublin 16 is not entitled to a full widow's pension; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Tax and Social Welfare Codes
      Question 218: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she will expedite the health levy refund due to a person (details supplied) in Dublin 14 who was advised to call back in a few...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      Question 219: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when a response will issue to a letter to her Department regarding jobseeker's allowance refusal on the grounds of habitual...
    • Pension Provisions
      Question 220: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she will support the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10695/10]
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      Question 222: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the outcome of the review of a decision to refuse jobseeker's allowance to a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [10732/10]
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      Question 224: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she will support the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 13; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10737/10]
    • Pension Provisions
      Question 229: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the systems in place within her Department to gather information in relation to pension entitlements from the UK pension...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      Question 231: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when unemployment assistance or job seekers appeal will be heard in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      Question 232: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when a decision will be made on the application for illness benefit or disability allowance in respect of a person (details...
    • Social Welfare Code
      Question 233: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason behind the decision to treat women on deserted wives benefit up to 1992 differently to those on the benefit after 1992;...
  • Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes
      Question 234: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when he will approve treatment plant documents for Kenmare, County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Water Quality
      Question 237: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if funding will be made available to local Government authorities in order that upgrading of the water...
    • Local Authority Housing
      Question 238: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if an Irish citizen living abroad who wants to come home to live here can make an application for housing...
    • Animal Welfare
      Question 239: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of dogs put down in 2009 on a monthly and on county basis in tabular form. [10731/10]
    • Housing Policy
      Question 240: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if the housing strategy will be published in order that the provisions for mental health remain intact; if...
    • Communications Masts
      Question 241: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the planning requirements for communication masts and antennae in residential areas; and if he will make a...
    • Waste Management
      Question 242: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will make special provision to Cork County Council to enable them to provide a civic amenity site in...
  • Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
    • Postal Services
      Question 243: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on whether legislation is required for the introduction of postcodes as highlighted in the National...
    • Community Support Scheme
      Question 244: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will outline all the projects that benefited under the salmon hardships fund community support scheme in...
  • Department of Agriculture and Food
    • Grant Payments
      Question 245: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will receive their installation aid grant; and if he will make a statement...
    • Animal Identification Scheme
      Question 247: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the reasons he is superimposing a second layer of traceability on sheep farming; if he will address concerns that the...
    • Decentralisation Programme
      Question 248: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the position regarding plans to decentralise offices under his Department's remit to Fermoy, County Cork; and if he will...
    • Milk Quota
      Question 249: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a person (details supplied) will be considered for milk quota; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10744/10]
    • Rural Environment Protection Scheme
      Question 250: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the reason for refusal to join REP scheme in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [10849/10]
    • Farmers' Markets
      Question 251: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the consequences for farmers' markets established under the Casual Trading Act 1995, in view of the impact which the...