Written answers
Thursday, 4 March 2010
- Department of Education and Science
- Higher Education Grants
Question 12: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will reverse the recent changes made to the higher education maintenance grant for a person in receipt of back to education...
- Further Education
Question 13: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if his attention has been drawn to the problems for a college (details supplied) in County Dublin as a result of a decision by the...
- School Accommodation
Question 14: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason 790 schools rented prefabs in 2009; the amount that each school spent on the rental of prefabs; the number of these that are...
- Educational Disadvantage
Question 15: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the steps he is taking to support disadvantaged children in the classroom; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10653/10]
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Work Permits
Question 35: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the requirements an employer has to meet to apply for work permits in respect of non-EU citizens; the criteria...
- Redundancy Payments
Question 36: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if she will review an application for redundancy in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and...
- Employment Support Services
Question 39: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of work places in placement schemes that were made available in Cork vity and county in 2005, 2006,...
- FÁS Training Programmes
Question 43: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the action that she is taking to ensure that apprentices who have lost their jobs can finish their...
- Departmental Agencies
Question 44: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if she will support a matter (details supplied). [10948/10]
- Employment Support Services
Question 45: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the employment incentives available from her Department for young persons subsequent to their release from St....
- Departmental Correspondence
Question 46: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if she will respond to a query (details attached). [10979/10]
- Professional Standards
Question 47: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the options available to a person who wishes to seek redress for poor delivery of professional services from...
- Public Procurement
Question 48: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the way in which a company (details supplied), which tendered for State jobs, was successful up to December...
- Grocery Industry
Question 49: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the value of products being sold at below cost in the grocery trade at the present time; and if she has an...
- Department of Finance
- Departmental Properties
Question 55: To ask the Minister for Finance if, in view of reports that at the Office of Public Works has acquired a property at Swords, County Dublin for the purpose of expanding the...
- Architectural Heritage
Question 56: To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the proposed upgrades and restoration to Doneraile Court in County Cork by the Office of Public Works; and if he will make a...
- Department of Health and Children
- Medical Cards
Question 57: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding an application in respect of persons (details supplied) in County Carlow; if this will be examined and amended;...
- Accident and Emergency Services
Question 58: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of persons on trolleys in the accident and emergency department over the past three years in Naas General Hospital, County...
- Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme
Question 61: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon will receive a decision on their application; the reason for the delay; and if she...
- Medical Council Inquiries
Question 62: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on requesting the Medical Council to undertake an inquiry into the practice in which women had their pelvis broken during...
- Health Service Staff
Question 63: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of non-EU staff employed by the Health Service Executive; if the HSE is required to apply for work permits for such workers;...
- Services for People with Disabilities
Question 64: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will support the case of a person (details supplied). [10950/10]
- Medical Cards
Question 65: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that medical card holders are being charged for medical reports which are sometimes required...
- Nursing Homes Support Scheme
Question 66: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of applications received under the fair deal; the number of fully processed applications that have been paid; and the amount...
- Health Service Staff
Question 67: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding an agency nurse in a whistleblower situation; if the legal position is different for an agency nurse to that of a...
- Preschool Services
Question 68: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of pre-school places funded by her Department in Dublin 9 and Dublin 11; the number of pre-school providers receiving funding...
- Medical Cards
Question 69: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a medical card will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11012/10]
- Hospital Accommodation
Question 70: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a decision has been made in respect of cutbacks at a hospital (details supplied) in County Mayo regarding the reduction in beds....
- Medical Cards
Question 71: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a medical card application will be expedited and granted on medical grounds in the case of a person (details supplied) in County...
- Department of Transport
- Regional Airports
Question 73: To ask the Minister for Transport the proposals he has to provide capital funding for a runway extension at Waterford Airport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10988/10]
- Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
- Commercial Rents
Question 74: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if, in view of the fact that legislation in the public interest has been passed overriding the provisions of Acts, orders,...
- Criminal Prosecutions
Question 75: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of convictions secured to date for gun murders in 2005, 2006, 2007,2008, 2009 and to date in 2010; and if he will...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 76: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding legislation in respect of maintenance enforcement; the reason section 8 of the Enforcement of Courts...
- Deportation Orders
Question 77: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the circumstances surrounding the deportation order in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will rescinding...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 78: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a decision on an appeal for naturalisation will be decided in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Carlow;...
- Garda Deployment
Question 79: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding the retirement of personnel (details supplied) from a Garda station in County Mayo; if and when...
- Garda Vetting Services
Question 80: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will report on the Garda vetting unit; the length of time to process applications; the number of applications which...
- Private Security Regulation
Question 81: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 302 of 24 November 2009, if he has made representations to an authority (details...
- Garda Recruitment
Question 82: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding the moratorium on public service recruitment; when this may might be lifted; the position regarding...
- Work Permits
Question 83: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of applications received under the administrative scheme for undocumented migrant workers formerly holding...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 84: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the steps he will take to have an application for naturalisation in respect of a person (details supplied) in County...
- Private Security Regulation
Question 85: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the circumstances under which a licence fee for installing burglar alarms may be waived, such as, if a new post is created.....
- Residency Permits
Question 86: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding the matter of application for residency in the case of a person (details supplied) in County...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 91: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding the matter of application for naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied) in County...
- Residency Permits
Question 94: 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 Meath; and if he...
- Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
- Departmental Funding
Question 98: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will provide grant aid to an organisation (details supplied) in County Louth; and if he will make a statement on...
- Departmental Programmes
Question 99: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the reason he has taken the decision to abolish the overheads grant to a company (details supplied); if he will...
- Rural Social Scheme
Question 100: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if participants on rural social schemes who retire will be replaced; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Department of Social and Family Affairs
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 101: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason payment has been ceased in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [10918/10]
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 102: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the position regarding an appeal for domiciliary benefit in respect of persons (details supplied). [10919/10]
- Social Welfare Code
Question 103: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the social welfare rights of redundant persons to contributory benefits such as jobseeker's benefit where their employer did not...
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 104: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the position regarding the case of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick. [10933/10]
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 105: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of Irish citizens refused payment due to failure to satisfy the habitual residency condition in each local social...
- Pension Provisions
Question 113: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the position regarding the case of a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow; if she will expedite the matter; and if she will...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 114: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she will respond to a query (details attached). [10978/10]
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 115: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when a person (details supplied) will receive their arrears which was awarded on appeal from the 30 July 2009; and if she will...
- Pension Provisions
Question 117: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason the qualified adult portion of a contributory State pension in respect of a person (details supplied) in County...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 118: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when social welfare payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Department of Defence
- Departmental Records (1 comment)
Question 122: To ask the Minister for Defence his views on digitising the aerial photographic archives of the Defence Forces for publication on the Internet in view of the educational and...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 123: To ask the Minister for Defence the estimated cost of sending the[i] LE Niamh[/i] to South America for 12 weeks between May and July 2010 coinciding with the 200th anniversary of...
- Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
- Mortgage Lending
Question 124: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the proportion of new residential mortgage loans here in 2008 and 2009 that were in the high loan to value...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 125: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive compensation from his Department; and if he will...
- Tax Code
Question 126: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if an Irish citizen who is renting our their property here but who resides outside the EU is liable for the...
- Regulation of Professional Bodies
Question 127: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 281 of 17 December 2009, if his attention has been drawn to the fact...
- Planning Issues
Question 128: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his plans to introduce regulations to control high trees in gardens; if his attention has been drawn to the...
- Local Government Structures
Question 129: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the strong community campaign to have Tallaght, Dublin, designated as a...
- Special Areas of Conservation
Question 130: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if an extension will be afforded to persons who are cutting bogs for their own domestic consumption and which...
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Alternative Energy Projects
Question 131: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the incentives in place to promote the development of commercial wind farms for the generation of electricity;...
- Department of Agriculture and Food
- Animal Welfare
Question 132: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the position regarding a matter (details supplied). [10927/10]
- Food Safety Standards
Question 133: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the various EU Directives and regulations with which agri-food businesses must comply with; and if he will make a statement...
- Seafood Sector
Question 135: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of recommendations outlined in the Cawley Report on the seafood sector which have been implemented to date; and...
- Farmers' Markets
Question 136: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the initiatives that have been put in place to encourage the establishment of farmers' markets; and if he will make a...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 137: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the level of expenditure on agrifood research; the bodies that are in receipt of such expenditure; and if he will make a...
- Departmental Agencies (1 comment)
Question 138: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of businesses that have benefited from the Bord Iascaigh Mhara seafood development centre; the level of...
- Food Industry
Question 139: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of agrifood businesses that are in operation; the number of seafood business that are in operation; the level of...
- Common Agricultural Policy
Question 140: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the changes he will make regarding decoupling; his views on the system in France (details supplied); and if he will make a...
- Grant Payments
Question 142: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be awarded their REP scheme 4 payment. [10970/10]
- Registration of Title
Question 143: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the steps he will take to ensure that the deeds in respect of a Land Commission holding which a person (details supplied) in...
