Written answers
Tuesday, 15 June 2010
- Department of An Taoiseach
- Statutory Instruments
Question 86: To ask the Taoiseach if he has exercised his powers under the Statistics Act, 1993, including his power under Section 25; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25096/10]
- Departmental Allowances
Question 87: To ask the Taoiseach if his Department pays allowances to former Taoisigh to maintain personal assistants; the former Taoisigh to whom such allowances are or have been paid; the...
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Innovation
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 89: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the cost incurred to date by his Department arising from the decentralisation proposals; the extent if known of any further...
- Employment Figures
Question 90: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the number of jobs lost or created in County Kildare in the past two and a half years; and if he will make a statement on...
- Work Permits
Question 91: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the extent to which persons employed on foot of work permits are free to opt for an alternative employer; the extent to...
- Economic Competitiveness
Question 92: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the innovative steps he has taken to date to facilitate economic recovery; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Employment Figures
Question 95: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the total net number of jobs lost or created throughout the economy in the past two and a half years; and if he will make a...
- Redundancy Payments
Question 98: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation when payment will be awarded in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on...
- Research Funding
Question 99: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the position regarding an application for research funding (details supplied). [25118/10]
- Redundancy Payments
Question 100: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation further to Parliamentary Question No. 94 of 29 April, 2010 when a redundancy payment will be awarded to the person; and if...
- Departmental Staff
Question 101: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation if he will provide a list of all members of staff of his Department and offices stating the total amount paid to each...
- Redundancy Payments
Question 102: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation when redundancy payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on...
- Industrial Development
Question 104: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the number of visits organised by the Industrial Development Authority of visiting industrialists to County Cork since...
- Redundancy Payments
Question 105: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation if he will expedite the redundancy payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; when payment will be...
- Grocery Industry
Question 106: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation his plans to introduce a code of practice which will protect smaller grocer outlets from aggressive low pricing by large...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 107: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the cost of rebranding his Department from the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment; if he will provided a...
- Enterprise Support Services
Question 108: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation if he has considered establishing a fully serviced office and workshop infrastructure dedicated to new start up businesses...
- Employment Figures
Question 109: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the number of jobs created by the assistance of the Industrial Development Authority in County Mayo on a year by year basis...
- Enterprise Support Services
Question 112: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the funding streams that are available to a new business enterprise in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Work Permits
Question 114: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation further to Parliamentary Question No. 157 of 9 February 2010, if he will furnish a reply to the issues raised; and if he...
- Department of Finance
- Financial Services
Question 117: To ask the Minister for Finance the way that persons who hold neither a passport nor a driving licence can prove their identity; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Drug Seizures
Question 118: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will detail, in tabular form, the quantity and type of illegal drug seized at each of the State's airports in 2009 and, in a separate table,...
- Tax Code
Question 119: To ask the Minister for Finance the reason a person (details supplied) in County Longford is being taxed on their dividend; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25034/10]
- Financial Institutions Support Scheme
Question 120: To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which the savings of credit union members are covered by the deposit guarantee scheme; the financial contribution that the credit...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 122: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will defer the proposed Section 35 amendment to the Credit Union Act 1997 until the outcome of the Strategic Review of the Credit Union Sector...
- National Assets Management Agency
Question 123: To ask the Minister for Finance the way it is possible that certain persons whose loans have been, or are in the process of being, transferred to the National Assets Management...
- Tax Incentive Schemes
Question 125: To ask the Minister for Finance if supports are available for the development of retirement villages by the private sector. [25150/10]
- Financial Institutions Support Scheme
Question 126: To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 94 of 2 June 2010, if he will provide a breakdown of this data by bank; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Courts Service
Question 129: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the inability of the new CAT form, CA24, to be completed on-line and if a system compatible with the Revenue On-line System can be...
- Departmental Properties
Question 130: To ask the Minister for Finance the annual rent paid on behalf of each Government Department for office space from 2006 to date in 2010 in tabular form; if there has been a rent...
- Tax Code
Question 131: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of transactions in respect of stamp duty on residential property transactions for 2009 and each of the preceding five years; if the...
- Insurance Industry
Question 133: To ask the Minister for Finance if house insurance is available to persons whose houses were flooded in the November and December 2009 floods; and if he will make a statement on...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 134: To ask the Minister for Finance the cost of the acquisition of the former Motorola premises in Swords, County Dublin, for the National Museum in respect of annual rent or lease...
- Judicial Remuneration
Question 135: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of judges in each category of judge that is Supreme, High, Circuit, District and so on who have volunteered pension levy sacrifices in...
- Flood Relief
Question 136: To ask the Minister for Finance if the Office of Public Works has proceeded with the work plan set out in the aftermath of the flooding in Cork; if the steering group led by the...
- Insurance Industry
Question 137: To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 163 of 1 June 2010, if the assurances his Department has given to the UK Treasury regarding the operation of a...
- Freedom of Information
Question 138: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of requests for information under freedom of information legislation in each year from 2003 to date in 2010; the extent to which...
- Tax Code
Question 139: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will itemise all tax expenditures and reliefs, including their expected cost for 2010 and for 2011, assuming no policy change; the total...
- Tax Yield
Question 145: To ask the Minister for Finance the expected yield in 2010 and 2011 from an increase in the standard rate of income tax by 1%, 2%, 3%, 4% or 5%; and if he will make a statement on...
- Tax Code
Question 160: To ask the Minister for Finance the expected cost to the Exchequer in 2010 and 2011 of tax-relief on rental income for residential properties and for commercial properties; and if...
- Tax Yield
Question 162: To ask the Minister for Finance the yield to the Exchequer from an increase of 1c, 5c, 10c and 50c in the excise duty on 20 cigarettes, and a [i]pro rata[/i] increase in excise on...
- Tax Code
Question 169: To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer of the rent relief for private accommodation scheme and the yield in 2011 from the abolition of this relief. [25394/10]
- State Banking Sector
Question 170: To ask the Minister for Finance the reason Anglo Irish Bank website advertises under the heading Business Banking, that at Anglo Irish Bank we understand your business needs; we...
- Tax Code
Question 171: To ask the Minister for Finance the proposals he has in regard to the taxing of disablement pension gratuities and payments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25480/10]
- Tax Yield
Question 172: To ask the Minister for Finance the tax-take on a specific price range of vehicles (details supplied) in the past year in tabular format. [25521/10]
- Motor Fuels
Question 173: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on a statement from an association (details supplied) that petrol and diesel prices are up approximately 10% since January 2010 and that...
- Tax Code
Question 174: To ask the Minister for Finance if he plans to exempt gas fired combined heat and power from carbon tax in the next budget; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23029/10]
- Departmental Properties
Question 176: To ask the Minister for Finance the capital value of the property portfolio of the Office of Public Works for the year 2009; the basis on which this has been computed; and if he...
- Tax Code
Question 177: To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 89 of 2 June 2010, the number of taxpayers, including individuals and companies, who made claims under the...
- Tobacco Smuggling
Question 178: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the key actions from the UK 2008 Strategy, Tackling Tobacco Smuggling Together (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
- National Solidarity Bond
Question 179: To ask the Minister for Finance the details of the uptake to 31 May 2010 of the National Solidarity Bond including the number of applicants and the total amounts. [24652/10]
- Pension Provisions
Question 180: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will furnish the details requested in Parliamentary Question No. 299 of 19 January 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. ...
- Banks Recapitalisation
Question 181: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has audited the delivery of lending commitments by banks (details supplied) made as part of the €7 billion recapitalisation agreement in...
- National Assets Management Agency
Question 182: To ask the Minister for Finance if there is any evidence to the effect that some housing estates, partially constructed or otherwise incomplete, are being stripped out and the...
- Banking Sector Regulation
Question 183: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the recent statement by the Financial Ombudsman calling for a change in the law allowing that office to name financial institutions...
- Banks Recapitalisation
Question 186: To ask the Minister for Finance if the policy of curtailing performance bonuses in Allied Irish Bank and Bank of Ireland announced on 11 February 2009 as part of the...
- Financial Institutions Support Scheme
Question 187: To ask the Minister for Finance the actions and measures he has put in place to ensure that the remuneration packages of senior executives in the financial institutions covered...
- Corporate Governance
Question 189: To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department was consulted and or had an input into the Consultation Paper CP 41 on Corporate Governance in Financial Institutions published...
- Financial Institutions Support Scheme
Question 192: To ask the Minister for Finance the actions and measures he has put in place to ensure that the financial institutions covered under the Government guarantee have compiled with...
- Corporate Governance
Question 194: To ask the Minister for Finance the State agencies under the aegis of his Department to which the 2009 code of practice for the governance of State bodies applies; if all these...
- Economic Policy
Question 197: To ask the Minister for Finance when the European Council will consider the European Commission's Communication COM (2010) 25; the powers the European Council has to veto the Irish...
- Tax Code
Question 198: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the need to review the €10 air travel tax in view of the recent catastrophe for air travel and tourism here due to the Icelandic...
- Flood Relief
Question 199: To ask the Minister for Finance the measures he has taken to prevent a repeat of the 2009 flooding; the assistance that his agencies are providing to local communities to minimise...
- Department of Health and Children
- Health Service Allowances
Question 201: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding an appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Longford in regard to their mobility allowance; and...
- Hospital Services
Question 202: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will endeavour to save the Lifford, Sheil and Rock hospitals in County Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Cancer Screening Programme
Question 206: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the details of the implementation of the colorectal screening programme, including the number of hospitals that have expressed interest...
- Nursing Home Subventions
Question 214: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding a matter (details supplied). [25063/10]
- Mental Health Services
Question 215: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to open more centres for persons suffering with mental health issues; when these centres will open; and if she will make a...
- Ambulance Service
Question 216: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the amount of money spent annually transporting patients by taxi in County Kildare and nationally; and if she will make a statement on...
- Mental Health Services
Question 217: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of community mental health teams that are currently in existence; the location of same; their staffing complement; and the...
- Medical Cards
Question 218: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will change the medical card income guideline to allow the pension levy paid by civil servants to be deducted from gross income,...
- Mental Health Services
Question 219: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will commit to ending the use of adult inpatient beds for children; if she will commit to developing adequately staffing child...
- Health Services
Question 220: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if he will support the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 3. [25087/10]
- Nursing Home Subventions
Question 221: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will support a matter (details supplied). [25088/10]
- Medical Cards
Question 222: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding a renewal of a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a...
- Health Services
Question 224: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when residential care will be offered to persons (details supplied) in County Wexford; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Medical Cards
Question 225: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a medical card will be awarded in respect of persons (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Health Services
Question 228: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if provision of extra speech and language sessions will be arranged in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if...
- Hospital Services
Question 229: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the reply to correspondence (details supplied) remains factually correct in its entirety having regard to the question raised at the...
- Health Services
Question 230: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Kildare will be accepted onto a drug rehabilitation course; and if she will make a statement...
- Hospital Services
Question 231: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when rheumatology OPD review appointment will be offered to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a...
- Departmental Correspondence
Question 233: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she or her Department have received correspondence from a person (details supplied) in County Kildare in relation to their stay in...
- Health Services
Question 234: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the full extent of support services available to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Departmental Incentives
Question 235: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on the development of retirement villages by the private sector and if any supports are available from her Department or the...
- Hospital Services
Question 236: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will confirm if the Health Service Executive has made arrangements for the urgent referral of a person (details supplied) in...
- Inter-Country Adoptions
Question 237: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding bilateral, inter-country adoption agreement negotiations with Vietnam; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Adoption Services
Question 251: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the steps that will be taken in the Adoption Bill 2009 to provide a statutory basis for information and tracing services to adopted...
- Services for People with Disabilities
Question 252: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of children who have been assessed and diagnosed with Autistic Spectrum Disorder in the Mid Leinster region in the past five...
- Health Service Staff
Question 261: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of posts currently vacant including those in which therapists are on maternity leave on the early intervention team in County...
- Health Services
Question 264: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will explain the decision of the Health Service Executive to cease respite support for an organisation (details supplied) in...
- Substance Misuse Strategy
Question 265: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the potential impact of a ban on alcohol advertising on underage drinking or health costs associated with the abuse of alcohol; and if...
- Medical Cards
Question 266: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when persons (details supplied) in County Mayo will be approved medical cards. [25230/10]
- Health Services
Question 267: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason for the current practice of instructing patients to dispose of crutches once their ailment has passed and the rationale in...
- Voluntary Health Insurance
Question 268: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the date on which the VHI 2009 annual report will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25251/10]
- Hospital Services
Question 269: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will provide a detailed update on the roll-out of the national network for radiation oncology services including, in tabular...
- Pension Provisions
Question 270: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive their gratuity payment and pension payment from the Health Service...
- Health Services
Question 271: To ask the Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No 423 of 19 January 2010, the position regarding the implementation of the report of the universal...
- Medical Cards
Question 272: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a decision will issue on a medical card application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [25325/10]
- Children in Care
Question 273: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the Health Service Executive has competed its review of the joint protocol, "Children missing from care", with the Garda; if it is...
- Hospital Services
Question 274: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the misdiagnosis of miscarriage in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital,...
- Health Services
Question 275: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she is satisfied with the level of respite care currently available in Dublin; her views on whether the decision to cease respite...
- Health Service Staff
Question 276: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the moratorium on recruitment in the Health Service Executive west can be lifted in order that an audiological scientist can be...
- Hospital Staff
Question 277: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the Health Service Executive will confirm the go ahead for a new consultant haematologist for Letterkenny General Hospital, County...
- HIV Infection
Question 278: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of new cases of HIV diagnosed in each of the past five years, in each local health office area. [25490/10]
- Health Services
Question 279: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the options available to those under 18 years of age who require residential treatment for eating disorders. [25506/10]
- Legislative Programme (1 comment)
Question 282: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the legislation for organ donation will be completed; the stage same is currently at. [25518/10]
- Scéim Teanga Fheidhmeannacht na Seirbhíse Sláinte
Question 283: To ask the Aire Sláinte agus Leanaí i bhfianaise go bhfuil cigirí Fheidhmeannacht na Seirbhíse Sláinte (FSS) ag tabhairt cuairte ar naíonraí Gaeilge lasmuigh de limistéar...
- Health Services
Question 284: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the names and addresses of public and private nursing homes that have been shut down as a result of not meeting Health Information and...
- Medical Cards
Question 285: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive their renewed medical card. [25552/10]
- Vaccination Programme
Question 286: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will provide a breakdown of the amount spent on swine flu, including vaccine, the Health Service Executive swine flu awareness...
- Children in Care
Question 288: To ask the Minister for Health and Children further to the Health Service Executive details of the number of children who died while in care over a ten year period, the number of...
- Services for People with Disabilities
Question 289: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to plans to reduce services to an organisation (details supplied); the impact these cutbacks will have;...
- Medical Cards
Question 290: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the situation regarding the provision of dental treatment for medical card holders; her plans for medical card holders who can only...
- Asylum Applications
Question 291: To ask the Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No. 130 of 11 May 2010, the reason for the difference in the number of asylum applications as outlined...
- Children in Care
Question 292: To ask the Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No. 170 of 9 July 2009, if she will provide complete figures for 2009 and from January 2010 to date;...
- Hospital Services
Question 295: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of persons included in the five year review carried out by the Health Service Executive into diagnosed miscarriages; the...
- Department of Transport
- National Emergency Measures
Question 296: To ask the Minister for Transport if his Department anticipates that the oil spill off America's Gulf Coast will damage Irish waters and coastlines; if he will outline any...
- Cross-Border Projects
Question 297: To ask the Minister for Transport the amount that has been allocated for the A5 upgrade project in 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012; when it will be finished; and if he will make a...
- Appointments to State Boards
Question 298: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will report on all the appointments to the board and executive of the National Transport Authority; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Traffic Management
Question 299: To ask the Minister for Transport the position regarding motorcyclists use of bus lanes; and if motor cyclists are permitted to use this facility in order to improve traffic flows...
- Road Network
Question 300: To ask the Minister for Transport his views on the R340 in Connemara; if he will address the ongoing difficulties being experienced regarding potholes and other road hazards in the...
- Airport Development Projects
Question 301: To ask the Minister for Transport further to Parliamentary Question No. 143 of 10 June 2010 that the constructed length of Runway 10/28 at Dublin Airport being a mere 2,637 metres...
- Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
- Visa Applications
Question 302: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding the case of persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25108/10]
- Residency Permits
Question 303: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the procedure that a person must adhere to in meeting with legislative requirements (details supplied); and if he will make...
- Garda Vetting Services
Question 304: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the way a voluntary group (details supplied) catering for 500 children can ensure that their volunteers are Garda vetted....
- Citizenship Applications
Question 305: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the procedure involved for a person aged 18 years to obtain nationality in view of the fact that they have lived here for...
- Garda Deployment
Question 306: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 570 of 20 April 2010, if the Garda Commissioner has accepted and intends to implement...
- Garda Stations
Question 307: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will confirm the exact opening hours for the public to visit a Garda station (details supplied); if the hours are not...
- Asylum Applications
Question 308: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding residency in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Meath; and if he will make a...
- Garda Compensation Scheme
Question 311: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if recent media reports that he is transferring the Garda compensation scheme to the State Claims Agency are correct; the...
- Controlled Substances
Question 312: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if there is any empirical evidence to support the claim that the number of head shops operating here has fallen to 36 from...
- Prison Accommodation
Question 314: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the bed capacity of each prison and the most recent actual prisoner numbers in each prison; and if he will make a statement...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 315: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when an application for naturalisation will be approved in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [25227/10]
- Asylum Applications
Question 317: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding an application for subsidiary protection in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Meath;...
- Child Pornography
Question 318: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to a recent programme (details supplied) exposing the number of persons downloading child...
- Asylum Applications
Question 319: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding an application for leave to remain here in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin;...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 320: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding an application for citizenship in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; when a...
- Prison Building Programme
Question 321: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, further to Parliamentary Question No. 247 of 13 October 2009, the cost of planting in 2009; the corresponding maintenance...
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 322: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, further to Parliamentary Question No. 215 of 4 November 2009, the timetable for the completion of the project; the total...
- Asylum Applications
Question 323: 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 Louth; and if he...
- Children in Care
Question 324: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the Garda Síochána has implemented the updated joint protocol, Children Missing from Care, with the Health Service...
- Asylum Applications
Question 325: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if a person (details supplied) in County Kerry has had their application for asylum accepted. [25465/10]
- Corporate Governance
Question 328: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the State agencies under the aegis of his Department to which the 2009 Code of Practice for the Governance of State Bodies...
- Asylum Applications
Question 332: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding an application for leave to remain in respect of a person (details supplied); when a decision will...
- Residency Permits
Question 337: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding an application for residency by virtue of the spouse of a person (details supplied); when a decision...
- Asylum Applications
Question 338: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding an application for leave to remain in respect of a person (details supplied); when a decision will...
- Malicious Damage Compensation
Question 339: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if State compensation is available for minority Church buildings that are subjected to sectarian attacks; if he will...
- Asylum Applications
Question 340: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding an application for leave to remain in respect of a person (details supplied); when a decision will...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 341: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding an application for naturalisation in respect of a person (details supplied); when a decision will...
- Deportation Orders
Question 342: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding an application for leave to remain in respect of a person (details supplied); when a decision will...
- Residency Permits
Question 343: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding an application for a stamp four in respect of a person (details supplied); when a decision will...
- Child Pornography
Question 346: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his Department has a unit dedicated to tackling child pornography; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25566/10]
- Crime Levels
Question 347: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of offences that were committed by persons on temporary release in each of the years 2007, 2008, 2009 and to...
- Gold Transactions
Question 348: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if, in view of the recent increase in robberies in which gold items have been stolen, it is his intention to introduce...
- Crime Levels
Question 350: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of domestic violence incidents that An Garda Siochána responded to in each of the past five years; and if he...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 352: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding an application for citizenship in respect of persons (details supplied) in County Waterford; and if...
- Garda Investigations
Question 354: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the action taken following the reported assault of a person (details supplied) on 25 May 2010 in Celbridge, County Kildare;...
- Department of Foreign Affairs
- Human Rights Issues
Question 356: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on reports of the unlawful killing of a person (details supplied); if the matter has been raised at the level of the European...
- Emigrant Support Services
Question 358: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the position regarding the efforts by his Department to secure immigration reform in the United States for the benefit of the many Irish...
- Foreign Conflicts
Question 359: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the fact that of the 135 Members of the Columbian Congress under investigation for corruption, 50 of...
- International Agreements
Question 360: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will support the Dutch Government in their call for the non-ratification of the EU's stabilisation and association agreement with...
- Overseas Development Aid
Question 361: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of applications he received under each fund of Ireland Aid annually since 2007; the number of successful applications; and if he...
- Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 363: To ask the Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport the amount of money that her Department has spent on legal and professional advisers for the National Aquatic Centre; and if she...
- Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
- Departmental Reviews
Question 364: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if a value for money review of the rural social scheme is under way; when it is expected this review will be...
- Departmental Funding
Question 365: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if funding is provided to the Dublin Mountain Partnership from his Department; the details of stakeholders on the...
- Departmental Reviews
Question 366: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the progress on the review of the scheme to support national organisations in the community and voluntary sector;...
- Community Development
Question 367: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will withdraw the requirement that projects funded under the community development programme need to close; if...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 368: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if any legal cases are pending against his Department; the status of any cases in train; the financial implications...
- Community Development
Question 369: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the level of funding drawn down by his Department under the rural development programme to date in 2010; the level of...
- Job Creation
Question 371: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the amount of money expended on job creation initiatives by Údarás na Gaeltachta over the period 1997 to 2009, in...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 372: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the cost to his Department of changing the title of his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Department of Social and Family Affairs
- Coroners Service
Question 374: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if his attention has been drawn to the fact that some coroners fail to register deaths noting the deceased person's date and place of...
- Social Insurance
Question 375: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the expected yield in 2010 and 2011 from an increase of 1% in the rate of employees PRSI; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 380: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will issue in relation to a social welfare appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath in...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 384: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will award persons (details supplied) in County Longford with mortgage interest supplement; and if he will make a statement on the...
- International Agreements
Question 386: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if there are any plans to enter into a bilateral social security agreement with South Africa; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 388: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an application for rent allowance in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5; and if he will make a...
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 394: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a carer's allowance appeal will be finalised in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [25143/10]
- Pension Provisions
Question 395: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) in County Galway is not receiving the full rate of contributory pension. [25195/10]
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 396: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the length of time a person (details supplied) in County Dublin must wait for their appeal for carer's allowance to be processed; if his...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 397: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be approved and awarded farm assist. [25205/10]
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 400: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Limerick will be awarded jobseeker's allowance. [25229/10]
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 402: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be approved domiciliary care allowance. [25234/10]
- Departmental Bodies
Question 403: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the arrangements that are in place to implement Government policy on determining and approving the remuneration of each chief executive...
- Social Welfare Code
Question 404: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25258/10]
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 405: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons who are no longer able to claim jobseeker's benefit having at least 260 paid PRSI contributions as they are over the...
- Social Welfare Code
Question 408: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the penalties applicable to a landlord who charges a rent supplement tenant a top-up; and the specific statutory provision for these...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 409: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of mortgage interest supplement; and the expected cost to the State of the scheme in 2010 in view of the...
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 413: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if an appeal will be opened for a person (details supplied) in County Mayo in respect of their disability allowance refusal. [25310/10]
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 415: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) in County Mayo who had left work, applied for carer's benefit and was successful with that...
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 417: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an appeal will be heard in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [25316/10]
- Pension Provisions
Question 421: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if there is a pensions system in place for Irish citizens who have worked here but are now living abroad; the position regarding same; if...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 422: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason jobseeker's allowance payment has ceased in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; when this payment will be...
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 423: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an appeal against a decision not to award jobseeker's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 424: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the long-term health effects of the withdrawal of the dental and optical benefit schemes; the long term cost of these health effects to...
- Department of Defence
- Defence Forces Property
Question 427: To ask the Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 401 of 1 June 2010, that the red zones at Casement Aerodrome, County Dublin, are three dimensional...
- Bullying in the Workplace
Question 428: To ask the Minister for Defence if a grievance of a member of the Army nursing service in the Defence Forces, which involves allegations of bullying and harassment, has been...
- Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
- Foreshore Licences
Question 429: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when a decision will be made on a foreshore licence application in County Mayo to facilitate the Killala...
- Housing Statistics
Question 430: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of vacant residential housing units in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Commercial Property Statistics
Question 431: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of vacant commercial properties in Fermoy, Mitchelstown, Mallow, Kanturk, Youghal, Midleton and...
- Consultancy Contracts
Question 432: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amount that the Dublin Docklands Development Authority has spent each year on professional fees and...
- Environmental Policy
Question 433: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his policy regarding the burning of upland areas for firebreaks; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 434: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amount an organisation (details supplied) has received in grants or other funding from his Department in...
- Water and Sewerage Schemes
Question 435: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding a matter (details supplied). [25247/10]
- Social and Affordable Housing
Question 436: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the reason for the delay in the issuing of funding to an association (details supplied) in County Cork....
- Coastal Protection
Question 437: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will respond to a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25517/10]
- Professional Registration
Question 438: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will confirm that an Irish national is obliged to obtain UK citizenship to be assured of registration...
- Pest Control
Question 439: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position relating to pest management statutory regulation. [25524/10]
- Local Authority Funding
Question 440: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the list of local authorities and their water services capital projects that he has recently approved for the...
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Question 441: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will review the 3% annual reduction target in climate change in the programme for Government 2007 which...
- Housing Grants
Question 442: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if there are grants available to persons for refurbishment or upgrading second hand houses which they have...
- Unfinished Housing Estates
Question 443: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if there is any evidence to the effect that some housing estates, partially constructed or otherwise...
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Telecommunications Services
Question 444: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will arrange for Ballyporeen, County Tipperary, to be taken into the national broadband scheme in view of...
- Electric Vehicles
Question 445: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will ensure that Skerries, County Dublin is included in the ESB pilot programme supporting the...
- Electricity Generation
Question 446: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on whether ESB run dams should have flooding control and not energy production as their main...
- Alternative Energy Projects
Question 447: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he plans to introduce a grant and incentive scheme for micro wind energy generators; if he will provide...
- Telecommunications Services
Question 448: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position regarding the upgrading and or provision of a proper broadband structure in an area (details...
- Inland Fisheries
Question 449: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will confirm that salmon anglers have had a representative from their sector appointed to the new...
- Housing Grants
Question 451: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position regarding an application for the warmer homes scheme in respect of persons (details supplied) in...
- Department of Agriculture and Food
- Fallen Animal Collection Scheme
Question 452: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the alternatives that will be put in place by his Department to facilitate a cost effective fallen animal collection service...
- Grant Payments
Question 453: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Longford will be awarded their suckler cow grant for 2009; and if he will make a...
- Appointments to State Boards
Question 454: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the reason he appointed a person (details supplied) as the new chief executive officer of the Irish National Stud. [25093/10]
- Garda Investigations
Question 455: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if his attention has been drawn to a Garda investigation into a person (details supplied) of the Irish National Stud and...
- Bullying in the Workplace
Question 456: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if his attention has been drawn to allegations of serious bullying and sexual harassment of an employee of the Irish...
- Grant Payments
Question 457: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the position regarding an application for grant under the environmental scheme in respect of a person (details supplied) in...
- Direct Payment Schemes
Question 461: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he has unilaterally introduced a change in the procedure in relation to the payment of suckler premium where all 2009...
- Fishing Fleet Modernisation
Question 462: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will clarify the position regarding the operation of the decommissioning scheme as it applies to the fisheries sector;...
- Agri-Environment Option Scheme
Question 463: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of applications for the Agri-environment option scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25293/10]
- Grant Payments
Question 467: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of REP scheme participants who made an application prior to the closing date for SFP in May 2009 that are still...
- Farm Incomes
Question 468: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the measures he will introduce to assist farmers here whose incomes have fallen significantly over the past two years; and...
- Grant Payments
Question 469: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be awarded REP scheme three payment; and if he will make a statement on...
- Cabinet Committees
Question 470: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if a Cabinet sub-committee for the food and beverage sector still exists; the persons who sit on this committee; the amount...
- Departmental Bodies
Question 471: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he has approved auditors for the Irish National Stud; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25511/10]
- Single Payment Scheme
Question 472: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when approval will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick who has sold their single farm payment...
- Crop Losses
Question 473: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will confirm that the calculation of payments for the lost crops compensation scheme is 80% of the financial loss...
- Grant Payments
Question 474: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the reason a person (details supplied) in County Galway was not awarded their full single farm payment in 2008 in view of...
- Animal Diseases
Question 475: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if recent changes to TB testing mean that animals that are going for slaughter need not be tested within a 12 month period;...
- Department of Education and Science
- Departmental Programmes
Question 476: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which she has provided for or intends to provide for the utilisation of the skills of persons who have...
- EU Funding
Question 477: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if an application has been lodged on her behalf for assistance from the EU Globalisation Fund arising from the...
- FÁS Training Programmes
Question 478: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a...
- Community Employment Schemes
Question 479: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person (details supplied) in County Limerick, who has been included on a FÁS scheme for the past 20 months,...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 480: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding additional accommodation in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary; when the...
- Teaching Qualifications
Question 481: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if a person with a teaching qualification from a university (details supplied) is unable to register with the Teaching...
- Preschool Services
Question 482: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she will support the case of a person (details supplied). [25089/10]
- Teaching Qualifications
Question 484: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25107/10]
- Schools Building Projects
Question 485: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the new building for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Special Educational Needs
Question 486: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the full extent of support services available to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 489: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a proposed new school or school extension at a location (details supplied) in County Cork; and if...
- School Accommodation
Question 490: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she has received an application for additional accommodation by a school (details supplied) in County Kildare; if she...
- School Provision
Question 491: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the provision of a second level school for Claregalway, County Galway in view of the fact that...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 492: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills in the first six months of this year the amount of the capital budget for schools that has been spent to date; and if she...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 493: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills of the 78 school projects announced as commencing construction in 2009, the number that are built; the number at...
- School Accommodation
Question 495: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the number of permanent classrooms delivered to schools in each year over the past five years as part of the schools...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 496: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the provision of a new school on a greenfield site for a school (details supplied) in County...
- Disadvantaged Status
Question 497: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the percentage of children in DEIS areas that actually go to DEIS schools; if there is any truth in the suggestion that...
- School Curriculum
Question 498: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the statutory and-or non-statutory provisions that are in place to protect different religious and-or non-religious...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 499: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an application for a special needs assistant in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin...
- EU Funding
Question 500: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she will address the concerns of a person (details supplied) in County Waterford in regard to the Waterford Crystal...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 501: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if there are any plans for a new secondary school in Navan County Meath; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Disadvantaged Status
Question 503: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the essential work being completed by the Demonstration Library Project in 30 schools...
- Higher Education Grants
Question 504: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the reason she does not provide supports to part-time students at a third level facility (details supplied); if any...
- Course Accreditation
Question 506: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills her views on the withdrawal of accreditation by the Psychological Society of Ireland of a BA in behavioural science,...
- State Examinations
Question 507: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if, in consultation with the State Examination Commission, she has considered providing additional time to some...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 508: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills when a position (details supplied) will be filled; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25598/10]
