Written answers
Wednesday, 16 June 2010
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Innovation
- Trade Relations
Question 45: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the actions that he is taking to increase trade with Asia; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24481/10]
- Enterprise Support Services
Question 46: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the programmes and policies in place within his Department or organisations and agencies under the aegis of his Department...
- Employment Support Services
Question 47: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the initiatives he has taken or intends to take to create incentives for employers particularly those taking on extra...
- Enterprise Support Services
Question 48: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the progress made regarding the commitment given in the Renewed Programme for Government to expand the role of innovation...
- Unemployment Levels
Question 49: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the steps he is taking to combat the continuing high level of unemployment as indicated by the live register figures in...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 50: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the options he will consider to reduce spending in 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25443/10]
- Retail Sector
Question 51: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation his views on the recent number of cases highlighted by the National Consumers Agency in which some branches of the country's...
- Corporate Governance
Question 52: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation his views on the report, Mapping the Golden Circle, published by the research body TASC, which showed that Ireland's...
- Economic Competitiveness
Question 53: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the progress made regarding the commitment given in the Renewed Programme for Government to act on recommendations contained...
- Legislative Programme
Question 54: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation when he intends to publish legislation to address employee representation at work which was promised by June 2009 under the...
- Industrial Development
Question 55: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the action he is taking to ensure that the targets set by the Industrial Development Authority to attract foreign direct...
- Business Regulation
Question 56: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the action being taken to assist struggling businesses who are finding it hard to file their accounts on time in view of the...
- Job Protection
Question 57: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation if he will report on his meeting on 18 May 2010 with executives of a company (details supplied) regarding the future of jobs...
- Enterprise Support Services
Question 58: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the progress made regarding the commitment given in the Renewed Programme for Government to establish community and...
- Economic Competitiveness
Question 59: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the steps he has taken to improve the competitiveness of the economy; if he will set out in order of one to five the most...
- Redundancy Payments
Question 60: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the number of redundancies notified to his Department in respect of each year from 2002 to 2009 and to date in 2010; the...
- Prompt Payments System
Question 61: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the level of compliance with the 15 day payment rule throughout Government Departments by percentage of invoices, as well as...
- Credit Supply Clearing Group
Question 62: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation when the credit supply clearing group was established; the number of businesses which have made contact with the group to...
- Corporate Governance
Question 63: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation when he expects to publish the legislation promised referred to in an interview (details supplied) to clamp down on crony...
- Grocery Industry
Question 64: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the progress made in drawing up a voluntary code covering the relationship between the major multiples and suppliers to the...
- Small and Medium Enterprises
Question 65: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the action being taken to make Irish Small Medium Enterprises aware of the European research and development fund FP7; the...
- Job Creation
Question 66: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the specific efforts he, the Industrial Development Authority or Enterprise Ireland have made to encourage or provide jobs...
- National Minimum Wage
Question 67: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation if he has received any report from the Labour Court regarding a possible change in the national minimum wage; if not, when...
- Legislative Programme
Question 69: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the position regarding the work of the Company Law Review Group; the timeframe for the publication of legislation following...
- Job Creation
Question 70: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation if he will elaborate on his policy for job creation, specifically the approach recently announced by the Taoiseach to...
- Job Protection
Question 71: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the efforts that are being made to retain jobs in existing industries especially in the small indigenous factories; his...
- Employment Rights
Question 72: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the steps he will take to prevent the exploitation of domestic workers, particularly migrant workers in such positions; and...
- Business Regulation
Question 73: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the steps that are being taken to reduce the incidence of and costs associated with red tape in relation to the...
- Job Losses
Question 74: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation when his attention was drawn to the plan by a company (details supplied) to shed up to 785 jobs at plants in this country;...
- INTERREG Funding
Question 75: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the progress being made by his Department, in consultation with his counterpart in the Northern Ireland Assembly, to draw up...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 76: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the business expenditure on research and development in each of the past five years; the percentage of this expenditure that...
- Job Losses
Question 77: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation his views on the announcement by the medical devices company (details supplied) to shed almost 200 jobs at its plant in...
- Insurance Industry
Question 79: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the number of meetings that have taken place by the inter-agency team set up in the wake of the job losses at Quinn...
- Enterprise Support Services
Question 80: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the supports that are available to young persons, in particular young unemployed persons, to start their own businesses; and...
- Legislative Programme
Question 81: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation when he intends to publish the legislation to amend the Competition Acts, to uphold the rights of certain freelance workers...
- State Agencies
Question 82: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the progress made regarding the commitment given in the renewed programme for Government to undertake an independent review...
- Corporate Governance
Question 83: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation his response to the consultation paper on corporate governance published by the Financial Regulator. [24347/10]
- EU Directives
Question 84: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the number of the EU directives for which his Department has responsibility that remain to be implemented; if he will list...
- Economic Competitiveness
Question 85: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the action that he has taken or proposes to take to bring competitiveness in the manufacturing, commercial and service...
- Redundancy Payments
Question 87: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation when a redundancy payment will be awarded in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Wexford due to them as a...
- Departmental Agencies
Question 91: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation if, further to parliamentary Questions Nos. 14 and 15 of 9 June 2010, in respect of the 53 fixed term contracts due to...
- Redundancy Payments
Question 92: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the position regarding an application for statutory redundancy in the case of a person (details supplied) in County...
- Loan Guarantees
Question 93: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation when the commitment from Government regarding guarantee for bank loans for small and medium enterprises is due to be...
- Department of Finance
- Tax Code
Question 94: To ask the Minister for Finance the way in which income from renting a car-space is treated for income tax purposes; the reliefs, credits or other such tax allowances available on...
- EU Directives
Question 98: To ask the Minister for Finance the way he proposes to transpose the Consumer Credit Directive into domestic legislation; when he proposes to do so; if he proposes to include the...
- Departmental Agencies
Question 99: To ask the Minister for Finance if, further to Parliamentary Question No. 40 of 9 June 2010, those 24 posts referred to in his answer relate to the 53 requested posts by Enterprise...
- Pension Provisions
Question 100: To ask the Minister for Finance, further to Parliamentary Question No. 177 of 30 March 2010, and the legislation regarding having approved minimum retirement funds improperly sold...
- Tax Code
Question 101: To ask the Minister for Finance the VAT implications for a new company that will sell silver coins; if silver coins are exempt from VAT or if the standard rate of VAT applies when...
- Departmental Statistics
Question 102: To ask the Minister for Finance the national debt as a percentage of GNP each year from1980 to 2010; the general Government debt each year from 1980 to 2010; and if he will make a...
- Flood Relief
Question 103: To ask the Minister for Finance when the necessary finance will be allocated to Kilkenny County Council to deal effectively with a flooding issue (details supplied) in County...
- Department of Health and Children
- Dormant Accounts Fund
Question 104: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will confirm that her Department has received an application for funding for the establishment of new youth cafe facilities,...
- Child Care Services
Question 105: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will support a business (details supplied). [25745/10]
- Departmental Schemes
Question 106: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the action she is taking to prevent a repeat of the difficulties that arose in 2009 in relation to overpayments and significant delays...
- Health Service Staff
Question 107: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that home care providers who are contracted and paid by the Health Service Executive are...
- Health Services
Question 108: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the provision of respite support by a charity (details supplied) in Dublin 7; if she will confirm that this...
- Hospital Services
Question 109: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will accede to the request of a family for an independent inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of their mother...
- Health Services
Question 110: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the expenditure by the Health Service Executive on orthopaedic footwear in the Dublin area and nationally; and if she will make a...
- Services for People with Disabilities
Question 111: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the steps a parent should take whose child demonstrates signs of childhood development delays or disabilities where the child is under...
- Hospital Services
Question 113: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will instruct the Health Service Executive to provide additional funding to Tallaght Hospital to enable the hospital to deal...
- Medical Cards
Question 114: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding a medical card application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Laois; and if she will make a...
- Services for People with Disabilities
Question 115: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will support the respite services of an organisation (details supplied) in Dublin 7. [25885/10]
- Hospital Staff
Question 116: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if nurses have been included in the early retirement proposals introduced in the past two years; if further developments of such schemes...
- General Medical Services Scheme
Question 117: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the proposed charges for medical card holders will become effective; if she has had cause to reconsider any elements of these...
- Hospital Services
Question 118: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she has investigated the experience of mothers who survived the practice of symphysiotomy but suffered serious side effects; and if...
- Grant Payments
Question 119: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a grant is available to adapt a car by fitting a swivel seat in order to accommodate the transport of a spouse whose mobility is...
- Health Services
Question 120: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the Health Service Executive is withdrawing funding from a facility (details supplied) which provides valuable respite services for...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 121: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will ensure a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon will be admitted to hospital for a procedure. [25950/10]
- Services for People with Disabilities
Question 122: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she has completed the Review of Congregated Settings; the conclusions of the review in relation to the transfer of people with...
- Mental Health Services
Question 123: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if or not it is possible to investigate, assess or offer assistance in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare who was...
- Food Safety
Question 125: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on the need to provide consumers with more information on food products produced using novel technologies and associated...
- Voluntary Health Insurance
Question 126: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the timeline for the injection of funds into the VHI to enable it to meet its solvency requirements in advance of privatisation; the...
- Department of Transport
- Bonding Regulations
Question 127: To ask the Minister for Transport if, in view of the fact that the number of travel agents here has halved in the past two years, he will consider changing the bonding requirement...
- Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
- Citizenship Applications
Question 128: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a decision will issue regarding an application for naturalisation in respect of a person (details supplied) in County...
- Crime Levels
Question 129: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will support a matter (details supplied). [25744/10]
- Juvenile Offenders
Question 130: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of places available to young offenders to participate in educational programmes in St. Patrick's Institution;...
- Visa Applications
Question 133: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will review the decision to refuse permission to remain in the State in respect of a person (details supplied); if he...
- Garda Vetting Services
Question 134: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive their Garda clearance; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Psychotropic Substances
Question 135: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the steps he is taking directly with the Chinese Government and at EU level to address the reports from the BBC and other...
- Garda Deployment
Question 136: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will give a commitment that the garda who has left Cloone, County Leitrim, will be replaced with a permanent...
- Deportation Orders
Question 138: 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 Cavan; and if he...
- Department of Foreign Affairs
- Passport Offices
Question 139: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if any progress has been made on his proposal to establish a passport office service on the north and west of this island; if he will...
- Human Rights Issues
Question 140: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the action he is taking with the Israeli Government to emphasise his shock and concern in respect of the recent events at Gaza; if his...
- Trade Relations
Question 141: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the measures that he is putting in place to ensure better trade with China; and can he make a statement about his recent trip there. [25939/10]
- Travel Documentation
Question 142: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the position regarding the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25980/10]
- Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism
- Tourism Industry
Question 143: To ask the Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport her policy in relation to the optimum number of hotel beds needed to cater for the tourism level on a county or regional basis;...
- Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
- Departmental Reviews
Question 144: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the position regarding the review of the Equality Authority; the costs associated with that review; the further...
- Security of the Elderly
Question 145: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if funding will be provided to the carer's association to provide personal alarms to the elderly; when this funding...
- Community Development
Question 146: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will support the community development programmes in 2010 (details supplied). [25886/10]
- Dormant Accounts Fund
Question 147: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the position regarding an application for funding by a group (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
- Department of Social and Family Affairs
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 148: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be made on the appeal in respect of an application for domiciliary allowance in respect of a person (details...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 149: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will consider relaxing the means test rules for jobseeker's and disability allowance, when a qualifying person takes in sub-tenants...
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 151: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the length of time a person (details supplied) who appealed the refusal to grant them a carer's allowance must wait in order to have their...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 152: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the benefits a person (details supplied) in County Longford who is unemployed and liable for housing rental is entitled to claim; and if...
- Pension Provisions
Question 154: To ask the Minister for Social Protection his views on pensioners' concerns that have arisen from recent public discussion that the State pension may be cut or means tested; and if...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 155: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a carer's allowance application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon. [25949/10]
- Enterprise Allowance Schemes
Question 156: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if social welfare officers are acting upon the chief executive officer of the Road Safety Authority request that due to the reduced market...
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 157: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when the application for carer's allowance will be decided in respect of a person (details supplied). [25983/10]
- Department of Defence
- Defence Forces Investigations
Question 159: To ask the Minister for Defence if he will confirm that the person (details supplied) named and implicated with regard to arms sales in the Seychelles has been suspended from their...
- Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
- Tax Code
Question 161: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on a matter (details supplied). [25870/10]
- Farm Plan Scheme
Question 162: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when applications will be accepted under the hen harrier compensation scheme; and if the criteria for...
- Planning Issues
Question 163: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will issue a ministerial directive which will subject head shops to planning laws and regulations under...
- Foreshore Licences
Question 164: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding an application for a foreshore licence (details supplied) in County Cork. [25937/10]
- National Parks and Wildlife Service
Question 165: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when he will be in a position to respond to an invitation of the 12 March 2010 by the Joint Oireachtas...
- Social and Affordable Housing
Question 166: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amount of funding within the social housing budget 2010 that has been allocated for social housing...
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Fisheries Protection
Question 167: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when snap net salmon fishing will be allowed on the River Suir; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Telecommunications Services
Question 168: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position regarding the provision of broadband in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Carlow;...
- Department of Agriculture and Food
- Foreshore Licences
Question 170: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the position regarding a foreshore licence application by Mayo County Council to facilitate the construction of a new...
- Grant Payments
Question 171: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the position regarding an application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Carlow; if same will be awarded;...
- Departmental Offices
Question 174: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he has considered the proposal to provide an out-reach office on the grounds of Clare Marts, Ennis, County Clare to...
- Department of Education and Science
- Community Employment Schemes
Question 175: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an unemployed person who is anxious to take up a community employment scheme (details supplied);...
- Higher Education Grants
Question 176: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the reason a higher education grant was refused in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Wexford; and if she...
- School Libraries
Question 177: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she will support a matter (details supplied). [25742/10]
- School Transport
Question 180: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the arrangements that are in place to approve school transport for children with special education needs, which normally...
- Summer Works Scheme
Question 181: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills when she expects to make a decision on the summer works appeal in respect of a school (details supplied) in Dublin 24....
- School Libraries
Question 182: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she will confirm funding for the junior certificate school programme library initiative at schools (details supplied)...
- Teaching Qualifications
Question 183: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she will respond to a matter (details supplied). [25877/10]
- School Curriculum
Question 184: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she will respond to an issue (details supplied). [25880/10]
- Special Educational Needs
Question 185: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she has received a submission from a school (details supplied) in Dublin 2 regarding the difficulties it is...
- Psychological Service
Question 186: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the parents of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare who were never contacted...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 187: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills when a school place at second level will be offered to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare who is autistic; and...
- School Enrolments
Question 188: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills when school placement will be offered in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare and whose tuition was...
