Written answers

Thursday, 1 July 2010

  • Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
    • Community Development
      Question 11: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he is satisfied that it was not necessary to undertake a competitive tendering process in the context of the review...
    • Newspaper Contracts
      Question 12: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the details of the contract awarded in respect of an Irish paper (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 13: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the number of staff who have been transferred to his Department in the context of the transfer of new functions for...
    • Dormant Accounts Fund
      Question 14: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the amount of funds, if any, that are available from the dormant accounts structures; if some of this funds will be...
    • State Bodies
      Question 16: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will provide an update on the tendering process for the review of the Equality Authority, Equality Tribunal and...
    • Straitéise Fiche Bliain don Ghaeilge
      Question 18: To ask the Aire Gnóthaí Pobail, Comhionannais agus Gaeltachta cén clár ama atá aige i leith na Straitéise Fiche Bliain don Ghaeilge; agus an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas ina...
    • Drugs Report
      Question 20: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs his views on the world drug report 2010 which was recently published by the UN office on drugs and crime; and if he...
    • International Agreements
      Question 21: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the legislative, administrative and other measures that need to be put in place to enable the State to ratify the UN...
    • Departmental Funding
      Question 22: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the role that he has taken as a significant funder of an organisation (details supplied) to intervene in an ongoing...
    • Community Development
      Question 24: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he has considered a proposal put forward by the national community development forum regarding an alternative...
    • Migrant Integration
      Question 26: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will outline the role of his Department in migrant integration issues; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Ministerial Appointments
      Question 27: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if, since his appointment, he has made any appointments to any State boards within his ministry; if there are...
    • Community Development
      Question 28: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the steps he has taken to broaden the scope and scale of activities under the RAPID programme in view of the ongoing...
    • Údarás na Gaeilge
      Question 30: To ask the Aire Gnóthaí Pobail, Comhionannais agus Gaeltachta cathain a bheidh an reachtaíocht maidir le hÚdarás na Gaeilge ar fáil; agus an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas ina...
    • Care of the Elderly
      Question 31: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the position regarding the grant for community support for older people; when the new scheme will come into place; and...
    • Inland Waterways
      Question 32: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs when he last held a meeting with the chief executive of Waterways Ireland; the agenda for the meeting; and if he will...
    • Community Development
      Question 33: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if his attention has been drawn the report commissioned by IMPACT on the implications of the 2010 budget for the...
    • Job Creation
      Question 34: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the number of jobs created and the number of jobs lost that were provided with the assistance of Údarás na...
    • Departmental Staff
      Question 35: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if his newly reconfigured Department has more personnel and expertise at its disposal, thus possibly increasing its...
    • Active Citizenship
      Question 36: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will report on the recent work of the task force on active citizenship; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Community Development
      Question 37: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs his plans for the Centre for Effective Services; if he is satisfied with the mechanism that established the...
    • Inland Waterways
      Question 38: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if a decision has been made regarding the destination and use of a facility (details supplied) in County Kildare; and...
    • Community Development
      Question 39: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he or his Department will provide funding for communities to upgrade their community halls. [28772/10]
    • Departmental Funding
      Question 43: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will give details of the grant aid being provided by his Department to third level institutions abroad relating...
    • Eagraíochtaí Bunmhaoinithe Ghaeilge
      Question 44: To ask the Aire Gnóthaí Pobail, Comhionannais agus Gaeltachta an mbeidh maoiniú ar fáil do na heagraíochtaí bunmhaoinithe Ghaeilge ón 30ú lá de Mheitheamh 2010; agus an...
    • Departmental Funding
      Question 45: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he intends going ahead this year with the Christmas lights as Gaeilge initiative of his predecessor; and if he will...
    • Lárionad Náisiúnta Gaeilge
      Question 47: To ask the Aire Gnóthaí Pobail, Comhionannais agus Gaeltachta an aontaíonn sé gur fiú d'Éirinn Lárionad Náisiúnta Gaeilge a bhunú i gcroílár na príomhchathrach mar...
    • Equality Issues
      Question 48: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs his priorities for the equality brief in the coming year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28753/10]
  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Innovation
    • Foreign Direct Investment
      Question 52: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the position regarding the Horizon 2020 report; the action that has been taken since it was launched; and if he will make a...
    • Job Creation
      Question 54: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the number of jobs created by Enterprise Ireland in County Waterford during 2010; the level of funding provided for job...
    • Redundancy Payments
      Question 55: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation when his Department received an application for redundancy payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Job Creation
      Question 56: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the number of jobs created in County Mayo with the assistance of the Industrial Development Authority; the level of activity...
    • Job Creation
      Question 57: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the position regarding a specific payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [28932/10]
    • Tax Audits
      Question 58: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the number of unprompted voluntary disclosures made by his Department to the Revenue Commissioners in the years 2005, 2006,...
    • Redundancy Payments
      Question 61: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation when a State redundancy payment will issue in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin. [29053/10]
    • Job Creation
      Question 62: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation further to his recent announcement regarding an organisation (details supplied) and the creation of 71 jobs in Dublin, if he...
    • Redundancy Payments
      Question 63: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation if he will support the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9. [29088/10]
    • National Lottery Funding
      Question 64: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the amount of funding received from the national lottery in each of the years 2007, 2008 and 2009; if he will give details...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 65: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the amount paid by his Department in legal fees for each of the years from 2000 to date in 2010; the amount paid in legal...
  • Department of Finance
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes
      Question 66: To ask the Minister for Finance if it is possible for a water supply required for a graveyard (details supplied) to be connected from the Garda station in the village; and if he...
    • National Asset Management Agency
      Question 67: To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost to the Exchequer if a National Asset Management Agency type scheme were to be brought in for mortgage holders; and if he will make...
    • Tax Code
      Question 68: To ask the Minister for Finance if a person (details supplied) in County Kildare has received all of their allowances for the past four years; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Financial Services Regulation
      Question 69: To ask the Minister for Finance the annual cost of financial regulation for each of the past five years; the proportion of the cost of financial regulation borne by regulated...
    • Tax Audits
      Question 70: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of unprompted voluntary disclosures made by his Department to the Revenue Commissioners in the years 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and to...
    • State Banking Sector
      Question 73: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm the period of time it takes for a genuine loan proposal to be processed from the time it is sent into the headquarters of Anglo...
    • National Lottery Funding
      Question 74: To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of funding received from the national lottery in each of the years 2007, 2008 and 2009; if he will give details of the programmes,...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 75: To ask the Minister for Finance the amount paid by his Department in legal fees for each of the years from 2000 to date in 2010; the amount paid in legal fees by each of the...
    • Freedom of Information
      Question 76: To ask the Minister for Finance, further to a freedom of information request (details supplied), if it is standard practice not to retain documentation and early drafts of replies...
    • State Banking Sector
      Question 77: To ask the Minister for Finance the amount and the individual amounts paid by those banks in State ownership in salary and management contracts terms to each developer to date; the...
    • Flood Relief
      Question 78: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will ascertain from the Office of Public Works when works (details supplied) in County Mayo will commence. [29171/10]
  • Department of Health and Children
    • Departmental Reviews
      Question 79: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the Drogheda review will report; if she has decided to have an inquiry into the issues involved; if the inquiry so recommends; and...
    • National Drugs Strategy
      Question 80: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the extent to which she or her Department have assisted in drug rehabilitation programmes throughout the country in each of the past...
    • Adoption Services
      Question 85: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason for the decline in issuing original birth certificates to adopted persons when requested from 97% in 2005 to 37% in 2009 from...
    • Care of the Elderly
      Question 86: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the policy and procedures in place to ensure that Health Service Executive facilities for older people are upgraded when so required by...
    • Health Services
      Question 87: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will support the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 3. [28864/10]
    • Hospital Procedures
      Question 88: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be admitted to the Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, for a biopsy procedure. [28865/10]
    • Health Services
      Question 89: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a long-term residential placement will be provided in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12; and if she will make a...
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund
      Question 90: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when surgery will be carried out on a person (details supplied) in County Kildare at Tallaght Hospital, Dublin 24; if arrangements will...
    • Medical Cards
      Question 91: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a medical card will issue in respect of persons (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Health Services
      Question 92: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a person (details supplied) in County Kildare, who is over 70 years of age, who recently had dental procedure carried out by the...
    • Hospitals Building Programme
      Question 95: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the cost of building the new Health Service Executive community nursing hospital in Ballincollig, County Cork, including the purchase of...
    • Adoption Services
      Question 97: To ask the Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No. 54 of 6 May 2010 if she will outline the progress made to date on the mechanism he referred to;...
    • Nursing Home Subventions
      Question 98: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when nursing home subvention will be awarded in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 24; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Medical Cards
      Question 99: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a medical card will be reviewed in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services
      Question 101: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Dublin will receive an assessment of needs; the reason for the delay; the reason a special...
    • Medical Cards
      Question 102: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a medical card will be approved in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [28930/10]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      Question 103: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a decision will issue on an application for a medical device in respect of a person (details supplied); the reason for the delay;...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      Question 104: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason an appointment is not available until 5 March 2012 in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Meath; the reason for...
    • Health Service Staff
      Question 105: To ask the Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No. 125 of 24 June 2010, the options available to a female resident in a direct provision centre to...
    • Interpretation Services
      Question 107: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the interpretation services available to general practitioners assigned by the Health Service Executive to direct provision centres....
    • Child Care Services
      Question 108: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she is satisfied that children in direct provision centres are sufficiently protected in view of the fact that these centres are not...
    • Dormant Accounts Fund
      Question 109: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding an application for funding under strand 2 of the Dormant Accounts Fund 2010 to an organisation (details supplied)...
    • Inter-Country Adoptions
      Question 111: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of applications for inter-country adoption currently with the Health Service Executive for adoption from Russia and Vietnam....
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      Question 112: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the Health Service Executive has reduced waiting lists (details supplied) under its nationwide system of application introduced in...
    • Health Services
      Question 114: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the action taken following an assessment by the Health Service Executive through an agency in the case of a person (details supplied) in...
    • Vaccination Programme
      Question 115: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a decision on the recommendations of the vaccine damage steering group which she received more than 15 months ago; her...
    • Revenue Audits
      Question 116: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of unprompted voluntary disclosures made by her Department to the Revenue Commissioners in the years 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008,...
    • Nursing Home Subventions
      Question 119: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the level of assistance that will be offered in addition to the fair deal package to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; if...
    • Ambulance Service
      Question 120: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of ambulances currently required throughout the Heath Service Executive on a region basis; the number of older or obsolete...
    • Departmental Funding
      Question 121: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the circumstances whereby a fund of €2.5 million provided by her Department to the Health Service Executive ostensibly for training...
    • Medical Cards
      Question 122: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will arrange for the reissue of a medical card in the correct name of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she...
    • Nursing Home Subventions
      Question 123: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will refer to previous communication in relation to a person (details supplied) in Dublin 11 who has been in hospital for months...
    • Child Abuse
      Question 124: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will refer to the Saving Childhood Ryan campaign and if she will indicate the progress that has been made in the commitments as...
    • Medical Cards
      Question 125: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if he will examine and report on the situation of the backlog that exists in the appeals offices for medical cards and other services in...
    • Health Service Staff
      Question 126: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when an operator will be appointed to a new community hospital facility (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a...
    • Medical Cards
      Question 127: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the renewal of a medical card in respect of persons (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a...
    • National Lottery Funding
      Question 128: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the amount of funding received from the national lottery in each of the years 2007, 2008 and 2009; if she will give details of the...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 129: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the amount paid by her Department in legal fees for each of the years from 2000 to date in 2010; the amount paid in legal fees by each...
    • Medicinal Products
      Question 130: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the actions being taken by her and the Irish Medicines Board to routinely ensure that psychoactive products, the sale of which requires...
    • Media Campaigns
      Question 131: To ask the Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No. 44 of 1 April 2010, the additional moneys that will be made available for the national awareness...
    • Health Service Staff
      Question 132: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plan to stop all hospice out of hours cover by specialist junior doctors in County Donegal; the reason this plan does not contravene...
    • Hospital Accommodation
      Question 133: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) will be transferred from Cavan Regional Hospital to the Mater Hospital, Dublin; and if she will make a...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      Question 135: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon will receive surgery; and if the matter can be expedited. [29163/10]
    • Children in Care
      Question 137: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the protocol, if any, which exists between her Department, the Health Service Executive and the Department of Education and Skills in...
    • Health Services
      Question 138: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will receive speech therapy sessions from the Health Service Executive; and if she will...
  • Department of Transport
    • Parking Regulations
      Question 139: To ask the Minister for Transport his plans to publish the document on designated parking badges and bays; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28921/10]
    • Tax Audits
      Question 140: To ask the Minister for Transport the number of unprompted voluntary disclosures made by his Department to the Revenue Commissioners in the years 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and...
    • Road Network
      Question 143: To ask the Minister for Transport the position regarding a local authority project (details supplied) in County Cork. [29081/10]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 144: To ask the Minister for Transport the amount of the estimated €34 billion cost of Transport 21 that has already been spent each year since 2006; the amount of the estimated €34...
    • National Lottery Funding
      Question 146: To ask the Minister for Transport the amount of funding received from the national lottery in each of the years 2007, 2008 and 2009; if he will give details of the programmes,...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 147: To ask the Minister for Transport the amount paid by his Department in legal fees for each of the years from 2000 to date in 2010; the amount paid in legal fees by each of the...
  • Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
    • Garda Deployment
      Question 148: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of joint policing committees established on a county-by-county basis; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Asylum Applications
      Question 149: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a decision will issue on an application for asylum status and leave to remain in the State in respect of a person...
    • Residency Permits
      Question 150: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will expedite a decision on an application for a permanent residence card in respect of a person (details supplied)...
    • Citizenship Applications
      Question 151: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will grant leave to persons (details supplied) in County Waterford to remain here during the processing of their...
    • Garda Vetting
      Question 152: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of applications from addresses in County Mayo waiting to be processed at the Garda central vetting unit; if not...
    • Garda Deployment
      Question 153: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of staff employed at the Garda information services centre in County Mayo over the past three years; the key...
    • Residency Permits
      Question 154: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding an application for family reunification in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Galway;...
    • Deportation Orders
      Question 155: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding an application for residency and family reunification in the case of a person (details supplied) in...
    • Crime Prevention
      Question 158: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the steps he will take to address the advertising of Irish based prostitution services on the internet; and if he will make...
    • Tax Audits
      Question 159: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of unprompted voluntary disclosures made by his Department to the Revenue Commissioners in the years 2005, 2006,...
    • Residency Permits
      Question 162: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the state of health of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 8 will be taken into consideration in the determination of...
    • Identity Cards
      Question 178: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will clarify the issue of national identity cards; if, since 1973, EU nationals are free to travel here on their...
    • Residency Permits
      Question 179: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will respond to correspondence sent to his office by a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny in view of the...
    • National Lottery Funding
      Question 180: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the amount of funding received from the national lottery in each of the years 2007, 2008 and 2009; if he will give details...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 181: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the amount paid by his Department in legal fees for each of the years from 2000 to date in 2010; the amount paid in legal...
    • Asylum Applications
      Question 182: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding an application for leave to remain on humanitarian grounds and the application for subsidiary...
    • Court Procedures
      Question 183: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will clarify if the Enforcement of Court Orders Amendment Act 2009 applies to persons who have been brought before...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs
    • Tax Audits
      Question 184: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of unprompted voluntary disclosures made by his Department to the Revenue Commissioners in the years 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009...
    • National Lottery Funding
      Question 187: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the amount of funding received from the national lottery in each of the years 2007, 2008 and 2009; if he will give details of the...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 188: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the amount paid by his Department in legal fees for each of the years from 2000 to date in 2010; the amount paid in legal fees by each of...
  • Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism
    • Tax Audits
      Question 189: To ask the Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport the number of unprompted voluntary disclosures made by her Department to the Revenue Commissioners in the years 2005, 2006, 2007,...
    • National Lottery Funding
      Question 192: To ask the Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport the amount of funding received from the national lottery in each of the years 2007, 2008 and 2009; if she will give details of...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 193: To ask the Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport the amount paid by her Department in legal fees for each of the years from 2000 to date in 2010; the amount paid in legal fees by...
  • Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
    • Rural Transport Services
      Question 195: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the research that he has carried out as to the effectiveness of the rural night time transport scheme; and if he will...
    • Tax Audits
      Question 197: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the number of unprompted voluntary disclosures made by his Department to the Revenue Commissioners in the years 2005,...
    • Departmental Programmes
      Question 202: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs his plans, if any, to develop the community related programmes operated by his Department to meet the needs emerging...
    • Community Development
      Question 206: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the number of applications for grant aid from community groups received in his Department in each of the past three...
    • National Lottery Funding
      Question 207: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the amount of funding received from the national lottery in each of the years 2007, 2008 and 2009; if he will give...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 208: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the amount paid by his Department in legal fees for each of the years from 2000 to date in 2010; the amount paid in...
  • Department of Social and Family Affairs
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      Question 209: To ask the Minister for Social Protection his plans regarding cuts in the contributory old age pension in the forthcoming budget; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Social Welfare Code
      Question 212: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if any proposals to have people receiving unemployment assistance undertake limited community service have been examined; and if he will...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      Question 213: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a domiciliary care appeal will be heard in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      Question 214: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when jobseeker's allowance will be awarded in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 22; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Social Welfare Code
      Question 221: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the daily disregards of additional income from employment applying to jobseeker allowance claimants in each of the past ten years. [28951/10]
    • Tax Audits
      Question 223: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of unprompted voluntary disclosures made by his Department to the Revenue Commissioners in the years 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008,...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      Question 226: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if the contributions record furnished to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare constitutes their full social insurance record for...
    • Social Welfare Code
      Question 230: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason an unmarried couple, one of whom is working and paying social insurance, live together and raise a child together and one of...
    • National Lottery Funding
      Question 231: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the amount of funding received from the national lottery in each of the years 2007, 2008 and 2009; if he will give details of the...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 232: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the amount paid by his Department in legal fees for each of the years from 2000 to date in 2010; the amount paid in legal fees by each of...
    • Social Welfare Code
      Question 233: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the regulations governing assessment of contribution of maintenance payments in respect of one-parent family payment; and if he will make...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      Question 234: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding the case of a person (details supplied) in County Longford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29152/10]
    • Employment Support Services
      Question 235: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons referred to FÁS under the national employment action plan in each of the years since 2007 and to date in 2010; if...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      Question 236: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason payment has not issued to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29159/10]
  • Department of Defence
    • Tax Audits
      Question 237: To ask the Minister for Defence the number of unprompted voluntary disclosures made by his Department to the Revenue Commissioners in the years 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and to...
    • National Lottery Funding
      Question 240: To ask the Minister for Defence the amount of funding received from the national lottery in each of the years 2007, 2008 and 2009; if he will give details of the programmes,...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 241: To ask the Minister for Defence the amount paid by his Department in legal fees for each of the years from 2000 to date in 2010; the amount paid in legal fees by each of the...
  • Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
    • Departmental Agencies
      Question 242: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the classification of debt being transferred from local authorities to the Housing and Sustainable...
    • Tax Audits
      Question 243: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of unprompted voluntary disclosures made by his Department to the Revenue Commissioners in the...
    • Noise Pollution
      Question 246: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will outline the action residents can take regarding neighbours with barking dogs; if he will specify...
    • Local Authority Housing
      Question 247: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will list the local authorities or summarise the percentage of local authorities which include family...
    • Tax Collection
      Question 249: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on the advertising campaign regarding the payment of second home tax currently taking place; the...
    • Foreshore Licences
      Question 250: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when a foreshore licence will be cleared through the Office of the Attorney General for an organisation...
    • Environmental Policy
      Question 251: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has prepared regulations to ensure that central and local government purchases of wood products are...
    • Local Authority Housing
      Question 252: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to reports of extreme difficulties being experienced by those persons who...
    • National Lottery Funding
      Question 253: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amount of funding received from the national lottery in each of the years 2007, 2008 and 2009; if he...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 254: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amount paid by his Department in legal fees for each of the years from 2000 to date in 2010; the amount...
    • Electoral Register
      Question 255: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown of the accuracy of the electoral register on a county basis; and if he will...
  • Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
    • Tax Audits
      Question 258: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of unprompted voluntary disclosures made by his Department to the Revenue Commissioners in the...
    • National Lottery Funding
      Question 261: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the amount of funding received from the national lottery in each of the years 2007, 2008 and 2009; if he will...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 262: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the amount paid by his Department in legal fees for each of the years from 2000 to date in 2010; the amount...
    • Offshore Exploration
      Question 263: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the estimates made as to the extent of the gas field off the shores of County Mayo that a company (details...
  • Department of Agriculture and Food
    • Health and Safety Regulation
      Question 264: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of farm based accidents to have occurred in the last year on a county basis; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 265: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will reintroduce the disadvantaged area scheme rates paid prior to the budget cuts of December 2008 in view of the...
    • Tax Audits
      Question 267: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of unprompted voluntary disclosures made by his Department to the Revenue Commissioners in the years 2005, 2006,...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme
      Question 270: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the position regarding an application for a disadvantaged area scheme grant in respect of a person (details supplied) in...
    • Grant Payments
      Question 271: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will address the problem of ewe hoggets who are in lamb being granted the €10 grant per ewe which he announced; if...
    • National Lottery Funding
      Question 273: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the amount of funding received from the national lottery in each of the years 2007, 2008 and 2009; if he will give details...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 274: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the amount paid by his Department in legal fees for each of the years from 2000 to date in 2010; the amount paid in legal...
  • Department of Education and Science
    • Community Employment Schemes
      Question 275: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider extending the time limits for employment under the community employment scheme; and if she will make...
    • FÁS Training Programmes
      Question 276: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons currently on a FÁS course; and the number of courses involved. [29104/10]
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 277: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the funding allocated to a project (details supplied) in County Cork; the timescale to complete this project. [28833/10]
    • Departmental Funding
      Question 279: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the funding allocated to each school in Cork city and county from her Department in the years 2000 to date in 2010 in...
    • School Enrolments
      Question 280: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the number of pupils enrolled into each school in Cork City and county for the years 2000 to date in 2010 in tabular...
    • School Staffing
      Question 281: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the number of teachers, both full-time and part-time, on both temporary and permanent contracts, in Cork City and county...
    • Departmental Funding
      Question 282: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the amount of funding that has been allocated from her Department to each of the 43 constituencies from 1980 to 2010 in...
    • State Examinations
      Question 283: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the number of appeals regarding leaving certificate results in 2009 on a county basis; and if she will make a statement...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 284: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a school building project in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Kildare; if the...
    • Higher Education Grants
      Question 285: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the number of students to receive a student grant last year on a county basis; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 287: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if the special educational needs division of her Department offers a programme to autistic children known as the July...
    • FÁS Training Programmes
      Question 288: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 8 of 3 June 2010, if she has made contact with FÁS regarding the inability of...
    • Schools Building Projects
      Question 289: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an application for building works in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary;...
    • Tax Audits
      Question 293: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the number of unprompted voluntary disclosures made by her Department to the Revenue Commissioners in the years 2005,...
    • Home Tuition
      Question 296: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 231 of 13 May 2010 and no. 218 of 3 June 2010 regarding a person (details supplied)...
    • Higher Education Grants
      Question 297: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she will examine the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 11; if they qualify for jobseeker's allowance for...
    • School Transport
      Question 298: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she will make arrangements to have appropriate transport in place for a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and...
    • Psychological Service
      Question 299: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an application for a National Education Psychological Service psychologist for a school (details...
    • National Lottery Funding
      Question 300: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the amount of funding received from the national lottery in each of the years 2007, 2008 and 2009; if she will give...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      Question 301: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the amount paid by her Department in legal fees for each of the years from 2000 to date in 2010; the amount paid in legal...
    • Drugs Awareness Campaigns
      Question 302: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the steps she will take to raise awareness of the dangers of so-called legal highs; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Higher Education Grants
      Question 303: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a mature student grant in the case of a person (details supplied) who wishes to apply for a grant...
    • FÁS Training Programmes
      Question 304: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills when a person (details supplied) in County Waterford will be paid the training allowance in respect of a FÁS course; the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      Question 306: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the educational provision planned in the areas of primary, post primary and special needs education for patients in the...
    • School Enrolments
      Question 307: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary school students in County Meath by school for each of the academic years since 2005; the number of...
    • Children in Care
      Question 308: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the protocol, if any, which exists between her Department, the National Education Welfare Board and the Health Service...
    • Educational Projects
      Question 309: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider allocating funding for the establishment of a much needed early start unit for Travellers at a...