Written answers
Wednesday, 10 November 2010
- Department of Finance
- Economic Forecasts
Question 55: To ask the Minister for Finance when he will set out his forecast GDP growth for 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41643/10]
- Insurance Industry
Question 56: To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the pressure by insurance companies to raise premiums; if he has undertaken any analysis of the impact and of the...
- Banking Sector
Question 57: To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which the Irish banking system is dependent on the European Central Bank for funding; if the ECB have communicated to him a proposed...
- Croke Park Agreement
Question 58: To ask the Minister for Finance the savings across Departments achieved by the implementation of the Croke Park Agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41608/10]
- National Asset Management Agency
Question 59: To ask the Minister for Finance the action he is taking to ensure that National Asset Management Agency is accountable to the taxpayer; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Banking Charges
Question 60: To ask the Minister for Finance his specific proposals to incentivise bank customers to more frequently use plastic cards and to reduce their use of ATM machines to access their own...
- Tax Collection
Question 61: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the decline in receipts from DIRT tax in the Exchequer returns published on 2 November 2010; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Central Bank Reports
Question 62: To ask the Minister for Finance when he expects the publication of the next Financial Stability Report by the Central Bank; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41622/10]
- Forbairt na Gaeilge
Question 63: To ask the Aire Airgeadais an bhfuil Gaeleagras – an eagraíocht oiliúna don státseirbhís faoi choimirce na Roinne Airgeadais – fós ag feidhmiú ina hiomláine; an bhfuil...
- Fiscal Policy
Question 64: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the introduction of a new fiscal framework for Ireland; if he plans to make an announcement regarding same, on budget day; his plans to...
- Departmental Property
Question 65: To ask the Minister for Finance the capital value of the property portfolio of the Office of Public Works for the year 2009 with comparative figures for the previous three years...
- Tax Collection
Question 66: To ask the Minister for Finance if, in view of the 4.1% shortfall in income tax returns for October and the 6.3% drop in the year on year performance of these returns, he will make...
- National Pension Reserve Fund
Question 67: To ask the Minister for Finance the loss he expects the National Pension Reserve Fund to sustain as a result of the State's underwriting of the €5.4 billion Allied Irish Bank...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 68: To ask the Minister for Finance the estimate the 2010 year end capital and current balances for voted Departmental spending; his plans to roll these funds over at the discretion of...
- Public Sector Staff
Question 69: To ask the Minister for Finance in respect of the Health Service Executive voluntary redundancy and early retirement schemes, the detail of the way this is proposed to be funded; if...
- Fiscal Policy
Question 70: To ask the Minister for Finance if, in view of the fact that savings amounting to €15 billion will be needed which is twice the sum that was under discussion at the time Ireland...
- Tax Code
Question 71: To ask the Minister for Finance his plans for lifting the burden of carbon tax on road hauliers; if he will consider a scrappage scheme to assist road hauliers in replacing older...
- Tax Code
Question 72: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on proposals to impose a tax or levy on text messages; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37831/10]
- Departmental Properties
Question 73: To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 84 of 7 October 2010, the further progress that has been made by the Office of Public Works in relation to the...
- Credit Availability
Question 75: To ask the Minister for Finance his view on the current lending environment for small and medium enterprise and for persons seeking mortgages; and if he will make a statement on the...
- National Asset Management Agency
Question 76: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the €64 million loss incurred by the National Asset Management Agency in the three months to end June 2010 on the mark-to-market...
- Fiscal Policy
Question 78: To ask the Minister for Finance the reason income tax receipts were below profile in the Exchequer returns published on 2 November 2010; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Economic Competitiveness
Question 79: To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which his Department continues to monitor the competitiveness of the economy; the way this now compares with other EU member states...
- Government Deficit
Question 80: To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the Economic and Social Research Institute quarterly economic commentary for the third quarter of 2010 that had...
- Financial Services Sector
Question 81: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has received a report conducted by Ernst and Young into policies and practices at Irish Nationwide Building Society; if he will publish the...
- European Financial Stability Facility
Question 82: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on proposals to set up a permanent successor fund to the European Financial Stability Facility; if he expects that conditionalities...
- Debt Interest Payments
Question 83: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will set out a schedule of interest payments, both imputed and actual, for the promissory notes issued to Anglo Irish Bank, Irish Nationwide...
- Flood Relief
Question 84: To ask the Minister for Finance the reason Ireland did not join the European floods alert system until this year; the plans that are in place to avoid a recurrence of the...
- Fiscal Policy
Question 85: To ask the Minister for Finance the reason receipts for corporation tax as published on 2 November 2010 were below the receipts for the equivalent period in 2009; and if he will...
- Tax Code
Question 86: To ask the Minister for Finance the purpose of the €10 air travel tax; the amount of money collected since the tax was initiated; if he has considered a cost benefit analysis of...
- Public Service Staff
Question 87: To ask the Minister for Finance the direction given by his Department to public sector workers who were left stranded abroad as a result of the volcanic ash disruption; the specific...
- Consumer Sentiment Index
Question 88: To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the KBC Ireland-ESRI consumer sentiment index slipped last month to 48.1 from 52.4 in September, bringing the index to its lowest level...
- Financial Services Regulation
Question 89: To ask the Minister for Finance the efforts that have been undertaken to introduce a mechanism whereby credit unions with surplus, uninvested funds can channel these funds into...
- Bank Guarantee Scheme
Question 90: To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to extend the issuance period for liabilities covered under the eligible liabilities guarantee scheme beyond end 2010; if he has sought, or...
- Budget Statement
Question 92: To ask the Minister for Finance if and when his Department will publish an impact assessment analysis of budget 2011; if his Department will poverty proof budget 2011 and the...
- Banking Sector Regulation
Question 93: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update on the progress with the restructuring and consolidation of the Irish banking system; and if he will make a statement on...
- Budget Statement
Question 94: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will set out a template of the four year stability plan which is under preparation for the European Commission detailing exactly the...
- Financial Services Regulation
Question 95: To ask the Minister for Finance when a decision will be made on the sale of EBS; the strategic considerations that will be taken into account in making the decision; and if he will...
- Sovereign Borrowing Costs
Question 96: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the recent escalation of Irish sovereign borrowing costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41634/10]
- Exchequer Savings
Question 97: To ask the Minister for Finance the reason expenditure on capital projects was €1 billion below profile on 2 November 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41613/10]
- Company Administration
Question 98: To ask the Minister for Finance the progress of the restructuring of Quinn Group; the level of losses incurred by Anglo Irish Bank to date on loans to Quinn Group; and if he will...
- Departmental Properties
Question 99: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of properties under control of the Office of Public Works currently in use by the Department of Defence or Defence Forces; and if he will...
- Tax Collection
Question 100: To ask the Minister for Finance in view of the expiry of the relevant 31 October deadline for self-declaration, if he will provide an update on the implementation of further...
- Banking Sector
Question 101: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the liquidity position of the Irish banking system; if this liquidity has come under significant threat in recent weeks; and if he will...
- Credit Availability
Question 102: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has audited the delivery of lending commitments by banks made as part of the €7 billion recapitalisation agreement in 2009; the progress...
- Legislative Programme
Question 103: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of legislative measures already taken to safeguard the economy, the taxpayer and the country's international creditability in the wake of...
- Banking Sector Regulation
Question 104: To ask the Minister for Finance the progress that has been made with preparations for the introduction of a special resolution regime for Irish banks; and if he will make a...
- Bank Guarantee Scheme
Question 105: To ask the Minister for Finance if it is his intention to further extend the eligible liabilities guarantee scheme beyond December 2010; when will he be reviewing this guarantee to...
- Credit Availability
Question 106: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of refusals of credit that have been overturned by the Credit Review Office or as part of its internal review process within the two main...
- Tax Yield
Question 107: To ask the Minister for Finance if an estimation has been provided for the loss of revenue to the State due to cross-Border shopping in each of the years 2009 and to date in 2010;...
- Department of An Taoiseach
- Tourism Industry
Question 108: To ask the Taoiseach the number of foreign tourists that have visited Ireland each year since 2000 to date in 2010; broken down by country of origin; and if he will make a...
- State Airports
Question 110: To ask the Taoiseach if the Central Statistics Office includes the debt of the Dublin Airport Authority in its calculations of the general Government debt that it compiles for...
- Departmental Staff
Question 111: To ask the Taoiseach the number of persons in his Department who availed of the incentivised career break arrangements and the net savings to the Exchequer of the initiative [42091/10]
- Department of Education and Science
- Vocational Education Committees
Question 112: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the timeframe for the proposed amalgamation of vocational education committees, when and how a decision will be made...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 113: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a progress report on the extension of a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
- Vocational Education Committees
Question 118: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the number of staff employed by the City of Dublin Vocational Education Committee and County Dublin VEC for 2007, 2008,...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 119: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a progress report on the Educate Together proposal for a second level school at a location (details...
- Job Losses
Question 121: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 199 of 20 October 2009, if she will confirm the efforts she has made to date in...
- Adult Education
Question 122: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the reason persons currently on disability benefit who could benefit from further training are not eligible for the...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 123: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if home school tuition will be provided for a child (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a...
- Telecommunications Services
Question 124: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills in view of the significant information and other services provided to Internet sites to both the public as well as to...
- Ministerial Correspondence
Question 125: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she will respond to correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42007/10]
- Schools Building Projects
Question 126: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding plans for a new school (details supplied); the stage the development plans are at and when...
- Teaching Qualifications
Question 128: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she will assist a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42013/10]
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 129: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the expenditure by her Department on grants towards the purchase of prefabricated buildings for schools in County Clare...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 130: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an appeal for home tuition grant in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; if her...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 131: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills when the purchase of a site for a new secondary school at Lusk, County Dublin will be completed (details supplied); and...
- School Placement
Question 132: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the current position and her response to parents in south County Dublin for the establishment of a gaelcolaiste to meet...
- Departmental Staff
Question 133: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons in her Department who availed of the incentivised career break arrangements and the net savings to...
- Department of Finance
- Bank Guarantee Scheme
Question 134: To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of demand deposits, interbank lending, senior debt, subordinated debt, total wholesale funding, retail deposits, total funding, deposit...
- Tax Yield
Question 135: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will list all taxes and VAT that the State imposes on air travel; the amount of revenue collected by each of these taxes in 2009 and to date...
- National Debt
Question 136: To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of money spent servicing the national debt and the average interest rate paid each year from 2000 to 2009; the projected cost of...
- Tax Yield
Question 137: To ask the Minister for Finance the amount the Exchequer has received from overseas tourism each year since 2000 and to date in 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Tax Code
Question 139: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on a proposal (details supplied) as part of dealing with the current economic situation. [41782/10]
- Senior Debt Obligations
Question 140: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will specify where under Irish law it is mandated that senior bondholders have the same status as depositors or holders of Irish sovereign...
- Pension Provisions
Question 141: To ask the Minister for Finance the arrangements in place to allow certain persons within the public service to obtain additional years towards their pension rights; if these...
- Budget Submissions
Question 142: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has received a pre-budget submission from the Irish Senior Citizens Parliament; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41840/10]
- Flood Relief
Question 143: To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 511 of the 29 September 2010 the position regarding a project (details supplied); and if he will make a...
- Tax Collection
Question 145: To ask the Minister for Finance his views in relation to a matter (details supplied); if the matter can be dealt with given the concerns expressed by the person as stated; and if...
- Tax Yield
Question 146: To ask the Minister for Finance the saving and yield for the Exchequer if an annual absolute cap of tax relievable pension contributions were introduced using the following caps:...
- Pension Provisions
Question 148: To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated saving for the Exchequer in each of the scenarios where public service pensions were capped at €100,000 and at values higher than...
- Garda Stations
Question 150: To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding plans for the now vacant Garda station (details supplied); if still allocated to the gardaí, their future plans for same and...
- Fiscal Policy
Question 151: To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the National Assets Management Agency has been lending money to developers whose assets were non-performing (details supplied); and if he...
- Art Collection
Question 152: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will give an assurance that the art collection located in Allied Irish Banks will not be sold; his views that since the State is a major...
- Banking Sector
Question 153: To ask the Minister for Finance if he is satisfied that he has been given all the information regarding the full extent of indebtedness in the banking sector; and if he will make a...
- Banking Sector Regulation
Question 157: To ask the Minister for Finance if he is satisfied that all the undesirable banking practices that lead to the economic downturn have been corrected and provision made to ensure no...
- Flood Relief
Question 160: To ask the Minister for Finance the total cost of flood prevention and flood alleviation in each of the past two years; the extent to which such sums have been included in...
- Tax Yield
Question 161: To ask the Minister for Finance the total revenue accruing to the Exchequer through the various forms of motor vehicle registration, taxation, excise on an annual basis; and if he...
- Financial Services Sector
Question 162: To ask the Minister for Finance if Irish investors are investing offshore to any greater extent than normal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42043/10]
- National Assets Management Agency
Question 163: To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which his original projections in respect of the value and liability of assets taken by the National Assets Management Agency; the...
- Flood Relief
Question 165: To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding a project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42051/10]
- Departmental Staff
Question 168: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons in his Department who availed of the incentivised career break arrangements and the net savings to the Exchequer of the...
- Department of Health and Children
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 169: To ask the Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No. 433 of 27 October 2010, an appeal was submitted in respect of the person concerned and to date no...
- Health Services
Question 170: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a report (details supplied) will be made available; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41756/10]
- Tobacco Products
Question 171: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to introduce a consumer awareness campaign to inform the public of the consequences of buying illicit and smuggled cigarettes;...
- Health Service Investigations
Question 172: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she is considering the Tallaght hospital review report published by the Health Service Executive; if she will ensure that all...
- Medical Cards
Question 173: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding a medical card appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a statement...
- Health Services
Question 174: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will ensure that a person's (details supplied) nursing home contribution will be reduced in light of the fact that it is being...
- Medical Cards
Question 175: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will expedite the issuing of a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a...
- Health Services
Question 176: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the present situation as it pertains to a home (details supplied); her plans for this home in the coming years; if her attention has...
- Medical Cards
Question 177: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) has been refused a medical card given that their circumstances have not changed since their...
- Medical Records
Question 178: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the medical files for a person (details supplied) will be made available to them for the period 1965 to 1966 during which they were a...
- Departmental Funding
Question 179: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding an application for funding for an organisation (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
- Parliamentary Questions
Question 181: To ask the Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No. 57 of 5 October 2010 when a reply will issue from the Health Service Executive [42064/10]
- National Treatment Purchase Fund
Question 185: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 3 [42075/10]
- Departmental Staff
Question 186: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of persons in her Department who availed of the incentivised career break arrangements and the net savings to the Exchequer...
- Missing Persons
Question 187: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of unaccompanied minors claiming asylum who have been reported missing since 1 January 2008 and of these, the number that...
- Department of Transport
- Air Services
Question 188: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will list all levies and charges that the State imposes on air travel; the amount of revenue collected by each of these charges in 2009 and...
- Preclearance Agreement
Question 190: To ask the Minister for Transport the position regarding the development of a project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41847/10]
- Penalty Points System
Question 191: To ask the Minister for Transport if the Road Traffic Act 2010 is being implemented in terms of the requirement of drivers who have been charged with penalty points offences to...
- State Airports
Question 192: To ask the Minister for Transport further to Parliamentary Question No. 354 of the 23 March 2010, the position regarding discussions between his Department, the DAA and a group...
- Harbours and Piers
Question 193: To ask the Minister for Transport the position regarding funding for a project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42053/10]
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 194: To ask the Minister for Transport the capital budget allocated to his Department in 2010; the amount of the allocated funding that has been spent; the projects that have been...
- Departmental Staff
Question 195: To ask the Minister for Transport the number of persons in his Department who availed of the incentivised career break arrangements and the net savings to the Exchequer of the...
- Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
- Garda Recruitment
Question 196: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform when a person who has completed the aptitude test for the Garda Síochána in 2008 can expect to be called for a medical. [41770/10]
- Garda Investigations
Question 197: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to allegations of dereliction of duty by a number of the gardaí at a location (details supplied); if...
- Custodial Treatment
Question 199: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the time limit as determined in legislation regarding a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Crime Levels
Question 201: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the number of persons who have been arrested for begging in Dublin in 2007, 2008, 2009 and to date in 2010; and if he will make a...
- Illegal Fireworks
Question 202: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the number of illegal fireworks seized over the Hallowe'en period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41814/10]
- Garda Equipment
Question 203: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the number of roadside breathalysers that are necessary for the Garda Síochána to enforce compulsory testing at the scene of every...
- Garda Training
Question 205: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 59 of 28 October 2010 if he will indicate the length of the detailed training programme for the...
- Penalty Points System
Question 206: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform if the Road Traffic Act 2010 is being implemented in terms of the requirement of drivers who have been charged with penalty points...
- Visa Applications
Question 208: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the number of international students that are registered with the Garda National Immigration Bureau and Irish Naturalisation and...
- Garda Vetting
Question 210: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the reason an organisation (details supplied) cannot get garda vetting in its own right but was told to pursue this through another...
- Courts Service
Question 211: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform his views on recent media reports regarding the courts support service offered to victims and families of victims of crime being...
- Ground Rent
Question 212: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the position regarding ground rent legislation and the abolition of ground rents; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Legislative Programme
Question 213: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform when the Mental Capacity Bill will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42062/10]
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 214: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the overtime bill for the State car services in each of the years 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and to date in 2010; and if he will...
- Departmental Staff
Question 215: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the number of persons in his Department who availed of the incentivised career break arrangements and the net savings to the...
- Department of Foreign Affairs
- Passport Applications
Question 216: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if a person from the United Kingdom whose father is from Northern Ireland and whose grandparents were both Irish is entitled to apply for an...
- Foreign Conflicts
Question 217: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will respond to correspondence (details supplied) [42078/10]
- Departmental Staff
Question 218: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of persons in his Department who availed of the incentivised career break arrangements and the net savings to the Exchequer of...
- Department of Social and Family Affairs
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 219: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason his Department are proposing to withdraw an invalidity pension from a person (details supplied) in County Cork [41744/10]
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 222: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the outcome of a child benefit appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo [41817/10]
- Departmental Estimates
Question 224: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41837/10]
- Pension Provisions
Question 225: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41838/10]
- Social Welfare Code
Question 227: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the investigations that take place when an application is made (details supplied); the proof required by the Department in such...
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 229: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an oral hearing will be held in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo [42022/10]
- Employment Support Services
Question 230: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding his plans to introduce a new social employment scheme; when full details of the scheme will be published; and if he...
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 231: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the length of time it will take for a person's (details supplied) application for domiciliary care allowance for an appeal oral hearing to...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 233: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the action he has taken to ensure that every tenant in receipt of rent supplement is registered for the rental accommodation scheme and is...
- Departmental Staff
Question 235: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons in his Department who availed of the incentivised career break arrangements and the net savings to the Exchequer of...
- Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism
- Departmental Agencies
Question 236: To ask the Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport the total Exchequer funding provided to Tourism Ireland and Fáilte Ireland each year since 2000 to date in 2010; and if she will...
- Garda Vetting
Question 237: To ask the Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport the reason a registered organisation (details supplied) must go through the Sports Council to receive Garda vetting [41989/10]
- Art Collections
Question 238: To ask the Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport if she will give an assurance that the art collection located in Allied Irish Bank will not be sold; her views that since the...
- Departmental Staff
Question 240: To ask the Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport the number of persons in her Department who availed of the incentivised career break arrangements and the net savings to the...
- Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
- Social and Affordable Housing
Question 241: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will support a matter (details supplied) [41739/10]
- Planning Issues
Question 242: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his proposals to amend the current retail planning guidelines; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Water and Sewerage Schemes
Question 245: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his plans concerning the Ballymore Eustace waste water treatment plant; and if he will make a statement on...
- Noise Pollution
Question 249: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to any local authorities who are in breach of the environmental noise...
- Planning Issues
Question 251: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 207 and 215 of 3 November 2010, if, in accordance with best practice...
- Local Authority Funding
Question 252: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the situation following a proposal made by Irish hotels to introduce a 30% waiver on rates due on hotels and...
- Departmental Staff
Question 254: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of persons in his Department who availed of the incentivised career break arrangements and the net...
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- National Grid
Question 255: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the electricity consumption each month from April 2010 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Warmer Homes Scheme
Question 257: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of homes that have availed of the warmer homes scheme in County Meath since the commencement of the...
- Telecommunications Services
Question 258: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when the national broadband scheme rollout will be complete for County Galway; and if he will make a statement...
- Telecommunications Services
Question 259: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will consider introducing a second phase of the national broadband scheme as a matter of urgency to...
- Inland Fisheries
Question 262: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of members of the board of Inland Fisheries Ireland who come from an angling background; the number...
- Departmental Staff
Question 263: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of persons in his Department who availed of the incentivised career break arrangements and the net...
- Department of Agriculture and Food
- Grant Payments
Question 264: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if a person (details supplied) who has inherited a farm and who has been appointed keeper of records is entitled to receive...
- Legislative Programme
Question 269: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when he will publish the proposed Government amendments to the Greyhound Industry Act 1958; and if he will make a statement...
- Grant Payments
Question 270: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food further to Parliamentary Question No. 235 of 4 November 2010 when payment will issue to a person (details supplied); and if...
- Departmental Staff
Question 271: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of persons in his Department who availed of the incentivised career break arrangements and the net savings to the...
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Innovation
- Industrial Development
Question 272: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the number of Industrial Development Agency site visits to Dungarvan, County Waterford, that have taken place in the past...
- Departmental Agencies
Question 276: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the company that holds the contract for arranging Industrial Development Agency travel; the way this contract was awarded...
- Employment Support Services
Question 277: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the present number of companies in County Clare that are in receipt of the employment subsidy scheme first call; and if he...
- Job Creation
Question 280: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the number of Industrial Development Agency visits that were made with potential industrialists in 2009 and to date in 2010...
- Data Protection
Question 282: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation given that significant information and other services are provided via Internet sites to both the public as well as to...
- Job Initiative
Question 283: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation further to Parliamentary Question No. 93 of 1 June 2010, the progress made to date on obtaining an alternative employer;...
- Departmental Staff
Question 284: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the number of persons in his Department who availed of the incentivised career break arrangements and the net savings to...
- Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 285: To ask the Minister for Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs the position regarding an application to the Charity Commissioners for consent to a letting (details supplied)...
- Departmental Staff
Question 287: To ask the Minister for Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs the number of persons in his Department who availed of the incentivised career break arrangements and the net...
- Department of Defence
- Defence Forces Recruitment
Question 288: To ask the Minister for Defence his plans for accepting new recruits to join the Air Corps as no new recruits have joined since 2006; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 290: To ask the Minister for Defence the estimated cost of relocating the communications centre staff, IT, physical communications infrastructure at Parkgate Street to another premises;...
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 291: To ask the Minister for Defence regarding the decentralisation of his Department and the Defence Forces to Newbridge, the total cost to his Department of same including the...
- Departmental Staff
Question 292: To ask the Minister for Defence the number of persons in his Department who availed of the incentivised career break arrangements and the net savings to the Exchequer of the...
