Written answers
Wednesday, 26 January 2011
- Department of An Taoiseach
- Tourism Statistics
Question 1: To ask the Taoiseach the number of tourists who visited this country in each of the past three seasons to date in 2011; the locations from whence they came; and if he will make a...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 2: To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide a list of the legislation being contemplated or proposed within his Department; the proposed short title or working title of the legislation;...
- Department of Education and Science
- Higher Education Grants
Question 3: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person (details supplied), who is not in a financial position to fund college education has not been granted a...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 4: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills when money will be allocated for an extension to a school (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if she will make a...
- Grant Payments
Question 5: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she has held recent discussions with the Protestant community regarding the withdrawal of the ancillary grant; the value...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 6: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the extension to a school (details supplied) in County Meath; the funding level for the extension;...
- School Completion Programme
Question 7: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if in the context of the review of the children at risk fund and the school completion programme she will ring fence...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 8: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a list of the legislation being contemplated or proposed within her Department; the proposed short...
- Redundancy Payments
Question 9: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding redundancy payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow; and if she will make...
- Higher Education Grants
Question 10: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills her views on the case of a person (details supplied) who has appealed a decision; if this appeal will be successful, if...
- EU Globalisation Fund
Question 11: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if a group of workers who have applied for funding under the EU globalisation fund can also receive funding for the...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 12: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a request from a school (details supplied) in County Waterford to have the application for a...
- Schools Refurbishment
Question 13: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a application from a school (details supplied) in County Waterford for funding to upgrade...
- Higher Education Grants
Question 14: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the reason a higher education grant has not been awarded in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 20 who is...
- Department of Finance
- Departmental Groups
Question 15: To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No 180 of 18 January 2011, if he will provide details of the stakeholders with whom the chair of the Office of...
- Flood Relief
Question 17: To ask the Minister for Finance the funding allocated to a flood relief scheme (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; the stage of the planning project; if local concerns and...
- Pension Provisions
Question 18: To ask the Minister for Finance if the original Irish Sugar Company will be included on the list of members of the public service network for pension purposes. (details supplied)...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 19: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a list of the legislation being contemplated or proposed within his Department; the proposed short title or working title of the...
- Tax Code
Question 20: To ask the Minister for Finance the reason income tax has been deducted from the pension of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Department of Health and Children
- Tobacco Prices
Question 21: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children, further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 215, 230 and 233 of 23 March 2010, the steps taken by her as a result of the...
- Child Care Services
Question 23: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the supports or grants that are available from her Department to a person setting up a new business providing Montessori...
- Long-Term Illness Scheme
Question 24: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she has an estimate of the cost associated with covering Crohn's disease under the long-term illness scheme; and if she...
- Care of the Elderly
Question 25: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will assist in having long-term care provided in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [3977/11]
- Proposed Legislation
Question 26: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will provide a list of the legislation being contemplated or proposed within her Department; the proposed short...
- Medical Cards
Question 27: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will receive their renewed medical card which was promised by December...
- Accident and Emergency Services
Question 29: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of persons who were treated in the accident and emergency department of Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, since 1...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 30: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of patients sent overseas for specific surgical and medical procedures which were not available here; the...
- Hospital Services
Question 31: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children, with reference to the Adjournment matter dated 25 November 2010, if the positron emission tomography scanner in Cork...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 32: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of persons who failed to keep outpatient appointments in hospitals here in 2010. [4042/11]
- Health Service Staff
Question 35: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children, further to Parliamentary Question No. 144 of 14 December 2010, the position regarding a retirement claim in respect of a...
- Long-Term Illness Scheme
Question 36: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding a group (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4171/11]
- Medical Training
Question 37: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children with whom does responsibility lie to ensure the availability of training in all of the different surgical specialties in...
- Hospital Staff
Question 38: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the progress made in the centralisation of the process of the recruitment of non-consultant hospital doctors; the number of...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 39: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will be facilitated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4184/11]
- Long-Term Illness Scheme
Question 40: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children in view of her decision to exempt persons who hold long-term illness cards from the prescription fee, if she will make...
- Health Services
Question 41: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when an application will be processed in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a...
- Department of Transport
- Departmental Funding
Question 44: To ask the Minister for Transport the amount of money allocated to Cork County Council for emergency road repairs after the November-December 2010 cold spell; his plans to allocate...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 45: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will provide a list of the legislation being contemplated or proposed within his Department; the proposed short title or working title of the...
- Transport Projects
Question 46: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will list all of the transport projects which are expected to be completed in 2011; the transport projects which are expected to commence in...
- Departmental Funding
Question 47: To ask the Minister for Transport the date on which he will announce the grant allocations of the funding provided for regional and local roads; if this allocation will focus on...
- Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
- Proposed Legislation
Question 48: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform if he will provide a list of the legislation being contemplated or proposed within his Department; the proposed short title or working...
- Visa Applications
Question 49: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the position regarding a visa application in respect of a person (details supplied), when a decision will issue; and if he will make a...
- Road Traffic Offences
Question 50: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the position regarding an alleged traffic offence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4024/11]
- Prison Service
Question 52: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the number of chaplains employed in prisons here; the pay scales for the position of chaplain; the persons responsible for employing...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 53: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform further to Parliamentary Question 252 of 5 May 2010, the reason the application for a certificate of naturalisation from a person...
- Visa Applications
Question 54: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform when a decision will issue on an application for subsidiary protection in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make...
- Residency Permits
Question 55: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the position regarding an application for residency in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a...
- Visa Applications
Question 58: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the position regarding an application for visa in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a...
- Department of Foreign Affairs
- Proposed Legislation
Question 59: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will provide a list of the legislation being contemplated or proposed within his Department; the proposed short title or working title...
- International Trade
Question 60: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his attention has been drawn to illegal business practice being conducted by Irish companies in Western Sahara; if he will, similar to the...
- Passport Applications
Question 61: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will support the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4177/11]
- Department of Social and Family Affairs
- Departmental Programmes
Question 62: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the way the 15,000 activation places announced in budget 2011 will operate; if the work placement programmes in the public sector will be...
- Redundancy Payments
Question 63: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Sligo will be granted their redundancy money; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 65: To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No 48042/10 of 16 December 2010, if one parent family allowance now under appeal will be approved and...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 66: To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 185 of 13 January 2011, if he will now approve an application for rent allowance in respect of a...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 67: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will provide a list of the legislation being contemplated or proposed within his Department; the proposed short title or working...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 68: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will receive disability allowance. [4027/11]
- Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism
- Sports Funding
Question 72: To ask the Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport if she will provide funding towards the construction of a handball alley in an area (details supplied) of high unemployment and a...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 73: To ask the Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport if she will provide a list of the legislation being contemplated or proposed within her Department; the proposed short title or...
- Tourism Promotion
Question 74: To ask the Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport if she has identified the total employment in terms of job numbers in the hotel and catering sector; if her attention has been...
- Sports Funding
Question 75: To ask the Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport the extent if any of capital or current funding provided by her for various sporting, recreational or similar activities...
- National Cultural Institutions
Question 77: To ask the Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport if she has any particular plans to increase awareness in the value and benefit of cultural activities; and if she will make a...
- Job Creation
Question 79: To ask the Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport the extent to which she has evaluated economic potential and job creation throughout the various sectors under the aegis of her...
- Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
- Motor Taxation
Question 84: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on whether it is viable for the owner (details supplied) of a small van, who was previously obliged...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 85: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will provide a list of the legislation being contemplated or proposed within his Department; the...
- Departmental Funding
Question 86: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his plans to provide funding to householders to replace lead water mains and boundary boxes; if any of type of...
- Anti-Social Behaviour
Question 87: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has any further plans to address the problems with anti-social behaviour in houses where the tenant is...
- Electoral Management System
Question 88: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will provide up-to-date figures for the cost of storage of the e-voting machines both centrally stored...
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Energy Conservation
Question 90: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when funding will be made available to Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland warmer homes scheme in view of...
- Telecommunications Services
Question 91: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the percentage of households that have access to high speed broadband in County Meath; the list of areas in...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 92: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide a list of the legislation being contemplated or proposed within his Department; the proposed...
- Ministerial Appointments
Question 93: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the appointments he has made to State agencies and State boards under his remit since coming to office; and if...
- Department of Agriculture and Food
- Grant Payments
Question 94: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when single farm payment will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Wexford. [3984/11]
- Proposed Legislation
Question 96: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will provide a list of the legislation being contemplated or proposed within his Department; the proposed short title...
- Horticulture Sector
Question 97: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the action he is taking to address the vulnerability of the Irish growers of fresh fruit and vegetables to monopoly control...
- Milk Quota
Question 98: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the action he is taking to address the potential for super levy penalties and the possibilities for reassignment of unused...
- Grant Payments
Question 99: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive their payment for REP scheme 4; and if he will make a statement...
- Animal Carcase Disposal
Question 101: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the measures in place for on-site validation of the categorisation of category one, category two and category three meat and...
- Grant Payments
Question 103: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when payment of REP scheme 4 will issue in respect of persons (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a...
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Innovation
- Enterprise Support Services
Question 104: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the person who makes the decisions on applications made to the EU globalisation fund for starting an enterprise which are...
- Work Permits
Question 105: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the position regarding an application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a...
- Garda Investigations
Question 106: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the position regarding a matter (details supplied). [4026/11]
- Enterprise Support Services
Question 107: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the supports available to a person setting up a new business providing a Montessori service in the Cork area; the grants...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 108: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation if he will provide a list of the legislation being contemplated or proposed within his Department; the proposed short title...
- Department of Defence
- Road Network
Question 111: To ask the Minister for Defence in view of the unsatisfactory road condition at a location (details supplied) and the length of time since the roads were resurfaced, if he will...
- Defence Forces Appointments
Question 112: To ask the Minister for Defence the position regarding the appointment of the military judge for the Defence Forces to preside at courts martial; the qualifications for the...
- Medicinal Products
Question 113: To ask the Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 43 and 7 of 21 October 2010 and No. 68 of 15 December 2010 in which he stated that the Defence Forces...
