Written answers
Wednesday, 30 March 2011
- Department of Social Protection
- Social Welfare Code
Question 30: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the changes she will make to the operation of the habitual residency rule which is acting as a barrier for many returning emigrants, and...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 31: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of Irish nationals deemed not to satisfy the habitual residence condition and the number where this determination was...
- Tax and Social Welfare Codes
Question 32: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the expected timeframe within which the commission on taxation and social welfare will examine and publish recommendations on the...
- National Carers Strategy
Question 33: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when the national carers strategy will be published. [6013/11]
- Proposed Legislation
Question 34: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the progress made to date regarding the introduction of gender recognition legislation; the timetable for introduction of same; and if she...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 35: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will reverse the cut to child benefit introduced in budget 2011 and if so, when. [6005/11]
- Departmental Schemes
Question 38: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will make any changes to the Tús scheme including if she will introduce reforms to make participation in the scheme genuinely...
- Civil Registration Service
Question 41: To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to amend the Civil Registration Act 2004; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5959/11]
- Health Service Staff
Question 42: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the progress made to date and plans for the transfer of community welfare officers to her Department including clarification on where the...
- Pension Provisions
Question 46: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position on the previous Government's plan to abolish the State pension transition in 2014; her views that such a move will create a...
- Social Welfare Code
Question 47: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will make all working age schemes conditional on activation and, if not, which schemes will not be conditional on same. [6004/11]
- Anti-Poverty Strategy
Question 51: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will publish a detailed poverty impact study of the current budget and if she will conduct a poverty impact study of budget 2012 in...
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 52: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide details on the programme for Government's commitment to divert staff from elsewhere in the public service to clear the...
- Employment Support Services
Question 53: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the action being taken by her to address the serious problem in which 51.5% of all those unemployed are long-term unemployed; the...
- Department of An Taoiseach
- Census of Population
Question 54: To ask the Taoiseach the position regarding census employees (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6166/11]
- Departmental Agencies
Question 55: To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide a list of the agencies or bodies under the aegis of his Department which he plans to make accountable to Dáil Éireann through the...
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Passport Applications
Question 56: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if a person (details supplied) will be able to apply and receive a passport for their child. [6062/11]
- Department of Finance
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 58: To ask the Minister for Finance the way social impact bonds will be issued; the person who will regulate the system of social impact bonds and where the funds garnered from them...
- Programmes for Government
Question 59: To ask the Minister for Finance the major policy documents (details supplied) developed by the previous Government which will be pursued by the current Government. [5917/11]
- Tax Collection
Question 60: To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding a tax rebate application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the...
- National Pensions Reserve Fund
Question 61: To ask the Minister for Finance the current value, including a breakdown by asset type, of the National Pensions Reserve Fund and the amount of the remaining value of the fund that...
- Public Sector Pay
Question 62: To ask the Minister for Finance if non-teaching school staff who are not either fully or partly-funded from the Exchequer are also subject to the pay cuts introduced for...
- Department of Education and Skills
- School Staffing
Question 63: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will respond to a matter raised in correspondence by a school (details supplied) in County Cork. [6056/11]
- Special Educational Needs
Question 64: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if persons (details supplied) will be facilitated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6057/11]
- Schools Building Projects
Question 65: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timescale for the construction of a school (details supplied) in Dublin 7; if he will ensure that a hall or gymnasium is provided;...
- Employment Support Services
Question 66: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the arrangement he has made to ensure that redundant apprentices will receive work placements to enable them to complete their...
- Site Acquisitions
Question 67: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will support the case of a school (details supplied) regarding new premises. [6099/11]
- Departmental Schemes
Question 68: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views regarding a village hall (details supplied) in County Meath which has applied for work under the summer works scheme; and if...
- Site Acquisitions
Question 69: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason he has not yet acquired a site for a proposed new school (details supplied) in County Kildare; if he will proceed to acquire...
- Physical Education Facilities
Question 70: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a lease (details supplied). [6153/11]
- Schools Building Projects
Question 71: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills, further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 105 of 29 September 2010, 80 of 9 November 2010 and 110 of 17 November 2010, the position...
- EU Certification Schemes
Question 72: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the safe pass is recognised outside of Ireland; if so, the locations where it is recognised; if his attention has been drawn to...
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Innovation
- Programmes for Government
Question 73: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the major policy documents (details supplied) developed by the previous Government which will be pursued by the current...
- Trade Agreements
Question 74: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the details of any trade agreements between Ireland and the Gadaffi regime in Libya and the volume of trade between Libya...
- Commercial Transaction Payments
Question 76: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation if his attention has been drawn to the significant delays faced by many small businesses in obtaining payment for supply of...
- Grant Payments
Question 77: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation if a company (details supplied) received any grant aid from any State employment agencies for the construction of any of its...
- Department of Social Protection
- Redundancy Payments
Question 78: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a redundancy payment will be approved in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Wexford. [6081/11]
- Employment Support Services
Question 80: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the functions of the new national employment and entitlements service; the timeframe for its implementation and the division of...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 81: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider increasing the payment to a private bus operator (details supplied) for persons using free travel passes in view of...
- Social Welfare Code
Question 82: To ask the Minister for Social Protection her policy in relation to renewing extensions for permission to work or train (exemption) under the conditions of illness benefit; if she...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 83: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an application for a carer's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Longford; and if she will...
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 87: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if the appeal process will be expedited in respect of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6122/11]
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 88: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) who wishes to apply for jobseeker's allowance has been advised that they must apply for lone parent...
- Social Welfare Fraud
Question 89: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of reports of alleged social welfare fraud received by her each month since January 2010; the procedures for investigation of...
- Social Welfare Code
Question 90: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she has examined the possibility of making changes to the jobseeker's allowance payment to allow persons receiving this payment, in...
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Energy Security
Question 91: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position regarding contracts and other arrangements for oil imports to this country from Libya, in view of...
- Disconnection of Utilities
Question 92: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of households disconnected by Airtricity in the first two months of this year. [6096/11]
- Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
- Election Management System
Question 93: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding polling station employees (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
- Water Charges
Question 94: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the process that will be used to implement the introduction of the new water taxes; the estimated cost of same...
- Local Authority Housing
Question 96: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his plans to address concerns raised regarding the rights of tenants to purchase their own homes (details...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 97: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his plans to bring forward legislation to amend the Private Residential Tenancies Act 2004 to deal with...
- Strategy on Homelessness
Question 98: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of persons accommodated in each of the past 12 months in a centre (details supplied) in Dublin 1;...
- Department of Justice, Equality and Defence
- Stardust Disaster
Question 99: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the progress made on the establishment of a committee to monitor the progress of the victims of the Stardust fire disaster and to...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 100: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the position regarding a passport in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6055/11]
- Public Order Offences
Question 101: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the number of persons arrested and/or prosecuted for begging-related offences in 2010 and to date in 2011; and the number moved on by...
- Garda Recruitment
Question 102: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform if Garda recruitment will resume for applicants who have successfully completed all stages of the application process; and if he will...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 103: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the reasons for the delay in processing an application for a residence card and Irish passport in respect of a person (details...
- Garda Deployment
Question 104: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the position regarding a transfer in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Stardust Disaster
Question 105: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform if he will forward the report of the independent examination by a person (details supplied) submitted by the Stardust victims...
- Garda Operations
Question 106: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform if he will report on Garda Operation Kelso; the amount of drugs seized to date; the number of persons arrested and charged to date;...
- Asylum Applications
Question 108: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the position regarding immigration status in respect of a person (details supplied) and if he will confirm whether he is entitled to...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 109: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the position regarding an application for citizenship in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will...
- Department of Agriculture, Marine and Food
- Programmes for Government
Question 110: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the major policy documents (details supplied) developed by the previous Government which will be pursued by the current...
- Grant Payments
Question 111: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will be called for an arbitration hearing in respect of a 2009 single farm...
- Department of Arts, Heritage and Gaeltacht Affairs
- Community Development
Question 114: To ask the Minister for Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs the position regarding funding through Pobal. [6138/11]
- Dormant Accounts Fund
Question 115: To ask the Minister for Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs the funding available through dormant accounts and her plans for applications and distribution. [6139/11]
- Department of Health
- Hospital Services
Question 116: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if he will reaffirm his commitment to co-funding the radiotherapy unit at Altnagelvin, Derry, and if he will proactively engage with the...
- Children in Care
Question 117: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of children reported to have gone missing from State care in 2009 and in 2010; the number of these who went missing from...
- Health Services
Question 118: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if he will ensure that an appointment is expedited in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9. [6089/11]
- Hospitals Building Programme
Question 121: To ask the Minister for Health and Children his plans for developing St. Vincent's Hospital, Athlone; the new services intended for this facility; when the primary care centre will...
- Medical Cards
Question 122: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a medical card will be granted to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6118/11]
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 123: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when an appointment will be arranged for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6120/11]
- Hospital Services
Question 125: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if he will address serious concerns that the Health Service Executive may be intending to cease 24 hour emergency department cover at...
- Hospital Acquired Infections
Question 126: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the action he will take in view of the recent outbreak of the Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase, KPC, bug at the Mid-Western Regional...
- Health Services
Question 128: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the mechanism available to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare in regard to their obtaining a necessary facility to meet their...
- Health Service Staff
Question 130: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding orthodontic services (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6164/11]
