Written answers
Wednesday, 25 May 2011
- Department of Agriculture, Marine and Food
- Croke Park Agreement
Question 38: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the reason for the delay in drafting the document for submission to the implementation body for the first official review of...
- Milk Quota
Question 39: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he is concerned that Ireland could be over quota in the new 2011-2012 milk quota year; and if he will make a statement on...
- Common Agricultural Policy
Question 41: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food his views on the reform of the common agricultural policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12578/11]
- Food Industry
Question 42: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food his views on the role that agriculture and the agri-food sector can play in economic recovery here, with particular regard to...
- Beef Sector
Question 44: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he has raised concerns in relation to the trade negotiations with Mercosur countries with the EU Agriculture Commissioner...
- Fish Quotas
Question 45: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food his plans regarding quota disregards in which part of the catch is returned to the sea to comply with EU requirements in...
- International Agreements
Question 46: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will vote against the protocol related to the controversial EU-Morocco Fisheries Partnership Agreement that will be...
- Pigmeat Sector
Question 47: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the position regarding his recent meeting in Brussels, including the conclusions of an EU Advisory Group on Pigmeat; and if...
- Food Industry
Question 48: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will consider developing urban agriculture schemes and public market enterprises on undeveloped National Asset...
- Milk Quota
Question 50: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will consider forming a delegation to travel to Europe to discuss the possibility of acquiring additional milk quota...
- Food Industry
Question 51: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food his views on the role that agriculture and the agri-food sector can play in economic recovery here; and if he will make a...
- Pigmeat Sector
Question 52: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the assistance he is providing to assist the pig industry through its current difficulties; and if he will make a statement...
- International Agreements
Question 53: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food his views on the current negotiations between the EU and the Mercosur countries; and the position regarding the most recent...
- Aquaculture Sector
Question 57: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food his plans to develop the aquaculture industry here; and if he will remove some of the obstacles that have led to a serious...
- Common Agricultural Policy
Question 58: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the bilateral meetings he has had with other EU Agricultural Ministers in relation to the reform of the common agricultural...
- Food Industry
Question 60: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the position regarding the current projections for agri-exports here in view of the fact the annual report of his Department...
- Illegal Burning
Question 61: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the steps he has taken to dissuade or remove any incentives for persons to burn gorse to ensure that we do not have a repeat...
- Food Industry
Question 62: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food his views on whether the targets set out in the food harvest strategy can be achieved by 2020; and if he will make a...
- State Visits
Question 63: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the position regarding the visit of Queen Elizabeth II visit to the Irish National Stud and the English Market in Cork; and...
- Fisheries Protection
Question 66: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when he will replace the criminal sanctions system for minor fisheries offences with the administrative sanction system to...
- Food Security
Question 67: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if the issue of food security and supply in the EU is being factored into current development policy. [12571/11]
- Fishing Industry Development
Question 68: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the marine priorities outlined in Food Harvest 2020; the job creation measures that have been considered; and if he will make...
- Common Agricultural Policy
Question 69: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food his views on the agreement reached at the March EU Agricultural Council on the broad approach to common agricultural policy...
- Milk Quota
Question 70: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he has the confirmed quota position for the 2010-2011 milk quota year; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Food Industry
Question 75: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he is considering a new branding for Irish food; if so, the time frame to which he is working; and if he will make a...
- Common Agricultural Policy
Question 76: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will provide an up to date position on discussions on the common agriculture policy. [12570/11]
- National Beef Herd
Question 78: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the current strength of the national beef herd; the degree to which numbers have fluctuated in each of the past ten years to...
- Official Engagements
Question 79: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the discussion he has had with Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn during their recent meeting; and if he will make a...
- Job Creation
Question 80: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food his plans to develop local fisheries and local agriculture projects such as catchment management projects, community gardens...
- Food Labelling
Question 81: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the degree to which traceability, husbandry, processing, distribution and production regulations applicable here to beef,...
- Official Engagements
Question 82: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food his plans to visit China to further assist the opening up of food markets in the world's fastest growing major economy....
- Common Fisheries Policy
Question 83: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food his priorities in relation to the reform of the common fisheries policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Grant Payments
Question 84: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the up-to-date position in relation to payments under the dairy efficiency scheme; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Department of An Taoiseach
- Irish Language
Question 86: To ask the Taoiseach the estimated number of additional Irish speakers located in Gaeltacht areas, by location, between the 1996 and 2006 census; the numbers of additional persons...
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Passport Applications
Question 87: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the fact that information in relation to emergency and standard passport turnaround times on...
- International Agreements
Question 88: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will delay Ireland's ratification of Serbia's stabilisation and association agreement until after the arrest and handing...
- Passport Applications
Question 89: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs when a passport will issue to a person (details supplied). [13023/11]
- Department of Finance
- Motor Fuels
Question 90: To ask the Minister for Finance the total number of filling stations here in 2001, 2006 and 2011 separately; and the number of these that were supermarket filling stations. [12908/11]
- School Staffing
Question 91: To ask the Minister for Finance the way private sector employees in the teaching profession can be considered public sector employees for the purposes of a tax on salary when they...
- Remuneration Bonuses
Question 92: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of civil servants including semi-State employees and nationalised banks that receive bonuses as part of their pay agreement for the years...
- Tax Code
Question 93: To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding an application for deed of waiver in respect of an organisation (details supplied) in County Mayo; and if he will make a...
- Property Debt
Question 94: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has considered the following proposal (details supplied) to assist those in negative equity. [13008/11]
- Banks Recapitalisation
Question 95: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will review a matter (details supplied) regarding employee share holders. [13046/11]
- Departmental Submissions
Question 96: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will review a person's (details supplied) solutions to our banking and debt crisis. [13051/11]
- Department of Education and Skills
- Schools Building Projects
Question 97: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the criteria used by him in the appointment of contractors for school building programmes. [12897/11]
- School Staffing
Question 99: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when will a special needs assistant be provided for a person (details supplied) in County Carlow in view of the fact that they have been...
- Post-Leaving Certificate Courses
Question 100: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if more post leaving certificate places will be made available in a school (details supplied) in County Offaly in view of the fact that...
- Teacher Training
Question 101: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is satisfied that the professional development service for teachers support service is best placed to provide in service to...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 102: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when an outstanding debt of €151,000 owed to a company (details supplied) in respect of works completed at a school will be paid....
- Higher Education Grants
Question 104: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in view of the changes to the higher education grants scheme in budget 2011, which will see some students dropping as much as €4,000...
- Teachers' Remuneration
Question 105: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review the case of a person (details supplied) in County Waterford. [12989/11]
- School Staffing
Question 106: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans in relation to the numbers of special needs assistants working in the Irish education system; if the overall numbers of...
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Innovation
- Business Regulation
Question 107: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation his views on the alleged practice of car insurance companies giving glass replacement contracts to a small number of...
- Trade Union Recognition
Question 109: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the steps he will take to assist a group of workers at a factory (details supplied) who are being denied the right to join...
- Departmental Agencies
Question 110: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the State agencies that provide financial advice to small and medium enterprises along the lines of MABS; the State...
- Department of Social Protection
- Community Employment Schemes
Question 111: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a person (details supplied) in County Cork who is on a FÁS community employment scheme may have the placement extended for 12 months;...
- Pension Provisions
Question 112: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a person applying for a contributory old age pension is obliged to have all outstanding tax liabilities paid prior to receiving the...
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 114: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision on an application for rent allowance will issue in respect of a person (details supplied). [13024/11]
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 116: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an application for an exceptional needs payment from the community welfare officer in respect of a person (details...
- Departmental Staff
Question 117: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she is confident that the work carried out by staff on temporary contracts in the central rent office at a location (details supplied)...
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 118: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reasons for allowing social welfare claims, by category, on appeal; if the number of appeals can be reduced by addressing some or all...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 119: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if supplementary welfare allowance payment will be reviewed with a view to awarding a higher rate of payment in respect of a person...
- Social Welfare Code
Question 120: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to an issue arising regarding persons with stamp 4 for five years or less being deemed ineligible for...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 121: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will review a matter regarding rent allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a...
- Social Welfare Code
Question 122: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she proposes to use age of the unemployed as a factor in its analysis in its new profiling system for the unemployed, which aims to...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 123: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) in County Kildare has been awarded a reduced rent supplement; the options open to this person and...
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 126: To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 251 of 17 May 2011, when a decision is likely in the appeal against the decision to refuse to grant...
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Copyright Protection
Question 127: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on the illegal downloading of music; if he has any plans to bring forward legislation to counteract...
- Alternative Energy Projects
Question 128: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on an issue (details supplied) regarding wind farms; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
- Tribunals of Inquiry
Question 129: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government when the final report of the Mahon tribunal will be published; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Motor Taxation
Question 130: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the extent to which the facility to declare non-use of vehicles for taxation purposes is used; and the...
- Water and Sewerage Schemes
Question 132: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the criteria that will be used to prioritise water and sewerage schemes in County Carlow in the next 12...
- Building Regulations
Question 133: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if, in view of the number of homes affected by pyrite, he will co-ordinate a response involving HomeBond and...
- Urban Renewal Schemes
Question 134: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if any regeneration project has encountered problems with pyrite; if so, the locations of same; if the...
- Local Authority Funding
Question 135: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the type of assistance and the level of funding, if any, the Local Government Management Services Board...
- Ministerial Responsibilities
Question 136: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of written submissions, if any, he received from the County and City Managers Association in...
- Local Authority Charges
Question 137: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his views on the implementation of the non-principal private residence or second home levy wherein two such...
- Communications Masts
Question 138: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the condition of electro-sensitivity; if he has any plans to introduce...
- Department of Justice, Equality and Defence
- International Agreements
Question 139: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when he will ratify the UN convention on the rights of persons with disabilities acknowledging also that we were among the first...
- Commercial Rent Reviews
Question 141: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he has considered combining a rent control system with a compulsory rental order system (details supplied). [13010/11]
- Citizenship Applications
Question 142: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will expedite a naturalisation application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Monaghan. [12856/11]
