Written answers
Wednesday, 1 June 2011
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- Taxi Regulations
Question 44: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there will be oral hearings for the purpose of the recently commissioned taxi industry review; and if any other forms of...
- Road Network (1 comment)
Question 45: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if funding will be made available in the current year for an upgrade on the M4 from Collooney to Castelbaldwin, County Sligo....
- Public Transport
Question 48: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the recent statement in a newspaper (details supplied) by the Irish Environmental Network that the National...
- National Car Test
Question 49: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if persons who call within the required 21 days to schedule a national car test retest but are told there is not an available...
- Sports Capital Programme
Question 50: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when sports capital grant applications will be accepted again; when grants submitted under this heading will be accepted and...
- Regional Airports
Question 52: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will give a commitment that the OPEX subvention for Galway Airport will be retained. [13681/11]
- Sport and Recreational Development
Question 53: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way he intends to maximise sports participation among young persons from socially disadvantaged areas; and if he will make a...
- Traffic Management
Question 54: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the reasoning behind the proposed move by the National Roads Authority to replace existing roundabouts with a...
- Public Transport
Question 55: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the level of State subvention for Dublin Bus; if he will provide a breakdown of the increases or reductions in that subvention...
- Tourism Promotion
Question 57: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to develop winter tourism here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13510/11]
- Public Transport
Question 59: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the full extent of any reforms proposed or anticipated by him or his predecessor which are likely to impact positively or...
- Tourism Promotion
Question 60: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the plans and initiatives he will take to maximise the number of genealogical tourists to Ireland; and if he will make a...
- Tourism Industry
Question 62: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which he has identified the primary factors deemed to be impeding the development of the tourist industry; the...
- Port Development
Question 63: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has any other plans to merge smaller commercial ports following the announcement that the Dundalk Port Company is to be...
- Sports Funding
Question 64: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the allocation of funds for investment in sports facilities to date in 2011 from all sources; the source of these funds; and the...
- National Car Test
Question 65: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the person responsible for awarding the contract for national car test garages; and the criteria for any decision made. [13675/11]
- Tourism Industry
Question 66: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way in which the e-capability of our tourism product will be improved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13712/11]
- Sport and Recreational Development
Question 67: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the date on which the national sports facilities strategy will be published; the process by which the strategy is being...
- Tourism Promotion
Question 68: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way he will maximise visitor numbers from the emerging economies of Brazil, Russia, India and China; the budget allocation...
- Department of An Taoiseach
- Ministerial Appointments
Question 71: To ask the Taoiseach when he plans to appoint the eight independent members to the National Economic and Social Council; if he will advertise and invite applications for these...
- Departmental Bodies
Question 72: To ask the Taoiseach if the annual regulatory forum has met since February 2010; if not, his plans to convene a meeting of the forum in the coming months; and if he will make a...
- Emigration Statistics
Question 73: To ask the Taoiseach his views on the fact that the Central Statistics Office cannot provide a breakdown of emigration on the basis of age, especially the numbers emigrating between...
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Foreign Conflicts
Question 75: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will request the UN General Assembly to reconsider the Goldstone report into Operation Cast Lead, the Israeli military...
- European Council Meetings
Question 77: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs his approach to relations with the European Commission. [9567/11]
- EU Enlargement
Question 78: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs his approach to enlargement discussions at EU Council level. [12094/11]
- Department of Finance
- National Asset Management Agency
Question 79: To ask the Minister for Finance if, in pursuit of the purpose of the National Asset Management Agency Act 2009 to contribute to the social and economic development of the State and...
- Tax Collection
Question 80: To ask the Minister for Finance if a person (details supplied) is exempt from paying a stamp duty liability which may have been incurred due to the implementation of budget 2011....
- Banking Sector Regulation
Question 82: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide details of the persons appointed to the consumer advisory group of the Central Bank of Ireland as provided for under the Central...
- Banks Recapitalisation
Question 86: To ask the Minister for Finance the reason skills, competence and qualifications in the area of corporate governance were not included in the public advertisements for positions on...
- Tax Code
Question 87: To ask the Minister for Finance when the review of the excise duty payable for licences for on-trade and off-licence sales of alcohol products which was announced on 7 December 2010...
- Banking Sector
Question 88: To ask the Minister for Finance the membership fees and other payments made by each of the banks in full or partial State ownership in 2009, 2010 and 2011 to the Irish Bankers...
- Pension Provisions
Question 89: To ask the Minister for Finance if there is prospective legislation in progress which will give pension schemes the authority to reduce payments to people who are already in receipt...
- Banks Recapitalisation
Question 90: To ask the Minister for Finance when he expects the results of the new stress test exercise into Anglo Irish Bank and Irish Nationwide Building Society to be available; and if he...
- Tax Code
Question 91: To ask the Minister for Finance the percentage Ireland's corporate tax rate would need to raise to, under the lower tax base which would result in the CCCTB, to maintain the current...
- Financial Institutions Support Scheme
Question 92: To ask the Minister for Finance the total euro amount of unguaranteed secured and unguaranteed unsecured senior bonds in the guaranteed Irish banks which have been paid back to...
- Pension Provisions
Question 93: To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the Revenue Commissioners insist that private pension lump sums can only be cashed in when the lump sum total is less than €20,000; if...
- Banks Recapitalisation
Question 95: To ask the Minister for Finance the amounts provided for in respect of residential mortgages on an institution by institution basis in the recent stress test on our banks to cover...
- Tax Code
Question 96: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider a "Beckham tax", a favourable income tax rate to incentivise high-earning foreign job creators and persons with unique or scarce...
- Tax Reliefs
Question 98: To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to extend the deadline of June 2011 for capital allowances allowed for nursing home builds bearing in mind that a large number of them are...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 99: To ask the Minister for Finance the timeline for the introduction and passing of the Finance (No. 3) Bill 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13895/11]
- Department of Education and Skills
- School Staffing
Question 100: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will address the issue raised in correspondence (details supplied) and confirm the staffing for 2011-12; and if he will make a...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 101: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will ensure that a special needs assistant is provided to a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon. [13766/11]
- Higher Education Grants
Question 102: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) who has stamp 4 status to remain here is entitled to make an application for a third level grant,...
- School Staffing
Question 103: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress made regarding the need to ensure the maximum number of temporary or substitute teaching opportunities are provided for...
- Home-School Liaison Scheme
Question 104: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to his recent circular indicating changes in the appointment procedures for home-school community liaison posts, if he will...
- Vocational Education Committees
Question 105: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will produce, in tabular form, the total receipts in Ordinary Account for all 33 vocational education committees based on page...
- Bullying in Schools
Question 106: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans in place and/or proposed to address the relatively new phenomenon of cyber-bullying; his views on tackling new forms of...
- Educational Performance Management
Question 107: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the performance metrics used by him to measure the performance of students, teachers, principals and schools at primary and...
- In-Service Training
Question 108: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the leadership, management or other training that is available to primary and post-primary school principals to help them...
- Teaching Qualifications
Question 111: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the metrics and processes in place to ensure that teacher training here incorporates the best thinking from around the world and...
- Third Level Courses
Question 114: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the percentage of admitted students that pass the postgraduate diploma in education, graduate diploma in education and higher diploma...
- Departmental Reviews
Question 115: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when he expects to publish the findings of the review on value for money of small primary schools; and if he will make a statement on...
- Schools Refurbishment
Question 116: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an appeal for the summer works scheme in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if he...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 117: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) in Dublin 22 will be approved for two new classrooms in view of the fact that pupil numbers are...
- Educational Disadvantage
Question 118: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) in Dublin is to lose or have cuts made to its early start programme. [13837/11]
- Third Level Courses
Question 119: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills, further to the Adjournment debate of 25 May 2011, if he will consider facilitating the completion of the BA course in All Hallows,...
- Home-School Liaison Scheme
Question 120: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills regarding his circular on changes on appointment procedures to home school liaison co-ordinators, that it does not signal further...
- Post-Leaving Certificate Courses
Question 121: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if teachers involved in FETAC courses with portfolio and work in before Easter, consequently no teaching duties in the last term, are...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 122: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills, further to Parliamentary Question No. 117 of 24 May 2011, if he will meet with parents (details supplied) representing those wishing...
- Teaching Contracts
Question 123: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of teachers employed on contracts of indefinite duration in secondary schools; and if he will make a statement on the...
- School Transport
Question 129: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review the situation regarding a school bus for 2011 in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Cork [13900/11]
- Schools Building Projects
Question 131: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his current policy on the inclusion of canteen facilities in the design of new primary and post-primary schools; and if he will make a...
- Schools Refurbishment
Question 133: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason he will insist that a school currently availing of consultancy or design team services will be required to tender for...
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Innovation
- Trade Relations
Question 134: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the steps he and the agencies under his aegis will take to increase trade with Brazil, Russia, India and China; and if he...
- Job Creation
Question 135: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation if he will support a matter (details supplied) regarding job potential. [13902/11]
- Department of Social Protection
- Community Employment Schemes
Question 136: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the fact that participation in a FÁS course has the effect of making persons ineligible to apply for...
- Departmental Schemes
Question 137: To ask the Minister for Social Protection in view of the fact that the review of the rural social scheme is under way and the decision to renew contracts for participants for...
- Social Welfare Code
Question 138: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will confirm that the rules of a spousal swap pass the entitlements of a social welfare scheme in totality from one spouse to...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 140: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if an application for supplementary allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) will be approved; if the applicant will be...
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 141: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding carer's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon. [13840/11]
- Social Welfare Code
Question 142: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the payments or allowances that can be made to claimants here based on receipt of a qualifying payment from the Department or from a...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 143: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the current entitlements to social welfare payments in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15; and if she will make a...
- Department of Arts, Heritage and Gaeltacht Affairs
- Wildlife Conservation
Question 147: To ask the Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport if he will organise a cull to reduce the number of wild mink; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13912/11]
- Sport and Recreational Development
Question 148: To ask the Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport if, in pursuit of the purpose of the National Asset Management Agency Act 2009 to contribute to the social and economic...
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Telecommunications Services
Question 149: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if an application for the rural broadband scheme has been received from a person (details supplied) in County...
- Harbours and Piers
Question 150: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding Castlemaine Harbour, County Kerry; and if he will make a...
- Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
- Departmental Bodies
Question 151: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if the active citizenship steering group established on 5 November 2008 is still in place; if so, when it...
- Housing Aid for the Elderly
Question 152: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the reasons for the delay in processing Dublin City Council's proposal for 40 senior citizen units on a site...
- Local Authority Housing
Question 153: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the funding provided by him to Dublin City Council to date for regeneration programmes (details supplied);...
- Building Regulations
Question 154: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government in relation to the Building Control Act 2007, if he is committed to ensuring that a grandfather clause is...
- Social Partnership
Question 155: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the progress made towards establishing a structured dialogue process with the community and voluntary...
- Departmental Bodies
Question 156: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of times the steering committee co-ordinating activities for the European Year of Volunteering...
- Water and Sewerage Schemes
Question 157: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government when a decision will issue to approve a sewerage scheme at Kinvara Sewerage, County Galway; and if he will...
- Job Creation
Question 158: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will report on the activities and programme of the Fingal leadership partnership programme; the...
- Waste Management
Question 159: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 264 and 271 of 5 April 2011, when the Office of Public Works...
- Local Authority Funding
Question 160: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the surplus or debit balance of each county and city council, as outlined in their respective annual...
- Local Authority Charges
Question 161: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the way development charges, as levied by local authorities on the granting of planning permission for...
- Departmental Correspondence
Question 163: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, further to Parliamentary Question No. 136 of 25 May 2011, the number of written submissions, if any, that...
- Departmental Bodies
Question 164: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the specific services that the Local Government Management Services Board provides to the County and City...
- Rental Accommodation Scheme
Question 165: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the maximum lease period for which the local authority can enter under the rental accommodation scheme; his...
- Rented Accommodation
Question 166: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the steps which can be taken by local authorities to force landlords to maintain properties which are not...
- Department of Justice, Equality and Defence
- Liquor Licensing Laws
Question 167: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will consider reducing the cost of special exemption orders or licenses required by nightclubs from €410 to €200. [13755/11]
- Suicide Incidence
Question 168: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if any asylum seekers have committed suicide in direct provision centres over the past ten years; if so, if he will provide a breakdown...
- Asylum Support Services
Question 169: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide a breakdown of the numbers of asylum seekers in direct provision; the locations at which they are based; and if he...
- Suicide Incidence
Question 170: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the training given to trainees to deal with suicide incidents including the bereaved of suicide and the person or persons who...
- Liquor Licensing Laws
Question 171: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will give a commitment to consult with organisations working to tackle alcohol misuse in society here such as public health and...
- Asylum Applications
Question 173: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding the residency status of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Public Order Offences
Question 174: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding anti-social activity at a playground (details supplied) in Dublin. [13859/11]
- Garda Deployment
Question 176: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the amount of revenue that has been received by An Garda Síochána from the GAA, FAI, IRFU, RDS, the O2 and any other agencies towards...
- Training of Legal Professionals
Question 177: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to assist law graduates who are having great difficulty accessing placement and apprenticeships to allow them complete their...
- Defence Forces Property
Question 178: To ask the Minister for Defence his plans to progress the findings of the Connolly Barracks feasibility study; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13854/11]
- Department of Agriculture, Marine and Food
- Grant Payments
Question 179: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a person (details supplied) will receive their grassland sheep money; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Department of Health
- Establishment of Department
Question 181: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the Department of Children and Youth Affairs will be set-up and when that Minister will become personally accountable to Dáil...
- Nursing Education
Question 182: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if fourth year student nurses will be paid for their work placements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13749/11]
- Health Services
Question 183: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if negotiations are underway with Health Service Executive south to address the problems faced by child and adolescent diabetes...
- Voluntary Sector Funding
Question 184: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if he will reverse a decision to cut funding to the Rape Crisis Network Ireland and the Domestic Violence Network SAFE Ireland from the...
- Hospital Staff
Question 185: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if his attention has been drawn to reports of doctors working 80 hours or more per week; the steps he will take to address this in the...
- Departmental Reports
Question 186: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reasons for the delay in the completion of the report of the national substance misuse steering group which according to the terms...
- Appointments to State Boards
Question 187: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if he will advertise and invite applications from the public for vacancies on the boards of State bodies under his aegis; and if he will...
- Medical Cards
Question 188: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if he will review an application for a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick. [13803/11]
- Hospital Services
Question 189: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if he will make available the protocol put in place and agreed between the CEO of St. Vincent's Hospital Dublin, the director of the...
- Medical Cards
Question 190: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the application for a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; the assurance...
- Voluntary Sector Funding
Question 191: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the certificate course in leadership and advocacy at Dundalk Institute of Technology, County Louth, which caters for students with an...
- Medical Cards
Question 192: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if and when a medical card will be issued in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement...
- Hospital Services
Question 193: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reasons for the delay in confirming a date for an operation at Cappagh Hospital, Dublin in respect of a person (details supplied)...
- Medical Cards
Question 194: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if an application for a medical card now under appeal will be expedited and approved in respect of persons (details supplied) in County...
- Child Care Services
Question 195: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if, in view of the financial pressures on crèche owners and the pressure to keep child care costs down, he has given consideration to...
- Resignations from State Boards
Question 197: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of persons who have offered their resignation, who have been requested to resign or who have resigned from the agencies and...
- Nursing Home Services
Question 198: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if he will consider correspondence (details supplied); if he will ensure that a nursing home bed is provided; if a fair deal application...
- Hospital Services
Question 199: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if he will review a matter (details supplied) regarding Crumlin Hospital, Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13858/11]
- Proposed Legislation
Question 200: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the Nurses and Midwives Bill has been withdrawn; if this is the case, the reasons for same; if section 40 and section 24 of the Bill...
- Medical Cards
Question 201: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a medical card will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry in view of the fact that all final...
- Health Services
Question 203: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if his attention has been drawn to proposals by Diabetes Action to reorganise diabetes paediatric services in counties Galway, Mayo and...
- Regulation of Medical Practitioners
Question 204: To ask the Minister for Health and Children his plans to regulate the cosmetic surgery sector; the details of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13879/11]
- Medicinal Products
Question 205: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason a medication (details supplied) is not available here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13891/11]
- Health Services
Question 206: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a person (details supplied) in Dublin 3 will be provided with advice and support. [13905/11]
- Child Care Services
Question 207: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if he will consider extending the age range for eligibility for the early childhood care and education programme to address the anomaly...
- Health Services
Question 208: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding assessment in respect of persons (details supplied) in Dublin 5. [13940/11]
- Medical Cards
Question 209: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason for the delay in dealing with an application for a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry;...
- Departmental Agencies
Question 210: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if he will reconsider the closure of the Rape Crisis Network Ireland data collection programme. [13943/11]
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- Taxi Regulations
Question 211: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if terms of reference have been laid down for Minister of State, Deputy Alan Kelly's, review of the taxi industry; and if he...
- National Car Test
Question 212: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has had any discussions with the Road Safety Authority regarding the uniformity of standards applied by Applus in its...
- Tourism Promotion
Question 213: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide details of plans for the use of the tourism marketing fund; the amount of money allocated to the fund; if he...
- Sports Capital Programme
Question 214: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a new sports capital programme will be launched during 2011; the level of funding provided for the sports capital programme...
- London Olympics
Question 215: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he had contact with his UK counterpart to discuss the role, if any, Ireland may provide for the London 2012 Olympics; and if...
- Port Charges
Question 216: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that charges for handling freight in Rosslare Europort, County Wexford are...
- Tourism Industry
Question 217: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if negotiations have taken place with airlines (details supplied) to establish their response, in terms of additional...
- Airport Security
Question 218: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if additional security measures are being taken at Dublin, Cork and Shannon airports following the recent breach of security at...
- Departmental Agencies
Question 219: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of persons employed by the Road Safety Authority by grade; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13887/11]
- Tourism Promotion
Question 220: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will agree to meet a group of residents and elected representatives in County Meath to discuss the potential of...
- Transport Costs
Question 221: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his priorities to ensure the future of a vibrant efficient cost effective transport sector with particular reference to the...
- Tourism Promotion
Question 229: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the role he sees for sport in the promotion of the national image; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13935/11]
