Written answers
Wednesday, 19 October 2011
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Electricity Generation
Question 9: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, further to Parliamentary Questions Nos 29 and 34 of 5 April 2011, the further progress which has been made with...
- Telecommunications Services
Question 11: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to develop fourth-generation broadband; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29915/11]
- Exploration Licences
Question 12: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of oil, gas or other mineral explorations currently in progress on foot of licences issued in each of...
- Fishing Licences
Question 13: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the reason for the delay in granting licences for oyster fishing; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Renewable Energy
Question 15: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when it is expected that the European Commission will give State aid permission for the REFIT scheme; the reason...
- Electricity Generation
Question 16: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the proportion of primary energy input into each of the State's fossil-fuel-powered electricity generation...
- Departmental Funding
Question 17: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the level of new funding being provided for the NewERA scheme; the source of that funding; if he will provide...
- Electricity Generation
Question 18: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will direct the ESB to consider the offer made by a person (details supplied) to have the proposed power...
- Alternative Energy Projects
Question 19: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the research conducted by him to support progress in wave and tidal energy and renewable energy from the marine...
- Telecommunications Services
Question 20: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the extent to which he has examined the failure of programmes to provide high-speed broadband in all areas...
- Alternative Energy Projects
Question 21: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when it is expected that the European Commission will give state aid permission for the REFIT scheme; the reason...
- Fuel Poverty
Question 22: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the progress that has been made on tackling fuel poverty as promised in the programme for Government; and if he...
- Onshore Exploration
Question 23: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, in view of An Taisce's recent presentation to the Joint Committee on the Environment, Transport, Culture and...
- Energy Policy
Question 24: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to reform the regulation of the energy market; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29914/11]
- Petroleum Extraction
Question 25: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he is concerned that an attempt to use hydraulic fracturing to extract gas in the area known as Lough Allen...
- Inland Fisheries
Question 26: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, further to the news that sea salmon have returned and are spawning in the River Tolka, if there has been any...
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Overseas Development Aid
Question 27: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide specific details as to the frequency with which the evaluation and audit unit of his Department...
- Departmental Funding
Question 28: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the support he will offer to the Irish Cultural Centre, Hammersmith, London in their efforts to secure the building...
- Department of Finance
- Tax Yield
Question 29: To ask the Minister for Finance the income to the State that was received last year from the income levy. [30191/11]
- Tax Code
Question 30: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will investigate the tax affairs of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30233/11]
- National Asset Management Agency
Question 35: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide details of the National Asset Management Agency's progress to date in its efforts to recover from developers and debtors...
- Betting Regulation
Question 36: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on proposals put forward by the Irish Bookmakers Association to extend the opening hours of betting shops during the winter months; the...
- National Asset Management Agency
Question 37: To ask the Minister for Finance the status of lands known as the Ashcastle site on the border between Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council and Dublin City Council, which lands are...
- Tax Code
Question 38: To ask the Minister for Finance his views regarding a submission (details supplied); his plans to address the stated problems; if there is any aspect of the submission that the...
- Department of Education and Skills
- Information and Communications Technology
Question 39: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the degree to which modern IT available to the educational sector is on a par with the best available worldwide; and if he will make a...
- School Accommodation
Question 40: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the grants for improvement works and extra classrooms that have been received by a school (details supplied) in County Donegal in the...
- School Curriculum
Question 41: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on making provision for an Irish sign language curriculum for use in general schooling, for example during transition year;...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 42: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the administrative savings made by the National Council for Special Education over each of the past three years; and if he will make a...
- Teaching Qualifications
Question 43: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding part-time tutors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30278/11]
- Special Educational Needs
Question 44: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will initiate a review of the allocation of special needs assistants to a school (details supplied) in County Louth in view of the...
- Third Level Admissions
Question 45: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review the CAO regulations with a view to making a special case due to the unique circumstances of a person (details...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 46: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will make changes to the administration of the July education programme in the future to ensure that applicants will be given...
- FÁS Training Programmes
Question 47: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason FÁS has not progressed a person (details supplied) beyond level 5 of their plumbing apprenticeship, despite their being...
- University Expenditure
Question 48: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline, in respect of each of the country's seven universities, the cost incurred in 2009 and 2010 in providing...
- School Books
Question 50: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the school book publishing companies that were represented at the recent meeting with him; the progress achieved at the meeting; and if...
- Teaching Qualifications
Question 51: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an application (details supplied) will be processed and finalised at an early date; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Special Educational Needs
Question 53: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the provision of special needs assistants, speech and language therapists and occupational therapists in respect...
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Innovation
- Job Protection
Question 54: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the extent to which he continues to monitor the reasons for relocation to more competitive economies by various manufacturers...
- Appointments to State Boards
Question 55: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of appointments he has made to State boards since March 9 2011; and if he will list the names of each of these...
- Industrial Development
Question 56: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the president of a foreign company (details supplied) signed a memorandum of...
- Department of Social Protection
- Redundancy Payments
Question 57: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if there is a requirement for employees to obtain a liquidator's stamp on their EIP 1 forms when claiming redundancy payments from her in...
- Community Employment Schemes
Question 58: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the planned changes to FÁS mean that the Gateway community project in the north inner...
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 59: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an appeal regarding illness benefit payment will be decided in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 61: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the amount she spent in 2010 on the back to school clothing and footwear allowance; the amount spent on children aged between two and three...
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 62: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will issue on an appeal for invalidity pension in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [30230/11]
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 63: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an application for supplementary welfare payment will be decided while the person concerned (details supplied) in County Cork is...
- Social Welfare Code
Question 64: To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to phase out the qualified adult designation in social welfare payments in favour of making independent payments to both persons...
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 66: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a jobseeker's allowance claim which has been referred to the appeals office will be dealt with in respect of a person (details...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 67: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) in County Clare cannot be facilitated while applications are pending; and if she will make a...
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 68: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will issue on a disability allowance appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if she will...
- Social Welfare Code
Question 69: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider making amendments to the eligibility criteria for schemes such as TUS, FÁS training courses, the community employment...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 70: To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans for the future of the mortgage interest supplement scheme in view of the fact that legislative changes in relation to mortgage...
- Employment Support Services
Question 71: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a waiver will be introduced for the three-month waiting period for application for social welfare schemes after the conclusion of the...
- Social Welfare Code
Question 74: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the logic behind the changes made in April 2011 to the age limit for a qualified child for the one parent family payment; the reason 14...
- Department of Arts, Heritage and Gaeltacht Affairs
- Appointments to State Boards
Question 75: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of appointments he has made to State boards since 9 March 2011; if he will list the names of each of these...
- Maoiniú d'Eagrais Ghaeilge
Question 76: To ask the Aire Ealaíon, Oidhreachta agus Gaeltachta an bhfuil aon chinneadh déanta aige, nó ag a Roinn nó ag Foras na Gaeilge, maoiniú ón Stát do na heagrais óige atá...
- Turbary Rights
Question 78: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will review an application for compensation by a person (details supplied) for ceasing to cut turf at the Bawn bog,...
- Departmental Funding
Question 79: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the assistance available to a not-for-profit studio group (details supplied). [30418/11]
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- State Agencies
Question 81: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his input into NewERA; if he will comment on the discussion about the disposal of State assets; and if he will...
- Telecommunications Services
Question 82: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of applications that have been received for the rural broadband scheme from persons living in the...
- Electricity Transmission Network
Question 84: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his view on EirGrid's assertion that the savings from the proposed North-South interconnector are slightly lower...
- Energy Resources
Question 89: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the progress made to date in the development of the Corrib gas field, with particular reference to the...
- Telecommunications Services
Question 90: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the extent to which he can identify precise objectives for the provision of high-speed broadband throughout the...
- Mobile Telephony
Question 91: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if, directly or through the regulator, he has become aware of poor mobile phone coverage at a number of...
- Telecommunications Services
Question 92: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the extent to which the telecommunications system is now reliant on wire, wireless or satellite systems; the...
- Offshore Exploration
Question 94: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the extent of any oil, mineral, gas or other valuable discoveries in the past 12 months; and if he will make a...
- Postal Services
Question 96: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the degree to which he continues to monitor the development of the postal services in the aftermath of...
- Energy Resources
Question 97: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the degree to which he has planned for the future development of the country's natural resources; and if he will...
- Energy Prices
Question 98: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the degree to which he can interact with his EU colleagues with a view to achieving lower energy prices; and if...
- Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
- Nuclear Safety
Question 100: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his views on the recent report by the United Kingdom's Chief Inspector of Nuclear Installations on the...
- Waste Disposal
Question 101: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the guidelines and laws in place that control the practice of burning rubbish and gorse outdoors; the...
- Waste Management
Question 102: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the details of plans to restructure Ireland's waste market and to restrict side-by-side competition; and if...
- Social and Affordable Housing
Question 103: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government how children's welfare will be protected in the new social housing policy; and if he will make a statement...
- Department of Justice, Equality and Defence
- Visa Applications
Question 104: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if, in order to boost tourism visitor numbers from China, he will arrange for an individual tourist visa online application option to...
- Multi-Unit Developments Act
Question 105: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality, with reference to the Multi-Unit Developments Act 2011, the position regarding the law in respect of residents of a particular estate...
- Appointments to State Boards
Question 106: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of appointments he has made to State boards since 9 March 2011; and if he will list the names of each of these appointments...
- Deportation Orders
Question 107: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason, in dealing with applications for refugee status which have been declined and where a deportation order has issued, he will...
- Legislative Programme
Question 108: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when the criminal justice (withholding of information on crimes against children and vulnerable adults) Bill will be published; if...
- Appointments to State Boards
Question 109: To ask the Minister for Defence the number of appointments he has made to State boards since March 9 2011; if he will list the names of each of these appointments and the boards to...
- Department of Agriculture, Marine and Food
- Grant Payments
Question 110: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will introduce a scheme for the tracking of maps sent for digital imaging in order to provide an clear estimate time...
- Department of Health
- Children in Care
Question 120: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, further to Parliamentary Question No. 451 of 28 June 2011, when the outstanding information will issue from the Health Service...
- Adoption Services
Question 121: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on the attached submission regarding adoptees; the actions taken or to be taken to overcome the problems raised. [30224/11]
- Information and Communications Technology
Question 123: To ask the Minister for Health the degree to which modern IT is available to the health sector on a par with the best available worldwide; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Health Services
Question 124: To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the meetings that have taken place between him, the Health Service Executive and the Diabetes Federation of Ireland to decide...
- Appointments to State Boards
Question 125: To ask the Minister for Health the number of appointments he has made to State boards since 9 March 2011; and if he will list the names of each of these appointments and the boards...
- Hospital Staff
Question 126: To ask the Minister for Health when he intends to publish the review into the pay of fourth-year student nurses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30217/11]
- General Practitioner Services
Question 127: To ask the Minister for Health his future proposals for the MIDOC service, Mullingar, County Westmeath. [30222/11]
- Medical Inquiries
Question 128: To ask the Minister for Health, on behalf of the survivors of symphysiotomy, when the report commissioned in June will be completed and published; the steps he will take to speed...
- Hospital Staff
Question 129: To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that he stated on 23 June 2011 that two radiographers would be appointed later in 2011 to allow for the...
- Hospital Services
Question 130: To ask the Minister for Health if he will arrange an appointment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Laois; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30273/11]
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 131: To ask the Minister for Health if he will deal with the following matter (details supplied) regarding a waiting list for an operation; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Health Service Staff
Question 132: To ask the Minister for Health if essential front-line staff remain part of the Health Service Executive recruitment embargo. [30289/11]
- Health Services
Question 134: To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite an application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Vaccination Programme
Question 137: To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons and the number of girls aged ten to 18 years who have received the HPV vaccine since the start of August 2011; and if he will...
- Hospital Staff
Question 140: To ask the Minister for Health, further to Parliamentary Question No. 199 of 29 September 2011, if he will provide figures to explain the small number of consultants as referred to...
- Health Service Allowances
Question 144: To ask the Minister for Health when a home care package will be approved in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Laois; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Health Services
Question 145: To ask the Minister for Health, further to Parliamentary Question No. 1002 of 14 September, when a reply will issue from the Health Service Executive. [30412/11]
- Health Promotion
Question 148: To ask the Minister for Health, further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 627 of 3 May 2011 and 1019 of 14 September 2011, when a reply will issue from the Health Service Executive....
- Services for People with Disabilities
Question 149: To ask the Minister for Health, further to Parliamentary Question No. 364 of 21 June 2011, when the outstanding information will issue from the Health Service Executive. [30416/11]
- Hospital Services
Question 150: To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Laois will receive a date for an operation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30419/11]
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- Tourism Revenue
Question 151: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of additional tourists he expects to come to the west of Ireland as part of the Gathering initiative in 2013; the...
- Fishing Vessel Licences
Question 152: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider amending the restrictions on the skipper limited certificate of competency to qualify holders to operate...
- State Agencies
Question 153: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the bonuses that were paid to the chief executive officer and the management team of the Dublin Airport Authority for the years...
