Written answers
Wednesday, 26 October 2011
- Department of Justice, Equality and Defence
- Irish Red Cross
Question 13: To ask the Minister for Defence the current relationship between him and the Irish Red Cross; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31361/11]
- Reserve Defence Force
Question 14: To ask the Minister for Defence if he has given any consideration to allowing members of the Reserve Defence Force to serve overseas in specialist roles; and if he will make a...
- Defence Forces Strength
Question 15: To ask the Minister for Defence if he is satisfied that in view of the current economic situation, the strength of the Army, Navy and Air Corps can be maintained at least at its...
- Overseas Missions
Question 17: To ask the Minister for Defence, following his recent visit to Irish troops based in the Lebanon accompanying President McAleese, the duties with which the detachment is charged;...
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Ministerial Responsibilities
Question 20: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will ensure that the North-South Ministerial Council will organise meetings as requested (details supplied); if...
- Department of Finance
- Tax Code
Question 21: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons who benefitted each year from the farm consolidation relief for stamp duty since this scheme came into effect;; and if he will...
- Tribunals of Inquiry
Question 22: To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the investigations by the Revenue Commissioners into the findings of the Moriarty Tribunal Report. [31616/11]
- Tax Code
Question 23: To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding taxing of lump sums (details supplied). [31747/11]
- National Asset Management Agency
Question 25: To ask the Minister for Finance if he is satisfied that the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, has sufficient powers to reverse asset transfer to spouses; the number of cases...
- Personal Debt
Question 26: To ask the Minister for Finance regarding the Keane report, the proportion of owner-occupiers who were first-time buyers between 2003 and 2007; the cost of debt write-downs of 50%,...
- Banks Recapitalisation
Question 27: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm the dates and the amounts received and receivable from the sale of ordinary shares in the Bank of Ireland this year; the purposes...
- Pension Provisions
Question 28: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will respond to concerns raised regarding the temporary pension scheme levy (details supplied) in County Cavan; and if he will make a statement...
- Personal Debt
Question 29: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding action on personal debt and mortgage arrears; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Department of Education and Skills
- FÁS Training Programmes
Question 30: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider making amendments to the eligibility criteria for FÁS training courses, community employment schemes to ensure...
- School Transport
Question 31: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when expenses will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry in respect of school transport costs; and if he will make a...
- Higher Education Grants
Question 32: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive her higher education grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Third Level Charges
Question 33: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if it is ethical for students to pay €6,500 to enrol for a postgraduate diploma in education at University College Dublin when they...
- Higher Education Grants
Question 39: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when persons (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive a decision on an application for third level maintenance grant. [31651/11]
- Pupil-Teacher Ratio
Question 42: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans (details supplied) with respect to pupil-teacher ratios; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31674/11]
- Higher Education Grants
Question 43: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when people (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive a decision on application for the special maintenance grant. [31677/11]
- Special Educational Needs
Question 44: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the services of the visiting teachers are available to non-verbal children who do not suffer a hearing impairment; the early...
- Summer Works Programme
Question 47: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an application under the summer works programme from a school (details supplied) in Dublin 10. [31699/11]
- Vocational Education Committees
Question 48: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider Longford Vocational Education Committee as a sub-office, in view of it not having been designated the regional...
- Higher Education Grants
Question 49: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a third level grant in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow; and if he will make a statement...
- Vocational Education Committees
Question 50: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a club (details supplied) in Dublin 5. [31746/11]
- Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
- Expenditure Reviews
Question 51: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason the comprehensive review of expenditure cannot be published at an earlier date in the interest of fiscal...
- Departmental Bodies
Question 52: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will reconsider his decision to end the employment of a person (details supplied) on the basis that his apprenticeship...
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Innovation
- Employment Rights
Question 53: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation further to Question No. 90 of 29 September 2011, the way it was determined that an Employment Appeals Tribunal hearing did...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 54: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the timeline for the consultation and review process needed to bring Ireland's legislation on the right to collective...
- Department of Social Protection
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 56: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be issued on an application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 58: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of bankrupt persons who have claimed a social welfare payment in each year for the past 20 years; the costs per year; and if she...
- Courts Service
Question 59: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she has estimated or carried out a cost analysis to the State of the rising bankruptcy numbers currently in the court lists; her plans...
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 60: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will issue on an application for farm assist in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will...
- Redundancy Payments
Question 61: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a redundancy claim in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Wexford; if she will expedite the claim; and...
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 62: To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 229 of 27 September 2011, when this will case will be reviewed by a medical assessor as stated in the...
- Employment Support Services
Question 65: To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to change the way in which disabled persons receive support in securing jobs and work experience, in view of the fact that...
- Community Employment
Question 67: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the payments which she makes to persons placed on community employment schemes; their entitlements to social welfare benefits while on...
- Employment Support Services
Question 68: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an application for an internship under the JobBridge scheme in respect of a person (details supplied) in County...
- Department of Arts, Heritage and Gaeltacht Affairs
- EU Directives
Question 69: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the methodology used to draft up the conditions attached to special protection areas; and if consideration will be given to...
- Special Areas of Conservation
Question 70: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of objections which have been received by him from land owners in the six recently designated special protection...
- Wildlife Protection
Question 71: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide the list of locations in respect of the number of licences he has issued under section 42 of the Wildlife...
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Prospecting Licences
Question 72: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources in regard to the 13 licences that have been issued to an array of international oil companies to explore the...
- Onshore Exploration
Question 73: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the terms of reference he has put in place for the Environmental Protection Agency in regard to onshore...
- Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
- Grant Payments
Question 76: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding assistance under the disabled persons grant scheme; if he will give an assurance that...
- Housing Grants
Question 78: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of bankrupt persons who have applied for social housing supports over the past 20 years; and if he...
- Local Authority Housing
Question 79: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to introduce a ministerial order to allow the sale of local authority flats as provided for in the...
- Water and Sewerage Schemes
Question 80: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding the construction of the Dungloe and Glenties sewerage scheme, County Donegal; the date...
- Water Quality
Question 81: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the steps he will take to address the poor public water quality in the Fintown area of County Donegal which...
- Departmental Bodies
Question 82: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding Meitheal Forbartha na Gaeltachta Teo, including the level of assistance given by him...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 83: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government when the noise Bill will be brought forward; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31692/11]
- Private Rented Accommodation
Question 84: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his views on correspondence regarding bedsit accommodation (details supplied). [31736/11]
- Department of Justice, Equality and Defence
- Proposed Legislation
Question 86: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he is satisfied that the law as it stands is sufficient to penalise journalists or persons, who engage in absolute untruths; if not,...
- Crime Levels
Question 87: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if there were any criminal prosecutions brought against persons in commercial banks which were overcharging customers on a systematic...
- Tribunals of Inquiry
Question 88: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding the investigations by the Garda Síochána into the findings of the Moriarty tribunal report. [31616/11]
- Ministerial Orders
Question 89: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when he intends to sign the commencement order for sections 35-41 of the Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2011; the reason for...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 90: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the Charities Act 2009 contains a definition of charitable organisation which differs...
- Legal Aid Service
Question 91: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath was denied free legal aid for 20 years only to be granted same in 2010....
- Tax Code
Question 92: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the measures currently in place to monitor motor tax on vehicles; the way money offences were recorded in 2009, 2010 and to date in...
- Child Protection (1 comment)
Question 93: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to the concerns being expressed regarding the high incidents of allegations of child sexual abuse in the...
- Sexual Offences
Question 94: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he is considering a sex offenders' register or similar system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31682/11]
- Judicial Appointments
Question 95: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the procedure involved for the appointment of Commissioners for Oaths; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31685/11]
- Crime Levels
Question 96: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide the theft from vehicle crime statistics for the Garda R district of the Dublin region for the years 2008, 2009, 2010...
- Public Order Offences
Question 97: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the additional steps being taken by gardaí to tackle the anti-social behaviour coming up to the Halloween period particularly in the...
- Garda Investigations
Question 98: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if it is true that senior gardaí have issued a directive to their members offering a free pass to persons engaged in petty crime, that...
- Road Traffic Offences
Question 99: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will urge all authorities with responsibility to publish their data on speed cameras, including the number of motorists caught at...
- Legal Aid Service
Question 102: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding an application for assistance through the free legal advice centre to permit a person (details supplied) to care...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 103: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding naturalisation in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31755/11]
- Defence Forces Strength
Question 104: To ask the Minister for Defence the number of persons recruited into the Army, the Naval Service and the Air Corps for the years 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and to date in 2011; and if...
- Defence Forces Personnel
Question 105: To ask the Minister for Defence the current position in regard to army overholders with particular reference to meeting their housing requirements via local authorities; and if he...
- Defence Forces Equipment
Question 106: To ask the Minister for Defence his plans, if any, to ensure the ongoing upgrading and updating of equipment for the Defence Forces notwithstanding the economic situation; and if...
- Defence Forces Personnel
Question 107: To ask the Minister for Defence the total number of personnel in the Army, Naval Services and Air Corps who have retired in the current year or are due to retire in 2012; the...
- Defence Forces Recruitment
Question 110: To ask the Minister for Defence the number of positions to be filled currently in the Defence Forces at all ranks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31722/11]
- Departmental Properties
Question 112: To ask the Minister for Defence the total receipts accruing from the various military installations closed down by his predecessors over the past number of years; the degree to...
- Defence Forces Strength
Question 113: To ask the Minister for Defence the current strength of the Air Corps, male and female, all ranks; the degree to which this is sufficient to meet all eventualities in the short and...
- Department of Agriculture, Marine and Food
- Animal Diseases
Question 117: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the advice he will provide for farmers who purchase cattle stock from other EU countries, specifically in regard to the...
- Tax Reliefs
Question 118: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the tax reliefs currently available to young farmers; and his views on the importance of a tax system that is favourable to...
- Grant Payments
Question 119: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason the single farm payment for 2011 has not been paid to a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he...
- Fishing Industry Development
Question 123: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason Killybegs port, County Donegal, has not been approved as a designated port for the landing of herring caught in...
- Milk Quota
Question 124: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding the allocation of additional milk quota in respect of a person (details supplied). [31664/11]
- Grant Payments
Question 125: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a single farm payment will be issued to a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; the reason for the delay; the...
- Direct Payment Schemes
Question 127: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will review the policy of directing single farm payments via garnishee orders in view of the fact that this is a...
- Common Agricultural Policy
Question 128: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding farm entitlements (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31702/11]
- Grant Payments
Question 129: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding a single farm payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make...
- Department of Health
- Medical Cards
Question 130: To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) in County Limerick who has been approved for a medical card may have it backdated to when they first applied to cover...
- Health Services
Question 131: To ask the Minister for Health the reason the Health Service Executive has discontinued payment to persons (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on...
- Medical Cards
Question 133: To ask the Minister for Health his plans to issue medical cards to every person with muscular dystrophy, due to the higher need for medical interventions; and if he will make a...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 136: To ask the Minister for Health further to his parliamentary reply to a Topical Issue debate of 29 September 2011, when children will be treated at the urgent care centre in...
- Medical Cards
Question 138: To ask the Minister for Health if a medical card will be issued in view of the medical circumstances of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny. [31653/11]
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 139: To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment for April 2013 in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork in the ophthalmology department at Cork University Hospital...
- Health Services
Question 140: To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the new regulations he issued under the Health (Changes for In-Patient Services) (Amendment)...
- Care of the Elderly
Question 141: To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 559 and 560 of 15 June 2011, if he will provide an update of the review of the care and welfare regulations...
- Health Services
Question 143: To ask the Minister for Health the Health Service Executive's plans to make alternative arrangements for non-GMS patients who are no longer facilitated for referrals at the HSE...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 144: To ask the Minister for Health the number of consultant ENT at the Mater Hospital, Dublin 7; the number of persons on the waiting list to see the consultant; the average waiting...
- Vaccination Programme
Question 146: To ask the Minister for Health the common and rarer side effects of the HPV vaccine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31694/11]
- Hospital Services
Question 148: To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to the provision of routine early gestational ultrasound scans and routine foetal anomaly scans to all pregnant women...
- Medical Council Registration
Question 149: To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding Irish Medical Council registration (details supplied). [31701/11]
- Health Services
Question 150: To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding educational support in respect of a person (details supplied). [31711/11]
- Medical Cards
Question 151: To ask the Minister for Health if he will review a matter (details supplied) regarding a medical card. [31713/11]
- Hospital Services
Question 152: To ask the Minister for Health the timetable of the completion of the project to allow X-rays taken at Roscommon County Hospital to be read remotely; when a computerised medical...
- Hospital Staff
Question 153: To ask the Minister for Health if he will request the Health Service Executive to immediately seek cover for the State's paediatric rheumatologist while on maternity leave (details...
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- Search and Rescue Service
Question 154: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current strength of the air sea rescue services; his intention and ability to retain and improve such services; and if he...
- Port Development
Question 155: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the developments that have taken place at Dundalk Port, County Louth, since he announced his intention to amalgamate Dundalk...
