Written answers
Wednesday, 2 November 2011
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Passport Applications
Question 11: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position regarding an application for an Irish passport in the case of the child of a person (details supplied)...
- Human Rights Issues
Question 12: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied); if he has been in contact with the...
- Foreign Conflicts
Question 13: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will initiate a discussion at EU level on the possibility of produce from Israeli settlements in occupied...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 14: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the amount of money yet to be spent under his Department's 2011 budget allocation before the end of 2011; and if he...
- Departmental Properties
Question 15: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has any property leased in private sector in County Westmeath; if so, the type of property; and the annual rent...
- Department of Finance
- Tax Code
Question 16: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the VAT rate on handcrafts (details supplied); if he will consider the VAT in advance of Budget 2012; and if he will make a statement on...
- Vehicle Registration
Question 17: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider the introduction of two licensing periods in one year to incentivise car sales beyond the traditional year sales period; and if...
- National Asset Management Agency
Question 18: To ask the Minister for Finance the contractors or developers currently employed by the National Asset Management Agency to provide services in relation to assets held by NAMA; the...
- Asset Transfers
Question 19: To ask the Minister for Finance if the National Asset Management Agency has considered measures to prevent the transfer of assets from NAMA debtors to spouses or other family...
- Memoranda of Understanding
Question 20: To ask the Minister for Finance following the completion of the recent review mission by the EU-ECB-IMF, when he expects that the revised memorandum of understanding and associated...
- European Banking Authority
Question 21: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide details of the contact he and the Central Bank of Ireland have had with the European Banking Authority in relation to potential...
- Sovereign Debt
Question 22: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will explain his reasoning for not seeking to negotiate a voluntary write down of Ireland's sovereign and or bank debt in the context of the...
- Promissory Notes
Question 23: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide details of his engagement with the European authorities on the issue of redesigning the Anglo Irish Bank-Irish Nationwide Building...
- Bank Guarantee Scheme
Question 25: To ask the Minister for Finance the date from which the banking guarantee applied to each of the six covered institutions. [31941/11]
- Tax Refunds
Question 26: To ask the Minister for Finance if a tax refund of €800 is payable in respect of fess paid for third level education in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare.;...
- Universal Social Charge (1 comment)
Question 27: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the benefits to the employee for paying the universal social charge; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32043/11]
- Tax Code
Question 28: To ask the Minister for Finance if, further to Parliamentary Question No. 98 of 18 October 2011 and in view of the fact that the employers PAYE and PRSI have all been paid up to...
- Tax Yield
Question 30: To ask the Minister for Finance if he could indicate the revenue collected through excise duty on petrol and diesel up to the end of quarter three of 2011 and for the year end 2008,...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 31: To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of money yet to be spent under his Department's 2011 budget allocation before the end of 2011; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Tax Code
Question 32: To ask the Minister for Finance the rationale for the discrepancy in the level of taxation applied to a packet of cigarettes compared to hand-rolling and other non-cigarette...
- National Asset Management Agency
Question 37: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm if anyone employed by the National Asset Management Agency was offered a permanent contract; and if so, the number of same. [32361/11]
- Tax Yield
Question 38: To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the implementation of further measures announced in budget 2010 with respect to the treatment of non-residents for tax...
- Banking Sector Regulation
Question 39: To ask the Minister for Finance if he is satisfied that the current legislation covering criminal prosecutions brought against persons in commercial banks which were overcharging...
- Tax Yield
Question 41: To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of money collected to date on the pension levy introduced in the jobs initiative; and if he will provide details of any amount which it is...
- Interest Rates
Question 42: To ask the Minister for Finance when he expects the interest rate reductions applying to funds available to Ireland under the European Financial Stability Fund and European...
- Financial Data
Question 43: To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 65 of 5 October 2011, if he will arrange for the outstanding information to be supplied to this Deputy; and in...
- Banking Sector Regulation
Question 44: To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 141 to 147, inclusive, and 150 of 21 July 2011 and Parliamentary Questions Nos. 127 and 191 of 4 October...
- Department of Education and Skills
- Teaching Qualifications
Question 45: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is proposing changes to the Bachelor of Education programmes currently being provided in the colleges of education for primary...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 46: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when he will release funding to the National Council for Special Education for a grant of resource hours in respect of a person (details...
- Grant Payments
Question 48: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will commit to ring-fencing, and bringing forward into next year, the grant awarded to a project (details supplied) in this...
- European Globalisation Adjustment Fund
Question 49: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will be making an application to the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund on behalf of the former employees of a company...
- Vocational Education Committees
Question 50: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the decision that has been made regarding the location of the proposed Louth-Meath Vocational Education Committee; the criteria used to...
- School Staffing
Question 51: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review the decision to reduce two teaching posts at a school (details supplied) in County Donegal in view of the fact that...
- Disadvantaged Status
Question 52: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) in County Donegal can be considered for DEIS status. [31833/11]
- School Staffing
Question 53: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review the decision to remove two permanent teachers at a school (details supplied). [31834/11]
- Pension Provisions
Question 54: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an ill health retirement payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal. [31835/11]
- Physical Education Facilities
Question 55: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a secondary school (details supplied) in County Carlow will receive funding to construct a sports hall, in view of the fact that it...
- School Staffing
Question 56: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a school (details supplied) in County Cork has lost two teaching posts despite the stated position that special schools would...
- Higher Education Grants
Question 57: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the nationality requirements with which an applicant must comply in order to be deemed eligible under the student grant scheme 2011-12;...
- Equality Issues (1 comment)
Question 58: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills following the submission by Equality For Fathers to the UPR Secretariat (details supplied) for the recent report to the United Nations...
- Higher Education Grants
Question 59: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reasons for a refusal to grant a higher education grant to a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; the action that will be...
- Physical Education Facilities
Question 60: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a club (details supplied) in Dublin 5. [31980/11]
- Pension Provisions
Question 61: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the annual saving to the State if all public sector pensions currently paid by him were capped at €35,000 per year. [31988/11]
- Schools Building Projects
Question 62: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the delay in providing a new school building in respect a school (details supplied) in County Waterford; the stage of...
- Grant Payments
Question 64: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on a matter (details provided) regarding student accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32024/11]
- FÁS Training Programmes
Question 65: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) County Limerick can use their current employment in Australia to satisfy the conditions for completion of...
- Schools Refurbishment
Question 66: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views regarding a school (details supplied) in County Kerry; if he will take immediate action to tackle the issues raised.; and if...
- School Transport
Question 67: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to put the school transport scheme out to public tender for the year 2012/13; or if such a move might be considered. [32097/11]
- Schools Building Projects
Question 68: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if it will be possible for a school (details supplied) in County Cork to engage local builders to construct the additional two...
- Teaching Qualifications
Question 69: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the widespread concerns of students on the postgraduate diploma in education course due to it being...
- FÁS Training Programmes
Question 70: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to an unfortunate situation that has arisen in respect of a person and FÁS (details supplied); and if...
- School Enrolments
Question 71: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason pupils are being refused entry to their local secondary schools even though they are only a few hundred metres away and have...
- Schools Refurbishment
Question 72: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the minor capital works grant is still in operation; if a school (details supplied) in County Cork will be in receipt of the payment;...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 73: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the review of special needs assistants for the schools in Shankill, Dublin will be carried out; the reason the wait has been so...
- Vocational Education Committees
Question 74: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the discussions he has had to date with the staff of Longford Vocational Education Committee; when the staff will be advised of the...
- School Transport
Question 76: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding payment for school transport in respect of persons (details supplied) in County Wicklow; and if he will make a...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 77: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the school capital appraisal section will sanction a building project for a school (details supplied) in County Longford; and if he...
- Higher Education Grants
Question 78: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a third level grant in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Longford; and if he will make a statement...
- Vocational Education Committees
Question 81: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding the amalgamation of County Wicklow and County Kildare Vocational Education...
- Grant Payments
Question 83: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the application for a home tuition grant will be processed in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12; and if he will...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 84: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of money yet to be spent under his Department's 2011 budget allocation before the end of 2011; and if he will make a...
- Departmental Properties
Question 85: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has any property leased in private sector in County Westmeath; if so, the type of property; and the annual rent payable. [32298/11]
- School Staffing
Question 86: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when he will sanction the grant of a full teaching post in respect of an application for resource hours made by a school (details...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 87: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a school building project in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 88: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school (details supplied) in County Cork will receive its allocation of resource hours in respect of students who are new to the...
- Schools Refurbishment
Question 89: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision on the payment of the primary school minor works grant in the current school year will issue; and if he will make a...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 90: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when he expects a schools building programme (details supplied) in County Waterford to progress to design stage in order that a design...
- FÁS Training Programmes
Question 91: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the waiting time for redundant apprentices for the FÁS competency determination mechanism which enables eligible redundant apprentices...
- School Patronage
Question 92: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a list of community schools, tabulating their approximate opening date, the names of the participating religious...
- Social Media
Question 95: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has considered using social media as a way to match up potential jobseekers or those seeking further education opportunities; if...
- Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
- Public Sector Staff
Question 96: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if there is a standard policy for all civil servants and public servants in relation to the use of business class economy class...
- Flood Risk Management
Question 97: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on a national strategy on coastal flooding which would include the views of local residents....
- Departmental Properties
Question 103: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has any property leased in private sector in County Westmeath; if so, the type of property; and the annual rent payable....
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 104: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount that would be saved to the Exchequer by reducing all salaries for those paid with public money to a maximum of...
- Property Valuations
Question 105: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will bring forward legislation to amend the Valuation Act to include the word economic in the material change of...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 107: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to meet the commitment given to the EU-IMF to introduce legislation to give effect to the Competition Authority...
- State Bodies
Question 108: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has made any recent decision regarding staff members elected to State boards and their entitlement to payment for same;...
- Freedom of Information
Question 109: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to reform the Freedom of Information Act as outlined in the Programme for Government; and if he will make a...
- Flood Relief
Question 110: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the action being taken to address the serious erosion to the bank of the River Slaney, Rathvilly, County Carlow (details...
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Innovation
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 136: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the amount of money yet to be spent under his Department's 2011 budget allocation before the end of 2011; and if he will...
- Departmental Properties
Question 137: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he has any property leased in private sector in County Westmeath; if so, the type of property; and the annual rent...
- EU Directives
Question 138: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the position regarding transposing the EU Directive on Temporary Agency Workers 2008 into Irish law; the consultation he has...
- Employment Rights
Question 139: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if the contracts of the 15 former Airtricity employees, who would be affected by a contract within the terms of a tender...
- Capital Projects
Question 140: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of projects for which sub-contractors have been used by Roscommon, Galway, Sligo, Leitrim, and Mayo County...
- Department of Social Protection
- Redundancy Payments
Question 142: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive their redundancy payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Departmental Schemes
Question 145: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if the back to education allowance scheme covers level nine qualification; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32419/11]
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 146: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an application for domiciliary care allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if...
- Carers Strategy
Question 148: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will publish the National Carers Strategy, which promises to set out Government's commitment in regard to income supports, health...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 149: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) in County Clare has not received payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31788/11]
- Community Development
Question 153: To ask the Minister for Social Protection to allow a theatre company (details supplied) in County Kerry to retain an allocation of €373 surplus, full-time equivalent at the end...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 154: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a rent supplement application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a...
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 161: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will review the case in respect of a disallowed appeal for jobseeker's allowance in the case of a person (details supplied) in...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 163: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she intends changing the 20 hour rule for eligibility for mortgage interest supplement; the reason this has not been changed to date as...
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 165: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an appeal for domiciliary care allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Offaly; and if she...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 166: To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 252 of 18 October 2011, if this matter will be reinvestigated as the person states that they have...
- Redundancy Payments
Question 167: To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 291, 295, 296 and 297 of 27 September 2011, when she expects to be in a position to these answer...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 169: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) in County Louth has had a back to school clothing and footwear allowance refused; if the decision...
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 174: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will confirm that the carer's allowance section have furnished the independent appeals office with all the necessary papers in an...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 175: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason the means assessed in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare in respect of their disability allowance...
- Social Welfare Code
Question 177: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the European Commission's request to the British Government to stop applying a right to reside test to...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 178: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the cases in which she covers the cost of the translation of documents from other languages; the amount this has cost her in the past...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 179: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a rent allowance payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 180: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will issue on a jobseeker's allowance appeal will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if...
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 185: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an appeal against the decision to refuse an application for illness benefit in respect of a person (details...
- Community Development
Question 190: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will review a matter (description supplied) regarding funding. [32099/11]
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 191: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an appeal against refusal of fuel allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; and if the...
- Departmental Staff
Question 192: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding community welfare officers for County Wicklow some of whom were based in the Health Service Executive Naas; their...
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 194: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite an application for invalidity pension now under appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny....
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 197: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if persons who are in receipt of jobseeker's benefit for three days a week are eligible for the JobBridge scheme; and if she will make a...
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 198: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will confirm receipt of an appeal against a decision to refuse disability allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in...
- Carers Strategy
Question 200: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when she will publish the national carer's strategy. [32164/11]
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 201: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) was refused domiciliary care allowance; and when they may expect a date for their appeal. [32170/11]
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 204: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an application for illness benefit in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Longford; and if she will...
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 207: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a final decision on a rent allowance appeal will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; and if she will make...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 213: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the amount of money yet to be spent under her Department's 2011 budget allocation before the end of 2011; and if she will make a statement...
- Departmental Properties
Question 214: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she has any property leased in private sector in County Westmeath; if so, the type of property; and the annual rent payable. [32306/11]
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 215: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding disability allowance payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a...
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 216: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when the oral hearing will take place on an application for disability allowance in respect of a person (details supplied)in County...
- Freedom of Information
Question 218: To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 230 of 18 October 2011, if the Data Protection Act has been used to inhibit the investigations of...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 220: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Carlow will have a decision on their application for invalidity pension; and if she will...
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 221: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will review a jobseeker's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry. [32336/11]
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 223: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the costs to the Irish Exchequer of paying children's allowance to families who claim the allowance but whose children reside outside this...
- Redundancy Payments
Question 225: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will ensure that a case is dealt with and resolved as a matter of urgency in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork....
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 226: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding rent allowance being reinstated in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a...
- Redundancy Payments
Question 227: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if an application for a redundancy payment will be approved for a person (details supplied) in County Wexford. [32377/11]
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 228: To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 340 of 4 October 2011, when a person (details supplied) in County Carlow will receive their oral...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 230: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite an application for rent supplement in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make...
- Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
- Local Authority Charges
Question 253: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will review the non-principal private residence so that local authority departments other than the...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 254: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the measures in place to ensure compliance with legislation such as the Dog Breeding Establishment Act...
- Environmental Policy
Question 257: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if, similar to his predecessor, it is his intention to announce a carbon budget for the calendar year 2012...
- Building Regulations
Question 259: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will respond to a matter (details supplied) regarding Priory Hall, Dublin; and if he will make a...
- Local Authority Funding
Question 261: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the date on which he will meet with the county manager and the head of finance in Sligo County Council to...
- Local Authority Housing
Question 262: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to introduce a new scheme to replace the tenant purchase scheme; when a new scheme will be in...
- Fire Stations
Question 263: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government when he will provide funding for the construction of new fire stations in Ballyshannon, Bundoran and...
- Water and Sewerage Schemes
Question 265: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if funding has been made available for a sewerage scheme at a location (details supplied); and if he will...
- Waste Management
Question 266: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the progress that has been made to date on plans to restructure the waste market here; the impact that...
- Departmental Reports
Question 271: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he has the considered the Darlington report; his views on same; and the steps he will take to ensure...
- Local Authority Housing
Question 272: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide funding for the refurbishment of windows and doors for local authority housing in areas...
- Meitheal Forbartha na Gaeltachta
Question 273: To ask the Aire Comhshaoil, Pobail agus Rialtais Áitiúil cén uair a chuirfear socruithe in áit chun na seirbhísí a bhíodh á gcur ar fáil ag MFG sa Ghaeltacht a chur ar...
- Community Development
Question 276: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of applications on hand from each Leader company awaiting his approval; the number for each...
- Election Management System
Question 277: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his plans for reform of the electoral system; if he intends to introduce a system of gender quotas for...
- Dormant Accounts Fund
Question 278: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the total value of the dormant accounts fund as of the end of September 2011. [31974/11]
- Local Authority Housing
Question 279: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the circumstances in which married persons who are separated and living apart who have a family home in...
- Local Government Reform
Question 280: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his plans regarding the future of town councils; if any town council will be amalgamated with other bodies;...
- Social and Affordable Housing
Question 281: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the actions if any, he intends to take to sort out the construction defects at a location (details supplied)...
- Regeneration Projects
Question 282: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown of the expenditure of regeneration funding on consultants, on firms providing...
- Local Authority Housing
Question 283: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Sligo Borough Council sought a sum of €445,000 to...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 284: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of regeneration funding spent in 2009 on the Dublin City inner city flat complexes regeneration...
- Local Authority Rent Schemes
Question 285: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the details of all differential rent schemes across all the local authorities. [32145/11]
- Dormant Account Fund
Question 287: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if funds will be allocated through RAPID dormant accounts funding to provide capital funding of €50,000...
- Flood Risk Management
Question 288: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the extent to which the recommendations of the Joint Committee on the Environment, Heritage and Local...
- Fire Services
Question 291: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will confirm that two emergency tenders were designed and built for the Dublin Fire Brigade in 2009;...
- Building Control Act
Question 293: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding the Building Control Act 2007; and if he will make a...
- Departmental Programmes
Question 296: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government when the funding for the projects already approved for the RAPID programme in Enniscorthy town, County...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 298: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of money yet to be spent under his Department's 2011 budget allocation before the end of 2011;...
- Departmental Properties
Question 299: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he has any property leased in private sector in County Westmeath; if so, the type of property; and the...
- Tax Code
Question 300: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his views that there is an inbuilt inequity to the proposed household charge of a flat fee of €100 for...
- Water and Sewerage Schemes
Question 301: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will increase funding for a planned sewerage scheme (details supplied) in County Wicklow which has...
- Local Authority Housing
Question 304: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the total amount of funding that was made available for the capital assistance scheme that approved housing...
- Private Rented Accommodation
Question 305: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will review the regulatory framework for the privately rented accommodation sector; if he will...
- Regeneration Programmes
Question 307: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding an application submitted by Dublin City Council in respect of the redevelopment of...
- Unfinished Housing Developments
Question 310: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his plans for the future development of the ghost housing estates in County Longford; and if he will make a...
- Electoral Reform
Question 312: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to introduce changes to the Litir um Thoghcháin to make significant savings to the taxpayer; the...
- Social and Affordable Housing
Question 314: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will ensure that homelessness and housing are top of his priorities; and if he will make a statement...
- Department of Justice, Equality and Defence
- Criminal Prosecutions
Question 317: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of registered moneylenders here who have been the focus of a Garda investigation since 2006; the number of registered...
- UN Conventions
Question 319: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which was signed by Ireland in 2007, will be ratified; and if he...
- Road Safety
Question 320: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the cost to the Exchequer of introducing speed cameras and the cost per week of running the system nationwide; and if he will make a...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 321: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when he will introduce legislation reforming personal bankruptcy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31791/11]
- Garda Stations
Question 322: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to develop a sub-Garda station at his Department's justice buildings in Johnstown, Navan, County Meath. [31827/11]
- Proposed Legislation
Question 323: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when he expects to take Second Stage in Dáil Éireann on the proposed legislation to end upward only rent reviews; and if he will make...
- Deportation Orders
Question 324: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current or expected residency status in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Monaghan; and if he will make a statement...
- Residency Permits
Question 326: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if and when Stamp 4 will issue in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Citizenship Applications
Question 327: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current position in regard to the process of naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he...
- Deportation Orders
Question 328: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current or expected residency status in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement...
- Residency Permits
Question 329: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the progress made to date in the determination of residency status in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15; and if he...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 330: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if a proposal to change their name is likely to impede progress in the determination of any application for naturalisation in the case...
- Residency Permits
Question 331: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if and when Stamp 4 will be updated in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on...
- Constitutional Amendments
Question 332: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding the referendum; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31875/11]
- Criminal Prosecutions
Question 333: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if specially trained jurors will be required for future complex commercial criminal cases; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 334: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding an application for naturalisation in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make...
- Visa Applications
Question 336: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the meetings he has had with the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation regarding improving the approval time for visa...
- Equality Issues (1 comment)
Question 338: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality following the submission by Equality For Fathers to the UPR secretariat (details supplied) for the recent report to the United Nations...
- Garda Stations
Question 339: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when a decision will issue on the possible closure of Garda stations around the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Prison Building Programme
Question 340: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding the planned development of the new prison at Thornton Hall; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Sexual Offences (1 comment)
Question 341: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding child sexual abuse; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31978/11]
- Departmental Staff
Question 342: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding a transfer in respect of a person (details supplied). [31982/11]
- Residency Permits
Question 343: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the residency and other such entitlements a spouse of a newly naturalised citizen has if coming a non-EU country; and if he will make a...
- Employment Rights
Question 344: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the Garda Síochána has completed its analysis of the extent of the issue of forced labour here; and if he will meet with Migrants...
- Garda Deployment
Question 345: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reasons the crime prevention officer (description supplied) in a station has not been replaced; the steps that have been taken to...
- Crime Prevention
Question 347: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will introduce legislation to regulate cash for gold shops with a view to reducing the number a robberies of gold items taking...
- Visa Applications
Question 348: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if a person (details supplied) may apply for a visa; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32087/11]
- Liquor Licensing Laws
Question 349: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the legal position regarding the consumption of alcohol at unlicensed commercial venues which charge patrons a cover charge but allow...
- Departmental Investigations
Question 351: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his views on correspondence and a report (details supplied) regarding allegations of embezzlement. [32150/11]
- Registration of Title
Question 352: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reasons for the delay in correcting an error in respect of the location of a right of way in the Land Registry digital map; and if...
- Garda Stations
Question 354: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will confirm that a Garda station (details supplied) will remain open. [32173/11]
- Courts Service
Question 355: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason papers and documents are not accepted by document exchange or post by the central office of the High Court, which...
- Garda Vetting of Personnel
Question 357: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality, further to Parliamentary Question No. 433 of 25 October 2011, when a person (details supplied) in County Dublin may expect to receive...
- Garda Transport
Question 358: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there are a number of Garda patrol cars currently in Mullingar Garda station with more...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 359: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the amount of money yet to be spent under his Department's 2011 budget allocation before the end of 2011; and if he will make a...
- Departmental Properties
Question 360: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he has leased any property in the private sector in County Westmeath; if so, the type of property; and the annual rent payable....
- Asylum Applications
Question 361: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when a decision will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32337/11]
- Deportation Orders
Question 362: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the State's actions regarding any child under 18 years of age residing here if the child's parents are arrested for failing to comply...
- Visa Waiver Programme
Question 363: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality, further to Parliamentary Question No. 201 of 20 October 2011, when this review will be completed; and if he will make a statement on...
- Personal Insolvency
Question 364: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he has estimated or carried out an analysis of the cost to the State of the rising bankruptcy numbers currently in the court lists;...
- Garda Investigations
Question 365: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the measures being taken to bring to justice those responsible for the financial ruin of the country through problems arising from the...
- Asylum Support Services
Question 366: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if consideration will be given to amending or introducing legislation to empower the Ombudsman to examine complaints or issues from...
- Asylum Applications
Question 367: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applicants on the asylum waiting lists when he took office; and the progress being made to reduce the numbers. [32462/11]
- Asylum Support Services
Question 368: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of centres under the direct provision scheme, administered by the Reception and Integration Agency, for refugees or asylum...
- Data Protection
Question 369: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to the proposal to return records of the Magdalene laundries to the religious institutions; if he...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 370: To ask the Minister for Defence the amount of money yet to be spent under his Department's 2011 budget allocation before the end of 2011; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Departmental Properties
Question 371: To ask the Minister for Defence if he has any property leased in the private sector in County Westmeath; if so, the type of property; and the annual rent payable. [32297/11]
- Defence Forces Equipment
Question 372: To ask the Minister for Defence the number of field ambulances available to the Defence Forces; the location of each; the plans, if any, to purchase additional vehicles; and if he...
- Department of Agriculture, Marine and Food
- Common Agricultural Policy
Question 373: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his negotiating position on the greening section set out in Commissioner Ciolos's Common Agriculture Policy proposals in...
- Grant Payments
Question 374: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied) in County Galway has not received their single farm payment or their area based...
- Disadvantaged Areas Scheme
Question 375: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide details on the number of farmers in the north Tipperary area affected by the ongoing digitisation of...
- Grant Payments
Question 376: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a person (details supplied) in County Kildare is entitled to a single farm payment; and if he will make a statement on...
- Grant Payments
Question 382: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied) in County Galway has not been paid under the agri-environment options scheme; when...
- Departmental Bodies
Question 383: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a list of the commercial semi-State companies under his remit whose chief executives have agreed to take...
- Food Labelling
Question 385: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which re-labelling of imported food or food products and resale as Irish produce has been detected; and if he...
- Food Industry
Question 386: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if traceability and husbandry standards as applied here are imposed on meat and poultry imports with particular reference...
- Common Agricultural Policy
Question 387: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the degree to which he has established support for the Common Agricultural Policy throughout Europe with particular...
- Agriculture Policy
Question 389: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he expects to be in a position to ensure the continuation of the maximum support for Irish agriculture in future in view...
- Food Labelling
Question 390: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total amount of beef, lamb, pig meat or poultry imports; if any product was re-labelled and re-marketed as Irish...
- Suckler Cow Quota
Question 391: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which numbers in the suckler herd have fluctuated during the past five years; the extent to which he expects...
- Dairy Sector
Question 392: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which he expects the dairy sector to develop in the future; if this is likely to have full regard to the need...
- Budget Submissions
Question 394: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which he has received submissions from the various farming organisations or representative groups in the...
- Fishing Industry Development
Question 395: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which he expects to facilitate the development of the fishing industry with the objective of maximising...
- Grant Payments
Question 397: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will expedite the approval of a single farm payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow; and...
- Departmental Staff
Question 404: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the size in the reduction of the staff within his Department over the past three years; the total number of staff employed...
- Grant Payments
Question 405: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Monaghan will receive his or her disadvantaged area payment; and if he will make...
- Milk Quota
Question 410: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider changing the butterfat levels within the milk the quota system from its current average of 3.57% to 4%...
- Grant Payments
Question 411: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when single farm payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Rural Environment Protection Scheme
Question 416: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive their REP scheme payment; and if he will make a statement on...
- Grant Payments
Question 417: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding area aid payment in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
- Veterinary Inspection Service
Question 420: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason the practice of veterinary surgeons who used to carry out retests on animals that had failed their TB herd test,...
- Departmental Staff
Question 421: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will give details of the number of staff in his Department for each of the years 2005 to 2010, inclusive; the level...
- Grant Payments
Question 422: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath will receive his or her single farm payment and disadvantage payment;...
- Environmental Policy
Question 423: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will reconsider any move which will increase costs and bureaucracy on farmers through the implementation of the...
- Grant Payments
Question 424: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when area aid will be paid to a person (details supplied) in County Laois; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Animal Feedstuffs
Question 427: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will set out the regulations covering the sale of such products like rolled barley and wheat from agriculture outlets...
- Grant Payments
Question 428: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding an outstanding single farm payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 431: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of money yet to be spent under his Department's 2011 budget allocation before the end of 2011; and if he will...
- Departmental Properties
Question 432: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has any property leased in private sector in County Westmeath; if so, the type of property; and the annual rent...
- Grant Payments
Question 433: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment under the single farm payment scheme will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary. [32313/11]
- Aquaculture Development
Question 436: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 323 of 21 June 2011, when he now expects an application for an aquaculture licence to...
- Grant Payments
Question 437: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding the single farm payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Wexford; when payment...
- Aquaculture Development
Question 442: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when an application for an aquaculture licence will be processed and a decision communicated to a person (details supplied)...
- Fishing Industry
Question 443: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding a public tender process (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Grant Payments
Question 444: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will receive their single farm payment; and if he will make a statement on...
- Animal Welfare
Question 448: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures in place to ensure compliance with legislation such as the European Communities (Welfare of Farmed Animals)...
- Department of Health
- Adoption Services
Question 449: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason the Health Service Executive's regional adoption service, in St. Stephen's Hospital, Glanmire, Cork, has not made...
- Children in Care
Question 450: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of young persons confined to secure care facilities since the introduction of such facilities in the 1990s; and if she...
- Health Service Staff
Question 451: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when the 60 social workers the Health Service Executive has pledged to appoint this year in order to strengthen child protection...
- Children in Care
Question 454: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, further to Parliamentary Question No. 130 of 21 September 2011, if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the information...
- Departmental Funding
Question 455: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she has reviewed a submission from an organisation (details supplied); her response to the submission in view of the...
- Preschool Services
Question 456: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if there are changes to the free preschool year with regard to its budget allocation; her plans to develop further the education...
- Foster Care
Question 457: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the date on which foster care payments commenced; and the value of those payments in Irish punts and in euro; and if she will...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 458: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount of money yet to be spent before the end of 2011 under her Department's 2011 budget allocation; and if she will make a...
- Departmental Properties
Question 459: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she has any property leased in the private sector in County Westmeath; if so, the type of property and the annual rent...
- Family Support Services
Question 460: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her vision for the future of the family resource centre programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32404/11]
- Constitutional Amendments
Question 461: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of submissions, and from whom, she has received on the proposed children's referendum since 2009; and if she will make...
- Health Service Staff
Question 462: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the position regarding the shortage of social workers (details supplied); if the matter will be dealt with as a priority; and if...
- Health Services
Question 463: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, further to Parliamentary Question No. 471 of 27 September 2011, when a reply will issue from the Health Service Executive....
- Health Service Staff
Question 464: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, further to Parliamentary Question No. 472 of 27 September 2011, when a reply will issue from the Health Service Executive....
- Children in Care
Question 465: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, further to Parliamentary Question No. 473 of 27 September 2011, when a reply will issue from the Health Service Executive....
- Constitutional Amendments
Question 466: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when she envisages the holding of a referendum on children's rights. [29509/11]
- Abortion Services
Question 468: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a detailed explanation of the reasons each of the six recommendations relating to abortion made by European countries during...
- Medical Cards
Question 469: To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32231/11]
- Health Service Inspections
Question 472: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on inspections by the Health Information and Quality Authority of homes for persons with an intellectual disability; the...
- Medical Cards
Question 474: To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an appeal not to grant a general practitioner's visit card to a person (details supplied) in County Limerick [31787/11]
- Accident and Emergency Services
Question 475: To ask the Minister for Health his views on the revelation that a patient with TB was on a trolley for five days in the emergency department of Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, County...
- Health Service Staff
Question 477: To ask the Minister for Health the positions that have been filled in the Health Service Executive in the County Louth and County Meath areas since the recruitment pause in July...
- Hospital Staff
Question 480: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of the positions which remain unfilled including in the areas of medical consultants, therapy positions and nursing...
- Hospital Services
Question 483: To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a hip operation in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Medical Cards
Question 485: To ask the Minister for Health if and when a medical card will be approved in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Hospital Services
Question 487: To ask the Minister for Health the extent of the progress made to date in dealing with an appointment at Tallaght Hospital, Dublin, in respect of a person (details supplied) in...
- Hospital Funding
Question 488: To ask the Minister for Health the total level of funding allocated to Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, County Louth in the years 2007 to 2011, inclusive [31862/11]
- Hospital Services
Question 490: To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an application for an operation in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement...
- Health Services
Question 491: To ask the Minister for Health the reason patients with County Laois addresses attending the Holy Angels Day Centre, Strawhill Industrial Estate, Carlow, cannot access clinical...
- Hospital Services
Question 493: To ask the Minister for Health further to his commitments of 21 July 2011 at the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children, if he will report on the independent review of...
- Ambulance Service
Question 494: To ask the Minister for Health when the report by the Health Service Executive, on foot of Health Information and Quality Authority guidelines on ambulance response times will be...
- Health Services (2 comments)
Question 495: To ask the Minister for Health the reason the parental consent form (details supplied) for dental service in the Cavan-Monaghan area accepts the consent of one-parent only and does...
- Hospital Staff
Question 497: To ask the Minister for Health if he will intervene to ensure that there is a replacement consultant rheumatologist at Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin, prior to the...
- Health Services
Question 498: To ask the Minister for Health if he will inquire into the circumstances which led to distress caused to a person (details supplied) County Monaghan; and if he will make a...
- Health Service Staff
Question 499: To ask the Minister for Health, further to Parliamentary Question No. 497 of 20 September 2011, if he will provide a breakdown per person in tabular form of the persons who...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 500: To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) in County Kildare will be facilitated for an earlier hospital appointment; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Medicinal Products
Question 501: To ask the Minister for Health his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding the licensing of drugs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32041/11]
- Nursing Homes Support Scheme
Question 502: To ask the Minister for Health if funding for the fair deal scheme will be released as a priority in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12; and if he will make a...
- Hospital Services
Question 503: To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the management of Galway University Hospitals; his plans to appoint a private management company to manage these hospitals; and if he...
- General Practitioner Co-operatives
Question 506: To ask the Minister for Health if he will clarify reports that the caredoc facility in Clonmel, County Tipperary, will from 1 November close at 11 p.m. as opposed to 8 a.m.; the...
- Health Services
Question 507: To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo, will receive an orthodontic appointment to have braces fitted; and if he will make a statement on...
- European Court Judgments
Question 508: To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline in detail the timeframe for the implementation of the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in the case of A, B and C...
- Health Service Funding
Question 509: To ask the Minister for Health if he will explain in detail the more than 20% reduction since May 2010 in funding for the Irish Family Planning Association to provide family...
- Hospital Services
Question 511: To ask the Minister for Health if the extensive medical evidence or file has as yet been examined relative to the urgent case of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and...
- Hospital Procedures
Question 512: To ask the Minister for Health when an operation will be arranged in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if the matter will be expedited. [32125/11]
- Health Services
Question 513: To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive will fund the provision of a special bed and chair in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and...
- Medical Cards
Question 514: To ask the Minister for Health if an application for a medical card will be expedited and approved in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny. [32127/11]
- Health Services
Question 515: To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a bed in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin. [32132/11]
- Medical Cards
Question 516: To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5. [32134/11]
- Hospital Staff
Question 517: To ask the Minister for Health the process for the approval of consultant posts by the Health Service Executive; the number of consultant posts, if any, in the HSE that are...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 518: To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting list for ankle replacement surgery at Tullamore General Hospital, County Offaly; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Medical Cards
Question 519: To ask the Minister for Health the reason medical card holders are not fully covered for dental treatment, in view of the fact that they are not in a position to meet private...
- Hospital Procedures
Question 520: To ask the Minister for Health the reason an urgent heart operation has been cancelled at Crumlin Hospital, Dublin, for the third time in respect of a person (details supplied) in...
- Cancer Screening Programme
Question 521: To ask the Minister for Health the arrangements in place in relation to a national screening for prostate cancer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32198/11]
- Cancer Screening Programme
Question 522: To ask the Minister for Health the age group covered by the national BreastCheck campaign; the situation in relation to ladies who are over this age limit; the facility in place to...
- Hospital Accommodation
Question 523: To ask the Minister for Health if the full capacity protocol remains in place in Drogheda hospital, County Louth; the date from which it has been in place; the length of time the...
- Medical Cards
Question 525: To ask the Minister for Health the reasons a person (details supplied) in County Cork is being asked by the Health Service Executive to produce documentation in respect of a...
- Health Service Property
Question 526: To ask the Minister for Health if he intends to install adequate outdoor lighting at a former hospital site (details supplied) which is owned and maintained by the Health Service...
- National Treatment Purchase Fund
Question 527: To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) in County Limerick qualifies to have the remainder of their treatment through the National Treatment Purchase Fund;...
- Mental Health Services
Question 529: To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the Dean Clinics with respect to the Health Service Executive; the nature of the free mental health assessments the Dean...
- Ambulance Service
Question 530: To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm if he intends to open a new control room for the ambulance service in Tallaght, Dublin; if he will advise if the ambulance service...
- Tobacco-Related Diseases
Question 531: To ask the Minister for Health his plans to introduce warnings on cigarette packs in relation to problems caused to eyesight and blindness; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Health Services
Question 532: To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm the status of a building project in respect of a centre (details supplied) in County Carlow; if he will approve funding for the...
- Men's Health Policy
Question 533: To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the implementation status of each recommendation in the National Men's Health Policy 2008-2013; the steps being taken to fully...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 534: To ask the Minister for Health the amount of money yet to be spent under his Department's 2011 budget allocation before the end of 2011; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Departmental Properties
Question 535: To ask the Minister for Health if he has any property leased in private sector in County Westmeath; if so, the type of property; and the annual rent payable. [32302/11]
- Medical Cards
Question 536: To ask the Minister for Health in view of the undue hardship and stress that annual medical card reapplications cause for persons in receipt of invalidity pension payments, if he...
- Health Service Staff
Question 537: To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 133 of 19 October 2011, the reason posts which were created specifically to deal with counselling for adult...
- Medical Cards
Question 538: To ask the Minister for Health his views that a public health nurse refused to treat a public patient because the patient does not hold a medical card (details supplied); his...
- Nursing Home Support Scheme
Question 539: To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the fair deal scheme; the current waiting time for approval; and if this scheme is fully funded up until year end 2011 [32350/11]
- Health Services
Question 540: To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite an application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Offaly [32367/11]
- Ambulance Service
Question 541: To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider levying a small charge on ambulance call outs which are deemed by hospital staff to have been unnecessary in order to discourage...
- Health Services
Question 542: To ask the Minister for Health his plans and the progress made regarding provision of a primary health care centre in north Clondalkin, Dublin 22 [32384/11]
- Health Service Staff
Question 543: To ask the Minister for Health if a rate of pay for fourth year student nurses on mandatory work experience will be reinstated; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Mental Health Services
Question 546: To ask the Minister for Health his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding mental health services [32432/11]
- Hospital Staff
Question 547: To ask the Minister for Health if he will move towards a position of recruiting more graduates rather than allowing such high overtime expenditure to continue in County Kerry...
- Tax Code
Question 548: To ask the Minister for Health her views that proposals on the sale price of off-licence drink will encourage persons to go across the Border to purchase cheaper alcohol hence...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 549: To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a hospital appointment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin. [32450/11]
- Health Services
Question 551: To ask the Minister for Health his future plans for a hospital (details supplied) in County Longford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32458/11]
- Proposed Legislation
Question 553: To ask the Minister for Health when legislation will be enacted to transpose directive 2010/63/EU of the European Parliament and of the European Council on the protection of...
- Medical Cards
Question 554: To ask the Minister for Health when a determination will be made regarding an application for a medical card submitted in August in respect of a person (details supplied) in County...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 555: To ask the Minister for Health the waiting period for orthodontic services in Portlaoise, County Laois; if a review of services has taken place in County Laois; and if he will make...
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- Flood Relief
Question 557: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if compensation will be provided for flood damage (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32235/11]
- Penalty Points System
Question 558: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the action being taken to harmonise penalty point procedure north and south of the Border; and if he will make a statement on...
- Vehicle Registration System
Question 559: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider new rules that allowed for inter-county registration of second hand-vehicles; and if he will make a...
- Rural Transport Services
Question 560: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport regarding the rural transport programme, under the new LARTIS steering group, if there will be a call for pilots on integrated...
- Parking Regulations
Question 562: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the regulations in place for private car parks, in terms of insurance, rate charged, supervision, taxes and so on; and the way...
- Road Network
Question 563: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total funding sought by Kildare County Council for the improvement, strengthening and maintenance of national secondary,...
- State Bodies
Question 564: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a list of the commercial semi-State companies under his remit whose chief executives have agreed to take a...
- Road Network
Question 566: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if extra funding will be provided for projects (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Departmental Bodies
Question 568: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if terms of employment for air traffic controllers employed at Galway Airport will be transferred to the Irish Aviation...
- EU Directives
Question 569: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the draft European Parliament and Council regulation for the approval and market surveillance of two or...
- Departmental Bodies
Question 572: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will investigate the possibility of the Irish Aviation Authority employing or upskilling a small number of up to five air...
- Tourism Industry
Question 573: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if it is the intention of Bord Fáilte to close down the tourist information office at the monastic site at Clonmacnoise,...
- Public Transport
Question 574: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the criteria issued to local authorities in respect of the national sustainable transport initiatives under which local...
- State Airports
Question 575: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide details of the terms of reference he has given to consultants on the future ownership and operation of Cork...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 576: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of money yet to be spent under his Department's 2011 budget allocation before the end of 2011; and if he will make a...
- Departmental Properties
Question 577: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has any property leased in private sector in County Westmeath; if so, the type of property; and the annual rent payable....
- Road Traffic Offences
Question 578: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 623 of 25 October 2011, regarding a driving offence (details supplied), his views on this...
- Harbours and Piers
Question 579: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the levels of future funding for capital projects at Baltimore harbour and piers, County Cork; and if he...
- Taxi Regulations
Question 580: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the report of the taxi regulation review group, which was due out in early October, will be published; and if he will make...
- Marine Safety
Question 582: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will confirm the requirement for the wearing of personal flotation devices on any vessel at sea or inland waterway...
