Written answers
Wednesday, 7 December 2011
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Passport Applications
Question 1: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if and when a passport will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a...
- Departmental Staff
Question 3: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will confirm the number of staff members employed at the Permanent Representation of Ireland to the European...
- Department of Finance
- Tax Code
Question 5: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will give consideration to the concerns of an industry (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39065/11]
- Pension Provisions
Question 9: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons here with pension pots in excess of €2.3 million according to the records of the Revenue Commissioners; and if he will make a...
- Disabled Drivers
Question 10: To ask the Minister for Finance the reason a person (details supplied) in County Longford has not been issued with a primary medical certificate; and if he will make a statement on...
- Tax Code
Question 11: To ask the Minister for Finance, further to Parliamentary Question No. 50 of 10 November 2010, his views on the possible introduction of an online betting tax; if officials in his...
- State Banking Sector
Question 12: To ask the Minister for Finance the reduction in the staffing including management of the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Limited and of the partially State owned banks that has...
- National Asset Management Agency
Question 14: To ask the Minister for Finance the restrictions affecting the ability of the National Assets Management Agency companies and borrowers to re-finance with financial institutions and...
- Department of Education and Skills
- FÁS Training Programmes
Question 15: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a FÁS course in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 3. [39086/11]
- Special Educational Needs
Question 16: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if further resource hours will be allocated to a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 17: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a progress report on all applications received for new primary schools in County Kerry; and if he will make a...
- School Staffing
Question 19: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the average number of years that principals in primary school serve; and if he could give comparable figures for periods in the past....
- Higher Education Grants
Question 20: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will clarify the grant aid available to persons re-entering education on part time courses at third level. [39130/11]
- Departmental Bodies
Question 21: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will ensure town councillors are included in the representation of proposed ten local authority members on the new education and...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 22: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total cost of having a school (details supplied) in County Kerry open, with no pupils attending, for the term after the summer...
- Employment Support Services
Question 23: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding committed by the EU and Irish agencies relative to the European globalisation fund in respect of initiatives to be...
- School Staffing
Question 24: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider the matters regarding primary education raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 25: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an application in respect of a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39180/11]
- Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
- Pension Provisions
Question 26: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to conduct a review of the revised spouses and children pension scheme; if he will look at a situation whereby a...
- Departmental Staff
Question 28: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will issue guidelines to all Departments and statutory bodies advising that when advertising job vacancies they make it...
- Departmental Properties
Question 29: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, further to Parliamentary Question No. 74, if he will identify the three properties which have accommodation unallocated; the...
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Innovation
- Work Permits
Question 30: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will reconsider a refusal of a work visa taking into account that the specific employment offered is full time and...
- Planning Issues
Question 31: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation further to Parliamentary Question No. 369 of 29 November 2011, if in a situation in which a property management company has...
- Skills Shortages
Question 32: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on the fact that there is a global skills shortage in micro-electronics circuit design and that Ireland has the...
- Job Creation
Question 33: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the strategy he has to progress the growing craft industry here. [39198/11]
- Department of Social Protection
- Redundancy Payments
Question 34: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when redundancy payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39068/11]
- Pension Provisions
Question 35: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) in County Longford has not received details requested relating to outstanding PRSI payment, which...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 36: To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 60 of 26 October 2011, when a decision will issue on an application for farm assist in respect of a...
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 37: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a decision has been made on an appeal for carer's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will...
- Pension Provisions
Question 40: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if there is deliberation within her Department on the pension claims of community employment supervisors; and if she will make a statement...
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 41: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will urgently process a jobseeker's appeal or review application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry. [39175/11]
- Redundancy Payments
Question 42: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) will receive redundancy payment from the social insurance fund; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 44: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a determination will be made regarding an appeal for carer's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and...
- Department of Arts, Heritage and Gaeltacht Affairs
- Departmental Funding
Question 45: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the funding he provided to a festival (details supplied) in 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39181/11]
- Tourism Industry
Question 46: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will consider locating a National centre of genealogy in Killarney house, which is to be refurbished in the new year;...
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Energy Conservation
Question 47: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will guarantee that all eligible households on the waiting list for warmer homes scheme in County Mayo...
- Broadcasting Services
Question 48: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if there is any independent body or person appointed by legislation for a member of the public to turn to to...
- Energy Conservation
Question 49: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to introduce an energy efficiency scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
- Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
- Tax Code
Question 50: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding the non-principal private residence tax (details supplied). [39093/11]
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 51: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the cost of the provision of fire services to County Roscommon; if he has applied for cover for the fire...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 55: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the reason there is no legislation to cover housing transfers from one local authority to another; his plans...
- Social and Affordable Housing
Question 56: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the reason a person on supplementary benefit does not meet the criteria to apply for social housing; the...
- Water and Sewerage Schemes
Question 58: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the submissions made by Kerry County Council to his Department regarding proposals for Scartaglen village...
- Community Development
Question 59: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if funds were available or ring-fenced for distribution to the designated new RAPID areas (details supplied)...
- Department of Justice, Equality and Defence
- Proposed Legislation
Question 61: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will respond to correspondence regarding upward only rent clauses (details supplied). [39098/11]
- Departmental Funding
Question 62: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will ensure that funding is not cut to People with Disabilities Ireland; and to support the Kerry Network of People with...
- Crime Prevention
Question 63: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding anti-social activity (details supplied). [39085/11]
- Garda Vetting of Personnel
Question 64: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will meet with a person (details supplied) regarding Garda vetting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39141/11]
- Citizenship Applications
Question 65: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding an application for Irish naturalisation in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; and that...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 66: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when legislation will be introduced to enable gardaí to prosecute employers who commit forced labour, which will also provide...
- Registration of Title
Question 67: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide a person (details supplied) in County Kerry with a map of bogland area stretching from Glounlea Currow via...
- Departmental Investigations
Question 68: To ask the Minister for Defence if he will have a complaint (details supplied) fully investigated as a matter of urgency. [39061/11]
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 69: To ask the Minister for Defence if permission has been sought from Roscommon County Council to provide emergency fire cover in the county as a result of the dismissal of 27 firemen;...
- Department of Agriculture, Marine and Food
- Grant Payments
Question 70: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a single farm payment and REP scheme payments will be issued to a person (details supplied) in County Wexford. [39062/11]
- No Question Heading
Question 71: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a REP scheme payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Fishing Industry Development
Question 72: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in view of the fact that long term sustainability of the mackerel fishery is seriously jeopardised by the actions of Iceland...
- Grant Payments
Question 73: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment under the single farm payment scheme and the disadvantaged area scheme will issue to a person (details...
- Department of Health
- Foster Care
Question 76: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason payments to foster carers are to be paid monthly in arrears from early 2012; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Departmental Funding
Question 77: To ask the Minister for Health if he refunds local authorities for charges that they may incur in the removal of fatal victims from the scenes of accidents; and if he will make a...
- Medical Cards
Question 78: To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the renewal of a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 10; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Health Service Allowances
Question 80: To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding domiciliary care allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Health Services
Question 81: To ask the Minister for Health the reason the out of hours Midoc service in Mullingar, County Westmeath, will cease providing driver cover from 1am to 8 am the following morning...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 82: To ask the Minister for Health the amount of money spent by him and the Health Service Executive this year on public relations advisers; the amount spent on public relations...
- Health Services
Question 83: To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding home care companies (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39096/11]
- Departmental Funding
Question 84: To ask the Minister for Health if, in view of recent increases in HIV prevalence among men who have sex with men, in particular men in the 18-29 age group, he will ensure the...
- Accident and Emergency Services
Question 85: To ask the Minister for Health if he will deal with a matter (details supplied) regarding an unsatisfactory service in the accident and emergency at Beaumont Hospital, Dublin; and...
- Medical Cards
Question 86: To ask the Minister for Health the reason a general practitioner visit card was sent to a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary who had two months earlier received a full...
- Consumer Protection
Question 87: To ask the Minister for Health if he has considered the damaging impact on persons health caused by the below cost selling of alcohol; and if he will advocate measures to ban the...
- Medical Cards
Question 88: To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will receive a decision from the Health Service Executive with regards to their medical card review...
- Assisted Human Reproduction
Question 89: To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding assisted human reproduction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39121/11]
- Health Services
Question 90: To ask the Minister for Health when orthodontic treatment will be provided for a person (details supplied) in County Waterford; the reason for the delay; his views that this delay...
- Services for People with Disabilities
Question 91: To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine the need for additional funding and resources for speech and language services in County Kerry. [39128/11]
- Hospital Services
Question 92: To ask the Minister for Health if he will review a complaint made by a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny relative to an incident at St. Luke's Hospital on 6 September...
- Health Services
Question 93: To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 134 of 6 April 2011, if he will report on the progress made in providing long term residential care for a person...
- Hospital Staff
Question 94: To ask the Minister for Health the plans that have been made for the staff at St. Joseph's Care Centre following the temporary closure of Our Lady's Unit, side 1, with patients...
- Medical Cards
Question 95: To ask the Minister for Health the reason a general practitioner visit card was issued to a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary who has held a medical card for the past 15...
- Nursing Homes Support Scheme
Question 99: To ask the Minister for Health when a decision will issue under the nursing home support scheme in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry. [39172/11]
- National Lottery Funding
Question 100: To ask the Minister for Health when a decision will issue in relation to a National Lottery application in respect of a County Kerry based charity (details supplied); and if he...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 101: To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time for orthodontic treatment in County Kerry; the number of persons on the waiting list; the steps he proposes to take to...
- Medical Cards
Question 102: To ask the Minister for Health when a decision will issue in relation to a medical card application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry. [39178/11]
- Health Services
Question 104: To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) in County Kildare who has plan D medical insurance is better advised to obtain public or private treatment in order to...
- Medical Cards
Question 105: To ask the Minister for Health in relation to the 12 month period up to the discontinuation of medical card administration in County Kerry, the number of medical cards that were...
- Mental Health Services
Question 107: To ask the Minister for Health his views on observations recently by the inspector of mental health services of his serious concern that over prescribing of benzodiazepine...
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- Air Services
Question 108: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if it is his responsibility, and that of the Irish Aviation Authority, to measure the sound levels at a location (details...
- Port Development
Question 110: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the timeframe with regard to the publication of his Department's revised ports policy document; and if he will make a statement...
- Departmental Correspondence
Question 111: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will review a matter (details supplied) regarding correspondence that was issued to him. [39154/11]
- Youth Services
Question 112: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding funding in respect of a club (details supplied) in Dublin 13; and if he will make a statement on the...
