Written answers
Thursday, 8 December 2011
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Northern Ireland Issues
Question 1: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the representations he has made on behalf of persons (details supplied) to the authorities in Britain and in Northern...
- Department of Finance
- Tax Code
Question 2: To ask the Minister for Finance the grounds on which an employer can refuse to provide an employee's P45; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39305/11]
- Tax Collection
Question 6: To ask the Minister for Finance if it is permissible for persons (details supplied) in County Galway to enter into specific payment arrangements with Revenue to clear balanced owed....
- State Banking Sector
Question 7: To ask the Minister for Finance the way he can justify allowing Permanent TSB to charge its home loan customers a standard variable rate of 6% while the two other State owned banks,...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 8: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding future legislation pertaining to pensions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39302/11]
- State Banking Sector
Question 9: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide full details of all costs incurred, including details of any advisory or consultancy contracts entered into, in regard to a certain...
- Tax Yield
Question 10: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a breakdown of revenue raised by the State since 2005 through the sale of alcohol products including income from excise and VAT...
- Department of Education and Skills
- Employment Support Services
Question 11: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will be reintroducing the Labour Market Activation Fund in 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39231/11]
- Redundancy Payments
Question 12: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive their redundancy payment. [39236/11]
- FÁS Training Programmes
Question 13: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the decision by FÁS - Solas to increase the age of eligibility from 15 to 16 for local training initiative courses, in...
- School Enrolments
Question 14: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a school place in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 13; and if he will make a statement on the...
- School Staffing
Question 15: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to make changes in the provision of guidance counsellors to schools; his plans to reduce the current provision of guidance...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 16: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on dyslexia in pupils; the amount of grant aid he has given to an association (details supplied) on an annual basis for the...
- Appointments to State Boards
Question 17: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the name of each member of the board of the Grangegorman Development Agency; the date on which each member was appointed; their record...
- Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
- Caiteachas Ranna
Question 18: To ask the Aire Caiteachais Phoiblí agus Athchóirithe an mbaineann an ciorclán a d'eisigh sé, uimhir 109/247/74 maidir le táillí a íoc le comhaltaí de bhoird stáit, le...
- Departmental Staff
Question 19: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide the following details for all Secretaries General who have retired between January 2008 up to and including...
- Departmental Reports
Question 20: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the Departments currently undergoing a review by the organisational review programme; the date on which each Departmental...
- National Lottery Funding
Question 21: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform in relation to the National Lottery, if he has terms of reference for the examination of how best to maximise the return on the...
- Flood Relief
Question 22: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a breakdown of the funds drawn down for flood relief in Athleague, County Roscommon; the specific allocation...
- Departmental Correspondence
Question 24: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will respond to correspondence (details supplied) regarding the public service; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Innovation
- Job Creation
Question 25: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the position regarding the development of a jobs plan for the south east; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Departmental Staff
Question 26: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide the following details for all Secretaries General who have retired between January 2008 up to and...
- Department of Social Protection
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 27: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if and when payment will issue under the one parent family allowance scheme in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare;...
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 28: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if an appeal has been received form a person (details supplied) in County Offaly; when this appeal will be processed; and if she will make...
- Social Welfare Code
Question 29: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider amending the back to education allowance scheme to allow students involved in the youth reach programme to proceed...
- Social Welfare Fraud
Question 30: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding dedicated reporting phone lines (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39249/11]
- Personal Debt
Question 31: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason the Money Advice and Budgetary Service did not make any submission to the Keane Report in view of their brief and their...
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 32: To ask the Ministerfor Social Protection when a decision will issue on an appeal for lone parents in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry. [39259/11]
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 33: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will issue on a carer's allowance application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry. [39260/11]
- Social Welfare Code
Question 34: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason persons who find that work in their primary degree and qualifications has dried up and who try to re-skill by going back to...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 36: To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to parliamentary Question No. 148 of 17 November, if she will confirm that information was submitted several months ago to the...
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 39: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a social welfare appeal in relation to an illness benefit claim will be decided upon in respect of a person (details supplied) in...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 40: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if an application for carer's allowance will be expedited and approved in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if...
- Redundancy Payments
Question 41: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if redundancy payment will be approved in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Carlow. [39347/11]
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 42: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if an application for carer's allowance will be approved in respect of a person (details supplied in County Kilkenny; the position...
- Departmental Staff
Question 43: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide the following details for all Secretaries General who have retired between January 2008 up to and including March 2012;...
- Department of Arts, Heritage and Gaeltacht Affairs
- Departmental Offices
Question 44: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht his views on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39258/11]
- Departmental Staff
Question 45: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide the following details for all Secretaries General who have retired between January 2008 up to and...
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Prospecting Licences
Question 46: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will report on licensing arrangements granted to a company (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he...
- Official Engagements
Question 47: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to send representatives from his Department or any agencies under his remit, including Sustainable...
- Energy Conservation
Question 48: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when a person (details supplied) in County Carlow will have work done to their home under the Sustainable Energy...
- Electricity Generation
Question 49: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when the new REFIT scheme, known as REFIT 2, is expected to receive clearance from the European Commission for...
- Official Engagements
Question 50: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the reason he was not officially represented at the Amsterdam conference on wind energy in view of the potential...
- Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 51: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding the introduction of guidelines for Green Public Procurement which promotes slag as the...
- Fire Stations
Question 52: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government when funding will be made available for the provision of a new fire station (details supplied) in County...
- Consultancy Contracts
Question 53: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his budget for consultancy in relation to the independent assessment of the establishment of a water utility...
- Water Services
Question 56: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government when he will publish his assessment of the establishment of a water utility. [39268/11]
- Water Quality
Question 62: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the way our water quality compares with other European countries; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Planning Issues
Question 63: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding walking routes, hill walking and rights of way; and if he...
- Local Authority Charges
Question 64: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the reason a person (details supplied) who owns only one property is being charged non principal private...
- Local Authority Housing
Question 65: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he has instructed local authorities to retrofit and insulate only those local authority houses that become...
- Election Management System
Question 67: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government when the revision of constituencies will be implemented; the range possible in the reduction in the number of...
- Departmental Staff
Question 68: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide the following details for all Secretaries General who have retired between January 2008 up...
- Department of Justice, Equality and Defence
- Departmental Agencies
Question 69: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the legislation under which the National Property Services Regulatory Authority, which was set up by Michael McDowell in 2005, operates;...
- Rights of People with Disabilities
Question 70: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason that he has withdrawn funding in respect of People with Disabilities in Ireland; his views that it is wrong to target...
- Legal Aid Service
Question 71: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding waiting lists for appointments at a centre (details supplied) in County Kildare; if there is any alternative for...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 72: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding the Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2009; and if he will make a statement on...
- Residency Permits
Question 74: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the grounds on which Stamp 2 for a period of one year instead of Stamp 4 was issued in the case of a person (details supplied) in County...
- Appointments to State Boards
Question 75: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the remuneration the former Secretaries General (details supplied) receive regarding board membership. [39278/11]
- Citizenship Applications
Question 76: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the progress made to date in the determination of application for naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied) in County...
- Residency Permits
Question 77: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current and or expected position in regard to the determination of residency status in the case of a person (details supplied) in...
- Citizenship Applications (includes naturalisation applications)
Question 78: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will indicate the progress made to date in the determination of citizenship in the case of a person (details supplied) in County...
- Residency Permits
Question 79: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the progress made to date in the determination of residency in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 1; and if he will make...
- Citizenship Applications (includes naturalisation applications)
Question 80: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding a citizenship application in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 22. [39294/11]
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 81: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality in relation to the amalgamation of the Equality Authority and the Human Rights Commission, the situation facing staff who have been...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 82: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applicants for naturalisation in each of the past five years; the average length of time for processing each application;...
- Garda Remuneration
Question 83: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding garda allowances (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39328/11]
- Garda Deployment
Question 85: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding the use of garda resources; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39364/11]
- Departmental Staff
Question 86: To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide the following details for all Secretaries General who have retired between January 2008 up to and including March 2012; the...
- Department of Agriculture, Marine and Food
- Proposed Legislation
Question 87: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to include a ban on fur farming in the upcoming Animal Health and Welfare Bill. [39240/11]
- Rural Environment Protection Scheme
Question 88: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will be permitted to switch from cattle to sheep and retain their REP scheme...
- Grant Payments
Question 89: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers who have had their agricultural payment delayed due to the digitisation of maps; when this...
- Departmental Staff
Question 94: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide the following details for all Secretaries General who have retired between January 2008 up to and...
- Department of Health
- Child Care Services
Question 95: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the facilities and services available in the city of Dublin to support victims of child sex abuse; and if she will make a...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 96: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when the proposed amendment to the constitution dealing with the rights of children will be brought before Dáil Éireann prior to...
- Health Services
Question 97: 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. [39338/11]
- Health Service Staff
Question 98: 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. [39339/11]
- Children in Care
Question 99: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 146 of 3 November 2011, if she has received the information sought from the Health Service...
- Hospital Services
Question 100: To ask the Minister for Health the reason undertakers are no longer allowed to carry out embalming at community hospital facilities; if he will review this decision; and if he will...
- Health Services
Question 101: To ask the Minister for Health if dental treatment will be provided to a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39206/11]
- Medical Cards
Question 102: To ask the Minister for Health when a decision will be made on an application for a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; the reason for the...
- Health Services
Question 103: To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a long term care plan in respect of a person (details supplied) [39214/11]
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 104: To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Cork referred to Cork University Hospital for orthopaedic treatment will be given an appointment; and if...
- Medical Cards
Question 105: To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an application for a medical card in respect of persons (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement...
- Hospital Accommodation
Question 106: To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients in hospital beds in the Dublin area because places are not available for them in nursing homes; and if he will make a...
- Health Services
Question 108: To ask the Minister for Health if he will grant the necessary treatment to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39250/11]
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 109: To ask the Minister for Health the reason the Health Service Executive is using a taxi service in Limerick which is charging more than double the normal fare to transfer patients...
- Departmental Funding
Question 110: To ask the Minister for Health if he will allocate the additional €20,000 funding to an organisation (details supplied) working to tackle health inequalities among ethnic...
- Hospital Services
Question 111: To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm, in view of the fact that Letterkenny General Hospital, County Donegal, supports 160 children with type 1 diabetes, that he will...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 112: To ask the Minister for Health if and when a date for cardiovascular surgery will be offered in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a...
- Health Services
Question 115: To ask the Minister for Health the assistance available to a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39307/11]
- Hospital Services
Question 118: To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that traditional geographic and catchment restrictions placed on long stay public hospitals for older persons have now been...
- Medical Cards
Question 119: 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 [39351/11]
