Written answers
Wednesday, 22 February 2012
- Department of Finance
- Banks Recapitalisation
Question 10: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an explanation of the reason the promissory notes need to carry a similar yield as was prevailing on the Irish Government in 2012;...
- Fiscal Policy
Question 11: To ask the Minister for Finance if he and other EU eurozone finance ministers have discussed using quantitative easing as a policy instrument to ease the effects that huge...
- Departmental Staff
Question 12: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of staff from the Office of the Revenue Commissioners expected to leave the organisation at the end of this month under the early...
- Financial Products
Question 13: To ask the Minister for Finance if he intends to raise with Permanent TSB the issue of the standard variable interest rate it charges on residential mortgages which, at 5.19%, is...
- Fiscal Policy
Question 14: To ask the Minister for Finance the current status of the European Commission's proposal to introduce a common consolidated corporate tax base; if he will provide details of his...
- Financial Services Regulation
Question 15: To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which the Financial Services Ombudsman has been in a position to identify the most frequently reported insurance companies alleged to...
- State Banking Sector
Question 16: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider publishing, even in a redacted form, the reports by McCann Fitzgerald and Ernst and Young into corporate governance issues at the...
- Financial Services Regulation
Question 18: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has held discussions with the ECB in relation to the way the cost of the covered institutions of loss making tracker mortgage may be moderated;...
- Credit Availability
Question 19: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will clarify the categories of lending that have been included by AIB and Bank of Ireland in meeting the lending targets of €3.56 bn to small...
- Banking Sector Remuneration
Question 20: To ask the Minister for Finance the purpose of the review into severance and remuneration packages at the covered institutions which has been ongoing since April 2011; the work that...
- Illegal Money Lenders
Question 21: To ask the Minister for Finance if the Central Bank of Ireland has any evidence of a growth in the number of illegal money lenders operating here; and if he will make a statement on...
- State Banking Sector
Question 22: To ask the Minister for Finance if, relating to the nationalisation of Anglo Irish Bank and the published demands of a company (details supplied) for full compensation, the...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 23: To ask the Minister for Finance if a copy of the draft Central Bank (Regulation of Credit Unions) Bill has been sent to the EU, ECB or the IMF; and if he will make a statement on...
- Fiscal Policy
Question 24: To ask the Minister for Finance if recent Central Statistics Office figures showing a rise in the value of financial assets in the State will lead him to reconsider his tax policy...
- State Banking Sector
Question 25: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on the way information regarding the existence of a retention agreement between Irish Bank Resolution Corporation and a company...
- EU-IMF Programme
Question 26: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the analysis of the three prominent economists (details supplied) who recently gave evidence before the Finance Committee that Ireland...
- Fiscal Policy
Question 27: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the progress of talks between the Troika and Greece on a second programme of assistance for that country; the impact the delays in...
- State Banking Sector
Question 28: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will explain the reason a company (details supplied) is permitted to provide loan sale advice to Irish Bank Resolution Corporation and also be...
- Debt Management
Question 29: To ask the Minister for Finance when he intends to regulate firms that provide debt management advice and household budgeting services to customers; and if he will make a statement...
- Personal Debt
Question 30: To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to assist families in mortgage difficulty; the discussions, if any, he is planning with the Irish Financial Services Regulatory Authority...
- Banking Sector Regulation
Question 31: To ask the Minister for Finance if he or the National Treasury Management Agency were given notice of the retention agreement between Irish Bank Resolution Corporation, IBRC, and a...
- Ministerial Appointments
Question 32: To ask the Minister for Finance if he intends to appoint someone from a company (details supplied) to the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, advisory board; if he will outline...
- Banks Recapitalisation
Question 33: To ask the Minister for Finance the interest rate paid by Irish Bank Resolution Corporation to the Central Bank of Ireland for the emergency liquidity assistance; and if he will...
- Departmental Records
Question 34: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of meetings he or his officials or the National Treasury Management Agency held with a company (details supplied) since March 2011; if he...
- Tax Code
Question 35: To ask the Minister for Finance if the use of Irish charity legislation and tax law at the International Financial Services Centre by Irish legal firms is in fact enabling massive...
- Strategic Investment Fund
Question 36: To ask the Minister for Finance when he plans to introduce the relevant legislation to allow the strategic investment fund to use funds from the National Pensions Reserve Fund for...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 37: To ask the Minister for Finance the rationale behind limiting the 30% mortgage or qualifying loan interest relief package included in the Finance Bill 2012, to mortgages or loans...
- Bank Guarantee Scheme
Question 38: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will list those current members of the Bank of Ireland executive team and committee who were in place prior to the banking guarantee; if he...
- Fiscal Policy
Question 40: To ask the Minister for Finance if the contraction in economic growth now taking place in Europe, and even in Germany, has likely consequences for his strategy on an export growth...
- Financial Sector Regulation
Question 41: To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 51 of 1 February 2012, regarding restrictions to credit union lending, if he will detail the types of...
- Banks Recapitalisation
Question 42: To ask the Minister for Finance if the profits derived by the Central Bank of Ireland from Irish Bank Resolution Corporation's emergency liquidity assistance repayments are kept in...
- Banks Recapitalisation
Question 43: To ask the Minister for Finance if Irish Bank Resolution Corporation requires the full €47 billion of the promissory note, that is the €30 billion capital and €17 billion...
- EU Summits
Question 44: To ask the Minister for Finance if he had discussions on the margins of the EU summit on 30 January about the promissory notes relating to Anglo Irish Bank. [5173/12]
- Banks Recapitalisation
Question 45: To ask the Minister for Finance if he shares the views of the three prominent economists (details supplied), who recently gave evidence before the finance committee, that the...
- Vehicle Registration
Question 46: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has given any consideration to making changes to the number plate system in 2013 (details supplied). [9847/12]
- European Central Bank
Question 47: To ask the Minister for Finance the degree to which the views of the Central Bank of Ireland are reflected in the ECB with particular reference to the need to ensure that the vital...
- State Banking Sector
Question 48: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will detail the exact procurement policy used by Irish Bank Resolution Corporation that precipitated the awarding of the retention agreement...
- Banks Recapitalisation
Question 49: To ask the Minister for Finance with respect to the revised memorandum of understanding of 10 February 2012, his plans to ensure the recapitalisation of a company (details...
- Tax Reliefs
Question 50: To ask the Minister for Finance if, in the drafting of the new facility detailed in section 766 of the Finance Bill, 2012, whereby amounts paid by companies to unconnected third...
- State Banking Sector
Question 51: To ask the Minister for Finance if he agrees that allowing a company (details supplied) to be eligible for purchasing bank assets in Irish Bank Resolution Corporation after...
- EU-IMF Programme
Question 54: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will explain the implications under the fiscal compact treaty of the 0.5% structural deficit limit on fiscal and budgetary policy; and if he...
- Derivatives Market
Question 55: To ask the Minister for Finance the discussions he has had with his EU counterparts on EU commission plans to regulate food securities trading at both European and international...
- Tax Code
Question 56: To ask the Minister for Finance with respect to the revised memorandum of understanding of 10 February 2012 if he will detail what is meant by a broadening of personal income tax...
- Banking Sector Regulation
Question 57: To ask the Minister for Finance the involvement, if any, he has with the way banking regulation weaknesses are being addressed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9368/12]
- Credit Availability
Question 58: To ask the Minister for Finance the progress made on the commitment in the programme for Government on ensuring that an adequate pool of credit is available to fund small and medium...
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- International Agreements
Question 59: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will clarify his position and subsequent vote at the cluster munitions talks in Geneva November 2011; and the...
- Diplomatic Representation
Question 60: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the total funding granted to the Irish embassy in Malawi for 2008 to 2012, inclusive; the total staff complement in...
- Northern Ireland Issues
Question 61: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will raise the matter of the statements made by prominent Irish-American individuals and groups regarding the...
- Human Rights Issues
Question 62: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if cognisant to the fact that the Irish Government became the standard bearer for human rights defenders during their...
- Diplomatic Representation
Question 66: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when he expects to appoint ambassadors to the Irish embassies in Belgium, Estonia and Sweden which are currently...
- Department of Finance
- Personal Debt
Question 67: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide figures in relation to the numbers of households which are now in mortgage arrears for three months or more; the number of persons...
- Tax Reliefs
Question 68: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm One Year Certificate in Agriculture Fetac Certificate in Agriculture (Teagasc) is adequate requirement for relief from stamp duty...
- Financial Services Regulation
Question 69: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on a matter regarding financial regulation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10000/12]
- Tax Collection
Question 70: To ask the Minister for Finance if the Revenue Commissioners have raised any issues of concern with County Cork Vocational Education Committee in respect of the payments of PAYE,...
- National Asset Management Agency
Question 71: To ask the Minister for Finance if it is possible for a loan to go into the National Asset Management Agency at half the value, the developer then to sell the asset at a higher...
- Tax Reliefs
Question 72: To ask the Minister for Finance the reason a person (details supplied) in County Clare has not been facilitated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10066/12]
- Personal Debt
Question 73: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide figures on the number of persons paying their credit card bill, but not their mortgage; the number in arrears on their credit...
- National Asset Management Agency
Question 74: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons in the National Asset Management Agency who are on salaries from €75,00 to €100,000; from €100,001 to €125,000; from...
- Tax Code
Question 75: To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 47 of 9 February 2012, if he will consider the possibility of introducing a tax-free weekend in either August...
- Tax Reliefs
Question 76: To ask the Minister for Finance if in circumstances in which family members contribute to the repayments of distressed mortgages whether they are entitled to tax relief even if the...
- Personal Debt
Question 77: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will set out on a monthly or quarterly basis, on a lender by lender basis those lenders that have informed the Revenue Commissioners when...
- National Assets Management Agency
Question 78: To ask the Minister for Finance the companies that provide valuations of property for the National Assets Management Agency; if any of the directors of these companies are employees...
- Tax Code
Question 79: To ask the Minister for Finance regarding the charging of VAT for the provision of medical doctors to the public health service by recruitment agencies, the reason VAT is chargeable...
- Fiscal Policy
Question 82: To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which all of his EU colleagues both inside and outside the eurozone are likely to commit themselves to the principles set out in the...
- National Asset Management Agency
Question 84: To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which a careful appraisal has been done in respect of properties now in the care of the National Asset Management Agency; the degree to...
- Financial Services Regulation
Question 86: To ask the Minister for Finance the likely criteria to be applied in the future in respect of stress testing of mortgage applicants with particular reference to the need to have due...
- National Asset Management Agency
Question 87: To ask the Minister for Finance the total number of submissions received by the National Asset Management Agency for resolution or settlement in respect of debt or property...
- Financial Services Regulation
Question 88: To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which the requirements of the Corporate Enforcement Regulator are being met in full or in part by all or some of the financial...
- Fiscal Policy
Question 89: To ask the Minister for Finance if he is satisfied that, in the context of his discussions with his EU colleagues, it has been sufficiently recognised that this country's economic...
- Tax Reliefs
Question 90: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of applications for refund of income tax made to the Revenue Commissioners made in each of the past five years to date in 2012; the total...
- Fiscal Policy
Question 91: To ask the Minister for Finance how it is intended to ensure compliance throughout the eurozone countries with the terms and conditions of the Fiscal Stability Compact in view of...
- Currency Circulation
Question 92: To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of currency in circulation in Ireland in 1990, 1995, 2000, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011; the location from...
- Departmental Staff
Question 93: To ask the Minister for Finance when he expects to appoint a Secretary General to his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10304/12]
- National Asset Management Agency
Question 94: To ask the Minister for Finance the fees paid to companies who provide property valuations for the National Asset Management Agency; the fees for this service that were paid in each...
- Financial Services Regulation
Question 95: To ask the Minister for Finance with regards to the special manager process at Newbridge credit union, County Kildare, if he will supply the numbers of the various staff of a...
- National Asset Management Agency
Question 96: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a detailed breakdown of the total cost to the State of the National Asset Management Agency since its foundation; and the...
- Department of Education and Skills
- Vocational Education Committees
Question 97: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person (details supplied) in County Offaly is not eligible for a training allowance; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 98: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide extra funding to help a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10068/12]
- Site Acquisitions
Question 99: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a development (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10075/12]
- Local Drugs Task Forces
Question 101: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will list any mainstream drug projects which have received funding from him since 1997; and if he will detail the amount of...
- School Enrolments
Question 102: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review a case (details supplied) regarding lack of school places. [10123/12]
- School Patronage
Question 103: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are plans for the establishment of an Educate Together secondary school in Dublin. [10125/12]
- School Curriculum
Question 106: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the Coder Dojo project that was first launched in Cork last year; if he will investigate the...
- European Globalisation Fund
Question 108: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the dates on which his Department will provide the European Commission with its final reports on the European Globalisation Fund...
- Third Level Courses
Question 111: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update in response to the internationalisation of higher education and plans for the future. [10228/12]
- School Staffing
Question 112: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current staffing updates for a school (details supplied) in County Louth; in view of the rise in student numbers next year, his...
- Home Tuition Scheme
Question 113: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 99 of 19 January 2012, if the review of the operational elements of the home tuition schemes,...
- School Accommodation
Question 117: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, in view of the network of gaelscoileanna throughout County Kildare and the lack of second level educational facilities in the...
- Site Acquisitions
Question 118: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the actions that are being taken to progress the provision of a new school (details supplied) at a location in County Kildare; and if...
- Languages Programme
Question 119: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider a complete review of the teaching of Irish as our national language and examine the reason is that, after 12 years...
- Early Childhood Education
Question 120: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to invest in a targeted early childhood education programme for disadvantaged children as committed to in the programme for...
- European Globalisation Fund
Question 121: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will detail the discussions he has had with regard to the European Globalisation Fund; and the sectors he is targeting for...
- Réigiúin Ghaeltachta
Question 122: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills an bhfuil staidéar déanta aige nó ag an Roinn ar thionchar na gciorruithe sna scoileanna beaga ar phobail na Gaeltachta. [5189/12]
- Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
- Departmental Staff
Question 124: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if, in respect of Secretaries General who are now on a reduced salary of €200,000 per annum, he will outline the amount...
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Innovation
- Service Imports
Question 125: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide a breakdown on the types of service imports that emanate from Israel. [10003/12]
- International Trade
Question 126: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide details of the current trade relationship with Iran, goods imported and exported and their individual...
- European Globalisation Adjustment Fund
Question 127: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the position regarding the application for grant from the Applied European Globalisation Adjustment Fund in respect of...
- Human Rights Issues
Question 128: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on the fact the two Irish based companies (details supplied) have provided technology to the Syrian Government...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 129: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the new legislation he plans to introduce regarding intellectual property and-or information technology; and if he will make...
- Departmental Funding
Question 130: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will list any mainstream drug projects which have received funding from him since 1997; and if he will detail the...
- Work Permits
Question 131: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if his attention has been drawn to the fact that changes in relation to the employee permit scheme for non-Irish persons...
- Ministerial Appointments
Question 133: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he has to date appointed a senior official within his Department in order to provide ongoing links with Irish business...
- County Enterprise Boards
Question 135: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the figures of uptake so far relating to the getting Irish business online initiative; the number of websites that have been...
- Departmental Staff
Question 136: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide the number of retired persons serving on State boards and commissions; and the amount it is costing the...
- Department of Social Protection
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 137: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite a disability allowance appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) for financial reasons. [10001/12]
- Habitual Residence Guidelines
Question 138: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason her guidelines for habitual residence, Irish nationals returning to live here on a permanent basis should experience no...
- Community Employment Schemes
Question 140: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total number of community employment drug rehabilitation places in the country broken down by project and geographical location; and...
- Public Sector Staff
Question 142: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a transfer application by a person (details supplied). [10113/12]
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 143: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the progress that has been made with reviewing the payment of children's allowance to children who are non-resident here; and if she will...
- Social Welfare Fraud
Question 144: To ask the Minister for Social Protection, following on from recent press statements about the level of reporting of social welfare fraud, if she will release to this Deputy and...
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 145: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will receive a decision in respect of their disability allowance appeal; and if she will...
- Pension Provisions
Question 146: To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to correspondence (details supplied) if she will review the current provision regarding the definition of the date of entry; if...
- Employment Support Services (1 comment)
Question 148: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the fact that errors are being made by officials in her Department and in FÁS who are wrongly...
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 149: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will issue on an appeal in respect of a person (details supplied). [10166/12]
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 150: To ask the Minister for Social Protection whether the proposed partial capacity benefit scheme will lead to the recruitment of recipients to the workforce; and if she will make a...
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 152: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will issue on an appeal for widow's pension in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Waterford; and if she will...
- Anti-Poverty Strategy
Question 153: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when she plans to publish the Code of Practice to Support Engagement of People Experiencing Poverty and Social Exclusion in Policy...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 154: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the numbers of carer's payment recipients in County Donegal affected by the budgetary measure to include income from weekly carer's...
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 155: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a disability allowance claim now under appeal will be expedited and approved in respect of a person (details supplied) in County...
- Social Welfare Fraud
Question 158: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an overall estimate of the percentage of fraud as a part of overall social welfare expenditure and a table breaking it...
- Department of Arts, Heritage and Gaeltacht Affairs
- National Parks
Question 169: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if national park land can be leased on a roll over basis. [10053/12]
- Departmental Funding
Question 170: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will list any mainstream drug projects which have received funding from him since 1997; and if he will detail the...
- Special Areas of Conservation
Question 171: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide a list of special conservation areas in a specific geographical area (details supplied); and if he will...
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Telecommunications Services
Question 172: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will investigate the possibility of extending the broadband service network to the Carraroe area of Sligo...
- Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
- Building Regulations
Question 173: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he has received an application from Dublin City Council for funding to be provided for the replacement of...
- Tax Reliefs
Question 174: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the reason there has been a delay in issuing a person (details supplied) in County Longford with section 23...
- Planning Issues
Question 175: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government when he will be in a position to publish the new guidelines for planning authorities on retail planning to...
- Cross-Border Projects
Question 176: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the progress being made on North-South co-operation spatial strategies here in key areas in which Northern...
- Departmental Funding
Question 177: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will list any mainstream drug projects which have received funding from him since 1997; and if he will...
- Planning Issues
Question 178: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding policy plans around mapping, with specific reference to rights of way; and if he will...
- Flood Relief
Question 179: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will resolve the situation between his Department and the Office of Public Works regarding the...
- Local Authority Charges
Question 180: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of households per local authority that are registered for the household charge; the number of...
- Social and Affordable Housing
Question 183: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if there is finance available having regard to demographic changes among older persons for sheltered housing...
- Local Authority Housing
Question 185: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of vacant local authority houses in County Louth either awaiting repair or awaiting an...
- Private Rented Accommodation
Question 186: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of units that have been acquired under the rental accommodation scheme by a local authority...
- Local Authority Charges
Question 187: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government when he expects to make a decision on whether to exempt housing estates that have confirmed pyrite before...
- Planning Issues
Question 188: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if a county council may assume to itself the planning duties of a town authority, which has planning...
- Community Development
Question 189: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government when a new administration structure in place of Meitheal Forbartha na Gaeltachta Teo. will be in place to...
- Local Authority Housing
Question 191: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of local authority housing units purchased under the incremental purchase scheme since its...
- Local Government Audit Service
Question 196: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if it has been brought to his attention that by majority vote on 19 December 2011, the members of Sligo...
- Department of Justice, Equality and Defence
- Residency Permits
Question 197: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if there is provision to enable the granting of permanent residency in the State for non-EU nationals who have expressed a wish to live...
- Garda Operations
Question 198: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his views on anti-social behaviour (details supplied) in Dublin 9; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10055/12]
- Courts Service
Question 199: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality in relation to divorce, if he will confirm or state otherwise that we do not have an unilateral no fault divorce, that is, a person...
- Debt Settlement Systems
Question 200: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the persons who will approve debt settlement arrangements under the new Personal Insolvency Bill, and in the event that a debt...
- Residency Permits
Question 201: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current or expected position in respect of an application for subsidiary protection in the case of a person (details supplied) in...
- Departmental Funding
Question 202: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will list any mainstream drug projects which have received funding from him since 1997; and if he will detail the amount of...
- EU Directives
Question 203: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he has decided not to opt in to the Recast Qualification Directive on 2009/0164 (COD) on asylum and subsidiary protection; and, if...
- Deportation Orders
Question 204: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will review an asylum seeker case (details supplied). [10118/12]
- Citizenship Applications
Question 205: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if a certificate of naturalisation will be granted to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on...
- Garda Deployment
Question 206: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the total cost of policing sporting fixtures, concerts and festivals in 2009, 2010 and 2011; the total amount of costs, if any, that...
- Garda Operations
Question 208: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the additional steps the Garda Síochána will take following the increase in the number of serious gun crimes over the past few...
- Northern Ireland Issues
Question 209: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his views regarding the use of the EU-US mutual legal assistance treaty by the PSNI to subpoena, through the US Department of Justice,...
- Army Barracks
Question 212: To ask the Minister for Defence if he will once again investigate the closure of Kickham Barracks, County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10059/12]
- Department of Agriculture, Marine and Food
- Grant Payments
Question 214: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the lessee can claim single farm payment and other entitlements on that land. [10053/12]
- Horticultural Industry
Question 218: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans, if any, to expand the role of producer organisations particularly in the horticultural area; and if he will make...
- Milk Quota
Question 219: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding his negotiations with the EU on the proposed national milk quota increase for the transitional years...
- Departmental Agencies
Question 222: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will outline the training courses provided by Bord Iascaigh Mhara; if his attention has been drawn to reports that...
- Department of Health
- Departmental Funding
Question 223: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will list any mainstream drug projects which have received funding from him since 1997; and if she will detail the amount...
- Children in Care
Question 224: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children under two years of age taken into care in 2011; the reasons they were taken into care, that is, physical...
- Health Services
Question 225: To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an assessment in respect of a person (details supplied). [10227/12]
- Medical Cards
Question 226: To ask the Minister for Health when an application for a medical card will be decided in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if he will make a statement...
- Registration of Medical Practitioners
Question 229: To ask the Minister for Health the number of applications for registration currently before the Medical Council in each of the four applicant categories; the current average...
- Medical Cards
Question 230: To ask the Minister for Health if a medical card application will be expedited in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Hospital Staff
Question 231: To ask the Minister for Health the total number of doctors, consultants, registrars, and surgeons currently employed in St. Brigid's Hospital, Ballinasloe, County Galway; the...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 232: To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an appointment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Longford; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Departmental Funding
Question 233: To ask the Minister for Health if he will list any mainstream drug projects which have received funding from him since 1997; and if he will detail the amount of funding provided to...
- Health Services
Question 234: To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in County Cork has not been given a date for a hearing test applied for two and a half years ago; and if he...
- Public Service Contracts
Question 235: To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that the Health Service Executive has completed a review of the operation of the contract for legal services as initiated in...
- Medical Cards
Question 236: To ask the Minister for Health if a decision has been reached on a medical card appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 11. [10108/12]
- Hospitals Building Programme
Question 237: To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the replacement of the Central Mental Hospital, Dublin; and if he will provide details of the plan to complete this project...
- Health Services
Question 238: To ask the Minister for Health when students in a special needs unit at a school (details supplied) in County Kildare will receive speech and language therapy and occupational...
- Medical Cards
Question 239: To ask the Minister for Health when a decision will issue on a medical card application in respect of a person (details supplied). [10164/12]
- Hospital Services
Question 241: To ask the Minister for Health if the proposed changes in the Health Service Executive North East service report will involve the closure of St Joseph's, Ardee, and the Cottage...
- Ambulance Service
Question 246: To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive intends to develop the ambulance services centre in Ballyshannon, County Donegal; the extent of such developments;...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 247: To ask the Minister for Health the overall breakdown of rents paid by the Health Service Executive for premises in County Donegal; and if he will provide a detailed breakdown of...
- Nursing Homes Support Scheme
Question 248: To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that an 88 year old person (details supplied) will have to be removed from the care of a nursing home,...
- Medical Cards
Question 249: To ask the Minister for Health if an application to renew a medical card will be approved in respect of a person (details supplied); the reason the same information was requested...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 250: To ask the Minister for Health if he will arrange an appointment as a matter of urgency in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny in view of the fact that the...
- Medicinal Products
Question 251: To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10279/12]
- Hospital Accommodation
Question 252: To ask the Minister for Health the basis for the closure of the Rhiannon ward, St Mary's Hospital, Phoenix Park, Dublin; the consultations held with patients and their families in...
- Pension Provisions
Question 253: To ask the Minister for Health if former Minister of State, Mary Wallace, is in receipt of a Health Service Executive pension. [10320/12]
- Health Service Reports
Question 254: To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 30 of 15 February 2012, when he intends to publish the report of the independent researcher who was appointed...
- Care of the Elderly
Question 255: To ask the Minister for Health if he is committed to maintaining respite care at St. Joseph's Hospital in Ardee, County Louth. [10326/12]
- Nursing Home Accommodation
Question 256: To ask the Minister for Health if he supports the Taoiseach's contention that older buildings are not suitable for use as public nursing homes. [10327/12]
- Nursing Home Care Costs
Question 257: To ask the Minister for Health the average weekly cost per patient in public nursing home units. [10328/12]
- Private Nursing Homes
Question 259: To ask the Minister for Health the total spend by the State in supporting or subsidising including tax foregone to the Exchequer from tax incentive schemes for private nursing...
- Nursing Home Services
Question 261: To ask the Minister for Health if the Cottage Hospital in Drogheda or St Joseph's Nursing Home in Ardee, County Louth could be better utilised to deal with the issue of delayed...
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- Cable Car Transport
Question 262: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will review a matter (details supplied) regarding Dursey Island, County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Road Network
Question 263: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the allocation for each local authority in 2010 and 2011 under the local improvement scheme for roads; and if he will make a...
- Departmental Funding
Question 264: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will list any mainstream drugs projects which have received funding from him since 1997; and if he will detail the amount...
- Public Transport
Question 265: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if Dublin Bus is using its GPS system in tandem with local authorities to ensure better traffic flows through priority movement...
- Driver Licences
Question 266: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will review a case (details supplied) regarding the issuance of a driver's licence. [10122/12]
- Road Safety
Question 267: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, further to Parliamentary Question No. 656 of 31 January 2012, if he will provide details of all road traffic accidents along...
- Cycle Facilities
Question 268: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the decision of the Luas operator in its by-laws to formally ban the carrying of bicycles unless they are...
- Public Transport
Question 269: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the contract for public service obligation bus routes will be the subject of a tender process when the current arrangement...
