Written answers
Thursday, 1 March 2012
- Department of Social Protection
- Departmental Statistics
Question 10: To ask the Minister for Social Protection of the 140,000 persons that she has stated left the live register to take up work last year, the number that took up full-time work, the...
- Employment Support Services
Question 11: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if it is the case that unemployed workers who are highly skilled and qualified in particular fields, for example, nurses, will be forced to...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 12: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will conduct research on qualified adult dependents in order to ascertain a breakdown as to their age, gender, caring or parenting...
- Private Rented Accommodation
Question 13: To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on the fact that the new maximum rent limits which came into force on 1 January 2012 will force many families to move in view of...
- Social Welfare Fraud
Question 14: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total verifiable amount of fraud in the social welfare system; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11720/12]
- Social Welfare Code
Question 15: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she has read the report Seven is too Young, published by OPEN; if she will reconsider her decision to reduce the one parent family...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 17: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she has instructed her inspectors to request car insurance certificates and bank account numbers from recipients of one parent family...
- Employment Support Services
Question 19: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the way the rights and responsibilities contract will be enforced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11742/12]
- Social Welfare Code
Question 21: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will make changes to the family income supplement scheme to allow for a more regular review of the payment level especially in...
- Employment Support Services
Question 22: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will make a statement providing details on the group engagement sessions, group engagement seminars and group information seminars...
- Departmental Schemes
Question 25: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the measures she intends to put in place to ensure that JobBridge is not exploited by private sector employers resulting in persons being...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 26: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will specifically ensure that claimants for disability benefit and allowance or invalidity pension, who are cancer patients are...
- Social Welfare Code
Question 27: To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to change sick pay arrangements; the revenue implication of this decision; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11728/12]
- Community Employment Schemes
Question 28: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the report Downsizing the Community Sector and her response to its conclusion that she is singling out...
- Employment Support Services
Question 30: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the way she tallies the commitment in Pathways to Work to get persons back into the workforce with budget 2012 measures that will see jobs...
- Departmental Staff
Question 31: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons working in the Bray Social Welfare Office, County Wicklow; the way this compares to the staffing levels for the years...
- Social Welfare Fraud
Question 33: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if State agencies including, but not exclusively, Departments, local authorities, Revenue and Health Service Executive are prevented under...
- Employment Support Services
Question 35: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will make a statement on the future of local employment centres and congress centres; and if she has any plans that will impact on...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 36: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the steps being taken to identify overpayments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11694/12]
- Social and Affordable Housing
Question 37: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider making a policy decision in respect of social housing that the 300,000 vacant houses will be matched with the 100,000...
- Tax and Social Welfare Codes
Question 38: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the approach taken for those seeking a social protection payment who have left the US because they are undocumented Irish or who are Irish...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 39: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will detail the scope, format and timeframe of the review she is conducting of the domiciliary care allowance scheme; if she is...
- Community Employment Schemes
Question 41: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding the way her review of community employment is progressing; and if she is concerned that the shortening of the...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 42: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider extending the partial capacity benefit to those in receipt of disability allowance; and if she will make a statement...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 43: To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to amend the Civil Registration Act 2004; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11695/12]
- Departmental Functions
Question 44: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the steps she can or will take to eliminate backlogs resulting in long delays in the issue of the various payments for which she is...
- Anti-Poverty Strategy
Question 45: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the actions she will take to tackle child poverty here in view of the fact that 19% of children are at risk of poverty, 9% live in...
- Departmental Offices
Question 46: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will urgently prioritise the development of a single means testing unit or facility in her Department whereby persons could submit...
- Departmental Programmes
Question 47: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will amend the rules of eligibility for activation programmes that often required the applicant to have spent one year on...
- Social Welfare Fraud
Question 48: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider the introduction of biometric and photographic identification as a measure to tackle the issue of social welfare...
- Employment Support Services
Question 49: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will report on any new measures that she is considering to incentivise the hiring of unemployed persons from the live register in...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 51: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if there has been any increase in the number of applications for exceptional or emergency needs payments; if so, the scale of same; and if...
- Anti-Poverty Strategy
Question 53: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the claim made at a conference on the 7 February 2012 that half the population will be living in fuel...
- Social Welfare Code
Question 54: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if steps can be taken to ensure that social welfare recipients who are required to transfer from one payment to another are notified on...
- Social Welfare Fraud
Question 57: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will emphasise the actual values attributable to fraud in real money and that which is down to error; if her attention has been...
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Working Holiday Visas
Question 60: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of persons here who took up working holiday visas in 2010 and 2011 under the agreements with Argentina,...
- Department of Finance
- Tax Reliefs
Question 61: To ask the Minister for Finance if a person in arrears with the mortgage but who continues to pay some or all of the mortgage interest is entitled to mortgage interest relief...
- National Asset Management Agency
Question 62: To ask the Minister for Finance if the National Asset Management Agency is a State authority for the purposes of the Statute of Limitations Act 1957; and if he will make a statement...
- Tax Collection
Question 63: To ask the Minister for Finance if he can provide a full tax statement for a pension (details supplied) in Dublin 11 for a specific two year period. [11925/12]
- Tax Reliefs
Question 64: To ask the Minister for Finance the saving to the Exchequer if the income tax relief for the rent a room scheme was abolished; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11945/12]
- Financial Services Regulation
Question 65: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm that when a credit union has the technology available to it enabling its members access their funds remotely for point of sale...
- Tax Code
Question 67: To ask the Minister for Finance the mechanism a person has to use in regard to employment opportunities (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11992/12]
- Pension Provisions
Question 68: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will clarify the situation in relation to a pensioner couple over 70 where the man has contributory State pension plus qualified adult...
- Industrial Relations
Question 69: To ask the Minister for Finance if, in view of discussions between him and AIB officials, he is satisfied sufficient notification was given to EBS staff that a bonus payment which...
- Mortgage Arrears
Question 70: To ask the Minister for Finance his view on reports that Bank of Ireland has completed a restructure of only a small percentage of home loans that are in arrears or classified as...
- Mortgage Interest Rates
Question 71: To ask the Minister for Finance the steps he will take with the PTSB in relation to the levels of variable interest applied which is pushing thousands of homeowners into arrears....
- National Asset Management Agency
Question 72: To ask the Minister for Finance if it is still his view that the National Asset Management Agency will make a profit for the Irish Exchequer as per the view espoused by his...
- Departmental Agencies
Question 73: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide details of the number of persons employed by the National Treasury Management Agency, showing the details for National Asset...
- Tax Reliefs
Question 76: To ask the Minister for Finance if in the context of determination of entitlement to mortgage interest relief in respect of a second dwelling in the case of a person (details...
- Financial Services Regulation
Question 77: To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the increasing number of instances in which covered institutions are using taxpayers' money to challenge in the...
- State Bodies
Question 78: To ask the Minister for Finance the approximate deficit on the pension funds at the end of 2011 or most recent available date of each of the commercial semi-State companies; and if...
- Department of Education and Skills
- Schools Refurbishment
Question 79: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will accede to a request from the board of management of a school (details supplied) in County Kildare to discuss essential works...
- Early Childhood Education
Question 80: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the early childhood care and education scheme and a school place in respect of a child (details supplied); and if...
- Schools Refurbishment
Question 81: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if it is his intention to have a summer works scheme in 2012; and if he will include window replacements. [11963/12]
- Special Educational Needs
Question 82: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 76 of 9 February 2012, will he provide clarification as to the provision of a special needs...
- Site Acquisitions
Question 83: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will confirm that a site has been acquired for the purpose of constructing a new school building in respect of a school (details...
- School Statistics
Question 84: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of all-girls primary schools in the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11973/12]
- Disadvantaged Status
Question 86: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of all-girls primary schools that have DEIS band 2 status in the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- School Accommodation
Question 87: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an application for the extension of a school (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement...
- School Patronage
Question 89: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a new national school at a location (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 90: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a school place in respect of a person (details supplied). [12016/12]
- Schools Building Projects
Question 91: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the provision of new school in County Kerry (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Physical Education Facilities
Question 93: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide statistical data regarding the availability of on site indoor PE facilities at primary schools on a county basis; and...
- Schools Management
Question 94: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the restrictions that exist in relation to the sale of sugary and fatty drinks and foods in schools here; and if he will make a...
- Higher Education Grants
Question 95: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will take steps to have an application for a third level grant reviewed in respect of a person (details supplied) in County...
- School Management
Question 96: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the board of management of a school (details supplied) in Dublin 11 have not received a response from his Department seeking...
- Teachers' Remuneration
Question 97: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on a matter (details supplied); his plans to address the concerns raised; if he has had or is proposing any meetings with the...
- School Staffing
Question 98: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of teaching posts being removed from a school (details supplied) in County Dublin; the reason for the removal of these posts;...
- Early Retirement Scheme
Question 99: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a breakdown by school of teachers who have successfully applied for early retirement; the dates from which these...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 100: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views in relation to a matter (details supplied); the proposals he has to address the concerns raised; if such technicalities as...
- Higher Education Grants
Question 101: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if tax clearance certificates are an acceptable proof in relation to proving somebody was residing here for three of the past five...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 102: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the stage at which the proposed building project for a school (details supplied) in County Cavan is; when the project is likely to...
- Disadvantaged Status
Question 104: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will list the rural DEIS and post-primary DEIS schools that will lose teaching posts; the reason they are losing posts; the date...
- Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
- Commercial Rates
Question 105: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will clarify the situation in relation to the valuation process and valuation office under his remit; if he will further...
- Freedom of Information
Question 106: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he intends to amend legislation to ensure the National Asset Management Agency is subject to the provisions of the Freedom...
- Flood Relief
Question 107: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the position regarding the flood relief plan for the river at Clonkeen and Glenflesk, County Kerry; when will the work...
- Semi-State Bodies
Question 108: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has requested that the commercial semi-State companies pay an increased dividend to the State in 2012; and if he will...
- Public Service Contracts
Question 110: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the Office of Public Works has a framework agreement in place for a certain type of work (details supplied). [12120/12]
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Innovation
- Employment Appeals Tribunal
Question 111: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when a person (details supplied) in Dublin 22 may expect to receive notice of date in respect of their employment appeals...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 112: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will detail the cost breakdown of the media launch of the action plan for jobs. [11994/12]
- Department of Social Protection
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 114: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a farm assist appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 116: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the fact that an application for carer's allowance made on 20 December 2012 will take eight months to...
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 118: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an appeal for carer's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 119: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the average length of time a person applying for carer's allowance must wait to receive payment; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 122: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a review will take place of the many appeals in respect of a person (details supplied). [11983/12]
- Employment Support Services
Question 123: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason college students who have already undergone significant cuts to their student grants and increases in their course fees, are...
- Community Employment Schemes
Question 124: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total number of community employment schemes currently in place throughout the country; the extent to which she expects to be in a...
- Departmental Staff
Question 125: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the degree to which extra staff were made available to her since 2008 with the objective of catering for increased demand arising from the...
- Social Welfare Code
Question 127: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the extent to which she can review the position in respect of entitlements to means tested social welfare payments for the self-employed...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 128: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total number of applications for carer's allowance pending or on hand at present; the timespan within which it is likely that such...
- Employment Support Services
Question 129: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total number of positions created to date under the jobbridge scheme; the remaining number of places if any; the number of...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 131: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total number of applications for domiciliary care allowance currently on hand; the likely timescale for decisions; the degree, if any,...
- Community Employment Schemes
Question 134: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total number of persons engaged in community employment or related training or education schemes throughout County Kildare; the extent...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 137: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of lone parents receiving one-parent family payment who are in work, yet are below the 19-hour threshold to qualify for family...
- Community Employment Schemes
Question 138: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she has initiated a review of the proposed changes to the community employment scheme that were announced in budget 2012; the outcome...
- Social Welfare Code
Question 139: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will estimate the cost to her Department in a full year of extending the right to short term welfare benefits, such as jobseeker's...
- Pension Provisions
Question 142: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the full entitlement to contributory State pension in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a...
- Employment Support Services
Question 143: To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 123 of 9 February 2012, wherein it was indicated that a departmental facilitator was in contact with...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 144: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason entitlement to invalidity pension is being questioned in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she...
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Energy Conservation
Question 147: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will outline the eligibility criteria under which applicants to the warmer homes scheme will be assessed;...
- Inland Fisheries
Question 149: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number and types of fishing licences issued in Dublin for the years 2010, 2011 and to date in 2012; the...
- Semi-State Bodies
Question 150: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the approximate deficit on the pension funds at the end of 2011 or most recent available date of each of the...
- Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
- Local Authority Charges
Question 151: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if the household charge is in fact a law or a statute; if it is in fact law, if he will clarify the reason...
- Social and Affordable Housing
Question 152: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the discretion he has to allow local authorities to change guidelines for the affordable housing scheme...
- Waste Management
Question 154: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will advise on a refuse bin collection problem relating to a person (details suppled); and if he will...
- Housing Aid for the Elderly
Question 155: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government when he expects to be in a position to provide funding to Galway City Council in respect of the housing...
- Social and Affordable Housing
Question 156: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Questions No. 191 and 192 of 22 February 2012 and notwithstanding the information...
- Unfinished Housing Developments
Question 157: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of emergency funding for safety measures in ghost estates that has been applied for and drawn...
- Social and Affordable Housing
Question 158: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 162 of 2 February 2012, if he will confirm that social housing...
- Building Regulations
Question 160: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding the building control sections of local authorities; and...
- Planning Issues
Question 161: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will review a matter (details supplied) regarding An Bord Pleanála; and if he will make a statement...
- Building Regulations
Question 162: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the findings of his Department's inspectors who inspected the Priory Hall development, Dublin, in 2006 for...
- Local Authority Housing
Question 163: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of housing applications received monthly in each of the past three years and monthly to date in...
- Departmental Funding
Question 164: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide financial assistance to community and voluntary groups to assist with redundancy payments...
- Semi-State Bodies
Question 165: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the approximate deficit on the pension funds at the end of 2011 or most recent available date of each of the...
- Department of Justice, Equality and Defence
- Taxi Regulations
Question 166: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which domestic disputes culminating in court procedures are a determinant in respect of the issue of public service...
- Garda Strength
Question 167: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the community policing arrangements that will be put in place now that he has directed the closure of Tourmakeady Garda station, County...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 168: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding the application for naturalisation in respect of persons (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will...
- Garda Transport
Question 169: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will allocate a community Garda van to a Garda station (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11931/12]
- Criminal Prosecutions
Question 170: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of drug dealing convictions over €250,000 during the years 2007 to 2012, inclusive; the resulting sentence for each...
- Garda Strength
Question 171: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí, by rank, who have retired to date in 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11933/12]
- Garda Operations
Question 172: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of warrants that were outstanding as of 20 February 2012 in the Garda J and R districts of the Dublin region; the average...
- Road Traffic Offences
Question 173: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the amount of income received from road traffic offences for the years 2009 to 2011, inclusive and to date in 2012; and if he will make...
- Garda Personnel
Question 174: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of staff by rank that are currently working in the Garda transport section at Garda headquarters; and if he will make a...
- Citizenship Applications (1 comment)
Question 175: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the average length of time a person applying for naturalisation must wait to receive notice of their application; and if he will make a...
- Liquor Licensing Laws
Question 177: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if there is any provision in law, but which has not been commenced through statutory instrument or otherwise, for the labelling of all...
- Deportation Orders
Question 179: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the options available in terms of qualification for residency in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Carlow; and if he...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 180: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the procedure to be followed in respect of provision of stamp 4 status in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Carlow; the...
- Residency Permits
Question 184: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current and-or expected residency status and naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if he...
- Deportation Orders
Question 185: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current position in respect of entitlement to naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if...
- Residency Permits
Question 186: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the procedure to be followed in respect of the updating of stamp 4 and naturalisation process in the case of a person (details...
- Defence Forces Retirement Scheme
Question 187: To ask the Minister for Defence the number of members of the Permanent Defence Force who since the announcement of the closure of the barracks in Cavan, Mullingar and Clonmel have...
- Semi-State Bodies
Question 188: To ask the Minister for Defence the approximate deficit on the pension funds at the end of 2011or most recent available date of each of the commercial semi-State companies; and if...
- Department of Agriculture, Marine and Food
- Disadvantaged Areas Scheme
Question 189: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will confirm the stocking density rate for the disadvantaged area scheme 2012; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Grant Payments
Question 190: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of agri-environment options scheme payment in respect of a person (details supplied) ; when payment will issue;...
- Agri-Environment Options Scheme
Question 191: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will immediately announce the introduction of a new, properly funded agri-environment option scheme in order that...
- Animal Diseases
Question 192: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding his research on the development of a bait based vaccination against TB for badgers and the related...
- Food Exports
Question 194: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if any progress was made in his discussions with the Chinese delegation as regards to increasing exports of Irish food...
- Grant Payments
Question 195: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payments will issue to person (details supplied). [12054/12]
- Global Strategic Framework
Question 196: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will include small-scale farmers in developing countries in his submission to the UN Global Strategic Framework for...
- Grant Payments
Question 197: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding the outstanding agri-environment options scheme payment due to a person (details supplied) in County...
- Semi-State Bodies
Question 198: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the approximate deficit on the pension funds at the end of 2011 or most recent available date of each of the commercial...
- Department of Health
- Preschool Services
Question 199: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if children born after the 30 June, 2009, still qualify for the free pre-school year in September 2012. [11947/12]
- Foster Care
Question 200: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of persons currently acting as foster carers here; the number of foster carers who have not been Garda vetted and the...
- Semi-State Bodies
Question 201: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the approximate deficit on the pension funds at the end of 2011 or most recent available date of each of the commercial...
- Private Health Insurance
Question 202: To ask the Minister for Health when he intends to comply with the instruction of the EU Commission to bring the VHI under the regulatory authority of the Central Bank of Ireland;...
- Medical Cards
Question 203: To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an application for renewal of medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; if this application will...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 204: To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive a hospital appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11917/12]
- Hospital Accommodation
Question 205: To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive Dublin north east is carrying out a full and transparent analysis of the actual and full unit cost of providing...
- Hospital Services
Question 206: To ask the Minister for Health if he will list any new services developed at Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9, since 2005; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11940/12]
- Drugs Task Forces
Question 207: To ask the Minister for Health the current membership of the Dublin north east local drugs task force; the date each member was appointed; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Health Service Allowances
Question 208: To ask the Minister for Health the mileage rates paid to Health Service Executive employees using their own personal vehicle for work related transport; the rates paid to staff in...
- Medical Cards
Question 209: To ask the Minister for Health if he will request the Health Service Executive to write to each medical card holder and GP-only card holder reminding card holders that their cards...
- Health Service Staff
Question 210: To ask the Minister for Health the number of new physiotherapist, social worker, occupational therapist and speech and language therapist posts that have been created over the past...
- Drugs Payment Scheme
Question 212: To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the drugs payment scheme in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow. [11953/12]
- Health Services
Question 213: To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding treatment in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11960/12]
- Services for People with Disabilities
Question 214: To ask the Minister for Health the rationale behind the recent cut of 3.7% in funding for the personal assistance service; the way this will impact on those with disabilities and...
- Medical Cards
Question 216: To ask the Minister for Health when a decision will issue on a medical card application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [11977/12]
- Health Services
Question 218: To ask the Minister for Health if additional resources will be provided to enable the Health Service Executive, HSE, to carry out a basic level of service in an area (details...
- Hospital Services
Question 221: To ask the Minister for Health the plans he has to increase the number of rehabilitation medical consultants; his views on the fact that in 2011, 38% of persons with neurological...
- Medical Cards
Question 222: To ask the Minister for Health the reason a medical card application was refused but a general practitioner card was issued in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork...
- Ministerial Staff
Question 223: To ask the Minister for Health the changes he has made or proposes to make in the configuration of his special advisers; the names, roles and functions of his special advisers; the...
- Health Services
Question 224: To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a school place in respect of a person (details supplied). [12017/12]
- Hospital Services
Question 225: To ask the Minister for Health the reason no discharges are being made from hospitals in County Mayo to nursing homes. [12018/12]
- Nursing Homes Support Scheme
Question 226: To ask the Minister for Health the number of admissions that have been carried out under the fair deal private nursing home scheme in County Mayo. [12019/12]
- Hospital Services
Question 227: To ask the Minister for Health the nature of the bed management problem at Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, which has caused a person (details supplied) in Dublin 13, to be sent home...
- Health Services
Question 228: To ask the Minister for Health the total bed capacity of a nursing unit for the elderly (details supplied) in County Monaghan; the number of beds for long-term care; the number of...
- Departmental Funding
Question 229: To ask the Minister for Health the level of funding provided for Cavan General Hospital in respect of 2012; the level of funding provided in 2011; and if he will make a statement...
- Medical Cards
Question 231: 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. [12063/12]
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 234: To ask the Minister for Health if an early assessment and operation will be provided in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if he will expedite the...
- National Lottery Funding
Question 235: To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an application for funding by an advocacy group (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12082/12]
- Medical Cards
Question 236: To ask the Minister for Health when a decision will be taken on an application for a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a...
- Semi-State Bodies
Question 238: To ask the Minister for Health the approximate deficit on the pension funds at the end of 2011 or most recent available date of each of the commercial semi-State companies; and if...
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- Public Transport
Question 239: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the public service obligation contracts which were awarded to Bus Éireann for five years in 2009 without going to public...
- Sport and Recreational Development
Question 241: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding a sporting event (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12023/12]
- Tourism Promotion
Question 242: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has engaged with Meath County Council regarding the possibility of events being held in County Meath during the Gathering...
