Written answers
Wednesday, 13 June 2012
- Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
- State Agencies
Question 11: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of State agencies and other new bodies that have been announced; the number abolished since 31 March 2011; and if he...
- Public Sector Reform
Question 12: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the review of allowances for public sector workers will be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Infrastructure and Capital Investment Programme
Question 13: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has drawn up a list of capital investment projects which could be undertaken as part of a stimulus and growth plan...
- Appointments to State Boards
Question 15: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a list of all current commercial semi State company and non-commercial State agency board appointees; and...
- Ministerial Salaries
Question 16: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if, following the newly elected French President's decision to significantly reduce his own pay and the pay of those in his...
- Sale of State Assets
Question 17: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide the latest report on plans to use the proceeds from the sale of State assets for shovel ready projects; if...
- Sale of State Assets
Question 18: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will commit to ensuring that the full proceeds from the sale of State assets will be available for investment in the...
- Public Procurement Contracts
Question 19: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the arrangements that have been put in place by the Office of Public Works in respect of procurement for the forthcoming...
- Ministerial Staff
Question 20: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide in tabular form the name, position, annual salary, annual allowance cap, and Government Minister to whom...
- Public Service Remuneration
Question 22: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to review the pay and allowances of non-commercial State agency chief executive officers; and if he intends to...
- Infrastructure and Capital Investment Programme
Question 23: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the steps he will take to ensure that local trades persons, general operatives and builders get an opportunity to seek...
- National Lottery Funding
Question 24: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the provision of a fixed percentage of 30.5% of the annual lottery turnover for good causes by the new license operators...
- Appointments to State Boards
Question 25: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to legislate for reform of the appointment process of persons to the boards of statutory agencies. [28241/12]
- Sale of State Assets
Question 26: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on plans to sell State assets as part of the Troika programme; and if he will make a statement on...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 27: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if, in the context of the identification of areas for the curtailment of expenditure in preparation for Budget 2013, he expects...
- Departmental Funding
Question 28: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of associations, organisations and regulatory bodies in receipt of grants, benefit in kind and sums of money from...
- Public Sector Staff
Question 29: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the new civil service human resources shared service centre, that is projected to cost the State €26 million, will have a...
- Sale of State Assets
Question 30: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the protocol on meetings with market participants / advisors, in the context of the announcement on the disposal of State...
- State Agencies
Question 31: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the action he has taken to ensure that non-commercial State agencies comply with their requirement to present draft un-audited...
- State Bodies
Question 32: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to ensure that State bodies are subject to the same reporting requirements as their parent departments.. [28242/12]
- Drainage Schemes
Question 36: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the steps being taken to address flood risks within the Shannon basin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28411/12]
- Public Sector Reform
Question 38: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the measures he has taken or will take, within the context of his public sector reform agenda, to extend the definition of...
- Public Sector Reform
Question 40: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to include third level institutions in the Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointments) Act 2004...
- Government Economic and Evaluation Service
Question 41: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on the setting up and work to date of the Irish Government Economic and Evaluation Service as...
- Public Service Pensions (Single Scheme) and Remuneration Bill
Question 42: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason the Public Service Pension (Single Scheme) Bill has not reached Committee Stage despite second stage of the...
- Public Service Contracts
Question 43: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the steps being taken to assist small business in obtaining public contracts; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Economic Competitiveness
Question 44: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on the way his Department can stimulate domestic economic activity; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Sale of State Assets
Question 45: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he or any other Government Department has undertaken an impact assessment study of the likely job losses that will arise...
- Public Sector Staff
Question 47: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when he will bring forward legislation to prevent the rehiring of retired public servants who have taken a gratuity and who...
- State Agencies
Question 48: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a list of the State agencies in which the Government has not made an appointment to a State body when a...
- Local Authority Services
Question 49: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the cost of delivery of the following services: post, water, waste water, waste collection, grid infrastructure, road...
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 50: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the total underspend in his Department to date in 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28439/12]
- Departmental Offices
Question 51: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 47 of 6 June 2012, if he will confirm the nationalities of each of the 30...
- Consular Services
Question 52: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the additional resources allocated to the Irish Embassy in Warsaw and Honorary Consul Offices in Kyiv and Poznan...
- Foreign Conflicts
Question 53: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the up to date situation in Syria and the action he will take to stop the slaughter that has been escalating in...
- Trade Agreements
Question 54: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the Irish Government will support the proposal of the European Commission to upgrade the trade relationship...
- Public Service Remuneration
Question 55: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent of bonuses paid to senior county council officials, senior bank officials and senior officials in...
- Departmental Funding
Question 56: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of associations, organisations and regulatory bodies in receipt of grants, benefit in kind and sums of...
- Public Sector Staff
Question 57: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of agency and contract staff currently employed in the public sector; the mechanism in place for...
- Department of Finance
- Tax Collection
Question 58: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a full breakdown of the tax liability in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9; and if tax will be deducted in this...
- National Asset Management Agency
Question 59: To ask the Minister for Finance the full terms under which the National Assets Management Agency provides staple financing or vendor financing to buyers; and if he will lay a copy...
- National Asset Management Agency
Question 60: To ask the Minister for Finance if the National Assets Management Agency provides or has provided financing to purchasers other than staple financing for commercial property and the...
- Public Sector Staff
Question 61: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons who have retired from the Revenue Commissioners in the years 2009/2010/2011 and to date in 2012 by grade; and if he will make a...
- Official Travel
Question 62: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on his attendance at the annual conference of the Bilderberg Group: if he attended the conference on official business; and if he...
- Financial Services Regulation
Question 63: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will give consideration to correspondence (details supplied) regarding fitness and probity standards as issued by the Central Bank of Ireland;...
- National Asset Management Agency
Question 64: To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 67 of 6 June 2012, if the National Assets Management Agency will disclose in its 2011 annual report both the...
- Financial Services Regulation
Question 65: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will explain the meaning of the following on the website of the Central Bank website regarding themed inspections, which states that feedback...
- Public Service Remuneration
Question 68: To ask the Minister for Finance the extent of bonuses paid to senior county council officials, senior bank officials and senior officials in semi-State companies for the year 2011,...
- Departmental Funding
Question 69: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of associations, organisations and regulatory bodies in receipt of grants, benefit in kind and sums of money from the State in tabular...
- Department of Education and Skills
- Special Educational Needs
Question 70: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the special resource available to a person (details supplied) has ceased. [28478/12]
- Schools Recognition
Question 71: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will indicate definitively that a school (details supplied) in County Westmeath has been classified by his Department as a...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 72: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 296 and 301 of 22 May 2012, if a fresh look is being taken at the planned school extension at a...
- Teaching Contracts
Question 73: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will secure panel rights; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28622/12]
- Special Educational Needs
Question 74: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will support a school (details supplied) in terms of approving the proposed MDVI this year; if his attention has been drawn to the...
- Departmental Funding
Question 75: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of associations, organisations and regulatory bodies in receipt of grants, benefit in kind and sums of money from the State...
- Public Sector Staff
Question 76: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of agency and contract staff currently employed in the public sector; the mechanism in place for monitoring and managing the...
- Appointments to State Boards
Question 77: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a list of all current commercial semi State company and non-commercial State agency board appointees; and their...
- Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
- Departmental Properties
Question 78: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if any property reverted to the State in accordance with the State Property Act, 1954 following the dissolution of a certain...
- Departmental Properties
Question 79: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the costs involved in the upkeep and maintenance of Farmleigh House, Dublin; the construction work that has been carried out on...
- Public Sector Pay
Question 80: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total value of increments for a given 12 month period being awarded in 2010, 2011 and 2012; if he will provide a breakdown...
- Sale of State Assets
Question 81: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on plans to sell assets belonging to Coillte; if he intends selling logging rights to the forests,...
- State Bodies
Question 82: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he was consulted by the Minister for Justice, Equality and Defence in relation to the decision to move the Equality...
- Departmental Properties
Question 83: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has received the proposal from the Office of Public Works regarding the consolidation of the Department of Agriculture's...
- Public Service Remuneration
Question 84: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent of bonuses paid to senior county council officials, senior bank officials and senior officials in semi-State...
- Public Sector Reform
Question 85: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if there are specific areas within the public service in respect of which greater than average reform has taken place with...
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Innovation
- Employment Rights
Question 93: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation following the signing into law of the Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Workers) Bill, the steps being taken by him...
- Job Protection
Question 94: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will ensure that his Department and the State's industrial agencies provide all possible assistance to protect and...
- Public Service Remuneration
Question 95: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the extent of bonuses paid to senior county council officials, senior bank officials and senior officials in semi-State...
- Departmental Funding
Question 96: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of associations, organisations and regulatory bodies in receipt of grants, benefit in kind and sums of money from...
- Public Sector Staff
Question 97: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of agency and contract staff currently employed in the public sector; the mechanism in place for monitoring and...
- Appointments to State Boards
Question 98: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide a list of all current commercial semi State company and non-commercial State agency board appointees; and...
- Department of Social Protection
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 99: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite an appeal in respect of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28447/12]
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 100: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a decision will issue without further delay to an appeal for respite care grant in respect of a person (details supplied). [28435/12]
- Invalidity Pension
Question 101: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will issue on an application for invalidity pension in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she...
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 102: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Domiciliary Care Allowance
Question 103: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will ensure that the views of parents and support groups are taken into account in the review of the domiciliary care allowance;...
- Carer's Allowance
Question 104: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive a decision on their carer's allowance appeal; if this person will be granted...
- Invalidity Pension
Question 105: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be made on an appeal of an invalidity pension application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry;...
- National Internship Scheme
Question 106: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding jobbridge programme in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin. [28457/12]
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 107: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total amount spent on the back to school clothing and footwear allowance last September; and if he will provide a breakdown of the...
- Domiciliary Care Allowance
Question 108: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision on an application for domiciliary care allowance will be made in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo;...
- Birth Certificates
Question 109: To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 475 of 18 April 2012, if she will review this matter (details supplied); and if she will make a...
- Disability Allowance
Question 110: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the length of time it takes for an appeal for disability allowance, invalidity pension and domiciliary care allowance to be processed; and...
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 111: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the percentage of appeals that have a favourable outcome for claimants; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28474/12]
- Redundancy Payments
Question 112: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an application for redundancy payment will be processed in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Offaly; and if she will...
- Carer's Allowance
Question 113: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a carer's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Offaly; and when a decision will be made....
- Disability Allowance
Question 114: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will receive a decision on their appeal in respect of an application for disability...
- Disability Allowance
Question 115: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a disability allowance appeal in respect of a person (details supplied ) in County Kerry; and if she will make a...
- Carer's Allowance
Question 116: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason the application processing systems of the carer's allowance and respite grant section are not linked up to allow for the...
- Community Employment Drug Rehabilitation Projects
Question 118: To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to ensure the survival of community employment drug rehab projects whose numbers are in serous decline as a result of the...
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 119: To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 347 of 06 June, 2012 when the person may expect a decision to be made on their appeal; and if she...
- National Internship Scheme
Question 120: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when top-up payment will be received by a person (details supplied) in County Dublin who is a participant on the jobbridge scheme and the...
- Community Employment Schemes
Question 121: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding funding for a community employment scheme (details supplied) in County Mayo; when she expects to be in a position...
- Community Employment Schemes
Question 122: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding funding for a community employment scheme (details supplied) in County Mayo; when she expects to be in position to...
- Departmental Funding
Question 124: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of associations, organisations and regulatory bodies in receipt of grants, benefit in kind and sums of money from the State in...
- Public Sector Staff
Question 125: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of agency and contract staff currently employed in the public sector; the mechanism in place for monitoring and managing the...
- State Agencies
Question 126: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will provide a list of the State agencies in which the Government has not made an appointment to a State body when a vacancy has...
- Appointments to State Boards
Question 127: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will provide a list of all current commercial semi State company and non-commercial State agency board appointees; and their annual...
- Department of Arts, Heritage and Gaeltacht Affairs
- Public Service Remuneration
Question 128: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the extent of bonuses paid to senior county council officials, senior bank officials and senior officials in semi-State...
- Departmental Funding
Question 129: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of associations, organisations and regulatory bodies in receipt of grants, benefit in kind and sums of money...
- Public Sector Staff
Question 130: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of agency and contract staff currently employed in the public sector; the mechanism in place for monitoring and...
- State Agencies
Question 131: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide a list of the State agencies in which the Government has not made an appointment to a State body when a...
- Appointments to State Boards
Question 132: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide a list of all current commercial semi State company and non-commercial State agency board appointees;...
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Statutory Instruments
Question 134: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on (details supplied) regarding the Commission for Communication Regulation; and if he will make a...
- Offshore Exploration
Question 135: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his position with regard to assessment of prospective loss, damage or injury arising from earthquake or tsunami...
- Telecommunications Services
Question 136: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will clarify a matter regarding SaorView (details supplied). [28592/12]
- National Gas Grid
Question 137: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he expects the Shannon LNG project to wait indefinitely until the Commission for Energy Regulation is ready...
- Post Office Network
Question 138: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if his attention has been drawn to the contents of the Grant Thornton's report entitled The Future of the Post...
- Public Service Remuneration
Question 139: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the extent of bonuses paid to senior county council officials, senior bank officials and senior officials in...
- Departmental Funding
Question 140: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of associations, organisations and regulatory bodies in receipt of grants, benefit in kind and sums...
- Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
- Local Authority Charges
Question 142: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his views on whether there is quite a substantial amount of revenue to be raised by collecting the non...
- Legislative Programme
Question 143: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if drafting has begun on the Heads of Climate Bill promised in the roadmap for climate policy and...
- Dormant Accounts Fund
Question 145: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if, further to a Parliamentary Question (details supplied) regarding the Dormant Accounts Fund, he will seek...
- Social and Affordable Housing
Question 147: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will instruct local authorities to permit persons in receipt of supplementary welfare allowance to be...
- Household Charge
Question 148: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the reasons a cheque was returned in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if he...
- Motor Taxation
Question 149: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the amount generated in each county through motor tax in the years 2011 and to date in 2012; and if he will...
- Environmental Regulations
Question 150: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he is concerned that Ireland may face similar estimates as the UK resulting from upgrading sewage plants...
- Local Government Reform
Question 151: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government when he will be in a position to introduce legislation inaugurating an elected Mayor for the four Dublin...
- Fire Service
Question 152: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the current position in relation to the approval of tendered documents allowing a project to go to tender...
- Security of the Elderly
Question 153: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will outline, in tabular form, the budget for the senior alert scheme from 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010,...
- Waste Management
Question 155: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the current rate of the landfill levy; and his proposals to change this rate; and if he will make a...
- Water Services
Question 157: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update on Irish Water; where it will be located; if it will have a regional presence...
- Fire Stations
Question 160: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if a health and safety assessment has been carried out at Tallaght Fire Station on the Belgard Road, Dublin,...
- Local Authority Housing
Question 161: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if a direction has been issued by him to local authorities to include the public service pension reduction...
- Building Regulations
Question 162: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government further to parliamentary question number 126 of 24 May, 2012, if he will outline the relevant degree under...
- Unfinished Housing Developments
Question 163: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding an estate (details supplied) in County Kerry in need of emergency works; and if he...
- Public Service Remuneration
Question 164: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the extent of bonuses paid to senior county council officials, senior bank officials and senior officials in...
- Departmental Funding
Question 165: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of associations, organisations and regulatory bodies in receipt of grants, benefit in kind and...
- Public Sector Staff
Question 166: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of agency and contract staff currently employed in the public sector; the mechanism in place for...
- State Agencies
Question 167: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a list of the State agencies in which the Government has not made an appointment to a...
- Appointments to State Boards
Question 168: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a list of all current commercial semi State company and non-commercial State agency board...
- Department of Justice, Equality and Defence
- Court Procedures
Question 169: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason the legislative requirements for a District Court Judge's name to be stamped on original District Court orders rather than...
- Legislative Programme
Question 170: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update on his plans to draft a new Gambling Bill; when he hopes to bring forward such legislation; and if he will...
- Garda Transport
Question 171: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will confirm that the number of vehicles allocated to the Garda traffic corps has reduced; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Legislative Programme
Question 172: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to review our current legislation in respect of prostitution; when the associated public consultation in this matter will...
- State Bodies
Question 173: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality in view of the fact that the Equality Authority has announced its decision to move all of its staff from Roscrea, County Tipperary, the...
- Citizenship Applications
Question 174: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the criteria that applies in relation to applications for Irish citizenship; the length of time to process applications; the reason...
- Residency Permits
Question 175: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality in relation to residency status, is it obligatory for applicants to obtain private health insurance to qualify; and if he will make a...
- Residency Permits
Question 176: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if there any planned changes to the situation in which spouses of stamp 4 holders still have to wait up to five years to get stamp 4;...
- Garda Stations
Question 177: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will confirm that there will be no change to the status of Bawnboy Dowra and Killeshandra Garda Stations, County Cavan; and if he...
- Garda Stations
Question 178: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will confirm that there will be no change to the status of the Garda Divisional Headquarters at Ballyconnell, County Cavan; and...
- Residency Permits
Question 179: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will be allowed to remain in the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Departmental Bodies
Question 180: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding the proposed establishment of a legal services authority and the issues that have been raised in the Joint...
- Public Service Remuneration
Question 181: To ask the Minister for Defence the extent of bonuses paid to senior county council officials, senior bank officials and senior officials in semi-State companies for the year 2011,...
- Departmental Funding
Question 182: To ask the Minister for Defence the number of associations, organisations and regulatory bodies in receipt of grants, benefit in kind and sums of money from the State in tabular...
- Public Sector Staff
Question 183: To ask the Minister for Defence the number of agency and contract staff currently employed in the public sector; the mechanism in place for monitoring and managing the associated...
- Appointments to State Boards
Question 184: To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide a list of all current commercial semi State company and non-commercial State agency board appointees; and their annual...
- Department of Agriculture, Marine and Food
- Agri-Environment Options Scheme
Question 185: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied) in County Monaghan has not received the second payment for the agri environmental...
- Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme
Question 186: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if State aid is available to persons wishing to grow energy crops; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28602/12]
- Single Payment Scheme
Question 187: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding a late single payment scheme application for 2012 whereby the delay was caused by a failure of a...
- Public Sector Pay
Question 188: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 770 of 6 June 2012, the reason staff at Moorepark, Fermoy, County Cork, are outside...
- Public Service Remuneration
Question 189: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent of bonuses paid to senior county council officials, senior bank officials and senior officials in semi-State...
- Departmental Funding
Question 190: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of associations, organisations and regulatory bodies in receipt of grants, benefit in kind and sums of money...
- Public Sector Staff
Question 191: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of agency and contract staff currently employed in the public sector; the mechanism in place for monitoring and...
- State Agencies
Question 192: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a list of the State agencies in which the Government has not made an appointment to a State body when a...
- Appointments to State Boards
Question 193: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a list of all current commercial semi State company and non-commercial State agency board appointees;...
- Department of Health
- Adoption Legislation
Question 194: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child was not incorporated into the Adoption Act, 2010; if she has...
- EU Conventions
Question 195: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when she expects to complete the signing and ratification of the European Convention on the Adoption of Children (Revised) 2008...
- Post-Adoption Contact Register
Question 196: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if a copy of the adoption files transferred from the Sacred Heart Adoption Society, Cork, to the Health Service Executive were...
- Adoption Services
Question 198: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will confirm if the Office of the National Director, Children and Family Services, Health Service Executive, has...
- Adoption Services
Question 199: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will confirm that the Office of the National Direction, Children and Family Services Health Service Executive, the...
- Adoption Services
Question 200: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 572 of 1 May 2012, if she will facilitate the transfer of the adoption file from the...
- Departmental Funding
Question 201: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of associations, organisations and regulatory bodies in receipt of grants, benefit in kind and sums of money from the...
- Public Sector Staff
Question 202: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of agency and contract staff currently employed in the public sector; the mechanism in place for monitoring and...
- Appointments to State Boards
Question 203: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide a list of all current commercial semi State company and non-commercial State agency board appointees; and...
- Health Services
Question 204: To ask the Minister for Health if hew will confirm to Dail Éireann the current position of the discussions between the Chief Medical Officer and the private clinics where Irish...
- Medical Cards
Question 205: To ask the Minister for Health if a medical card will be issued as a matter of urgency in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if he will make a statement...
- Home Help Service
Question 206: To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding personal assistants hours in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Medical Cards
Question 207: To ask the Minister for Health the expected time delay in relation to when the legislation will be passed to allow persons who are on the long term illness scheme to access a...
- Hospital Services
Question 208: To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an MRI scan [28476/12]
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 209: To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients that were treated from waiting lists in 2009, 2010 and 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28482/12]
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 210: To ask the Minister for Health if the attention of the the Health Service Executive has been drawn to whether those waiting longest for orthopaedic treatment have medical problems...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 211: To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to exclude patients deemed medically unsuitable for surgery from waiting lists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28484/12]
- Hospital Staff
Question 212: To ask the Minister for Health the areas of the consultants' contracts that are not being implemented; the actions he and the Health Service Executive are taking to address the...
- Health Insurance
Question 213: To ask the Minister for Health the actions he is taking to address uncollected income from private patients; if this is an issue that is being addressed in his talks with...
- State Legal Services
Question 214: To ask the Minister for Health the steps he has taken to address the fact that the Health Service Executive spend approximately €66 million on an annual basis on legal fees; and...
- Medical Cards
Question 215: To ask the Minister for Health when a medical card will issue in respect of persons (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28493/12]
- Hospitals Building Programme
Question 216: To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to refurbish the Dermatology Department of Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28495/12]
- Hospital Facilities
Question 217: To ask the Minister for Health the number of theatres currently in Temple Street Hospital, Dublin 1; the number of these theatres that are currently in use; and if he will make a...
- Hospital Procedures
Question 218: To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an MRI scan in respect of a person in County Laois (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28504/12]
- Universal Health Insurance
Question 219: To ask the Minister for Health if he has begun to prepare legislation for the extension of free general practitioner care to all claimants of medicines under the long term illness...
- Health Services
Question 220: To ask the Minister for Health the arrangement in place in the West of Ireland to provide pump therapy treatment for children for five years of age with type 1 diabetes; and if he...
- Vaccination Programme
Question 221: To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm the veracity of the claim by a company (details supplied) that have received indemnity from the State in 2009 relating to the use...
- Medical Cards
Question 223: To ask the Minister for Health if and when a medical card will issue in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. ...
- Hospital Services
Question 224: To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the 2011 discharges and hospital resource figures for 2011 in tabular form; if the comparisons show that there are critical...
- Health Service Staff
Question 227: To ask the Minister for Health following the signing into law of the Protection Employees (Temporary Agency Workers) Bill on 16 May 2012, the steps being taken by the Health...
- Water Fluoridation
Question 228: To ask the Minister for Health his plans in respect of fluoridation here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28616/12]
- Health Service Staff
Question 230: To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be provided for a placement in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare now completing their period in education; and...
- Health Service Staff
Question 231: To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive intends to fill the vacancy for manager of a respite unit (details supplied) in Navan, County Meath, which became...
- Medicinal Products
Question 232: To ask the Minister for Health the progress of the review process of the Health Service Executive regarding the introduction of Gilenya; and if an estimated time can be given for...
- Professional Qualifications
Question 233: To ask the Minister for Health when an application for validation of non-national radiographic qualifications will be processed in respect of a person (details supplied) in County...
- Medical Cards
Question 234: To ask the Minister for Health the number of medical cards and general practitioner applications received by the Primary Care Reimbursement Service from July 2011 to May 2012; the...
- Medical Cards
Question 235: To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting time for the approval of medical card and general practitioner cards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28673/12]
- Medical Cards
Question 236: To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive a decision on their application for medical card; the reason for the delay in issuing a...
- Public Service Remuneration
Question 237: To ask the Minister for Health the extent of bonuses paid to senior county council officials, senior bank officials and senior officials in semi-State companies for the year 2011,...
- Departmental Funding
Question 238: To ask the Minister for Health the number of associations, organisations and regulatory bodies in receipt of grants, benefit in kind and sums of money from the State in tabular...
- Public Sector Staff
Question 239: To ask the Minister for Health the number of agency and contract staff currently employed in the public sector; the mechanism in place for monitoring and managing the associated...
- State Agencies
Question 240: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a list of the State agencies in which the Government has not made an appointment to a State body when a vacancy has arisen in view...
- Appointments to State Boards
Question 241: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a list of all current commercial semi-State company and non-commercial State agency board appointees; and their annual...
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- Sports Capital Programme
Question 242: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will give details of any discussions he or any of his Cabinet colleagues have had in relation to a project (details...
- Departmental Funding
Question 243: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of associations, organisations and regulatory bodies in receipt of grants, benefit in kind and sums of money from...
- Appointments to State Boards
Question 244: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a list of all current commercial semi State company and non-commercial State agency board appointees; and...
