Written answers
Thursday, 12 July 2012
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Innovation
- Sick Pay Scheme
Question 10: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will publish a Forfas report on the effects of changes to the sick pay regime; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Enterprise Support Services
Question 11: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of seed capital scheme certificates applied for by clients of Enterprise Ireland and the number issued. [33865/12]
- Media Mergers
Question 12: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will outline his discussions with the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources as regards the media...
- Employment Support Services
Question 14: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide an update on the progress of the development capital fund scheme [33858/12]
- Unemployment Levels
Question 15: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation in view of the fact that regions are suffering from a higher rate of unemployment, the steps he will take to redress this...
- Enterprise Support Services
Question 17: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the actions he has taken to assist small and medium enterprises increase access export markets; and if he will make a...
- Employment Support Services
Question 18: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the targets set for enterprise and jobs bodies to develop jobs for the unemployment blackspots identified by the census....
- EU Funding
Question 19: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide an update on the due diligence process with the European Investment Fund in regard to the micro finance...
- Job Creation
Question 21: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the total cost per job created by each of the enterprise agencies under the direction of his Department. [33876/12]
- Credit Guarantee Scheme
Question 22: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when the credit guarantee scheme will be in place. [33849/12]
- Job Protection
Question 25: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps he is taking to secure the jobs at the MBNA site in Carrick on Shannon, County Leitrim; and if he will make a...
- Research and Development
Question 26: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps he is taking to ensure that small and medium enterprises will avail of all supports for research and development....
- Proposed Legislation
Question 27: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he plans to publish the Consumer and Competition Bill and introduce it to Dáil Éireann before the end of 2012; and if he...
- Departmental Agencies
Question 28: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the cost of each of the international offices of the Enterprise Ireland; and the value of trade and investment generated by...
- Job Creation
Question 29: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps taken by Enterprise Ireland to promote business start-up for the long term unemployed since coming into office....
- EU Funding
Question 30: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the target date to secure European investment Fund approval for the microfinance guarantee facility. [33870/12]
- Enterprise Support Services
Question 31: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when the financial support will be available to allow the small and medium enterprises to access cloud computing. [33851/12]
- Community Enterprise Centres
Question 32: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will report on the recent announcement of the awarding of funding for business development managers at 37 community...
- Job Initiatives
Question 33: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps he is taking to support enterprise development in the midland and western regions; and if he will make a statement...
- Live Register
Question 34: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation in view of the differing levels of unemployment identified in the census and the live register, if he will provide the rate...
- Job Creation
Question 35: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide a detailed breakdown of the types of jobs created in Cork since February 2011; and if he will make a...
- Cross-Border Enterprise Initiatives
Question 36: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when he will conclude the consideration of the cross border studies report and proposals for a border development zone....
- Research and Development
Question 38: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps he is taking to streamline the application process and support in respect of research and development across...
- Unemployment Levels
Question 39: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the way in which unemployment levels are reflected in budget allocations across enterprise agencies. [33873/12]
- Job Statistics
Question 40: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of jobs created on an annual basis in each of the past three years and to date in 2012; the numbers of which were...
- Job Creation
Question 41: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the extent to which he has identified those parts of his portfolio of jobs, enterprise and innovation which have performed...
- Enterprise Support Services
Question 42: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when the support will be available for small and medium enterprises to develop a presence on the internet. [33852/12]
- Research and Development
Question 43: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the target date for the achievement of 3% of gross domestic product spent on research and development in view of recent...
- Job Initiatives
Question 44: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if in view of the unemployment figures at unemployment exchanges (details supplied) in Dublin 5 and 13 since 2008 he will...
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- International Agreements
Question 45: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if Ireland has been approached about joining the Open Government Partnership; if his attention has been drawn to the...
- Department of Finance
- Flood Relief
Question 46: To ask the Minister for Finance if he intends to establish a fund to assist business owners whose properties were affected by the recent flooding in the Cork region; the amount of...
- Disabled Drivers
Question 47: To ask the Minister for Finance the reason a person who is without or lost the use of one leg may be eligible for the disabled drivers tax relief scheme but a person must have lost...
- Tax Code
Question 48: To ask the Minister for Finance the amount received in 2011 from the ending of the exemption from benefit in kind tax for employer provided child care; the amount received to date...
- EU-IMF Agreement
Question 49: To ask the Minister for Finance the way he expects to achieve the commitment with the EU and IMF through the Memorandum of Understanding to deliver full year savings of €940...
- Tax Reliefs
Question 50: To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated savings that would accrue to the Exchequer from reducing the tax relief on pension contributions from the marginal rate to either 33%...
- Post Office Network
Question 51: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will formulate a strategy to ensure that a network of sub post offices serving all of Ireland will be sustained into the future; and if he will...
- Promissory Notes
Question 52: To ask the Minister for Finance the interest expense associated with the promissory note in 2013 as a percentage of the GDP; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34142/12]
- National Asset Management Agency
Question 53: To ask the Minister for Finance the approximate loss that the National Assets Management Agency has suffered as a result of developers successfully declaring bankruptcy in the UK,...
- Tax Code
Question 54: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will clarify if there is an exemption for full income tax on pension amounts less than €50,000 for persons over the age of 70 years; and if...
- Tax Collection
Question 55: To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding medical expenses in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Tax Collection
Question 56: To ask the Minister for Finance further to previous replies regarding a potential wealth tax and the possibility of collection of same, if he will confirm if by 2014 the new Central...
- Tax Collection
Question 57: To ask the Minister for Finance if a person (details supplied) in County Kildare has any outstanding charges; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34170/12]
- Flood Relief
Question 58: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has any plans to establish an assistance fund for the victims of the recent flooding in Cork City and county; if he will provide details of the...
- Tax Code
Question 59: To ask the Minister for Finance if persons who get married are eligible to be treated as a married couple for income tax purposes in the year of marriage; if not, the reason that...
- Tax Code
Question 60: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will explain the basis under which Vehicle Registration Tax is not an import tax since all vehicles sold in Ireland are imported; if he will...
- Banks Recapitalisation
Question 61: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will oppose any requirement that direct recapitalisations of banks be backed up by sovereign guarantees to the European Stability Mechanism in...
- Banking Operations
Question 62: To ask the Minister for Finance if in view of reports of market manipulation of rates in the London inter-bank lending market he has asked the regulatory authorities to investigate...
- Bond Markets
Question 63: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider offering investors a range of inflation linked bonds to assist the Government's funding programme; and if he will make a...
- Banking Sector Regulation
Question 64: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the impact for customers of suggestions that Ulster Bank is moving its regulatory supervision to the Bank of England; and if he will...
- Bank Charges
Question 65: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will be meeting with the banks, as he did in November 2011, to discuss their plans to pass on the recent European Central Bank rate reduction;...
- Revenue Commissioners Investigations
Question 66: To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of cash seized by the Revenue Commissioners at Dublin Airport and Dublin Port for the years 2009, 2010, 2011 and to date in 2012; the...
- Department of Education and Skills
- Pension Provisions
Question 67: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when pension payments will be granted in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Vocational Education Committees
Question 68: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to a dispute between two workers and the vocational education committee following the closure of a VEC...
- Fóirne Scoile
Question 69: To ask the Aire Oideachais agus Scileanna an bhfuil athmheas déanta ag an Aire Stáit (sonraí tugtha), mar a gheall sé sa Seanad ar an 28ú lá de Mheitheamh, ar an gcinneadh gan...
- School Staffing
Question 70: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider issuing a circular advising all schools that all new positions in schools, both temporary and permanent, must be...
- Schools Refurbishment
Question 71: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will approve the additional funding to this school (detail supplied) in County Sligo in view of the fact that there is not...
- School Curriculum
Question 72: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will respond to a report from the National Competitiveness Council which questions if changes to the maths curriculum will resolve...
- School Staffing
Question 73: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of resource teacher and learning support posts allocated in each year since 1997 including the number to be allocated for the...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 74: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of special needs assistants allocated in each year since 1997 including the number to be allocated for the 2012/2013 school...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 76: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he or the National Council for Special Education carries out an analysis or provides estimates of the expected number of children...
- School Guidelines on Mental Health
Question 77: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress made to date in drafting inter departmental guidelines to establish a framework for addressing mental health in the...
- School Curriculum
Question 78: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider the introduction of a whole school approach to tackling mental health in education rather than the current...
- Mental Health Services
Question 79: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide the specific actions in Vision for Change relating to education which have been implemented by the Department of...
- School Curriculum
Question 80: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider an independent review of social personal and health education and its effectiveness in mental health promotion; and...
- Teachers' Remuneration
Question 81: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34156/12]
- Special Educational Needs
Question 82: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on matters raised in correspondence (details supplied) regarding special needs resource allocation in national schools; if he...
- School Guidelines on Mental Health
Question 83: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in view of the fact that international best practice demonstrates the benefit from early intervention, when will work commence on...
- Obesity Levels
Question 84: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills with regard to the dangers of obesity in Ireland, his views on whether it would make more sense to educate and train young persons...
- Teaching Qualifications
Question 85: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason postgraduate degrees are not taken into account by the Teaching Council when assessing the qualifications of teachers; and if...
- Pupil-Teacher Ratio
Question 87: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the pupil teacher ratio provided in Budget 2012 will result in a school (details supplied) in County Offaly remaining without a...
- Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
- Public Procurement
Question 88: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the steps he is taking to ensure that social considerations are incorporated into the public procurement process; if he will...
- Departmental Contracts
Question 89: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will outline in tabular form the numbers of contractors hired by the Office of Public Works to undertake works on various...
- Coastal Protection
Question 90: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will investigate the possibility of funding being made available to carry out coastal protection works in the vicinity of...
- Coastal Erosion
Question 91: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has received an application from Sligo County Council seeking grant aid of €290,000 to finance protection measures to...
- Public Sector Pay
Question 92: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide details of the number of public servants who earn the salaries (details supplied) after 1 March 2012; and if...
- Flood Prevention Measures
Question 93: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the position regarding major flooding problems at a location (details supplied) in Dublin 5. [34323/12]
- Departmental Appointments
Question 94: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will report on the establishment of the new economic and evaluation service; the number of economists and accounting and...
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Innovation
- Departmental Staff
Question 95: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the salary package of the head of Science Foundation Ireland. [34133/12]
- Enterprise Ireland Investments
Question 96: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide an itemised list in spreadsheet format of all current investments by Enterprise Ireland; the criteria that...
- Enterprise Ireland Investments
Question 97: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the amount Enterprise Ireland has lost on investments since the year 2000 on an annual basis for companies that have gone...
- Work Permits
Question 98: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on the suggestion of introducing a special technology visa to allow those with specialist skills and experience to...
- Employment Rights
Question 99: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the advice or assistance available to a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Job Creation
Question 100: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of manufacturing jobs created in each of the past five years to date; the extent to which such employment has had...
- Economic Competitiveness
Question 101: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the cost factors most regularly reoccurring in any determination of viability or sustainability in respect of job retention...
- Job Creation
Question 106: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the extent to which he and his Department have evaluated the potential for job creation through technology and innovation...
- Job Retention
Question 107: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he has studied the effect of upward only rent reviews on the retention of jobs in retail, manufacturing or services...
- Job Creation
Question 109: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the degree to which he and his Department have engaged with employers with a view to ascertaining how best to generate new...
- Work Permits
Question 110: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of applications for work permits received by his Department in each of the past three years to date in 2012; the...
- Small and Medium Enterprises
Question 112: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the extent to which research has been carried out to identify possible disincentives to job creation in the small and medium...
- Job Statistics
Question 113: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the total number of jobs through foreign direct investment created in each of the past three years to date in 2012; the...
- Job Creation
Question 115: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if considering unemployment numbers in excess of 3,400 people in County Leitrim which has a population of just 32,000 if the...
- Department of Social Protection
- Services for People with Disabilities
Question 116: To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans for the advocacy for persons with disabilities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34058/12]
- Universal Social Charge
Question 117: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will confirm when the Health levy refund will be repaid to those who were overcharged; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Back to School Clothing and Footwear Allowance Scheme
Question 118: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be made on a back to school allowance application in respect of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a...
- Social Welfare Code
Question 119: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if an increase in one parent family allowance or job seekers allowance is applicable in respect of a person (details supplied) in County...
- Employment Support Services
Question 120: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will review a decision to refuse a place on a jobs bridge scheme to a person (details supplied) in County Cork; if the person is...
- Carer's Allowance
Question 121: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when carer's allowance will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Community Employment Schemes
Question 122: To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans for disability services and providers that currently offer places under community employment schemes under the review of...
- Rent Supplement Scheme
Question 123: To ask the Minister for Social Protection he progress to date in the determination of eligibility to rent support in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and...
- Jobseeker's Allowance
Question 124: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the exact entitlement to jobseeker's allowance in the case of a person (details supplied); the entitlement should the person take up...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 125: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if and when arrears will issue on an application in respect of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
- Rent Supplement Scheme
Question 126: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a rent allowance appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a...
- Rent Supplement Scheme
Question 127: To ask the Minister for Social Protection now that Ashbourne and Ratoath, County Meath, have been moved to be managed to the Fingal Area Office, if the same rent supplement rates...
- Pension Provisions
Question 128: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason she is unable to provide a forecast service to person's in relation to their future State pension when requested to do so; and...
- Domiciliary Care Allowance
Question 129: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the timeframe for a decision to be taken in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny in respect of their application for...
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 130: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider the concerns raised in correspondence (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Departmental Contracts
Question 131: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide details of any existing or planned contracts between her Department and a company (details supplied) for the provision...
- Homeless Persons
Question 132: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will review the supports available for vulnerable young persons leaving the care system at 18 years but who are being forced into...
- Rent Supplement Scheme
Question 133: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of households in receipt of rent supplement; and of these households, the number that have been in receipt of same for more...
- Mortgage Interest Supplement
Question 134: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of households in receipt of mortgage interest supplement; and of these households, the number that have been in receipt of same...
- Mortgage Interest Supplement
Question 135: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the instructions that have been issued to community welfare officers in relation to requesting documentary evidence from financial...
- Community Employment Schemes
Question 137: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the way a training programme (details supplied) where participants are trainees, in recovery from addiction, unlike other community...
- Rural Social Scheme
Question 138: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if the number of places on rural social schemes in County Galway will be increased as the schemes are proving an invaluable source of...
- Carer's Allowance
Question 139: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision on a carer's allowance will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a...
- Carer's Allowance
Question 141: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision for carer's allowance will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a...
- Child Benefit
Question 142: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding children's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on...
- Carer's Allowance
Question 145: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision on carers allowance will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Domiciliary Care Allowance
Question 146: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision on a domiciliary care allowance appeal will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a...
- Disability Allowance
Question 147: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reasons for refusal of disability allowance in the case of a person (details supplied) who is deemed by their consultant as being...
- Jobseeker's Allowance
Question 148: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if and when jobseeker's allowance will be awarded in the case of a person (details supplied) who was in receipt of disability allowance...
- Rent Supplement Scheme
Question 149: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the current position in respect of rent support in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare who submitted the required...
- Rent Supplement Scheme
Question 150: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider a slightly higher than average rent support in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she...
- Invalidity Pension
Question 151: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the current or expect position in regard to the determination of appeal in respect of invalidity pension in the case of a person (details...
- Disability Allowance
Question 152: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if and when eligibility for disability allowance will be determined in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if...
- Invalidity Pension
Question 153: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Offaly may expect a decision on their appeal for invalidity pension. [34297/12]
- Carer's Allowance
Question 155: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Offaly may expect a decision on their appeal for carer's allowance. [34303/12]
- Invalidity Pension
Question 156: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Offaly may expect a decision on their appeal for invalidity pension. [34304/12]
- Carer's Allowance
Question 157: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Offaly may expect a decision on their application for carer's allowance. [34306/12]
- Carer's Allowance
Question 158: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in Dublin 10 may expect a decision on their application for carer's allowance. [34307/12]
- Invalidity Pension
Question 159: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Offaly may expect a decision on their appeal for invalidity pension. [34310/12]
- Back to School Clothing and Footwear Allowance Scheme
Question 160: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Offaly may expect a decision on their application for back to school clothing and footwear...
- Back to School Clothing and Footwear Allowance Scheme
Question 161: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Offaly may expect a decision on their application for back to school clothing and footwear...
- Disability Allowance
Question 162: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in Dublin 3 may expect a decision on their appeal for disability allowance. [34316/12]
- Carer's Allowance
Question 163: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Offaly may expect a decision on their application for carer's allowance. [34318/12]
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Advertising Standards
Question 164: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will deal with advertising standards and protocol in relation to the highly offensive and inaccurate...
- Broadcasting Services
Question 165: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on the fact that Independent Broadcasters of Ireland, who rely entirely on advertising to fund...
- Post Office Network
Question 168: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on the sustainability of the post office network in the country; the options and proposals for the...
- Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
- Household Charge
Question 169: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will ensure that all household charges, second home charges and so on may be paid through the post...
- Tidy Towns Committees
Question 170: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the support or advice he will give to tidy towns committee that are looking to expand in their areas; and if...
- Housing Grants
Question 171: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the schemes available to persons who are on low incomes to buy a new home; and if he will make a statement...
- Non-Principal Private Residence Charge
Question 172: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the reason penalties are being applied for non principal private residence payment to persons (details...
- Social and Affordable Housing
Question 173: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the amount paid to Homebond in relation to social and affordable housing units constructed on behalf of...
- Departmental Reports
Question 174: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will make public the report of the pyrite panel, which has been in his possession for a number of...
- Motor Taxation
Question 175: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to allow persons pay their motor tax through the post office network; and if he will make a...
- Social and Affordable Housing
Question 176: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the guidance if any he has issued to housing authorities in relation to the allocation of social housing; if...
- Non-Principal Private Residence Charge
Question 177: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if a couple who both owned houses in 2012 and had each lived in their own house for this full year and got...
- Local Authority Funding
Question 178: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if it has been brought to his attention that he was consulted on the terms of reference for the financial...
- Local Authority Staff
Question 179: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a list of courses funded by local authorities for senior executives in local government:...
- Local Authority Management
Question 180: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government when a city or county manager becomes chairperson of the County and City Managers Association and is obliged...
- Local Authority Staff
Question 181: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of requests received from Dublin City Council for permission to employ additional staff in the...
- Social and Affordable Housing
Question 182: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the extent to which voluntary housing associations to whom responsibilities have been devolved in respect of...
- Department of Justice, Equality and Defence
- Property Services Regulation
Question 184: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when the proposed modifications to sections 87 and 88 of the Property Services Regulation Act 2011 making the dissemination of false or...
- Crime Prevention
Question 185: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality in view of ongoing vandalism and criminal activity if he will consider a review of the regulation of the scrap metal industry; and if...
- Road Traffic Offences
Question 186: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the necessary arrangements are now in place in every court to ensure that summonses issued from 16 May 2012 onwards have been...
- Road Traffic Legislation
Question 187: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will report on all of the reported administration and technical issues experienced by the courts and the Gardaí including any...
- Garda Investigations
Question 188: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No 8 of 20 June 2012, if the Garda Commissioner has received the final report from the gardaí...
- Coroners Service
Question 189: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the sum of money Sligo County Council is required to provide to cover the cost of the operation of morgue and coroner expenses in the...
- Garda Strength
Question 190: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí by rank in the Traffic Corps stationed at a location (details supplied) in Dublin 9; the number of marked and...
- Garda Transport
Question 191: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of marked and unmarked Garda cars and vans allocated to each station in the Dublin region; and if he will make a statement...
- Garda Resources
Question 192: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the additional resources being allocated to Dublin city centre to deal with the increase in the number of serious assaults on persons...
- Naturalisation Applications
Question 193: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the progress made to date in the determination of eligibility for naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin...
- Naturalisation Applications (1 comment)
Question 194: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the remaining procedure to be followed in respect of an application for naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied) in...
- Naturalisation Applications
Question 195: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current position and progress made to date and further requirement if any in the determination of eligibility of naturalisation in...
- Naturalisation Applications
Question 196: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if consideration might be given for the review of application for naturalisation in the case of persons (details supplied) who were...
- Residency Permits
Question 197: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will indicate notwithstanding his replies to previous Parliamentary Questions, if he has had sight of further and detailed...
- Naturalisation Applications
Question 198: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current or expected position in the determination of naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare;...
- Naturalisation Applications
Question 199: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the progress made to date and the expected outcome in the determination of naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied) in...
- Air Ambulance Service
Question 200: To ask the Minister for Defence if the emergency air ambulance service, originally operating from Custume Barracks, Athlone, County Westmeath will return to the barracks; and if he...
- Defence Forces Allowances
Question 202: To ask the Minister for Defence if the Border duty allowance is still in existence; the number of persons currently in receipt of this; the rate of the allowance; the estimated...
- Department of Agriculture, Marine and Food
- Single Payment Scheme
Question 203: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a 1% single farm payment penalty in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will be reconsidered in view...
- Severe Weather Events
Question 204: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in view of the crisis in the farming community due to the high level of rainfall during the summer months that has resulted...
- Ferry Services
Question 205: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in view of the fact that the cable car providing a link to the Dursey Island in West Cork, no longer takes animal livestock...
- Severe Weather Events
Question 206: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in view of one of the wettest summers on record, leading to crop failure, poor grazing conditions and reduced milk...
- Agri-Environment Options Scheme
Question 207: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding payment under the agri environment options scheme in the case of a person (details supplied) in...
- Agri-Environment Options Scheme
Question 208: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which agri environment options scheme payments have been made to date and are likely to continue in the...
- Agri-Environment Options Scheme Conditions
Question 209: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is hopeful that he can achieve an improvement in the agri environment options 3 scheme having particular regard to...
- Rural Environment Protection Scheme
Question 210: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the difficulty created by down-sizing of the REP scheme having particular regard to the...
- Agri-Environment Options Scheme Conditions
Question 211: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has received submissions form the Irish Farmers' Association regarding alternative proposals in respect of...
- Animal Welfare Issues
Question 212: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has had any discussions with the banking sector in respect of finance and the local authorities in respect of...
- Food Industry
Question 213: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is confident that he can ensure the continued economic environment in the agri food producing sector with particular...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 214: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will indicate notwithstanding financial restraints imposed on his Department due to economic circumstances on an...
- Departmental Reports
Question 215: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if any study has been carried out by his Department into farm operational costs with particular reference to the need to...
- Agrifood Sector
Question 216: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is satisfied regarding the future viability of existing farm enterprises including the need to retain supports...
- Department of Health
- Foreign Adoptions
Question 217: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the progress made to date regarding the signing of a bilateral agreement between Russia and Ireland to enable adoptions from...
- Departmental Correspondence
Question 218: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No 137 of 2 May 2012 when a reply will issue from the Health Service Executive; and if she will...
- National Lottery Funding
Question 219: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will support an organisation (details supplied) as a matter of priority [34324/12]
- Hospital Services
Question 220: To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary will receive an appointment in Waterford Regional Hospital. [34083/12]
- Health Service Allowances
Question 221: To ask the Minister for Health when a decision will be made on an appeal application for a mobility allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; and if he...
- Health Services
Question 222: To ask the Minister for Health when a home care package, already approved, will be provided in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a...
- Medical Cards
Question 223: To ask the Minister for Health if a medical card application will be granted in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Health Service Expenditure
Question 224: To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that the €500 million overspend in the health budget will not have an impact on frontline services and patient care; and if he...
- Medical Cards
Question 225: To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Monaghan will receive their medical card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34041/12]
- Health Services
Question 226: To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) in Dublin 15 will receive speech and language therapy: the reason for the delay in same; and if he will make a...
- Services for People with Disabilities
Question 227: To ask the Minister for Health if he will consult with end users of disability services before decisions are taken regarding new budgetary decisions that are due to be taken in the...
- Health Service Allowances
Question 228: To ask the Minister for Health when he will revise the mobility allowance in order to render it compliant with the Equal Status Act, in view of the fact that those over 66 cannot...
- Nursing Homes Support Scheme
Question 230: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update in relation to the review that has taken place concerning the fair deal scheme; when same will be finalised; and if he...
- Medical Cards
Question 231: To ask the Minister for Health if a person who has been refused a medical card on appeal can, having now received confirmation from their doctor and consultant of further medical...
- Health Service Allowances
Question 232: To ask the Minister for Health if the full home care package will be granted in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Medical Cards
Question 233: To ask the Minister for Health the number of medical card applications awaiting a decision on their application; the number that have been waiting for more than two, three, four,...
- Medical Cards
Question 234: To ask the Minister for Health the number of medical card appeal applicants awaiting a decision on their appeals; the number that have been waiting for more than two, three, four,...
- Health Services
Question 235: To ask the Minister for Health if she will address the registration of creative arts therapists to ensure that creative arts therapies are included in the list of professions...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 236: To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Galway will receive a pain clinic appointment in view of the chronic pain this persons suffers [34144/12]
- Ambulance Service
Question 237: To ask the Minister for Health when the ambulance centre in a town (details supplied) in County Galway will open; what the recruitment process will be for the centre; and if he...
- Calorie Posting on Menus
Question 238: To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether the proposal to bring in compulsory accounting of the number of calories in each item of food in hotels, restaurants and so on,...
- Hospital Services
Question 239: To ask the Minister for Health if he or the Health Service Executive have received any request from the Neurosurgical Department in Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, to increase bed...
- Calorie Posting on Menus
Question 241: To ask the Minister for Health with regard to the dangers of obesity in Ireland, his views on whether it would make more sense to educate and train young persons regarding the...
- Ambulance Service
Question 242: To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No 662 of 22 May 2012 the progress made to date on establishing a new ambulance service in West Roscommon; if he...
- Patient Statistics
Question 243: To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No 155 of 19 June 2012 if he will confirm the date for the publication of the report on mortality rates at acute...
- Health Reports
Question 244: To ask the Minister for Health the current status of the report of the national emergency medicine programme; his plans, if any, to act on the report; and if he will make a...
- Tobacco Control Measures
Question 245: To ask the Minister for Health if he has conducted or commissioned any studies, reports or focus groups on plain or generic packaging of tobacco products; if he will outline the...
- Health Services
Question 246: To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 445 of 17 January 2012, if he will arrange an urgent appointment for at the ear, nose and throat clinic,...
- Hospitals Building Programme
Question 247: To ask the Minister for Health if he will update Dáil Éireann on the contract that was awarded by the Health Service Executive to a company (details supplied) for the development...
- Medical Cards
Question 248: To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the approval of a medical card renewal application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will...
- Cosmetic Surgery
Question 249: To ask the Minister for Health his plans to regulate the cosmetic surgery industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34217/12]
- General Practitioner Services
Question 250: To ask the Minister for Health the number of long term illness patients who quality for free general practitioner care, the number in receipt of same in December 2011, the number...
- General Practitioner Services
Question 251: To ask the Minister for Health the number of meetings he has held with the Irish Medical Organisation regarding extending the free general practitioner care to those with long term...
- Hospital Charges
Question 252: To ask the Minister for Health the amount generated through the €100 accident and emergency charge for the years 2009, 2010, 2011 and to date in 2012; and if he will make a...
- Medicinal Products
Question 253: To ask the Minister for Health the approximate value assigned that every quality adjusted life year is assigned by the National Centre for Phamacoeconomics when determining the...
- Medical Cards
Question 254: To ask the Minister for Health if and when a medical card will be renewed in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Medical Cards
Question 255: To ask the Minister for Health if he will indicate notwithstandinghis replies to previous Parliamentary Questions, if his attention has been drawn to the fact that information...
- Medical Cards
Question 256: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on a case (details supplied); and when the person concerned can expect a decision on a review of medical card...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 257: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on a case (details supplied) in County Westmeath; when the person may expect an appointment at Midlands Regional...
- Medical Cards
Question 258: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on a case (details supplied); when the person may expect a decision on a review of medical card [34321/12]
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 259: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on a case (details supplied in County Offaly); when the person may expect an appointment for ultra sound in the Midlands...
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- Cycle Facilities
Question 260: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding funding Phase 1 of the Boyneside Trail, cylcle/walkway along the River Boyne; and if he will make a...
- Pilot Training Courses
Question 261: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the assistance that he intends to provide to the young trainee pilots and their families impacted by the breakdown in the...
- Road Maintenance
Question 263: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in view of the current difficult economic conditions, where households are trying to cope with increased pressures, if he will...
- Córas Iompar Éireann Annual Report
Question 264: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason Córas Iompar Éireann requested an extension for the publication of their Annual Report and Accounts for 2011 to 30...
- Search and Rescue Service
Question 265: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will assure the people of the North West of Ireland that he will not accept the proposal to wind down Malin Head Marine...
- Commemorative Plaques
Question 266: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans (details supplied) regarding the Luas line in Dundrum; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34100/12]
- Sporting Organisations
Question 267: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will raise the issue of the salaries of CEOs of voluntary sporting bodies, receiving significant State support, with...
- Penalty Points System
Question 269: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has asked the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications in their review of the Irish penalty points...
- Sports Capital Programme
Question 270: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of applications received from Sligo Borough Council and Sligo County Council for funding under the Sports Capital...
- Road Signage
Question 271: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to increase signage on motorway on ramps reminding drivers to yield to traffic already on the main carriageway; and...
- Road Maintenance
Question 272: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount spent by the National Roads Authority on the maintenance of the M50 for the years 2010 2011 and to date in 2012; the...
- Airline Licences
Question 273: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he will grant a licence to a company (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34237/12]
- Driving Licences
Question 275: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding photo ID. [34326/12]
