Written answers
Wednesday, 10 October 2012
- Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
- Departmental Properties
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the way he intends to ensure that greater cooperation is achieved across State agencies in the use of State owned land and buildings; and if...
- National Procurement Service Framework Agreements
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the impact on small local enterprises from the centralisation of procurement within the public service; and if he will make a statement on...
- Departmental Properties
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number and location of empty buildings owned by the State; the cost to the Exchequer per annum of each of these buildings; and if he will...
- Public Sector Staff Grades Review
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to include senior civil pay scales in his review of the grading structure of the civil service and public service. [43493/12]
- Performance Management and Development System
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will subject the reformed Performance Management and Development System within the Civil Service to ongoing external monitoring and...
- Public Sector Reform Review
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if, as part of a wider programme of public service reform, he will confirm that a detailed and rigorous analysis has been undertaken or is...
- National Lottery Licence Sale
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of initial expressions of interest in the National Lottery licence that have been received; the date on which the contract for...
- Departmental Staff Career Breaks
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on the incentivised career break for civil servants in 2009 which finished in June 2012 in view of the fact that many of the staff...
- Departmental Legal Costs
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the expected total legal costs to be incurred in his Department in 2012; his proposals to reduce these costs; and if he will make a statement...
- Departmental Expenditure
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the measures he is putting in place to deal with departmental spending overruns in 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43416/12]
- Estimates Publication
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the revised procedures he is putting in place for the 2013 estimates; if he intends that they would be referred to Oireachtas committees in...
- Public Sector Allowances Review
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the length of time it will take to realise the saving in respect of the annual value in allowances that will not be paid to new beneficiaries...
- Pension Provisions
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of pension schemes taking part in the pensions insolvency scheme; his plans for the future development of the scheme; the amount...
- Capital Programme Expenditure
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the measures he is taking to address the under spend in the Exchequer capital in 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43419/12]
- Legislative Programme
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the steps he intends to take to review the valuation process in relation to business rates, with particular reference to enhancing the...
- Public Sector Staff Issues
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to maintain frontline services in view of his plans for targeted voluntary redundancies in the public sector; and if he will make a...
- Public Sector Staff Remuneration
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the anticipated total cost to the Exchequer of public sector pay increments in 2013; the amount of this figure that applies to public...
- Public Sector Pensions Issues
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to reduce pensions paid to former office holders. [43486/12]
- Public Sector Staff Grades Review
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on his review of the grading structure of the civil service and public service; and if he intends to reduce the...
- Croke Park Agreement Issues
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will report on any recent discussions he has had with the social partners. [43029/12]
- Public Sector Pensions Expenditure
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if any currently serving secretaries general retain TLAC terms with regards to their pension provisions; if he will provide a list of those...
- Legislative Programme
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will include a definition of good faith in the Protected Disclosures in the Public Interest Act; and if the legislation will be...
- Flood Relief Schemes Applications
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the steps he is taking to address the summer flooding in the Shannon Basin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43240/12]
- Teachers' Remuneration
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the way he intends to deal with the pay gap that has emerged between new entrant teachers and those appointed prior to his decision to...
- Office of the Ombudsman Remit
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason for his decision to exclude an additional 50 agencies from the Ombudsman’s remit despite his Programme for Government...
- Public Procurement Contracts Expenditure
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the steps that he is taking to assist small business to obtain public contracts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43239/12]
- Public Sector Pensions Expenditure
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to reduce excessive pensions paid to former senior civil servants. [43487/12]
- Public Sector Reform Review
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will identify in detail the areas of the public service where redundant processes can be eliminated through the expanded use of IT...
- Departmental Expenditure
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent to which his programme of savings throughout the public sector to date remains on target with particular reference to the dual and...
- Public Sector Allowances Review
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has attended any meetings with Department Secretaries General in relation to allowances; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Foreign Conflicts
To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade in view of the increasingly uneven nature of fighting between the Assad regime and opposition forces, the alternative methods...
- Departmental Legal Costs
To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the expected total legal costs to be incurred in his Department in 2012; his proposals to reduce these costs; and if he will...
- Department of Finance
- Customs and Excise Controls
To ask the Minister for Finance the number of sniffer dogs that customs and excise officers have at their disposal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43499/12]
- Tax Forms
To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding a P45 form in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43513/12]
- Liquor Licensing Laws
To ask the Minister for Finance the reason there is a standardised price for a wine licence whether the store is large or very small; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43547/12]
- Mortgage Interest Rates Issues
To ask the Minister for Finance in view of the fact that Allied Irish Bank have received more than €20 billion from the State and in effect is owned by the people and now the bank has...
- Tax Code
To ask the Minister for Finance if he will respond to the queries raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43595/12]
- Universal Social Charge Payments
To ask the Minister for Finance if the universal social charge was deductible in 2011 from all income; if there is an exemption from USC in 2012 if a person's income is under €10,036; and...
- NAMA Transactions
To ask the Minister for Finance in respect of a site at 66, 68 and 70 Dublin street, Balbriggan, North County Dublin if the National Asset Management Agency has been contacted by the Minister for...
- NAMA Code of Conduct
To ask the Minister for Finance if, pursuant to the anti-lobbying rules set out in Section 221 of the National Asset Management Agency Act 2009, NAMA would be duty-bound to report to An Garda...
- NAMA Debtor Agreements
To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm that details of loans managed by the National Asset Management Agency and its debtors are confidential, and that in relation to any specific...
- Departmental Legal Costs
To ask the Minister for Finance the expected total legal costs to be incurred in his Department in 2012; his proposals to reduce these costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44066/12]
- Department of Education and Skills
- FÁS Training Programmes
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the level of FAS funding, if any, available to unemployed persons enrolling on City and Guild approved courses; the criteria used in the application...
- Youthreach Programme
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person who is working for Youthreach moves from a part time contract to full time should they be classified as a new entrant for the purpose of...
- Further Education and Training Programmes Eligibility
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) in Dublin 16 is eligible for the spring board programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43583/12]
- Broadband Services Provision
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school (details supplied) can expect to have their new dsl line installed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43535/12]
- Departmental Properties
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for the future use of a former school building (details supplied) in County Cork; if he will clarify the current ownership arrangements...
- Further Education and Training Programmes Eligibility
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if persons in receipt of partial capacity benefit are entitled to register for courses on the springboard programme and if they are not, if he will...
- Vocational Education Committees Staff
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the criteria used by him to determine the categorisation of the proposed Mayo/Sligo/Leitrim Education Training Board as a category 2 ETB; if he has...
- Public Sector Allowances Eligibility
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person who started teaching on an off-shore island this year is entitled to the Island Allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Site Acquisitions
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the site under consideration for a school (details supplied) in County Kildare will be capable of accommodating an extended educations campus,...
- Institutes of Technology Expenditure
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the action he is taking in relation to the spending by Waterford Institute of Technology as reported in the media (details supplied) on, Friday 28...
- Schools Building Projects Applications
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in view of the fact that a school (details supplied) in County Kildare has now embarked on co-education, if capital funding will be made available to...
- School Accommodation
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current level and status of classroom accommodation at a school (details supplied), in County Cork; the projected enrolment for this school; his...
- School Staffing
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way he can justify the cutback in guidance and counselling services to students in a college (details supplied) in County Dublin in the context of...
- Digital Schools Award
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the digital school award in primary schools; his plans to enable all schools to achieve this award; and if he will make a statement on...
- Information and Communications Technology
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total amount from his Department's budget that is projected to be spent on ICT in primary schools in 2012; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Croke Park Agreement
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide details of changes in work practices negotiated under the terms of the Croke Park Agreement with the schools inspectorate through...
- School Enrolments
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students in the primary school system for 2012/2013; the projected increase for the ten years from 2012/2013 on a yearly basis; and if...
- Health and Safety Regulations
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he has taken to advise the boards of management and principals of primary schools on the procedures they must undertake to ensure the...
- Teachers' Remuneration
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of part time teachers in special schools that have not yet been placed on the appropriate pay rate and therefore have arrears owing to them...
- School Staffing
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary teacher absences during the month of September 2012 in each county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43637/12]
- Schools Recognition
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding permanent recognition in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- School Transport Provision
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration will be given to those children who have been denied school transport because they are not attending their nearest school for reason...
- Third Level Funding
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the student assistant fund, which currently helps students in hardship situations and is part funded...
- Technological Universities
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline the developments made to date in relation to the possible establishment of a technological university or technological...
- School Curriculum
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the Leaving Certificate art curriculum which has not been updated for approximately 40 years; his plans to update the Leaving...
- State Examinations Reviews
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will report on his recent proposals to reform the Junior Certificate exam and the timetable for their introduction; and if he will make a...
- Third Level Staff Remuneration
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the expenses that the head of each university and Institute of Technology here claimed in each year over the past four years to date in 2012 in...
- Departmental Legal Costs
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the expected total legal costs to be incurred in his Department in 2012; his proposals to reduce these costs; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
- Public Sector Staff Issues
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform with regard to the voluntary redundancy programme for public servants, the date on which it will open and close; the number of public...
- Public Sector Staff Remuneration
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 221 of 2 October 2012, if he will provide a breakdown of the €810 million reduction in the...
- Flood Risk Assessments
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the actions, if any, he has taken on foot of the recommendations in the report by the Joint Committee on Environment, Culture and the...
- Exchequer Savings
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the net saving to the Exchequer from the reduction in public sector worker numbers since March 2011 taking into account pensions paid out to...
- Cross-Border Co-operation
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has given due regard to commitments in the Good Friday Agreement to make efficiencies in the delivery of public services through...
- Capital Expenditure Programme Issues
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 210 of 2 October 2012, if he will estimate the number of new jobs that would have been created if the...
- Capital Programme Expenditure
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 210 on 2 October 2012, if he has produced plans with the objective of cutting the actual amount spent...
- Public Sector Staff Increment Payments
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total amount of money to be paid out in increments in 2013 to all those entitled to them; if he will provide a breakdown of this amount...
- Departmental Expenditure
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his targets in terms of savings for each Government Department and any subordinate bodies thereunder for the coming year; the degree to which...
- Departmental Staff Numbers
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent to which he has by way of natural retirement achieved savings and or staff reductions required to meet targets set in the...
- Public Sector Reform Implementation
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent to which the working of extra hours has been used as a means to achieve savings through reform throughout the State and semi-State...
- Sale of State Assets
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent to which the sale of State assets is proposed as a means of achieving budgetary targets in the coming year; and if he will make a...
- Departmental Expenditure
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent to which insurance and procurement costs will be adjusted in order to maximise benefit to the Exchequer in the context of...
- Departmental Legal Costs
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the expected total legal costs to be incurred in his Department in 2012; his proposals to reduce these costs; and if he will make a...
- Department of Social Protection
- Defined Pension Benefit Scheme Issues
To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on a matter regarding defined benefit pension schemes (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43624/12]
- Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility
To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a contributory pension will be issued in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Carer's Allowance Applications
To ask the Minister for Social Protection if and when an application for carer's allowance will issue in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a...
- Illness Benefit Appeals
To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon will receive a decision on their application for illness benefit; and if she will make a statement...
- Back to Work Allowance Payments
To ask the Minister for Social Protection if and when back to work allowance will be paid in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Invalidity Pension Appeals
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an appeal for invalidity pension in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Jobseeker's Allowance Applications
To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a claim for jobseeker's allowance can be reopened in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Family Income Supplement
To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the delay by her Department in processing reviews of family income supplement payments and the impact this is having...
- Employment Support Services
To ask the Minister for Social Protection with reference to Page 20 Section 42 of the Pathways to Work strategy, her plans for contracting with the private sector; and if any cuts to existing...
- Carer's Allowance Appeals
To ask the Minister for Social Protection when will a decision will issue on an application for carer's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Louth; and if she will make a...
- Redundancy Payments
To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an application for redundancy payment will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Wexford. [43598/12]
- Social Welfare Appeals
To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a decision will be expedited on a State non contributory pension appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make...
- Insolvency Payments Scheme Payments
To ask the Minister for Social Protection in view of the ongoing difficulty that workers are having in securing their holiday entitlements from the administrator (details supplied) if she will...
- Back to Education Allowance Eligibility
To ask the Minister for Social Protection is there any consideration being given to applicants of the back to education allowance who have had to change careers due the downturn in the industry...
- Social Welfare Appeals Status
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43766/12]
- Money Advice and Budgeting Service Issues
To ask the Minister for Social Protection in view of the excellent service which Money Advice and Budgeting Service provides if a new MABS office will be opened in an area (details supplied)...
- Social Welfare Payments Waiting Times
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the current turnaround times for processing claims for all social welfare payment types in her Department; if she will provide in tabular form the...
- Departmental Legal Costs
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the expected total legal costs to be incurred in her Department in 2012; her proposals to reduce these costs; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
- Public Sector Management Remuneration
To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will confirm the details of the payments made to a person (details supplied) who recently retired as Secretary General of his...
- Flood Prevention Measures
To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the actions, if any, he has taken on foot of the recommendations in the report by the Joint Committee on Environment, Culture and the...
- Departmental Legal Costs
To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the expected total legal costs to be incurred in his Department in 2012; his proposals to reduce these costs; and if he will make a...
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Broadband Services Provision
To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the way he intends to monitor the progress of the new national broadband plan; if he has contingency plans in the event of...
- Television Reception
To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to ensure the roll out of SaorView to black spot areas in County Waterford; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Flood Prevention Measures
To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the actions, if any, he has taken on foot of the recommendations in the report by the Joint Committee on Environment, Culture...
- Post Office Network
To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his view regarding expanding the role of post offices (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43625/12]
- Radio Spectrum Management
To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if the State plans to auction the analog band after the State makes the digital switchover; and if he will estimate what this...
- Renewable Energy Incentives
To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources noting Irelands potential deliverable renewable energy resource identified by Sustainable Energy Ireland and referred to again...
- Energy Conservation
To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will report on the progress of the better energy national upgrade programme in improving the energy efficiency of...
- Departmental Legal Costs
To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the expected total legal costs to be incurred in his Department in 2012; his proposals to reduce these costs; and if he will...
- Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
- Household Charge Exemptions
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding the non principal private residence and household charge in respect of a person (details supplied) in...
- Local Government Reform
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason the amalgamation of South and North Tipperary county councils is being progressed, when the reality is that the...
- Water Meters Installation
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of water meters that will be installed in homes in 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43497/12]
- Local Authority Housing Provision
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding capital housing allocations in respect of County Kerry (details supplied); and if he will make a...
- Local Authority Housing Issues
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will consider relaxing the rules on sub-letting properties in respect of persons who received mortgages from local...
- Mortgage Resolution Processes
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will consider allowing persons who received mortgages from local authorities via the Housing Finance Agency and who are...
- Flood Prevention Measures
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the actions, if any, he has taken on foot of the recommendations in the report by the Joint Committee on Environment, Culture...
- Departmental Reports
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when the Thornhill Teport will be published and made available to the public. [43667/12]
- Departmental Legal Costs
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the expected total legal costs to be incurred in his Department in 2012; his proposals to reduce these costs; and if he will...
- Department of Justice and Equality
- Garda Training
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will confirm that 220 Gardai will be sent forward for training to operate the 22 additional evidential station based machines and if therefore...
- Garda Resources
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of sniffer dogs that the Gardaí have at their disposal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43498/12]
- Citizenship Applications
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding an Irish passport in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Garda Resources
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his views on whether the Gardaí are under resourced to deal with the problem of gun violence on our streets; and if he will make a statement on...
- Garda Operations
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the steps the Gardaí in a town (details supplied) in County Meath are taking to reduce the levels of burglaries; and if he will make a statement...
- Garda Investigations
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the action the State is taking in response to the action of a person (details supplied) who placed himself beyond the reach of Gardaí by getting...
- Asylum Seeker Accommodation
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of asylum seekers that have died while living in direct provision centres over the past 12 years; the year in which each died; their...
- Deportation Orders
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Irish citizen minors that accompanied parents or other family members on deportation flights; the years in which those deportations took...
- Garda Transport Expenditure
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will identify the money his Department has spent on refurbishing patrol cars in the past 18 months and the life span that was remaining on each...
- Garda Vetting of Personnel
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of vetting applications received by the Garda Central Vetting Unit from sports organisations receiving funding for the Irish Sports Council...
- Courts Service Issues
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when will a new Court Messenger be appointed in Carlow. [43806/12]
- Road Traffic Offences
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality since the new lower drink driving limit was introduced in October 2011, the number of drivers, having failed the preliminary roadside breathalyser...
- Garda Deployment
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of divisions currently without a Garda Crime Prevention Officer; the length of time each position has been vacant; and if he will make a...
- Drug Seizures
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide details of the number of drug seizures in Dublin for the years 2010, 2011 and to date in 2012; the quantity, type and value of drug...
- Garda Resources
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he has received any request from the Garda Commissioner regarding funding to purchase additional boats for the Garda Water Unit; and if he will...
- Departmental Legal Costs
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the expected total legal costs to be incurred in his Department in 2012; his proposals to reduce these costs; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Department of Defence
- Defence Forces Operations
To ask the Minister for Defence the number of sniffer dogs the army has at their disposal.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43519/12]
- Defence Forces Personnel
To ask the Minister for Defence his views on the fact that the PDFORRE, the representative association for soldiers, sailors, and aircrew, has recently outlined their opposition to further cuts...
- Defence Forces Retirement Scheme
To ask the Minister for Defence the number of Defence Forces Personnel by rank that have retired to date in 2012; the number of personnel by rank that have indicated that they will retire before...
- Departmental Legal Costs
To ask the Minister for Defence the expected total legal costs to be incurred in his Department in 2012; his proposals to reduce these costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44063/12]
- Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
- Afforestation Programme
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if forestry grants for the plantation of trees will continue into the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43517/12]
- Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Applications
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding an area based payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on...
- Agriculture Schemes Appeals
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a review was requested in respect of a single farm penalty appeal on behalf of a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if...
- Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a disadvantaged payment was issued to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry. [43541/12]
- Agri-Environment Options Scheme Conditions
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if grant aid will continue into the future for environmental programmes for hedge planting and tree planting (details supplied); and if he...
- Agriculture Schemes Payments
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the fact that it has been estimated that farmers face an extra €120 million bill because of bad weather this summer;...
- Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied) in County Galway has not received their disadvantaged area scheme payment; the reason for the...
- Departmental Staff Numbers
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in view of the suspension in 2009 in accepting new applications to many farm schemes including REP scheme, installation aid and early...
- Coillte Teoranta Lands
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding the future of Donadea Forest Park, County Kildare with particular reference to the locally supported and preferred...
- Fur Farming
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if either he or the Minister for State have met representatives from the fur farming industry; if so, the date on which the meeting took...
- Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding an agri environment option scheme application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick. [43803/12]
- Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a reduced amount was paid to a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary under the disadvantaged area scheme; and if he...
- Single Payment Scheme Eligibility
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will detail the way the calculation is made for determining the area base for persons with mountain acreage for the purpose of the...
- Departmental Legal Costs
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the expected total legal costs to be incurred in his Department in 2012; his proposals to reduce these costs; and if he will make a...
- Department of Children and Youth Affairs
- Croke Park Agreement
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide the details of any work practices negotiated under the terms of the Croke Park Agreement with welfare officers through their...
- Inter-Country Adoptions
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide an update on the stage of negotiations regarding the Russian bilateral; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Child Care Services
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will list the residential child care centres in Health Service Executive Dublin North East; the number of young persons in each of these...
- Departmental Legal Costs
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the expected total legal costs to be incurred in her Department in 2012; her proposals to reduce these costs [44061/12]
- Department of Health
- Medical Card Appeals
To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card review in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43520/12]
- Medical Card Applications
To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43521/12]
- Primary Care Centres
To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a detailed history of the Health Service Executive's plan to develop a primary care centre in Carrigaline, County Cork, including details of the...
- Medical Card Applications
To ask the Minister for Health when persons (details supplied) in County Carlow will recieve a decision on their medical card application; and if he expedite a response [43512/12]
- Medical Card Eligibility
To ask the Minister for Health if persons who are eligible for medical cards/general practitioner visit cards and through no fault of their own incurred medical costs which should have been...
- HSE Governance
To ask the Minister for Health the reason the contract between the Health Service Executive and a company (details supplied) was extended for another four years; and if he will make a statement...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
To ask the Minister for Health if he or the Health Service Executive have information collated on the number of people who are on out patient lists who when contacted will no longer require or...
- Ministerial Meetings
To ask the Minister for Health if he has met Health Information and Quality Authority recently and if they had particular areas of concern; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43525/12]
- Accident and Emergency Departments Waiting Times
To ask the Minister for Health if the waiting times on trollies in accident and emergency departments are based on average waiting times; if he will outline the waiting time actually calculated;...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the number of patients treated from the elective waiting in patient lists in 2011 and in 2012 and also to include numbers treated...
- Hospital Accommodation Provision
To ask the Minister for Health the actions he is taking on the hospitals that have the longest length of stay for patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43529/12]
- Health Services Staff Sick Leave
To ask the Minister for Health the actions that are being taken in areas in the health service that have higher than normal sick leave; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43530/12]
- Long-Term Illness Scheme Applications
To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a long term illness card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin [43534/12]
- Respite Care Services
To ask the Minister for Health when a decision on the application for the respite care grant scheme through National Lottery grant scheme funding can be expected in respect of an organisation...
- Medical Aids and Appliances Applications
To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a hearing aid in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43551/12]
- HSE Expenditure
To ask the Minister for Health the total spend in the last available 12 month period in each primary community and continuing care area on home nursing care for children with life limiting...
- Medical Card Drugs
To ask the Minister for Health his view regarding coeliac products and a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Hospital Services
To ask the Minister for Health if he will investigate the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9 who has been attending Beaumont Hospital, Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Medical Card Eligibility
To ask the Minister for Health when the decision was made not to automatically qualify cancer patients for a medical card (details supplied); if he will advise the Health Service Executive...
- Ambulance Service Provision
To ask the Minister for Health the number and location of 24 hour, seven days a week ambulance stations throughout the State on 1 October 2011 and 1 October 2012. [43594/12]
- Supplementary Welfare Allowance Eligibility
To ask the Minister for Health if he will request the Health Service Executive to restore the special food requirements to persons in receipt of medical cards; and if he will make a statement on...
- Vaccination Programme
To ask the Minister for Health if pregnant women are to be offered a whooping cough vaccine to protect babies from a surge in infections from the disease; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Primary Care Centres Provision
To ask the Minister for Health the position that Dundalk, County Louth, held on the list of 200 centres which were identified for proposed primary care centres by officials based on a scoring...
- Dental Services Provision
To ask the Minister for Health if he will restore the children's dental service at Athy Health Centre, County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43616/12]
- Primary Care Centres Provision
To ask the Minister for Health the details, number and location of the list of intended locations for the provision of primary healthcare centres by direct State capital funding; the projected...
- Food Safety Standards Regulation
To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the review of the role and responsibilities of Safefood; when a report will issue; if he anticipates that Safefood's long standing function...
- Respite Care Services
To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the curtailment in respite services for children with an intellectual disability in County Laois, that this service has been...
- Primary Care Centres Provision
To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the list of 200 sites that were identified for proposed primary care centres in order of the priority determined by officials based on a scoring...
- General Medical Services Scheme Administration
To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that some general practitioners are now charging individuals for issuing letters which are required to confirm their...
- Ambulance Service Provision
To ask the Minister for Health the ambulance service that is available to the population of Dublin North East; the modes of transport the service uses; the number of sub districts served, or in...
- Medical Card Eligibility
To ask the Minister for Health when will long term illness benefit recipients be entitled to a full medical card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43674/12]
- Health Services Allowances
To ask the Minister for Health the reason a gratuity payment is still pending in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Longford. [43678/12]
- Health Services Staff Issues
To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive is currently granting career breaks to nursing staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43785/12]
- Health Services Provision
To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in the Health Service Executive progressing the situation of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 8. [43796/12]
- Ministerial Meetings
To ask the Minister for Health the number of times he has visited Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9 to date in 2012; the date and purpose of each visit; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Hospital Staff
To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a month by month breakdown in tabular form of the number of exemptions granted to the recruitment embargo for Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9 since...
- Departmental Legal Costs
To ask the Minister for Health the expected total legal costs to be incurred in hisDepartment in 2012; his proposals to reduce these costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44068/12]
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- Pilot Training Courses
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the lodging of registration papers for a pilot training college (details supplied) operating out of the...
- Taxi Licences Renewals
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will resolve the anomaly in the procedures for renewing a taxi licence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
- Taxi Regulations
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will reverse the decision that was made to disallow existing taxi drivers from selling or transferring their taxi plate when they...
- Road Network
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will accede to the request of Monaghan County Council for €1.5 million funding to progress the design to a preferred route status...
- Taxi Regulation Review Report Implementation
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will report on the recent new reforms introduced for the taxi sector and if he will indicate the timetable for introducing these new...
- Dublin Bus Services
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of buses in the Dublin Bus Fleet as of 30 September 2012; if this number will be increased by year end; and if he will make a...
- Bus Éireann Services
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of buses in the Bus Eireann Fleet as of 30 September 2012; if this number will be increased by year end; and if he will make a...
- Light Rail Project
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current position on the Luas F1 to Lucan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43817/12]
