Written answers
Thursday, 11 October 2012
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Exploration Licences
To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources with regard to the exploratory licence recently granted to a company (details supplied), when the drilling in Dublin Bay is...
- Electricity Transmission Network
To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will report on the recent €600m electricity interconnector between Ireland and Britain; the implications of the...
- Radio Spectrum Management
To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the steps being taken to ensure that the new 4G network provides the maximum geographical coverage; and if he will make a...
- Sale of State Assets
To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans for selling off parts of Bord Gáis and the potential impact this could have on the work of Irish Water; and if...
- Broadband Services Provision
To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the steps he is taking to ensure that all enterprises will have access to fibre based broadband connectivity. [41605/12]
- Energy Resources
To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources in view of estimates that the Barryroe Oilfield contains more than a billion barrels of oil, his plans to maximise the benefit...
- Sale of State Assets
To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans for the disposal of any State assets under the aegis of his Department; the timeframe for their disposal and the...
- Petroleum and Gas Exploration
To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if, in view of a possible oil find in Dublin Bay, if his attention has been drawn to the pamphlet, produced by Dublin Shell to...
- Alternative Energy Projects
To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans for developing wind energy exports; the targets he has in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Gas and Electricity Disconnections
To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will confirm the ratio of rising fuel costs to the increase in electricity prices this year; and if he will make a...
- Exploration Licences
To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the level of public inquiry that was made before the granting of an exploration licence to Providence Resources at Dalkey,...
- Postal Services
To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will ensure that any solution selected for postcodes will support standard location tracking systems, for example...
- Energy Schemes
To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will consider grant aiding the installation of double or triple glazed windows as part of existing home energy saving...
- Natural Gas Grid
To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on the Western Development Commission paper, Why Invest in Gas, which outlines the clear benefit of extending the...
- Energy Resources
To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the extent to which commercial or promising oil, gas or other mineral finds have been located on or off shore in each of the...
- Broadcasting Service Provision
To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to add a channel showing Oireachtas proceedings as a Saorview channel; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Broadcasting Sector Regulation
To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on whether it would be appropriate for there to be a remuneration cap for employees in broadcasting organisations...
- Broadcasting Service Provision
To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of Irish homes that have yet to make the switch over to Saorview; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Media Mergers
To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to introduce legislation to prevent one person from having a large percentage ownership of Irish media; and if he...
- Broadcasting Service Provision
To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the date on which the RTÉ Network Limited will begin transmission of UK public service broadcasts on the Saorview system...
- Departmental Bodies
To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the measures he is taking to ensure a viable future for Bórd na Mona and its workforce; and if he will make a statement...
- Television Reception
To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will intervene to find a positive outcome for the residents of areas of west Kerry (details supplied), where Saorview...
- Hydraulic Fracturing Policy
To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he has been in contact with Members of the Legislative Assembly and officials in the Stormont Assembly to discuss a...
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Departmental Expenditure
To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will outline in tabular form, the amount of money allocated by his Department and agencies within his Department to...
- Trade Relations
To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his position in respect of trade with Israel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44013/12]
- Department of Finance
- Tax Code
To ask the Minister for Finance if he will respond to a query regarding capital acquisitions tax (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43842/12]
- Tax Rebates
To ask the Minister for Finance if he will advise on whether a person (details supplied) is entitled to any tax refund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43862/12]
- Mortgage Interest Rates Issues
To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which Allied Irish Bank has increased the interest rate for its variable-rate mortgage holders. [43887/12]
- Departmental Expenditure
To ask the Minister for Finance if he will outline in tabular form, the amount of money allocated by his Department and agencies within his Department to Ballina, Castlebar and Westport Town...
- Mortgage Interest Relief Expenditure
To ask the Minister for Finance if he plans to review the decision to end mortgage interest relief for first time buyers at the end of 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43971/12]
- Tax Code
To ask the Minister for Finance the reasons for the changes introduced in the Finance Act 2011 and effective from January of this year, which have placed the responsibility on boards of...
- Mortgage Interest Rates Issues
To ask the Minister for Finance the steps he has taken to contact Allied Irish Bank regarding the recent announcement to increase their mortgage rates by 0.5% which is the bank's second rate rise...
- Central Bank Property
To ask the Minister for Finance if he has been briefed by the Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland on its plans to take over the unfinished former proposed headquarters of Anglo Irish Bank on...
- Tax Clearance Certificates
To ask the Minister for Finance if and when a tax clearance certificate will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Disabled Drivers Grant Eligibility
To ask the Minister for Finance if he will review the application for primary medical certificate in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on...
- Department of Education and Skills
- Special Educational Needs Staffing
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding cuts in SNAs in the disability sector [43875/12]
- State Examinations Issues
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the leaving certificate art, in which the number of A/A1 is 1%, lower than the results in any other subject; the reason this is...
- Post-Leaving Certificate Courses
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason his Department allocation of places to County Kildare for the 2012/13 academic year is just 357, making it the fourth lowest per capita...
- Teacher Redeployment
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on panel problems (details supplied) [43859/12]
- Schools Building Projects Status
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding funds or grants in respect of a school (details supplied) in Dublin 3 [43860/12]
- School Accommodation
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding extra accommodation in a school (details supplied) in Dublin 5. [43861/12]
- Special Educational Needs Staffing
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reasons a decision has not been made regarding an application for a special needs assistant in respect of a person (details supplied) in County...
- School Staffing
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the procedures that were followed in relation to the appointment of a principal to the staff of a school (details supplied) in County Kildare; if he...
- Departmental Expenditure
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline in tabular form, the amount of money allocated by his Department and agencies within his Department to Ballina, Castlebar and...
- School Staffing
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the allocated number of teachers currently in a school (details supplied) in Dublin 15; and if he will acknowledge that two teachers are necessary for...
- Back to Education Allowance Eligibility
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will examine the situation whereby trades persons who formerly worked in the construction industry and who need to re-skill on FETAC courses and...
- Teachers' Remuneration
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person (details supplied) in County Cork is not being paid by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44007/12]
- School Funding
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding grant aid in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Wicklow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44017/12]
- Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
- Public Sector Reform Implementation
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans on the completion of the Croke Park Agreement to decrease numbers and reduce wages in the public sector. [43840/12]
- Public Sector Staff Retirements
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to change the retirement age in the civil service and public sector bodies in view of the fact that qualifying age for the State...
- Departmental Expenditure
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will outline in tabular form, the amount of money allocated by his Department and agencies within his Department to Ballina, Castlebar...
- Grocery Industry Competition
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on regulating the retail sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43978/12]
- Proposed Legislation
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the timeline for his review of the Employment Permits Acts 2003 and 2006. [43982/12]
- Department of Social Protection
- Pension Provisions
To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on a submission (details supplied) by the Retired Nurses Association, Kerry Branch. [43907/12]
- Defined Pension Benefit Schemes Issues
To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans for the minimum funding standard for defined pension schemes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44002/12]
- Invalidity Pension Appeals
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an appeal against refusal of invalidity pension in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; and if she will expedite...
- Social Welfare Benefits Applications
To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 135 of 4 October 2012, if she will provide further analysis of the number of families that are recipients of both a...
- Carer's Allowance Appeals
To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Offaly may expect a decision on a review for carer's allowance. [43836/12]
- Child Benefit Payments
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding possible cuts to child benefit (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43839/12]
- Social Welfare Code Issues
To ask the Minister for Social Protection if there is any assistance available for a person on invalidity pension with an eye test and subsequent treatment; and if she will make a statement on...
- Sick Pay Scheme Expenditure
To ask the Minister for Social Protection his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding sick pay for nursing home staff [43855/12]
- Disability Allowance Appeals
To ask the Minister for Social Protection in view of fresh evidence sent by letter dated 13 of August 2012 to the Social Welfare Appeals Office the position regarding an appeal against refusal of...
- Invalidity Pension Appeals
To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a decision has been made on an invalidity pension appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement...
- Back to Education Allowance Eligibility
To ask the Minister for Social Protection in situations where jobseeker's are invited by FÁS to attend labour market interviews the reason eligibility is not determined at that stage for the...
- Rent Supplement Scheme Eligibility
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the maximum amount of savings a person can have and still be entitled to qualify for rent allowance. [43934/12]
- Family Income Supplement Eligibility
To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider extending eligibility criteria for family income supplement to include self-employed persons; the basis on which such persons are...
- Departmental Expenditure
To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will outline in tabular form, the amount of money allocated by her Department and agencies within her Department to Ballina, Castlebar and...
- Departmental Staff Redeployment
To ask the Minister for Social Protection if an application to revert to a work sharing basis by a person (details supplied) will be accommodated. [43962/12]
- Community Employment Schemes Review
To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will outline the extent of discussions she has had with the Department of Environment, Community and Local Government regarding the introduction...
- Rent Supplement Scheme Expenditure
To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will reverse her current policy of cuts to rent allowance which has had a devastating effect on families; and if she will confirm that rent...
- Carer's Allowance Applications
To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will examine a carer's allowance application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry, as there is undue delay in the processing...
- Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will issue on domiciliary care allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on...
- Back to Education Allowance Eligibility
To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will examine the situation whereby trades persons who formerly worked in the construction industry and who need to re-skill on FETAC courses and...
- Carer's Allowance Applications
To ask the Minister for Social Protection if and when an application for carer’s allowance will be determined in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare who was recently...
- Redundancy Payments
To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a redundancy payment will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44005/12]
- Rent Supplement Scheme Applications
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the correct level of rent supplement payable in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Jobseeker's Allowance Appeals
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason social welfare payment ceased in respect of an entire family during the period of the absence of one member of the family, if she will...
- Carer's Allowance Appeals
To ask the Minister for Social Protection if the application for carers allowance will be reviewed or appealed in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if she will make a...
- Rent Supplement Scheme Payments
To ask the Minister for Social Protection if in the determination of maximum rent support based on maximum allowable rent throughout County Kildare, her attention has been drawn to the...
- Invalidity Pension Appeals
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason invalidity pension was refused in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare, if she will accept this enquiry as grounds for a...
- Rent Supplement Scheme Applications
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason for the delay in awarding rent supplement in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on...
- Rent Supplement Scheme Payments
To ask the Minister for Social Protection when maximum rent allowance will be awarded in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Invalidity Pension Appeals
To ask the Minister for Social Protection when invalidity pension will be awarded in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
- Departmental Expenditure
To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will outline in tabular form, the amount of money allocated by his Department and agencies within his Department to Ballina,...
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Energy Conservation
To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will respond to a query regarding energy saving in the public sector (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
- Renewable Energy Incentives
To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on the EU Commission proposals that aim to cap crop based bio-fuel production to a maximum of 5% of total transport...
- Fisheries Protection
To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if eel fishing licences will be issued following the review of the eel fishing ban which was completed earlier this year; if...
- Offshore Exploration
To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position regarding Dalkey Prospect oil rig and the concerns of citizens from County Wicklow on this issue, the position in...
- Departmental Expenditure
To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will outline in tabular form, the amount of money allocated by his Department and agencies within his Department to...
- Mobile Telephony
To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide an update on the progress made in ensuring that the mobile phone industry supplies chargers common to all...
- Hydraulic Fracturing Policy
To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his policy in respect of hydraulic fracturing; if he will provide an update on any recent decisions in respect of licensing...
- Telecommunications Services Provision
To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when he expects the telecommunications sector in this country to achieve comparable status in terms of speed, efficiency and...
- Broadband Services Provision
To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the extent to which high speed broadband is available in all regions throughout the country, urban and rural, without...
- National Gas Grid
To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position regarding the on-going progress in the development of the Corrib Gas Field; when it is expected that product will...
- Mobile Telephony
To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the extent to which unilaterally or in conjunction in the Regulator, any efforts can be made to improve the quality and...
- Cyber Security Policy
To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the extent to which he has become aware of the existence of cyber bullying here; if the service providers can be approached...
- Hydraulic Fracturing Policy
To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the extent to which he has monitored the effects of fracking as a means of mining exploration; if he has examined all of the...
- Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
- Property Taxation Collection
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding property tax [43885/12]
- Register of Electors
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the steps he will take to ensure that the supplementary register for future elections is made available to all concerned...
- Dormant Accounts Fund Management
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding the dormant accounts fund and the way community organisations can apply for funding through same. [43865/12]
- Housing Grant Payments
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the progress being made by each of the relevant local authorities on their allocations for housing aid for older people and...
- Planning Issues
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 155 of 3 October 2012, and notwithstanding his Department's management guidelines, if a...
- Traveller Accommodation
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide this Deputy with copies of correspondence that his office has received from Dublin City Council since June...
- Planning Issues
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if any changes were made this year to regulations or by other means in relation to the size of windmill covered by the Critical...
- Voluntary Sector Funding
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of funding provided to volunteer centres around the country in each year, broken down centre for the years 2008...
- Unfinished Housing Developments
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide details of the funding provided by his Department to assist in making unfinished housing estates safe and...
- Voluntary Housing Sector Issues
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if funding is currently available for sheltered housing projects, housing projects for returning emigrants; if so, where one...
- Departmental Expenditure
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will outline in tabular form, the amount of money allocated by his Department and agencies within his Department to...
- Leader Programmes Administration
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of Leader projects of values of more than €250,000 that are waiting for his approval; the length of time in...
- Waste Management Regulations
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the opportunity cost, in terms of employment in the recycling and resource recovery industry, when untreated waste electrical...
- Water Services Funding
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide the necessary funding for the replacement of water mains in the Mid Kerry regional water supply, County...
- Department of Justice and Equality
- Garda Investigations
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if a Garda investigation has been launched into the circumstances surrounding the closure of the Pilot Training College in County Waterford which has...
- Departmental Staff Numbers
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons currently in the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43868/12]
- Prisoner Discipline
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the compensation, if any, given to persons who are assaulted by other prisoners while on remand. [43876/12]
- Departmental Staff Remuneration
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will outline the remuneration of the chairman and board members of the Property Services Regulatory Authority; the annual running costs of the...
- Property Services Regulation
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will outline the steps available to a person who is dissatisfied with the response they receive from the Property Service Regulatory Authority...
- Departmental Expenditure
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will outline in tabular form, the amount of money allocated by his Department and agencies within his Department to Ballina, Castlebar and...
- Garda Reserve
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality in view of the fact that members of the Garda Reserve receive a P60 and the taxable allowance paid is recorded on a Revenue balancing statement as an...
- Garda Strength
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of members of An Garda Síochána as of the 1 January 2012; if he will provide the numbers in the force for each of the previous...
- Residency Permits
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding residency status in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Department of Defence
- Defence Forces Review
To ask the Minister for Defence when the review of the Reserve Defence forces will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43856/12]
- Overseas Missions
To ask the Minister for Defence the extent to which members of the Air Corps have participated in overseas missions; if he is committed to providing opportunities to members of the Air Corps to...
- Defence Forces Recruitment
To ask the Minister for Defence if applicants for Defence Forces Cadetships are entitled to receive a reason from the Defence Forces or from his Department on the reason their applications are...
- Defence Forces Reorganisation
To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide an update on army personnel living on the northside of Dublin being transferred out of the city; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Departmental Expenditure
To ask the Minister for Defence if he will outline in tabular form, the amount of money allocated by his Department and agencies within his Department to Ballina, Castlebar and Westport Town...
- Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
- Woodland Improvement Scheme
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if here are any grants available for thinning forestry and the roadways into same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43841/12]
- Agriculture Schemes Expenditure
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of persons in County Wicklow receiving farm subsidies; the total amount paid; the 10 highest amounts received by persons in...
- Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Applications
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Leitrim will receive their disadvantaged area scheme payment; and if he will make a statement...
- Departmental Correspondence
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will receive a receipt for his sheep headage payments for 2011; and if he will make a...
- Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment of headage payments will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Applications
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding the outstanding single farm payment due to a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a...
- Fisheries Protection
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress that has been made with the Spanish Government in relation to the obtaining of real time information from Spanish boats...
- Agri-Environment Options Scheme Conditions
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will outline the criteria for new entrants to the agri environment options scheme, with particular reference to farmers who were...
- Departmental Expenditure
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will outline in tabular form, the amount of money allocated by his Department and agencies within his Department to Ballina,...
- Agriculture Schemes Administration
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will allow the Agricultural Consultants Association, who has contact with circa 45,000 farmers, to be promoted equally as a...
- Ash Dieback Threat
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawan to the Chalara fraxinea fungus which attacks ash trees and has decimated the number of such trees in...
- Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding a disadvantaged area payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; if he has received an...
- Fisheries Protection
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he will address the practice of dumping millions of euros worth of fish into the Irish Sea every year, bearing in mind that Ireland...
- Department of Children and Youth Affairs
- Departmental Investigations
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to work with the recently formed Acknowledgement Forum in Northern Ireland to look into issues of alleged illegal adoptions of...
- Children in Care
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans, in conjunction with the Health Service Executive, for new special care beds for vulnerable teenagers; and if she will make a...
- National Educational Welfare Board Remit
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 496 of 26 June 2012, if a response has issued (details supplied) [43919/12]
- Departmental Expenditure
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will outline in tabular form, the amount of money allocated by her Department and agencies within her Department to Ballina, Castlebar...
- Department of Health
- Health Services Provision
To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding medical treatment abroad in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43879/12]
- Primary Care Centres Provision
To ask the Minister for Health the reason the proposed primary care centre in Rowlagh, Clondalkin, Dublin 22, was moved from the stated funded list to the public private partnership list; the...
- Home Help Service Provision
To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in receipt of home help services in the Dublin 22 area and in Lucan and Palmerstown; the total number of home help hours the persons in these...
- Primary Care Centres Provision
To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a list of primary care centres that are being developed by leasehold and if Dundalk, County Louth is one of the sites to be developed by...
- Hospital Services
To ask the Minister for Health if he acknowledges the financial circumstances of the South Infirmary, Cork, whereby drug companies and other major suppliers have refused to supply the hospital...
- Medical Card Drugs
To ask the Minister for Health the reason medical card holders can no longer receive the prescription Osteole 1500mg on their medical card; the reasons this item was removed from the list; and if...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding surgery in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Louth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43849/12]
- Home Help Service Provision
To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding home help hours in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry. [43854/12]
- Patient Transport Provision
To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that the Health Service Executive provides essential transport for a person (details supplied) in County Kildare, who is attending a sheltered...
- Medical Card Appeals
To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite a review of a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43863/12]
- Hospital Services
To ask the Minister for Health the cut backs that have been implemented in the Louth Meath Hospital group from 1 October in relation to the use of agency staff; if he will set out in detail the...
- Home Help Service Provision
To ask the Minister for Health the number of home help hours that were cut from County Louth as a result of the cutbacks announced in Budget 2012; how many further hours in County Louth as a...
- Medical Card Delays
To ask the Minister for Health the average length of time taken by the Health Service Executive to process applications for the renewal of discretionary medical cards; the number of such cards...
- Special Educational Needs Staffing
To ask the Minister for Health his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding cuts in the disability sector [43875/12]
- General Medical Services Scheme Administration
To ask the Minister for Health if he will advise on the options available to a person (details supplied) in County Cork following changes to the GMS scheme in respect of coeliac sufferers; and if...
- Orthodontic Services Waiting Lists
To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting times for a young person to receive orthodontic treatment in Navan Hospital, County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43900/12]
- Hospital Appointments Administration
To ask the Minister for Health if he will arrange to expedite an operation in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43905/12]
- HSE Funding
To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that the Health Service Executive continue to provide funding to the Alzheimer's Society for the operation of a day care facility in Monasterevin,...
- Health Screening Programmes
To ask the Minister for Health if new born babies here will be universally screened for the metabolic disorder, glutaric aciduria, as is already the practice in the US and Germany; and if he will...
- Vaccination Programme
To ask the Minister for Health if the anti-flu jab and the pneumococci jab will be available this year [43922/12]
- Hospital Facilities
To ask the Minister for Health if capital investment is to be given to St. Patrick's Hospital, Fermoy, County Cork, to upgrade the facilities to bring the hospital up to standard for the new...
- Departmental Expenditure
To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline in tabular form, the amount of money allocated by his Department and agencies within his Department to Ballina, Castlebar and Westport Town...
- Health Service Executive Funding
To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter regarding overruns of the health service executive budget (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43977/12]
- Home Help Service
To ask the Minister for Health his views on home help (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43979/12]
- Hospital Services
To ask the Minister for Health if he will arrange an early appointment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Waterford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43989/12]
- Health Services
To ask the Minister for Health if he will request the Health Service Executive to make physiotherapy services available to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a...
- Medical Card Applications
To ask the Minister for Health when a medical card will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44041/12]
- National Children's Hospital
To ask the Minister for Health if he will indicate in the context of discussions and submissions of influence relating to the location of the new Children's Hospital, if he will have particular...
- Medical Card Applications
To ask the Minister for Health if and when a medical card will issue in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44043/12]
- Primary Medical Certificates
To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the application for primary medical certificate in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on...
- Drugs Payment Scheme
To ask the Minister for Health if any provision will be made whereby Bioxtra not currently on the GMS can be made available to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a...
- Medical Card Applications
To ask the Minister for Health if and when a medical card will issue in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44047/12]
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- Driving Licences
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in relation to the learner drivers and their training requirements, his plans to revise the current system of licensing or plans to introduce...
- The Gathering
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will make provision for an additional funding allocation to support and enable individuals and organisations to run events for The...
- State Airports
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reasons for charging airlines for use of airbridges at Cork Airport; the costs so charged per passenger; and if he will make a statement...
- Departmental Expenditure
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will outline in tabular form, the amount of money allocated by his Department and agencies within his Department to Ballina, Castlebar...
- Pilot Training Colleges
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will ensure that the Irish Aviation Authority do not grant approval to a college (details supplied) until there is a full investigation...
- Road Project Contracts
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the funding from central Government supplied for a road project (details supplied) in County Galway contained any stipulations on the...
- Road Maintenance
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views regarding the condition of hedges and verges across rural Ireland; if he will consider strengthening the current policy that exists...
- Penalty Points System
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will report on the recent timetable agreement between this jurisdiction and Northern Ireland on the mutual recognition of penalty...
- Department of Defence
- Departmental Expenditure
To ask the Minister for Defence if he will outline in tabular form, the amount of money allocated by his Department and agencies within his Department to Ballina, Castlebar and Westport Town...
- Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
- Woodland Improvement Scheme
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if here are any grants available for thinning forestry and the roadways into same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43841/12]
- Agriculture Schemes Expenditure
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of persons in County Wicklow receiving farm subsidies; the total amount paid; the 10 highest amounts received by persons in...
- Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Applications
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Leitrim will receive their disadvantaged area scheme payment; and if he will make a statement...
- Departmental Correspondence
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will receive a receipt for his sheep headage payments for 2011; and if he will make a...
- Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment of headage payments will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Applications
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding the outstanding single farm payment due to a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a...
- Fisheries Protection
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress that has been made with the Spanish Government in relation to the obtaining of real time information from Spanish boats...
- Agri-Environment Options Scheme Conditions
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will outline the criteria for new entrants to the agri environment options scheme, with particular reference to farmers who were...
- Departmental Expenditure
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will outline in tabular form, the amount of money allocated by his Department and agencies within his Department to Ballina,...
- Agriculture Schemes Administration
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will allow the Agricultural Consultants Association, who has contact with circa 45,000 farmers, to be promoted equally as a...
- Ash Dieback Threat
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawan to the Chalara fraxinea fungus which attacks ash trees and has decimated the number of such trees in...
- Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding a disadvantaged area payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; if he has received an...
- Fisheries Protection
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he will address the practice of dumping millions of euros worth of fish into the Irish Sea every year, bearing in mind that Ireland...
- Department of Children and Youth Affairs
- Departmental Investigations
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to work with the recently formed Acknowledgement Forum in Northern Ireland to look into issues of alleged illegal adoptions of...
- Children in Care
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans, in conjunction with the Health Service Executive, for new special care beds for vulnerable teenagers; and if she will make a...
- National Educational Welfare Board Remit
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 496 of 26 June 2012, if a response has issued (details supplied) [43919/12]
- Departmental Expenditure
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will outline in tabular form, the amount of money allocated by her Department and agencies within her Department to Ballina, Castlebar...
- Department of Health
- Health Services Provision
To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding medical treatment abroad in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43879/12]
- Primary Care Centres Provision
To ask the Minister for Health the reason the proposed primary care centre in Rowlagh, Clondalkin, Dublin 22, was moved from the stated funded list to the public private partnership list; the...
- Home Help Service Provision
To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in receipt of home help services in the Dublin 22 area and in Lucan and Palmerstown; the total number of home help hours the persons in these...
- Primary Care Centres Provision
To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a list of primary care centres that are being developed by leasehold and if Dundalk, County Louth is one of the sites to be developed by...
- Hospital Services
To ask the Minister for Health if he acknowledges the financial circumstances of the South Infirmary, Cork, whereby drug companies and other major suppliers have refused to supply the hospital...
- Medical Card Drugs
To ask the Minister for Health the reason medical card holders can no longer receive the prescription Osteole 1500mg on their medical card; the reasons this item was removed from the list; and if...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding surgery in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Louth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43849/12]
- Home Help Service Provision
To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding home help hours in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry. [43854/12]
- Patient Transport Provision
To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that the Health Service Executive provides essential transport for a person (details supplied) in County Kildare, who is attending a sheltered...
- Medical Card Appeals
To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite a review of a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43863/12]
- Hospital Services
To ask the Minister for Health the cut backs that have been implemented in the Louth Meath Hospital group from 1 October in relation to the use of agency staff; if he will set out in detail the...
- Home Help Service Provision
To ask the Minister for Health the number of home help hours that were cut from County Louth as a result of the cutbacks announced in Budget 2012; how many further hours in County Louth as a...
- Medical Card Delays
To ask the Minister for Health the average length of time taken by the Health Service Executive to process applications for the renewal of discretionary medical cards; the number of such cards...
- Special Educational Needs Staffing
To ask the Minister for Health his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding cuts in the disability sector [43875/12]
- General Medical Services Scheme Administration
To ask the Minister for Health if he will advise on the options available to a person (details supplied) in County Cork following changes to the GMS scheme in respect of coeliac sufferers; and if...
- Orthodontic Services Waiting Lists
To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting times for a young person to receive orthodontic treatment in Navan Hospital, County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43900/12]
- Hospital Appointments Administration
To ask the Minister for Health if he will arrange to expedite an operation in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43905/12]
- HSE Funding
To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that the Health Service Executive continue to provide funding to the Alzheimer's Society for the operation of a day care facility in Monasterevin,...
- Health Screening Programmes
To ask the Minister for Health if new born babies here will be universally screened for the metabolic disorder, glutaric aciduria, as is already the practice in the US and Germany; and if he will...
- Vaccination Programme
To ask the Minister for Health if the anti-flu jab and the pneumococci jab will be available this year [43922/12]
- Hospital Facilities
To ask the Minister for Health if capital investment is to be given to St. Patrick's Hospital, Fermoy, County Cork, to upgrade the facilities to bring the hospital up to standard for the new...
- Departmental Expenditure
To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline in tabular form, the amount of money allocated by his Department and agencies within his Department to Ballina, Castlebar and Westport Town...
- Health Service Executive Funding
To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter regarding overruns of the health service executive budget (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43977/12]
- Home Help Service
To ask the Minister for Health his views on home help (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43979/12]
- Hospital Services
To ask the Minister for Health if he will arrange an early appointment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Waterford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43989/12]
- Health Services
To ask the Minister for Health if he will request the Health Service Executive to make physiotherapy services available to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a...
- Medical Card Applications
To ask the Minister for Health when a medical card will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44041/12]
- National Children's Hospital
To ask the Minister for Health if he will indicate in the context of discussions and submissions of influence relating to the location of the new Children's Hospital, if he will have particular...
- Medical Card Applications
To ask the Minister for Health if and when a medical card will issue in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44043/12]
- Primary Medical Certificates
To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the application for primary medical certificate in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on...
- Drugs Payment Scheme
To ask the Minister for Health if any provision will be made whereby Bioxtra not currently on the GMS can be made available to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a...
- Medical Card Applications
To ask the Minister for Health if and when a medical card will issue in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44047/12]
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- Driving Licences
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in relation to the learner drivers and their training requirements, his plans to revise the current system of licensing or plans to introduce...
- The Gathering
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will make provision for an additional funding allocation to support and enable individuals and organisations to run events for The...
- State Airports
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reasons for charging airlines for use of airbridges at Cork Airport; the costs so charged per passenger; and if he will make a statement...
- Departmental Expenditure
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will outline in tabular form, the amount of money allocated by his Department and agencies within his Department to Ballina, Castlebar...
- Pilot Training Colleges
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will ensure that the Irish Aviation Authority do not grant approval to a college (details supplied) until there is a full investigation...
- Road Project Contracts
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the funding from central Government supplied for a road project (details supplied) in County Galway contained any stipulations on the...
- Road Maintenance
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views regarding the condition of hedges and verges across rural Ireland; if he will consider strengthening the current policy that exists...
- Penalty Points System
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will report on the recent timetable agreement between this jurisdiction and Northern Ireland on the mutual recognition of penalty...
