Written answers

Tuesday, 6 November 2012

  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Milk Supply
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views regarding reports of farmers who are supplying the liquid milk trade losing money due to pressure from the multiples; the action...
    • Coillte Teoranta Reports
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine as the main shareholder of Coillte Ireland, if he will indicate a timeline for publication of the geographical survey carried out on...
    • Horse Racing Industry
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the future funding of the horse racing industry, the need for a multi annual solution that would provide some stability for...
    • Farm Partnerships
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if progress has been made on broadening farm partnerships beyond solely dairy partnerships; the options open to those who operate...
    • Suckler Welfare Scheme Application Numbers
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the cost of a new suckler cow welfare scheme for 2013 based on the same rates of payment that currently operate; and if he will make a...
    • Harbours and Piers
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the spend to date in 2012 on marine works allocated funding by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48273/12]
    • Common Agricultural Policy
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on whether the agri-food sector here and throughout the EU will receive the required ongoing support through the common...
    • Fishing Industry Development
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he intends publishing a policy on the development of the inshore fishing industry for coastal and island communities; and if he will...
    • Common Agricultural Policy
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his policy in relation to the less severely handicapped areas under the proposed new common agricultural policy; if he will confirm that...
    • Rural Development Programme
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total allocation to Ireland under the rural development programme 2007 to 2013 broken down measure by measure; the expenditure to...
    • Plean Teanga
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine cén uair a aontaíodh an plean teanga reatha atá ag a Roinn leis an Aire Ealaíon, Oidhreachta agus Gaeltachta; cén...
    • Severe Weather Events
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the effect the bad weather of 2012 has had on the potato and horticultural industry; the steps he proposes to take to assist the industry;...
    • Milk Quota
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views regarding the impact that the end of the milk quota system in 2014 may have on Ireland's climate policy should the dairy...
    • Ash Dieback Threat
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the action he is taking to prevent the disease Chalara Fraxinea fungus affecting ash trees here; if he will confirm the total amount of...
    • Teagasc Rationalisation Programme
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide an update on the proposed reorganisation of Teagasc; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47633/12]
    • Seirbhísi trí Gaeilge
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine cé na socruithe atá déanta aige chun a chinntiú go bhfuil seirbhís trí Ghaeilge ar fáil óna Roinn...
    • Common Agricultural Policy
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the proposals that have been published by the EU Commission in relation to pillar 2 of the common agricultural policy; if proposals have...
    • Dairy Equipment Scheme Applications
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when processing will commence of all outstanding applications under the dairy equipment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Fisheries Offences
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to replace the system of criminal sanctions for minor fisheries' offences with a system of administrative sanction to bring...
    • Common Fisheries Policy Negotiations
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if as part of the renegotiation of the common fisheries policy he has raised the issue of the allocation of the fishing catch allocated to...
    • Sugar Industry
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has commissioned a study on the impact that the end of the sugar beet quota system in 2015 may have on our climate policy should the...
    • Timber Supply
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his policy in relation to ensuring an adequate supply of timber to the timber processing sector here; his policy for retaining employment...
    • Coillte Teoranta Dividend
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the dividend paid by Coillte Teoranta to the State in each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48266/12]
    • Agriculture Schemes Penalties
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers that were penalised under the single farm payment scheme and disadvantaged area scheme in 2011; the total financial...
    • Food Harvest 2020 Strategy
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which he expects the agri-food sector here to maximise the potential of Food Harvest 2020; if any initiatives are...
    • Marine Plan
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will outline the future timetable of the Our Ocean Wealth policy initiative now that the public consultation period has ended; and...
    • Common Fisheries Policy Review
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he intends to take if the 31 December deadline for the completion of the review of the common fisheries policy will not be met...
    • Bovine Disease Controls
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he is taking to address the incidence of Bovine TB; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47556/12]
    • Suckler Welfare Scheme Payments
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the costs of a new suckler cow welfare scheme for 2013 based on the same rates of payment that currently operate but limiting the number...
    • Island Communities
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the role his Department plays in ensuring the viability of island communities in particular in relation to the development of farming and...
    • Common Agricultural Policy
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he is taking to secure support for the common agricultural policy budget and his single farm payment reform proposals; and if he...
    • Fisheries Protection
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of boats disqualified from fishing for herring this year due to the changes in the rules introduced by him this year; the home...
    • Commonage Division
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide the details of proposals in relation to the stocking of commonages; the level of consultation he has had in relation to...
    • Harbours and Piers
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the allocation made in each of the past five years to local authorities for marine harbours and piers and coastal protection works; and if...
    • Agriculture Schemes Expenditure
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of money paid out to date and the number of recipients in each case under the single payment scheme and the disadvantaged area...
    • Stocking Densities
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in cases in which farmers have had their stocking level limited in a REP scheme plan, a national parks and wildlife plan or an agri...
    • Farm Inspections
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farm inspections that have taken place this year on a monthly basis under the single farm payment regime; the number that...
    • Animal Welfare Expenditure
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is satisfied that grant aid in respect of animal welfare which amounts to €1.1 million per year is value for money and that...
    • Tax Code
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if in the context of Budget discussions, he has raised the issue with the Department of Finance in relation to the importance of...
    • Agriculture Schemes Expenditure
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the percentage of 2012 payments his Department expect to have paid by the 31 December 2012 under each of the following schemes, agri...
    • Exploration Licences
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the input he had, in the decision to grant an exploratory licence to a company (details supplied) to drill and conduct seismic surveys in...
    • Coillte Teoranta Staff
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the present remuneration package for the CEO of Coillte Ireland; and his plans to reduce this package. [47690/12]
    • Sugar Industry
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he is taking to ensure that a sugar industry will once again be established here; his views on the importance of this for food...
    • Forestry Grants
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total cost in 2012 of forest premium being paid by his Department; the number of recipients and the number of these receiving more...
    • Agriculture Schemes Payments
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when REP scheme 4 payments and agri environment option scheme 1 and 2 payments will commence; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Job Statistics
      To ask the Taoiseach the number of companies operating here that have 100 employees or more. [47787/12]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      To ask the Taoiseach the full cost to the Exchequer in the previous 12 months for his Department staff attending conferences including registration fees and travel. [47233/12]
    • Departmental Staff Promotions
      To ask the Taoiseach the number of staff members of his Department that have been awarded internal promotions and or additional acting up or temporary allowances to perform more senior roles...
    • Departmental Staff Redeployment
      To ask the Taoiseach the number of staff members from his Department that have been temporarily and or permanently redeployed to other Government Departments or agencies since 27 March 2009; the...
    • Northern Ireland Issues
      To ask the Taoiseach if there is a North South Co-operation unit in his Department; the number of staff working in the North South Co-operation unit; the number of staff that have worked in the...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide in a tabular form, a list of all professional fees including but not limited to legal, consultancy, IT related, advisory, advertising, and accountancy, the...
    • Departmental Reports
      To ask the Taoiseach the name, costs, date of commission, date or expected date of publication and name of the external consultant of all external reports commissioned by the his Department since...
    • Departmental Staff
      To ask the Taoiseach the names of each staff member within his Department that has been rehired since March 2011 and the cost involved in each case; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Public Sector Pay
      To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide details of all the Gaeltacht allowance payable to civil and public servants; the level of each allowance payable to each category and the monetary level of...
    • Unemployment Statistics
      To ask the Taoiseach if he will confirm the latest unemployment figures in respect of those signing on at the Tallaght Social Protection Office, Dublin 24; if he will also provide the comparison...
    • Departmental Staff Numbers
      To ask the Taoiseach the sectors of the public sector that are currently employed on a roster basis and if there are any plans to remove employees from the rostering system. [49078/12]
    • Departmental Staff
      To ask the Taoiseach the exact number of public servants who are back in employment in the public service, who are on pensions and have accepted lump sums; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Dual Citizenship
      To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of Irish passport holders that are dual nationals; if it is part of the application process for an Irish passport to...
    • International Agreements
      To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will outline his stated position on the State’s sovereignty claim over Rockall and the surrounding continental...
    • Departmental Staff
      To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the names of each staff member within his Department that has been rehired since March 2011 and the cost involved in each case;...
    • Middle East Peace Process
      To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views regarding the recent interception by Israeli forces of the flotilla sailing to Gaza with basic equipment; and if he...
    • Illegal Israeli Imports
      To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views regarding the purchase of goods by EU countries from Israeli-occupied areas of the West Bank; and if he will make a...
    • State Airports
      To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the report findings by Shannonwatch, which show a total of 250,000 troops passing through Shannon in 2011; if this...
    • Overseas Development Aid
      To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade in view of the situation in Uganda, the measures and safeguards that are in place to ensure Irish aid funds are not...
    • Irish Communities Abroad
      To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 154 of 26 June 2012, if he will provide the 2011 figures; and if those figures can be...
    • Diplomatic Representation
      To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding the Vatican Embassy; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • EU Funding
      To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on whether the outcome of the negotiations on the EU’s Multi-Annual Financial Framework will reflect...
    • Overseas Development Aid
      To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will outline the non-governmental organisations Ireland is engaged with in Uganda; the steps he has taken to review their...
    • Departmental Staff Recruitment
      To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the plans he has to designate a Chief Risks Officer and appoint a professionally qualified Head of Finance in his Department;...
    • Departmental Staff Redeployment
      To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide details of the type and frequency of North South engagement his Department undertakes; the current...
    • Áisíneachtaí Tras-Teorann
      To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade cén maoiniú atá curtha ar fáil do na háisíneachtaí trasteorann don bhliain 2012; cén...
    • Trade Missions
      To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will consider the possibility of a national trade mission to Great Britain, which was proposed at a recent meeting of the...
    • Overseas Development Aid
      To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide a detailed breakdown of all moneys allocated to Irish aid for overseas development during the past five...
    • Departmental Staff Numbers
      To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the sectors of the public sector that are currently employed on a roster basis and if there are any plans to remove employees...
    • Departmental Staff
      To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the exact number of public servants who are back in employment in the public service, who are on pensions and have accepted...
  • Department of Finance
    • Budget 2013
      To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide the full list of budgetary information, not the actual data, which will be sent to foreign individuals and or groups, for example the IMF, ECB,...
    • Tax Reliefs
      To ask the Minister for Finance his views on correspondence regarding pension tax breaks (details supplied). [48152/12]
    • Pension Provisions
      To ask the Minister for Finance if he will intervene to stop the pensions levy being charged on retired members (details supplied) of the Electric Supply Board pension fund; and if he will make a...
    • Tax Code
      To ask the Minister for Finance if he will ensure greater equity in pension tax arrangements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48688/12]
    • Tax Credits
      To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide the number of tax credits and reliefs available to taxpayers; the number of taxpayers that have availed of these; and if he will provide a...
    • Mortgage Interest Relief
      To ask the Minister for Finance the reason first time house builders are being treated differently to first time house buyers in terms of availing of mortgage relief; and if he will make a...
    • Tax Yield
      To ask the Minister for Finance he total amount of vat collected at 13.5%, over the most recent year for which figures are available, for each of the following items; beauty treatments, massages,...
    • Banking Sector Remuneration
      To ask the Minister for Finance if he will respond to the following query (details supplied) regarding bankers salaries [47278/12]
    • Bank Debt Restructuring
      To ask the Minister for Finance further to reports that Allied Irish Banks, in which he is the shareholder of 99.8% of the shares, has sold a portfolio of loans with a nominal value of...
    • Customs and Excise Protocols
      To ask the Minister for Finance if he will ensure that marked gas oil MGO / green diesel is assigned a separate commodity code by the Revenue Commissioners to enable the Central Statistics Office...
    • Departmental Staff
      To ask the Minister for Finance the names of each staff member within his Department that has been rehired since March 2011 and the cost involved in each case; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Exchequer Revenue
      To ask the Minister for Finance the current Exchequer account balance; the estimated cost of maintaining such a large amount of cash on hand; the plans for the use of these funds for 2012, 2013...
    • Tax Yield
      To ask the Minister for Finance the amount that could be raised for the Exchequer if the imputed distribution percentage on approved retirement funds and PRSAs was increased from 6% to 8% where...
    • Fiscal Policy
      To ask the Minister for Finance if any analyses are being undertaken in view of the IMF World Economic Outlook note on multipliers to establish the short-term multiplier for Government spending....
    • Tax Reliefs
      To ask the Minister for Finance the savings to the Exchequer from reducing the maximum tax free lump sum upon retirement from €200,000 to €100,000. [47331/12]
    • Bank Debt Restructuring
      To ask the Minister for Finance further to his announcement on 23 April 2012 that the 17% stake in the National Asset Management Agency, or specifically National Asset Management Agency...
    • Mortgage Interest Relief
      To ask the Minister for Finance if he will permit special mortgage relief for applicants who have contracts agreed and mortgage approval granted but will not be able to take possession of the...
    • Tax Reliefs
      To ask the Minister for Finance the savings that could be made for the State from reducing the pensions related earnings cap from €115,000 to €60,000. [47481/12]
    • Customs and Excise Controls
      To ask the Minister for Finance the number of requests received by the Revenue Commissioners to increase their number of customs dogs in each of the past three years; the number of requests that...
    • Tax Reliefs
      To ask the Minister for Finance the tax reliefs and breaks that remain open; the savings to the Exchequer if each tax relief and breaks were discounted; the number and savings to the Exchequer of...
    • Banking Sector Remuneration
      To ask the Minister for Finance if he will deal with a matter (details supplied) regarding bankers pay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47612/12]
    • Tax Code
      To ask the Minister for Finance his views on correspondence regarding the cider industry (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47686/12]
    • Tax Rebates
      To ask the Minister for Finance if a tax refund is due in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47757/12]
    • Mortgage Resolution Processes
      To ask the Minister for Finance if he will put in place measures to enable couples where each partner owns a residence and both are in negative equity to allow them both to sell in order to buy a...
    • National Asset Management Agency
      To ask the Minister for Finance if there are any debtors of the National Assets Management Agency in receipt of salaries from NAMA who are being pursued by said organisation for personal...
    • Tax Collection
      To ask the Minister for Finance the number of litres of petrol and diesel that were sold in the State in the past five years for which the data is available; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Banking Sector Staff
      To ask the Minister for Finance the number of staff who have left Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Limited since January 1 2011 to join AIB and Bank of Ireland; if he will provide details of the...
    • Banking Sector Remuneration
      To ask the Minister for Finance the number of staff that are on a total remuneration package including pension payments, allowances and benefits of between €100,000 and €200,000,...
    • National Asset Management Agency
      To ask the Minister for Finance the number of staff that are on a total remuneration package including pension payments, allowances and benefits between €100,000 and €200,000,...
    • Property Taxation
      To ask the Minister for Finance if in the context where people have a number of apartments where they are compelled to pay the home tax levy on each apartment and the household charge on each...
    • Tax Clearance Certificates
      To ask the Minister for Finance if he will expedite a tax clearance application in respect of a person (details supplied) that has been waiting on their certificate for a considerable period of...
    • Tax Yield
      To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide in tabular form the effective tax rates paid by companies in annual profit bands of €0 to €20,000, €20,001 to...
    • Tax Reliefs
      To ask the Minister for Finance the tax reliefs available to companies; the individual costs to these reliefs to the Exchequer in each of the years 2007 to date in 2012. [47999/12]
    • Tax Yield
      To ask the Minister for Finance the top ten corporation tax payers in here in the last full accounting year; the amount they paid in corporation tax collectively and individually; what those...
    • Customs and Excise Controls
      To ask the Minister for Finance if he will allocate funding to purchase two additional mobile x-ray scanners for the Revenue Commissioners in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Agencies
      To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 141 of 23 October 2012, if a person (details supplied) has been appointed to the National Development Agency, and if he will...
    • National Asset Management Agency
      To ask the Minister for Finance the average wage for developers or project facilitators in the National Assets Management Agency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48105/12]
    • Tobacco Smuggling
      To ask the Minister for Finance if Customs and Excise or the Revenue Commissioners have conducted an assessment on the impact the introduction of plain or standardised packaging for cigarettes...
    • Pension Provisions
      To ask the Minister for Finance the appeal mechanisms open to persons who currently have a pension bond who now wish to liquidate this bond in order to reinvest in a business, however the pension...
    • Tax Code
      To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the fact that Ireland currently does not have legislation on controlled foreign companies which would allow the State to declare a tax haven...
    • Tax Reliefs
      To ask the Minister for Finance the extra cost to the Exchequer that would arise if mortgage interest relief was extended to 50% for persons with net income of less than €30,000, and...
    • Bank Charges
      To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether the new branch service charges (details supplied) in the banks are discriminating against older persons who are unable to use or avail of...
    • EU Treaties
      To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether the ESM Treaty which has been ratified by Dáil Éireann provides a legal basis for the ESM to directly recapitalise eurozone banks or...
    • VAT Rates
      To ask the Minister for Finance if VAT is payable on a used vehicle imported from the UK, noting that VAT had previously been paid in UK when purchased; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Regulation of Accountants
      To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether the Revenue Commissioners, under current legislation, provide sufficient protection for the tax payer if incorrect accounts and information...
    • Budget Submissions
      To ask the Minister for Finance his views on a pre-budget submission (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48376/12]
    • Budget 2013
      To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a breakdown of which taxes will make up to €300 million carry-over as a result of last year's budget measures. [48431/12]
    • Universal Social Charge
      To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding universal social charge in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48436/12]
    • Mortgage Arrears
      To ask the Minister for Finance if figures exist in relation to the number of buy to let mortgages in the system here at present; and the percentage of these mortgages that are currently in...
    • Universal Social Charge
      To ask the Minister for Finance the number of people who would be affected if the universal social charge threshold was changed to take all those earning below the minimum wage out of the charge....
    • North-South Implementation Bodies
      To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide details of the type and frequency of North South engagement his Department undertakes; the current priorities in this area; the number of whole...
    • Bullying in the Workplace
      To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to any complaints of bullying, mis-selling or malpractice made against any of the executives of the pillar banks or their...
    • National Asset Management Agency
      To ask the Minister for Finance further to parliamentary Question No. 311 of 18 September 2012, the number of staff recruited by the National Assets Management Agency, via the legal entity the...
    • Banking Sector Staff
      To ask the Minister for Finance in respect of Bank of Ireland, if he will confirm the number of employees and total remuneration including benefits for the six months ending 30 June 2012 and for...
    • Tax Code
      To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to insert a new provision in the tax code to ensure that tax units with incomes over €250,000 must comply with a minimum effective tax rate of...
    • Universal Social Charge
      To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the universal social charge in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick. [48632/12]
    • Tax Reliefs
      To ask the Minister for Finance the actions that have been taken since March 2011 in relation to the legacy property reliefs and his plans to completely abolish these reliefs. [48633/12]
    • Tax Yield
      To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide details of extra tax revenue that would be raised by placing a 5% levy on all income for people who earn in excess of €100,000 per annum,...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Vocational Training Opportunities Scheme
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total number of persons in receipt of the vocational training opportunities scheme in 2010, 2011 and to date in 2012; the number in receipt broken...
    • Youthreach Programme
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 134 of 2 May 2012, if a person (details supplied) has been registered with Youth Reach; and if they are...
    • Childcare Education and Training Scheme
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider expanding the childcare employment and training support scheme to include students participating in third level education...
    • Graduate Medicine Programme
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the difficulty medical graduate entrants are having in securing bank loans in order to complete their qualifications; if the situation is...
    • Home-School Liaison Scheme
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason there is only 20 hours a week of home tutoring available for two siblings with autism. [48617/12]
    • Site Acquisitions
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 140 of the 25 of September 2012, if he will respond to a query; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Third Level Staff
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons of Professor or Associate Professor grade who have left each university in the State since January 2011; if they have been...
    • School Staffing
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) in County Waterford will have their position reinstated on the panel for teachers; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Staff
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the names of each staff member within his Department that has been rehired since March 2011 and the cost involved in each case; and if he will make a...
    • Energy Conservation
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to require all schools in receipt of capitation funding to implement targeted energy efficiency programmes to cut wasteful usage of...
    • School Transport
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person (details supplied) in County Kerry has had one of their remote area grant payments stopped and if it is possible to have it...
    • Student Grant Scheme Applications
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a person (details supplied) in Count Carlow will receive a decision on their Student Universal Support Ireland application and if he will...
    • Third Level Fees
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide in tabular form for the academic years 2009/2010, 2010/2011, 2011/2012 and 2012/2013 in Dundalk Institute of Technology, the number...
    • Special Educational Needs
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason there is a differential between the rate of pay for special needs assistant €88.50 and teacher/lay persons €112.04 who act as...
    • School Staffing
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a teacher was removed from the system a primary school (detail supplied) in County Meath; if this decision will be reviewed; and if he will...
    • Student Grant Scheme Applications
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will expedite a higher education grant in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; his views on whether it is acceptable that...
    • School Staffing
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current staffing schedule in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Wicklow for the current and previous school years; and if he will...
    • Teaching Qualifications
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will seek to have a special needs assistant (details supplied) in Dublin 12 registered as a teacher and moved to the teaching pay scale; and if...
    • Student Grant Scheme Applications
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of student grant applicants still awaiting a decision on their application; when he expects the grants to be fully processed; and if he...
    • Third Level Staff
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline his position in relation to a personnel situation at a third-level institution (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will...
    • School Staffing
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide details of the number of new teachers who were hired and commenced employment in primary and post primary schools since September...
    • Disadvantaged Status
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a school (details supplied) in County Donegal no longer qualifies for DEIS status despite considerable levels of economic disadvantage in...
    • Special Educational Needs
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an embargo on the employment of special needs assistants; and if he will review the case of a person (details supplied) in...
    • Student Grant Scheme Applications
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will expedite a higher education grant in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reasons students who take out UK loans in order to fund themselves at college in England are refused student grants by Student Universal Support...
    • Capitation Grants
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the year in which the additional capitation funding for children with special educational needs was introduced; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total funding allocated for special needs education in each year since 1997 including this year. [47638/12]
    • National Educational Psychological Service
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of educational psychologists working with National Educational Psychological Service; and the number in place each year since its...
    • School Curriculum
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will examine the possibility of introducing driving lessons and driving theory as a compulsory component of the transition year programme in the...
    • School Patronage
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline the methodology by which the patronage model was decided for the new post primary school (details supplied); if this methodology...
    • Broadband Services
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the grants being provided to broadband suppliers to ensure that their services are connecting to schools in rural areas; and if he will make a...
    • Site Acquisitions
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a site for a school (details supplied) in County Wicklow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47703/12]
    • School Staffing
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a vice-principal for a school (details supplied) in County Wicklow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47704/12]
    • School Curriculum
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way he intends safeguarding the status of history in the proposed new junior cycle; the role of the History Teachers' Association of Ireland in...
    • Supervision and Substitution Scheme
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost to the Exchequer in monetary terms of supervision and substitution allowances in the secondary education sector; if the allowance is paid...
    • Schools Building Projects
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on a school (details supplied) in County Galway; if clarity from the lease holders of the site has been received; if it...
    • Education and Training
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress that has been made on the Programme for Government commitment to provide 60,000 new education and training places. [47746/12]
    • Teacher Recruitment
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will list in tabular form, the numbers of newly qualified teachers who have secured a full-time appointment on or after the 1 January 2011 and...
    • Schools Building Projects
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position in regarding a new school building (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47752/12]
    • Energy Conservation
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider making it mandatory for boards of management to factor in water harvesting facilities for all new school builds; and if he will...
    • School Transport
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide details regarding the number of school transport appeals submitted to the School Transport Appeals Board; the number granted and...
    • Special Educational Needs
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department are working on a research document regarding the introduction and merits of applied behavioural analysis in respect of teaching...
    • School Transport
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason concessionary students who are not allocated tickets under the school transport scheme in the lottery are not allowed to avail of the bus...
    • Special Educational Needs
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the July programme in respect of a school (details supplied) [47816/12]
    • Third Level Grant Applications
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the delay in issuing payment of a student maintenance grant in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Longford; and if he...
    • Adult Education
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to the decision to discontinue the adult refugee programme, if the services provided by the programme will be replaced by new schemes or if...
    • Schools Refurbishment
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a school (details supplied) in County Kildare has been refused funding for the installation of a fire alarm system and for the provision of...
    • Home-School Liaison Scheme
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will address an issue regarding the home tuition scheme raised in correspondence (details supplied). [47885/12]
    • Special Educational Needs
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in view of the fact that the proposal to erode the current therapy services provision operating in special needs schools is vital to the holistic...
    • Third Level Grant Applications
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a grant application with Cork County Council in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a...
    • Special Educational Needs
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a special care assistant in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • School Equipment
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the grants available to schools, primary and post primary, for gym equipment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47977/12]
    • Schools Building Projects
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of funding available to build a new school (details supplied) in Dublin 7 now that planning permission has been granted by Dublin City...
    • Special Educational Needs
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline his Department's response in relation to a proposal put forward by a school (details supplied) in relation to the provision of a...
    • Student Grant Scheme Applications
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason it is taking so long to process college grant applications to Student Universal Support Ireland, in some cases up to four months since...
    • Special Educational Needs
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48002/12]
    • Third Level Grant Applications
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the delay in receiving approval for a thrid level grant in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Longford; and if he will...
    • School Transport
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an application for school transport 2012/13 in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath; the refusal of which...
    • Public Procurement
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the policy of his Department and schools in the procurement of stationary for use in schools; if there has been any instruction issued that...
    • Education Schemes
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a four day Saorview course can be accredited with a Fetac level 5 qualification; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48145/12]
    • School Transport
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review the issue where a school bus has to collect 14 students to take them home and then return for the remaining six students waiting on...
    • Teaching Qualifications
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide in tabular form the number of teachers working in the education system who hold a BCBA or BCaBA qualification. [48167/12]
    • Special Educational Needs
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he confirm that his officials received a submission from a person (details supplied) detailing a peer-reviewed academic study from Howard et al...
    • State Examinations
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to the proposed junior certificate assessment by teachers, if he any procedures have been put in place to ensure teachers are not assessing...
    • Schools Building Projects
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when he expects to have a contract awarded for the construction of an extension to a primary school (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will...
    • School Patronage
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the action being taken to cater for the provision of Church of Ireland schools, taking into account the absence of any secondary schools with a...
    • Schools Building Projects
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will address the issue of the unsafe and substandard prefab accommodation in a school (details supplied) in County Dublin in view of the further...
    • Third Level Grant Applications
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when persons (details supplied) in County Donegal may expect their applications for a higher education grant be processed. [48235/12]
    • State Examinations
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason Leaving Certificate students sitting the honours maths paper in the Leaving Certificate in June 2013 are at unfair disadvantage as they are...
    • Languages Programme
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if schools with more than 20% of pupils requiring English as an additional language support are automatically entitled to an English as an additional...
    • Special Educational Needs
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will clarify comments made by the National Council for Special Educational Needs in recent days in which it claimed that the hiring of 10,300...
    • Fee Paying Schools
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding fee paying schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48306/12]
    • Schools Building Projects
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the provision of a second level school for the town of Kinnegad, County Westmeath; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Agencies
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the institutions under the remit of his Department that have full-time, permanent staff with contract of indefinite duration without a pay scale; and...
    • Schools Building Projects
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a school building application by a school (details supplied) in County Kildare; his views on whether it would be more...
    • School Curriculum
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the new curriculum for leaving certificate honours maths, project maths, keeps changing though students are expected to sit this paper in...
    • National Educational Psychological Service
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current number of psychologists in the national educational psychological service at present and the number in 2009, 2010 and 2011. [48438/12]
    • School Accommodation
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools in the State currently in prefab buildings; the cost to the State on an annual basis of those schools continuing to remain in...
    • Teachers' Remuneration
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a refund in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48447/12]
    • Student Grant Scheme Applications
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive a decision on their application for Student Universal Support Ireland grant; the reason...
    • North-South Ministerial Council
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide details of the type and frequency of North South engagement his Department undertakes; the current priorities in this area; the...
    • Bullying in Schools
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in view of recent high profile deaths of school children, if he will outline the steps, if any, he intends to take to address the issue of cyber...
    • Early Childhood Education
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to develop a comprehensive, national pre-school service that is focused on early childhood development. [48596/12]
    • Schools Building Projects
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to provide a second level Educate Together School in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48597/12]
    • Special Educational Needs
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide in tabular form the current level of spending in his Department with respect to children with special educational needs and the...
    • Education and Training Boards
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the general criteria that will be used to determine the destination of a training centre or associated external provider under the formation of the...
    • School Transport
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school transport route can be altered slightly to accommodate a family (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Access to Higher Education
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider a scheme whereby spare capacity, unfilled places in third level courses in EU third level institutions could be advertised within...
    • Teaching Qualifications
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason Montessori teaching qualifications are not recognised as qualifying a person to teach in primary schools, and the action that needs to be...
    • School Staffing
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of funding a school (details supplied) in Dublin 1 received in 2012 in respect of salaries, teachers, caretakers and so on; if they will...
    • Schools Building Projects
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide the full list of PPP schools to be built under the stimulus package; the status of each of these projects along with the projected...
    • Institutes of Technology
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the various stages that form the plan to consolidate the Dublin Institute of Technology in Grangegorman; the work each stage involves; and if he will...
    • Public Sector Staff
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the sectors of the public sector that are currently employed on a roster basis and if there are any plans to remove employees from the rostering...
    • Departmental Staff
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the exact number of public servants who are back in employment in the public service, who are on pensions and have accepted lump sums; and if he will...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Election Management System
      To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total sums of money, in tabular form, paid out of Exchequer funds for the remuneration of polling station and count staff for the last...
    • Public Sector Pay
      To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the savings accruing to the Exchequer from payroll charges from weekly to fortnightly and from biweekly to monthly; and if he will make a...
    • Election Management System
      To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the final cost of the Dáil and Presidential elections in 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48021/12]
    • Freedom of Information Legislation
      To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the progress he has made in extending the Freedom of Information Acts to more State agencies; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Staff
      To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the names of each staff member within his Department that has been rehired since March 2011 and the cost involved in each case; and if he...
    • Public Sector Staff
      To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the sectors of the public sector that are currently employed on a roster basis; and if there are any plans to remove employees from the...
    • Coastal Erosion
      To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will report on the serious coastal erosion occurring in Portrane, County Dublin; and if he will make provision under the Coastal...
    • Radio Spectrum
      To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform what he has projected as the expected yield from the sale of the 28 blocks of spectrum frequencies by ComReg; and if he has given...
    • National Lottery
      To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform prior to the appointment of Davy Corporate Finance as financial and commercial advisers to his Department with regards to the next National...
    • Flood Prevention Measures
      To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on plans for dredging works at Rathbarry river, West Cork; if he will provide a timeline for the project; and if...
    • Public Sector Staff
      To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to seek voluntary redundancies at the Office of Public Works as part of the targeted voluntary redundancy scheme to accelerate the...
    • Departmental Staff
      To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the exact number of public servants who are back in employment in the public service, who are on pensions and have accepted lump sums; and if...
    • House of the Oireachtas Commission
      To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if ex offico Commission Members receive the €9,500 per annum in commission member allowance. [47898/12]
    • Public Sector Pensions
      To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide in a tabular form a list of former Ministers currently in receipt of ministerial and TD pensions; the names of the...
    • Labour Court Recommendations
      To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason he has requested the Department of Social Protection not to proceed with the approval of pension scheme for community employment...
    • Party Leader's Allowance
      To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to reduce the leaders allowance paid to independent members and ensure that it has to be vouched expenditure; and if he will make a...
    • Northern Ireland Issues
      To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide details of the type and frequency of North South engagement his Department undertakes; the current priorities in this...
    • Flood Risk Assessments
      To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform regarding repeated flooding in the Kilmoyley area (details supplied) in County Kerry, if the Office of Public Works will undertake a flood...
    • Public Private Partnerships
      To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a full, itemised list of the projects that will be advanced as part of the stimulus package announced earlier this year;...
  • Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
    • Company Law Revision
      To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the progress he has made to update and modernise company law so that the accounting profession will be obliged to give an accurate account...
    • Skills Shortages
      To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the plans, if any, he has to implement the recommendation of the report by Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and...
    • Industrial Development
      To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide details in tabular form the number of jobs announced by the Industrial Development Agency; the number of jobs created in...
    • Departmental Staff
      To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the names of each staff member within his Department that has been rehired since March 2011 and the cost involved in each case; and if he...
    • Industrial Development
      To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of visits to south Tipperary facilitated by the Industrial Development Agency and his Department in the period 1 March 2011 to...
    • Work Permits
      To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the position regarding a work permit in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Employment Appeals Tribunal
      To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on correspondence regarding a contract in respect of a person (details supplied) [47546/12]
    • Business Regulation
      To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his plans to reduce the number of licences that a small retailer has to obtain so that they can operate legally; his plans to streamline...
    • International Agreements
      To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his plans to ratify the International Labour Organisation Convention on Domestic Workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Industrial Development
      To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of Industrial Development Agency sponsored visits by individual potential investors for each of the past 6 years. [47693/12]
    • Job Statistics
      To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of jobs directly employed in the air craft leasing industry. [47694/12]
    • Youth Enterprise Initiatives
      To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation in view of the fact that there is no specific youth entrepreneurship fund in Ireland, if he will consider setting up a Youth...
    • Enterprise Ireland Investments
      To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if Enterprise Ireland are planning to financially support the new milk processing unit, Belview County Waterford, in view of the...
    • County Enterprise Boards Grants
      To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if it is realistic to expect the county enterprise boards to process the disbursement of grants to entrepreneurs in a time period of about...
    • Northern Ireland Issues
      To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide details of the type and frequency of North South engagement his Department undertakes; the current priorities in this...
    • Departmental Staff
      To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the exact number of public servants who are back in employment in the public service, who are on pensions and have accepted lump sums; and...
  • Department of Social Protection
    • Child Care Services
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to her response to Parliamentary Question No. 87 of 16 October 2012 in which she indicates that the inter department group on school-age...
    • Social Insurance Payments
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on the reason persons that are self-employed and suffer from illness are treated differently by her Department and the Department of Health...
    • Community Work Placement Initiative
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider extending the terms of the Tús programme to take account of the events and preparations that communities across the country are...
    • Private Rented Accommodation
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the advertising of private rental accommodation on public sites stating no rent allowance accepted and the problems...
    • Pension Provisions
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will initiate pension reform; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48688/12]
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive a decision on their application for carer's allowance; the reason for the delay; and if she...
    • Social Welfare Code
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the options regarding social welfare benefits available to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Applications
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection If she will provide details of the average processing time for rent supplement applications; the reason there appears to be long delays in the processing...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Payments
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she has considered the payment of rent supplement directly to the landlord as opposed to the tenant bearing in mind the increasing reluctance of...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be approved carer's allowance; the date the application was received in her Department; if the...
    • Departmental Staff
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the names of each staff member within her Department that has been rehired since March 2011 and the cost involved in each case; and if she will make a...
    • Invalidity Pension Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an invalidity pension appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No.397 of 19 July 2012 if he will provide details relating to professional fees paid by his Department . [47310/12]
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an application for carer's allowance will be determined in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a...
    • Invalidity Pension Applications
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the progress that has been made to date in the determination of an application for invalidity pension in the case of a person (details supplied) in...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Applications
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if arrears of jobseeker's allowance will be granted in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Fuel Allowance Applications
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if it will be possible for the fuel allowance to be paid in lump sums to person's who have oil heating so that they can fill their tanks as some oil...
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an appeal against the decision to refuse an application for carer's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of social welfare benefits that have been stopped following persons being interviewed at Dublin Airport and other Irish entry points, upon...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the way the conclusion was reached that a person (details supplied) in County Kildare was working for their father when there is no evidence of same; if...
    • Invalidity Pension Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the progress to date in respect of an appeal for an invalidity pension in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make...
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the progress to date in respect of an appeal in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare with a view to granting an oral hearing; and if...
    • Blind Person's Pension Eligibility
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the qualifying criteria a person (details supplied) in County Kerry failed to meet in order to be registered as blind when applying for the blind welfare...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Sligo will receive a decision on their application for carer’s allowance; and if she will make a...
    • Local Employment Service
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection following the re branding of the National Employment and Entitlements Service into Intreo without a single mention of the Local Employment Service, if...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will issue on a carer's allowance application in respect of a person (details supplied) in Cork; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Fuel Allowance Applications
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on correspondence regarding the Tús scheme (details supplied). [47468/12]
    • Child Benefit Payments
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans for the future of child benefit; her plans to tax it or means test same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47487/12]
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total number of persons in receipt of the job seekers benefit in 2010, 2011 and to date in 2012; the number in receipt broken down by county; the...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total number of persons in receipt of the jobseeker's allowance aged 18 to19, 20 to 21, 22 to 24; the number aged 18 to 19, 20 to 21, 22 to 24;...
    • Disability Allowance Payments
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total number of persons in receipt of the disability allowance aged 16 to18; the number aged 16 to18 broken down by county; the total amount spent on...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total number of persons in receipt of the partial capacity benefit in 2010, 2011 and to date in 2012; the number in receipt broken down by county;...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding entitlement to jobseeker's allowance in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a...
    • Vocational Training Opportunities Scheme
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total number of persons in receipt of the vocational training opportunities scheme in 2010, 2011 and to date in 2012; the number in receipt broken...
    • Fuel Allowance Applications
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total number of persons in receipt of the smokeless fuel allowance in 2010, 2011 and to date in 2012; the number in receipt broken down by county;...
    • Supplementary Welfare Allowance Payments
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total number of persons in receipt of the diet and heating supplements in 2010, 2011 and to date in 2012; the number in receipt broken down by...
    • Humanitarian Aid Scheme
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total number of persons in receipt of the humanitarian assistance scheme in 2010, 2011 and to date in 2012; the number in receipt broken down by...
    • Invalidity Pension Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an assessment will be carried out on an invalidity pension appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if she will make a...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection his views on social welfare benefits (details supplied) in Dublin 3; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47562/12]
    • Register of Electors
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her officials use the electoral register; and if so, the occasions when such use is considered warranted within her Department. [47643/12]
    • National Internship Scheme
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) in County Mayo is precluded from getting on jobbridge; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47654/12]
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite an appeal in the case of an application for jobseeker's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and...
    • Child Care Services
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 87 of 16 October 2012, in which she indicates that the inter departmental group on school-age childcare has...
    • Mortgage Arrears
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the sector of professionals who will be permitted to advise mortgage holders as part of the new advisory service; if financial brokers will be permitted...
    • Exceptional Needs Payment
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 355 of 23 of October 2012, the grounds on which a request for an exceptional needs payment was refused in the case...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite a carer's allowance application in respect of a person (details supplied). [47726/12]
    • Invalidity Pension Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite an invalidity appeal application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath. [47727/12]
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision on carer's allowance will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite an appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin. [47795/12]
    • Social Welfare Overpayments
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the way it was determined that a person (details supplied) in County Kildare was overpaid by her Department; if she will review this case; and if she...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason for the delay in expediting a decision on a carer's allowance application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she...
    • Invalidity Pension Applications
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an invalidity pension review application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin. [47774/12]
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Applications
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a rent allowance application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin. [47775/12]
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision on carer's allowance will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47800/12]
    • Tax Reliefs
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views made in the media on 23 October 2012, to the effect that the Government are considering introducing a pensions cap for the purposes of tax...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision on carer's allowance will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47801/12]
    • Invalidity Pension Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if and when an appeal for invalidity pension will be determined in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision on carer's allowance will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision on the domiciliary care allowance appeal will be determined in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath; and if she...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a rent supplement appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kikldare; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an application for carer's allowance was received in her Department in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; when the medical...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a decision has been made on an appeal for rent allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will to expedite an application for carer’s allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15; the reason for the delay; and...
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if additional medical evidence outlining progressive cancer (details supplied) has been taken into consideration in a carer's allowance appeal; and if...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an application for carer's allowance which is currently awaiting review in respect of a person (details supplied); if she will...
    • Family Income Supplement Application Numbers
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the current number of applications for family income supplement renewal and initial approval respectively; the corresponding waiting time in each...
    • Farm Assist Scheme
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of farm assist on a county basis; the number of claims awaiting to be processed and the current waiting time; the number...
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision on a disability allowance will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Invalidity Pension Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision on an invalidity pension review will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Pension Provisions
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection following the report by her Department into the high administration cost of pension schemes, the steps she is taking to address this situation; if she is...
    • Carer's Allowance Eligibility
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a request to review a decision to withdraw entitlement to carer's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Disability Allowance Payments
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a review will take place regarding arrears paid to a person (details supplied) for disability allowance. [47940/12]
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a carer's allowance application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; if she will provide a timeframe as...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection what specifically is meant in the report Community Employment Financial Review of Schemes when it recommends on page nine that the budget for training be...
    • Social Welfare Offices
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will explain the delay in providing a social welfare office in Lucan, County Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47984/12]
    • Child Maintenance Payments
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will agree to attachment of earnings applications so that lone parents can ensure receipt of child maintenance payments from the other parents...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if an appeal for a domiciliary care allowance will be expedited in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny [48004/12]
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider an appeal for half carer's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath; and if she will make a statement...
    • Back to Education Allowance Eligibility
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the circumstances and number of occasions where her Department has waived the criteria for progression under the back to education allowance; and if she...
    • Child Benefit Payments
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total expenditure on the child benefit scheme in each of the past ten years, from 2002 to date in 2012. [48120/12]
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding carer's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Carer's Benefit Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will recieve a decision on an appeal for carer's allowance; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if an application for carer's allowance will be expedited in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Carlow; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Supplementary Welfare Allowance Eligibility
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a person (details supplied) in County Waterford on bail and with no means, awaiting a court trial is entitled to any benefit from her department; and...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of Irish nationals that have been refused a social welfare payment on habitual residence condition grounds in 2009, 2010, 2011 and to date in...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection when arrears for carer's allowance will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • 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 Dublin 17. [48192/12]
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an assessment will be carried out on a carer’s allowance application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if she...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an application for domiciliary care allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick. [48209/12]
    • Gender Recognition Legislation
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection when she expects the heads of bill to be published on the gender recognition legislation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48218/12]
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Payments
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if there is a problem having jobseekers' payments paid directly into bank accounts, and if so, the nature of problem and the way it can be overcome....
    • National Internship Scheme
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the fact that many applicants for positions through jobbridge are having their applications unacknowledged by host...
    • Labour Court Recommendations
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection when her Department and agencies funded by her Department will implement the Labour Court recommendation in relation to Labour Court recommendation...
    • Invalidity Pension Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite a decision on an invalidity pension appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a...
    • Mortgage Interest Supplement Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a decision has been made on a mortgage interest supplement appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an application for carer's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick. [48377/12]
    • National Internship Scheme
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will refer to the qualifying criteria for employers who wish to partake in job bridge national internship scheme; if tax-compliant self-employed...
    • Supplementary Welfare Allowance Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position in relation to the appeal for diet supplement in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [48420/12]
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a carer's allowance appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [48533/12]
    • Northern Ireland Issues
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide details of the type and frequency of North South engagement her Department undertakes; the current priorities in this area; the...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will outline the position, whereby a person who is in receipt of widow's contributory pension, can participate on a community employment scheme;...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Payments
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding rent allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48593/12]
    • Invalidity Pension Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will issue on an invalidity appeal in respect of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48599/12]
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will issue on a disability allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Pension Provisions
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if it is possible for her to legislate to ensure that pension charges are kept low for those in pension schemes (details supplied); and if she will make...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an application for carer's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath; and if she will make a...
    • 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 Kildare; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an appeal for disability allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9; and if she could expedite a decision on...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an application for carer's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9; and if she will expedite on same....
    • Pension Provisions
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will guarantee that no cuts will be made to State Pension Contributory and noncontributory to prevent pensioners from the risk of poverty...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision on an application for carer's allowance will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9; and if she will expedite the...
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an application for carer's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 11. [48697/12]
    • Back to Education Allowance Eligibility
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will review her decision to refuse back to education allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) on the basis that their proposed choice...
    • Departmental Staff Numbers
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the sectors of the public sector that are currently employed on a roster basis and if there are any plans to remove employees from the rostering system....
    • Departmental Staff
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the exact number of public servants who are back in employment in the public service, who are on pensions and have accepted lump sums; and if she will...
  • Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Departmental Expenditure
      To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the annual saving to the Exchequer of shared services between Gaeltacht programme organisations which receive core funding from his...
    • Departmental Staff
      To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the names of each staff member within his Department that has been rehired since March 2011 and the cost involved in each case [47288/12]
    • School Curriculum
      To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will consider engaging with the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment and the Department of Education and Skills as part of...
    • Famine Artefacts
      To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht his public policy in relation to the identification, collection and storage of artifacts relating to the great famine; if the National...
    • Commemorative Events
      To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht his plans for the future development of the National Famine Memorial Day; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47884/12]
    • Scéim na bhFoghlaimeoirí Gaeilge
      To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an bhfuil sé i gceist aige aon athruithe a dhéanamh ar théarmaí Scéim na bhFoghlaimeoirí Gaeilge don bhliain...
    • Coimisiún Logainmneacha
      To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cén uair a bhfuil sé i gceist aige Coimisiún Logainmneacha nua a cheapadh; agus an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas ina...
    • Northern Ireland Issues
      To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide details of the type and frequency of North South engagement his Department undertakes; the current priorities in this...
    • Special Protection Areas
      To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the exact number of appeals received by his Department from land owners in the six designated special protection areas in County Donegal...
    • Public Sector Staff
      To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the sectors of the public sector that are currently employed on a roster basis and if there are any plans to remove employees from the...
  • Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
    • Energy Conservation
      To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if his attention has been drawn to the fact that according to the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland at least 20%,...
    • Inland Fisheries
      To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will examine the feasibility of a salmon hatchery on the River Feale in County Kerry; the potential to rejuvenate salmon...
    • Energy Conservation
      To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will review a decision on a Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland grant application under the better energy...
    • Inland Fisheries
      To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will update Dáil Éireann on the condition of fishery sites (details supplied) and the impact of a separate...
    • Radio Spectrum
      To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if his Department together with its sectoral regulator Comreg, has commenced the bid/auction stage of the Multiband Spectrum...
    • Departmental Staff
      To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the names of each staff member within his Department that has been rehired since March 2011 and the cost involved in each...
    • Energy Conservation
      To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to require all public sector bodies to implement targeted energy efficiency programmes immediately; and his views on...
    • Radio Spectrum
      To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position regarding spectrum sharing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47636/12]
    • Broadband Services
      To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the grants being provided to broadband suppliers to ensure that their services are connecting to schools in rural areas; and...
    • Energy Regulation
      To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the action he will take to curb the uncertified and unregulated gas boiler installers here (details supplied); and if he will...
    • Electricity Transmission Network
      To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the amount of money the delay in the commercial operation of Eirgrid's East West Interconnector will cost electricity...
    • Inland Fisheries
      To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he has considered the feasibility of providing for a compensation scheme for eel fishermen following the prohibition of eel...
    • Television Reception
      To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will intervene and ensure that all households in County Kerry receive the quality television reception they deserve at...
    • Exploration Licences
      To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when the offshore/onshore licences, in the Shell Corrib development, finally expire; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Offshore Exploration
      To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when he expect the Irish State to begin to receive net revenue from the Shell Corrib development; the monetary value expected;...
    • Exploration Licences
      To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the level of exploration or appraisal or development work that has been done on the Irish shelf since the award of the last...
    • Exploration Industry Data
      To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to develop an Irish knowledge base that can participate in the Irish oil or gas activity; and if he will make a...
    • Alternative Energy Projects
      To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources further to Parliamentary Question No. 271 of the 25 September 2012, the way he plans to meet the targets for the production of...
    • Broadcasting Services
      To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources in view of the fact that persons living in parts of County Kerry such as Annascaul, Bonane, Lauragh and East Kerry are now...
    • Exploration Licences
      To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position regarding the fracking planned for Ireland (details supplied) and the concerns raised in relation to the awarding...
    • Northern Ireland Issues
      To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide details of the type and frequency of North South engagement his Department undertakes; the current...
    • Cyber Security Policy
      To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the plans, if any, he has to address the issue of cyber bullying; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48565/12]
    • Renewable Energy
      To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if Bord na Móna is eligible or entitled to claim a rebate in respect of losses incurred from the burning of biomass...
    • Sale of State Assets
      To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if his attention has been drawn to negotiations taking place regarding the sale of the E.S.B.; and if he will make a statement...
    • Telephone Directories
      To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will take action to stop wastage by ensuring that telephone directories are printed in much larger print that at present...
    • Renewable Energy
      To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the level of engagement regarding the development of a renewable energy European supergrid; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Functions
      To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if his Department is engaging with the European Investment Bank and on what matters; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Energy Conservation
      To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of persons that have availed of sustainable energy grants during 2012; the range of funding provided for these...
    • Public Sector Staff
      To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the sectors of the public sector that are currently employed on a roster basis and if there are any plans to remove employees...
  • Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
    • Planning Issues
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is satisfied that all local authorities are applying the same regime in respect of planning levies associated with...
    • Motor Taxation
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in view of the current financial pressures on many persons and families, if he will consider dropping the surcharge for paying...
    • European Court of Justice Rulings
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government with respect to Hearing C-279/11 (Case No. C-66/06) and C-374/11 (Case No C-188/08) of the European Court of Justice held on...
    • Community Development
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will consider under his community programme and in cooperation with the partnership companies across Ireland putting a...
    • Departmental Staff
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the names of each staff member within his Department that has been rehired since March 2011 and the cost involved in each case;...
    • Local Authority Housing Mortgages
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will increase the income limit thresholds for housing applicants to realistic levels, in view of the fact that the...
    • Property Taxation
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if a decision has been made to exempt listed buildings from the proposed property tax; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Capital Assistance Scheme Applications
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide details of projects submitted by local authority for consideration under his Departments capital assistance...
    • Household Charge
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if there are any particular alleviation measure that will be put in place in respect of the household charge where the...
    • Environmental Policy
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide the results of the 36 enforcement visits to a premises (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if he will...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide emergency funding to replace five or six kilometres of the mid Kerry water supply scheme which serves...
    • Leader Programmes
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when funding will be made available to North and East Kerry Development for new applications for Leader funding; and if he will...
    • Climate Change Policy
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to develop an abatement strategy to deal with the effects of climate change for example flood alleviation and the way...
    • Register of Electors
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will outline the purposes which are not related to elections, for which the electoral register will be used by statutory...
    • Illegal Dumping
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans for tackling the increasing problems due to illegal dumping, especially in Dublin city; his Department's assessment...
    • Local Authority Housing Provision
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of council housing loans that have been approved by each local authority in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and to date in...
    • Local Authority Housing Rents
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of council tenants that were in arrears in each local authority in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and to date in 2012; the...
    • Local Government Reform
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown of the €5 to €9 million savings that he maintained will arise in Putting People...
    • Homelessness Strategy
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of funding given by his Department to assist projects to address homelessness in County Wicklow, in 2010, 2011 and...
    • Water Meters
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding home inspections in respect of water metering (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide the estimate of the finances available in each of the councils to be abolished and or amalgamated; the...
    • Local Government Reform
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in view of the recent local government reform proposal; the representation the social partners will have in new local...
    • Local Authority Housing Provision
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of council houses that were constructed in each local authority in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and to date in 2012; the...
    • Housing for People with Disabilities
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the steps he will take to assist the emerging generation of children with disabilities and their parents living in...
    • Homelessness Strategy
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will outline his existing commitment to tackling homelessness; if he will provide an update on the progress of the...
    • Election Management System
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on the possibility of reserving polling station and count staff positions for those on the live register where...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of money that has been allocated to Donegal County Council for the upgrading of the sewage treatment scheme in the...
    • Rural Development Programme
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has considered correspondence sent by this Deputy to his Department in relation to a community group (details supplied);...
    • Rental Accommodation Scheme Application Numbers
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of families or persons on the rental accommodation scheme in each local authority area for each year since the...
    • Local Authority Leases
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of contracts signed and the number of houses that were leased to qualified housing applicants in each local...
    • Building Regulations
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will respond to correspondence outstanding since July 2012 (details supplied). [47862/12]
    • Legislative Programme
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the Climate Bill will be ready for publication by the fourth quarter of 2012; the date on which in the fourth quarter of...
    • Planning Issues
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the length of time on average a planning application that is appealed to An Bord Pleanala take to be processed by the Bord; and...
    • Local Authority Housing Provision
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will assist long term tenants of local authority houses with impeccable rent repayment records who wish to purchase their...
    • Waste Disposal
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding bin waivers for low income households; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that private waste...
    • Homeless Persons
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if any of the National Assets Management Agency allocated social housing properties will be utilised to meet the needs of the...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the expenditure of regeneration funding for the Waterford Regeneration project in each of the years 2008, 2009 and 2010 spent...
    • Household Charge Collection
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will invoice those householders who have not yet paid the household charge; his views on the number of householders who...
    • Local Authority Housing Provision
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of housing units for each housing authority currently tenanted under the residential accommodation scheme; and if he...
    • Voluntary Housing Sector
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of voluntary housing associations operating here; the number of units being managed or owned by each; and if he will...
    • Household Charge Collection
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will investigate the situation in an estate in North County Dublin (details supplied) which is unfinished and exempt from...
    • Commercial Rates
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the commercial rate payable in tabular form for each of the following, county councils, city councils and town councils; the...
    • Exchequer Savings
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the annual saving to the Exchequer if a pay cap of €100,000 was in place for the 226.65 City and County Managers,...
    • Household Charge Exemptions
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if a person (details supplied) who is not liable to pay the household property charge but who nonetheless paid the charge can...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has reviewed the grants for group water/ waste water group schemes (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Local Authority Housing Maintenance
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of regeneration funding provided in the current year for the replacement of windows and doors and remedial works on...
    • Local Authority Housing Provision
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update on efforts being made to retain the vital Estate Management Projects in Fettercairn and...
    • Northern Ireland Issues
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide details of the type and frequency of North South engagement his Department undertakes; the current...
    • Local Authority Housing Provision
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of qualified housing applicants in each local authority for social housing; the total number of housing applicants;...
    • Waste Disposal
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when the historic landfills working group was established; who is the chairperson of this group; the membership of same; the...
    • Departmental Bodies
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when the joint working group of the transfer of rent supplement from the Department of Social Protection to his Department was...
    • Mortgage Arrears
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when the local authority mortgage arrears guidance group was established; who is the chairperson of this group; the membership...
    • Local Authority Services
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when the Waterford local Government committee group was established; who is the chairperson of this group; the membership of...
    • Water Services
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when the steering group to oversee reform of the water sector was established; who is the chairperson of this group; the...
    • Waste Disposal
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when the waste management planing national coordination committee was established; who is the chairperson of this group; the...
    • Departmental Bodies
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when the foreshore advisory group was established; who is the chairperson of this group; the membership of same; the number of...
    • Pyrite Issues
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when the independent panel to facilitate a resolution to the problem of pyrite was established; who is the chairperson of this...
    • Unfinished Housing Developments
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when the National coordination committee for unfinished housing developments was established; who is the chairperson of this...
    • Departmental Bodies
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the date on which local government/local development alignment steering group was established; the person who is chairman of...
    • Household Charge Exemptions
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will ensure that householders living in estates (details supplied) in Dublin 13 will be exempt from paying the household...
    • Housing Adaptation Grants
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will consider setting aside a specific budget for the housing adaptation grant scheme, as funding for accessible living...
    • Local Government Reform
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if under Putting People First there will be in increase in the number of elected councillors in each of the existing Dublin...
    • Departmental Bodies
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the date on which the fix your street review group was established; the person who is chairperson of this group; the membership...
    • Public Sector Staff
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the sectors of the public sector that are currently employed on a roster basis and if there are any plans to remove employees...
    • Departmental Staff
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the exact number of public servants who are back in employment in the public service, who are on pensions and have accepted...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Judicial Pay
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the amount in expenses that Judges receive tax free; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47565/12]
    • Refugee Status
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his policy regarding the provision of refugee status to Syrian nationals fleeing Aleppo via Turkey; if any provision exists for granting refugee...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the annual cost of leasing the Property Registration Authority offices at Setanta Centre, Dublin 2; when this lease will expire; the number of staff...
    • Gender Recognition
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his view on the proposed 40% female corporate gender quota in the EU; if he will support the quota; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Visa Applications
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will clarify when a visa will issue to a person (details supplied) who hopes to travel to Ireland to bring their sister, who is very unwell,...
    • Departmental Staff
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the names of each staff member within his Department that has been rehired since March 2011 and the cost involved in each case; and if he will make a...
    • Garda Complaints Procedures (1 comment)
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the complaints procedure in place for those who feel they have been treated inappropriately by the Garda National Immigration Bureau officials; and if...
    • Garda Investigations
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason the Gardaí did not take a complaint of anti-semitic intimidation seriously, according to an internet blog which has received...
    • Private Security Authority
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the conditions attached for contractors applying to the private security authority for registration on the register of CCTV and access control licence...
    • Garda Resources
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the additional resources Gardaí in the R District are being provided with to deal with Halloween; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Criminal Prosecutions
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons who have a criminal record for cannabis possession; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47593/12]
    • Visa Applications
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if a re-entry visa will be granted in respect of persons (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47579/12]
    • Employment Rights
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he intends to bring forward proposals to consider changing procedure of appealing decision of the Employment Appeals Tribunal by the Circuit Court...
    • Child Protection
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which support and child protection services are available in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 24; and if he will make a...
    • Asylum Seeker Accommodation
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he has plans to revisit his plans to close a number of the direct provision centres for asylum seekers in view of the fact that the disruption this...
    • UN Conventions
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No.478 of 16 October 2012, if he will provide the timeframe for ratification of the UN convention on the rights of...
    • Structured Court Settlements
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his views regarding the possibility of reforming the process of court awarded medical expenses from a lump sum to a payment that is issued on a...
    • Prison Staff
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the opportunities available for prison officers to retrain or redeploy within the public service particularly occupational injuries make it difficult...
    • Illegal Moneylenders
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the action he will take against illegal money lenders (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47721/12]
    • Prisoner Discipline
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will outline the number of prisoners in prisons here who have been subjected to 56 days disciplinary punishment in 2012; and if he will indicate...
    • Garda Transport
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality in view of the fact that the Garda Representative Association estimate that a one fifth of the Garda fleet amounting to 500 vehicles will need to be...
    • Garda Investigations
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will have the case of a serious injury assault with a chain saw reviewed in respect of persons (details supplied) in County Longford; and if he...
    • Decentralisation Programme
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when the decentralisation of the Property Registration Authority offices to Roscommon town will be completed; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Garda Investigations
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the forensic files relating to the attempted bombing of the Widow Scallan's pub and the murder of person (details supplied) will be released for...
    • Missing Children
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality in view of the recent abduction and disappearance of children in other jurisdictions, if additional legislation, powers or resources are required to...
    • Garda Deployment
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the total number of Gardaí stationed in each district and division for the years 1961, 1971, 1981, 1991, 2001 and 2011; and if he will make a...
    • Deportation Orders
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide a breakdown by nationality of the almost 3,700 people who, accordingly to figures released by the Department of Justice, were...
    • Garda Vetting of Personnel
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason for the delay in processing an application submitted to the Garda Central Vetting Unit in July 2012 in respect of a person (details...
    • Garda Operations
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will report on Garda operation Aughrim; the number of persons arrested and charged to date; the number of successful convictions obtained; and...
    • Garda Transport
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if an Garda Síochána are required to use marked cars and not to use unmarked cars when deploying speed cameras; if such cars are required to...
    • Crime Prevention
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to increase the roll out of the text alert scheme to rural areas in view of the fact that where it is operating, burglaries have reduced by...
    • Restorative Justice
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding restorative justice in relation to community offenders; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48097/12]
    • Tobacco Smuggling
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality in view of his public statement in the aftermath of the recent Crumlin shooting that the gangs responsible were likely to be involved in cigarette...
    • Citizenship Applications
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will update Dáil Éireann regarding the citizenship application process; if he will advise the nature of systematic correspondence from...
    • Garda Transport
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of marked and unmarked Garda vehicles that are fitted with automatic number plate recognition service; his plans to increase this number;...
    • Mobile Telephone Seizures
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of mobile phones seized at each prison here for the years 2009, 2010, 2011 and to date in 2012; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Staff Remuneration
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason non categorised personnel within his Department are paying a pension levy even though they have no pension; and if he will make a statement...
    • Proposed Legislation
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans, if any, to bring forward legislation dealing with sentencing and post-release supervision issues (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Garda Reserve
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Questions No. 213 of 14 February 2012 and No. 154 of 11 October 2012, if he will reconcile the seemingly contradictory...
    • Educational Services for Prisoners
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prisoners who undertook third level study in 2008 with the Open University and with the National college of Art and Design; the number...
    • Illegal Money Lending
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No.44503/12 of October 2012, the action he will take regarding the person (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Residency Permits
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of non-EEA national aged between 16 and 18 years who are currently registered here; and if he will provide a breakdown of the types of...
    • Cyber Bullying
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the measures that are to be undertaken by the frontline officers of an Gardaí Síochána upon receipt of a complaint about alleged cyber...
    • Garda Stations
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding improvement works to the cells in a Garda station (details supplied) in County Wicklow; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Private Security Authority
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to reduce the cost of a PSA licence to make it more affordable for small business owners; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Registration of Title
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his views on a situation relating to the charging of fees under right-of-way registration regulations as laid down by the new Land and Conveyancing...
    • Crime Prevention
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the steps the Gardaí are taking in an area (details supplied) in County Meath to reduce crime; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Naturalisation Applications
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason an application for naturalisation has not yet been decided in respect of a person (details supplied) ion Dublin 18; and if he will make a...
    • Garda Vetting of Personnel
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding a vetting application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Garda Deployment
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if there are any plans for an increase in Garda foot patrols in an area (details supplied) in County Meath due to the lack of a Garda station; and if...
    • Northern Ireland Issues
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide details of the type and frequency of North South engagement his Department undertakes; the current priorities in this area; the...
    • Cyber Bullying
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the plans, if any, he has to outlaw the practice of cyber bullying; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48566/12]
    • Commercial Leases Database
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the date on which the commercial leases database will be made available to the public by the Property Services Regulatory Authority. [48660/12]
    • State Pathology Laboratory
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding the State Pathology Laboratory announced under the stimulus package; the various stages involved in this project; the timelines...
    • Court Accommodation
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide details of the refurbishment and extension works to be carried out on courthouses as announced under the stimulus package; the...
    • Garda Districts
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide details for the new Garda divisional headquarters announced under the stimulus package; the status and expected timelines for this...
    • Garda Stations
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will refrain from closing additional Garda stations in rural areas; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the elderly and those...
    • Public Sector Staff
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the sectors of the public sector that are currently employed on a roster basis and if there are any plans to remove employees from the rostering...
  • Department of Defence
    • Defence Forces Deployment
      To ask the Minister for Defence the position regarding an Army unit (details provided) in County Cork if it is possible to have the personnel involved in this unit re-assigned to other units...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      To ask the Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 641 19 July 2012, if he will provide details relating to professional fees paid by his Department. [47258/12]
    • Departmental Staff
      To ask the Minister for Defence the names of each staff member within his Department that has been rehired since March 2011 and the cost involved in each case; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Defence Forces Operations
      To ask the Minister for Defence the number of times the bomb disposal team were called out to incidents in Dublin for the years 2009, 2010, 2011 and to date in 2012; and if he will make a...
    • Defence Forces Pardons
      To ask the Minister for Defence the position regarding a pardon for World War II soldiers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48161/12]
    • Value for Money Reviews
      To ask the Minister for Defence the date on which the Value for Money Report of the Reserve Defence Forces will be published. [48190/12]
    • Defence Forces Allowances
      To ask the Minister for Defence item 6.10 vote number 36 Defence 2011 refers to payment totalling €1,461,965 which was made to the Offices of the Revenue Commissioners in 2011 in...
    • Air Accident Investigations
      To ask the Minister for Defence if he will report on the conclusions and recommendations on foot of an investigation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48380/12]
    • Northern Ireland Issues
      To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide details of the type and frequency of North South engagement his Department undertakes; the current priorities in this area; the number of whole...
    • Defence Forces Allowances
      To ask the Minister for Defence if he will justify the recent announcement to stop the payment of allowances to all new army personnel; his views on the fact that the removal of ten allowance...
    • Departmental Budgets
      To ask the Minister for Defence the extent to which his Department has quantified savings accruing from budgetary, administrative or operational changes made in each of the past two years; the...
    • Defence Forces Operations
      To ask the Minister for Defence if he is satisfied regarding the ability of the Defence Forces to provide the full scale of back up requirements to the civil authorities in the short and medium...
    • Public Sector Staff
      To ask the Minister for Defence the sectors of the public sector that are currently employed on a roster basis and if there are any plans to remove employees from the rostering system. [49071/12]
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Departmental Reports
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has considered the Report of the High Level Group on the jobs initiative for the Killybegs region; his plans he has to create jobs...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when an area aid payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47224/12]
    • Departmental Staff
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the names of each staff member within his Department that has been rehired since March 2011 and the cost involved in each case; and if he...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment under the disadvantaged area scheme will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will...
    • Single Payment Scheme Payments
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for the delay in issuing the single farm payment to a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; when payment will issue....
    • European Fisheries Fund
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the interaction he has had with the European Fisheries Fund; the amount of money returned by the State to the fund in each of the past...
    • Aquaculture Development
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the help he is offering to private sector companies who wish to farm fin fish here; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive a decision on an application for their disadvantaged area aid payment; and if...
    • Single Payment Scheme Payments
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers awaiting the advance single farm payment on the 22 October 2012; the reason for the delay in processing these...
    • Pigmeat Sector
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in view of the fact that feed prices for the pig sector have risen by 23% in the past six months and on average prices have increased by...
    • Forestry Sector
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has consulted with his UK equivalent on the spread of Chalara Fraxinea amongst trees in the UK; if he has measures in place to...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding disadvantaged area payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a...
    • European Court of Justice Rulings
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department is on time in respect of the requirements of the negative judgement by the European Court of Justice; and if there is...
    • Forestry Grants
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No 171 on 27 September 2012, the position regarding this case and when payment will issue; and if he...
    • Aquaculture Licences
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of aquaculture licences that were granted or renewed in Natura 2000 areas in Ireland between the introduction of the Natura...
    • Aquaculture Development
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding Kenmare Bay (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47450/12]
    • Single Payment Scheme Payments
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a breakdown of the number of farmers who will receive less than €5,000 and €9,999; between €10,000...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when disadvantaged area scheme payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Single Payment Scheme Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive a decision on their appeal for single farm payment 2009, 2010; and if he will...
    • Departmental Staff Training
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department train persons dealing with farmers on the way to handle the situation of they are presented with a person who is...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when disadvantaged area scheme payment will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a...
    • Single Payment Scheme Applications
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will approve an application for single farm payment in respect of a person (Details Supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Applications
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will receive their disadvantaged farm payment; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Eligibility
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will include working horses in calculations for the disadvantaged area scheme.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47629/12]
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment of the disadvantaged area scheme will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a...
    • Single Payment Scheme Payments
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will expedite an application for single farm payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath which is being...
    • Agriculture Schemes Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding a cross compliance appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [47737/12]
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Applications
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a decision on a derogation scheme will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment in respect of the disadvantaged area scheme will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a...
    • Grant Aid
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a decision has been taken regarding a funding application by a voluntary orgainsation (details supplied) in County Mayo; if not, when...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Applications
      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 payment; and if he will make a statement...
    • Single Payment Scheme Applications
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for the delay in processing a single farm payment for 2011 in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; the...
    • Animal Welfare Issues
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to amend the law to make it illegal for circuses to hold performing animals in captivity and use them as part of their...
    • Food Safety Standards
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a licence is required to produce and sell a product (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47842/12]
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Conditions
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if farmers in special areas of conservation designated lands have any priority in accessing the agri-environmental options scheme; if so,...
    • Single Payment Scheme Payments
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for the delay in issuing area aid and single farm payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Longford; and if...
    • Common Fisheries Policy Reform
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the recent provisional deal to reshape the common fisheries policy and the aim to reform the eradication of discards; and if...
    • Single Payment Scheme Payments
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for the delay in issuing area aid and single farm payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Longford; and if...
    • Suckler Welfare Scheme Payments
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total cost of the suckler cow welfare scheme since its inception; if payment rates will be maintained in 2013 in view of a ring fenced...
    • Suckler Welfare Scheme Application Numbers
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers on a county basis in receipt of payments under the suckler cow welfare scheme; the total payment made on a county...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the services that are in place in County Carlow in his Department to deal with persons who suffer from dyslexia and who need advice,...
    • Agrifood Sector
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which he has received submissions from the Irish Farmers Association and other farming organisations outlining the...
    • Animal Welfare Issues
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which he has succeeded in ensuring that adequate time and financial resources have been made available to pig producers...
    • Dairy Sector
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his expectations in terms of the future development of the dairy sector post-quota; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47929/12]
    • Beef Industry
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his future expectations for the development of the beef industry with particular reference to maintaining Ireland’s share of the...
    • Sheepmeat Sector
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which he continues to monitor the development and future growth prospects of the lamb industry; the areas in respect of...
    • Severe Weather Events
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which he has quantified the impact of inclement weather conditions on the agri-food producing sector; if he envisages any...
    • Dairy Sector
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the markets currently showing great potential for growth at EU or worldwide level for Irish dairy products; and if he will make a...
    • Fishing Industry Development
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total number of jobs generated by the fishing industry here at all levels; the extent to which this might be increased or expanded in...
    • Food Labelling
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of breaches of food-labelling in respect of traceability and other standard that have been identified in each of the past four...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding an area aid appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Applications
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a person (details supplied) in County Cork has yet to receive his disadvantaged area payment for 2012; and if he will make a statement...
    • Agriculture Schemes Payments
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will be paid their disadvantaged and single farm payments; and if he will make a statement...
    • Live Exports
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to amend the law to prohibit the live export of animals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47971/12]
    • Coillte Teoranta Lands
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the up to date position regarding free access to Coillte lands and parkways and adjacent carparks; if access adjacent to carparks is...
    • Sugar Industry
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the balance of payments due to beet contractors from the beet fund allocation in his Department will be allocated; and if he will...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding disadvantaged payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Sligo. [48035/12]
    • Sheepmeat Sector
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason he has brought in a regulation that a person purchasing lamb for export has to hold them for twenty one days before exporting...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Applications
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 200 of 25 October 2012, when a decision on the disadvantaged area scheme will issue to a person...
    • Beef Industry
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to enhance and develop the beef industry in lieu of the attractiveness of dairy farming; the steps he is taking to preserve and...
    • Rural Environment Protection Scheme Applications
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a decision will issue on a heritage grant under the REP scheme in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Applications
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a decision on derogation on a disadvantaged area scheme application has been made in respect of a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Afforestation Programme
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of landowners in County Kildare who are in receipt of an annual forestry premium payment; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Applications
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding an application for the area based payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; when payment...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding a farm payment appeal in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Fisheries Offences
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent of the direct economic cost to fishermen of the mandatory statutory forfeiture of catch and gear for fisheries offences in the...
    • Grassland Sheep Scheme Payments
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payments of subsidies to sheep farmers who farm the Lyre mountains, County Waterford will be paid; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Veterinary Inspection Service
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the way in which further efficiencies and cost savings can be achieved in his Department; his plans to privatise the...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Applications
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a decision has been made on an appeal on a application for derogation of a disadvantage area scheme application in respect of a person...
    • Single Payment Scheme Eligibility
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his view on the need to extend the period of time for the cutting of rushes, to enable farmers to comply with rushes control criteria for...
    • European Council Meetings
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will be discussing Ireland's position on the future common agricultural policy at the next EU Council meeting; and if he will make a...
    • Single Payment Scheme Applications
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding an outstanding single farm payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a...
    • Single Payment Scheme Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will reconsider the case of a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath in respect of a penalty decision which resulted from a...
    • Agriculture Schemes Payments
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Galway will be paid their 2012 disadvantaged area based payment and their single farm payment;...
    • Farm Safety
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in view of the recent tragedies involving farmers agitating slurry his views on whether he will send out a helpful informative leaflet...
    • Fisheries Offences
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he intends to move forward with a new Sea Fisheries Bill to replace the criminal sanctions system for minor fisheries offences with an...
    • Harbours and Piers
    • Farm Entitlement Consolidation
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a farm is sold with its entitlements 113 acres sold with 47 entitlements, 83 acres of this is planted and the remaining 28 acres is...
    • Single Payment Scheme Payments
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will receive their single farm payment and disadvantaged area payment; and if he will make...
    • Legislative Programme
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he expects the Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012 to be passed by Dáil Éireann; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Applications
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for delay in processing an application for the agri-environment option scheme in respect of a person (details supplied) in...
    • Northern Ireland Issues
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide details of the type and frequency of North South engagement his Department undertakes; the current priorities in this...
    • Horse and Greyhound Fund
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the horse and greyhound fund continues to receive a subvention from the Exchequer; and the amount of that subvention in 2009, 2010,...
    • Departmental Agencies
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of senior individuals whether board members or executives provided with credit cards in agencies under his aegis; and in...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when disadvantaged area scheme payment will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a...
    • Beef Industry
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if any enquiries have been made into the reason beef producers here receive a lower price for their product than their colleagues in the...
    • Public Sector Staff
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the sectors of the public sector that are currently employed on a roster basis and if there are any plans to remove employees from the...
  • Department of Children and Youth Affairs
    • Departmental Expenditure
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No 684 of 19 July 2012, if she will provide details relating to professional fees paid by her Department....
    • Departmental Staff
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the names of each staff member within her Department that has been rehired since March 2011 and the cost involved in each case [47289/12]
    • Missing Children
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will commit to continue and long-term funding for the 116 000 missing child hotline number; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Children in Care
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will clarify when the findings of the investigation following abscondences from Gleann Alainn Special Care Unit in October 2011 will be...
    • Child Care Services
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views and opinions regarding the standards that child-minders should have in relation to formal qualifications; if her attention has been...
    • Inter-Country Adoptions
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide an update on progress regarding the possibility of entering into a bilateral adoption agreement with Ethiopia; and if she...
    • Children in Care
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No 224 of 22 February 2012, when the figures for 2011 will be available and the details of same. [47958/12]
    • Youth Services
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason for withdrawing funding from a project (details supplied) in Dublin 11; her plans, if any, to ensure that the work of this valuable...
    • Children's Rights Referendum
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs in the context of the forthcoming referendum on Children's Rights, if she will outline her commitment to providing sufficient resources to...
    • Proposed Legislation
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the position regarding the drafting and publication of the Child and Family Support Agency Bill; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Adoption Legislation
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will respond to a query (details supplied) regarding adoption; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48126/12]
    • Early Childhood Education
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to extend the early childhood care and education scheme in terms of the hours provided and for an additional year in view of the...
    • Northern Ireland Issues
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide details of the type and frequency of North South engagement her Department undertakes; the current priorities in this area;...
    • Public Sector Staff
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the sectors of the public sector that are currently employed on a roster basis and if there are any plans to remove employees from the rostering...
  • Department of Health
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      To ask the Minister for Health if she will review the withdrawal of a blind allowance with a view to reinstating this payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [47454/12]
    • Home Help Service
      To ask the Minister for Health if the model of the home help services of Northern Ireland has been examined by his Department in view of the recent report composed by researchers from Trinity...
    • Disabled Drivers
      To ask the Minister for Health the reason motorised transport grants are being held up due to delays with Department of Social Protection officials carrying out financial assessments in relation...
    • Vaccination Programme
      To ask the Minister for Health the progress that has been made in putting a package of supports in place for those sufferers of unique narcolepsy disorder; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will respond to the concerns expressed regarding the fair deal scheme in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Hospital Services
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a date for an urgent operation for a person (details supplied) in County Laois; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47220/12]
    • Cancer Research
      To ask the Minister for Health the amounts of funding provided through the Health Research Board for research on brain tumour incidence, causes and treatment in 2009, 2010 and 2011 respectively;...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      To ask the Minister for Health when an appointment for a M.R.I. scan will be granted in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Hospital Staff
      To ask the Minister for Health when a Consultant Rheumatologist will be appointed to Mayo General Hospital; if the required support services will be provided at Mayo General Hospital to coincide...
    • Care Services
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will welcome any initiative by the partnership sector under the Department of Environment, Community and Local Government; if he will consider the setting up...
    • Compensation Awards
      To ask the Minister for Health the reason he has reneged on the promise he made to Positive Action while in opposition to look at the classification of women infected with Hepatitis C to allow...
    • Departmental Staff
      To ask the Minister for Health the names of each staff member within his Department that has been rehired since March 2011 and the cost involved in each case; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Mental Health Services
      To ask the Minister for Health the process involved in placing a person (details supplied) in Dublin 14 in residential care or sheltered accommodation at the request of their parents; and if he...
    • Patient Transport
      To ask the Minister for Health the waiting list for taxi drivers trying to get on the Health Service Executive list for HSE transportation; the time it takes to process an application in each of...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      To ask the Minister for Health the way that he envisages the budget of an organisation (details supplied) in Dublin 13 after Budget 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47350/12]
    • Patient Transport
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will fund a bus service for patients in County Donegal who require treatment in Dublin hospitals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47351/12]
    • Drug Treatment Programmes
      To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to ensure that Coolmine therapeutic community will be able to stay open and continue to help young mothers with addiction issues; and if he...
    • Accident and Emergency Services
      To ask the Minister for Health the cost to the Exchequer of reducing accident and emergency arrival charges by €10 [47383/12]
    • General Practitioner Services
      To ask the Minister for Health if he has explored the option of standardising general practitioner charges across the State, for example, capping the charge at €40; and if such...
    • Departmental Reports
      To ask the Minister for Health when he will publish the mortality report on acute hospitals; the reason the publication of this report has been delayed over the last 14 months; and if he will...
    • Health Services
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown in each PCCC area of the number of children in each age category who are awaiting a child developmental check; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Procedures
      To ask the Minister for Health the options available to patients who previously would have been able to access treatment under the national treatment purchase fund; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there is currently a four year waiting list to see a consultant with regard to possible tonsillectomy at Waterford...
    • Departmental Funding
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that the budget of Prosper Fingal is protected in next years overall departmental budget. [47394/12]
    • Medical Card Review
      To ask the Minister for Health if an examination of medical card holders is being carried out to ensure that it takes account of medical card holders who have emigrated; if he will explain the...
    • Accident and Emergency Services
      To ask the Minister for Health the percentage of accident and emergency admissions that are drink related or due to the abuse of alcohol and the estimated cost of this to the health system. [47405/12]
    • Hospital Appointments
      To ask the Minister for Health the percentage of outpatients not turning up for scheduled outpatient appointments and not giving any notice; the estimated cost of this to the health service; if...
    • Community Care
      To ask the Minister for Health in view of the fact that a psychiatric unit (details supplied) in County Kerry is proposed for closure by the Health Service Executive, if he will provide an...
    • Cancer Screening Programme
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that enough funding is in place in 2013 and the years ahead to keep bowel cancer screening operational; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Medical Card Applications
      To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an application for a medical card renewal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork [47452/12]
    • Departmental Bodies
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the membership for the Implementation Group on Generic Substitution; if he will also outline the organisations involved within this working...
    • Medical Card Applications
      To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an application for a medical card renewal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork [47453/12]
    • Health Services
      To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding respite care in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork [47455/12]
    • Medical Card Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will arrange to have an appeal for a medical card heard in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork [47456/12]
    • Medical Card Applications
      To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card renewal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork [47458/12]
    • Ambulance Service
      To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the Arklow ambulance and hospital services that carry wheelchairs to St. Vincent's and Loughlinstown Hospital have...
    • Health Services
      To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in County Cork is finding it difficult to have their consultant complete an E112 form for them to have treatment in Poland;...
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider the allocation of a discretionary medical card to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47388/12]
    • Health Services
      To ask the Minister for Health if transport will be provided to meet the needs of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47390/12]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 232 of 10 October 2012, the reason for the delay in the approval of ankle and foot orthotics in respect of a person (details...
    • Departmental Funding
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will not cut the funding in respect of an organisation (details supplied) [47544/12]
    • Medicinal Products
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that the recommendation of the Joint Department of Health/Health Service Executive Working Group proposed Model for reference Pricing and Generic...
    • Health Services
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will arrange for urgent surgical intervention in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47599/12]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will respond to a query regarding the recycling of crutches; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47601/12]
    • Medical Card Applications
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will approve a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47607/12]
    • Health Insurance Claims
      To ask the Minister for Health the amount owed in total by health insurers in hospitals here since 2009; and his views on the global figure and the amount that each hospital is owed on an...
    • Hospital Services
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a list of hospitals operated or funded by the Health Service Executive who have service level agreements in place with third party commercial...
    • Home Help Service
      To ask the Minister for Health the number of home help hours withdrawn from the system for elderly persons since the beginning of this year. [47628/12]
    • Health Service Expenditure
      To ask the Minister for Health the amount he expects to spend on medicines in 2012; if the Health Service Executive has sufficient budgetary resources to meet this cost; and if he will make a...
    • Medicinal Products
      To ask the Minister for Health the mechanism by which reference pricing for medicines will be delivered; the person who set the reference price; the model that will be used; the date on which it...
    • Hospital Services
      To ask the Minister for Health the steps he proposes to take to address concerns (details supplied) in respect of Kerry General Hospital where as a result of cuts up to 500 surgical operations...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will issue a date for a hip operation in Tullamore Hospital, County Offaly, in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath [47670/12]
    • Patient Transport
      To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding hospital transport in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47695/12]
    • Medical Cards
      To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card holder paying the difference in cost between a generic drug and a branded drug and for pharmacies to accept the payment for...
    • Medical Card Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the decision to refuse a medical card in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Cross-Border Co-operation
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the areas in which hospitals north and south will cooperate with each other; the potential services which will be operated on a cross border...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a hospital appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47799/12]
    • Drugs Payment Scheme
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will support the new drug for Cystic Fibrosis patients (details supplied) [47802/12]
    • Health Service Expenditure
      To ask the Minister for Health under the bilateral agreement with the UK, the amount charged by the Health Service Executive for the treatment of patients who would be covered by the UK health...
    • Medicinal Products
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on work by his Department to examine the way cannabis based medicinal products such as Sativex may be legally prescribed by medical...
    • Medical Card Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an appeal against the decision to refuse an application for a full medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare;...
    • Medical Cards
      To ask the Minister for Health the name of each drug and product which has been withdrawn from the medical card scheme in 2012 and the basis for the withdrawal of each item [47815/12]
    • Health Services
      To ask the Minister for Health the supports available in respect of persons (details supplied) in Dublin 17 [47819/12]
    • Home Help Service
      To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding home help in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 3 [47820/12]
    • General Medical Services Scheme
      To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding replacement doctors (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47712/12]
    • Vaccination Programme
      To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether his Department should follow the American example in that all children must have all vaccinations before starting school; and if he will make a...
    • Health Service Expenditure
      To ask the Minister for Health the level of funding provided by the State to the Brothers of Charity Services for each of the years 2009 to 2012 inclusive; the cuts to funding in the past 12...
    • National Children's Hospital
      To ask the Minister for Health the contacts he has had with a person (details supplied) in relation to the building of a National Children's Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Bodies
      To ask the Minister for Health if he has given any consideration to the amalgamation of the Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Council with HIQA; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47786/12]
    • Health Services
      To ask the Minister for Health whether it is the case that a person (details supplied) in County Louth was contacted by the Health Service Executive and told to cancel an appointment they had...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a hospital appointment in respect of a person (details supplied) [47852/12]
    • Medical Card Application Numbers
      To ask the Minister for Health the number of medical cards currently in the system; the number of persons directly dependent on these cards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47881/12]
    • Health Service Expenditure
      To ask the Minister for Health the level of funding provided by the State to Prosper Fingal and Knockrosse House for each of the years 2009 to 2012 inclusive; the cuts to funding in the past 12...
    • Special Educational Needs
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a copy of the health policy that underpins the proposed changes of reducing therapy service provision to children with a moderate intellectual...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      To ask the Minister for Health the reason the national disability database was not used to inform parents of the proposed changes to therapy provision for children with special needs as it was...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 737 of 17 July 2012, when a person (details supplied) will receive an ear nose and throat appointment at Waterford Regional...
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the income threshold criteria for medical card eligibility for those under the age of 25 years; if there has been any change in this position...
    • Health Services
      To ask the Minister for Health the hospitals that are implementing the hospice friendly hospitals programme; the hospitals not implementing the programme and the measures being taken to address...
    • Home Care Packages
      To ask the Minister for Health when the draft standards for home care developed by the Health Service Executive will be extended not only to contracted-out home care packages but to other types...
    • Home Help Service
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the decision to have the one hour per week home help assistance removed from a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [47947/12]
    • Home Care Packages
      To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in County Cork who has been an in-patient in Cork University Hospital for the past number of years is not being discharged to...
    • Food Safety Standards
      To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the use of aspartamene in children's products here and in the EU; and his plans to make changes to the law in this area here [47964/12]
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      To ask the Minister for Health in the context of the Health Service Executive national programme for change in multi-disciplinary services for children aged five to eighteen years which has been...
    • Hospital Consultants' Remuneration
      To ask the Minister for Health the number of years a consultant needs to qualify for a full pension; under the reduced pay scheme if he will detail a consultant's pension on the date of...
    • Drugs Payment Scheme
      To ask the Minister for Health his views on approving the concern drug Zytiga for inclusion on the medical card scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47979/12]
    • Primary Care Centres Expenditure
      To ask the Minister for Health the reasoning and criteria used to change the proposed primary health care centre for Rowlagh, Clondalkin, Dublin 22, from being a publically funded development to...
    • Proposed Legislation
      To ask the Minister for Health the plans in place to introduce a unique health identifier as recommended by HIQUA; if a decision has been taken to develop a healthcare focused identifier rather...
    • Diabetes Strategy
      To ask the Minister for Health the number of people aged between 16 to 25 years who died between 2005 and 2012 here following an acute complication secondary to Type 1 diabetes; and if he will...
    • Hospitals Building Programme
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a detailed progress report on the new Kenmare, Community Hospital, County Kerry; when the new hospital will be ready to open; and if he will make...
    • Hospital Staff
      To ask the Minister for Health the reason the position of a specialist urologist was withdrawn in September 2012; his plans to reinstate this position; and if so, a timeframe for same; and if he...
    • Health Services
      To ask the Minister for Health the emergency response system in place for Spina Bifida or Hydrocephalus suffers; and if he will identify the centres where this emergency treatment is available...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      To ask the Minister for Health if any specific programmes have been put in place to assist persons with disabilities who are aging [48034/12]
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme
      To ask the Minister for Health his policy regarding the nursing homes support scheme (NHSS) in respect of a persons when an ancillary State support loan is not possible as the homeowner has...
    • Hospital Expenditure
      To ask the Minister for Health if he or the Health Service Executive has received any correspondence or contact from the Children's University Hospital indicating that the hospital will be unable...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      To ask the Minister for Health when an appointment for a MRI scan will be rescheduled in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • 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 Mayo; if he will expedite same; and if he will make a...
    • Health Service Staff
      To ask the Minister for Health his views on the difficulty of retaining Irish-trained doctors and attracting doctors who have gone abroad to return to Ireland; his plans to improve this...
    • Medical Research and Training
      To ask the Minister for Health his views on the recent accusations that the Health Service Executive does not understand or care about education and research in the medical field; and if he will...
    • Cancer Screening Programme
      To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the recent report by a person (details supplied) regarding breast health and the need for further promotion and breast awareness;...
    • Illicit Trade in Tobacco
      To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question 245 on the 12 of July 2012, if his support of international developments in relation to plain or standardised packaging for...
    • Long-Term Illness Scheme Eligibility
      To ask the Minister for Health when he intends to revise the classification of illnesses which come under the long term illness scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48117/12]
    • Suicide Prevention
      To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the cessation in funding for the applied suicide intervention skills training course at NUI Galway; and if alternative funding...
    • Long-Term Illness Scheme Eligibility
      To ask the Minister for Health the progress made in the extension of general practitioner cards to those persons on the long term illness scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Medical Card Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo wil receive a decision on a medical card appeal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48144/12]
    • Nursing Home Accommodation
      To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the shortage of nursing home beds in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9. [48153/12]
    • Home Help Service
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the decision to have the home help assistance on a Sunday removed from a person (details supplied) in County Cork; if he does not intend to do so,...
    • Symphysiotomy Report
      To ask the Minister for Health when he expects the Walsh report on the practice of symphysiotomy here to be completed; when this report will be published; and the action he proposes to take...
    • Health Service Staff
      To ask the Minister for Health the progress made in filling a public Health Service Executive position (details supplied) in County Kildare; the timeline for the completion of the process; and if...
    • Health Services
      To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding supports in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5 [48194/12]
    • Submissions to Departments
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will work in conjunction with Feileachan the stillbirth organisation to organise a national stillbirth remembrance day; if he will advice the organisation on...
    • Hospital Transfers
      To ask the Minister for Health if a decision has been made to move all respite patients from the Cottage Hospitals in Drogheda to Moorehall Lodge, Drogheda, County Louth; and the reason for this...
    • Medical Card Applications
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will investigate the medical card review in respect of a person (details supplied). [48220/12]
    • Hospital Services
      To ask the Minister for Health in order to ensure the future financial viability of the community hospital on Valentia Island, County Kerry, if he will ensure an increase in the funds paid per...
    • National Lottery Funding
      To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding funding in respect of an organisation (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48224/12]
    • Motorised Transport Grant
      To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a large number of motorised transport applications (details supplied) have been refused even though the persons...
    • Medical Card Applications
      To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5. [48278/12]
    • Children's Hospital
      To ask the Minister for Health his response to reports (details supplied) that a four member group has been conducting a further evaluation of possible locations for the new national children's...
    • Primary Care Centres
      To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary question No. 637 of 9 October 2012, the services available at the primary care centre in Dundalk, County Louth; the involvement of the...
    • Medical Card Applications
      To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an application for a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Hospital Staff
      To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 588 of 16 October 2012, the level of cover has been provided for the 15 consultant posts currently vacant in Our Lady of...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      To ask the Minister for Health when a hospital appointment will ssue for surgery in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48320/12]
    • Public Sector Allowances
      To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the allowance being paid to general practitioner trainees for out of work hours in lieu of overtime who, unlike other non consultant hospital...
    • Hospital Staff
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form a breakdown of agency usage across all disciplines in the Louth Meath Hospital Group currently and the comparative figures for...
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the withdrawal of a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare. [48339/12]
    • Hospital Staff
      To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the result of the implementation of a National Directive from the Health Service Executive to reduce agency staff by 50% which...
    • Psychological Service
      To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) has been referred to the Primary Care Clinical Psychology Services in relation to the trauma he suffered as a result of alleged...
    • Hospital Staff
      To ask the Minister for Health when a podiatrist will be appointed to Midland Regional Hospital, Mullingar, County Westmeath, as was recommended by the Health Service Executive in 2011; if same...
    • European Health Insurance Card
      To ask the Minister for Health if any provision exists for applying for European health insurance card, formerly the E111 form, retrospectively, particularly in the case where a patient took ill...
    • Rare Disease Strategy
      To ask the Minister for Health the progress that has been made on a specific national approach to improve the health and well-being of persons with rare diseases, as recommended by the European...
    • Hospital Services
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that a replacement physiotherapist covering cystic fibrosis has been provided in a hospital (details supplied) in Dublin 1; if he will confirm...
    • Primary Care Centres
      To ask the Minister for Health the negotiations that have taken place between the Health Service Executive and the Clarke Partnership, Malahide, County Dublin in relation to Health Service...
    • Home Care Packages
      To ask the Minister for Health the names of the commercial companies that provide home care packages to those persons approved by the Health Service Executive; the total cost of home care...
    • Medical Card Applications
      To ask the Minister for Health when a decision will issue on a medical card renewal application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Health Care Infrastructure
      To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding plans for the development of a health campus in an area (details supplied) in County Galway; the current annual cost of maintaining and...
    • Ambulance Service
      To ask the Minister for Health when an ambulance crew and ambulance will be allocated on a permanent basis to an area (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Acquired Infections
      To ask the Minister for Health the number of cases of MRSA and clostridium difficile in hospitals over the last 12 months; the number of cases in 2010 and 2011; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Ambulance Service
      To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding ambulance services (details supplied). [48388/12]
    • Health Services
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will support (details supplied) in Dublin 9. [48389/12]
    • Medical Card Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Health when a decision will issue on a medical card appeal application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Medicinal Products
      To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding medication in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 13; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48427/12]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      To ask the Minister for Health when a date for an orthopaedic out- patient appointment at Our Lady's Hospital, Navan, County Meath, will be scheduled in respect of a person (details supplied) in...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) in County Kildare is entitled to be covered by their medical card for specialised shoes; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Services
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm the current status of the previously commitment to provide ambulatory care centre at Tallaght Hospital, Dublin, if he will appreciate the...
    • Pharmacy Regulations
      To ask the Minister for Health the reason Metanium and Aternon are not available in chemists here and they are in Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48516/12]
    • Disability Support Service
      To ask the Minister for Health not to cut the Disability Services at Prosper Fingal, Swords and Prosper Services in Portmarnock as a matter of urgency [48537/12]
    • Northern Ireland Issues
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of the type and frequency of North South engagement his Department undertakes; the current priorities in this area; the number of whole...
    • Mental Health Services
      To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacancies at present in the community mental health teams across here and the location and grade where the vacancy occurs [48591/12]
    • Home Help Service
      To ask the Minister for Health his views on the home help cuts in 2012; if he will protect home help hours in Budget 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48601/12]
    • Health Insurance Cost
      To ask the Minister for Health his plans to introduce bed re-designation in 2013; if this proposal must be approved by Cabinet; if it will require primary legislation; his views on the VHI's...
    • Speech and Language Therapy
      To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding speech and language therapy in respect of a child (details supplied) in Dublin 11; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48641/12]
    • Hospital Services
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will update Dáil Éireann on the deliveries to date by public hospitals of targets that were set out by the Special Delivery Unit which he...
    • Health Service Staff
      To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to introduce a registration system for health and social care workers next year that will charge social care workers €295 to register; if he will...
    • Home Help Service
      To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in County Dublin has had their home help hours cut without assessment following their recent release from hospital [48666/12]
    • Care Services
      To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a care plan in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 3 [48691/12]
    • Health Services
      To ask the Minister for Health the supports available in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5 [48692/12]
    • Primary Care Centres
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the list of primary care centres included in each of the bundles announced as part of the stimulus package; the funding allocated to each of...
    • Care of the Elderly
      To ask the Minister for Health further to the Ombudsman's recently issued a report, Too Old to be Equal a Follow Up, in that report she makes three recommendations to his Department, if he will...
    • Voluntary Sector Funding
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will look at the budget for an organisation (details supplied) as a special case; if he will acknowledge the tremendous work that this organisation is...
    • Health Insurance Cost
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will introduce a health insurance scheme that is fair and affordable for families and persons at an early date in view of the fact that thousands can no...
    • Mobility Allowance Eligibility
      To ask the Minister for Health if persons who are genuinely entitled to the mobility allowance and who have been deprived of what has always been rightfully theirs are now going to be put into...
    • Health Service Staff
      To ask the Minister for Health the sectors of the public sector that are currently employed on a roster basis and if there are any plans to remove employees from the rostering system. [49075/12]
    • Public Sector Staff
      To ask the Minister for Health the exact number of public servants who are back in employment in the public service, who are on pensions and have accepted lump sums; and if he will make a...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Parking Regulations
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has considered increasing the fine local authorities can impose for parking illegally in a disabled car parking space; and if he will...
    • Road Improvement Schemes
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason for the delay with the work on the N86 road upgrade and when works will commence on the County Kerry Dingle road. [47679/12]
    • Youth Services
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 309 of 18 October 2012, if he will provide advice and support on the tourism proposal for youth travel...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 836 of 19 July 2012, if he will provide details relating to professional fees paid by his Department ....
    • Public Sector Staff
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the names of each staff member within his Department that has been rehired since March 2011 and the cost involved in each case; and if he will...
    • Free Travel Scheme
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way subvention to Iarnrod Eireann for free travel passes is calculated and determined. [47402/12]
    • Rail Services
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide information detailing changes in train speeds and times over the past 30 years, for example, the average journey time by...
    • Bus Services
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the average age of a bus that is retired from the Dublin Bus fleet; and if buses retired from the Dublin Bus fleet are made available for...
    • Parking Regulations
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has considered issuing penalty points to drivers who park illegally in disabled car parking spaces; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Cross-Border Projects
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the Narrow Water Bridge Project; the financial arrangements for the Narrow Water Bridge Project from Omeath, County...
    • Tourism Promotion
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will confirm the status of Ireland.com; the reason behind its purchase by Tourism Ireland (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Road Maintenance
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide the National Roads Authority roads maintenance budget for the years 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011; and if he will make a...
    • Air Services
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress that has been made to date in improving air access to Ireland from North America; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Taxi Regulations
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his reasons for applying further regulation and taxes on taxis (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47577/12]
    • Light Rail Projects
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding plans for a comprehensive traffic management plan and measures to minimise disruption for residents and businesses in...
    • Proposed Legislation
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the new Road Safety Bill that includes roadside tests for drug drivers will be introduced and made law; and if he will make a statement...
    • Sports Capital Programme
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the sports capital grants for applications made earlier this year will be allocated and made public; and if he will make a statement on...
    • National Roads Authority
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the Gort to Tuam motorway project N17/N18, County Galway; when a contractor will be appointed; when the project is...
    • Road Safety
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will outline the regulatory measures for the sale and distribution of motor vehicle tyres; the level to which these measures are...
    • Bus Services
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way we arrived at a situation where Bus Éireann no longer has to live up to a Public Service Requirement; the reason expressway bus...
    • Irish Coast Guard
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in relation to the forthcoming decision affecting the future of Valentia Radio Station, County Kerry, if a decision has been made regarding...
    • National Transport Authority
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount it costs to run the National Transport Authority; the amount it costs to run his Department; if he will quantify the savings at his...
    • Driving Licences
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the new driver licence card will be made available; the data that will be contained on the card; if he will ensure that provision is made...
    • Railway Stations
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will request the chief executive officer of Iarnród Éireann to install a notice board beside the ticket office at a station...
    • Proposed Legislation
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he expects the introduction of the law with regard to the testing of the unconscious driver; the reason there has been a delay in...
    • Bus Services
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a person with a previous conviction for a driving offence is disqualified from driving for Bus Éireann; and if he will make a...
    • Sports Capital Programme
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a sports capital grant for the provision of an allweather playing pitch with lights in respect of a club (details supplied)...
    • Rural Transport
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when RTPs may expect to be notified of amalgamations; their budget for 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48163/12]
    • Tourism Promotion
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he will take to enhance and promote angling tourism; his plans to increase investment in this area; and if he will make a statement...
    • Road Improvement Schemes
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the need for his Department to reinstate, partially or wholly, the local improvement scheme in order to remediate the damage...
    • Sports Capital Programme
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will list by applicant, the applications made under the sports capital programme 2012 in Dublin. [48238/12]
    • Driving Licences
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to acquire Canadian recognition of valid Irish driving licences; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48242/12]
    • Sports Funding
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of money that was paid via the Irish Sport Council, to high performance athletes in each of the years 2009 to 2012 inclusive; and...
    • Road Improvement Schemes
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the proposed flyover at Newlands Cross, Clondalkin, Dublin and if the impact of works and the completed project on...
    • Northern Ireland Issues
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide details of the type and frequency of North South engagement his Department undertakes; the current priorities in this area;...
    • Road Project Contracts
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in view of the fact that on Tuesday 30 October the main N86 Camp to Dingle road was shut down by protestors over alleged non-payments for work...
    • Tourism Promotion
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 711 and 712 of 23 October 2012, and in respect of his Department’s €330,000 expenditure...
    • Industrial Disputes
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will ensure that all the industrial relations mechanisms of the State are utilised as a matter of urgency to avoid the proposed upcoming...
    • Tourism Promotion
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way the Atlantic Corridor will be marketed and promoted and to whom; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48673/12]
    • Bus Services
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the status of the services tender for the Bus Eireann breakdown service; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Sports Capital Programme
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the objective criteria that will be used to assess sports capital grant applications to ensure that allocations are fairly distributed across...
    • Road Project Contracts
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the M11 project announced under the stimulus package; the various stages of this project; the expected timelines for...
    • Regional Road Network
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the Galway city bypass project announced under the stimulus package; the various stages of this project; the expected...
    • Road Project Contracts
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he and the National Roads Authority will clarify the uncertainty in relation to the M20 County Cork to County Limerick motorway project as...
    • Public Sector Staff
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the sectors of the public sector that are currently employed on a roster basis and if there are any plans to remove employees from the...

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