Written answers
Wednesday, 5 December 2012
- Department of Finance
- Illicit Trade in Tobacco
To ask the Minister for Finance if he has investigated the use of a smart phone app to be used by Gardaí in order to scan barcodes on cigarettes to determine if tax has been paid and...
- Liquor Licences
To ask the Minister for Finance the number of intoxicating liquor licences that have lapsed for each year over the past five years; the reasons the licences have lapsed; and if he will make a...
- Budget Submissions
To ask the Minister for Finance if he will support the SIPTU proposals on the economy towards a new course. [54658/12]
- Tax Code
To ask the Minister for Finance if he will abolish the level of VAT levied on student textbooks accessed via tablet computer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54720/12]
- Tax Yield
To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of duty collected annually for rapeseed oil; if a cost benefit analysis has been conducted on this duty; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Banking Sector Remuneration
To ask the Minister for Finance if the Covered Institutions Remuneration Oversight Committee is still in place; the frequency with which it reports; its latest recommendations; and if he will...
- Department of Education and Skills
- Student Grant Scheme Applications
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an application for a grant under the Student Universal Support Ireland in respect of a person (details supplied) in County...
- Emergency Works Scheme
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the emergency funding a school (details supplied) in Dublin 15 can apply for to have the carpark near the school resurfaced in view of the road...
- Student Grant Scheme Application Numbers
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the number of Student Universal Support Ireland grant applications refused, those allowed and those still in progress; and if...
- School Curriculum
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to introduce any secondary school initiatives to deal with obesity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54604/12]
- Schools Building Projects
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in view of recent developments at a school (details supplied) in County Limerick, if he will consider proposals that were made by this Deputy during...
- Public Procurement
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there was an instruction given by him for schools to buy all their stationary from a central location; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Teacher Training
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline in tabular form the number of students per country who are currently attending teacher training colleges; and if he will make a...
- Schools Refurbishment
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding provided on a yearly basis under the minor works grants scheme in counties Cavan and Monaghan in each year since 2007; and if he will make...
- Student Grant Scheme Delays
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on difficulties facing students who are unable to provide social welfare offices with proof of being enrolled in full-time education when...
- Student Grant Scheme Payments
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if existing student grant payments have been paid by all local authorities and Vocational Education Committees; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Schools Building Projects
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if funding has been allocated for the provision of a new school (details supplied) in County Cork; if a site has been acquired; when building will...
- Student Grant Scheme Applications
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) will be considered for a continuation of the maintenance grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54718/12]
- School Textbooks
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will address the situation in which students using tablet computers in the course of their studies pay VAT on their school textbooks while those...
- Capitation Grants
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding the financial difficulties facing schools; his plans to address the issue; and if he will...
- School Management
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to issue guidelines to boards of management in respect of the contentious issue of pupils purchasing presents for teachers; and if he will...
- Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Bill
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will support an organisation (details supplied) [54798/12]
- Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
- Public Procurement
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform in view of recent developments at a school (details supplied) in County Limerick, if he will consider proposals that were made by this Deputy...
- Departmental Staff Redeployment
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath will be given a position in the social welfare office either in Mullingar or Longford,...
- Flood Relief Schemes
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount the Office of Public Works spent on flood relief works in 2011 and the total budget allocated to the OPW for flood relief in 2011....
- Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
- Industrial Development
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the total grants awarded by the Industrial Development Agency or other agency, to Intel for each year of the past 10 years; and the number...
- Department of Social Protection
- Pension Provisions
To ask the Minister for Social Protection if permission to early draw down pensions would positively influence younger persons to start their pension; her plans to tackle low pension investments...
- Invalidity Pension Appeals
To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an application for invalidity pension appeal will be finalised in respect of a person in (details supplied) County Offaly; and if she will make a...
- Carer's Allowance Applications
To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Offaly may expect a decision on an application for a carer's allowance. [54594/12]
- Community Employment Schemes Funding
To ask the Minister for Social Protection if the issue of secondary payments to community employment scheme workers will be revisited; specifically if a projects long term viability comes under...
- Carer's Allowance Delays
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason officials in her Department are no longer providing applicants with information on what month is currently being worked on in terms of the...
- 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; and if she will make a statement on...
- Jobseeker's Benefit Applications
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of claimants of jobseeker's benefit who have been removed from benefit after the change to assessing their claims on a five day basis in July...
- Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reasons a family (details supplied) in County Kildare was refused a domiciliary care allowance payment; if the decision may be appealed; and if she...
- Supplementary Welfare Allowance Applications
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) in County Kerry was awarded supplementary welfare allowance when residing in Ireland in 1998; if they met all...
- Illness Benefit Appeals
To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a decision on an appeal for illness benefit will be expedited in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if she will make a...
- Social Welfare Benefits
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding social welfare entitlements in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 3; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Rent Supplement Scheme Expenditure
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the amount spent annually for 2010 and 2011 on rent allowance in the counties Laois and Offaly. [54684/12]
- Disability Allowance Appeals
To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will issue on a disability allowance appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5. [54732/12]
- Community Employment Schemes Places
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a community employment extension scheme in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Longford; 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 Longford; and if she will make a...
- Social Welfare Appeals
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an appeal for a respite grant in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Supplementary Welfare Allowance Applications
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding supplementary welfare allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick. [54822/12]
- Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
- Arts Funding
To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht his views of the propensity for Arts groups to attract voluntary financial support throughout the community sector; if he will ensure that...
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Broadband Services
To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources in respect of the 100Mb/sec broadband programme for all post primary schools nationwide launched in May 2009, the timeframe...
- Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
- Motor Taxation
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding motor taxation in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Longford; and if he will make a...
- Private Rented Accommodation
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the plans he has to introduce regulations for landlords who are committed to three year guaranteed tenancy agreements and are...
- Electoral Divisions
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has considered the request from the persons currently living in the southside constituency to maintain this title rather...
- Voluntary Housing Sector
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the history of engagement that his Department has had with a body (details supplied) in County Kildare; the funding provided to...
- Fire Service
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on manning levels in Dublin City's Fire and Rescue Services (details supplied). [54751/12]
- Derelict Sites
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will respond to the issue raised concerning a site at a location (details supplied) under the Derelict Sites Act . [54754/12]
- Department of Justice and Equality
- Proposed Legislation
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when he intends to repeal of the 1871 Lunacy Regulations Act; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54717/12]
- Legal Services
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will outline the measures to date, throughout the past 18 months, by the State to reduce costs in the legal practitioner sector of our economy...
- Domestic Violence
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the concerted action he intends to take in view of the fact that figures show that the number of women receiving support from domestic violence...
- Prisoner Rehabilitation Programmes
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of teachers, scheduled classes, work training programmes that have been curtailed and or cancelled in each prison and the comparable...
- Garda Deployment
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the total number of Gardaí deployed to each Garda division and sub-division on an annual basis over the past ten years to date; the areas in...
- Garda Retirements
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the total number of Gardaí who have retired or resigned in each of the past five years and to date in 2012; and if he will make a statement on...
- Garda Resources
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality arising from the new rosters, the number of shifts to cover a 24 hour period; the duration of each shift; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Garda Deployment
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the total number of Gardaí currently being deployed to deal with serious crime with particular reference to organised criminal gang activity; and...
- Recidivism Rate
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which recidivism is being studied or monitored with a view to identification of a means to address the issue; and if he will make a...
- Prison Accommodation
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the steps in hand to address the issue of the shortage of prison accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54804/12]
- Garda Strength
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Gardaí by gender at all ranks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54805/12]
- Garda Stations
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if arising from the closure of Garda stations at various locations throughout the country, his attention has been drawn to the difficulty for...
- Witness Intimidation
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the measures he will take to address the ongoing issue of witness or jury intimidation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54808/12]
- Garda Operations
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of instances in which viable explosive devices have been found in each of the past five years to date; if the number of instances represent...
- Prisoner Transfers
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the total number of prisoners serving sentences for serious crimes that have been transferred to lower level security prisons or have received...
- Crime Levels
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which he continues to monitor the number of incidents wherein further serious crimes continue to be committed by prisoners while on bail...
- Child Protection
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding emergency services for children. [54815/12]
- Tribunals of Inquiry
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will disclose any ongoing or planned investigations as a result of theTribunal of Inquiry into certain Payments to Politicians and Related...
- Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
- Single Payment Scheme Payments
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding single farm and area based payments in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [54611/12]
- Disadvantaged Areas Scheme 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 payment; and if he will make a statement on...
- Rural Environment Protection Scheme Payments
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Galway will be paid their REP scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54616/12]
- Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a disadvantaged payment for 2012 will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a...
- Single Payment Scheme Payments
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No 548 of the 13 November the position regarding a single farm payment in respect of a person (details...
- Disadvantaged Areas Scheme 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 payment; and if he will make a statement on...
- Departmental Expenditure
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide in tabular form the moneys providedby his Department to the food dudes programme yearly since its inception; and if he...
- Departmental Staff Numbers
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the current staffing complement in the disadvantaged area scheme office; and if there is any plans to add additional staff to assist...
- Single Payment Scheme Payments
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a statement of single payment, area based initiative, rep scheme and agri environment option scheme payment details for...
- Department of Children and Youth Affairs
- Preschool Services
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason for the withdrawal of Health Service Executive funding to a preschool (details supplied) in Dublin 1; and if she will make a...
- Child Protection
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding emergency services for children. [54816/12]
- Department of Health
- Health Service Executive Staff Remuneration
To ask the Minister for Health if the increment that was paid to staff nurses that took on additional responsibilities and moved to the position of senior staff nurse which was discontinued in...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be admitted to St. Clare's Unit, Temple Street Children's Hospital, Dublin, for urgent medical treatment and support. [54596/12]
- Nursing Homes Support Scheme
To ask the Minister for Health the progress he has made with the review of the fair deal scheme; if in this review, active consideration will be given to the role the sheltered housing provided...
- Health Service Executive Funding
To ask the Minister for Health the bodies that are funded under section 38 of the Health Act 2004; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54607/12]
- Services for People with Disabilities
To ask the Minister for Health the funding that has been allocated in 2012 for the transfer of residents living in congregated settings into supported housing in the community; his plans in the...
- Symphysiotomy Report
To ask the Minister for Health when the Walsh report in relation to symphysiotomy will be issued; his plans to deal with the fall out from this treatment; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Home Help Service
To ask the Minister for Health the reason home help workers in the direct employment of the Health Service Executive in County Mayo are having their hours reduced; and if he will make a statement...
- Medical Card Review
To ask the Minister for Health his plans regarding providing legislation to allow for comprehensive data sharing among State agencies to underpin the medical card self-assessment system in...
- Medical Card Eligibility
To ask the Minister for Health if medical cards will be provided to mature students who are over the age of 25 years and return to education and have no source of income. [54636/12]
- Home Care Packages
To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive a decision on their application for a home care package; the reason for the delay in making a decision;...
- Vaccination Programme
To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the increased incidents of narcolepsy in children and adolescents in Ireland as a result of a side effect of the Pandemrix...
- Lourdes Hospital Redress Scheme
To ask the Minister for Health when a review undertaken by his Department on the case of the 35 Neary women who were excluded from the redress scheme in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda,...
- Health Services
To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9 received a bill for legal fees; and if he will clarify the legitimacy of this charge. [54674/12]
- Health Service Executive Staff Remuneration
To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the measures to date, throughout the past 18 months, by the State to reduce costs by dental practitioners and medical practitioners in our...
- Home Help Service
To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons currently in receipt of private home care hours; the cost to the State for the provision for this service; and if he will make a statement on...
- Health Service Executive Properties
To ask the Minister for Health the amount the Health Service Executive spent annually for 2009, 2010 and 2011 on renting residential accommodation in the counties Laois and Offaly. [54683/12]
- Medicinal Products
To ask the Minister for Health if he will respond to a query regarding generic substitutions for medication (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54686/12]
- Food Labelling
To ask the Minister for Health if he is introducing legislation to mandate for food nutrition traffic light labelling and when this legislation will be published; and if he will make a statement...
- Health Promotion
To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the media report that pro-anorexia websites are running starvation contests; the action he is taking to tackle this issue; and if...
- Infectious Diseases
To ask the Minister for Health the concerted action he intends to take to educate and inform persons, especially the young, to look after their sexual health in view of the fact that 320 people...
- Substance Misuse
To ask the Minister for Health the concerted action he intends to take in view of the findings in the growing up in ireland report that 15% of 13 year olds had tried alcohol; and if he will make...
- Dental Services
To ask the Minister for Health the concerted action his Department plans to take, in view of a recent behaviour and attitudes study stating that dental health is at crisis point and the finding...
- Services for People with Disabilities
To ask the Minister for Health when he intends to implement the disability related promises in the 2011 Programme for Government especially individual budgets; and if he will make a statement on...
- Domestic Violence
To ask the Minister for Health the proposals his Department has made with regard to meeting the administrative and operational costs of a facility (details supplied) in County Kildare; if prior...
- General Medical Services Scheme
To ask the Minister for Health the reason sodium chloride for infusion is not reimbursable under the GMS scheme in respect of patients in nursing homes who are not eating a normal diet [54727/12]
- Hospital Waiting Lists
To ask the Minister for Health the hospital in which a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9 will receive an operation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54728/12]
- Health Service Executive Properties
To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form details of the amount of rent paid by the Health Service Executive on renting property for both administration purposes and...
- Primary Care Centres
To ask the Minister for Health his plans to develop primary care facilities at a centre (details supplied) in County Monaghan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54733/12]
- Dental Services
To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline on a county basis or an area basis in the Health Service Executive the class in which children in primary schools receive their first dental...
- Medical Card Applications
To ask the Minister for Health the reasons a medical card was refused in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54738/12]
- Medical Aids and Appliances
To ask the Minister for Health the reason a sensory dynamic orthosis lycra suit has not yet been provided by the Health Service Executive in respect of a person (details supplied) in County...
- Health Services
To ask the Minister for Health if he is planning any cuts in budget or service to CoAction West Cork in 2013. [54748/12]
- Hospital Staff
To ask the Minister for Health his views on a possible shortage of suitably trained nurses in hospitals here [54749/12]
- Nursing Education
To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the number of nurses who have qualified here and subsequently emigrated since 2010 [54750/12]
- Hospital Services
To ask the Minister for Health the number of bed days lost through delayed discharges in each hospital to date in 2012 [54814/12]
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- Parking Regulations
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he intends to make provision to allow for the partial review of local authority parking bye-laws; if such an arrangement is possible under...
- Road Safety
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will ensure that funding is allocated to Westmeath County Council for the provision of street lighting at Tang, County Westmeath...
- Tourist Accommodation
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide accommodation occupancy statistics for hotels, guest houses, bed and breakfasts, hostels and self catering accommodation...
- Tourism Industry
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the change in tourist numbers that has been experienced for the years to date in 2012, or alternatively for the first six months of 2012, from...
- Air Services
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total number of passengers between 1 June 2012 and 31 August 2012 into Dublin Airport, Shannon Airport and Kerry Airport. [54652/12]
- Sport and Recreational Development
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the negative impact abuse of youth in sport has had on participation levels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54693/12]
- Road Safety Authority Campaigns
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the Road Safety Authority will consider using some of its safety advertising budget on a campaign that encourages cyclists to follow the...
