Written answers

Tuesday, 18 December 2012

  • Department of Children and Youth Affairs
    • Child Care Services
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children who used the services of the out-of-hours projects in counties Donegal and Cork each month since they were established;...
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her top priorities for 2013; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56685/12]
    • Combatting Cyberbullying
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her policy to combat cyberbullying; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56696/12]
    • National Aftercare Service
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the report she has requested the National Director for Children and Family Services to prepare on aftercare provision, including best...
    • Special Care Placements
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the waiting time that applied in the cases of the three young persons who were approved and are awaiting a special care placement and the one...
    • Child and Family Support Agency
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if adequate resources to employ social workers for children are in place for 2013; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56708/12]
    • Child Care Services
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide a breakdown of the way that the €16.5 million has been redirected into childcare places for low income workers and...
    • Child Benefit Payments
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on whether the reduction in child benefit will undermine her Department’s objective of achieving better outcomes for children...
    • Child Care Services
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to develop a Scandinavian model of childcare here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56688/12]
    • Child and Family Support Agency
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will outline her proposals in relation to the proposed Child and Family Resource Agency; if she will confirm that resources granted to...
    • Foster Care
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to rectify the situation whereby some children in foster care on reaching 18 years are then placed in the care of the Department of...
    • Corporal Punishment
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to the fact that Ireland's failure to ban corporal punishment has resulted in the State being in violation of...
    • Childhood Obesity
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the contribution her Department can make to reduce obesity in teenagers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56693/12]
    • Children in Care
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the institutions in which children with special care needs have been placed overseas by the Health Service Executive; and if she will make a...
    • Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the recommendations of the Ryan Report that she has yet to implement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56783/12]
    • Youth Homelessness
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to undertake a comprehensive review of the coordination, implementation and continued relevance of the youth homelessness strategy....
    • City and County Child Care Committees
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the discussions she has had with the Health Service Executive regarding complementary funding supports to county childcare committees; and if...
    • Child and Family Support Agency
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the date on which she will publish the implementation plan for the roll out of State wide out of hours emergency social care service; if this...
    • United Nations Conventions
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to ratify the third Optional Protocol to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child on a Communications Procedure which...
    • Child and Family Support Agency
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the way she plans to resource the yet to be established Child and Family Support Agency in view of the fact that that the Children and Family...
    • Youth Unemployment
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the contribution her Department will make to tackling youth unemployment in 2013; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56681/12]
    • Youth Work
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the way the findings of the recent Indecon report on youth work will impact on her policies; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Early Childhood Care and Education Programme
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs in view of the fact that childcare funding schemes are presenting more demands on childcare services to avail of particular training or have...
    • Detention Centres
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the date on which the Oberstown, County Dublin, facility will be fully operational; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56779/12]
    • Bullying Incidence
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which she has studied the incidence of bullying amongst young people which includes social bullying, bullying in the workplace,...
    • Children's Rights Referendum
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her response to the unanimous Supreme Court judgement that her Department acted in breach of the Constitution during the recent...
    • Community Childcare Subvention Programme
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans for the community childcare subvention programme in 2013; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56707/12]
    • Child Protection Guidelines
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will confirm that all childcare services provided by persons employed outside the child's own home will be subject to the provisions of...
    • Adoption Legislation
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if, in relation to the promised Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill and access to records by adult victims of illegal adoptions, she will...
    • National Children's Strategy
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will list the 20% of actions from the National Children Strategy that have not been completed; and the reason that they have not been...
    • Domestic Violence
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will outline her responsibility in relation to children who require the services of domestic violence shelters; if she will confirm that...
    • Child Poverty
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will report on the recent funding awarded under Budget 2013 to the Preparing for Life Programme in Belcamp, Moatview and Darndale, Dublin...
    • Child Care Services
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to regulate all paid child minders; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56709/12]
    • Social Workers Recruitment
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of additional social workers for children that will be appointed in 2013; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56683/12]
    • Child Abuse
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when the audit produced on foot of the recommendations in the report on the Roscommon Child Care Case will be published; and if she will make a...
    • Children's Rights Referendum
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on the McCrystal judgement in the Supreme Court last week; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56782/12]
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Departmental Staff Remuneration
      To ask the Taoiseach if temporary promotions or acting-up allowances have not been a feature of the staffing arrangements for this EU Presidency; if he will provide a list of Departments that...
    • European Council Meetings
      To ask the Taoiseach the formations of the EU Councils of Ministers on which he sits; the number of meetings of that Council held from 9 March 2011 to date in 2012; the number of those meetings...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      To ask the Taoiseach cé mhéad uair, ó ceapadh an Rialtas seo, a bhí cruinniú den Choiste Rialtais ar an nGaeilge agus ar an nGaeltacht ann; agus cad iad dátaí...
    • Public Inquiries
      To ask the Taoiseach if he will support the family of murdered solicitor Pat Finucane in their efforts for a public inquiry; and if he will raise this matter with the British Government. [56813/12]
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • EU Presidency
      To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the total cost of the EU Presidency 2013 on his Department and its agencies; if he will provide a full breakdown of same; the...
    • Public Sector Pay
      To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the date on which he intends to review the salary grading structure of the public service as it affects his Department as...
    • European Council Meetings
      To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the formations of the EU Councils of Ministers on which he sits; the number of meetings of that Council held from 9 March 2011...
    • Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe
      To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade in view of the recognised ongoing conflict in the OSCE that is suffering from infighting between the OSCE PA and OSCE/ODIHR, if...
    • Overseas Development Aid
      To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide an update regarding Ireland's commitment to overseas development aid in particular its commitment to the...
    • Sectarian Violence
      To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will raise the issue of recent sectarian violence in Northern Ireland with the British Government as a matter of urgency....
    • Public Inquiries
      To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the De Silva report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56927/12]
  • Department of Finance
    • Property Taxation
      To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of property tax that will need to be paid for a house valued at €600,000 for a family on an invalidity pension of €1,100 per month. [56314/12]
    • Tax Rebates
      To ask the Minister for Finance if the proposed fuel rebate scheme for road hauliers will apply to agricultural contractors; if he will consider a proposal to extend the scheme to agricultural...
    • Property Taxation
      To ask the Minister for Finance if the residents of Priory Hall, Dublin, are to be levied with the property tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56458/12]
    • Tax Reliefs
      To ask the Minister for Finance the progress that has been made in relation to the implementation of recommendations arising from the Moriarty Tribunal; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Property Taxation
      To ask the Minister for Finance if the unfinished housing estates that were exempt from the household charge will be exempt from the new local property tax; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Tax Code
      To ask the Minister for Finance further to recent budgetary announcements if a person (details supplied) may qualify for Capital Gains Tax for agricultural land rollover relief; and if he will...
    • Tax and Social Welfare Codes
      To ask the Minister for Finance if credit union dividends will be subject to PRSI in 2014; if they are classified as unearned income; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56215/12]
    • Banking Sector Regulation
      To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide details of the Central Bank of Ireland powers to suspend a person from acting as director of an insurance company; the possible duration of such...
    • Banking Sector Remuneration
      To ask the Minister for Finance the number of members there are in the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation, formerly Anglo Irish Bank, pension scheme; if there has been any reduction in pensions...
    • Budget 2013
      To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the lid tax proposed by vintners organisations was not included in Budget 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56317/12]
    • Property Taxation
      To ask the Minister for Finance if the list of estates deemed unfinished for the purposes of the local property tax will be based solely on the exemptions granted from the household charge; if...
    • Tax Rebates
      To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider a rebate of VRT for vehicles originally imported into this country and exported at a later stage; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Tax Reliefs
      To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide in tabular form the number of persons under the age of 25, 30, 35 and 40 years respectively that availed of tax relief on pension contributions...
    • Tax Yield
      To ask the Minister for Finance if the tax band was increased from 41% to 42%, the savings this would incur and how sufficient would these savings be; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Trade in Illicit Goods
      To ask the Minister for Finance the steps he will take to penalise criminals involved in the sale and supply of laundered, illegal or counterfeit products such as diesel, tobacco and clothing; if...
    • Tax Transparency
      To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider modifying the various statements issued by the Revenue to persons so that these would state the total tax paid by a person as a percentage of...
    • Property Taxation
      To ask the Minister for Finance if he will review a case regarding the assessment of the value of certain properties for the local property tax (details supplied) [56490/12]
    • Banking Sector Remuneration
      To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a detailed breakdown of any non salary entitlements or benefits going to current and new employees of the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation as...
    • European Council Meetings
      To ask the Minister for Finance the formations of the EU Councils of Ministers on which he sits; the number of meetings of that Council held from 9 March 2011 to date in 2012; the number of those...
    • Property Taxation
      To ask the Minister for Finance if any provision will be made with the property tax for executors of wills to be entitled to defer payment until the property is sold; and if he will make a...
    • Tax Reliefs
      To ask the Minister for Finance the total cost to the Exchequer in a full year of new tax reliefs introduced in Budgets 2012 and 2013, directed at the agricultural sector, the break down of the...
    • Tax Yield
      To ask the Minister for Finance the estimate of extra tax that will be collected in a full year due to changes in taxes directed at the agricultural sector, including the VAT rebate for...
    • Property Taxation
      To ask the Minister for Finance if homes with confirmed pyrite will be exempted from the property tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56640/12]
    • Revenue Commissioners Investigations
      To ask the Minister for Finance if the Revenue Commissioners are obliged to carry out a revenue audit on a couples finances when one member of the couple request such an audit; and if he will...
    • Banking Operations
      To ask the Minister for Finance with regard to the covered institutions, the number of claims made by customers alleging overpayment as opposed to overcharging on personal and commercial loans...
    • Pension Fund Levy
      To ask the Minister for Finance if he will reverse the decision to impose a 0.6% levy imposed on private and occupational pension fund assets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56804/12]
    • Tax Reliefs
      To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding capital gains liability in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; the reasons, if any, the exemption is not applied to...
    • Universal Social Charge
      To ask the Minister for Finance if a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be affected by the change to the universal social charge for persons over 70 years. [56828/12]
    • National Asset Management Agency
      To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 139 of 11 December 2012, if he will confirm the fees paid by the National Assets Management Agency or its debtor for the...
    • Banking Sector Remuneration
      To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm the reason the Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland (details supplied) is earning in 2012 approximately 40% less than his deputy. [56864/12]
    • National Asset Management Agency
      To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide the financial quantum of loans net of provisions being managed by the National Asset Management Agency at 30 June 2012 and being managed by the...
    • Banks Recapitalisation
      To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide the latest estimate of the dates by which the National Asset Management Agency and the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation will be wound up. [56867/12]
    • National Asset Management Agency
      To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide the profit or loss of the National Asset Management Agency for the six months ending 30 June 2012 and the profit or loss of the Irish Bank...
    • Banks Recapitalisation
      To ask the Minister for Finance if he will outline the metrics by which he assesses the ongoing performance of the National Asset Management Agency and the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation....
    • Property Taxation
      To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm if the Revenue Commissioner has preferential creditor status relating to debts accruing for non-payment of the property tax, that is if there is...
    • Tax Code
      To ask the Minister for Finance if in the context of double taxation agreement or similar arrangement, a US/Irish citizen having dual citizenship is restricted to entitlement to one pension only...
    • Property Taxation
      To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a projection of receipts for the new property tax in 2013; if the same degree of non-compliance as pertains in 2012 for the household charge...
    • Universal Social Charge
      To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide, in tabular form, the estimated income that would be generated for the State by raising the universal social charge by 3% on all taxable income...
    • Tax Code
      To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide the estimated income that would be generated by placing a 1% levy on each unit of alcohol sold here; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • National Asset Management Agency
      To ask the Minister for Finance if he will ascertain from the National Assets Management Agency the status of moneys paid by NAMA to Carlow County Council in respect of local estates upkeep of...
    • Revenue Commissioners Investigations
      To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 151 of 11 December 2012, if he will provide more detailed information on the work being undertaken by the Revenue...
    • Universal Social Charge
      To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider either this year or for next year's budget dealing with the anomaly caused by the €60,000 threshold attracting a 7% universal social...
    • Mortgage Arrears
      To ask the Minister for Finance if he will intervene to try and help young couples who are struggling to pay their mortgages; his further views on whether mortgages should be reduced to reflect...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Special Educational Needs
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the allocation of funding to a school(details supplied) in County Kerry to provide an autism unit; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Contracts
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if any concerns have been conveyed to him in relation to non-payment, underpayment or late payment for work done on projects funded by his Department...
    • Maternity Leave
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide the background to the maternity leave in lieu arrangements for teachers that he is proposing to abolish in 2013; the number of...
    • Public Sector Staff Grades
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the date on which he intends to review the salary grading structure of the public service as it affects his Department as committed to in the...
    • Student Grant Scheme Applications
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a Student Universal Support Ireland grant will be granted in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Laois; and if he will make a...
    • Student Grant Scheme Payments
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a Student Universal Support Ireland grant will be paid in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Offaly; and if he will make a...
    • Student Grant Scheme Applications
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an application for a student grant in respect of a person (details supplied) County Kilkenny will be processed without delay; and if he will make a...
    • Student Grant Scheme Application Numbers
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of student grant applications that have been received by Student Universal Support Ireland on a county basis; the number that have been...
    • Emergency Works Scheme
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to an application for emergency works for a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary; the reasons this...
    • Special Educational Needs
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide copies of the minutes of meetings held between is Department and professional bodies representing behaviour analysts over the past...
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will bring forward any derogation for fee-charging protestant secondary schools from the two point increase in pupil teacher ratio, in view of...
    • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the fact that farming families receive more educational grants than urban or PAYE families. [56472/12]
    • Student Grant Scheme Applications
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when grants will issue to persons (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56473/12]
    • Student Grant Scheme Expenditure
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills with regard to the change over to Student Universal Support Ireland, the amount by which the costs will exceed the savings for year one and two. [56475/12]
    • Student Grant Scheme Application Numbers
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in comparison to last year's figures the number of new or first time grant applications have been received this year. [56476/12]
    • Student Grant Scheme Expenditure
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in future years will there be an overall reduction in the moneys allocated for student grants and the proposed figures for same. [56477/12]
    • Post-Leaving Certificate Courses
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline the impact of changes to pupil-teacher ratios on PLC courses and the total number of teaching posts in the Cavan/Monaghan area in...
    • Student Grant Scheme Delays
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in view of the delay in the administration of student grants in 2012, if he will consider reverting to the old system whereby the grants were...
    • European Council Meetings
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the formations of the EU Councils of Ministers on which he sits; the number of meetings of that Council held from 9 March 2011 to date in 2012; the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when construction will commence on a project (details supplied) in County Laois; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56563/12]
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has considered the impact of the loss of employment that will arise in various areas as a result of all primary and secondary schools having to...
    • Schools Building Projects
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when construction will commence on a project (details supplied) in County Laois; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56573/12]
    • Student Grant Scheme Applications
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a Student Universal Support Ireland grant will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Laois; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Comhairle um Oideachas Gaeltachta agus Gaelscolaíochta
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills an dtuigeann sé an baol a bhaineann leis an gComhairle um Oideachas Gaeltachta agus Gaelscolaíochta, COGG, a lonnú san fhoirgneamh...
    • Departmental Budgets
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a breakdown of the €25 million in cash reserves in the third level institutions which he identified as part of his savings...
    • Student Grant Scheme Applications
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a student application grant in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Capitation Grants
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide information on the availability of emergency funds for primary schools who are under severe financial pressure at present and...
    • School Accommodation
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on an application for additional accommodation by a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if he will make a...
    • Schools Building Projects
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has ensured that all schools being constructed under public private partnership proposals will have inbuilt wifi and CCTV as part of their...
    • Student Grant Scheme Reform
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to introduce a capital assets test for means testing eligibility for third level student maintenance grants; the budget savings, if any, he...
    • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will investigate if a student (details supplied) in County Laois is eligible to receive the special rate of maintenance of €5,915, having...
    • Teacher Training
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if attendance on gaeltacht placement is a required element of programmes of initial primary teacher education and a requirement for registration; the...
    • Irish Language
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if in view of its being moved into the aegis of the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment, An Chomhairle um Oideachas Gaeltachta agus...
    • School Staffing
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether the current system of subbing lists in use in primary schools, in particular insofar as the way in which substitute teachers are...
    • School Transport
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person (details supplied) has not been facilitated with school transport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56793/12]
    • Student Grant Scheme Applications
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an application for third level grant in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and when a decision will be...
    • School Funding
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will make representations to ensure that schools will not have to pay the same fixed energy costs as small and medium business; and if he will...
    • School Numbers
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total number of post primary schools throughout the country and fully operational in the current academic year; the number, if any, in the DEIS...
    • Student Grant Scheme Payments
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 258 of 20 November 2012, if he will give assurances to students in receipt of a maintenance and top up grant for...
    • Student Grant Scheme Applications
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will issue on a student grant application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement...
    • Student Assistance Fund
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a breakdown of the way the student assistant fund was distributed across higher education institutions, in tabular form, for the...
    • Public Private Partnerships
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which schools built under the public private partnership system are fully equipped to meet the needs of their student intake; for...
    • Teaching Qualifications
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 152 of 8 November 2012 if teachers employed in substitute positions and in possession of a Masters Degree prior...
    • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on the entitlements regarding financial support towards the cost of fees of students from here studying in Northern...
    • Chomhairle um Oideachas Gaeltachta agus Gaelscolaíochta
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cén fáth ar ghlac sé an cinneadh chun an Chomhairle um Oideachas Gaeltachta agus Gaelscolaíochta (COGG) a chur faoin gComhairle...
    • Student Grant Scheme Applications
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a Student Universal Support Ireland grant in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny [56981/12]
    • Schools Building Projects
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a school building project (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; the timeframe involved should the school or his Department...
    • Vocational Education Committees
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timeline and stages of plans to amalgamate Cavan and Monaghan vocational education committees; if he will confirm that the incoming newly...
    • Student Grant Scheme Payments
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the circumstances outlined by a person (details supplied) in relation to their student grant; if he will outline...
    • Teacher Training
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a decision has been made to retain the Bachelor of Education Degree Programe at a college (details supplied) in County Sligo and if so, when this...
    • Student Grant Scheme Delays
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide additional resources to address the crisis in processing applications in the student online grant awarding authority City of Dublin...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • EU Presidency
      To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has responded to the offer from an airline (details supplied) dated 20 September 2012, to offer an opportunity for the Irish EU...
    • Construction Contracts Bill
      To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the organisations, bodies or persons with whom he has consulted with in relation to the Construction Contracts Bill 2010; and if he will make...
    • Ethics in Public Office Recommendations
      To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the progress that has been made in relation to the implementation of recommendations arising from the Moriarty Tribunal; and if he will make...
    • Companies Register
      To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 139 of 17 October 2012, if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the company in question...
    • Rural Social Scheme
      To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the timescale for the proposed focused policy assessment of the rural social scheme; the proposed methodology of the review; if it is...
    • Public Sector Reform
      To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a comprehensive list of the shared services initiatives delivered by his Department since it was set up and the...
    • Oireachtas Members' Expenses
      To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform following his Budget 2013 announcements if he will confirm if both the travel and accommodation allowance and the public representation...
    • Oireachtas Members' Salaries
      To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when he intends to introduce the necessary legislation to abolish the severance payment to Ministers and other office holders paid to such...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the formations of the EU Councils of Ministers on which he sits; the number of meetings of that Council held from 9 March 2011 to date in...
    • Social Impact Bonds
      To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when he expects to receive the report from the steering group overseeing the development of social impact bonds and if his intention to...
    • Employment Rights
      To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform following his notification to each Department on 22 December 2011 requesting them to put a mechanism to monitor compliance with employment...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to undertake a review of the Government form of construction contracts; when this review will take place; and if he will make a...
    • Judicial Pay
      To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform following the resignation of a convicted District Judge (details supplied), a Judge found guilty of attempting to deceive a client, if he...
    • Public Sector Pay
      To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of public servants who earn the amount in a salary range (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56817/12]
    • Oireachtas Members' Salaries
      To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide in tabular form the saving to the Exchequer if Senators annual basic salary was capped at €60,000, TDs at...
    • Flood Prevention Measures
      To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a final decision has been reached in relation to establishing a compensation fund for uninsured businesses affected by the County Cork...
  • Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
    • Tribunals of Inquiry
      To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the progress that has been made in relation to the implementation of recommendations arising from the Moriarty Tribunal; and if he will...
    • Work Permits
      To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation further to Parliamentary Question No. 179 of 8 November 2012, when he expects a work permit to be reviewed in the case of a person (details...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the formations of the EU Councils of Ministers on which he sits; the number of meetings of that Council held from 9 March 2011 to date in...
    • Job Creation
      To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will detail his Departments direct involvement in the Green Way/An tSlí Glas project; his plans to support the Green Way project...
    • Departmental Properties
      To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the delay in proceeding with the planned transfer of a site from Cork County Council and the Industrial Development Authority (details...
    • Redundancy Payments
      To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation in view of the percentage increase in the proportion of redundancy payments that must now be borne by employers, the measures he is taking...
    • Job Initiatives
      To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will set up a jobs task force, similar to that in the south east of the country to fill the employment vacuum in counties Longford...
    • Job Creation
      To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the action open to him to deal with the serious unemployment figures among males in Tallaght, Dublin 24; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Work Permits
      To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will outline any visa programmes available to senior executives coming to work in foreign owned companies based here, including...
    • State Agencies
      To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the amount of rental income accrued for each of the past five years form the properties in the ownership of Shannon Development which are...
  • Department of Social Protection
    • Pension Provisions
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection in view of the fact that a company (details supplied) has purchased smaller companies, if the employees of those smaller companies have been allowed to...
    • Carer's Allowance Payments
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons who are in receipt of respite care grant but who are not in receipt of carer's allowance; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Exceptional Needs Payments
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the maximum rate at which rent support is payable in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Applications
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason rent support has not been paid since March 2012 in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Back to Education Allowance Payments
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection when the full rate of back to education allowance will be paid in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Applications
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the maximum rent allowable at which rent support will be paid in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Payments
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason rent allowance was not paid in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Applications
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if and when jobseeker's allowance will be paid in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Community Employment Schemes Places
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the supervisory arrangements for the proposed 2,500 extra places on the TÚS scheme and the 2000 on community employment; the way these places will...
    • Local Authority Social Scheme
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the details of the proposed local authority social scheme; if it is in fact a repackaged rural social scheme; the supervisory arrangements for same; the...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Payments
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the rate of domiciliary care allowance that will apply in 2013. [56282/12]
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be made on an appeal for disability allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a...
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an appeal against a decision to refuse an application for carer's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County...
    • National Internship Scheme
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection in view of an announcement in Budget 2013 regarding extra jobbridge places, if further applications for internships will be accepted under the...
    • Social Insurance Payments
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if it is the case that Class B, C and D PRSI contributions have retained their PRSI allowance despite budgetary changes to other classes; if so the basis...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Eligibility
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the policy that exists within her Department when assessing the eligibility of a reserve fire fighter for jobseeker's benefit; and if she will make a...
    • Ministerial Appointments
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of Special Advisors or Press Advisors she has appointed within her Department; the names of the advisors; the date of their appointment and...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the progress to date in the determination of an application for carer's allowance in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if...
    • Family Income Supplement Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision on a family income supplement appeal will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • One-Parent Family Payment Applications
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the supports available in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9. [56468/12]
    • Farm Assist Scheme Review
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a review has been undertaken on the farm assist scheme on the effectiveness of its stated goal to reduce poverty amongst farmers, by her Department in...
    • 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 County Kerry; and if she will make a statement...
    • EU Council Meetings
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the formations of the EU Councils of Ministers on which she sits; the number of meetings of that Council held from 9 March 2011 to date in 2012; the...
    • Widow's Pension
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a person (details supplied) in County Laois is in receipt of the correct widow's non-contributory pension in view of the fact that the income is less...
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision on a carer's allowance appeal will issue from the appeals office in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she...
    • Farm Assist Scheme Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the measures she has taken to address the unacceptable waiting lists for farm assist appeals, the timeframe to process these appeals; and if she will...
    • Invalidity Pension Applications
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the measures has she taken to address the unacceptable waiting lists for invalidity pension applications; the timeframe to process these applications;...
    • Job Initiatives
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider expanding the jobbridge scheme along the lines of the noted German Dual Vocational Training System; her plans for the scheme over...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision on an appeal application for domiciliary care allowance will be made in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Offaly; and if...
    • Farm Assist Scheme Applications
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the measures she has taken to address the unacceptable waiting lists for farm assist applications; the timeframe to process these applications; and if...
    • Carer's Allowance Delays
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the measures she has taken to address the unacceptable waiting lists for carer's allowance applications; the timeframe to process applications; and if...
    • Farm Assist Scheme Application Numbers
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total saving to her Department on a full year basis of the changes to the farm assist scheme in budget 2012 and 2013; and if she will make a...
    • Invalidity Pension Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Carlow will receive a decision on their appeal for invalidity and if she will expedite a reply. [56629/12]
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be made on a carer's allowance appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in view of extenuating circumstances; and if she...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection when jobseeker's allowance will be granted to a person (details supplied) in County Laois; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56659/12]
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Eligibility
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if those who successfully conclude the TUS scheme will receive their first three days payment after returning to social welfare; and if she will make a...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason an appeal lodged in 2010 in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare has not been dealt with by the social welfare appeals...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Applications
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a review of an application for rent supplement will be completed in respect 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 the position regarding a carer's allowance payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Respite Care Services
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of respite care grants being paid on a county basis in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56743/12]
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if an appeal for carer's allowance claim will be expedited in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if she will make a statement...
    • Pension Provisions
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an explanation as to the necessity to require registered pension schemes to generate a funding standard reserve of 15% of scheme...
    • Back to Education Allowance Applications
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will reconsider plans to discontinue the cost of education allowance for back to education recipients as well as other cuts to back to education...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will issue on an application for a carer's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Leitrim; the reason for the...
    • Fuel Allowance Applications
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No.63 of 6 December 2012, the exact documents in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare in respect...
    • 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 Longford; and if she will make a statement on...
    • One-Parent Family Payment Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an appeal for one parent family payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Longford; and if she will make a...
    • Departmental Staff Careers
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the possibilities there are for civil servants in her Department to take a career break; and if regulations pertaining to same are common to all...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the progress made to date in respect of a requested review for domiciliary care allowance in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare;...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a carer's allowance request for review of a decision in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [56840/12]
    • Insolvency Payments Scheme Applications
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding minimum notice and holiday pay in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Carlow; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Rural Social Scheme
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide details of any plans for the change in the operation of rural social schemes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56849/12]
    • State Pension (Contributory)
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 258 of 11 December 2012, if she will re-examine the case of entitlement to contributory State pension in the case...
    • Invalidity Pension Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite an appeal for invalidity pension in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on...
    • International Agreements
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the extent to which if any of bilateral agreement with the US in respect of pensions; if a recipient of a US pension living here can only receive one or...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a domicilary care allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Carer's Allowance Application Numbers
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of recipients here in receipt of carer's allowance, disability allowance and invalidity pension; the number of carer's allowance recipients...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total amount of money annually for carer's allowance, disability allowance and invalidity pension from 2005 to 2012; and if there is ongoing...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will examine a carer's allowance application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry. [56922/12]
    • Illness Benefit Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an appeal for illness benefit in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny. [56978/12]
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding carer's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56999/12]
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if carer's allowance will be granted to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57050/12]
  • Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Heritage Funding
      To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht his views on the reduction in the number of thatched houses and premises in existence here in view of the fact that their numbers are...
    • Turbary Rights
      To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question No. 416 of 19 July 2012, the number of applications received on a county basis; the numbers on hand,...
    • European Council Meetings
      To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the formations of the EU Councils of Ministers on which he sits; the number of meetings of that Council held from 9 March 2011 to date in...
    • Arts Funding
      To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when all the funding will be released for the completion of the Picture Palace Theatre in Galway city; if there is a completion date for...
    • Turf Cutting Cessation Scheme
      To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when a person (details supplied) in County Cavan will obtain compensation in respect of the cessation of turf cutting at...
  • Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
    • Semi-State Dividends
      To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the dividends paid to the Exchequer last year by the ESB and Bord Gáis respectively. [56220/12]
    • European Council Meetings
      To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the formations of the EU Councils of Ministers on which he sits; the number of meetings of that Council held from 9 March 2011...
    • Television Reception
      To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if a person cannot obtain a Saorview signal to their analogue television do they still have to pay the television licence; and...
    • Energy Resources
      To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources with regard to the proposed gas supply from Nenagh to Limerick, the process and timeline involved; if any trial holes been...
    • Saorview Boxes
      To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the action he will take to help persons who have had difficulty using small buttoned remote controls for their Saorview box...
    • Broadband Services
      To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will outline the steps a citizen can take when attempting to remedy a problem with broadband internet access which has...
    • Television Reception
      To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding TV reception; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56958/12]
  • Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
    • Tribunals of Inquiry
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the progress that has been made in relation to the implementation of recommendations arising from the Moriarty Tribunal; and if...
    • Local Authority Charges
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will consider a rebate to small businesses who go out of business but are still liable for rates for the full year if...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the total cost to the Exchequer for Ministerial attendance of the UN Climate Change Annual Conference for the year 2007, 2008,...
    • Local Authority Housing Provision
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in view of the fact that the tender prices which Cork County Council received are far less than the funding that he announced...
    • Climate Change Policy
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government noting that the Kyoto Extension negotiated in Doha will only cover 15% of the world's greenhouse emissions, the current...
    • Pyrite Issues
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will clarify the person liable if a member of the general public that is a person not the owner of the house and not...
    • Household Charge Exemptions
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the criteria that was used for determining the list of unfinished estates for the purposes of an exemption from the household...
    • National Asset Management Agency
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the persons that are maintaining the National Asset Management Agency properties; if he will outline the tendering process; and...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Eligibility
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason maintenance paid to an ex-spouse or partner is not considered as disregard of means when making decisions on...
    • Unfinished Housing Developments
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding the redevelopment of an estate (details supplied) with particular reference to the current builder, his...
    • Local Authority Finances
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No.1131 of the 18 September 2012, if he has considered the report of the independent...
    • Local Government Reform
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the names of the members of the Local Government Workforce Planning Group; the terms of reference of the group; the dates of...
    • Local Authority Staff
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form the total number of staff employed by Sligo County Council on 1 January 2012; the grade and...
    • Public Sector Pay
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the date on which he intends to review the salary grading structure of the public service as it affects his Department as...
    • Local Authority Staff
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a list of the city and county managers that have taken office since 27 July 2012. [56394/12]
    • Departmental Contracts
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if any concerns have been conveyed to him in relation to non-payment, underpayment or late payment for work done on projects...
    • Local Authority Housing Provision
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when he will approve the proposed new allocations scheme for Dublin City Council's housing department in order to facilitate...
    • RAPID Programme
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if there are any planned cuts to the RAPID scheme emanating from Budget 2013 or any cuts planned in the future. [56480/12]
    • Local Authority Housing Provision
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to old tenant purchase annuities schemes which were disbanded, many tenants are now unable to purchase their properties...
    • European Council Meetings
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the formations of the EU Councils of Ministers on which he sits; the number of meetings of that Council held from 9 March 2011...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when upgrade works will be completed on a sewage treatment plant (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a...
    • Household Charge Collection
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of house holders who have not paid the 2012 household charge; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56590/12]
    • Motor Taxation
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will consider introducing a system whereby persons who wish to tax their car, may do so on a monthly basis, rather than...
    • Security of the Elderly
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of money spent to date on the seniors alert scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56616/12]
    • Local Authority Funding
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that in the Local Government Auditors Statutory Report on the accounts of Sligo...
    • Local Authority Housing Maintenance
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the finance that is available for the retrospective upgrading of local authority housing to BER rating; and if he will make a...
    • Community Development
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans for the future of the Dodder Valley Partnership and CPLN area partnership including assurances regarding future...
    • Litter Pollution
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide funding to South Dublin County Council to allow the authority to continue to effectively tackle the scourge...
    • Planning Issues
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that local authorities are in many cases differing in their interpretation of the...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Tribunals of Inquiry
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the progress that has been made in relation to the implementation of recommendations arising from the Moriarty Tribunal; and if he will make a...
    • Garda Operations
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if there is a standard Garda protocol or policy for dealing with sudden death, suicide, homicide and death in suspicious circumstances; if Gardaí...
    • Coroners Service
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of deaths reported to coroners in each county during each of the past three years in tabular form. [56201/12]
    • Crime Levels
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of homicides in each county during each of the past three years in tabular form. [56202/12]
    • Victim Support Services
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the support available from the authorities for the families of homicide victims. [56204/12]
    • Prisoner Discipline
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of mobile telephones that were seized from inmates in each prison here in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and to date in 2012. [56208/12]
    • Garda Stations
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding the closure of Garda stations (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56222/12]
    • Residency Permits
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the progress made to date in the determination of residency entitlement to naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Deportation Orders
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will accept a submission as a request for reconsideration and deferred of deportation in the case of a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if marriage to an Irish citizen affects an application for naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will...
    • Visa Agreements
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if those on stamp 4 visas (details supplied) are exempt from paying the €300 fee to renew a Garda ID; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Visa Applications
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will expedite an application for an entry visa in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56277/12]
    • Naturalisation Applications
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality in the wake of the unanimous judgement by the Supreme Court in a case (details supplied) regarding an application by a Syrian national for...
    • Garda Stations
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will itemise the amount of money saved, in tabular form, from the closure of each of the following Garda stations in CountyTipperary (details...
    • Public Sector Pay
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the date on which he intends to review the salary grading structure of the public service as it affects his Department as committed to in the...
    • Garda Stations
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding the relocation of Glanmire Garda Station, County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56421/12]
    • Parental Leave Provisions
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the timetable for the introduction of the Parental Leave Directive (2010/18/EU); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56423/12]
    • Garda Stations
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the way in which local Gardaí in the Districts where small Garda stations have been named for closure have been consulted; the way the decision...
    • Proposed Legislation
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the steps he has taken to address the issues proposed by this Deputy in the Private Members Bill Precious Metal Dealers Bill 2011, which was an effort...
    • European Council Meetings
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the formations of the EU Councils of Ministers on which he sits; the number of meetings of that Council held from 9 March 2011 to date in 2012; the...
    • Garda Vetting of Personnel
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current waiting time for Garda clearance certificates to be issued and the reason there has been an increase in waiting times recently; and if he...
    • Public Consultation Process
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding the public consultation on prostitution; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56599/12]
    • Gambling Legislation
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he plans to amend the Gaming and Lottery Act 1956 in view of the growing social gaming industry here; this industry operates on a global scale and...
    • Garda Deployment
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the plans he is putting in place to improve border policing in County Donegal especially in view of a robbery of a post office in the South Inishowen...
    • Penalty Points System
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the circumstances under which penalty points imposed on road users maybe suspended, removed or cancelled before the expiry of the statutory period,...
    • Prisoner Transfers
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to an application from an Irish national (details supplied) currently serving a sentence in a prison in Cordoba...
    • Spent Convictions
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the Spent Conviction Bill/Act in the context of dealing with records for minor criminal offences committed a number of years previously;...
    • Joint Policing Committees
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to the fact that although there are three town councils and a county council in County Louth, there are only three...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if a visa will be extended in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; if this person is entitled to apply for a work permit; if this...
    • Garda Resources
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to the concern in Kingswood Heights, Dublin 24 that Garda services to the area are still being provided from two Garda...
    • Garda Transport
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda patrol vehicles available to An Garda Síochána in each district of the division of Tipperary; the number of vehicles...
    • Proposed Legislation
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the timeframe for the enactment of changes to family law legistration that are expected following the passing of the Children's Referendum [57095/12]
  • Department of Defence
    • Defence Forces Personnel
      To ask the Minister for Defence if a section of the public and civil service (details supplied) will be included in the new redundancy package recently announced; and if he will make a statement...
    • Departmental Staff Remuneration
      To ask the Minister for Defence the date on which he intends to review the salary grading structure of the public service as it affects his Department as committed to in the Programme for...
    • European Council Meetings
      To ask the Minister for Defence the formations of the EU Councils of Ministers on which he sits; the number of meetings of that Council held from 9 March 2011 to date in 2012; the number of those...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • International Agreements
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if, considering recent progress on an EU-Morocco Fisheries Partnership Agreement, he will guarantee that he will not support any move to...
    • Pension Provisions
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a former employee of his Department is entitled to draw their pension now; if there is any arrangement to cash in his pension or...
    • Horse and Greyhound Fund
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason the greyhound and horse raising industries are being subsidised to the tune of €55 million while the respite care grant...
    • Herd Testing Numbers
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of the top 100 beneficiaries who tested less than 50 cattle in their annual herd test in 2011; and if he will make a statement...
    • Single Payment Scheme Application Numbers
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers who have no entitlement under the single farm payment; the number of cattle those farmers tested at their annual...
    • Departmental Staff Retirements
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of veterinary inspectors who availed of the early retirement scheme earlier this year that are currently working for his...
    • Census of Agriculture
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total number of full time, part time and commercial farmers currently operating here; the extent to which the numbers in each category...
    • Animal Welfare Issues
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the degree to which pig and poultry farmers have managed to comply with regulations arising from animal welfare legislation; and if he...
    • Agriculture Schemes Payments
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which, post budget, he expects the various categories of farmers to qualify for each farm support payment; his plans for the...
    • Agrifood Sector
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the sectors of the agri food sector in respect of which he foresees growth or substantial growth over the next four years; and if he will...
    • Food Imports
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of traceability inspections carried out by his Department in respect of pig meat, beef, lamb and poultry imports in each of the...
    • Food Industry
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which the pig meat, beef, lamb dairy and poultry sectors have grown in each of the past eight years to date, the degree to...
    • Fish Landings
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which fish catches at Irish ports by Irish or foreign trawlers has fluctuated over the past eight years to date; and if he...
    • Food Safety Standards
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which the full range of testing facilities has been provided at the National Laboratories at Cellbridge County Kildare; if...
    • Dairy Sector
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which he expects incomes in the dairy sector to fluctuate in the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Food Exports
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is satisfied regarding the competitiveness of Irish food exports on world markets; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Food Marketing Programme
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans for the future expansion of the food industry with particular reference to the establishment of new markets for Irish produce;...
    • Poultry Industry
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider facilitating the setting up of a Poultry Council in response to the recent request for a meeting to look at options...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a decision has been made on an application for derogation on a disadvantaged area scheme in respect of a person (details supplied) in...
    • Departmental Staff Redeployment
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he will introduce the revised procedures for the transfer of technical agricultural officers; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Beef Technology Adoption Programme
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the eligibility criteria for the beef technology adoption programme; the reason he has not made this programme available to new entrants...
    • Agricultural Sector
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to encourage new entrants to the agricultural sector; if he will detail in tabular form the costs relating to these initiatives;...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a 2012 disadvantaged area scheme payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Applications
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding the outstanding disadvantaged area payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding an appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding an agri environment option scheme appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will...
    • Parking Regulations
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has been briefed on any proposals to introduce parking charges in Howth Harbour, County dublin; his views on any such proposals in...
    • Stocking Densities
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment on stocking density appeal will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a...
    • Fish Quotas
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine not to proceed with the current proposals to distribute the boar fish allocation on an open draw basis, as the nine boats who caught their...
    • Public Sector Pay
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the date on which he intends to review the salary grading structure of the public service as it affects his Department as committed to in...
    • Animal Welfare Expenditure
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when funding will be provided to an animal rescue facility (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • 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 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 Galway who was selected for a satellite inspection, will be paid their disadvantaged area...
    • Scéim um Limistéir faoi Mhíbhuntaiste
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine cén fáth nár íocadh airgead le feirmeoir (sonraí tugtha) faoi scéim na limistéar faoi...
    • Departmental Inspections
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in view of the fact that satellite images of land holdings are used every year in checking the eligibility of ground for area aid and so...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding an appeal for disadvantaged area payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will...
    • European Council Meetings
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the formations of the EU Councils of Ministers on which he sits; the number of meetings of that Council held from 9 March 2011 to date in...
    • Forestry Grants
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a forestry grant payment will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment under the disadvantaged areas scheme will be made in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will...
    • Single Payment Scheme Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding a single farm payment appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a...
    • Rural Environment Protection Scheme Payments
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the contract with REP scheme 4 farmers was amended by reduction in payments from €200 per hectare to €170; and if he will...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total programme savings excluding administration of his Department and the agencies funded out of the vote made in Budgets 2012 and...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason persons (details provided) in County Cork has not yet received their disadvantaged area payment; and if he will make a...
    • Single Payment Scheme Applications
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the outcome of an appeal will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on...
    • 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 disadvantaged area payment for 2012; and if he will make a statement...
    • Rural Environment Protection Scheme Payments
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a REP scheme payment for 2011 will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement...
    • Organic Farming
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when an organic farm scheme payment will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement...
    • Herd Numbers
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way his Department allowed a dual name owned flock number to be changed to a herd number (details supplied) in County Donegal without...
    • Agriculture Schemes Payments
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of all Department payments paid to a herd number (details supplied) in County Donegal between 2002 and 2012. [56753/12]
    • Agriculture Schemes Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person in (details supplied) in County Mayo may expect to have their area based payments application processed; and if he will make...
    • Agriculture Schemes Payments
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding agricultural entitlements for 2011 and 2012 in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath; and if...
    • Single Payment Scheme Eligibility
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will confirm that compliant with good agricultural environment condition is a farming activity for the purposes of the single farm...
    • Equine Passports
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will issue an original horse passport as a matter of urgency to 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 an area aid application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be processed; and if he will make a statement...
    • Fur Farming
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in view of the fact that the ban on fur farming is going through the Dutch Parliament, Holland, being the third biggest for mink fur...
    • Departmental Complaints Procedures
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding a complaint made by a person (details supplied) in County Carlow; if a report of the incident has been compiled by...
    • Scéim um Limistéar faoi Mhíbhuntáiste
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine cén fáth nár íocadh airgead faoin Scéim um Limistéir faoi Mhíbhuntáiste ná faoin Scéim...
    • Rural Environment Protection Scheme Payments
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding a rural environment protection scheme payment for 2012 in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork;...
    • 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 disadvantaged area payment for 2012; and if he will make a statement...
  • Department of Children and Youth Affairs
    • Foreign Adoptions
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide an update in relation to the development of a new bilateral agreement with Russia on adoption; and if she will make a...
    • Youth Services
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on the recent Indecon report on youth work; if it informed any of her policy choices with regard to Budget 2013; and if she will make...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the formations of the EU Councils of Ministers on which she sits; the number of meetings of that Council held from 9 March 2011 to date in 2012;...
    • Family Support Services
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on the future of a resource centre (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56676/12]
    • Preschool Services
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her proposals to extend the provision of free early childhood education for a second year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49771/12]
    • Child Care Services
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the position regarding the community childcare subvention programme in respect of an organisation (details supplied) in Dublin 11; if she will...
    • Child Care Costs
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans for the provision of quality affordable childcare throughout the country; the assistance that is in place for parents availing of...
    • Youth Services
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she is satisfied in regard to the extent to which her Department has put in place the necessary services including outreach services to meet...
    • Child and Family Support Agency
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs based on the experiences of her Department over the past year and a half, the extent to which she has identified the most issues affecting...
    • Children and Family Services
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the degree to which she and her Department has identified the full extent and range of children’s and youth support services required now...
    • Child Protection
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the current procedures to deal with children at risk; the sequence of events following a report from whatever quarter in such matters; the...
    • Children and Family Services
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which she expects to be in a position to provide the necessary legislative and/or support services for children and their parents...
    • Child Poverty
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the degree to which lack of adequate housing and/or poverty is deemed to impact most particularly on children and adolescents; the extent to...
    • Youth Services
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent, if any, she has had discussions with other Departments in the context of the coordination of children and youth services and support...
  • Department of Health
    • Mobility Allowance Applications
      To ask the Minister for Health if and when mobility allowance will be paid in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56241/12]
    • Food Labelling
      To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which food labelling continues to be enforced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56264/12]
    • Hospital Services
      To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a hospital appointment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56271/12]
    • Social Workers Register
      To ask the Minister for Health his plans to reduce the registration charge for social workers in view of its very high rate when compared with other professionals. [56606/12]
    • Public Sector Staff
      To ask the Minister for Health in view of the commitment in the PSA to full engagement and detailed consultation with the Irish Medical Organisation and Irish Hospital Consultants Association...
    • Ambulance Service
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide clarification on the five vacancies that exist for paramedics in the North Western Region; the length of time that these vacancies have existed;...
    • Health Service Staff
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will clarify reports that the Health Service Executive has announced a tender for 35 external leadership coaches; the proposed cost of such coaches and the...
    • Care of the Elderly
      To ask the Minister for Health the measures he has taken to close the loop hole that prevents the Health Service Executive elder abuse service from legally entering non HSE nursing homes; his...
    • Medical Cards
      To ask the Minister for Health when a medical card will be restored to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56238/12]
    • Motorised Transport Grant
      To ask the Minister for Health when a primary medical certificate and or a motorised transport grant will issue in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a...
    • Medical Cards
      To ask the Minister for Health if refusal of a medical card on income grounds can be reviewed or set aside in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a...
    • Mobility Allowance Rates
      To ask the Minister for Health the monthly rates for mobility allowance that will apply in 2013 [56281/12]
    • Departmental Funding
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline in detail the way it is intended to make a saving of €32 million in 2013 from other changes to primary care schemes as detailed in item C...
    • Medical Cards
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the medical application in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 3. [56318/12]
    • Home Help Service
      To ask the Minister for Health regarding budget 2013 and its impact on home help hours and carer's, if he will confirm that there will be no cut to the home help budget in 2013 and that the...
    • Public Sector Staff Grades
      To ask the Minister for Health the date on which he intends to review the salary grading structure of the public service as it affects his Department as committed to in the Programme for...
    • Eating Disorders
      To ask the Minister for Health the services, funding and treatments that are in place for a person suffering from eating disorders in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Alcohol Sales
      To ask the Minister for Health the action being taken to address the issue of below cost selling of alcohol in large retailers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56411/12]
    • Departmental Contracts
      To ask the Minister for Health if any concerns have been conveyed to him in relation to non-payment, underpayment or late payment for work done on projects funded by his Department since his...
    • Health Services
      To ask the Minister for Health the reason the care needs of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny who is suffering from a number of physiological issues, is not being followed up by the...
    • Health Service Investigations
      To ask the Minister for Health the number of investigations and the timeframes for investigations being carried out in relation to the recent maternal death in Galway; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Services
      To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Tullamore General Hospital County Offaly has lost the medical records of a person (details supplied) for the period...
    • Medicinal Products
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will support the 158 Cystic Fibrosis patients with a copy of the G551D mutation who would be eligible for the new life saving drug Kalydeco [56440/12]
    • Mobility Allowance Expenditure
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form the annual cost and number of recipients of the mobility allowance scheme in each of 2009, 2010, 2011 and to date in 2012. [56462/12]
    • Motorised Transport Grant
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form the annual cost and number of recipients of the motorised transport grant in each of 2009, 2010, 2011 and to date in 2012. [56463/12]
    • Mobility Allowance Expenditure
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form the estimated annual cost and number of recipients of the mobility allowance scheme in each of 2009, 2010, 2011 and to date in...
    • Mobility Allowance
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide by year for 2009, 2010, 2011 and to date in 2012, the cost of the motorised transport grant if the recommendations of the Ombudsman's report of...
    • Legal Cases
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form for 2009, 2010, 2011 and to date in 2012 the total compensation, and the associated volume of cases, paid by his Department in...
    • Medical Card Applications
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will reverse the decision not to provide a medical card to a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56474/12]
    • Medicinal Products
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form for each publicly funded hospital in the country, if it prescribes or provides patients with generic or branded paracetamol as...
    • Speech and Language Therapy Graduates
      To ask the Minister for Health if he has considered a proposal regarding graduate speech and language therapists (details supplied) [56495/12]
    • Health Service Staff
      To ask the Minister for Health in view of the Health Service Executive plan to cut 3,200 full time equivalent posts in the health service in 2013, his views on whether persons availing of the...
    • Mental Health Commission Reports
      To ask the Minister for Health the date on which he received the 2012 Inspection Report from the Mental Health Commission; the steps he is taking to ensure that all issues raised in these reports...
    • Ambulance Service
      To ask the Minister for Health the numbers of ambulances being held up for significant lengths of time that is greater than half an hour at each of the Dublin hospitals (details supplied) because...
    • European Council Meetings
      To ask the Minister for Health the formations of the EU Councils of Ministers on which he sits; the number of meetings of that Council held from 9 March 2011 to date in 2012; the number of those...
    • Medical Card Applications
      To ask the Minister for Health the reason a medical card was removed and refused on reapplication in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Orthodontic Services
      To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Laois will receive orthodontic treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56568/12]
    • Health Services
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider providing regular bone density scans to at risk groups to allow early diagnosis and monitoring of osteoporosis; and if he will make a statement...
    • Prescription Drugs
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on his efforts to reduce the price of prescription medications; and if he will provide an estimate of when he anticipates that many...
    • Vaccination Programme
      To ask the Minister for Health when he intends making a statement in relation to narcolepsy including the proposed actions to be taken to support the sufferers of this condition and their...
    • Primary Care Centres Expenditure
      To ask the Minister for Health if the funding is being provided for primary care schemes in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56642/12]
    • Seirbhísí Sláinte
      To ask the Minister for Health cén fáth nach bhfuil vacsaín BCG ar fáil do pháistí nuabheirthe i gContae na Gaillimhe nuair atá an vacsaín ar fáil do...
    • Medical Card Applications
      To ask the Minister for Health the reason a medical card was refused in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56654/12]
    • Home Help Service
      To ask the Minister for Health if an appeal for the reinstatement of home help service hours in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Carlow will be reinstated to its original position...
    • Proposed Legislation
      To ask the Minister for Health his plans to amend the law in relation the involuntary admission; the feedback that has been provided to those who made submissions to the Mental Health Commission...
    • Treatment Abroad Scheme
      To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in County Donegal is no longer being funded under the treatment abroad section; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Home Care Packages
      To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a home care package in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Longford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56799/12]
    • Health Service Staff
      To ask the Minister for Health if he has considered the fate of the agency workers who are currently employed by the Health Service Executive in the posts now to be taken by new graduate nurses;...
    • Health Service Executive Governance
      To ask the Minister for Health if there have been changes in the management structure of the Health Service Executive in the north east region; if there has been a change in the management...
    • Hospital Services
      To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in Dublin 11 has not had an urgent operation [56829/12]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 972 of 6 June 2012, if he will address the waiting lists for prosthetics in counties Kerry and Cork; the number on the waiting...
    • Hospital Services
      To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a hospital appointment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork [56848/12]
    • Cancer Screening Programme
      To ask the Minister for Health when the bowel cancer screening programme will commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56854/12]
    • Disease Control
      To ask the Minister for Health if there is a national strategy in relation to tackling Lyme Disease here; the treatment available here for the disease; if his attention has been drawn to the...
    • Hospital Services
      To ask the Minister for Health when an appointment will be made in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56897/12]
    • Hospital Staff
      To ask the Minister for Health if the promised podiatry post at Kerry General Hospital, that was sanctioned in April 2012 will now be filled and the date of same; and if he will make a statement...
    • Maternal Mortality
      To ask the Minister for Health in relation to recent statements he has made in the press about Ireland having one of the lowest rates of maternal mortality in the world, if he will confirm that...
    • Hospital Services
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that the Health Service Executive commissioned KPMG Independent Review of Maternity and Gynaecology Services in the greater Dublin area,...
    • Long-Term Illness Scheme Eligibility
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will concede to the request of sufferers from Crohn's disease that it should be added to the long term illness scheme in view of the fact that this is a life...
    • Health Screening Programmes
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider extending the 100% subsidy currently available to GMS patients who avail of osteoporosis screening facility at Mayo General Hospital and Clinic...
    • Expert Group on the A, B and C v. Ireland Judgment
      To ask the Minister for Health if he has received a copy of the Expert Group Report following the ABC judgements by the ECHR as confirmed by the Tánaiste; and if he will make a...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      To ask the Minister for Health if he has met the Chief Medical Officer recently; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52233/12]
    • Expert Group on the A, B and C v. Ireland Judgment
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will meet representatives of the Catholic Church to discuss the Expert Group Report on the ABC versus Ireland European Court of Human Rights judgement; and if...
    • Cancer Screening Programme
      To ask the Minister for Health the basis on which a decision has been made to stop the breast check programme for those aged 64 years of age and over; if he will explain the reason this is not...
    • Health Service Staff
      To ask the Minister for Health if a report given to the Health Service Executive almost ten months ago relative to the care of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny will be acted on; the...
    • Medical Card Applications
      To ask the Minister for Health if an application for a medical card will be expedited in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny [56980/12]
    • Home Help Service
      To ask the Minister for Health the reason home help hours have been cut by 50% in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; if the hours will be restored; and if he will...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny who has been refused their appeal relative to their application for the fair deal...
    • Home Help Service
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will request an urgent review of the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny whose home help has been discontinued; and if he will expedite a...
    • Departmental Funding
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will direct the Health Service Executive not to inflate the 0.3% cut already announced with regard to organisations (details supplied); and if he will make a...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Departmental Bodies
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total amount of funding available to the National Transport Authority in each of the past seven years to date; the basis on which such...
    • Sports Capital Programme
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason a football club (details supplied) in County Galway was not successful in its recent application for a sports capital grant; and if...
    • Search and Rescue Service
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the search and rescue contract is up for renewal; and the savings he intends to make on this. [54709/12]
    • Air Services
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will request all airline companies to maintain competitive value for money air fares in 2013 in order to ensure that the maximum number...
    • Departmental Contracts
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if any concerns have been conveyed to him in relation to non-payment, underpayment or late payment for work done on projects funded by his...
    • Rail Network
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the details of the track and infrastructure alterations proposed at the railway station in Carrick-on-Suir County Tipperary and the timescales...
    • School Equipment
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if she will consider the mandatory inclusion of defibrillator equipment in all secondary schools and sports club facilities; and if he will...
    • Sports Capital Programme
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the parameters that were used to allocate sports capital grants in 2012. [56430/12]
    • Taxi Regulations
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding the proposed Taxi Bill. [56470/12]
    • Sports Capital Programme
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention been drawn to the request by Dublin City Council for the €300,000 allocation from the sports capital programme under...
    • EU Council Meetings
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the formations of the EU Councils of Ministers on which he sits; the number of meetings of that Council held from 9 March 2011 to date in...
    • Sale of State Assets
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to a report in a Sunday newspaper that Coras Iompair Eireann has sold the freehold interest in several properties in Spencer Dock in...
    • Sports Funding
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide in tabular form a breakdown of Irish Sports Council Funding for each of the Olympic cycle years of 2009, 2010, 2011 and...
    • Driving Licence Renewals
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he intends to take the issuing of driving licences from the local authorities; if so, the proposed location of the central issuing office...
    • Cycling Policy
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will detail on a county basis the spend on developing and maintaining cycle routes for each of the past three years. [56741/12]
    • Vehicle Registration
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when a national approval registration system will be introduced for 01 and 02 trailers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56747/12]
    • EU Vehicle Approval Test
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the physical tests carried out on 01 and 02 trailers during a European Community Whole Vehicle Type Approval that are carried out in a NSSTA;...
    • Rural Transport
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will reverse the decision to cancel the number 22 Bus Éireann service through Kinnegad, County Westmeath, in view of the negitive...
    • Air Services
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason passenger numbers at Shannon Airport fell from 3.6 million in 2007 to 1.5 million in 2012 notwithstanding the substantial State...
    • Heritage Funding
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in view of the successful completion of the Malahide Castle project County Dublin and the importance of heritage to economic growth, if he...
    • Haulage Industry
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in the context of the road haulage operator licensing system, if there is a list of approved persons or bodies that will provide a road...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the cost of the KPMG evaluation on behalf of the Steering Group and his Department upon the separation of Shannon Airport from the Dublin...

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