Written answers
Thursday, 20 December 2012
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- Taxi Regulations
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans for taxi branding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57207/12]
- Rail Services
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on works being carried out on the LUAS BXD project; the total spend on the project so far and current estimate...
- Cycle Facilities
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the funding that is being provided by the National Transport Authority for the expansion of Dublin Bikes this year and in follow on years; if...
- Road Maintenance
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures he will take to ensure the up keep of the State’s road network to maintain safety and quality conditions in view of...
- Rail Services
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to put in place measures to increase the capacity of the Luas to deal with high volumes of passengers at the Heuston stop such as...
- Tourism Promotion
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide details of any new projects he expects to receive funding from the €56 million provided for tourism product...
- Departmental Funding
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a detailed breakdown of the way the €7million allocated for the Gathering in the 2012 Budget will be spent; and if...
- Departmental Budgets
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is satisfied regarding the adequacy of the budget for his Department to meet in full the projected requirements in the coming year; the...
- Road Safety Strategy
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will report on the upcoming new road strategy for 2013 to 2020; the measures that he believes should be included in the new strategy; if...
- Departmental Agencies
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in view of the fact that he plans to reduce Fáilte Ireland’s budget from €63.3 million in 2013 to €53.2 million by...
- Tourist Accommodation
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures he will take to assist the hotel industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57201/12]
- Sale of Aer Lingus
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he or any State agency has tendered for an adviser in relation to the State's 25% shareholding in Aer Lingus; and if he will make a...
- Road Tolls
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of money collected from road tolls to date in 2012; the amount of this money taken in by the State; if he will provide a breakdown...
- Aviation Sector
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans for aviation in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57203/12]
- Regional Airports
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to deliver on proposals by Ireland West Airport, Knock to create 500 new jobs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57253/12]
- State Airports
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will clarify his statement regarding Shannon Airport when he welcomed enormous possibilities for additional military flights; the kind...
- Search and Rescue Service
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on his action plan to address concerns regarding maritime transport and marine emergency response; and if he will...
- Public Transport
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update in installing wi-fi on public transport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57211/12]
- Taxi Regulations
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the rationale for the continuation of the sitting of the SPSV licence entry test in view of the oversupply of SPSV drivers on the road...
- Sports Capital Programme
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide details of the sports capital grant in terms of the total amount in new funding; the amount allocated thus far; the amount...
- Departmental Budgets
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide in tabular form, a detailed breakdown of his Department’s funding for sports in Budget 2012; and if he will make a...
- Proposed Legislation
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the proposed new Road Traffic Bill will be published; the main new measures comprised in the Bill including any proposed new penalty...
- Public Transport
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has considered expanding the Leap card to allow it to be used for the Dublin bikes schemes; if he will bring this proposal to the...
- Sports Capital Programme
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if any additional funding will be made available to support some of the clubs which were not allocated money under the 2012 sports capital...
- EU Funding
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will outline his involvement in developing the transport element of the connecting Europe facility; if he will state the specific...
- Road Improvement Schemes
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the upgrading of the N22 Ballyvourney to Ovens Road, County Cork; if he envisages that this road will be constructed in...
- State Agencies
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a detailed account of the plans to merge Shannon Development’s functions with Fáilte Ireland; and if he will...
- Taxi Ranks
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the work he is doing to ensure the best integration of taxis into the Dublin transport network in advance of the development of the LUAS BXD...
- Tourism Promotion
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way he plans to reduce the tourism marketing fund by 5%; where he expects the savings to come from; and if he will make a statement on the...
- State Agencies
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which he expects the various bodies under his aegis to be in a position to make a sizeable or important contribution towards...
- Taxi Regulations
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider further financial incentives to increase the number of wheelchair accessible vehicles in the state’s taxi fleet....
- Sports Capital Programme
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the criteria used to determine the way the €26 million of funding for sports capital grants was allocated to sports clubs; and if he...
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Overseas Development Aid
To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to set out interim targets in relation to funding levels for overseas development aid to achieve the Millennium...
- Undocumented Irish in the USA
To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has considered a proposal (details supplied) in relation to visas for highly skilled jobs and the undocumented Irish in...
- Northern Ireland Issues
To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will follow up the case of a person (details supplied) with the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland in view of the...
- Anti-Social Driving Practices
To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 1 of 17 October 2012, if contact has been made with the Justice Minister in the Northern...
- Irish Language
To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the discussions he has had with Members of the Northern Ireland Executive in relation to the Irish Language Act; and if he will...
- EU Presidency
To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his priorities for the EU presidency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57598/12]
- Humanitarian Aid
To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the degree to which the international community has been in a position to support aid and relief agencies in Syria with...
- Department of Finance
- Property Taxation
To ask the Minister for Finance if persons acting in the capacity of executors of wills will be included in the list of persons allowed to defer payment of the property tax, save where the...
- Household Charge
To ask the Minister for Finance if he will indicate in the Budget 2013 documentation where account has been taken of the discontinuance of the household charge revenue in 2013 which was estimated...
- Banking Sector Regulation
To ask the Minister for Finance the controls that exist in the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation to prevent employees, their spouses, family and associates from benefitting from confidential...
- Disposal of Assets
To ask the Minister for Finance the protocols and practices taken by the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation to ensure that assets disposed of by IBRC itself, or its borrowers under the auspices of...
- Property Taxation
To ask the Minister for Finance with regard to the property tax, the reason that no exemptionor concession was given to persons who paid large amounts of stamp duty in recent years; and if he...
- Pension Provisions
To ask the Minister for Finance if he will bring forward his decision announced in his recent budget speech in respect of the maximum allowable pension fund, to a point in 2013 as opposed to...
- Financial Services Regulation
To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a detailed account of the way private monetary transactions between accounts that is bank transfers, in the State are monitored by the Revenue...
- State Bodies
To ask the Minister for Finance the number of cases from 2008 to date in which the State Claims Agency was successful, but costs were awarded to the plaintiff; if he will indicate the total of...
- Revenue Commissioners Investigations
To ask the Minister for Finance if he will allocate additional resources to the Revenue Commissioners in 2013 to tackle the black economy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57437/12]
- Fuel Rebate Scheme
To ask the Minister for Finance if the auto-diesel excise duty rebate relief will be extended to private coach operators; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57461/12]
- Pension Provisions
To ask the Minister for Finance if legislative proposals furnished to him by this Deputy in relation to imposing a super levy on bailed out bankers/former politicians/civil servants will be...
- Universal Social Charge
To ask the Minister for Finance if he will quantify the amount of money that could be raised by persons paying Class S PRSI, if they were liable to the 3% universal social charge on income in...
- Property Valuations
To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a county breakdown of properties nationwide valued at less than €100,000; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57524/12]
- Budget Submissions
To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the VFI proposals to introduce a €250 million lid levy was not adopted in Budget 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57545/12]
- Tax Code
To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the €120 million proposal to place a 1c levy on SMS and MMS was not adopted in Budget 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57546/12]
- Property Taxation
To ask the Minister for Finance the way property tax rates proposed in this jurisdiction compare with rates in Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57548/12]
- Alcohol Pricing
To ask the Minister for Finance in view of the deliberations in Budget 2013, if he will quantify the amount of potential lost revenue to the State by the selling of alcohol in supermarket outlets...
- Mortgage Debt
To ask the Minister for Finance the number of regulated financial institutions that have sold all or part of their mortgage loan books in the past three years; the protection that mortgage...
- Mortgage Interest Relief
To ask the Minister for Finance the number of mortgage customers whose mortgage interest relief has been stopped in 2012 due to arrears or non payment in respect of their mortgage; the guidelines...
- Credit Unions Regulation
To ask the Minister for Finance if lending restrictions have been applied to a credit union (details supplied) by the Central Bank of Ireland [57593/12]
- Exceptional Liquidity Assistance
To ask the Minister for Finance if an indicative timetable has been agreed with the European Central Bank in respect of ELA lending made by the Central Bank of Ireland to Irish Bank Resolution...
- Universal Social Charge
To ask the Minister for Finance if he will outline the situation whereby public servants receive arrears as salary paid to them in 2012 which relate to 2010 and 2011; the level at which the...
- Tax Collection
To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No.4 of 6 December 2012 in which he estimated a total revenue of €395 million from the taxation of child benefit, the rate...
- Tax Code
To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer of allowing unmarried couples for joint assessment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57610/12]
- Mortgage Arrears
To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the level of arrears across the buy-to-let mortgage book; the Government's strategy for dealing with the problem; and if he will make a statement on...
- Promissory Notes
To ask the Minister for Finance if, in the absence of an agreement with the European Central Bank to restructure the liability, it is his intention to pay the €3.1 billion due to the Irish...
- Banking Sector Redundancies
To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide details of the number of AIB employees who have applied to avail of the voluntary redundancy scheme; the estimated total cost of the voluntary...
- Banking Sector Remuneration
To ask the Minister for Finance when he expects to have the Mercer Report on remuneration levels within the covered institutions to hand; when he expects to make decisions in respect of same and...
- Fiscal Policy
To ask the Minister for Finance the anticipated adjustment in Budget 2014; if he will confirm the split between taxation and expenditure measures; and if he will confirm the amount of the...
- Additional Voluntary Contributions
To ask the Minister for Finance further to his projection that allowing pre-retirement access to funded additional voluntary contributions will yield €100 in 2013, if he will confirm the...
- Pension Provisions
To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a detailed statement of the basis of the estimated yield in 2014 of €250 million from proposed changes to the maximum allowable pension...
- Universal Social Charge
To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated number of pensioners that will be affected by the increase in the universal social charge for persons aged 70 years of age and over earning...
- Alcohol Sales
To ask the Minister for Finance the budget measures that specifically affect the off licence alcohol trade. [57621/12]
- Carbon Tax
To ask the Minister for Finance the impact of the extension of carbon tax to solid fuels on the price of smokeless coal and non-smokeless coal; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Exchequer Deficit
To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide details of the Exchequer borrowing requirement in 2013 and 2014 taking into account cash on hand, projected Exchequer deficits and the maturity...
- Property Taxation
To ask the Minister for Finance the number of residential properties that he estimates will be liable for the local property tax; if this number is consistent with the number of properties that...
- Credit Availability
To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of new lending approved and drawn down, as opposed to renewals or bundling of existing credit facilities by each of AIB and Bank of Ireland in 2012; and...
- Mortgage Interest Relief
To ask the Minister for Finance his estimate of the amount of tax foregone through the application of mortgage interest relief to landlords; if he will provide a breakdown of this amount between...
- Department of Education and Skills
- Student Grant Scheme Applications
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when will a student grant issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57365/12]
- Pupil-Teacher Ratio
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the rationale for altering the pupil:teacher ratio for further education colleges; the likely effect this will have on youth unemployment and for the...
- Student Grant Scheme Applications
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a third level education grant will be issued to a person (details supplied) in County Carlow; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Schools Building Projects
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the proposal to provide a new school (details supplied) in County Cavan; when this project will proceed to the next stage; the...
- Schools Refurbishment
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an application for refurbishment of a school (details supplied); the length of time the request has been with his Department;...
- Student Grant Scheme Applications
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an application for grant assistance made through Student Universal Support Ireland in respect of a person (details supplied) will be approved....
- Schools Building Projects
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update in relation to the possibility of having a proposed building project restored to his Department's School Building...
- School Staffing
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a teaching post (details supplied) in County Kerry will be retained; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57478/12]
- School Accommodation
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding school accommodation (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57479/12]
- Student Grant Scheme Delays
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a grant application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Leitrim; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the eligibility criteria and the circumstances in which a person who has made an application for a higher education grant may secure the top up grant;...
- Teachers' Remuneration
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a qualified teacher (details supplied) in County Roscommon, registered with theTeaching Council is paid the unqualified rate for substitute...
- Value for Money Reviews
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the delay in publishing the value for money report into two teacher schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57635/12]
- School Transport
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if communities for whom reforms to school transport policy have proven particularly problematic will be afforded an opportunity to propose and...
- Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in view of the tardiness of payments by the new structure, Student Universal Support Ireland, in respect of determining a person's eligibility for...
- Clár Tógála Scoileanna
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cén dul chun cinn atá déanta maidir le cóiríocht bhuan a chur ar fáil do Ghaelscoil de hÍde ar an Órán...
- National Procurement Service
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has any concerns regarding the effect on local small indigenous businesses as a result of circulars issuing from his Department in relation to...
- Teachers' Remuneration
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the new payment scale for new primary school teachers agreed with the social partners of €30,702 will come into effect; the reason for the...
- Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
- EU Programmes
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the progress made to date in relation to the establishment of a successor programme to the Peace III Programme; and if he will make a...
- Health Service Reform
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide the underlying workings in support of the €70 million reduced professional fees in the Department of Health 2013...
- Capital Expenditure
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the consideration that will be paid to employment when the capital budget for 2013 is profiled by month; if he will consider measures to...
- Departmental Appointments
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the process involved in the appointment of a person (details supplied) as legal advisor to the Government Reform Unit and Statute Law...
- Public Sector Pay
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to show separately, the amount of money that would be saved if all increments across the public service were suspended in 2013; if all...
- Social Welfare Code
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has considered the merits of a central State means testing body to facilitate the efficient implementation of fair and progressive...
- Public Sector Allowances
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide details of all allowances to public and civil servants that were abolished this year including details of the estimated...
- Public Sector Pay
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he consulted with the Equality Authority as to whether paying new entrants to the public and civil service lower wages, salaries and...
- Rural Social Scheme
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he instructed the Department of Social Protection to carry out a review of the rural social scheme; the result of such a review; and if he...
- Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
- Departmental Functions
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the management structure of his Department; the specific responsibilities of the Secretary General, of each assistant secretary; and if he...
- Trade Agreements
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the discussions he has had to date with the EU Trade Commissioner de Gucht in relation to the EU/Canadian trade negotiations; if he has...
- Department of Social Protection
- National Internship Scheme
To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to extend the internship programme for current participants from nine months to 18 months; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Social Insurance Payments
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the estimated number of workers here who will be affected in 2013 by the removal of the weekly PRSI allowance from full rate and modified rate PRSI...
- Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a domiciliary care application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick [57402/12]
- Disability Allowance Appeals
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a file in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal was requested by the appeals office in August 2012 regarding an appeal for...
- Money Advice and Budgeting Service
To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will urgently proceed with opening the proposed Money Advice and Budgeting Service office in Killarney to provide reasonable access on a...
- Invalidity Pension Appeals
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding the review of an appeal for invalidity pension in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Laois; and if she will make a...
- Disability Allowance Applications
To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite an application for disability allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a...
- Jobseeker's Benefit Eligibility
To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her reform plans would make allowances for a situation (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57494/12]
- Social Welfare Code
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the problems that would be encountered in means testing all social welfare payments; the steps she is taking to overcome these problems and when we may...
- Child Benefit Payments
To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will address the anomaly whereby both parents who have legal joint custody of children are not entitled to an equal proportion of child related...
- Invalidity Pension Appeals
To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an update on an appeal for invalidity pension in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Longford; and if she will make a...
- Family Income Supplement Application Numbers
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of applications for family income supplement that were received by her Department before 5 November 2012 that are not yet processed; the...
- National Internship Scheme
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath was classified as an adult dependant, but who in fact could have afforded a social welfare...
- Carer's Allowance Applications
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding carer's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick. [57640/12]
- Back to Education Allowance Appeals
To ask the Minister for Social Protection if arrears in respect of back to education or one parent family allowance is warranted for the period February to October 2012 in the case of a person...
- Disability Allowance Eligibility
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the extent to which entitlement to partial sick benefit is likely to be affected after 9 January 2013 when entitlement expires in the case a person...
- Rent Supplement Scheme Applications
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the level of rent allowance payable in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57668/12]
- Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a domiciliary care allowance will be approved in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny as a matter of urgency. [57674/12]
- Disability Allowance Appeals
To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite an application for a social welfare appeal hearing of the refusal of an application for disability allowance in respect of a person...
- Carer's Allowance Appeals
To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite an application for a social welfare appeal hearing of the refusal of an application for carer's allowance in respect of a person...
- Rural Social Scheme
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of participants on the rural social scheme broken down on an integrated company basis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57735/12]
- Social Welfare Schemes Administration
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of applications on hand, under each social welfare scheme, that have not been decided and were made more than three months ago;, the reason...
- Social Welfare Schemes Appeals
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of appeals on hand in the appeals office for more than three months; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57750/12]
- Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
- Environmental Regulations
To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will revisit the issue of restrictions on gorse burning time, taking account of the implementation method in other jurisdictions,...
- Architectural Heritage
To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if his Department or an agency which receives funding from it have funds available towards the restoration and or conservation of...
- Turbary Rights
To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the provision made in the 2013 Estimate to purchase bog to facilitate the relocation of turf cutters; and if he will make a statement on...
- Irish Language
To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the position in relation to the Irish Language Act; the discussions he has had with the Culture Minister in the Northern Ireland...
- Oibreacha Feabhsúcháin do Scoileanna
To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an bhfuil iarratas faighte aige ó Scoil Shailearna, Indreabhán nó ó Chomharchumann Shailearna ar pháirc imeartha...
- Acht na dTeangacha Oifigiúla
To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cén dul chun cinn atá déanta maidir leis an athbhreithniú ar Acht na dTeangacha Oifigiúla, 2003; cén toradh...
- Calafoirt agus Céanna
To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an bhfuil soláthar déanta i meastacháin 2013 maidir le tairiscint a iarraidh chun céibh Inis Oírr a fhorbairt;...
- Scéimeanna Tacaíochta Gaeltachta
To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cén soláthar atá déanta i meastacháin 2013 do Scéim na bhFoghlaimeoirí; agus an ndéanfaidh sé...
- Airport Development Projects
To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the progress made to date in providing air terminals at the airstrips on Inisbofin and Cleggan; if it is intended to build these in 2013;...
- Rural Environment Protection Scheme Payments
To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason a person (details supplied) was not entitled to a top up on their REP scheme payment and the interim payment from his...
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Warmer Homes Scheme Applications
To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position regarding an application to the warmer homes scheme in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal;...
- Microgeneration Support Scheme
To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if the micro energy scheme will be continued; and if additional supports will be put in place to encourage the installation of...
- Better Energy Homes Scheme Inspections
To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide details of the number of inspections that were carried out by Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland in...
- Telecommunications Services
To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will contact the mobile phone service providers and notify them of the problems with the service in the...
- Wind Energy Development
To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if the Irish wind industry rules can be updated to protect residents from the known nuisance of the low frequency noise as...
- Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
- Foreshore Licences
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason there is a discrepancy between the charges for foreshore licences in Kenmare, County Kerry, in respect of a person...
- Mortgage to Rent Scheme
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding mortgage to rent scheme in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make...
- Proposed Legislation
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the status of the Noise Nuisance Bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57434/12]
- Motor Taxation
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will set out in tabular form the motor tax received in each of the years 2009, 2010, 2011 and to date in 2012, in total...
- Water Services
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown of funding (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Air Pollution
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the action he is taking to address air pollution from industries here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57529/12]
- Rural Development Programme
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in view of the recent findings of the Ombudsman, the position regarding application made by a group (details supplied) under...
- Property Taxation
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in view of the introduction of the new local property tax if he anticipates any changes to the operation and implementation of...
- Litter Pollution
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the steps he has taken to date to deal with the issue of election posters on foot of his predecessor's election poster...
- Foreshore Licences
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if a foreshore licence will issue to a club (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Household Charge Collection
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of properties that have been liable for the household charge in 2012; and the number that have actually paid the...
- Housing Adaptation Grants
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will outline the allocations made to Cavan County Council and Monaghan County Council under the housing adaptation grant...
- Non-Principal Private Residence Charge
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the Non-Principal Private Residents Charge is payable in respect of a person who has a second property where members of...
- Rural Development Programme
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when the payment of a grant in respect of an organisation (details supplied) will be approved; and if he will make a statement...
- Community Development
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the allocation of all funding to deliver local development programmes such as LEADER and LCDP, under the Putting People...
- Leader Programmes
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if it is intended to transfer allocations by his Department between the different headings under which the LEADER programme...
- Ministerial Appointments
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if it is intended to appoint an independent chairperson to Comhairle na Tuaithe; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Landowners' Indemnity Scheme
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the progress made to date in providing a state indemnity scheme against claims by recreational users walking on farm land; the...
- Alternative Energy Projects
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when he or Minister of State Jan O’Sullivan will meet a community organisation (details supplied) concerned regarding...
- Department of Justice and Equality
- House Repossessions
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if, arising from the recent statement issued by the Revenue Commissioners, it is expected that home repossessions referred to are likely to be in...
- 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...
- Garda Training
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the next date for the evidential breath test training day; the number of Gardaí who will take part in the course; and if he will make a statement...
- Community Text Alert Systems
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to have the Garda community text alert scheme in operation in the Dublin region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57444/12]
- Closed Circuit Television Systems
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda stations in which the custody area is fitted with CCTV cameras; his plans to increase this number; and if he will make a statement...
- Garda Training
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if all the recommendations in the An Garda Síochána Training and Development Review Group Report 2009 have been fully implemented; if not,...
- Garda Divisional Headquarters
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the timeframe for the development of the new Garda Divisional Headquarters in north Dublin as announced in the recent stimulus plan; and if he will...
- Garda Operations
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will report on Garda Operation Vacuum; the amount of drugs seized to date; the number of persons arrested and charged to date; the number of...
- Garda Stations
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he has received a submission from an organisation (details supplied) in relation to the proposed closure of 100 Garda stations in 2013 in rural...
- Road Traffic Accidents
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when the Gardaí intend to publish data compiled by their road accident investigation unit into the cause of road accidents; and if he will make a...
- Sex Offenders Notification Requirements
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons registered with the Gardaí who must comply with Part 2 of the Sex Offenders Act 2001; the number actually complying with...
- Legislative Programme
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when he intends to publish legislation reforming the Sex Offenders Act 2001; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Proposed Legislation
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the progress made on the drafting of the Legal Costs Bill and the Family Law Bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57587/12]
- Garda Stations
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the proposals to close rural Garda stations is implemented, the procedures that will be used to ensure that the Garda stations and the lands...
- Personal Insolvency Service
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when he expects to have the new Personal Insolvency Service up and running and dealing with individual cases; the number of individual cases the...
- Residency Permits
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Questions No. 172 of 20 September 2012 and No. 195 of 15 November 2012, if, in view of the fact that a person (details...
- Family Reunification
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding an application for family reunification in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15; and if he will make a...
- Residency Permits
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding residency naturalisation in the case of persons (details supplied) in County Westmeath;; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Deportation Orders
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will review the proposed deportation under prevention of refoulement criteria in the case of persons (details supplied) in County Meath;; and if...
- Food Safety Standards
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will confirm that poultry produce used in meals for prisons is Bord Bia quality assured; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57679/12]
- Department of Defence
- Air Accident Investigations
To ask the Minister for Defence if the Defence Forces have completed their investigation into the heavy landing by the Air Corps air ambulance on 19 June last; the results and recommendations on...
- Food Safety Standards
To ask the Minister for Defence if he will confirm that poultry produce used in meals for army barracks is Bord Bia quality assured; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57678/12]
- Departmental Properties
To ask the Minister for Defence the number of vacant residential units in the ownership of his Department on the Curragh Camp, County Kildare, or in its environs; if he will provide a description...
- Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
- Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Appeals
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a decision will be made on a disadvantaged area scheme in respect of a person (details provided) in County Kerry; and if he will make...
- Grassland Sheep Scheme Eligibility
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a payment under the sheep grassland scheme was recouped by his Department in July 2012 having been paid to a person (details...
- Fish Quotas
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the date on which total allowable catch and quota arrangements were introduced by the European Union in relation to boar fish; the...
- Horse and Greyhound Fund
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of grant aid, loan guarantees and tax exemptions provided to the horse and greyhound industry in 2011 and 2012. [57423/12]
- Horse and Greyhound Industry
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of jobs based on the horse and greyhound industry and the statistical basis for assessing the number employed in the sector;...
- Horse and Greyhound Fund
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the primary purpose of the horse and greyhound fund; and if it should be used to provide funding for the prize money for races. [57425/12]
- Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a decision is due on an agri environment options scheme payment for 2012 in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry;...
- Flood Risk Assessments
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will request Teagasc to investigate new drainage issues that have arisen in the east Galway area in the Suck catchment basin, as...
- Food Industry
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the strategy employed to increase the availability of Irish food and products in supermarkets; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will urgently issue payment under the 2012 disadvantaged areas scheme to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will...
- Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Appeals
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a decision has been made on an appeal to the disadvantaged area appeal committee in respect of a person (details supplied) in County...
- Tax Code
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on stamp duty (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57488/12]
- Credit Availability
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the lack of credit availability for farmers; if he anticipates the cash flow problem to worsen for...
- Agri-Environment Options Scheme Reopening
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if future opening windows for agri schemes will be open longer to enable planners to deal with the large volumes of work that they must...
- Commonage Division
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding new commonage regulations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57492/12]
- Single Payment Scheme Payments
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for the delay in issuing disadvantaged area and single farm payment 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 payment under the disadvantaged area scheme will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway. [57541/12]
- Rainwater Harvesting Scheme
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will outline the details of the new water harvesting scheme including the level of grant and eligibility criteria; when the scheme...
- Single Payment Scheme Applications
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Appeals
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a decision has been made on an appeal to the disadvantaged area appeals committee in respect of a person (details supplied) in County...
- Beef Industry
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the discussions he has had to date with EU Trade Commissioner de Gucht in relation to the EU/Canadian trade negotiations in view of the...
- Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Eligibility
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the changes in the disadvantaged area scheme for 2013 for applicants in designated mountain areas; the amount to be saved by these cuts;...
- Disadvantaged Areas Scheme
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers in mountain areas who applied for the disadvantaged area scheme in 2012; the numbers of these who have mountain...
- Departmental Expenditure
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the money provided in the estimate for 2012; the amount spent to date in 2012 broken down between capital and current expenditure; and if...
- Commonage Division
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when vesting of the Pollnacloughe Commonage near Moycullen, County Galway, will be complete; the details of any outstanding issues that...
- Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied) has not been paid their disadvantaged area payment for 2012 in view of the fact that they were not...
- Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Applications
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of persons who have applied for a derogation under the stocking density rules of the disadvantaged area scheme 2012; the number...
- Harbours and Piers
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of money allocated in the 2013 estimates for the development of Fishery Harbours managed by his Department; the amount of this...
- Forestry Sector
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there are any restrictions on Coillte in relation to the sale of land in view of the proposed sale by Coillte of 11,000ha of land near...
- Department of Children and Youth Affairs
- School Completion Programme
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will reverse the cuts to a programme (details supplied) in view of the work carried out by them and the minimum cost involved in this...
- Child Care Services
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide clarity on the situation regarding the level of funding from the Health Service Executive that is provided in respect of a...
- Youth Services
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 961 of 6 November 2012, if she will detail the funding allocation for 2013 in respect of this front line...
- Child and Family Support Agency
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to the concerns of psychologists regarding her proposals to move all child psychology services to the child and...
- Department of Health
- Budget Targets
To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an analysis of the €308 million of pay related savings in his Department's budget in 2013; and if he will set out the way such savings...
- Special Educational Needs
To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether the optimal situation for children in special schools is the provision of multi-disciplinary teams involving teachers, allied health...
- General Medical Services Scheme
To ask the Minister for Health his views regarding charges by certain doctors for medical examinations and subsequent reports (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Services for People with Disabilities
To ask the Minister for Health the reason the assesment of needs in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork as laid down in the Disability Act of 2005 has not been met eight months...
- Health Service Staff
To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive plan to appoint an ophthalmologist for the Longford Westmeath area [57399/12]
- Registration of Social Workers
To ask the Minister for Health the basis on which a registration fee of €295 was deemed appropriate for social workers; if he has given consideration to charging a registration fee on a...
- Fertility Treatment
To ask the Minister for Health the supports his Department provides in relation to fertility treatment; his plans for the future regarding same; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Hospital Procedures
To ask the Minister for Health if he will put in place the necessary resources to carry out surgery in respect of a person (details supplied) [57406/12]
- Hospice Services
To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that there are no cuts to the budget for a hospice (details supplied) in Dublin 5; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57420/12]
- Health Service Executive Staff Responsibilities
To ask the Minister for Health if it is the case that the Health Service Executive intends to recruit 35 leadership/motivational coaches for HSE managers (details supplied); if he will outline...
- Nurse Registration
To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay experienced by a person (details supplied) in their attempt to register as a nurse with An Bord Altranais in view of the fact that they...
- Hospital Complaints
To ask the Minister for Health his response to a complaint regarding the care of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; if he has investigated this complaint; and if he will make a...
- Primary Care Centres
To ask the Minister for Health the steps he has taken in the past six months to progress the development of the two new primary care centres in Coolock, Edemore, Raheny and Darndale, Dublin; and...
- Health Service Executive Funding
To ask the Minister for Health the budget deficit for Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9, at the end of each month to date in 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57441/12]
- Health Insurance Cost
To ask the Minister for Health the reason a private ambulance was called to transfer a patient from Waterford Regional Hospital at a cost of €900, when a wheelchair taxi at a cost of...
- Medical Card Delays
To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite the renewal of a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57465/12]
- Health Service Executive Staff Remuneration
To ask the Minister for Health if he is satisfied that all outstanding moneys have been paid to a retired Health Service Executive employee (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make...
- National Lottery Funding
To ask the Minister for Health if a service for a resource centre (details supplied) in County Kerry will be funded; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57475/12]
- Health Service Staff
To ask the Minister for Health if he will appoint additional psychologists to address the waiting lists for children with autism in County Kerry, particularly for children in the age bracket of...
- EU Directives
To ask the Minister for Health in view of the implementation of the EU Directive 2010/63/EU in January 2013, the way he intends to implement the three Rs, replacement of the use of animals to the...
- Home Help Service
To ask the Minister for Health the criteria used for assessing those in receipt of home help hours. [57517/12]
- National Positive Ageing Strategy
To ask the Minister for Health when the National Positive Aging Strategy will be presented to Cabinet and published in view of a recent commitment to publish before end 2012 and numerous previous...
- Hospital Services
To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the future of Belmullet Community Hospital, County Mayo; if his attention has been drawn to the role the hospital plays in the overall framework in...
- General Medical Services Scheme
To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to bring forward proposals to standardise the cost structure for blood tests in respect of those patients on general practitioner visit and medical...
- Alcohol Sales
To ask the Minister for Health when the alcohol pricing proposals relating to the sale of alcohol at below cost prices will be brought before Dáil Éireann; and if he will make a...
- Hospital Staff
To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a urologist for Temple Street Hospital, Dublin (details supplied) [57568/12]
- Health Services
To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the lack of services and supports relative to the care of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; if the staff/client ratio at the centre...
- Health Service Executive Funding
To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding funding in respect of an organisation (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57573/12]
- Medical Card Applications
To ask the Minister for Health if a review of a medical card application will be carried out in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Health Services
To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to integrate access to and use of blood results both in primary care and acute hospitals; the estimated saving of such a system; and if he...
- Sunbed Usage
To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the regulation for sunbed use here; the regulations in place at present and the plans for reform; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Medical Card Delays
To ask the Minister for Health the current processing time for medical cards and appeals; the number of persons in each county in receipt of a medical card and general practitioner card,...
- Misuse of Drugs
To ask the Minister for Health when he expects the misuse of drugs legislation to be updated to tackle the street sale of Benzodiazepines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57582/12]
- Health Services
To ask the Minister for Health the number of specific stroke units within the health system; the incidence of stroke; the number of rehabilitative consultants employed here; and if he will make a...
- Medical Records
To ask the Minister for Health if the medical records of a person (details supplied) in County Laois regarding all their treatment in Portlaoise General Hospital will be made available to them;...
- Hospital Services
To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the proposal to provide a Medical Assessment Unit at Monaghan General Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57628/12]
- Nursing Home Services
To ask the Minister for Health the efforts he has made, since his meeting in Dingle, County Kerry, with representatives of Valentia Community Hospital last February, to help ensure the bodies...
- Health Services
To ask the Minister for Health the current provision of therapeutic apheresis services here; the role of the Irish Blood Transfusion Services in the delivery of same; if these services will...
- Hospital Charges
To ask the Minister for Health if it is the case that, due to changes in Section 53 and 72 of the Health Act 1970 as amended by the Health (Amendment ) Act 2005, charges may be applied for...
- Medical Card Applications
To ask the Minister for Health when a medical card will issue in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57642/12]
- Health Service Executive Expenditure
To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the amount the Health Service Executive paid for taxi services in County Donegal since the patient bus service between Letterkenny and Dublin was...
- Food Safety Standards
To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that poultry used in meals for hospitals is Bord Bia quality assured; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57680/12]
- Health Promotion
To ask the Minister for Health if he will investigate the regulating of the salt content in foods in view of the fact that medical experts say it would help reduce the number of high blood...
- Health Service Charges
To ask the Minister for Health the measures he will take to prevent undue financial hardship on patients attending for vital medical treatment, in view of reports from the Irish Cancer Society;...
- Primary Care Services
To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the continuation of child psychology as a critical element of primary care services; if he will provide an assurance that the model of full...
- Hospital Accommodation
To ask the Minister for Health the number of cystic fibrosis beds available at St. Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin; if he will provide a detailed up to date report on the new cystic...
- Hospital Complaints Procedures
To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider the issues raised in correspondence (details supplied); if he will ensure that the hospitals involved address the concerns raised; and if he...
- Health Service Staff
To ask the Minister for Health If he will direct the Health Service Executive to provide an appropriate work placement for a staff member recovering from a severe eating disorder and if he will...
- Services for People with Disabilities
To ask the Minister for Health the decrease in funding provided for the disability sector in 2013 compared to 2012 in both financial terms and percentage terms; if this money will be ring-fenced...
- Health Service Staff
To ask the Minister for Health the projected reduction or increase in staff in the disability sector in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57722/12]
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- Ministerial Responsibilities
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his key priorities for 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57535/12]
- Road Improvement Schemes
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regrading special improvement road grant (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57371/12]
- Sports Capital Programme
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide details of all applications from County Donegal to the sports capital programme in tabular form and include the amount...
- Road Improvement Schemes
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if funding will be allocated to Monaghan County Council in 2013 to finalise the preparatory work on the N2 Clontibret to the Border road; and...
- Cycle Facilities
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update regarding his plans for developing cycle routes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57421/12]
- Road Maintenance
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount spent by the National Roads Authority on the M50 for the years 2009, 2010, 2011 and to date in 2012 on grass cutting, litter...
- State Airports
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the average number of passengers per week in Dublin Airport, Cork Airport, Ireland West Knock Airport and Shannon Airport for the years 2010,...
- Air Accident Investigations
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the Air Accident Investigation Unit has completed its investigation into the heavy landing by the Air Corps air ambulance on 19 June 2012;...
- Tourism Promotion
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to drive tourism through local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57474/12]
- Rail Services
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding a train service (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57489/12]
- Tourism Promotion
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will request Fáilte Ireland to support and provide funding to Puck Fair and Summerfest festivals in County Kerry, if he will ask...
- Road Improvement Schemes
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide funding in 2013 for the Kenmare relief road, County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57503/12]
- Tourism Promotion
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to introduce a singular tourism strategy for County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57504/12]
- Taxi Regulations
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the concerns of a number of taxi drivers (details supplied) regarding the recommendations for the taxi...
- Sports Capital Programme
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way the successful sports capital grant projects were selected; if he will provide the details of the procedures that were used in...
- Taxi Regulations
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when it is expected to be announced the recommendations of theTaxi Regulation Review Report that will be implemented and the level of...
- Emergency Vehicles
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if obsolete equipment including redundant emergency vehicles from Shannon Airport were made available to voluntary groups along the Shannon...
- Local Improvements Scheme
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to allocate funding in 2013 to local authorities for local improvement schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57629/12]
- Road Improvement Schemes
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will ensure that funding is provided to Cavan County Council for the 2013 road works scheme; if he will outline the progress of the...
- Transport Costs
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which transport costs have been identified in the context of the implementation of national economic recovery; and if he will...
- Sporting Events
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which he expects to utilise sport as a medium to protect a positive national image at home and overseas in 2013; and if he will...
- Tourism Industry
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which the tourism sector is projected to develop and expand in 2013; the degree to which any such expansion is likely to impact...
- National Transport Authority
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the full extent of the budget at the disposal of the National Transport Authority; the way the Authority prioritises its work projects; the...
- Hospitality Industry
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which he has continuous dialogue with the hotel and catering sectors with a view to identifying the issues most commonly...
- Transport Costs
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which he intends to highlight issues affecting transport costs here during Ireland’s presidency of the EU; and if he will...
- Road Maintenance
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which his Department continues to identify accident black spots on local, regional or national routes; the extent to which he...
- Sale of Aer Lingus
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which he is kept up to date on matters appertaining to the future development of Aer Lingus including possible takeover offers;...
- Sports Capital Programme
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide for each county in tabular form the number of applications received under his Department's 2012 sports capital grant...
- Coast Guard Stations
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if it is intended to seek tenders for the provision of a site for a Coastguard station in the Cleggan area of County Galway; and if it is, the...
