Written answers

Tuesday, 29 January 2013

  • Department of Social Protection
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Eligibility
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the progress that has been made in the ongoing issue around part time fire fighters being refused jobseeker's payments on the stated grounds that the...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Administration
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if consideration has been given to making payment of rent supplement directly to landlords through their bank accounts. [4069/13]
    • Back to Education Allowance Payments
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of people who will be affected by the abolition of the back to education cost allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4056/13]
    • Back to School Clothing and Footwear Allowance Scheme Payments
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of children affected by the cuts to the back to school footware and clothing allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4051/13]
    • Child Care Services
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the timeframe her interdepartmental group on the provision of Scandinavian childcare system has met since established; when it is likely to report to...
    • Child Benefit Rates
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she plans to further cut child benefit in view of the fat that it has already been cut by 22%. [4062/13]
    • Youth Unemployment Measures
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the progress that has been made on the establishment of a youth guarantee scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4095/13]
    • Pension Provisions
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will outline her plans for a universal pension scheme; her views on when any such proposals will be published; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Employment Support Services
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the extent to which she expects the various employment training, educational and/or other temporary employment measures and youth outreach provisions to...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will outline the steps that are being taken to reduce and minimise delays in the processing time for applications to the various schemes as...
    • Social Transfer Data
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the average social transfer in 2012 for the top 10% of income earners and the bottom 10% of income earners; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Application Numbers
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of rent supplement applications that remain unprocessed at this time; the average length of time it takes to process a rent supplement...
    • Partial Capacity Benefit Scheme
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of people transferred to partial capacity benefit in 2012; if she will indicate the number of people in each assessment band of capacity; the...
    • Social Welfare Code
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if the Programme for Government commitment to maintain Social Welfare rates still stands; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4093/13]
    • Departmental Equipment
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide details on the progress made in improving the ICT capability of her Department to detect potential irregularities, over payments or...
    • Household Benefits Scheme
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the discussions that she has held with electricity, telephone and gas providers about costs to household benefits package recipients; the progress made;...
    • Social Welfare Code
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if there has been any study or analysis within her Department or associated agencies of the flexicurity welfare state model that is used in Denmark and...
    • Community Employment Schemes Places
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection of the 2000 new community employment places announced on 19 January 2013, the number that will be allowed for longer than one year. [4058/13]
    • Exceptional Needs Payments
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection following the recent circular directive SWA 1/02013 issued on 11 January 2013 regarding supplementary welfare payments that were traditionally paid...
    • Social Welfare Code
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the progress that has been made or her plans to provide unemployment benefits to the self-employed. [4036/13]
    • Humanitarian Aid Scheme
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of applicants there were under the supplementary assistance payment or other social protection payments for help due to severe flooding in...
    • Departmental Contracts
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding the tender for the payment of entitlements on behalf of her Department; when a decision will be made in relation to the awarding...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Administration
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the changes she intends to make to the rent supplement scheme in view of the strain that recent changes are putting on families and persons in Dublin in...
    • Social Welfare Code
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she still intends to proceed with the introduction of the single working age payment concept, announced by her to the Troika in March 2011; and if a...
    • Redundancy Payments
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her Department will meet the cost of the statutory redundancy and unpaid holiday pay of the workers who lost their jobs in a company (details...
    • Job Initiatives
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection in view of the statement by her appointee as chair of the steering group of the jobbridge programme (details supplied), when she will reconsider the...
    • Departmental Staff Recruitment
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if sanction has been given by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform for the provision of 150 additional clerical officer posts to allow for the...
    • Social Welfare Code
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the savings from cuts to pensioners for fuel and elcetricity and the number affected. [3915/13]
    • Pension Provisions
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she has considered the implications of the removal of the transitory pension in 2014; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4083/13]
    • Jobseeker's Benefit Applications
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will clarify the implementation time frame of the Budget 2013 changes to jobseeker's benefit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4092/13]
    • Departmental Staff Numbers
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if, in view of the significant increase in appeals of social welfare decisions, additional resources, including personnel, will be allocated to the...
    • Job Initiatives
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an update on the implementation of the Pathways to Work initiative; the number of unemployed dealt with by the new system to date;...
    • One-Parent Family Payment Expenditure
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she is still considering a form of combined income support payment to all low income families including lone parents, similar to that referred to in...
    • Departmental Staff Numbers
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will outline the number staff in her Department and the number who have transferred to other Departments excluding former FÁS and Community...
    • Family Income Supplement Applications
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will report on the waiting time for the processing of a family income supplement application; the number of applicants currently waiting to have...
    • Tax Collection
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the measures or criteria she intends to use to ensure that basic living standards of social welfare are protected from any deductions in relation to the...
    • Departmental Staff Redeployment
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 140 of 13 November 2012, in which she stated that other staff left or retired as normal, if these positions were...
    • Budget 2013
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her Department completed a poverty impact assessment of the effects of the recent budget on those dependent on social welfare; and if she intends to...
    • National Internship Scheme Numbers
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide the number and duties of jobbridge participants which Government Departments availed of since the scheme commenced; and the number...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Administration
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the practice of top up, undeclared, payments which landlords are demanding of rent supplement tenants, in order that...
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Ministerial Meetings
      To ask the Taoiseach if he or any of his officials have met any representatives of the tobacco industry in the past six months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3708/13]
    • Cabinet Committees
      To ask the Taoiseach the number of occasions in 2012, on which the Cabinet subcommittee on Economic Recovery and Jobs met. [3949/13]
    • Job Trends
      To ask the Taoiseach the total number of persons employed in the economy as of the 31 of December 2012, in each of the past seven years to date; the total number of jobs lost and or created in...
    • Public Service Reform Plan Update
      To ask the Taoiseach with reference to the public service reform document published by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform on 17 November 2011, Appendix IIa, Bodies to be...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Foreign Conflicts
      To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has any update on reports of increased fighting in Northern Burma; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3775/13]
    • EU Enlargement
      To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if Croatian accession into the European Union will mean a revision of the number of seats in the European Parliament; if it...
    • Humanitarian Aid
      To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will outline his involvement in negotiating the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015 and the mid-term review thereof; and...
    • EU Presidency Issues
      To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 188 of 22 January 2013, if he will supply details of the Content Management System...
    • Working Holiday Visas
      To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of persons here who took up working holiday visas in 2012 under the agreements with Argentina, Australia, Canada,...
    • Public Service Reform Plan Update
      To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade with reference to the public service reform document published by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform on 17...
  • Department of Finance
    • Tax and Social Welfare Codes
      To ask the Minister for Finance his views on a matter (details supplied) in respect of the tax payments [3854/13]
    • Public Sector Recruitment
      To ask the Minister for Finance if he has any plans to lift the moratorium on recruitment to the Revenue Commissioners in view of the fact that there will be an additional workload on staff with...
    • Customs and Excise Controls
      To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide in tabular format, the funding provided to curb tobacco smuggling each year, since and including, 2005; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Property Taxation
      To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding local authority housing tenants and the property tax, that is, whether they are individually liable or whether the local authority...
    • Motor Fuels
      To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 90 of 16 January 2013, if he will provide the figures for Irish hauliers who purchase their diesel abroad; the rate hauliers...
    • National Treasury Management Agency
      To ask the Minister for Finance if members of staff at the National Treasury Management Agency are exempt from the standard practice of a cooling off period for senior civil servants moving from...
    • Bank Debt Restructuring
      To ask the Minister for Finance in view of the fact that he is the owner of 15% of the ordinary shares in Bank of Ireland, and owner of preference shares most recently valued at €1.473...
    • Banking Sector Staff
      To ask the Minister for Finance further to the appointment that he announced and welcomed, of the former head of the Shareholder Management Unit (details supplied) to a position at Bank of...
    • Bank Debt Restructuring
      To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide in tabular form, the par value of loans sold by Anglo Irish Bank in 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011; the amount realised by territory for the South of...
    • Banks Recapitalisation
      To ask the Minister for Finance in view of the fact that he is the sole shareholder in 100% of the shares in the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation, if IBRC allows defaulting debtors to buy back...
    • Tax Credits
      To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm the number of employee tax credit certificates for 2013 that have been issued to date to employers; if he will confirm the number that are still...
    • Tax Reliefs
      To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider the proposal made in correspondence (details supplied) regarding an excise on rebate of diesel; if he will take the necessary action; and if he...
    • Mortgage Interest Relief
      To ask the Minister for Finance the way that customers in each of the State controlled banks have been precluded from qualifying for the enhanced mortgage interest relief owing to the Christmas...
    • Tax Credits
      To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding an application for incapacitated child credit certificate in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a...
    • EU-IMF Programme of Support
      To ask the Minister for Finance if he will detail the policies being implemented by his Department on which he wrote to the EU / ECB / IMF troika; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Property Taxation
      To ask the Minister for Finance if he will outline the methods of payment available to persons in relation to the property tax. [3933/13]
    • Banking Sector Remuneration
      To ask the Minister for Finance if any of the covered institutions provided non-financial bonuses to their senior staff, such as shares, holidays, increased pension contributions, cars or other...
    • Liquor Licences
      To ask the Minister for Finance the number of intoxicating liquor licences that have lapsed for each year from 2002 until 2007 inclusive; the reasons the licences have lapsed; and if he will make...
    • EU-IMF Programme of Support
      To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of loans maturing under the EU / IMF programme in each year from 2015 in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4106/13]
    • Government Bonds
      To ask the Minister for Finance the preconditions which apply in order for Irish Government bonds to be eligible for purchase under the ECB's outright monetary transactions; and if he will make a...
    • EU-IMF Programme of Support
      To ask the Minister for Finance the discussions he has had with the Troika in respect of the possibility of putting in place precautionary funding lines when the Ireland EU / IMF programme...
    • Tax Reliefs
      To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 99 of 20 December, 2012 and in respect of the part of the question dealing with tax breaks on rental income from foreign...
    • Tax Collection
      To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to a case relating to stamp duty and the transfer of farming land (details supplied) in County Tipperary; if he will make an...
    • Insurance Coverage
      To ask the Minister for Finance the discussions that are ongoing between his Department and insurance companies regarding flood insurance cover for people whose homes flooded in the past. [4168/13]
    • Property Taxation
      To ask the Minister for Finance when he proposes to provide for Local Property Tax to be deductible from rental income; if he will clarify his statement that it will be introduced on a phased...
    • Tax Code
      To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider whatever legislative or Ministerial Order changes are required to allow individual private landlords to be considered as operating a business,...
    • State Savings Scheme
      To ask the Minister for Finance in the context of the recent reduction in interest rates paid on State Savings products, if he or his Department had been lobbied by any of the covered...
    • European Stability Programmes
      To ask the Minister for Finance the supervision process that is imposed on countries who have exited the excessive deficit procedure but who still have over 75% of loans drawn down from the...
    • European Stability Mechanism
      To ask the Minister for Finance if he has sought a deferral of interest payable on loans from the European Financial Stability Facility and European Financial Stabilisation Mechanism; if he sees...
    • Property Taxation
      To ask the Minister for Finance his estimate of the number of houses that will be entitled to an exemption from the local property tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4205/13]
    • NAMA Property Leases
      To ask the Minister for Finance the average length of time that the National Assets Management Agency takes for processing applications for rent abatement for commercial clients; the process for...
    • NAMA Property Sales
      To ask the Minister for Finance if the National Assets Management Agency has requested a lifting of the restriction on it selling properties back to defaulting debtors; if he sees merit in such a...
    • Public Sector Conflicts of Interest
      To ask the Minister for Finance if, in view of the recent resignation of a senior official (details supplied) who was head of Shareholder Management Unit, in his Department to take up a senior...
    • Tax Reliefs
      To ask the Minister for Finance if persons in receipt of invalidity pension are exempt from DIRT tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4210/13]
    • Credit Unions Regulation
      To ask the Minister for Finance if a High Court judgment against a person would disqualify that person from serving on a board of a credit union under the new fitness and probity regime. [4214/13]
    • Retail Sector
      To ask the Minister for Finance if he has received notification of motions passed by Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, Fingal County Council, Leitrim County Council, Longford County Council...
    • Insurance Industry
      To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a breakdown of the levies currently being applied to home, motor and commercial insurance, including a history of each of the individual levies;...
    • Public Service Reform Plan Update
      To ask the Minister for Finance with reference to the public service reform document published by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform on 17 November 2011, Appendix IIa, Bodies to be...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      To ask the Minister for Finance the number of occasions that he has met with the Chief Executive of IBEC, Mr Danny McCoy, since the last general election; the purpose of the meeting; the date of...
    • NAMA Transactions
      To ask the Minister for Finance if the European Commission has approved the valuations and transfers of loans from the participating institutions to the National Asset Management Agency, that...
    • EU-IMF Agreement
      To ask the Minister for Finance if he will show separately in respect of each source of funding, EFSF, EFSM, IMF each bilateral arrangement, under the EU/IMF programme of assistance the blended...
    • State Banking Sector
      To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 215 of 22 January 2013, the name of the licensed institution on the banking licence used by Irish Bank Resolution...
    • Tax Reliefs
      To ask the Minister for Finance the projected cost in 2013 and 2014 to the Exchequer of allowing millionaires to direct their tax relief on charitable donations to the approved body of their...
    • Tax Code
      To ask the Minister for Finance the taxation obligations of a person who is paying rent to an overseas landlord; if he will clarify the nature of the guidance or advice provided to such a person;...
    • Property Taxation
      To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the property tax and those in shared ownership properties; if they are liable for the tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • European Securities Markets Programme
      To ask the Minister for Finance if he has held discussions with the ECB in respect of the disbursement of profits on its purchase of Government bonds under the Securities Markets Programme...
    • Mortgage Resolution Processes
      To ask the Minister for Finance the number of residential mortgages that were subject to write-down by covered banks in the period 2008 to 2012; the amount of balances written off; and if he will...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the redundancy replacement scheme through FÁS will be available this year to apprentices based in the Dublin area who require to work...
    • Education and Training
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports available in relation to training for those that are not in receipt of either jobseeker's benefit or allowance and are only signing on...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide statistics, in tabular form, for the number of apprenticeship registrations with FÁS each year for the past ten years per...
    • Education and Training
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to maximise the number of training and or up skilling places likely to be provided through SOLAS and or other agencies with consequent...
    • Student Grant Scheme Delays
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a third level grant has not been awarded to a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon despite the fact that they have submitted...
    • Anti-Racism Measures
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the existing anti-racist educational programmes targeting school children will be introduced to all educators, possibly through the reformed Junior...
    • Student Grant Scheme Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a student (details supplied) in County Clare will be notified of a decision with regard a Student Universal Support Ireland appeal; and if he...
    • School Transport Provision
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school bus service will be provided in new estates (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3802/13]
    • Schools Amalgamation
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extra staffing supports available to two schools that amalgamate; if a favourable staffing ratio is still in place; and if he will outline other...
    • School Patronage
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline the progress being made on the white paper on patronage of schools; when it will be published; and if he will make a statement on...
    • School Accommodation
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the options available to a school (details supplied) in County Mayo in a poor physical condition and in a non population growth area that was...
    • Road Safety
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the options available to a school board of management when An Garda Siochána has advised that school traffic is a serious traffic hazard but when...
    • Student Grant Scheme Applications
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the student grant application in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 11 who is due back to college on...
    • School Patronage
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason his Department decided not to proceed with a survey of parents on the issue of school patronage at a location (details supplied) in County...
    • Special Educational Needs Expenditure
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the furnishings and equipment provided in or funded by his Department for the special needs units in each of the second bundle of public private...
    • Student Grant Scheme Applications
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a person (details supplied) in County Offaly may expect a decision on an application for student grant. [3836/13]
    • School Enrolments
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a child in sixth class who cannot access a secondary school place in their locality; the advice he will give to parents of such...
    • Special Educational Needs
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the availability of places or plans for children with PDD-NOS or mild to moderate autism who are currently in ADS units with mainstream primary...
    • Schools Building Projects
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update in relation to the development of a secondary school (details supplied) in Dublin 24; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Substance Abuse Prevention Education
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he plans an assessment of alcohol education in the school curriculum; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3957/13]
    • Residential Institutions Redress Scheme
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the statutory fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3961/13]
    • Schools Building Projects
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update in relation to the school building works which are outstanding at a primary school (details supplied) in County Kildare;...
    • School Staffing
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide details of the new panel arrangements in respect of primary school teachers; the priority, if any, that will be given to those who...
    • School Accommodation
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department has plans to purchase prefabricated classrooms for a school (details supplied) in County Donegal; his views on whether this would...
    • Schools Building Projects
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will confirm if a new site has been acquired for a school (details supplied) in County Wicklow; when work on the new school building is due to...
    • Student Grant Scheme Delays
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person (details supplied) in County Mayo is consistently being asked for information by Student Universal Support Ireland; if he will...
    • State Examinations
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding aids for a school (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4020/13]
    • Irish Language
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a response will be issued to a parents committee (details supplied) in County Donegal with particular emphasis on the correspondence sent to him...
    • School Discipline
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the policy in place regarding circumstances in which a school might consider it necessary to expel a student in the latter part of the Leaving...
    • Student Grant Scheme Applications
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person (details supplied) in Dublin 8 has been asked to withdraw their Student Universal Support Ireland registration grant; and if he...
    • Student Grant Scheme Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of appeals received by the Independent Student Grant Appeals Board; the number of appeals that have been decided on; if he will provide a...
    • Public Procurement
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will address the new procurement rules which can result in schools being required to purchase their stationary supplies from one national...
    • Student Grant Scheme Applications
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo, may expect their higher education grant application to be processed; if he will expedite the...
    • School Staffing
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the criteria his Department will be setting out regarding teacher appointments under developing school status for the 2013/ 2014 school year; if the...
    • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person (details supplied) was not awarded the tuition fee grant when in this case the applicant had satisfied all of the conditions for...
    • Third Level Courses
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports and or options available to private colleges who are now seeking to avail of Government funding and supports; if he will explain the...
    • School Services Staff
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 256 of 13 November 2012, the position regarding an application for gratuity payment on retirement in respect of...
    • School Accommodation
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on the requirement for a new school building (details supplied) in Dublin 24; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Public Service Reform Plan Update
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills with reference to the public service reform document published by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform on 17 November 2011, Appendix IIa,...
    • School Accommodation
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will issue on an application for an additional classroom in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will...
    • Further Education and Training Programmes
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has had consultation with the Teachers' Union of Ireland in advance of the decision to reduce the PTR for students in adult and further...
    • Special Educational Needs
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there are currently no ASD Units in Limerick City; his plans to put same in place; and if he will...
    • School Staffing
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of posts of responsibility by grade lost in primary schools each year since the imposition of the...
    • School Transport Eligibility
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 326 of 16 January 2013, the assistance available with regard to transport costs in view of the fact that this...
    • State Examinations
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an exemption from the requirement to take Irish in the junior certificate in respect of a person (details supplied) in County...
    • School Enrolments
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to correspondence regarding a pupil (details supplied) in County Donegal who has been denied access to their school;...
    • Student Grant Scheme Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has received an appeal against the decision to disallow the student grant application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Schools Refurbishment
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 214 of 23 October 2012 and 92 of 23 January 2013; if he outline in his reply specifically if there are grants...
    • Student Grant Scheme Applications
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a student grant application will be expedited in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15; the reason for the delay; and if he will make...
    • School Accommodation
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school (details supplied) in County Galway will have its inadequate, temporary accommodation replaced. [4429/13]
    • Schools Building Projects
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will confirm when the Five Year Schools Building Programme will be updated and published. [4430/13]
    • Student Grant Scheme Applications
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an application for a grant submitted to Student Universal Support Ireland in August 2012 will be expedited and approved in respect of a person...
    • School Placement
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an appropriate school placement will be arranged in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny. [4445/13]
    • Student Grant Scheme Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a Student Universal Support Ireland grant will be approved and expedited in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny. [4449/13]
    • Vocational Education Committees
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the persons who hold the responsibility for the decision regarding the location of the headquarters for the proposed Mid West Regional Vocational...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Land Acquisitions
      To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on the progress, if any, made regarding the acquisition of Annesgrove Gardens by the State. [4164/13]
    • Public Sector Staff
      To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update in the progress made on the Programme for Government commitment which states that this Government will introduce...
    • Proposed Legislation
      To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when he intends to publish the draft heads of the Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointments) Act 2004 (Amendment) Bill. [3776/13]
    • Departmental Contracts
      To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when he will begin holding meetings with the various industry stakeholders about the review of the Government form of construction contracts;...
    • EU-IMF Programme of Support
      To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will detail the policies being implemented by his Department on which he wrote to the EU / ECB / IMF troika; and if he will make a...
    • Land Transfers
      To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the position regarding transfer of land (details supplied) in County Kerry from the Office of Public Works to Kerry County Council; and if he...
    • Departmental Properties
      To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will consider the sale or lease on a building (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4277/13]
    • Public Service Reform Plan Update
      To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform with reference to the public service reform document published by his Department on 17 November 2011, Appendix IIa, Bodies to be...
  • Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
    • Employment Appeals Tribunal
      To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9. [3758/13]
    • Job Statistics
      To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide a tabular breakdown of the number of Industrial Development Agency supported jobs both created and lost in the years...
    • Third Level Facilities
      To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the level of Stae investment in the new clean technology campus at Dublin City University; if a competition was held for the funding; if...
    • Departmental Funding
      To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if the Consumers' Association of Ireland has made an application for funding for 2012 or 2013; if his Department has evaluated same; if...
    • Foreign Direct Investment
      To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the amount of grants paid by the Industrial Development Agency to companies (details supplied) in County Laois in each of the past ten...
    • Public Service Reform Plan Update
      To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation with reference to the public service reform document published by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform on 17 November 2011,...
    • EU Directives
      To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the position regarding Directive 2011/7/EU which relates to combatting late payments in commercial transactions; the status of the...
    • Job Initiatives
      To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation further to Parliamnetary Question No. 228 of 2 October 2012, in which he stated that following on from the setting up of the South East...
    • Foreign Direct Investment
      To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will outline in comprehensive detail, the number of Industrial Development Agency sponsored visits to Mullingar, Athlone, County...
    • Workplace Relations Services Provision
      To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide an update on the creation of the new Workplace Relations Service; and if he will indicate when this service will be...
    • Consumer Protection
      To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will outline the progress made in the planned merger of the Competition Authority and the National Consumer Agency; his plans to...
  • Department of Social Protection
    • Child Care Services
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the studies that have been carried out by her Department to ensure that a Scandinavian model of childcare is in place now that applicants for one parent...
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision on a disability allowance claim appeal will be made in respect of a person (details supplied). [3707/13]
    • Family Income Supplement Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an application for family income supplement in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo when a decision will issue;...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive a decision on their application for carer’s allowance; and if she will make a...
    • Asylum Support Services
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will ensure that asylum seekers in direct provision are not subjected by their community welfare officers to a five days notice requirement to...
    • Social Welfare Code
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will outline the rights generally of the Roma Community in Ireland in relation to access to Social Protection supports such as job seeker's...
    • Mortgage Interest Supplement Applications
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if and when mortgage interest support will be restored to the levels at which it was primarily paid in the case of a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Invalidity Pension Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason for the delay in reaching a decision on an appeal for invalidity pension in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she...
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an appeal regarding disability allowance will be heard in respect of (details supplied) in County Galway in view of the fact that the appeal was...
    • Invalidity Pension Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason for the delay in an appeal for invalidity pension in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin considering the appeal was lodged...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason for the delay in issuing a decision on a domiciliary care allowance appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if...
    • EU-IMF Programme of Support
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will detail the policies being implemented by his Department on which he wrote to the EU / ECB / IMF troika; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite a disability allowance appeal in respect of a person (details supplied). [3983/13]
    • Supplementary Welfare Allowance Applications
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will ensure that a person (details supplied) in County Donegal receives basic supplementary welfare allowance in view of the fact that they have...
    • Exceptional Needs Payment Applications
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if an exceptional needs payment can issue in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Supplementary Welfare Allowance Payments
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will clarify the payments being received by a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; the amount of same; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Applications
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if and when rent allowance will be paid in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Exceptional Needs Payments
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if an exceptional needs payment will issue in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Social Welfare Code
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she has made any progress regarding the situation facing people who were previously self-employed and who no longer can create work for themselves and...
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a the carer's allowance falls under the remit of her Department; if it could be transferred to the Department of Health in view of the the...
    • Social Welfare Code
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if in the event of the death of a person who had been cared for by a person (details supplied) in County Longford, that the person who had been in...
    • Youth Unemployment Measures
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the strategies she has in place to reduce youth unemployment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52078/12]
    • Action Plan for Jobs
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to tackle the crisis of long-term unemployment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51849/12]
    • Job Initiatives
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection when the full details of the plus one scheme announced in Budget 2013 will be made available; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3312/13]
    • Back to Education Allowance Payments
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if the decision in Budget 2013 to cut the back to education allowance was equality proofed; his views on whether decreasing this allowance will prevent...
    • Job Losses
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on the situation workers in the meat industry find themselves in where factories have had to close for indefinite duration; and if she will...
    • Job Initiatives
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the actions taken by her Department to address the underemployment in the labour market. [51893/12]
    • Personal Insolvency Act
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will confirm that under the terms of the Personal Insolvency Bill 2012, all pre-existing debt advisory services, in particular State funded ones,...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Administration
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on whether the length of time it takes for her Department to process a rent supplement application is acting as a disincentive to landlords...
    • Social Insurance Payments
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if it is her intention from 2014 to impose PRSI on State savings bond and certificates, on State prize bonds and on other such accounts where interest...
    • Social Welfare Rates
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will confirm if a person (details supplied) in County Laois is in receipt of their correct payment from the Department; and if she will make a...
    • Fuel Allowance Applications
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the outstanding requirements of her Department in respect of further documentation required to determine the eligibility for free fuel allowance in the...
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if an appeal for carer's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny will be expedited; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Eligibility
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason rent supplement payment has ceased in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Carlow; if payment will be recommenced in this...
    • Pension Provisions
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will confirm that in a review of her Department employment support schemes that in table 3.2 community employment numbers and expenditure, page 38...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a domiciliary care allowance application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [4189/13]
    • Rural Social Scheme
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection in view of the excellent reputation of the rural social scheme, if she will consider raising the numbers to allow more persons to participate in the...
    • Supplementary Welfare Allowance Payments
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 125 of 19 December 2012, the value, number and proportion of social welfare allowance payments form the last period...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will outline the changes to the telephone allowance arising from Budget 2013; the level of expenditure incurred under this scheme in 2012; the...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 107 of 7 November 2012, in which she acknowledged processing times for carer's allowance applications were not...
    • Social Welfare Overpayments
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 371 of 22 January 2013, if she will re-examine the case of an alleged overpayment in the case of a person (details...
    • Public Service Reform Plan Update
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection with reference to the public service reform document published by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform on 17 November 2011, Appendix IIa,...
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will ensure that a person (details supplied) in County Leitrim will have their disability allowance appeal processed as a matter if urgency; the...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if the existence of extenuating circumstances in the form of a serious illness will be taken into consideration as an admissible explanation for their...
    • Redundancy Rebates
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total number of redundancy rebates made each year over the past five years; the total sum in rebates provided each year; and if she will make a...
    • Unemployment Benefits
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will providea breakdown of persons formerly employed in construction trade categories currently receiving unemployment benefit; the action being...
    • Social Welfare Overpayments
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the level of overpayments recorded by her Department in social welfare payments in each of the years 2007 to 2012 inclusive in tabular form; if she will...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Applications
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will indicate the extent to which rent supplement is available in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make...
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an application for carer's allowance appeal will be finalised in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if she will make a...
    • Departmental Programmes
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she has conducted or intends to conduct, a review of the effectiveness of the TÚS programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4382/13]
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an appeal for disability benefit/allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Longford; and if she will make a...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an appeal in relation to means assessed and backdating of claim to November 2011 is likely to be dealt with in respect of a person (details...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an application for old age pension will be approved in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Wexford. [4418/13]
    • Social Welfare Fraud
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 190 of 8 November 2012, if she will outline the results of the fraud and error survey on the child benefit scheme;...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total control savings under each scheme in 2012; the corresponding target figure for 2012 and 2013; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if an application for domiciliary care allowance now under appeal will be expedited and approved in respect of a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Invalidity Pension Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an appeal for invalidity pension will be finalised in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon; and if she will make a statement...
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the basis on which it was determined that an overpayment of disability allowance was made in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare;...
    • Mortgage Interest Supplement Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection when she will review the decision to refuse mortgage interest support in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Administration
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the extent to which she might be prepared to review the maximum rent her Department is prepared to pay in rent support throughout the Eastern region with...
    • State Pension (Contributory)
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the qualification limitations that have taken place in respect of contribution or other requirements for contributory old age pension including that of...
    • Social Welfare Overpayments
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of instances of overpayment in respect of various social welfare entitlements in each of the past two years to date; the degree to which...
    • Community Employment Scheme Numbers
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the current total number of persons engaged in community employment or related training or education schemes throughout County Kildare; the extent to...
    • Social Welfare Application Forms
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the extent to which she is investigating a method whereby it would possible to simplify the application forms and procedures for any of the social...
  • Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Environmental Policy
      To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht his plans to extend the hedge cutting season this year in view of the extremely wet winter months; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • EU-IMF Programme of Support
      To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will detail the policies being implemented by his Department on which he wrote to the EU / ECB / IMF troika; and if he will make a...
    • Environmental Impact Statements
      To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the position regarding the environment impact study on the future development of the Moore Street site in Dublin associated with the 1916...
    • Turf Cutting Compensation Scheme Expenditure
      To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question No. 145 of 28 November 2012, if he will provide information on the cost of each of the various turf...
    • EU Funding
      To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the way the moneys outlined under the following EU Funds were allocated and spent, €3.5 million Euro for the implementation of...
    • Public Service Reform Plan Update
      To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht with reference to the public service reform document published by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform on 17 November 2011,...
    • Merger of State Bodies
      To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the steps being taken to ensure, while acknowledging the need for the State to secure savings, the continued existence of An...
  • Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
    • Inland Fisheries
      To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he has considered the provision of out of season fishing of identified rainbow trout stocked lakes (details supplied) in...
    • Electricity Grid Connection fees
      To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when will gate four offers be forthcoming; if it is necessary for all gate three offers to be determined prior to this offer;...
    • Community Radio Stations Funding
      To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the funding options available to support community radio stations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3810/13]
    • Broadband Services
      To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will comment on Údarás na Gaeltachta's annual report, which notes that access to high-speed broadband is still...
    • Renewable Energy Incentives
      To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the incentives available for the development of wind energy in Ireland. [3861/13]
    • Fuel Prices
      To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to reduce the cost of imported oil. [3862/13]
    • Public Service Reform Plan Update
      To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources with reference to the public service reform document published by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform on 17...
    • Commission for Energy Regulation Staff
      To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of persons currently employed by the Commission for Energy Regulation; the number of staff who received performance...
    • Broadband Services
      To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position regarding the national broadband roll-out programme; the date on which an area (details supplied) in County...
  • Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
    • Household Charge Exemptions
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason for the review of 23,000 applications for exemptions to paying the household charge; the reasons for this review;...
    • Motor Tax Exemptions
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding tax on vintage/classic cars; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Environmental Protection Agency
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will seek the removal of a person (details supplied) from the Director General's Office of the Environmenal Protection...
    • Rural Development Programme
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding an application to the former partnership company Meitheal Forbatha na Gaeltachta by (details supplied);...
    • Local Government Elections
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the proposed new Limerick Local Authority will have a maximum number of either 40 or 45 members; and if he will make a...
    • Local Authority Housing Provision
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form by local authority the number of inspections on local authority houses in relation to...
    • Rental Accommodation Scheme Eligibility
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if a person in seeking to obtain a position on a community employment scheme can have their entitlements to rental...
    • Housing Adaptation Grants
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when he will release funding to Dublin City Council which will be used for extensions/adaptions for people with disabilities....
    • Homelessness Strategy
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will outline whether funding was granted (details supplied) to a proposed homeless hostel in Wicklow Town to be run in...
    • Security of the Elderly
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding an application for a personal alarm in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if...
    • EU-IMF Programme of Support
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will detail the policies being implemented by his Department on which he wrote to the EU / ECB / IMF troika; and if he...
    • Motor Tax Collection
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of income from road tax which went to local authorities in 2012, specifically to Dublin City Council for local road...
    • Pyrite Remediation Programme
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the timescale for the setting up of the Pyrite Resolution Board; when it will begin to accept applications from homeowners...
    • Local Government Fund
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will detail the local government grant amount for each local authority, town and county, throughout the State as per...
    • Residential Tenancies Act
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he intends to review the 2004 Tenancy Act; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3982/13]
    • Regeneration Projects
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the way the regeneration funding for estate regeneration has been reduced from €145 million in 2012 to €111.4...
    • Household Charge Collection
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 672 of 16 January 2013, if he will provide a breakdown of payment levels by local...
    • Septic Tank Registration Scheme
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the findings of the domestic waste water systems consultation which was carried out in early 2012; the number of submissions...
    • Leader Programmes
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if any agreement or progress has been made between his Department and the Inspectorate of the Leader Programme with regard...
    • Public Service Reform Plan Update
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government with reference to the public service reform document published by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform on 17...
    • Local Authority Funding
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when the 2013 funding will be allocated to Wicklow County Council; the total amount of this funding; if he will provide a...
    • Local and Community Development Programme
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he intends to review the proposal that local development companies would no longer be the delivery bodies for the...
    • Local Government Reform
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will support the proposals (details supplied) put forward by Irish Local Development network in relation to aligning...
    • Housing Adaptation Grants
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the extent to which a disabled persons grant can be administered in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare;...
    • Foreshore Licences
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will confirm the public consultation arrangements that have applied to date in respect of an application for a foreshore...
    • Leader Programmes
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when a grant application will be approved in respect of an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Local Authority Housing Standards
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he considers section 4 (1) c of Statutory Instrument 534 (2008), namely the exemption of local authorities from housing...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Deportation Orders
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which he is satisfied that the original application for refugee status by a person (details supplied) in Dublin 16 was fully examined in...
    • Departmental Bodies
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the fees paid to each refugee appeals tribunal member, individually, for each of the years 2008 to 2012 inclusive. [3745/13]
    • Garda Ethnic Liaison
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will outline some of the collaboration currently taking place in the midlands between the Gardaí and migrant communities through the Garda...
    • Asylum Seeker Accommodation
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he visited Hatch Hall or any other direct provision centre last year, including the names of those centres; if he will state the purpose and...
    • Residency Permits
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if there will be any change to the requirement for non-EEA nationals to register with the Gardaí following the recent Sulaimon decision where the...
    • Private Security Authority
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when the board of the Private Security Authority expect to conclude their review of the licence fee structure; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Garda Transport
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality he total number of Garda cars that have been taken out of service in County Mayo in 2011 and 2012; the number that were replaced; and if he will make...
    • Asylum Applications
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide information on the number of Syrian nationals, if any, that were refused leave to land here in 2012 in view of the recent comments...
    • Garda Investigations
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update on the inquiry into the Fr. Niall Molloy murder case. [3892/13]
    • Garda Operations
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality in accordance with section 18 (3) of the Coroners Act 1962 in order to ensure that in the period prior to informing the coroner and/or after the...
    • Garda Directives
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will name the document in which the Garda policy on Family Liaison Officers is contained. [3907/13]
    • Crime Levels
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number detected and undetected murders which took place in Donegal in 2009. [3908/13]
    • Charities Regulation
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will consider an amendment to Section 99 (3) of the Charities Act 2009 to specify the Irish Catholic Church in view of the fact that concerns...
    • Crime Levels
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide details for the years 2011 and 2012 of the number of each of the following offences, rape, sexual assault, aggravated sexual...
    • Garda Transport
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the timeframe for the delivery of the new Garda vehicles for 2013. [3959/13]
    • Courts Service
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current number of cases awaiting a hearing the Court of Criminal Appeal; the average length of time awaiting a hearing at the Court of Criminal...
    • Appeals Court
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans for the creation of a permanent appeals court; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3997/13]
    • Joint Policing Committees
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will give consideration to giving a consultative role to Joint Policing Committees in respect of the operation of local licensed premises in...
    • Garda Operations
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will assist a family (details supplied) in County Louth which is being subjected to intimidation [4111/13]
    • Prison Committals
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons committed to prison for non-payment of fines in 2012; if he will provide comparative figures for the previous three years; and...
    • Garda Operations
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide in tabular form the number of pipe bombs discovered by an Garda Siochána each and every year since 2005; and if he will make a...
    • Private Security Authority
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he has expanded the role of the Private Security Authority to cover the issuing of licences for businesses working in the area of CCTV, security...
    • Temporary Release of Prisoners
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality in view of the fact that the number of prisoners being granted Christmas temporary release has increased from 107 in 2008 to 226 in 2012, if he will...
    • Public Service Reform Plan Update
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality with reference to the public service reform document published by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform on 17 November 2011, Appendix IIa,...
    • Irish Sentencing Information System
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if further funds will be provided to develop the Irish Sentencing Information System; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4298/13]
    • Forensic Science
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 151 of 12 December 2012 (details supplied), if he will state the number of human remains that are in possession...
    • Sentencing Policy
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his views on whether there needs to be further statutory sentencing guidelines for the judiciary in relation to serious sexual assaults; his plans to...
    • Garda Operations
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the action that is being taken by an Garda Síochána to curb illegal distance sales of alcohol and the outcome in terms of Garda activity...
    • Citizenship Applications
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding an application for Irish citizenship in respect of a person (details suppled) in County Longford; and if he will make a...
    • Equality Tribunal Cases
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the 2012 figures for the number of complaints lodged with the Equality Tribunal under the Equal Status Acts 2000-2011; the number of complaints...
    • National Lottery Funding Disbursement
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide details, year on year, of the compensation funding stream from the National Lottery, to those charities who had their own scratch...
  • Department of Defence
    • Defence Forces Reserve
      To ask the Minister for Defence in respect of Reserve Defence Forces officers who command units and sub units in the first southern brigade, if he will confirm the date on which they were...
    • Defence Forces Personnel
      To ask the Minister for Defence the number of doctors, nurses, dentists that have been recruited to the Defence Forces Medical Corps in each of the past three years; if a recruitment drive is...
    • Public Service Reform Plan Update
      To ask the Minister for Defence with reference to the public service reform document published by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform on 17 November 2011, Appendix IIa, Bodies to be...
    • Defence Forces Properties
      To ask the Minister for Defence if he will consider a proposal (details supplied) in respect of the former premises of the Reserve Forces Headquarters in Fermoy, County Cork; and if he will make...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • EU Funding
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way the money outlined under the following EU Fund was allocated and spent, €308.72 million of the EAFRD contribution for...
    • Rural Environment Protection Scheme Payments
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive their REP scheme 4 payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Forestry Grants
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment of a forestry grant will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Single Payment Scheme Payments
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a single farm payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Offaly; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3789/13]
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a payment under agri environment option scheme will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Offaly; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Staff Recruitment
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason there is a delay in replacing the only surveyor of the Lands Branch, Legal Services Division of his Department which is...
    • Harbour Fees
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will withdraw pay for parking at Howth Harbour as it will seriously damage local businesses and the tourism industry in Howth,...
    • Rural Environment Protection Scheme Payments
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason final payment under the REP scheme 4 has not been paid in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; when...
    • EU-IMF Programme of Support
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will detail the policies being implemented by his Department on which he wrote to the EU / ECB / IMF troika; and if he will make a...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Galway will be issued payment under the 2012 disadvantaged area scheme; the reasons for the...
    • Animal Welfare Issues
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider the issue of appointing ISPCA Inspectors as authorised officers in relation to non-farm cases; and if he will make a...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a disadvantaged area payment will be finalised in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary following the submission...
    • Food Safety Standards Regulation
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will confirm if it is illegal to trade in minced equine meat; if he will indicate the specific legislation and regulations that...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding headage payments in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Rural Environment Protection Scheme Payments
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding a REP scheme payment in respect of persons (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment will issue for 2012 disadvantaged area scheme in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make...
    • Rural Environment Protection Scheme Payments
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding an outstanding REP scheme 4 payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make...
    • Single Payment Scheme Payments
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a single farm payment for 2012 will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Limerick. [4252/13]
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will report on the disadvantaged area scheme payment (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4278/13]
    • Public Service Reform Plan Update
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine with reference to the public service reform document published by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform on 17 November 2011,...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will review a disadvantage area scheme appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a...
    • Rural Environment Protection Scheme Payments
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment of REP scheme will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Forestry Grants
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding the forestry farm premium payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow. [4316/13]
    • Rural Environment Protection Scheme Payments
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied) in County Cork who has previously received payment for maintenance of an NHA in their REP scheme 1...
    • Fish Quotas
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will undertake to set a quota for the catching of bass by Irish fishermen in Irish waters. [4436/13]
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 524 of 18 December 2012, the position regarding an appeal in respect of a person (details supplied);...
    • Agriculture Schemes Payments
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding a REP scheme and single farm payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [4551/13]
    • Single Payment Scheme Payments
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the single farm payment will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Leitrim. [4559/13]
  • Department of Children and Youth Affairs
    • School Completion Programme
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the reduction in the Budget for the School Completion Programme for 2012 and 2013 which is designed to retain young people in education and...
    • Child Care Services
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will outline the support available for the establishment of childcare including community childcare and in particular the costs for...
    • Youth Services
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the assistance and supports available from her Department to a group of young persons (details supplied) in County Limerick who wish to set up a...
    • Inter-Country Adoptions
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the position regarding Irish citizens adopting children from Florida, USA; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3935/13]
    • Child and Family Support Agency
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when the new legislation to move the Family Support Agency into the Child and Family Support Agency will come before the Oireachtas; and if she...
    • Adoption Legislation
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the position regarding a case in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; the reason, due to an anomaly within the adoption...
    • Public Service Reform Plan Update
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs with reference to the public service reform document published by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform on 17 November 2011, Appendix...
    • Inter-Country Adoptions
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will instruct the Health Service Executive to immediately start quick re-assessments of couples in possession of a pre-Hague declaration,...
  • Department of Health
    • Health Service Executive Staff
      To ask the Minister for Health if the 2013 public sector redundancy scheme will be open to front-line health care workers in the Health Service Executive including nursing staff, nursing...
    • Primary Care Centres
      To ask the Minister for Health further to the statement in the Dáil on 20 December 2012 that an internal audit of primary care centres was conducted and a report was produced on 9 October...
    • EU Presidency Priorities
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that there is an adequate focus by the Irish EU Presidency on the clinical trials and medical devices directives which have direct implications...
    • Medical Card Applications
      To ask the Minister for Health when a decision will be made on a medical card application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Tobacco Control Measures
      To ask the Minister for Health if he wil re-visit his anti-smoking policies and actions in view of the fact that 29% of the population smoke [3739/13]
    • Symphysiotomy Report
      To ask the Minister for Health in view of the urgency of the issue, with many victims of symphysiotomy now elderly and frail, and in view of the importance of the issue in creating a redress...
    • Medicinal Products
      To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding Kalydeco (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3748/13]
    • Health Reports
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that the final report from the review team in the Cavan/Monaghan Health Service Executive area concerning a person (details supplied) and...
    • Speech and Language Therapy
      To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there is no speech and language support available in an area (details supplied) in County Wicklow due to maternity...
    • Graduate Nurse Recruitment Scheme
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will adjust the proposal to cut graduate nurses wages by 20% in view of the fact that nurses are already one of the lower paid medical professions and...
    • Health Insurance Levy
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will publish the report from the Health Insurance Authority which recommended the health insurance levy rates to apply in 2013; and if he will make a...
    • Medical Card Applications
      To ask the Minister for Health when a decision will be made on an application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3787/13]
    • General Practitioner Services
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will investigate complaints about the quality of the South Doc service being provided to Youghal, County Cork, following claims of refusal to travel to...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will reverse the cutbacks in relation to St. Michael's House with particular reference to access to swimming pool facilities at weekends [3803/13]
    • Thalidomide Victim Compensation
      To ask the Minister for Health the steps he intends to take to implement a statuary agreement to assist the survivors of thalidomide. [3811/13]
    • Hospital Services
      To ask the Minister for Health if a bi lateral cohlea implant operation will be carried out on a person (details supplied) in County Offaly; if he will outline his policy on such operations; and...
    • National Children's Hospital
      To ask the Minister for Health when the new members for the National Children's Hospital Development Board will be appointed. [3841/13]
    • Health Service Staff
      To ask the Minister for Health his plans to improve the working conditions under which non consultant hospital doctors are currently working; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3851/13]
    • Hospital Services
      To ask the Minister for Health the number of operations, medical and surgical procedures, in public hospitals that were cancelled in 2012 and to date in 2013; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Health Service Staff
      To ask the Minister for Health the total number of non-consultant hospital doctors in tabular form by grade, gender and by Health Service Executive Region; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Administration of Medicines
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that no policy/guideline document exists to cover the administration of medicines by domiciliary care service employees; and if he will make a...
    • Primary Care Centres
      To ask the Minister for Health the reason Raphoe, County Donegal, did not make it to the top of the primary care centre list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3931/13]
    • Health Services
      To ask the Minister for Health if the services of a personal assistant will be provided for persons over the age of 65 years and who are generally most in need of this valuable service; and if he...
    • Medicinal Products
      To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the increasing use of anabolic steroids and the health dangers associated with this; if he will clarify the medical guidelines...
    • Hospital Services
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will seek an immediate explanation from Temple Street Children's Hospital, Dublin, as to the reason the referral list for circumcisions that are required for...
    • Home Help Service
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the decision to have the home help assistance reduced for an elderly person (details supplied) in County Cork; and, if he does not intend to do...
    • EU Funding
      To ask the Minister for Health the major health construction projects that received EU funding in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012; the percentage of the costs that was covered by EU...
    • Hospital Accommodation
      To ask the Minister for Health the construction works that were carried out at Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9, in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will assist a family (details supplied) in County Louth [4112/13]
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Cavan will receive an appointment with the child development team of the Health Service Executive; the plans in place to...
    • Tobacco Control Measures
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular format, the amount spent on smoking cessation programmes each year since and including 2005; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Dental Services
      To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person with a full medical card is not covered for essential dental work under this medical card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4170/13]
    • Vaccination Programme
      To ask the Minister for Health his plans to extend the HPV vaccine to schoolboys here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4182/13]
    • Home Care Packages
      To ask the Minister for Health when a home care package will be recommended for a person (details supplied) in County Carlow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4187/13]
    • Child Care Services
      To ask the Minister for Health the plans in place for the care of a severely disturbed violent youth (details supplied) in Dublin 7 [4196/13]
    • Mental Health Services
      To ask the Minister for Health the mental health support available to medical staff, in particular junior doctors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4225/13]
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1105 of 16 January 2013, if he will set out if it is intended to withdraw; and if so, when and through what means, medical...
    • Medical Card Applications
      To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card in respectt of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4243/13]
    • HIQA Inspections
      To ask the Minister for Health his views on a submission (details supplied) regarding inspections of residential care facilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4244/13]
    • Dispensing Fees
      To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 64 and 69 of 19 December 2012, when a reply will issue from the Health Service Executive; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Public Service Reform Plan Update
      To ask the Minister for Health with reference to the public service reform document published by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform on 17 November 2011, Appendix IIa, Bodies to be...
    • Hospital Services
      To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a person (details supplied) travelled from North Donegal to Mayo General Hospital for an operation and that upon...
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      To ask the Minister for Health when the new income thresholds will apply to persons 70 years of age or over applying for a medical card; if the thresholds will apply to all gross income; and if...
    • Speech and Language Therapy
      To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) in Dublin 15 will receive speech and language therapy and occupational therapy; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a...
    • National Children's Hospital
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will engage with the Northern Ireland Minister for Health in respect of the maximising the utility of the planned National Children's Hospital; if he will use...
    • Vaccination Programme
      To ask the Minister for Health the feasibility of including a chicken pox vaccine in the national immunisation programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4328/13]
    • Hospital Services
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the planned new radiotherapy unit at Altnagelvin Hospital, which will serve patients from both Northern Ireland and the Republic of...
    • Hospital Accommodation
      To ask the Minister for Health in view of commitments to re-open closed beds at the Community Hospital of the Assumption, Thurles, County Tipperary, if he will ensure that the re-opening of the...
    • Dispensing Fees
      To ask the Minister for Health the criteria that is required for a person with a long term illness to avail of a reduced prescription charge; and when additional illnesses are present the level...
    • National Children's Hospital
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider establishing a singular paediatric muscular unit as part of the planned national Children's Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Cross-Border Co-operation
      To ask the Minister for Health his plans for cross border synergies in health following recent meetings with Minister Edwin Poots; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4359/13]
    • Medical Prescription Policy
      To ask the Minister for Health if the European Commission has recommended to him a strict new system mandating doctors to prescribe generic drugs when available; if he intends to proceed with...
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund
      To ask the Minister for Health the current status of the National Treatment Purchase Fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4371/13]
    • Irish Medical Organisation
      To ask the Minister for Health if his Department was informed in 2004 that the Irish Medical Organisation was setting up a company called Irish Medical Educational Services Limited; and if he...
    • Medicinal Products
      To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 701 of 27 November 2012, if he will provide an update on the prescribing trend in respect of Benzodiazepines and the outcome...
    • Medical Card Applications
      To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Longford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4387/13]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an operation in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Longford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4390/13]
    • Health Service Executive Agency Staff Expenditure
      To ask the Minister for Health the cost of engaging agency nurse staff to the State in 2011 and 2012; if he will provide a breakdown of the costs by hospital or other health facility; the total...
    • Health Service Staff
      To ask the Minister for Health the cost of the hiring a nurse full time on the first point of the salary scale; the number of nurses employed full time here; if he will provide a breakdown of...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will arrange to have a person (details supplied) in County Wexford treated as urgent by the Health Service Executive in respect of an appointment sought to...
    • Mental Health Services
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite an appointment with the autism liaison nurse in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny [4444/13]
    • Medical Card Applications
      To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny [4447/13]
    • Cancer Screening Programme
      To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that 50% of medical card holders are likely to have abnormal smear test results especially in poorer area and the action...
    • Disability Support Service
      To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the 5% cut to disability service at St. Michael's House had led to the Saturday closure of their swimming pool...
    • Vaccination Programme
      To ask the Minister for Health when he intends to introduce the new Meningitis B vaccine into the childhood immunisation schedule; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4557/13]
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Road Traffic Legislation
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will introduce legislation to allow Gardaí to issue permits to persons living in rural isolated areas to allow them to drive home...
    • Local Authority Funding
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if an application for funding has been received from Laois County Council (details supplied); and if he will approve such a request; and if he...
    • Road Safety
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has conducted an audit of speed limits in urban/residential areas across the country; the approximate cumulative total of roads with a...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will confirm the current composition of the board of the Port of Cork; if he will provide the date of appointment of each board member...
    • Taxi Regulations
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding an application for taxi suitability in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a...
    • Swimming Pool Projects
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on plans to extend and or refurbish Dunmanway swimming pool, County Cork; the stage the project is currently at;...
    • Sports Capital Programme
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will outline the grants available for community boxing clubs; the way a person may apply for them; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Driving Licences
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will explain the rationale behind his decision to centralise the taking of driving licence photographs from September 2013; if his...
    • Library Projects
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total amount of Exchequer funding approved for the development of a library (details supplied) in County Mayo by his Department or...
    • Rail Services
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the last performance review of Iarnród Éireann was undertaken; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4024/13]
    • Bus Services
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason that Dublin Airport Authority charge Bus Éireann for picking up fares at Dublin Airport; if the DAA charge Dublin Bus for...
    • Taxi Regulations
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he expects to launch the new rural taxi low fee, €100, licence; his views that such a licence is needed in rural areas; and if he...
    • Sporting Events
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he or his Department or bodies under his auspices have held any discussions with Giro d'Italia organisers, RCS Sports, about the...
    • Tourist Accommodation
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding accommodation websites; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4254/13]
    • Public Service Reform Plan Update
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport with reference to the public service reform document published by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform on 17 November 2011,...
    • Road Safety
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is reviewing the current level of speed limits on Irish primary and non-national roads; his views on whether there should be a review of...
    • Public Transport Issues
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will intervene to satisfactorily resolve the situation in respect of a person (details supplied); the reason Irish Rail is fining...
    • Rail Network
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if funding has been allocated in 2013 to automatic the railway gates at a location (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if so,...
    • Fuel Rebate Scheme
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 90 of 16 January 2013, if his attention has been drawn to the fact that coach and bus operators were in...

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