Written answers
Wednesday, 13 February 2013
- Department of Children and Youth Affairs
- Corporal Punishment
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she has any plans to introduce a ban on parents slapping their children; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7338/13]
- EU Presidency Priorities
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the issues she is prioritising during Ireland's Presidency of the Council of the European Union; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Bullying of Children
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the role her Department will play in the recently launched Action Plan on Bullying; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7335/13]
- Youth Unemployment Measures
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the measures she is taking to support youth employment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7334/13]
- Health Service Staff
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of social workers for children now in place; her target for the end of 2013; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7350/13]
- Adoption Services
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 90 of 15 May 2012 if he will report on the progress of the Health Service Executive's search for birth...
- Child Care Services
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she intends to develop a Scandinavian model of childcare in this country; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7324/13]
- Early Childhood Education
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans for a second free pre-school year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7331/13]
- Child Protection
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide an update in her plans to place Children First on a statutory footing. [7309/13]
- Aftercare Services
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she has fully considered the report of the National Director for Children and Family Services on the aftercare provision; if she will provide...
- Child Support
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she supports subsidised childcare over benefit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7348/13]
- Underage Drinking
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the role her Department is playing is discouraging underage drinking; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7346/13]
- Bullying of Children
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to tackle bullying; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7320/13]
- Child and Family Support Agency
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will outline the intended make up of the board of the Child and Family Support Agency; if she will confirm that a representative from the...
- Departmental Strategies
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to develop strategies that improve self-esteem and promote positive body imaging among young adolescents. [7273/13]
- Bullying of Children
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will indicate from the perspective of her Department, the extent, if any, to which she can engage with other Departments, schools and...
- Children in Care
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the capacity and numbers in residence in each of the three special care units and the two high support units; the numbers currently awaiting...
- Proposed Legislation
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when she will bring forward the adoption tracing and information legislation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7340/13]
- Child Care Reports
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the date on which she will publish the final report on the Ryan Implementation Plan in 2013; if she will list the outstanding recommendations...
- UN Convention on Children's Rights
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to ratify the third optional protocol to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child on a Communications Procedure, which...
- Ministerial Responsibilities
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which she and her Department intends to encompass within her Departmental responsibilities, full responsibility for the broadest...
- Child Protection
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide an update on the establishment of a national out of hours social work service. [7307/13]
- Child Care Services
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of places currently available on the after school scheme that was announced in Budget 2013; the timeline for availability of the...
- Child and Family Support Agency
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will outline proposals to transfer clinical psychologist posts from the Health Service Executive to the new Child and Family Support...
- Ministerial Meetings
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide a report on her December meeting with a delegation from the Council for Marriage and Family of the Irish Catholic...
- Foster Care Inspections
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of allegations against foster carers currently being investigated by the Health Information and Quality Authority; the number of...
- Youth Homelessness Strategy
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when she intends to launch the review of the 2001 Youth Homelessness Strategy to be undertaken by the Centre for Effective Services; when she...
- Child Care Services
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will be supporting the parent child home programme operated by the Early Learning Initiative in the Dublin Docklands area; if her...
- Departmental Expenditure
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on the impact that Budget 2013 has had on children and youth affairs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7318/13]
- Children's Rights Referendum
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on the full McCrystal judgement handed down last week in the Supreme Court; the reason her Department used €1.1 million of...
- Hospital Services
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she has had any consultation with the Department of Health or the Health Service Executive regarding the reduced budgets in 2013 for two...
- Early Years Strategy
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when the Early Years Strategy will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7321/13]
- Proposed Legislation
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the legislation she plans to progress in 2013. [7308/13]
- Child and Family Support Agency
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when she expects the new Child and Family Support Agency to be operational; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7332/13]
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- European Parliament Membership
To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the discussions he has had with the President of the European Parliament in regard to the need to retain the present level of...
- Foreign Conflicts
To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will give an update on torture against Iraqi citizens by the US; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7645/13]
- Department of Finance
- European Semester Cycle
To ask the Minister for Finance the timescale projected for the Budget later in 2013 in respect of 2014; if he will provide an assessment of the implications of bringing the date forward; and if...
- Property Taxation Exemptions
To ask the Minister for Finance if there are any exemptions to the property tax based on household income; if he will outline the mechanism and interest rate for the deferral of a liability to...
- Tax Reliefs
To ask the Minister for Finance if a person (details supplied) in County Wexford can avail of tax relief for a disabled passenger;; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7713/13]
- IBRC Liquidation
To ask the Minister for Finance further to the announcement by the National Asset Management Agency on 7 February 2013 when it said in the period to mid-2013, the Special Liquidator will seek to...
- General Government Debt
To ask the Minister for Finance if he will set out in tabular form, by year, for 2013 onwards, the forecast impact on general government deficit and general government debt of the proposed new...
- Government Bonds
To ask the Minister for Finance if he will outline the terms of any new bonds which he proposes to issue as part of the proposed new scheme to substitute the promissory notes provided to the...
- IBRC Liquidation
To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide the number of depositors and the total amount of deposits in Irish Bank Resolution Corporation on 6 February 2013: and the number of deposits in...
- Government Bonds
To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of interest that will be paid in each of 2013, 2014 and 2015 on the sovereign bonds that replace the promissory notes;; and if he will make a statement...
- Department of Education and Skills
- Residential Institutions Redress Scheme
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding progress in securing additional financial contributions from religious congregations towards redress for survivors of...
- Student Grant Scheme Application Numbers
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will clarify the number of third level grants that remain to be processed; if he will provide detail in tabular form of the grants still to be...
- Special Educational Needs
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will confirm that the July provision programme will be offered to pupils this year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7587/13]
- Student Grant Scheme Appeals
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will clarify if a person (details supplied) has been awarded their Student Universal Support Ireland grant appeal, as it is unclear on the basis...
- Education Grants
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of grants to former residents of institutions and their relatives to assist them in availing of educational services that have been paid...
- Proposed Legislation
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress that has been made to date on the drafting of the Education (Admission to School) Bill; when he expects heads to be approved and for the...
- Special Educational Needs
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a special education needs organiser that was assigned to a person (details supplied) in Dublin 11 in view of the fact that this...
- Extra Curricular Activities
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to promote volunteerism and collective activities outside school hours in view of the fact that all the evidence shows that involvement in...
- School Curriculum
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he intends to take to develop a more targeted approach to the way self-esteem and confidence building can be promoted within the curriculum....
- School Patronage
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to any changes to patronage of a school (details supplied) in County Dublin. [7624/13]
- Schools Building Projects Status
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when construction of a new school (details supplied) in County Cork will commence; the expected completion and opening dates; and if he will make a...
- Student Support Schemes
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding available to students who are 19 years of age attending FETAC Level 5 courses in adult education centres where the family does not have...
- FÁS Training Programmes
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if participants on momentum courses will receive travel and meal allowances as they do with FÁS courses, depending on their circumstances; and if...
- Pension Provisions
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of relief teaching days allocated to teachers on a Departmental pension in the past school year at primary and post primary respectively;...
- Teachers' Remuneration
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline the payment arrangements in place in respect of yard supervision carried out by two teachers at a school (details supplied) in...
- School Enrolments
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a request for additional funding to address acute capacity concerns in respect of a school (details supplied) in Dublin 11; in...
- Third Level Fees
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will clarify the degree programmes and additional special requirements he was referring to when replying to parliamentary questions which...
- Student Grant Scheme Reform
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his intentions with regard to family farms; if it is true that he is proposing to take the value of lands into consideration when doing assessments...
- Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
- Property Ownership
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason a property was sold to the beneficial owner (details supplied) in County Cork as a sale absolute by use of a S31 application which...
- Public Sector Pensions Legislation
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the public pension options available to women who left the public service as a result of the marriage bar and returned to the public service...
- Budget 2014 Issues
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated time of the publication of the estimates for 2014 in view of the fact that the publication of the estimates and the Budget are...
- Insurance Coverage
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on the negotiations (details supplied) with the Irish Insurance Federation on the viability of a State insurance...
- Government Construction Contracts Committee
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the names of current members of the Government Construction Contracts Committee, along with their titles; the Departments they represent; and...
- Voluntary Redundancy Scheme
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if applicants from the Department of Social Protection early retirement scheme will be considered under the next retirement package...
- Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
- National Standards Authority of Ireland Staff
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of certification officers who have retired in the past five years from the National Standards Authority of Ireland; the number...
- Appointments to State Boards
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when he will fill the four vacancies on the Board of Shannon Development; the number of applications to fill the vacancies; and if he will...
- Action Plan for Jobs
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will outline the way the figure of 12,000 jobs created in the private sector as stated in the Action Plan for Jobs Progress Report...
- Enterprise Support Schemes
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number and value of applications made to the International Start-up Fund: and the value of investments made to date. [7743/13]
- Job Initiatives
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the total value of fees paid under the diaspora, job finders, fee scheme as part of succeed in Ireland; and the number of applications made...
- Job Creation Numbers
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of jobs created by Enterprise Ireland under the High Potential Startups for each year since its establishment: and the total...
- Foreign Direct Investment
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will detail the percentage of FDI investments in the Dublin and Cork and other regions. [7747/13]
- Department of Social Protection
- Community Employment Schemes Funding
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding the additional community employment places for community childcare; and if she considers that the recent budget changes regarding...
- Community Employment Schemes Eligibility
To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an application for an extension of a community employment scheme will be decided in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 24; and if she...
- Legislative Programme
To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she plans to amend the Civil Registration Act 2012 to allow for the registration, in Ireland, of the deaths of Irish citizens abroad. [7518/13]
- Invalidity Pension Appeals
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an application for invalidity pension in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement...
- Free Travel Scheme Eligibility
To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider changing the qualifying criteria for free travel in respect of epilepsy patients who risk losing their jobs as a result of...
- Rent Supplement Scheme Applications
To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will approve an increase in rent supplement in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Disability Allowance Payments
To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will outline the calculation process which is used and the steps taken to determine the amount of weekly diet supplement for persons on gluten...
- Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a domiciliary care allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Social Welfare Payments
To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide the number of households in receipt of more than €1,000.00 weekly in social welfare payments; the number of households in...
- Death Certificates
To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will give an update on the issue of death certificates for the Stardust fire families. [7657/13]
- Invalidity Pension Appeals
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an invalidity pension appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Pension Provisions
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a pre-retirement pension ceased in April 2012 in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Longford; and if she will make a statement...
- Jobseeker's Allowance Payments
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason jobseeker's allowance was withdrawn without prior notification in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Longford; and if she will...
- Social Insurance Payments
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a reduction in a PRSI contribution in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Longford; and if she will make a statement...
- Invalidity Pension Applications
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an application for invalidity pension in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Longford; and if she will make a...
- Disability Allowance Appeals
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a disability allowance appeal which was submitted in early November in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Longford;...
- Disability Allowance Payments
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a disability allowance has been reduced from €100 to €35.30 in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Longford; and if...
- Labour Court Recommendations
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the steps she has taken to uphold the July 2008 Labour decision with regard to pensions for community employment scheme supervisors should be adequately...
- State Pension (Contributory)
To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will confirm that the State pension transition at age 65 years is being abolished with effect from 1 January 2014; if she will outline her plans...
- Social Welfare Appeals
To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on whether any progress has been made in reducing the processing times for social welfare appeals; the current processing time for appeals; her...
- Departmental Offices
To ask the Minister for Social Protection his plans to redevelop the Social Protection Office, Kilbarrack, Dublin 5; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7688/13]
- Community Employment Schemes Eligibility
To ask the Minister for Social Protection to explain if Garda Clearance is needed for all new recruits to community employment schemes or just for those working in certain sectors; if clearance...
- Pension Provisions
To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 437 of 29 January 2013, when the community employment programme which was transferred to her Department in October...
- Supplementary Welfare Allowance Eligibility
To ask the Minister for Social Protection with regard to the clothing grant that was available to families in need and on low incomes to help with the cost of holy communion and confirmation...
- Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
- Turf Cutting Compensation Scheme Applications
To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the position regarding an application for the cessation of turf cutting compensation scheme in respect of a person (details supplied) in...
- Departmental Properties
To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question No. 171 of 28 March 2012 if he will detail in tabular form, the number of leases, location and the...
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Telecommunications Services Provision
To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will comment on the principle of universality of utility services and the precedent that line rental charges would be...
- Semi-State Sector Remuneration
To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of people that are on State pensions who have worked in semi-State companies under his Department and are in...
- Telecommunications Services Provision
To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will make contact with Eircom to raise concerns about the current proposal to drop the price of telephone lines by...
- Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
- Unfinished Housing Developments
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason a housing estate (details supplied) in County Westmeath was categorised by his Department as finished when Westmeath...
- Pyrite Panel Report Implementation
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views that it is acceptable to create a category of homes amber that does not comply with the building regulations for...
- Parking Regulations
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if new national guidance on car parking and smart travel will be provided to local authorities in order to ensure that shoppers...
- Fire Service
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has reached a decision on whether of not to recommend to the Department of Social Protection that retained fire-fighters...
- Climate Change Policy
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if it will contain clearly defined targets for 2020 and 2050 to provide certainty in relation to his policy; and if he will...
- Building Regulations
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 698 of 6 November 2012 if he will provide a further update in relation to this matter;...
- Department of Justice and Equality
- Garda Investigations
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if there is a Garda Síochána investigation ongoing into systemic weight to volume fraud at Coillte Teo; and if he will make a statement on...
- Garda Operations
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the steps the Gardaí are taking in an area (details supplied) in County Meath to reduce crime; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Child Custody and Access
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will outline current legislation regarding the right of unmarried fathers to have access to their children; and the changes expected to this in...
- Immigration Policy
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will detail the number of applications under the Immigrant Investor Bond and the Start-up Entrepreneur Programme since the programmes were...
- Garda Station Closures
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans for the closure of Templemore and Roscrea Garda stations, County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7642/13]
- Gambling Legislation
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to bring forward a Gambling Control Bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7690/13]
- Road Safety
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of road checkpoints undertaken by an garda Síochána for the years 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013; and if he will make...
- Garda Transport
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the total number of marked and unmarked Garda Traffic Corps cars and motorbikes that were taken out of service in the Dublin Region for the years...
- Gun Dealer Licences
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an application for a gun dealer’s licence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7715/13]
- Garda Management
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to introduce an independent police authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7754/13]
- Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
- Agri-Environment Options Scheme Eligibility
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if an agri environment option scheme 2 application will be reviewed in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he...
- Rural Environment Protection Scheme Payments
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a 2012 REP scheme four payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Single Payment Scheme Eligibility
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if additional entitlements will be provided to a new entrant into farming (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 the reason a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary received a reduced payment under REP scheme 4; and if he will make a statement...
- Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Appeals
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a decision has been made on a appeal to the disadvantaged area scheme appeals committee in respect of a person (details supplied) in...
- Common Agricultural Policy Reform
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the concerns about EU plans to publish individual farmers' common agricultural policy details,...
- District Veterinary Offices
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will confirm that there will be no change to the status of the District Veterinary Office, County Cavan; and if he will make a...
- Single Payment Scheme Applications
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the full single farm payment will be granted to a person (details supplied) in County Laois; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Applications
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive their disadvantaged area scheme; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Animal Welfare Bodies (1 comment)
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide in tabular form the number of animal welfare organisations including dog welfare groups that are in receipt of...
- Bovine Disease Controls
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will confirm the number of bovine tuberculosis and brucellosis reactors that have been taken out under section 20 of the Diseases of...
- Agri-Environment Options Scheme Applications
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 833 of 16 January 2013, the position regarding an agri environment options scheme application in...
- Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 424 of 11 December 2012, when payment of an agri environment options scheme will issue in respect of...
- Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Applications
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a decision has been made on an application for derogation of a disadvantage area scheme in respect of a person (details supplied) in...
- Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Appeals
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding a disadvantaged area scheme derogation appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo [7653/13]
- Agriculture Schemes Payments
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath will receive their agricultural entitlements for 2011 and 2012. [7672/13]
- Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding a farm and disadvantaged area payments which are now overdue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County...
- Horsemeat Statistics
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will indicate the number of horses slaughtered in Ireland in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012; and the total tonnage of horse meat...
- Horse Population
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has carried out a census of the overall number of horses here including thoroughbreds in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, and...
- Food Imports
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of beef, poultry, lamb and other meat products that were imported into Ireland in 2008, 2009, 2010; 2011, and 2012; if he will...
- Equine Exports
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of horses and ponies including thoroughbreds that were exported in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012; and if he will make a...
- Animal Feedstuffs
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the proportion of horse meat goes into the production of prepared meat dishes and nuts for dogs and other prepared foods sold for dogs...
- Horsemeat Issues
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will confirm that no thoroughbred or champion racehorses and jumpers or other Irish horses and ponies entered the Irish foodchain or...
- Departmental Leases
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question 629 of 24 April 2012 if he will detail in tabular form, the number of leases. location and the number of...
- Department of Children and Youth Affairs
- Juvenile Offenders
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which her Department expects to examine issues surrounding juvenile offenders with particular reference to identifying the social...
- Youth Services
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the degree to which she continues to engage with youth organisations in the context of meeting the requirements of children and young people in...
- Mental Health Awareness
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will indicate, arising from her discussions with youth organisations and health service providers, the extent to which the issue of...
- Youth Unemployment Measures
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her Department can take any particular initiatives arising from the consequences of youth unemployment; and if she will make a statement on...
- Child Protection
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will set out her proposals to enhance the extent of child protection measures throughout the country with particular reference to early...
- Child Poverty
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the degree to which lack of adequate housing and/or poverty is deemed to impact most particularly on children and adolescents; the extent to...
- Aftercare Services
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to introduce a statutory right to aftercare for children leaving the care system. [7608/13]
- Youth Services
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will outline any initiatives she is undertaking to promote collective activities for youth people of a social and recreational nature to...
- Foster Care Policy
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the manner in which checks are carried out by social workers to ensure that individuals nominated as referees for foster parent applicants are...
- Crèche Facilities
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide details of any Health Service Executive correspondence with creche facilities in the Dublin north east area related to...
- Department of Health
- Hospital Waiting Lists
To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a hospital appointment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7596/13]
- Hospital Staff
To ask the Minister for Health in view of the widespread concern among NCHDs, if he will request HIQA to investigate compliance with the EU Working Time Directive on the grounds of patient and...
- Mental Health Services
To ask the Minister for Health when the new acute mental health admissions unit in Beaumont Hospital, Dublin will be operational; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Abortion Legislation
To ask the Minister for Health if he has received many representations in relation to the proposed legislation for abortion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2299/13]
- Dental Services
To ask the Minister for Health if the Dental Council has begun the process of provision of dental therapists in order to try to reduce the orthodontic waiting list; and if he will make a...
- Medical Card Eligibility
To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to ensure that persons who can no longer afford health insurance and do not qualify for a medical card or general practitioner visit card may...
- Suicide Prevention
To ask the Minister for Health the measures his Department has in place to tackle suicide among young people; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7341/13]
- Hospitals Funding
To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of the budget allocations to each hospital in the State in 2013, and in each case the basis for the reduction or increase vis-a-vis the...
- Hospital Car Park Charges
To ask the Minister for Health if he is concerned at reports of the fourfold increase in car parking charges at hospitals in the past two years to meet budget shortfalls [7585/13]
- Medicinal Products
To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos 476 of 11 December 2012 and 1112 of 16 January 2013, when a reply will issue; the reason that, with regard to the former...
- Speech and Language Therapy
To ask the Minister for Health the steps he will take to ensure that a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath, has a psychological assessment carried out and further that speech therapy...
- Medical Aids and Appliances
To ask the Minister for Health if he will set out the circumstances in which the Health Service Executive withdrew the Alpha/Skrykep hip piece from use in the HSE Southern Region; the steps taken...
- Hospital Accommodation
To ask the Minister for Health the planned dates for the opening of four monitoring beds for epilepsy patients in Beaumont Hospital, Dublin and the opening of a two bed epilepsy monitoring unit...
- Medical Goods Regulation
To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to designate branded drugs to treat epilepsy, anti-epileptic drugs, as exempted drugs for generic substitution in the forthcoming Health (Pricing &...
- Primary Care Centres
To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a progress report on the proposed primary care centre at Tullow, County Carlow. [7650/13]
- Health Services
To ask the Minister for Health if he will support the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9. [7656/13]
- Mental Health Services
To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the staffing arrangements, facilities and the cutbacks in services that have been implemented at a location (details supplied) in County...
- Health Service Executive Planning
To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline when the Health Service Executive regional service plan for the north east will be published [7661/13]
- Hospitals Funding
To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the way additional funds recently announced for the Louth Meath hospital group will be spent; and if he will provide a detailed breakdown of same...
- Medical Card Eligibility
To ask the Minister for Health the way in which a person with significant health issues who held a discretionary medical card for several years could have had that card withdrawn in circumstances...
- Medical Card Applications
To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) was only awarded a general practitioners card on foot of an application for a medical card;; and if he will make a statement...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
To ask the Minister for Health if he will supply in tabular format the number of persons awaiting for elective or planned procedures in hospitals here for less than three months, more than three...
- Hospital Services
To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in the opening of the new emergency department at the Mater Hospital, Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7736/13]
- Medical Card Applications
To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7755/13]
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- Driving Licences
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if, people who have been driving for more than 35 years, who are accident free and have no endorsements, have never made a court appearance...
- Air Services
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the efforts that have been made to assist Waterford Airport replace the loss of Aer Arann services to London and Manchester since the start of...
- Road Tolls
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will outline the impact on both the Exchequer and private highway operators of reduced traffic volumes on tolled sections of the...
- Road Safety
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the working group that has been established to review speed limits has received any representation from civic society and community groups,...
- Pension Provisions
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of persons that are on State pensions who have worked in semi-State companies under his Department and are in pension...
