Written answers
Thursday, 14 February 2013
- Department of Health
- Accident and Emergency Services
To ask the Minister for Health the actions taken to tackle overcrowding and the use of trolleys in the accident and emergency department in Naas General Hospital, County Kildare, and the impact...
- Hospital Acquired Infections
To ask the Minister for Health his response to the recent Health Information and Quality report that indicates that patients are at severe risk of infection in six hospitals; and if he will make...
- Accident and Emergency Services
To ask the Minister for Health the actions taken to tackle overcrowding and the use of trolleys in the accident and emergency department in Sligo General Hospital; the impact of these measures;...
- General Practitioner Services
To ask the Minister for Health the progress that has been made on securing a new general practitioner contract; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7499/13]
- Medicinal Products
To ask the Minister for Health the reason asthma sufferers' access to medication is subject to significant geographical variation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7481/13]
- Health Service Executive Planning
To ask the Minister for Health when the Health Service Executive Regional plans will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7455/13]
- Accident and Emergency Services
To ask the Minister for Health the actions taken to tackle overcrowding and the use of trolleys in the accident and emergency department in St. James' Hospital, Dublin; the impact of these...
- Primary Care Centres
To ask the Minister for Health if provision for community kitchen facilities to be utilised by community groups and non Governmental organisations can be incorporated into the construction of...
- Graduate Nursing Scheme Issues
To ask the Minister for Health the savings he would expect to make from the graduate nurses recruitment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7489/13]
- Traveller Community
To ask the Minister for Health in view of the appalling health profile of Travellers evident in the All Ireland Traveller Health Study Report published in 2010, when he will develop an action...
- Garda Vetting of Personnel
To ask the Minister for Health if he will detail the efforts he has made and if he will make to ensure prompt processing of Garda vetting applications, with particular reference to those of...
- Hospitals Building Programme
To ask the Minister for Health the communications he had with the Health Service Executive in relation to building projects at Wexford General Hospital and at St. Luke's Hospital, Kilkenny; and...
- Medical Products
To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the concerns specific to people with epilepsy regarding the implications for their medication of generic substitution, including...
- Hospital Staff
To ask the Minister for Health the measures he will take to address excessive working hours and issues of appropriate training/supervision and career progression opportunities for non-consultant...
- Accident and Emergency Services
To ask the Minister for Health the actions taken to tackle overcrowding and the use of trolleys in the accident and emergency department in Mid Western Regional Hospital, Ennis, County Clare, and...
- General Medical Services Scheme
To ask the Minister for Health the products that will be delisted from the GMS scheme as outlined in the Health Service Executive National Service Plan 2013; and if he will make a statement on...
- National Positive Ageing Strategy Publication
To ask the Minister for Health when the National Positive Ageing Strategy will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7493/13]
- Hospital Charges
To ask the Minister for Health the way he will achieve the charging of all private patients in public hospitals; the steps and legislation needed to achieve this; and if he will make a statement...
- Services for People with Disabilities
To ask the Minister for Health if he will detail where the cuts in disability funding outlined in the Health Service Executive National Service Plan 2013 will apply; the way that this will affect...
- Ambulance Service
To ask the Minister for Health if, in view of changes to ambulance services across the country over the last two years, he will confirm that the response time target of 19 minutes for ECHO and...
- Symphysiotomy Report
To ask the Minister for Health when the full and completed Walsh Report into the practice of symphysiotomy will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7453/13]
- Hospital Waiting Lists
To ask the Minister for Health the action he is taking to reduce outpatient waiting lists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7516/13]
- European Court of Human Rights Judgments
To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on his plans to implement the judgement of the European Court of Human Rights in A, B and C v Ireland case by way of legislation with...
- General Practitioner Services
To ask the Minister for Health the way he plans to increase the number of general practitioners here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7497/13]
- Suicide Prevention
To ask the Minister for Health the key measures he is taking to tackle suicide; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7494/13]
- Hospital Services
To ask the Minister for Health the reason the new epilepsy monitoring unit at Cork University Hospital and the redevelopment unit at Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, remain unopened, in view of the...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
To ask the Minister for Health the actions taken to reduce waiting times for children awaiting in-patient and day care surgery; the impact of these measures; and if he will make a statement on...
- Health Services
To ask the Minister for Health the reason bilateral cochlear implants are not funded in this State; if he will acknowledge the significant benefits of this procedure in comparison to unilateral...
- Health Service Staff
To ask the Minister for Health the way he intends to deliver on the reduction of fees payable to health professionals of some €70 million as outlined in the National Service Plan 2013; and...
- Accident and Emergency Services
To ask the Minister for Health the actions taken to tackle overcrowding and the use of trolleys in accident and emergency departments nationally; the impact of these measures; and if he will make...
- Health Service Expenditure
To ask the Minister for Health the way he will reduce the State's drug bill; if he will detail the savings that will be made over the next three years; the legislation and agreements that will be...
- Health Service Executive Agency Staff Issues
To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which he continues to examine the possibility of the greater use of part-time or temporary nursing staff as a means of achieving economies in order to...
- Health Service Executive Expenditure
To ask the Minister for Health his role with regard to the development of the annual Health Service Executive budget; his powers of review and oversight in relation to same; the methodology for...
- Nursing Homes Support Scheme
To ask the Minister for Health the way the waiting list for the nursing home support scheme will be administered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7469/13]
- Departmental Reports
To ask the Minister for Health the reason the Expert Group set up to monitor the implementation of A Vision for Change has been disbanded; which of its sixth and final report recommendations, if...
- Patient Safety Authority
To ask the Minister for Health when the Programme for Government commitment to establish a Patient Safety Authority will be honoured; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7495/13]
- Home Help Service Provision
To ask the Minister for Health in view of promised restoration of the pre-September 2012 level of funding for home help hours, if he will instruct the Health Service Executive to arrange an...
- National Children's Hospital
To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the situation with regard to the new Children’s Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7511/13]
- Universal Health Insurance
To ask the Minister for Health when the White Paper on Financing UHI will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7486/13]
- Hospital Services
To ask the Minister for Health his plans if any to review the provision of non-planned services at Roscommon County Hospital; the proposed development in such services; and if he will make a...
- Health Services
To ask the Minister for Health if he recognises the condition X Microvascular Dysfunction as a Cardiac Syndrome; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that in the US they have developed a...
- Medical Card Eligibility
To ask the Minister for Health if he will detail his proposed changes to medical card entitlements and income criteria as outlined in the Health Service Executive National Service Plan 2013; and...
- Care of the Elderly
To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which elder abuse is going unreported; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7487/13]
- Obesity Levels
To ask the Minister for Health his views on the need to introduce a sugar tax on soft drinks or a so called fat tax in order to combat obesity here; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Health Service Staff
To ask the Minister for Health if he will explain the way he is addressing the issue of the continuing non-payment of a training allowance for full-time clinical placement to student medical...
- Hospital Consultants' Remuneration
To ask the Minister for Health the savings that could be made if consultants’ pay was reduced to the EU average; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7510/13]
- Ministerial Appointments
To ask the Minister for Health the reason just one person out of 40 who applied for a place on the board of the Health Information and Quality Authority was appointed; and if he will make a...
- Health Service Executive Staff
To ask the Minister for Health when the 477 posts allocated for mental health services in the Health Service Executive's 2013 National Service Plan will be advertised; the timeframe for the...
- Care of the Elderly
To ask the Minister for Health the way the reduced budget allocation for older people announced in the Health Service Executive 2013 Service Plan will impact on services; and if he will make a...
- Mental Health Services
To ask the Minister for Health the number of community mental health workers newly employed in 2012; the number who left the health service in 2012; the numbers likely to be recruited in 2013;...
- Medicinal Products
To ask the Minister for Health the way he hopes to make the public more aware of the availability of generic medicines in view of the low take-up by comparison to other countries; and if he will...
- Hospitals Funding
To ask the Minister for Health the reason better performing hospitals have seen their budget allocations reduced in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7491/13]
- Health Service Executive Staff
To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline where the 17 posts for the diabetes programme and five posts for audiology services, as outlined in the Health Service Executive National Service...
- Health Service Staff
To ask the Minister for Health the extent of refusal or inability to take up or continue staff release for training occasioned by the current shortage of frontline personnel across our hospital...
- Hospital Services
To ask the Minister for Health when the Higgins report on the reconfiguration of hospitals in the south east will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7488/13]
- Departmental Expenditure
To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which he has monitored the effect of budgetary controls within the health service in the current year to date in the context of keeping within budget;...
- Departmental Reports
To ask the Minister for Health the date on which he or his Department will receive the report on hospital groups; the date on which he will publish the report; his plans to progress the...
- Ambulance Service
To ask the Minister for Health his plans to improve ambulance coverage and response times throughout County Roscommon and East Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7433/13]
- Hospital Waiting Lists
To ask the Minister for Health the actions taken to reduce the waiting times for patients awaiting a routine endoscopy procedure; the impact of these measures; and if he will make a statement on...
- Proposed Legislation
To ask the Minister for Health when the Universal Primary Care Bill will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7496/13]
- Medicinal Products
To ask the Minister for Health if he will advise the annual State spend on high tech drugs in each of the years 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012; if he will list the medications involved; if he will...
- Thalidomide Victim Compensation
To ask the Minister for Health the reason he has not met the Irish Thalidomide Survivors Society, despite repeated requests and promises that he would do so, with particular reference to the...
- Health Service Executive Correspondence
To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether the Health Service Executive is subject to the same parliamentary oversight as other State agencies are by means of parliamentary questions;...
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Ministerial Meetings
To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will outline the issues discussed at his recent meeting with the Northern Ireland Secretary of State; and if he will make...
- PEACE Programme
To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the funding that will be provided for the new Peace Programme; the level of funding to be provided both north and south; and if...
- Departmental Expenditure
To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the total amount spent on outsourced security services in his Department; and if he will provide details of the companies...
- Department of Finance
- Household Charge Collection
To ask the Minister for Finance if he will introduce a system for persons to pay the household tax in instalments in view of the fact that he is not taking in the ability to pay clause on...
- Property Taxation Exemptions
To ask the Minister for Finance his plans in relation to exempting from the property tax those that have experienced continuous flooding of their homes; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Tax Reliefs
To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider implementing a tax relief regime for micro cider producers similar to the reliefs available for microbreweries; and if he will make a statement...
- Tax Code
To ask the Minister for Finance if he will explore the option of a reduction in capital gains tax which in turn may result in a increase in activity in this sector; and if he will make a...
- Pension Provisions
To ask the Minister for Finance his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding pension policies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7853/13]
- Tax Yield
To ask the Minister for Finance the total amount of tax collected annually by Revenue from benefit in kind taxation of health insurance policies provided to employees by their employers; and if...
- Tax Rebates
To ask the Minister for Finance if he will extend in the forthcoming Finance Bill the excise rebate scheme for road hauliers announced in Budget 2013 to benefit passenger transport operators; and...
- Personal Public Service Numbers
To ask the Minister for Finance if he will ensure that the Revenue Commissioners will provide a verifiable PPS number to the National Transport Office to enable a person (details supplied) in...
- Property Taxation Exemptions
To ask the Minister for Finance if he will clarify whether or not a pensioner couple will be permitted either an exemption or a deferral of the local property tax in circumstances where they they...
- Credit Availability
To ask the Minister for Finance if he will set out in tabular form based on geographical regions, Dublin north west, south east and so on, new lending to small and medium enterprises in the past...
- IBRC Loans
To ask the Minister for Finance the total number of clients with loans outstanding to Irish Banking Resolution Corporation; the number of loans associated with these clients; the location by...
- IBRC Liquidation
To ask the Minister for Finance the projected time horizon over which claims by deposit holders at the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation under the eligible liabilities guarantee would have been...
- Promissory Note Negotiations
To ask the Minister for Finance if he will set out in tabular form the expected impact of the deal on the promissory notes on the projected end of year stock of general Government debt and ratio...
- NAMA Operations
To ask the Minister for Finance if he intends to revise corporate governance oversight process in respect of National Assets Management Agency in view of its increased portfolio of assets and the...
- IBRC Liquidation
To ask the Minister for Finance the expected costs under the deposit guarantee scheme of the liquidation of the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Government Bonds
To ask the Minister for Finance the initial floating interest rate coupon on each tranche of Government bonds issued under the revised promissory note arrangements; and if he will make a...
- Treasury Bonds
To ask the Minister for Finance the impact of a 1% rise in the Irish spread over six month EURIBOR on the projected savings under the revised promissory note arrangements; and if he will make a...
- Central Bank of Ireland
To ask the Minister for Finance the circumstances under which the Central Bank of Ireland will be permitted to exchange a portion of the new floating rate bonds issued under the revised...
- IBRC Liquidation
To ask the Minister for Finance the implications he expects arising from the liquidation of the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation on outstanding legal actions against the institution; and if he...
- IBRC Staff
To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide details of the termination payments that will be made to the former CEO of the Irish bank Resolution Corporation, in liquidation (details...
- Corporation Tax
To ask the Minister for Finance if there was an effective corporate tax rate of 10%, what would the total tax take from corporation tax have been for 2010, 2011 and 2012; what it would be in 2013...
- IBRC Liquidation
To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm the new contact details of the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation in special liquidation for the former bank's mortgage customers. [7968/13]
- Tax Compliance
To ask the Minister for Finance the number of reviews of taxpayers that have been undertaken by the Revenue Commissioners in each of the years since the self-assessment system was adopted; the...
- Hospital Equipment
To ask the Minister for Finance if the use by hospital consultants of public health facilities for work for which they charge private-patient fees is taxable as a benefit in kind and if not the...
- Insurance Coverage
To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 254 of 29 January 2013, if he will intervene with insurance companies with reference to the provision of flood cover for...
- Departmental Expenditure
To ask the Minister for Finance the total amount spent on outsourced security services in each Government Department; and if he will provide details of the companies providing these services....
- IBRC Staff
To ask the Minister for Finance the number of ex-staff of the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation that have been re-hired by the special liquidator or the National Assets Management Agency [7992/13]
- Treasury Bonds
To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a full analysis of the new bonds, which it is proposed to replace the promissory notes, to include the projected annual capital and interest...
- Tax Reliefs
To ask the Minister for Finance his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding mortgage interest supplement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7996/13]
- IBRC Liquidation
To ask the Minister for Finance the implications, if any, for the operation of the National Assets Management Agency SPV arising from the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation liquidation; and if he...
- Department of Education and Skills
- Capitation Grants
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an analysis of the per capita spend by his Department on a regional basis with regard to current and capital spends in the area of...
- Education Schemes
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons in Westmeath who have so far applied for and are taking part in springboard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7969/13]
- Student Grant Scheme Delays
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a student grant application will be dealt with in full in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; and if he will make a statement...
- State Examinations Issues
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will investigate the requirement of the State Examinations Commission that superintendents of examinations must be registered with the Teaching...
- Student Grant Scheme Delays
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will receive a decision on their application to Student Universal Support Ireland for an education...
- Schools Building Projects Status
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will confirm plans for a new school building (details supplied) in Dublin 24; if he will detail schedules being followed; and if he will make a...
- Education Schemes
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the counselling and addiction studies course at ICHAS Limerick is not recognised for social protection entitlement purposes in respect of a...
- Back to Education Allowance Eligibility
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review the system of grant/back to education and free fee entitlement for mature students (details supplied) who want to retrain in lower...
- Education and Training
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a list of all local training initiatives here in tabular form broken down by local authority area; the location of the initiatives;...
- Traffic Management
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the discussions he has had with Meath County Council in relation to the preparation of a traffic management plan for September 2013 in respect of a...
- Student Grant Scheme Appeals
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive a decision on a Student Universal Support Ireland grant appeal; and if he will make a...
- Apprenticeship Programmes
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7862/13]
- Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the delay in informing a person (details supplied) in County Cork of the refusal of their grant when the reason given was said to be...
- School Curriculum
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on the planned junior certificate reforms including the next steps and the time scale for the reforms; and if he will...
- Schools Building Projects Application Numbers
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will set out in tabular form the number of new school builds and renovation projects across Ireland in the past two years in accordance with...
- School Staffing
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will list in tabular form the schools in County Meath; the number of pupils and teachers; the pupil teacher ratio therein for the years 2009,...
- Schools Building Projects Status
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools built in County Meath since 2005; the date on which they were built and the locations of same; and if he will make a statement...
- School Accommodation
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the schools renting prefabs in County Meath; the date on which this commenced and the cost incurred; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Schools Building Projects Status
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the following school building projects (details supplied) in County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7940/13]
- Back to School Costs
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in view of a recent survey which estimates back to school costs at €487 for primary school children and €620 for secondary school...
- Student Grant Scheme Payments
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive a decision on a Student Universal Support Ireland grant appeal; and if he will make a...
- School Equipment
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 72 of 7 February 2013, if he will ensure that the school is given back the bandwidth of at least four as it had...
- Student Grant Scheme Applications
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will receive a decision in relation to their Student Universal Support Ireland application; and if he...
- FÁS Training Programmes
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in relation to the issuing of construction skills certificate scheme and safe pass cards, his views that some work needs to be done in this whole area...
- Bullying in Schools
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the alleged bullying of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Departmental Expenditure
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total amount spent on outsourced security services in his Department; and if he will provide details of the companies providing these services....
- Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
- Public Sector Reform Implementation
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the progress he has made with regard to implementing the plan Supporting Public Service Reform - eGovernment 2012 – 2015; in...
- Garda Stations Refurbishment
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the position regarding the proposed new building of the Garda Barracks in Athlone, County Westmeath; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
- Upward Only Rent Reviews
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps he is taking to address the competitive disadvantage of businesses locked into pre 2010 leases that continue to include upward...
- Departmental Agencies
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide the data for total Industrial Development Agency, Enterprise Ireland and County Enterprise Board spend by region since...
- Employment Support Services
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide details of current State-identified employment priorities/initiatives directed specifically at the south east region....
- Job Creation Issues
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if any special initiatives will be undertaken by his Department or the State's industrial promotion agencies to assist in the provision of...
- Gambling Sector
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will outline Enterprise Ireland's strategy for supporting Irish initiated or Irish based tech companies that operate in online...
- Departmental Expenditure
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the total amount spent on outsourced security services in his Department; and if he will provide details of the companies providing these...
- Department of Social Protection
- Pension Provisions
To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will advise on a person's position regarding a pension arrangement (details supplied) in County Cork; if she will explain what will happen if a...
- Departmental Expenditure
To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an analysis of the per capita spend by her Department on a regional basis with regard to current and capital spends in the area of...
- Pension Provisions
To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding current legislation and the way it could impact on the pension entitlements of current employees...
- Jobseeker's Allowance Appeals
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an appeal against refusal of jobseeker's benefit in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo and if the processing of...
- Jobseeker's Benefit Appeals
To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 104 of 7 February 2012, the reason an appeal in respect of jobseeker's allowance payment was disallowed; if she...
- Traveller Community
To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an update on funding for the Clondalkin Travellers' Development Group bicycle repair shed project, which was expected to have been...
- Social Welfare Appeals
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an appeal in respect of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7806/13]
- Social Welfare Eligibility
To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a review and impact assessment of the habitual residence condition will be concluded in relation to ethnicity and gender; and if she will make a...
- Departmental Contracts
To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she has granted any contracts or is considering granting any projects to private companies for the implementation of the pathways to work programmes;...
- Invalidity Pension Appeals
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding invalidity pension in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cavan; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7819/13]
- Carer's Allowance Applications
To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Offaly may expect a decision on an application for carer's allowance. [7822/13]
- Disability Allowance Appeals
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the progress to date in respect of an appeal for disability allowance in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make...
- Invalidity Pension Appeals
To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a review and decision will issue on an appeal for invalidity pension in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; and if she will make...
- Farm Assist Scheme Payments
To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 96 of 7 February 2013, if she will provide a breakdown of the amount paid for farm assist for the years 2011 and...
- Carer's Allowance Appeals
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an appeal against refusal of carer's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; if the appeal will be...
- Carer's Allowance Eligibility
To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an update on the carer’s allowance in relation to who qualifies and if she will clarify the changes that have been made since...
- Jobseeker's Allowance Payments
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of jobseeker's allowance or benefit in County Meath broken down by gender and age; and if she will make a statement on...
- Employment Support Services
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons in Westmeath who have so far applied for and are taking part in Tús and jobbridge programmes; and if she will make a statement...
- Mortgage Arrears Proposals
To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will outline recent developments and proposals in relation to tackling the issue of mortgage arrears and personal debt; and if she will make a...
- Disability Allowance Appeals
To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite a decision on a disability allowance appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a...
- Carer's Allowance Applications
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a carer's allowance application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if she will make a statement on...
- Social Welfare Appeals
To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 121 of 17 January 2013, if and when an oral hearing will take place in respect of a person (details supplied) in...
- Rent Supplement Scheme Applications
To ask the Minister for Social Protection when rent allowance will be approved in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8010/13]
- Social Welfare Benefits
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the nature of any contact her Department has had with a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8011/13]
- Rent Supplement Scheme Eligibility
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the rent ceiling and rent support payable in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Jobseeker's Allowance Applications
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the correct level of payment of jobseeker's allowance in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on...
- Rent Supplement Scheme Applications
To ask the Minister for Social Protection when rent support will be provided in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8016/13]
- Social Welfare Eligibility
To ask the Minister for Social Protection when habitual residency will be determined in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Family Income Supplement Eligibility
To ask the Minister for Social Protection when family income supplement will be approved and paid in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on...
- Departmental Expenditure
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total amount spent on outsourced security services in her Department; and if she will provide details of the companies providing these services. [8479/13]
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Natural Energy Efficiency Action Plan
To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding energy proposals. [7948/13]
- Commemorative Stamp Programme
To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if it is intended to issue a stamp in 2014 to mark the bicentenary of the birth of Thomas Davis; and if he will make a...
- Television Reception
To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when TG4 HD will begin airing on Saorview and Sky; the reason there has not been a public review of TG4 HD which TG4 SD will...
- Value for Money Reviews
To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when he will carry out the next value for money reviews of all semi-State bodies under his remit; and if he will make a...
- Departmental Expenditure
To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the total amount spent on outsourced security services in his Department; and if he will provide details of the companies...
- Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
- Homeless Persons Numbers
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of homeless persons in County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7943/13]
- Wind Energy Guidelines
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will ensure that adequate guidelines are put in place before wind turbines are erected in the midlands in order that...
- Building Control Regulations
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when he is planning to sign the Statutory Instrument that will introduce the Building Control (Amendment) Act 2012; and if he...
- Household Charge Exemptions
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will confirm the criteria that was used to compile a list of unfinished housing estates for the purpose of collecting the...
- Fire Stations
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will intervene in respect of the delay in finalising arrangements for major development works at a fire station (details...
- Local Government Reform
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will ensure that local development companies will continue to have a significant role in local development; if he will...
- Rural Development Programme
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when approval will issue in respect of a project (details supplied) in County Monaghan; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Unfinished Housing Developments
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will list in tabular form the unfinished housing developments in County Meath; his plans to progress these developments;...
- Property Management Company Issues
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the options for residents in housing estates managed by private management companies; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Leader Programmes
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the LEADER and RDN funding distributed in County Meath in the past five years; the amount available for 2013; the other funding...
- Local Government Reform
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will meet with Killarney Town Council members to discuss his proposals to abolish the town council; and if he will make a...
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update on progress being made in relation to Ireland's greenhouse gas mitigation target for 2020; and if...
- Water Charges
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will outline the exemptions to paying the water charge and the criteria to determine same [7977/13]
- Septic Tank Registration Scheme
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if a person who has had to carry out remedial works to their septic tank may apply for the grant at this stage or would they...
- Voluntary Housing Sector
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the extent to which he has monitored the situation at an association (details supplied) County Kildare with particular...
- Local Authority Housing Maintenance
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will give details of the number of social housing and private dwellings that would benefit from energy efficiency...
- Water and Sewerage Schemes Status
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the decisions taken by the previous Government in relation to private waste water systems on foot of the judgement in the...
- Departmental Expenditure
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the total amount spent on outsourced security services in his Department; and if he will provide details of the companies...
- Department of Justice and Equality
- Visa Applications
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide a breakdown by country of the number of holiday visas applied for to visit here in 2012; and the number that were successful. [7801/13]
- Asylum Seeker Accommodation
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the value of the individual contracts to providers of direct provision accommodation; and if these contracts were advertised and awarded as per the EU...
- Departmental Strategies
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if a revised National Traveller Roma Integration Strategy will be developed with the active participation of Travellers, Roma, wider civil society and...
- Garda Vetting of Personnel
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the measures that are taken by the Reception and Integration Agency to ensure that staff in accommodation centres for asylum seekers are Garda vetted...
- Departmental Funding
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the overall budget for Reception and Integration Agency, including a breakdown of the cost of inspections, transfers and staffing; if the weekly...
- Personal Insolvency Service
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update on the establishment of the Personal Insolvency Service that is currently in the process of being established; when...
- Stardust Fire Issues
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will confirm that there were earlier versions of the 2009 Coffey Report that was prepared by Mr Paul Coffey S.C. into the Stardust Disaster of...
- Alcohol Sales
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when Section 9 of the Intoxicating Liquor Act 2008 will commence. [7875/13]
- Garda Station Closures
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will detail the number of Garda stations closed by region since 2007; and the number under active consideration for closure by region. [7892/13]
- Crime Levels
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the crime figures in tabular form and by category for County Meath for each of the years 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012; the number of Gardaí and...
- Proposed Legislation
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if, following recent criticism by the High Court of practices in the Refugee Appeals Tribunal in S.R. (Pakistan) v Minister for Justice and the...
- Departmental Contracts
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the basis on which the contract for inspecting director provision accommodation centres was awarded to a company (details supplied); the duration of...
- Immigration Status
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will outline the existing residency status and eligibility for naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15; and if he...
- Naturalisation Applications
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 259 of 8 November 2012, the position regarding the determination of an application for naturalisation in respect...
- Deportation Orders
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will review and defer the proposal to deport in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Carlow; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Garda Investigations
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the progress made to date in the investigation into a complaint by a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on...
- Residency Permits
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current position in regard to residency/eligibility for naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he...
- Naturalisation Applications
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current position in regard to examination and determination of eligibility for naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin...
- Departmental Expenditure
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the total amount spent on outsourced security services in his Department; and if he will provide details of the companies providing these services....
- Department of Defence
- Defence Forces Properties
To ask the Minister for Defence if it is proposed to transfer any NCO’s currently stationed in Parkgate, Dublin to Newbridge, County Kildare or to any other location; and if he will make a...
- Departmental Expenditure
To ask the Minister for Defence the total amount spent on outsourced security services in his Department; and if he will provide details of the companies providing these services. [8471/13]
- Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
- Farming Incentives
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding offering incentives and encouragement to young persons to take up farming, if he...
- Rural Environment Protection Scheme Payments
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) may expect their REP scheme payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7816/13]
- Single Payment Scheme Payments
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Offaly may expect a decision on an application for single farm payment. [7823/13]
- Marine Resources
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department is currently leasing Lough Foyle for the purposes of aquaculture activities from the Crown Estates Commission; the...
- Job Creation Targets
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress that has been made in terms of employment creation anticipated in the south east and other regions in 2013 for the agri-food...
- Farm Statistics
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers in County Meath; if he will provide a breakdown of same by size of holding; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Rural Environment Protection Scheme Payments
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a rural environmental protection scheme 4 payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a...
- Departmental Expenditure
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total amount spent on outsourced security services in his Department; and if he will provide details of the companies providing these...
- Department of Children and Youth Affairs
- Health Services
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will review the case of a person (details supplied) in County Meath; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7855/13]
- Child Care Services
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of childcare providers and places in County Meath; if she will provide details of same in tabular form; the number of vacancies...
- Health Service Executive Staff
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of social workers in County Meath for each of the years 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013; the number of vacancies currently unfilled;...
- Children in Care
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children from County Meath in the care of the State; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7944/13]
- Departmental Expenditure
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the total amount spent on outsourced security services in her Department; and if she will provide details of the companies providing these...
- Department of Health
- Health Insurance Regulation
To ask the Minister for Health if he has requested the Competition Authority to examine private health insurance who are charging and including benefits in a policy that will never be claimed for...
- Departmental Expenditure
To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an analysis of the per capita spend by his Department on a regional basis with regard to current and capital spends in the area of health . [7882/13]
- Alcohol Pricing
To ask the Minister for Health if in view of the Seanad Public Consultation Committee's recommendations of alcohol and cancer, when he will begin work on introducing minimum pricing; the...
- Departmental Funding
To ask the Minister for Health the amount of grant aid allocated to St. Michael's House over the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7771/13]
- Departmental Agencies
To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Information and Quality Authority are reviewing the situation of waiting list times for persons requiring epilepsy monitoring; and if he will make a...
- Graduate Medicine Programme Places
To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the looming problems regarding a shortage of medical intern places (details supplied); the steps being taken to tackle this...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
To ask the Minister for Health when an appointment for the urology clinic in Portlaoise Hospital will be approved in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Laois; and if he will make a...
- Local Drugs Task Forces
To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm the arrangements now in place to provide full funding for an estate (details supplied) in Dublin 24; if he will appreciate the importance to the...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding surgery in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7799/13]
- Maternity Services
To ask the Minister for Health if the Coombe Hospital and children's ambulatory care unit, Dublin, will be moving to Tallaght Hospital, Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7807/13]
- Departmental Funding
To ask the Minister for Health if he will detail funding levels for neurological rehabilitation services in this State for the years 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013; if he will outline the principal...
- Hospital Staff
To ask the Minister for Health if he will detail the number of neurology specialists in this State; their grade and location; the average waiting times for appointments; and if he will make a...
- Health Service Staff
To ask the Minister for Health if he will detail the number of medical rehabilitation specialists in this State; their grade and location; the average waiting times for appointments; and if he...
- Hospitals Funding
To ask the Minister for Health if he will detail funding levels for community and hospital neurological services in this State for the years 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013; if he will outline the...
- Long-Term Illness Scheme
To ask the Minister for Health when he expects legislation on the long term illness scheme to be finalised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7852/13]
- Universal Health Insurance
To ask the Minister for Health the reasons for the delays being experienced by his Department in the preparation and publication of the White Paper on Universal Health Insurance, and the...
- Health Service Reform
To ask the Minister for Health his plans for consultation, communication and collaboration on his healthcare reform agenda, including consultation with stakeholders including advocacy groups,...
- Medical Card Applications
To ask the Minister for Health if he will approve an application for a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7860/13]
- Hospital Waiting Lists
To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will receive an appointment for a brain scan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7861/13]
- Medicinal Products
To ask the Minister for Health the supports available for sufferers of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis; if he will outline treatment regimes available for these patients; if new drugs are coming to...
- Primary Care Centres
To ask the Minister for Health the number of existing primary care centres there are in the south east region; the number that have been built in the past two years; the number scheduled to be...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
To ask the Minister for Health if he will take steps to ensure that a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath is admitted to St. James' Hospital, Dublin, for an urgent procedure; and if he...
- Hospital Services
To ask the Minister for Health if he will list in tabular form the services available at Our Lady's Hospital, Navan, County Meath, in January 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013; to note any changes...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
To ask the Minister for Health the average and longest waiting time for an outpatient appointment at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital Drogheda, Our Lady's Hospital Navan and James Connolly Hospital...
- Hospital Staff
To ask the Minister for Health if he will list in tabular form staffing numbers and grade at Our Lady's Hospital, Navan, County Meath, in January 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013 in the following...
- Primary Care Centres
To ask the Minister for Health if he will list in tabular form, the primary care centres open or planned for County Meath; the staff number and grade therein; the date or planned date of opening;...
- Special Needs Assessments
To ask the Minister for Health in view of the fact that there are more than 100 children in County Kerry with autism spectrum disorder awaiting assessment for intervention services, the plans in...
- Drugs Payment Scheme
To ask the Minister for Health the position in relation to the approval of the drug ampligen as a reimbursable drug under the GMS in Ireland [7975/13]
- Health Service Executive Agency Staff Issues
To ask the Minister for Health when agency workers employed by the Health Service Executive in a company (details supplied), will receive their full entitlement under the Agency Workers...
- Home Care Packages
To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in processing an application for a home care package in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 11; and if he will expedite a...
- Data Retention
To ask the Minister for Health if he has any other options to consider before all Guthrie cards from pre 2002 are destroyed; the way his Department is contacting parents of children whose records...
- Lourdes Hospital Redress Scheme Eligibility
To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on implementation of the Programme for Government commitment in respect of the proposed extension of the Neary redress scheme; and if...
- National Asthma Programme
To ask the Minister for Health when the first phase of the national asthma programme will be implemented; the initial actions that will be taken in order to implement the programme; the deadlines...
- Medical Card Eligibility
To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the determination of entitlement to medical card in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a...
- Health Services
To ask the Minister for Health when it will be possible to arrange for the further promised assessment in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a...
- Health Service Executive Funding
To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which budgetary constraints have been applied evenly throughout the Health Services with particular reference to ensure the need to maintain frontline...
- Health Service Executive Agency Staff Issues
To ask the Minister for Health the total number of nurses required in the public health sector in the current year; the number available by way of permanent and or temporary appointment; the...
- Nursing Staff
To ask the Minister for Health the total number of nurses currently employed in the private sector throughout the Health Services; the extent to which a comparison is made with the public sector...
- Hospital Staff
To ask the Minister for Health the total number of non-consultant hospital doctors required in the public health service in the current year; the numbers likely to be available; their expected...
- Hospital Procedures
To ask the Minister for Health the total number of procedures, medical and surgical, to include day procedures and more extended treatments carried out in the private and public sectors in the...
- Hospital Accommodation
To ask the Minister for Health the full complement of general hospital beds currently available on a regional basis throughout the country in the public health sector; the number of similar beds...
- Care of the Elderly
To ask the Minister for Health the degree to which he will continue to support public sector nursing homes and hospitals caring for older persons in view of the high quality of service available...
- Cochlear Implants
To ask the Minister for Health if it is the case that in Europe and the USA bilateral implantation of cochlear implants is standard practice; if it is the case that for resource reasons in this...
- Departmental Expenditure
To ask the Minister for Health the total amount spent on outsourced security services in his Department; and if he will provide details of the companies providing these services. [8476/13]
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- Public Transport
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an analysis of the per capita spend by his Department on a regional basis with regard to current and capital spends in the...
- Driving Licences
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding a driving licence in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Public Transport
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will list in tabular form, the bus routes that operated in County Meath in January 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013; if he will give...
- Departmental Expenditure
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total amount spent on outsourced security services in his Department; and if he will provide details of the companies providing these...
