Written answers
Thursday, 21 February 2013
- Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
- Cross-Border Enterprise Initiatives
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of jobs and the amount of investment achieved by cross border agencies and through cross border enterprise initiatives in the...
- Retail Sector
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the inititives that will be undertaken to stem the collapse within the retail trade here. [9068/13]
- Copyright Legislation Review
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide an update on the work of the Copyright Review Committee; when the final report of the Committee is to be expected; the...
- Regional Development
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps being taken to promote investment in the midland and western regions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9036/13]
- Job Creation Issues
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of jobs created by Industrial Development Agency supported businesses along the border region; and the total number of job...
- Job Creation Numbers
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of additional jobs now on site through the investment in Vistamed in Carrick on Shannon. [9060/13]
- Public Service Reform Plan Measures
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of his Department's non-core public service activities that have been selected for priority outsourcing to companies based here;...
- Alternative Energy Projects
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation in view of the recent signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with the British Government for the support of electricity generated by wind...
- Proposed Legislation
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will support the proposed structured non-judicial debt settlement system outlined in the report submitted to him by the Company Law...
- Trade Relations
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will detail in monetary value the volume of trade carried out between the north and south of Ireland by sector for the past five...
- Economic Growth
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will report the share of GDP going to labour in 1990, 2000, 2006, 2011 and 2012, unit labour costs here annually since 2006, with...
- Prompt Payments
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the way he will help small and medium enterprises receive prompt payment from all public bodies employing their services; the regulatory...
- Business Regulation
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the efforts he has made to reduce the cost of doing business in the past two years. [9066/13]
- Job Creation Numbers
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of jobs created and supported by InterTradeIreland in the past five years; the average cost of each of these jobs; if he will...
- Departmental Bodies
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will report on waiting times for cases to be heard and staffing levels in the Rights Commissioner and Labour Court in the past three...
- Economic Competitiveness
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the extent to which he is satisfied regarding the competitiveness of the industrial sector in this jurisdiction as compared with others...
- Upward Only Rent Reviews
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation in view of the damage done to the economy and small business in particular by the continued operation of upward only rent clauses, if he...
- Industrial Development
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the action he will take to boost the traditional manufacturing sector here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9079/13]
- Unemployment Levels
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if the next action plan for jobs will contain specific measures that take account of regional disparity in unemployment rates; and if he...
- Job Creation Numbers
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the total number of new Enterprise Ireland and Industrial Development Agency jobs announced for each of the past five years; the number of...
- Employment Levels
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of jobs created or lost in both the manufacturing or services sectors in the past twelve months; his projections for the current...
- Foreign Direct Investment
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number and percentage of foreign direct investment jobs created in the 13 counties with the highest unemployment. [9048/13]
- Business Regulation
- Business Licences
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the measures that have been taken to reduce the number of licences required by businesses; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Financial Services Sector
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the progress made to date in finding a buyer for the MBNA UK loan book; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9035/13]
- Cross-Border Enterprise Initiatives
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he intends to make a response to the Cross-Border Economic Renewal Report of the Centre for Cross Border Studies. [9056/13]
- Industrial Development
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the level of investment in the Dublin region by Enterprise Ireland and the Industrial Development Agency each year from 2009 to 2012; and...
- Cross-Border Trading
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will identify the barriers to micro enterprise posed by the border both in financial terms and with regards internal enterprise...
- Job Creation Numbers
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of jobs created by the Industrial Development Agency in County Laois over the past year; and the number of jobs lost in IDA...
- EU State Aid Negotiations
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will detail his position with regards the upcoming EU State Aid negotiations; if he will seek to redress employment inequalities by...
- Retail Sector
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the impact of upward only rent on the retail sector in terms of lost competitiveness and in terms of jobs lost. [9050/13]
- Job Initiatives
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the administration cost to date and the contracts costs for the Succeed in Ireland initiative. [9049/13]
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Overseas Development Aid
To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will outline the steps taken by his Department to ensure stronger accountability in relation to overseas aid provision;...
- Passport Application Numbers
To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of Irish passports that were issued in 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013; if additional staff will be allocated to the...
- Passport Statistics
To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will estimate the number of Irish passport holders that hold one or more passports of other sovereign states; and if he...
- Human Rights Issues
To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will take the lead through funding and diplomacy in Irish Aid's priority countries to guarantee safe spaces for community...
- Department of Finance
- Property Taxation Application
To ask the Minister for Finance the main changes in the property tax in relation to the unemployed, senior citizens and the disabled, exemptions, waivers and so on. [9313/13]
- Mortgage Arrears Proposals
To ask the Minister for Finance the administrative costs of the mortgage arrears resolution process; the number of persons that have applied to the scheme; the number that have been approved; and...
- Banking Sector Remuneration
To ask the Minister for Finance the number of staff earning more than €100,000 but under €150,000, between €150,000 and €200,000, between €200,000 and...
- Proposed Legislation
To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to reform the statue of limitations in order that claims can be made against financial institutions that mis-sold financial products. [9309/13]
- Property Taxation Application
To ask the Minister for Finance if there are plans for the payment people make to management companies to be taken into account when they are paying the local property tax; and if he will make a...
- IBRC Staff
To ask the Minister for Finance the way he proposes to deal with the redundancy entitlements of the former employees of the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation (details supplied); and if he will...
- Property Taxation Application
To ask the Minister for Finance if there is any way that a house holder whose home was fully compliant with building regulations when they bought it but has since been declared non compliant, due...
- Tax Code
To ask the Minister for Finance the way income from farming and related activities is calculated for tax purposes. [9357/13]
- IBRC Liquidation
To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to amend the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Act 2013 to remove the stay on legal actions against the bank; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Promissory Note Negotiations
To ask the Minister for Finance if it is his intention, provided all other economic indicators remain in line with the projections made in Budget 2013, to use the circa €1 billion...
- Revenue Commissioners Investigations
To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide details of the actions taken by the Revenue Sheriff in 2012 including the number and value of goods and property seized; the number and value of...
- Government Bonds
To ask the Minister for Finance in the context of the deal on the promissory notes reached with the European Central Bank, if the ECB can instruct the Central Bank of Ireland to dispose of the...
- IBRC Liquidation
To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether the sale of the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation loan book by the special liquidator may have unintended consequences for some of the debtors...
- VAT Rates
To ask the Minister for Finance his estimate of the loss to the State of VAT revenue arising from the below-cost selling of alcohol. [9488/13]
- Mortgage Arrears Report Implementation
To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a detailed statement on the respective role of the Central Bank of Ireland and his Department in tackling the mortgage arrears problem; if he...
- IBRC Liquidation
To ask the Minister for Finance if he will detail whether the issuance of €25 billion Government bonds as consideration with the Central Bank of Ireland for the Irish Bank Resolution...
- NAMA Loan Book
To ask the Minister for Finance if he will detail the total original book value of the €33.9 billion of assets which were transferred from Anglo Irish Bank to the National Assets...
- IBRC Liquidation
To ask the Minister for Finance the process for the appointment by the special liquidator of an independent valuer for IBRC as stipulated in the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Act 2013; if he...
- Central Bank of Ireland
To ask the Minister for Finance the actions that will be required should the Central Bank of Ireland make a loss on disposal of the bonds it currently holds in its investment portfolio resulting...
- National Debt
To ask the Minister for Finance if he expects discussions to take place in the near future at European level on extending the maturity of loans drawn down by Ireland from the EFSF and EFSM; if he...
- State Banking Sector
To ask the Minister for Finance his plans for the State's holding in permanent TSB; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9519/13]
- Pension Provisions
To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether there should be equality of treatment for beneficiaries of the TSB bank pension scheme when compared with actions undertaken at other covered...
- IBRC Liquidation
To ask the Minister for Finance the implications for the credit standing of mortgage customers of IBRC arising from recent problems in respect of deduction of mortgage payments; the actions that...
- Promissory Note Negotiations
To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the comments by German Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann in relation to the revised arrangements in respect of the promissory notes; and if he will...
- IBRC Staff
To ask the Minister for Finance the total redundancy payments made to employees of IBRC under schemes offered by the firm; the number of employees concerned; the terms offered; and if he will...
- IBRC Liquidation
To ask the Minister for Finance if consideration had been given prior to the decision to liquidate IBRC for the company to pay a dividend to the State from the annual interest it received under...
- Departmental Staff
To ask the Minister for Finance in view of the recent resignation of a senior official (details supplied) who was head of Shareholder Management Unit, in his Department, to take up a senior...
- Department of Education and Skills
- Technological Universities
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will expedite new technological universities in view of the fact that our intake of skilled ICT workers from overseas will increase from 700 to...
- Student Grant Scheme Applications
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he is taking to ensure that Student Universal Support Ireland applications are being processed as efficiently as possible; and if he will...
- Teacher Recruitment
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason he continues to hire retired teachers on paid contracts when so many young persons who want a career in teaching are finding it difficult...
- Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason Student Universal Support Ireland insist on obtaining financial accounts to accompany student grant applications from farms which are in...
- Teachers' Remuneration
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 156 of 6 June 2012, his views on whether the position adopted by his predecessor and outlined in that letter was...
- Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
- Revised Estimates
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when he will publish the revised estimates volume; the reason for the delay in publishing same; if it will deviate significantly financially...
- Rights of Way
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he wil provide details regarding the fencing project at Castletown House, Celbridge, County Kildare; the overall cost of such a project;...
- Coastal Erosion
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will consider introducing a scheme to assist homeowners in protecting their properties against coastal erosion; and if he will make a...
- Flood Risk Assessments
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the Office of Public Works flood maps in respect of Clifden town County Galway were prepared; whether they were the result of a desktop...
- Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
- Action Plan for Jobs
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if the next action plan on jobs will include specific regional measures in view of the geographical disparity in unemployment rates; and if...
- Work Permit Applications
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of existing work visas for workers from the non-EEA area that were renewed in 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013; if he will...
- Job Creation Targets
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the progress the Industrial Development Agency has made in achieving the aims of the Horizon 2020 strategy; the efforts being made to...
- Industrial Property Portfolio
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the plans the Industrial Development Agency and Enterprise Ireland have for a vacant unit (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he...
- Ports Development
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the input, if any, his Department has had into the review of Irish ports with a view to ensuring better regional balance within our...
- Job Creation Issues
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the extent to which he and or his Department has evaluated the prospects for job creation in this economy over the next three years; and if...
- Job Creation Numbers
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of enterprises that have received approval in each of the past four years to date in both the manufacturing an/or service...
- Job Creation Issues
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will set out the most commonly quoted obstacles to investment and job creation here; the extent to which reference is made to job...
- Job Creation Numbers
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of jobs lost and created in each of the past four years to date under the headings of traditional and or indigenous enterprises...
- Department of Social Protection
- Rent Supplement Scheme Eligibility
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the outstanding documentation required in respect of an application for rent allowance in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and...
- Carer's Allowance Appeals
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason for refusal of an application for carer's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; the minimum hours of care...
- Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an application for domiciliary care allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15; and if she will make a...
- Respite Care Services
To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider measures to assist those who will be adversely affected by the reduction in the carer's respite grant; and if she will make a...
- Job Initiatives
To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to make any changes to the jobs initiative programme; if she has decided to phase this programme out over the coming months and to cease the...
- Tax and Social Welfare Codes
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the way she proposes to protect middle income families, who will be hardest hit, if the Government goes ahead with the taxing of child benefit as...
- Domiciliary Care Allowance Eligibility
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding domiciliary care allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Jobseeker's Allowance Eligibility
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the extent to which mortgage, mortgage arrears, outstanding income tax liability and or penalties has been taken into account in the determination of...
- Rent Supplement Scheme Applications
To ask the Minister for Social Protection if and when rent support will be approved in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Exceptional Needs Payment Applications
To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a person (details supplied) in County Kildare qualifies for an exceptional needs payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9454/13]
- Rent Supplement Scheme Payments
To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will review the restricted entitlement to rent support in the case of persons (details supplied) in Dublin 15; and if she will make a statement on...
- Child Benefit Payments
To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will ensure no loss of child benefit in respect of the seven days a person (details supplied) in County Kildare was out of the country to seek...
- Exceptional Needs Payments
To ask the Minister for Social Protection if dietary allowance or exceptional needs payment will be made payable in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make...
- State Pension (Contributory)
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total number of contributions recorded to date entailing ultimate eligibility for old age pension in the case of a person (details supplied) in...
- Illness Benefit Applications
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the current entitlement in respect of illness benefit or disability allowance in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she...
- Community Welfare Services
To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will ensure the continued location of a community welfare officer in the Derrinturn/Carbury/Johnstownbridge area of North West Kildare having...
- Disability Allowance Applications
To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a disability allowance will be approved in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
- State Property
To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the position regarding the possible sale of title or ground rent in respect of Old Canal Side, CIE Properties; and if he will make a...
- Scéim na bhFoghlaimeoirí Gaeilge
To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cad é an líon measta scoláirí a n-íocfar deontas ina leith sa mbliain 2013 faoi scéim na...
- Scéimeanna Teanga
To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cad é líon na scéimeanna teanga a daingníodh gach bliain ó tháinig Acht na dTeangacha Oifigiúla, 2003 i...
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Exploration Licences
To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will confirm if any applications for an extension of the existing onshore licensing options have been received by his...
- Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to create a mandatory registration scheme for oil technicians in order to ensure the highest safety standards in...
- Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
- Rural Development Programme
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the status of a grant application to Mayo North East LEADER Partnership Company Teoranta by an enterprise (details supplied) in...
- Planning Issues
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if there is an obligation upon local authorities to comply with the provisions set out in Department Circular PL07/12 regarding...
- Water Meters
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will outline the training and qualifications required to install water meters when the water charges scheme is rolled...
- Housing Statistics
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an up to date list of the number of people on local authority waiting lists for each local authority broken...
- Building Energy Rating Compliance
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the action a householder may take when their house was once declared fully compliant with building regulations but it is then...
- Voluntary Housing Sector
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the State supports currently available under the two schemes to voluntary housing bodies; the relevant legislation under which...
- Water Charges
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to introduce domestic water meters; the way this will be done with apartment blocks/multiple occupancy units; if each...
- Water and Sewerage Schemes Provision
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the budget available from his Department to the local authorities in County Kildare under each for group water schemes, group...
- Departmental Schemes
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide details of the international good practice that the national standards as proposed in the Keeping...
- Fire Service
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on whether there are less firefighters per head of population here compared to the UK; and if he will make a...
- Housing Adaptation Grant Application Numbers
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of grants awarded respectively under each of the grants available under the housing adaptation grant schemes for...
- Planning Issues
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government whether the review (details supplied) into claims of planning irregularities at seven local authorities across the country...
- Department of Justice and Equality
- Naturalisation Applications
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of new Irish citizens that retain passports of their native country or other countries; his views on holders of multiple passports with...
- State Agencies
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his views on reports (details supplied) that the selection committee for the new Commission of the Human Rights and Equality Commission lack urgency...
- Garda Resources
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the resources available to Garda Stations (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9350/13]
- Garda Deployment
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide details of Garda plans to provide cover to residents of the Beara Peninsula; if he will assure people of acceptable response times...
- Garda Transport
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the total expenditure on the Garda motor fleet in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9362/13]
- Garda Deployment
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Gardaí assigned to a station (details supplied) in County Kerry since 2002; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9368/13]
- Departmental Contracts
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the total cost of the cleaning service at a Garda station (details supplied) in County Kerry since 2002; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Road Traffic Legislation
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the criteria for a member of an Garda Síochána or medical personnel attending the scene of a serious or fatal collision for forming an...
- Crime Levels
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his views on the fact that crime figures for County Galway, where 10 of the 100 Garda stations closures have taken place, shows an increase in...
- Garda Deployment
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda based in the Claremorris, County Mayo, Garda district at present; the number based there in 2008; and if he will make a statement...
- Prison Accommodation
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the refurbishment that is proposed for Harristown House, Castlerea, County Roscommon, under the prison implementation plan 2012-2015; his plans to...
- Garda Station Closures
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality in view of the information that is now coming through that five vans are proposed to replace the 100 Garda Stations that have recently closed and it...
- Citizenship Applications
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he wil provide an update on an application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare. [9409/13]
- Legal Aid Service Reform
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans for further reform of criminal legal aid under the proposed Legal Aid Bill; and if the introduction of means testing will be considered in...
- Garda Communications
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide details of the contract for the provision of Tetra digital radios to An Garda Síochána, including the number of radios...
- Family Reunification
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 163 of 31 January 2013, if he will arrange for the re-issue of a letter directly to the applicant in the case of...
- Naturalisation Applications
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the progress made to date in the determination of eligibility for naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if...
- Deportation Orders
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current and/or expected position regarding residency status and eligibility for naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied) in...
- Naturalisation Applications
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current position regarding residency status/eligibility for naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he...
- Passport Applications
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the children of persons (details supplied) in County Meath will qualify for an Irish passport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9469/13]
- Subsidiary Protection Applications
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the progress made to date and future entitlement of eligibility for naturalisation in the case of persons (details supplied) in Dublin 15; if he has...
- Naturalisation Applications
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding determination of eligibility for naturalisation in the case of persons (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will...
- Residency Permits
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding determination of residency status and/or eligibility for naturalisation in the case of persons (details supplied) in County...
- Department of Defence
- Defence Forces Operations
To ask the Minister for Defence the position regarding the changing of policy in relation to NATO and the use of troops in Mali and Afghanistan. [9344/13]
- Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
- Food Safety Authority Inspections
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the range of tests, if any, carried out on meat imports to ensure food safety in human food, in the past year; and if he will make a...
- Beef Technology Adoption Programme
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive their BTAP 2012 outstanding payment; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Agri-Environment Options Scheme Application Numbers
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a decision has been made on an application to be included in the agri-environment options scheme in respect of a person (details...
- Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment will issue on an agri-environment options scheme 2012 application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County...
- Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the disadvantaged area payment will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement...
- Beef Technology Adoption Programme
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the €1,000 beef production grant will be paid in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; and if he will make a...
- Animal Diseases
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a calf has BVD, if there is any compensation for that calf; if the mother of a calf who has BVD is proven to have BVD herself is there...
- Direct Payment Scheme Applications
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine based on a provision of €1.213bn per annum for direct payments under pillar 1 of the CAP 2014-2020, the amount that would be paid...
- Commonage Division
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when final vesting will take place in relation to a commonage (details supplied) in County Galway; if any outstanding issues remain to be...
- Forestry Grants
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if farmers who planted land and are at the end of their 20 years for payment and, subsequent to that allows the forestry to mature and...
- Department of Children and Youth Affairs
- Health Services
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the position regarding access and well being in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5 [9342/13]
- Youth Services
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount of funding she proposes to allocated for youth cafes in 2013; when this funding will be allocated; to which youth cafes this funding...
- Child and Family Support Agency
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will outline the legal status of the interim arrangements between the Health Service Executive and the new Child and Family Support...
- Department of Health
- Abortion Services
To ask the Minister for Health his views on a statement (details supplied) in relation to planned abortion legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9515/13]
- Health Service Executive Properties
To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of estimated costs for a project (details supplied) in County Louth; if he will indicate the successful contractor for the work; and...
- Health Service Executive Staff
To ask the Minister for Health his plans to ensure that there are enough graduate intern positions for all graduate doctors in July 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9287/13]
- Graduate Statistics
To ask the Minister for Health the number of graduates there are from Irish medical schools in any given year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9291/13]
- Drug Treatment Programmes
To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline his policy towards the estimated 10,000 methadone users here; if more funding will be allocated to the small number of non-profit organisations...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
To ask the Minister for Health the number of consultant neurologists currently at Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9; the number of persons on the waiting list to see the consultant; the average waiting...
- Prescription Charges
To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider certain exemptions from the increased prescriptions charges, particularly for vulnerable groups such as asylum seekers, older persons and...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
To ask the Minister for Health when an appointment will be provided for a person (details supplied) in County Cork to enable a skin graft procedure to be carried out; and if he will make a...
- Health Services
To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide clarity on the Health Service Executive's long term plans for rehabilitation services in Navan, County Meath; and if he will make a statement on...
- Drug Treatment Programmes
To ask the Minister for Health the plans he has to tackle the problem of drug and alcohol addiction in counties Louth and Meath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9329/13]
- Medical Card Review
To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting time for medical reviews on medical card applications for first time applicants, renewals and appeals; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Medical Card Delays
To ask the Minister for Health if he intends taking any action to reduce the length of time it takes for a medical review for medical card applications; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Medical Aids and Appliances
To ask the Minister for Health if he will commit to ensuring a specific timeframe is given for the provision of bilateral cochlear implants for children, particularly for children who already...
- Treatment Abroad Scheme
To ask the Minister for Health if he will arrange for the processing of an application for a valid E112 card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Offaly; and if he will make a...
- Mental Health Services
To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) in Dublin 15 will receive an appointment with the child and adolescent mental health services; the reason for the delay; and if he...
- Health Services
To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a facility (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9384/13]
- Health Service Executive Properties
To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a facility (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9385/13]
- Health Services
To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a facility (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9386/13]
- Hospital Services
To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a facility (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9387/13]
- Health Services
To ask the Minister for Health the benefits of revenue for a facility (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9388/13]
- Food Safety Authority Investigations
To ask the Minister for Health his views on the possibility of horse meat contaminated with the substance known as Bute having entered the food chain here; the potential harmful effects of...
- Hospital Services
To ask the Minister for Health if patients from the Connemara area and the Aran Islands are being referred to Portiuncula Hospital in Ballinasloe for routine MRI scans and other procedures; the...
- Water Fluoridation
To ask the Minister for Health if he will document the public moneys spent on fluoridation of the water supply between 2006 and 2012 inclusive. [9426/13]
- Medical Card Applications
To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the refusal of a medical card application in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Hospital Services
To ask the Minister for Health if an arrangement will be made whereby a person (details supplied) in County Kildare will be admitted urgently for appropriate treatment; and if he will make a...
- Health Services
To ask the Minister for Health if and when a psychological report will be made available in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Autism Incidence
To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether rates of autism are on the rise; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9482/13]
- Speech and Language Therapy
To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 261 of 29 November 2012, if he will provide details of the numbers on waiting lists in respect of assessment and treatment for...
- Drug Treatment Programmes
To ask the Minister for Health the amount allocated and the outturn in respect of local schemes that is drugs schemes in each of the past five years with a breakdown by its constituent parts [9491/13]
- Departmental Strategies
To ask the Minister for Health the reasons for the delay in the development of a national sexual health strategy and his target month in 2013 for the publication of same [9492/13]
- Departmental Expenditure
To ask the Minister for Health the cost to his Department of medical cards issued for each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9505/13]
- General Medical Services Scheme
To ask the Minister for Health the amount paid to general practitioners for each medical card patient they treat for each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- Driving Licences
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the potential losses that will be made to the retail photography ID sector due to the National Driver...
- Tourism Statistics
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total number of tourists that visited here arising from the visit of cruise ships to ports here in 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012; the number...
- Anti-Social Behaviour
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of calls that Irish Rail received on its hotline to report anti-social behaviour in Dart and rail stations for the years 2010,...
- National Car Test
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has plans to scrap the annual National Car Test for cars more than six years old; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9324/13]
- Sports Capital Programme
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the 2013 sports grants programme will be allocated and announced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9371/13]
- Road Safety
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in the interest of safety if he will arrange for four lights to be erected at the junction of the R569 and the N22 Kilarney/Cork road; and if...
- Taxi Industry
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will meet with representatives of the taxi drivers union as soon as possible to discuss their concerns; and if he will make a statement...
- Dublin Airport Authority
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will contact the Dublin Airport Authority and express his concern in relation to new contracts of employment being issued on...
- Rural Transport
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is drawing up plans to scrap the rural transport network and replace it with a scheme under the control of county councils; the measures...
