Written answers
Wednesday, 27 February 2013
- Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
- Proposed Legislation
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when he intends to action the 2011 Programme for Government commitment to legislate for a reformulated code of laws, replacing both the...
- Public Procurement Tenders
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform in view of the National Procurement Service Annual Survey's 2012 acknowledgement that the challenges facing micro enterprises include...
- Public Service Reform Plan Measures
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will specifically outline the way the interests of the citizen user of public services are included in framing the reform objectives of...
- Capital Expenditure Programme
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the progress he expects to be made in 2013 on the implementation of the stimulus plan announced in July 2012; the number of jobs that will be...
- Croke Park Agreement Negotiations
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the position regarding the negotiations with the public sector unions on a successor to the Croke Park Agreement; and if he will make a...
- Public Sector Recruitment
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of posts that have been filled in the public sector since the beginning of the moratorium on recruitment; if he will provide...
- Public Sector Remuneration
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the saving to the Exchequer if all annual public sector pay, to include local authorities and State agencies, was capped at €100,000....
- Public Procurement Regulations
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will confirm if National Procurement Service contracts are now mandatory for all local public sector contract procurement; and if so,...
- Public Sector Pensions Expenditure
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the savings he envisages from the single public service pension scheme which came into effect on 1 January 2013; the timetable over which...
- Flood Prevention Measures
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the steps being taken to address flood risks within the Shannon basin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10263/13]
- Expenditure Reviews
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent to which cost cutting targets set by his predecessors in the context of the Memorandum of Understanding have been met to date; if...
- Public Sector Remuneration
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to assemble key data on high payscales in the public and private sectors such as through a new high pay commission; and if he will...
- Public Procurement Tenders
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his attention has been drawn to the concerns raised by the school supply sector who believe their businesses cannot survive if excluded...
- Departmental Staff Recruitment
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will outline the numbers and cost of agency staff under the aegis of his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Commercial Rates Valuation Process
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update in the revaluations process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10191/13]
- Public Sector Remuneration
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will ensure that there are no further pay cuts imposed on low and middle income public sector workers. [10303/13]
- State Agencies
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the savings achieved to date from the rationalisation and elimination of State agencies; the additional savings expected in 2013; and if he...
- Public Sector Pensions
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the saving to the Exchequer if he imposed public service pension reduction bands (details supplied) to all public sector pensions, including...
- State Agencies
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the steps he will take to prevent the establishment of new State agencies and quangos; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10411/13]
- Construction Contracts Bill
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will consider, as part of the Construction Contracts Bill, a project bank account system, which was previously proposed by this Deputy...
- Public Sector Remuneration
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide in tabular form the saving to the Exchequer if public sector increments were withdrawn for all pay under €50,000,...
- Budget 2014
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the changes he plans to the budgetary process and timetable for Budget 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10388/13]
- Freedom of Information Legislation
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he intends consulting with the Information Commissioner in relation to those State agencies and or bodies which may excluded from the...
- Croke Park Agreement Implementation
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on whether the volume and quality of services delivered to the public will be improved as a result of the outcome of the Croke Park...
- Exchequer Savings
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the gross and net savings in each of the next three years from the targeted redundancy scheme in the public service; and if he will make a...
- Public Sector Remuneration
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the proportion of the €1 billion cuts to public sector pay and pensions sought by him over the next three years that must come through...
- Small and Medium Enterprises Supports
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is encouraging small and medium enterprises to form consortiums when bidding for larger public procurement contracts; and in such...
- Departmental Legal Costs
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is seeking further reductions in legal costs incurred by the State across all Departments and State bodies; and if he will make a...
- Public Procurement Contracts Social Clause
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has progressed the inclusion of a social clause in public sector procurement contracts. [10438/13]
- Coillte Teoranta Harvesting Rights Sale
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on his plans to sell Coillte's timber harvesting rights; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10367/13]
- Semi-State Bodies Remuneration
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on whether there should be reductions in salaries for high earning officials in the commercial semi state sector; and if he will...
- Public Sector Staff Redundancies
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the discussions he has had with trade union representatives and other groups in respect of his proposed programme of targeted redundancies in...
- Public Sector Staff Issues
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the percentage of clerical officers across the public service that are women. [10441/13]
- National Lottery Licence Sale
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of initial expressions of interest in the National Lottery licence that have been received; the prospective date on which the...
- Public Procurement Tenders
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the measures he has introduced since March 2011 that have improved public procurement practices by removing obstacles and encouraging the...
- Sale of State Assets
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the proceeds from the sale of State assets will be available for investment in the economy; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Coastal Erosion
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his attention has been drawn to any studies or surveys in the County Cork area identifying the threat to farmland from coastal erosion;...
- Office of Public Works Properties
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a list of all properties for which the State has a long term rental agreement. [10427/13]
- Croke Park Agreement Issues
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the latest date by which he expects the Croke Park talks to be concluded with the outcome approved by all sides; when implementation of the...
- Public Sector Remuneration
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the action he will take to protect the current pay arrangements for prison officers. [10440/13]
- Communications Mast Issues
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the implications that the closure of Garda stations will have upon the ownership and operation of any telecommunications masts which are...
- Public Procurement Tenders
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide details of the measures he has introduced that encourage buyers to break contracts into lots. [10434/13]
- Appointments to State Boards
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has included gender parity for the board membership as part of his reforming agenda of the State agency sector. [10442/13]
- Public Sector Reform Review
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has estimated the deflationary impact on the economy that will result in cutting the pay and premia of public sector workers; and if he...
- Coillte Teoranta Harvesting Rights Sale
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on a report commissioned by Impact, entitled Assessment of the Consequences of the Proposed Sale of Coillte’s Timber...
- Construction Contracts Bill
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his strategy for supporting construction subcontractors; the progress that has been made in this strategy; and if he will make a statement on...
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Departmental Staff
To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of public sector workers who have retired in the last three years within his Department or any Office/Body under his...
- Department of Finance
- Illicit Trade in Tobacco
To ask the Minister for Finance the measures he is taking to ensure a clampdown on the illicit tobacco trade. [10463/13]
- Property Taxation Exemptions
To ask the Minister for Finance if a person with multiple sclerosis who had a house built to their specific needs will be exempt from paying the property tax; and if he will make a statement on...
- Disabled Passengers
To ask the Minister for Finance if he will reconsider the application for a Primary Medical Certificate for the purpose of Section 92 of the Finance Act 1989 and the Disabled Passengers (Tax...
- Illicit Trade in Tobacco
To ask the Minister for Finance if he has any indicative figures of the potential loss of excise duty from the sale of tobacco illicitly. [10464/13]
- IBRC Liquidation
To ask the Minister for Finance following the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Act and the appointment of a special liquidator to resolve IBRC's balance sheets, the way the liquidator will deal...
- Legislative Process
To ask the Minister for Finance if he will identify all non-Government parties which contribute to the drafting of the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Bill 2013. [10503/13]
- Ministerial Meetings
To ask the Minister for Finance the recent contacts he had had with Mario Draghi, President of the ECB. [2376/13]
- Sale of State Assets
To ask the Minister for Finance the number of external consultants currently engaged by his Department providing advice in respect of the proposed sale of State assets; and if he will make a...
- Promissory Note Negotiations
To ask the Minister for Finance if he proposes to discuss the promissory note at the next EU Council meeting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2300/13]
- Ministerial Meetings
To ask the Minister for Finance the recent contacts he has had with European Commissioner Ollie Rehn. [2375/13]
- Banking Sector Regulation
To ask the Minister for Finance the progress there has been at EU Council meetings on tightening banking regulation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2380/13]
- Unemployment Levels
To ask the Minister for Finance following Budget 2013, the level of unemployment forecast for the end of year 2013. [3247/13]
- Tax Code
To ask the Minister for Finance his views that businesses operating in the domestic economy would benefit from effective tax rates as being paid by multinationals in this State. [3227/13]
- Small and Medium Enterprises Supports
To ask the Minister for Finance the steps he is taking to deal with the issue of debt overhang that is impacting on the small and medium sized enterprise sector. [3223/13]
- Maternity Benefit
To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated number of women affected by changes to maternity benefit in Budget 2013, broken down by county; the estimated amount saved; and if he will make a...
- Additional Voluntary Contributions
To ask the Minister for Finance if he has considered introducing legislation to allow indebted persons with supplementary private pension coverage early access to a proportion of their retirement...
- Property Taxation Application
To ask the Minister for Finance the communications he has had with local authorities regarding the impact of the property tax on local authority housing; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Fuel Rebate Scheme
To ask the Minister for Finance if he supports the extension of the fuel rebate for hauliers announced in Budget 2013 to bus and coach operators; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Small and Medium Enterprises Supports
To ask the Minister for Finance his views that the pillar banks are fulfilling their obligations to the small and medium enterprise sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9087/13]
- Job Initiatives
To ask the Minister for Finance the number of jobs that would be created by an annual €1 billion enterprise stimulus; the multiplier effect this investment would have on the economy and...
- Sale of State Assets
To ask the Minister for Finance the steps taken to engage with as wide a range of potential purchasers as possible prior to the sale of Irish Life to Great West Lifeco to ensure the maximum...
- NAMA Operations
To ask the Minister for Finance if he intends to increase or in any other way supplement the membership and resources of the National Asset Management Agency advisory board to reflect the...
- IBRC Liquidation
To ask the Minister for Finance the reason all the fixed term deposits related to investment products sold by Anglo Irish Bank were not transferred to AIB at the time of the sale of its deposit...
- House Purchase Schemes
To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether banks are responding adequately to the demand for credit from first time house buyers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10642/13]
- NAMA Portfolio
To ask the Minister for Finance further to the announcement by the National Asset Management Agency on 21 February 2013 that it expects to realise about €750 million by reversing asset...
- Data Protection
To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update on the Data Protection Commissioner investigation of the alleged unauthorised removal of confidential data by a former employee of the...
- Carbon Tax Exemptions
To ask the Minister for Finance if he will amend the Finance Act 2013 to ensure that all registered agricultural contractors and FCI member contractors will be entitled to claim carbon tax relief...
- Economic Statistics
To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide, in tabular form, the annual figures on gross capital information here between the years 2000 and 2012 or up to as recently as such figures are...
- Customs Cutters
To ask the Minister for Finance if he will outline the role of the two Customs Cutters; the number of seizures and value of same made by those Cutters in 2010, 2011 and 2012; the costs associated...
- Official Engagements
To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on discussions held with EU Finance Ministers in Davos, Switzerland, on 24 January; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5484/13]
- Gas Exploration
To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on the declared profits from Kinsale Gas since its commencement; the total tax take to the State and the effective tax rate; if he will provide a...
- Departmental Staff Numbers
To ask the Minister for Finance the number of agency and contract staff currently employed under the aegis of his Department; the mechanism in place for monitoring and managing the associated...
- Department of Education and Skills
- Residential Institutions Redress Scheme
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the basis on which St. Patrick's Mother and Baby Home, Navan Road, Dublin was added to the institutions covered by the Residential Institutions...
- School Accommodation
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will ensure that a grant for prefab rental to a school (details supplied) in County Kerry is not withdrawn in Summer 2013. [10454/13]
- Schools Building Projects Applications
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary that has applied for large scale capital funding; the timeframe for completion...
- Student Grant Scheme Applications
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when payment of a student grant award from Student Universal Support Ireland will be made to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he...
- Student Grant Scheme Appeals
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reasons for the on-going delay in processing a student grant appeal application in respect of a person (details supplied) with Student Universal...
- School Staffing
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will reverse a decision to remove a resource teaching post for the 2013/2014 school year at a school (details supplied) in County Kerry; if he...
- Student Grant Scheme Appeals
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a Student Universal Support Ireland appeal in respect of a person (details supplied). [10549/13]
- Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a student on back to school allowance is entitled to apply to Student Universal Support Ireland for grant assistance and is there any other scheme...
- School Accommodation
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when action will be taken in respect of the future accommodation needs of a school (details supplied) in Dublin 24; if he appreciates the local...
- School Transport Provision
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the action he will take to ensure that Bus Éireann provides an adequate school bus service from Knocksedan to Swords Manor taking into account...
- Student Grant Scheme Payments
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a third level student grant will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Longford; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Departmental Staff Numbers
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of agency and contract staff currently employed under the aegis of his Department; the mechanism in place for monitoring and managing the...
- Departmental Staff
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of public sector workers who have retired in the last three years within his Department or any Office/Body under his aegis that have been...
- Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
- Departmental Staff Redeployment
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will outline the public services procedure, terms and conditions for offering employees access to the redeployment scheme; and if he...
- Croke Park Agreement Issues
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if in the context of cost cutting throughout the public sector arising from the Memorandum of Understanding entered into by his predecessors,...
- Departmental Staff Retirements
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of persons that have left the public service in each of the past five years to date either by way of natural retirement or...
- Public Sector Reform Implementation
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the Government Department or bodies under their aegis that have shown the least progress in terms of public sector reform in the past five...
- Sale of State Assets
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent to which the sale of State assets is proposed as a means of achieving budgetary targets in the coming year; if any such sales will...
- Departmental Expenditure
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent to which insurance and procurement costs can be adjusted with a view to the maximisation of benefit and budgetary reduction for...
- Planning Issues
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will expedite the transaction with Kerry County Council regarding provision of a site for proposed new cemetery on the grounds of the...
- Flooding Issues
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the funding available for homes that are flooded due to river flooding through the Office of Public Works; and if he will make a statement on...
- Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
- Employment Rights
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if a person (details supplied) in County Cork will be paid moneys by their former employer following a ruling by the employment appeals...
- Job Expansion Fund
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the position regarding financial assistance for employers who wish to take on new employees; the assistance available to help them to take...
- Departmental Staff Numbers
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of agency and contract staff currently employed under the aegis of his Department; the mechanism in place for monitoring and...
- Departmental Staff
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of public sector workers who have retired in the last three years within his Department or any Office/Body under his aegis that...
- Department of Social Protection
- Youth Unemployment Measures
To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to address youth unemployment in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10682/13]
- Job Initiatives
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the plans she has in place to address long-term unemployment in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10686/13]
- Social Welfare Appeals Status
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reasons for the disparity in the decision of the appeals officer to disallow an appeal in respect of a person (details supplied), while the appeal of...
- Rent Supplement Scheme Applications
To ask the Minister for Social Protection if urgent attention and assistance can be given to a rent allowance claimant (details supplied) in Dublin 15;; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Means-tested Schemes
To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 415 of 12 February 2013, if she will compile and provide an approximate estimate of the cost per annum of means...
- Invalidity Pension Appeals
To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision on an invalidity pension will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10512/13]
- Disability Allowance Applications
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding the refusal of application for disability allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make...
- Rural Social Scheme
To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans for the rural social scheme for 2013 and 2014; if she will provide a guarantee that this scheme will be continued in its current form. [10533/13]
- Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals
To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will issue on an appeal for domiciliary care allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; the delay in processing...
- Job Initiatives
To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will assure participants on jobs initiative programmes that there is no change to the programme; her views on the future of the scheme; the...
- Family Income Supplement Applications
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an application for family income supplement in respect of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
- One-Parent Family Payment Appeals
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the progress made to date in the determination of an application for one parent family payment in the case of a person (details supplied) in County...
- Departmental Correspondence
To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she has dealt with correspondence dated 18 January 2013 from the South Dublin County Partnership, raising concerns regarding the Tús programme;...
- Community Employment Schemes Review
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the financial consideration that is given to community employment scheme sponsors that entered contracts with suppliers prior to the reduction of the...
- Community Employment Schemes Funding
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the criteria under which a community employment scheme sponsor may qualify for a top-up materials grant, as announced by her in 2012. [10684/13]
- Community Employment Schemes Review
To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will give consideration to any measure which could reduce the cost currently c. €1,500 of annual audits to community employment scheme...
- Unemployment Levels
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the unemployment level in Newcastle West, Kilmallock and Limerick City in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013. [10687/13]
- Community Employment Schemes Funding
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the provisions being made for community employment scheme sponsors to avail of assistance in meeting the cost of rent of premises; her views on whether...
- Departmental Staff Numbers
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of agency and contract staff currently employed under the aegis of her Department; the mechanism in place for monitoring and managing the...
- Departmental Staff
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of public sector workers who have retired in the last three years within her Department or any Office/Body under her aegis that have been...
- Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
- Heritage Council Funding
To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide an update regarding the inequitable cuts to the Heritage Council which have resulted in grants programme not being...
- Hedge Cutting Season
To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will extend the hedge cutting season to allow farmers cut their hedges (details supplied). [10474/13]
- Íocaíochtaí Deontas
To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an ndéanfaidh sé liosta a sholáthar de na hirisí agus de na nuachtáin a fuair cúnamh deontais ó Roinn...
- Departmental Staff Numbers
To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of agency and contract staff currently employed under the aegis of his Department; the mechanism in place for monitoring and...
- Departmental Staff
To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of public sector workers who have retired in the last three years within his Department or any Office/Body under his aegis that...
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Energy Schemes
To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the reasons an insulation grant was refused by Sustainable Energy Ireland to a person (details supplied) in County Limerick....
- Oil and Gas Installations Regulation
To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he intends to establish a registration scheme for oil installers and service technicians, similar to RGII, which regulates...
- Renewable Energy Incentives
To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources in the interests of sustainability and the development of renewable energy, the incentives that exist or are proposed, that...
- Renewable Energy Generation
To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources what the micro-generators of renewable energy infrastructure, both domestic and commercial, may expect for price per KWH unit...
- Energy Schemes
To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if the energy efficiency fund can potentially be accessed by local authorities to allow them secure alternative sustainable...
- Departmental Staff Numbers
To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of agency and contract staff currently employed under the aegis of his Department; the mechanism in place for...
- Departmental Staff
To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of public sector workers who have retired in the last three years within his Department or any Office/Body under...
- Departmental Staff Numbers
To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will outline the numbers and cost of agency staff under the aegis of his Department; and if he will make a statement on...
- Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
- Local Authority Housing Repossessions
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of houses repossessed by each local authority in 2011 and 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10458/13]
- Social and Affordable Housing Expenditure
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the total cost of social housing leasing initiatives for the years 2011 and 2012 respectively; and the projected cost for 2013....
- Planning Issues
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the options open to him to initiate an investigation into a planning decision by a local authority or An Bord Pleanála...
- Local Authority Services
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will contact the management of South Dublin County Council and offer assistance to the council in the quest for funding...
- Compulsory Purchase Orders
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the date on which he will publish the second investigation report into the compulsory purchase order at a location (details...
- Property Taxation Exemptions
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the list of houses in certain unfinished developments has been finalised for the local property tax yet; the way the estates...
- Water Meters
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that one of the conditions for inclusion on the subcontractor panel for water...
- Departmental Staff Numbers
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of agency and contract staff currently employed under the aegis of his Department; the mechanism in place for...
- Departmental Staff
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of public sector workers who have retired in the last three years within his Department or any Office/Body under his...
- Department of Justice and Equality
- Garda Investigations
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update on the Garda Síochána investigation of the alleged unauthorised removal of confidential data by a former...
- Criminal Law
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will consider introducing reforms to the area of public prosecutions to facilitate plea bargaining by those considered to have committed a...
- Business Regulation
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the efforts he has undertaken to reduce service costs such as legal on business. [3242/13]
- Equality Issues
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his views regarding section 37 of the Employment Equality Act and section 7(3)(c) of the Equal Status Act 2000, as to whether they are the cause of...
- Visa Applications
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update on the application for a partnership visa in respect of a person (details supplied); the average timeframe for a review...
- Gambling Legislation
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the monetary limits in respect of stake and payout set out in the Gaming and Lotteries Act 1956 will be amended by way of statutory instrument or...
- Magdalen Laundries Issues
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the Magdalen Laundry redress mechanism will be placed on a statutory footing. [10700/13]
- Financial Services Regulation
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to reform the statute of limitations so that claims can be made against financial institutions that mis-sold financial products. [10722/13]
- Departmental Staff
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of public sector workers who have retired in the last three years within his Department or any Office/Body under his aegis that have been...
- Department of Defence
- Defence Forces Personnel
To ask the Minister for Defence if he will address the concerns regarding the Army Medical Corps raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10452/13]
- Departmental Staff Numbers
To ask the Minister for Defence the number of agency and contract staff currently employed under the aegis of his Department; the mechanism in place for monitoring and managing the associated...
- Departmental Staff
To ask the Minister for Defence the number of public sector workers who have retired in the last three years within his Department or any Office/Body under his aegis that have been re-instated;...
- Departmental Staff Numbers
To ask the Minister for Defence if he will outline the numbers and cost of agency staff under the aegis of his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11060/13]
- Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
- Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding a disadvantaged area scheme 2012 payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will...
- Horticulture Sector
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there will be a grant scheme for horticulture, including mushrooms, for 2014 following the close of the NDP funded scheme. [10473/13]
- Suckler Welfare Scheme Applications
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied) in County Clare has not been facilitated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10487/13]
- Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding an agri-environment options scheme payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if he...
- Food Labelling
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will take steps, at Irish and EU level, to ensure, in view of the current food packaging crisis, that processed meat products,...
- Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for the delay in issuing an agri environment option scheme payment to a person (details provided) in County Cork [10635/13]
- Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Applications
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding an application for disadvantaged area scheme in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon. [10666/13]
- Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for the delay in the issuing of disadvantaged area and single farm payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County...
- Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Applications
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Galway will be issued payment under the 2012 disadvantaged area scheme; the reasons for the...
- Agri-Environment Options Scheme Application Numbers
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding farm payments in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10731/13]
- Departmental Staff Numbers
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of agency and contract staff currently employed under the aegis of his Department; the mechanism in place for monitoring and...
- Departmental Staff
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of public sector workers who have retired in the last three years within his Department or any Office/Body under his aegis that...
- Department of Children and Youth Affairs
- Foster Care Policy
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide an update on the rules regarding the age that children leave foster care (details supplied); and if she will make a...
- Foster Care Provision
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the action she is taking on foot of the Health Information and Quality Authority report inspection of the Health Service Executive Dublin North...
- Foster Care Policy
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 572 of 22 January 2013, the target date for the finalisation of a national register of foster parents who...
- Departmental Staff Numbers
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of agency and contract staff currently employed under the aegis of her Department; the mechanism in place for monitoring and managing...
- Departmental Staff
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of public sector workers who have retired in the last three years within herDepartment or any Office/Body under her aegis that have...
- Department of Health
- Health Insurance Regulation
To ask the Minister for Health his plans to make a capital injection into the VHI this year to comply with the ruling of the EU Commission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10638/13]
- Croke Park Agreement Review
To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which the context of the review of the Croke Park Agreement or other discussions, it might have been found possible to identify the needs of public...
- Ambulance Service
To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding future plans for the Kerry Ambulance Service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10459/13]
- Tobacco Control Measures
To ask the Minister for Health the percentage of population that smoke; the percentage of under 25 year olds who smoke; the reduction in the percentage of persons that smoke following the...
- Hospitals Capital Programme
To ask the Minister for Health the reason the acute hospital budget for hospitals in the south east is significantly lower than the budgets in all other regions which stands at just €565...
- Health Services
To ask the Minister for Health the amount per year that has been allocated by the special delivery unit in each year since it was set up; the amount that remains to be allocated; and if he will...
- Symphysiotomy Report
To ask the Minister for Health if he will support the survivors of symphysiotomy in 2013 in obtaining justice for the suffering the survivors have endured (details supplied); and if he will make...
- Health Services
To ask the Minister for Health the efforts being made to develop clear clinical pathways for people living with chronic pain; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10516/13]
- Drugs Payment Scheme
To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 676 and 692, under the DPS scheme, no individual or family pays more than €144 per calendar month towards the cost of...
- Prescription Charges
To ask the Minister for Health if patients are entitled to request a quarterly prescription from their general practitioner; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10658/13]
- Primary Care Centres
To ask the Minister for Health the progress being made with regard to the provision of a Primary Health Centre in Rowlagh, Dublin 22; if a site has yet been identified for this centre; if any...
- Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
To ask the Minister for Health if he will supply a more suitable wheelchair to a person (details supplied) in County Longford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10690/13]
- Hospital Waiting Lists
To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be called for an MRSI scan at the Midlands Regional Hospital, Tullamore, County Offaly or Mullingar, County Westmeath; and if...
- Departmental Staff Numbers
To ask the Minister for Health the number of agency and contract staff currently employed under the aegis of his Department; the mechanism in place for monitoring and managing the associated...
- Departmental Staff
To ask the Minister for Health the number of public sector workers who have retired in the last three years within his Department or any Office/Body under his aegis that have been re-instated; if...
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- Sports Capital Programme Applications
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reasons an application for funding under the sports capital grant could be made invalid; where these conditions are published; the way an...
- Public Transport
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will return the maximum numbers of carriages on the DART at peak times (details supplied). [10553/13]
- Sports Capital Programme Applications
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the next sports capital programme will open for applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10659/13]
- Road Network
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to proceed with the Newlands Cross upgrade; the schedule to be followed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10671/13]
- Driving Licences
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 791 of 19 February 2013, if he will establish with the Road Safety Authority the tendering process which...
- Road Network
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the proposed N4 Mullingar to Longford, Roosky, motorway project; the consultants engaged for the project; if...
- Departmental Staff
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of public sector workers who have retired in the last three years within his Department or any Office/Body under his aegis that...
