Written answers

Tuesday, 26 March 2013

  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Rural Development Programme
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of money spent broken down between EU funding and national funding under each heading of the current 2007-2013 rural...
    • Food Labelling
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to ensure that food processors and transfers are obliged in future to report the results of tests that they conduct themselves...
    • Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his proposal on internal convergence is still on the table for the Common Agriculture Policy negotiations; if this proposal has been...
    • District Veterinary Offices
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide an outline of his plans regarding the consolidation of district veterinary offices across the country; and if he will...
    • Single Payment Scheme Expenditure
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he intends to propose as President of the Council of Ministers of the EU that each country will have the flexibility to put a national...
    • Food Labelling
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he supports the proposal to introduce new legislation, in view of the food contamination cases, to tighten up traceability and country...
    • Harbour Authority Properties
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his timetable for the introduction of paid parking charges in Howth Harbour, Dublin 13, and if he will reconsider his decision not to meet...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Application Numbers
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the new agri environment option scheme programme will commence; when farmers will be informed whether their applications have been...
    • Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the redistributive payment proposal from the French Government and a similar proposal included in the Council of Minister...
    • Grant Payments
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers with stacked entitlements for single payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14654/13]
    • Farm Improvement Scheme
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of money allocated to the farm improvement scheme since 2007; the spend to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on whether farmers on poorer heavier hill and or mountain land who are producing to the best of their ability and the land...
    • Proposed Legislation
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to amend the legislation under which aquaculture licences are granted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14730/13]
    • Grant Payments
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if farmers with stacked payments will be able to carry these forward into the new Common Agricultural Policy 2014-2020; if he is in favour...
    • Horse Passports
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he intends to introduce a unitary registration system for horses; if all change of ownership will have to be registered on this system;...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers that have not yet been paid their 2011/2012 agri environment option scheme 1 and AEOS payments and the percentage in...
    • Live Exports
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has had discussions with shippers, operating out of Dublin and Dún Laoghaire to ports in Wales and England, in relation to the...
    • Dairy Sector
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if in view of the milking cycle of farming he has asked the EU to agree to abolish dairy quotas from the 1 of January 2013 rather than the...
    • Aquaculture Development
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the policy directions given to Foras na Mara by him or his Department in relation to research on the development of aquaculture; and if he...
    • Milk Quota Purchases
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he intends to address the current legal situation in regulations 9 and 10 of 227/2208 which allows milk quota to be sold without land...
    • Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the current position in relation to the Common Agriculture Policy negotiations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14644/13]
    • Forestry Sector
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the forest service has produced any reports in relation to its remit in overseeing Coillte; if so, if he will provide these reports; if...
    • Common Fisheries Policy Negotiations
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress made in the negotiations on the Common Fisheries Policy to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14663/13]
    • Food Safety Standards Regulation
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of complaints made to his Department since March 2011 regarding possible irregularities in the horse slaughtering business; if...
    • Common Agricultural Policy Reform
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the discussions to date as part of Common Agricultural Policy reform to ensure price stability and a fair return to primary producers are...
    • Single Payment Scheme Payments
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers not yet paid their single payment for 2012; the number paid; the percentage paid broken down on a county basis; and...
    • Common Agricultural Policy Reform
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is satisfied that the steps taken to date in the context of Common Agricultural Policy reform are adequate to ensure the future...
    • Forestry Sector
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the upcoming meetings he is scheduled to attend in relation to the proposed sale of Coillte's harvesting rights; and if he will make a...
    • Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the co-financed Exchequer funding that will be required to fully drawdown EU funding under the rural development plan (pillar 2) in the...
    • Animal Breeding Regulations
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason he has withdrawn, without notification or consultation with stakeholders, the 2007 Hen Harrier Management Protocol; and if he...
    • Food Safety Standards Regulation
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the names of the meat slaughtering and processing plants that have had their licences to operate suspended; if this is temporary or...
    • Food Labelling
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if unilaterally or in conjunction with his EU colleagues, it has been found possible to put in place accurate and authentic labelling to...
    • Fish Quotas
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will introduce the prohibition of pair trawling for herring, sprat and bass within a 12 mile radius of our coastline in order to...
    • Rural Environment Protection Schemes
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers currently in the rural environment protection scheme 4 and the agri environment schemes 1 and 2 schemes; the number...
    • Food Labelling
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the proposed regulatory or legislative changes arising from the recent horse meat scandal; when it is proposed to make such changes; and...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers that were written to in relation to their 2012 disadvantaged payments under the stocking density rule; the number...
    • Forestry Sector
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide assurances that the open access policy currently in operation on the Coillte Estates will remain unchanged for the...
    • Rural Environment Protection Scheme Payments
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the numbers of farmers who have not being paid their REP scheme 4 payments for 2012; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Application Numbers
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers who applied under the disadvantaged areas payment scheme for 2012; the number who have received their payments; the...
    • Commonage Division
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding the revised commonage plans; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14661/13]
    • Coillte Teoranta Harvesting Rights Sale
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will report on any meetings he has attended in relation to the proposed sale of Coillte's harvesting rights; and if he will make a...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Eligibility
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he intends increasing the number of places on the agri-environment option scheme 3 scheme to cover all eligible applicants; and if he...
    • Job Statistics
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will detail the employment levels in the meat processing sector and the value of processed meat exports. [9062/13]
    • Job Retention
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of jobs under threat as a result of the recent horse meat/food safety scandal; and the steps being taken to safeguard jobs in...
    • Single Payment Scheme Payments
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his position on the question of front loading of single farm payments to protect the livelihood of the 70% of farmers who receive less...
    • Sugar Quotas Abolition
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will be supporting as President of the Council of Ministers, the abolition of sugar quotas; the current position in relation to this...
    • Animal Slaughtering Numbers
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of lambs and sheep from Northern Ireland and Britain respectively that have been slaughtered in factories in this jurisdiction...
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Undocumented Irish in the USA
      To ask the Taoiseach if he discussed the plight of the undocumented Irish in the US with President Obama and senior American politicians during his visit to Washington; if any progress was made;...
    • Information and Communications Technology Issues
      To ask the Taoiseach the progress made within his Department on phasing out the use of LoCall 1890 numbers that can be extremely expensive when dialled from mobile phones and introducing 076...
    • Presidential Reports
      To ask the Taoiseach if he received a copy of the Being Young and Irish – Take Charge of Change report from the Office of the President, Áras an Uachtaráin as part of President...
    • Public Sector Remuneration
      To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide in tabular form a breakdown of the annual saving to the public sector pay bill in non-commercial State agency pay were capped at €100,000. [15970/13]
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Diplomatic Representation
      To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has made representations regarding the detention and treatment of Bahraini nationals by their own Government, in...
  • Department of Finance
    • Living City Initiative
      To ask the Minister for Finance if he has considered the way small to medium traders who rent premises adjacent to or in historic quarters could participate in the Living City Initiative; and if...
    • Departmental Staff Numbers
      To ask the Minister for Finance if he will guarantee that the core clerical officers who will now need to be redeployed within or from Revenue, following the recent Conciliation and Arbitration...
    • Tax Reliefs Application
      To ask the Minister for Finance if he will address the concerns raised in correspondence (details supplied) regarding the reimbursement of medical expenses; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Retail Sector
      To ask the Minister for Finance if it is possible to ascertain the profits earned by foreign retailers operating here; and if he will distinguish between the element that remains here and that...
    • Home Repossession Rate
      To ask the Minister for Finance if any consideration has been given to the extension by banks of the moratorium on repossessions to a period longer than 12 months; and if he will make a statement...
    • Banking Sector Remuneration
      To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update on the Mercer Report and his response to that report and if he will take into account the extra workload that staff have taken due to...
    • Bank Deposits Levy
      To ask the Minister for Finance in view of the statement by his Department welcoming the Cypriot bailout, if he will outline the elements he welcomes and if it includes the levy on small...
    • Mortgage Arrears Proposals
      To ask the Minister for Finance if he will ensure that the residential mortgage customers of Irish Bank Resolution Corporation in special liquidation will continue to enjoy the protection of the...
    • Illicit Trade in Tobacco
      To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the amount of revenue the State lost last year as a result of the importation of illegal tobacco and tobacco products; if he...
    • Tax Code
      To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether the total exemption from CAT on inter-spousal gifts under s70/71 CATCA 2003 remains appropriate, in view of the high profile instances in...
    • Mortgage Arrears Proposals
      To ask the Minister for Finance if a lender (details supplied) will be included as one of the main lenders being set targets by the Central Bank to tackle the mortgage arrears problem as...
    • Property Taxation Exemptions
      To ask the Minister for Finance if he will address a query (details supplied) regarding the local property tax. [14872/13]
    • Negative Equity Mortgages
      To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to help persons in negative equity who want to move home; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14892/13]
    • Financial Services Regulation
      To ask the Minister for Finance further to his announcement on mortgage arrears on 13 March 2013, if financial institutions will continue to prepare their accounts under International Financial...
    • Mortgage Arrears Proposals
      To ask the Minister for Finance further to his announcement on mortgage arrears on 13 March 2013, if he will quantify by reference to the most recently available data, the number of proposed...
    • Central Bank of Ireland Issues
      To ask the Minister for Finance the terms of the Agreement on Net Financial Assets overseen by the European Central Bank. [14903/13]
    • IBRC Liquidation
      To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm the proportion of the €25bn of sovereign bonds used to swap with the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation for its €27.7bn of...
    • Deposit Guarantee Scheme
      To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an assessment of the adequacy of the deposit guarantee scheme overseen at the Central Bank of Ireland in the event of the failure of any of the...
    • Banking Sector Remuneration
      To ask the Minister for Finance further to the publication of the Mercer Report on pay and perks, the investigation, if any, he has carried out into the reported practice in Spain where...
    • Financial Services Ombudsman
      To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm that the Financial Services Ombudsman, due to the Irish bank Resolution Corporation Act 2013, cannot now investigate complaints by mortgage...
    • IBRC Liquidation
      To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding employees of the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation (details supplied) and need to restore the value of the severance terms previously agreed...
    • Property Taxation Application
      To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons tasked with the job of dealing with appeals that will go forward from persons disputing the amount of money being sought from them in...
    • State Banking Sector
      To ask the Minister for Finance the way he intends to cast his votes representing 15% of the shared capital, on behalf of the taxpayer, on each resolution individually due for decision at the...
    • Bank Codes of Conduct
      To ask the Minister for Finance his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding repossession of farm equipment by a bank; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14995/13]
    • Tax Code
      To ask the Minister for Finance if he has projected the amount an average person will lose a year when maternity benefit is taxed from July; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15069/13]
    • Departmental Agencies Board Remuneration
      To ask the Minister for Finance the total cost to the taxpayer of paying the aggregate fees, salaries and any other remuneration to directors of all State bodies, to include majority State owned...
    • Black Economy Issues
      To ask the Minister for Finance the representations his Department has received regarding ways to curtail the black economy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15094/13]
    • Tax Code
      To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department has carried out a cost-benefit analysis for the introduction of tax breaks or other forms of incentives to support local micro-breweries and...
    • Office of the Ombudsman
      To ask the Minister for Finance when tax concessions for disabled drivers will come under the remit of the Ombudsman; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15117/13]
    • National Pensions Reserve Fund
      To ask the Minister for Finance if he will set out in tabular form the impact on the general Government balance of revenue earned and gains/losses realised by the National Pension Reserve Fund in...
    • VAT Rates
      To ask the Minister for Finance the reason school books in hard back attract a VAT rate of 0% while the e-book equivalent attracts a rate of 23% VAT; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • European Central Bank
      To ask the Minister for Finance his views on a broadening of the mandate of the European Central Bank beyond their current sole focus on controlling inflation in order to include, in a manner...
    • VAT Rates
      To ask the Minister for Finance if he will examine the VAT charge of 23% on the purchase of school books in electronic format in comparison to a 0% VAT charge on paper format schoolbooks (details...
    • Cypriot Financial System
      To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an assessment of the exposure of Irish households and businesses to the Cypriot financial system; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • State Banking Sector
      To ask the Minister for Finance if he will outline the capital control measures he has available to him to prevent bank runs on Irish banks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15182/13]
    • State Debt
      To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm the sterling and euro sums drawn down on the bilateral loan provided by Britain to the State as part of the 2010 programme finance arrangement;...
    • Tax Compliance
      To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide his assessment of the plans by the British government and its Chancellor of the Exchequer to name and shame promoters of tax avoidance schemes;...
    • Mortgage Arrears Rate
      To ask the Minister for Finance the number of mortgages drawn down in County Roscommon currently in arrears; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15207/13]
    • Tax Collection
      To ask the Minister for Finance if an alternative mechanism to filling VAT returns online is available to facilitate persons who are not computer literate; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Tax Credits
      To ask the Minister for Finance when an application for single parent tax allowance will be approved in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Wexford. [15360/13]
    • Public Sector Remuneration
      To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide in tabular form a breakdown of the annual saving to the public sector pay bill in non-commercial State agency pay were capped at...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Student Grant Scheme Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an appeal for a grant for Student Universal Support Ireland in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny. [14810/13]
    • Public Private Partnerships
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a breakdown of costs incurred by his Department by the categories of technical, legal, financial and other services for cancelled...
    • Student Grant Scheme Applications
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review the financial support provided to a family (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14722/13]
    • Teachers' Remuneration
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will ensure that those who started teaching prior to 1 February 2012 will not be considered as new entrants for the purposes of the new pay...
    • Student Grant Scheme Applications
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he is taking to address the situation where some Student Universal Support Ireland applicants are incorrectly informed they have been...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason no design team has been appointed to ensure the construction of a school (details supplied) in 2014. [14775/13]
    • State Examinations Issues
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) in County Clare will be facilitated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14798/13]
    • Student Grant Scheme Applications
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a number of applicants to Student Universal Support Ireland were incorrectly informed that they were...
    • School Accommodation
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on the application for increased accommodation for a school (details supplied) in North County Dublin; and if he will...
    • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if scribe and reader assistance is available to students at times other than for State examinations; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • School Staffing
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the percentage of primary and secondary school teachers with the exclusion of headmistresses that are women. [14844/13]
    • School Transport Eligibility
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to correspondence (details supplied); if he will approve realigning the boundary of eligibility for transport between...
    • Multidenominational Schools
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for an Educate Together school in Ratoath, County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14869/13]
    • Student Grant Scheme Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an application to Student Universal Support Ireland now under appeal to the students grants appeals board in respect of a person (details supplied)...
    • Physical Education Facilities
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department will consider providing part funding towards the development of a new physical education hall at a primary school (details supplied)...
    • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if Student Universal Support Ireland will be permitted to accept Department of Social Protection means testing as income guidelines in future student...
    • Departmental Properties
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total value of all properties owned by FÁS/Solas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14896/13]
    • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on the availability of services for autism at a primary level in County Donegal, with reference to autism units that may...
    • Higher Education Grants Eligibility Criteria
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has plans to subsidise students, who are studying a higher diploma in education trip to the Gaeltacht that they must undertake as part of their...
    • Transition Year Programme
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if and when funding will be released to the Irish Second Level Students Union to complete a review of the transition year programme as detailed by him...
    • Irish Second-Level Students' Union
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress that has been made in the past 12 months with regard to granting official partner in education status to the Irish Second Level Students...
    • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason resource hour applications for children with special educational needs that were received after 5 October 2012 will not be sanctioned until...
    • School Enrolments
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will ensure that a school (details supplied) in County Donegal is not closed due to temporary difficulties with enrolment numbers and further to...
    • School Amalgamations
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide the rules regarding a list of primary school amalgamations. [14991/13]
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a new school building (details supplied) in Dublin 7 will be provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15017/13]
    • Teachers' Remuneration
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason he is seeking repayment of an allowance paid to a staff member noting his Department approved in writing the persons entitlement to the...
    • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when his policy document on educating children with autism will be published in view of the time that has elapsed since the Ombudsman for Children...
    • Teachers' Remuneration
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in spite of written confirmation that a person (details supplied) will be paid on the old scale and will not be considered a new entrant, the person...
    • Special Educational Needs Staffing
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 75 of 13 February 2013 if he will now furnish a reply in relation to a replacement special education needs...
    • Croke Park Agreement Issues
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if Cumann na mBunscol games and activities (details supplied) may be included as part of any agreement on additional time in schools, acknowledging...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current status of the six new or replacement schools announced as part of the national stimulus plan on an individual basis; and if he will make a...
    • Institutes of Technology
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current status of phase one of the consolidation of Dublin Institute of Technology into one single site at Grangegorman as announced as part of...
    • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if financial assistance is available for students who were brought up in care; if he will outline the way this assistance may be applied for; and if...
    • Schools Building Projects Expenditure
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when funding will be provided to build the extension to a college (details supplied) in Dublin 15 including new classrooms and a sports hall; and if...
    • School Patronage
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will undertake a review of the patronage decision with regard to the new second level school in Tyrrelstown, Dublin 15 to ensure the views and...
    • National Procurement Service
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the impact the proposed centralisation of State procurement procedures will have on small, local businesses which...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will confirm if places on the five year school building programme have become available for schools not originally included but which have...
    • Student Grant Scheme Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a student grant application will be expedited in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15; the reason for the delay; and if he will make...
    • Free Education Scheme
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide details of the agreement between his Department and Kilkenny College as part of the college agreeing to enter the free education...
    • Student Grant Scheme Payments
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for a delay in providing clarity to Student Universal Support Ireland on the application of a person (details supplied) on whether their...
    • Departmental Agencies Staff Remuneration
      To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide in tabular form a breakdown of the annual saving to the public sector pay bill in non-commercial State agency pay were capped at...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Coastal Erosion
      To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform in view of the impact that coastal erosion is having on our environment and the serious problems faced by Ireland and many other European...
  • Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
    • Joint Labour Committees Review
      To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the time scale of the review of the JLCs as provided for under section 11 of the Industrial Relations (Amendment) Act 2012. [14857/13]
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Public Sector Increment Payments
      To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount of savings that would be achieved by freezing the increments of those who earn more than €65,000 in the public sector; and...
    • Outsourcing of Public Services
      To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on his policy with ensuring proper working conditions and hours of the employees of agencies to whom Government...
    • Croke Park Agreement Issues
      To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he accepts that the decision of his negotiator in the recently completed Croke Park 2 negotiations to secure the withdrawal of flexible...
    • Public Sector Remuneration
      To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide in a tabular form a breakdown of the annual saving to the public sector pay bill if non-commercial State agency pay were...
    • Public Service Contracts
      To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if there are plans to contract out the work surrounding the routine maintenance of public buildings, that is schools, Garda Stations and so...
    • Croke Park Agreement Issues
      To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on an across the board pay cut in public service pay; the way this compares with his views on the Croke Park two Draft Agreement;...
    • Croke Park Agreement Implementation
      To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on whether legislation will be required to change the pay and conditions of public servants if the Croke Park two agreement is...
    • Croke Park Agreement Issues
      To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will arrange for the letters that were issued to the individual trade unions in connection with the Croke Park two draft agreement to...
    • Land Transfers
      To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the position regarding the transfer of land (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14964/13]
    • Public Sector Staff
      To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the guidance and timeframe for the Office of Public Works to provide employment references for former employees. [15020/13]
    • North-South Implementation Bodies
      To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason the SEUPB has cut PEACE III funding from the Training for Women Network; the assessments that have been carried out on the impact...
    • Public Procurement Regulations
      To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the savings to be made under the proposed reform of the State procurement process will most...
  • Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
    • Joint Labour Committees Review
      To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the time scale of the review of the JLCs as provided for under section 11 of the Industrial Relations (Amendment) Act 2012. [14857/13]
    • Microenterprise Loan Fund Application Numbers
      To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will detail, by county enterprise board, the number of applications to the microenterprise loan fund; the value of applications; the...
    • Microenterprise Loan Fund Expenditure
      To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the amount set aside for loans from the microenterprise loan fund from Government; and the amount leveraged in from private sector for...
    • Industrial Relations Issues
      To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if there is legislation planned to reform the law on collective bargaining to ensure compliance with recent European Court of Human Rights...
    • Work Permit Application Numbers
      To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of applications for new work visas in 2011 and 2012; the number of new work visa applications approved in 2011 and 2012; and if...
  • Department of Social Protection
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite a domiciliary care allowance application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement...
    • Social Welfare Code Reform
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will report on progress made in her Department in considering the issue of social welfare supports for the self-employed; and if she will make a...
    • General Register Office
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the procedures to be followed when a person wants to change information on a birth certificate; and her plans, if any, to change this process. [14765/13]
    • Youth Unemployment Measures
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the percentage of the European Pledge Youth G'Tee she has secured for Ireland; the programmes she has put in place to tackle youth unemployment; the...
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an application for carer's allowance appeal will be finalised in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if she will make a...
    • Mortgage Interest Supplement Eligibility
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if there are any proposals to review the Mortgage Interest Supplement to allow further categories to qualify for the payment; and if she will make a...
    • Social Insurance Issues
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the benefits for persons signing for credits; if there are any plans to introduce a scheme whereby individuals can have the option of paying towards...
    • Back to Education Allowance Eligibility
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will explain the encouragement the State gives to a cohort of students (details supplied); if she believes that such students should abandon their...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a domiciliary care allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Social Welfare Code Issues
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the way she intends to incentivise taking up additional days at work for part-time workers (details supplied). [14772/13]
    • Social Welfare Appeals Status
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12 will receive a response to their appeal. [14836/13]
    • Proposed Legislation
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection when she will publish the draft heads of the Social Welfare and Pensions Bill which is to include a section amending the rules for the distribution of...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite a domiciliary care allowance application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement...
    • Social Welfare Code Reform
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will report on progress made in her Department in considering the issue of social welfare supports for the self-employed; and if she will make a...
    • Dietary Allowance
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the current eligibility for dietry allowance in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Applications
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an application for jobseeker's will be finalised in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Payments
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason jobseeker's allowance has ceased in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Meath; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Sick Pay Eligibility
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if sick pay is available to participants of community employment schemes if they take ill for a day or two while on a scheme and provide a...
    • Invalidity Pension Payments
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if like other State pensions, should invalidity pensions also pay six weeks if the person receiving payment dies. [14979/13]
    • Jobseeker's Benefit Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will review/accept an appeal of a decision to offer a reduced level of payment of jobseeker's allowance in the case of a person (details supplied)...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Payments
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the basis on which her Department is claiming that there are adequate suitable accommodations within the €825 maximum rent limit, for a couple or...
    • Pension Provisions
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the State pension provisions that are in place for returning religious missionaries upon their return here for retirement; and if she will make a...
    • Social Welfare Appeals Status
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a decision has been made on an appeal in respect of a person (details provided) in County Kerry on an assessment of a person's restriction of capacity...
    • Mortgage Interest Supplement Payments
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide clarification as to whether mortgage interest supplement is given the same consideration under the supplementary welfare scheme when...
    • Fuel Allowance Eligibility
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the current eligibility for dietry allowance in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Disability Allowance Eligibility
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a file will be sent from his Department to the appeals office to ascertain eligibility for disability allowance in respect of a person (details...
    • Community Employment Schemes Eligibility
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will confirm the criteria for eligibility for TUS positions and TUS supervisor posts; the reason the TUS scheme and TUS Supervisor positions are...
    • Mortgage Interest Supplement Eligibility
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the options available to a person who needs mortgage interest supplement, but has been unable to honour a twelve month interest only payment with the...
    • National Internship Scheme Placements
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a school (details supplied) in County Wicklow that applied to participate in the jobbridge scheme was refused entry to the scheme and the...
    • Free Travel Scheme Administration
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to review the basis on which payments are made to public transport providers participating in the free travel scheme; and if consideration will...
  • Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
    • Rental Accommodation Scheme Eligibility
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason a person must be in receipt of rent allowance to qualify for the rent accommodation scheme; if the person has a...
    • Commercial Rates Issues
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the way commercial rates are determined for private houses that are used as businesses for example doctor’s surgeries....
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes Status
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update on the greater Dublin drainage project by Fingal County Council; when a decision will be made on...
    • Local Authority Housing Mortgages
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the exceptions that may be considered for persons seeking to apply for house purchase loans via their local authority; if...
    • Leader Programmes Administration
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the person responsible for the administration of the LEADER Programme in the Gaeltacht region of Erris, County Mayo; if he will...
    • Building Regulations
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that registered architects are trained to design in compliance with the building...
  • Department of Social Protection
    • Education and Training Provision
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding eligibility for a scheme in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Social Welfare Code Issues
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 105 of 31 January 2013, the main eligibility categories included under other children; and if she will make a...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding rent allowance in respect of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15331/13]
    • Public Sector Remuneration
      To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide in tabular form a breakdown of the annual saving to the public sector pay bill in non-commercial State agency pay were capped at...
  • Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • National Monuments
      To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht his plans to meet the relatives of the leaders and insurgents of the Easter Rising 1916. [14811/13]
    • Protection of Architectural Heritage
      To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht his plans to introduce legislation to compel banks, in particular Bank of Ireland and Allied Irish Bank to deal with the issue of...
    • Commemorative Events
      To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he accepts that Moore Street and the 1916 Battlefield site, considering the events that took place there and the globally important...
    • Urban Renewal Schemes
      To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht his plans for the urban regeneration of heritage quarters in counties Limerick and Waterford other than those outlined in the Living City...
    • Departmental Bodies
      To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide in tabular form a list of the Foras na Gaeilge board members to include their name and the annual fee paid to each...
    • Public Sector Remuneration
      To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide in tabular form a breakdown of the annual saving to the public sector pay bill in non-commercial State agency pay were...
  • Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
    • Inland Fisheries
      To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position regarding a draft net licence for salmon in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the policy he is pursuing in relation anaerobic digestion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14828/13]
    • Broadband Services Provision
      To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide information on the current standard of broadband provided to second level schools in Longford and...
    • National Wind Energy Strategy
      To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the progress, if any, in facilitating schools and community organisations from receiving credits for the unused electricity...
    • Broadband Services Provision
      To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if there are procedures in place to support relatively new broadband internet service providers in increasing quality...
    • Public Sector Remuneration
      To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide in tabular form a breakdown of the annual saving to the public sector pay bill in non-commercial State...
  • Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
    • Mortgage Resolution Processes
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if any consideration has been given to initiating a scheme similar to the mortgage to shared equity scheme in Scotland; and if...
    • Public Sector Remuneration
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in a tabular form a breakdown of the annual saving to the public sector pay bill if all local authority pay...
    • EU Funding
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding administration of funds from Europe; and if he will make a statement...
    • Property Taxation Exemptions
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if an estate (details supplied) in County Limerick is exempt from the property tax as it is an unfinished development; and if...
    • Rental Accommodation Scheme Eligibility
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason a person must be in receipt of rent allowance to qualify for the rent accommodation scheme; if the person has a...
    • Commercial Rates Issues
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the way commercial rates are determined for private houses that are used as businesses for example doctor’s surgeries....
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes Status
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update on the greater Dublin drainage project by Fingal County Council; when a decision will be made on...
    • Local Authority Housing Mortgages
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the exceptions that may be considered for persons seeking to apply for house purchase loans via their local authority; if...
    • Leader Programmes Administration
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the person responsible for the administration of the LEADER Programme in the Gaeltacht region of Erris, County Mayo; if he will...
    • Building Regulations
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that registered architects are trained to design in compliance with the building...
    • Departmental Bodies
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will advise, with regard to the implementation group being established to oversee the establishment of the new...
    • Septic Tank Registration Scheme
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when application forms and detailed terms and conditions will be available in relation to the recently announced grant to...
    • Housing Adaptation Grants Expenditure
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government If he will urgently review a recent decision to cut Kerry County Council's allocation for housing aid for the elderly, mobility...
    • Planning Issues
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on whether third parties should be able to make submissions to An Bord Pleanala as part of the pre application...
    • Non-Principal Private Residence Charge
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding the non principal private residence charge; and if he will make a...
    • Local Authority Housing Bonds
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 137 of 13 March 2013, the value of security held on a county basis by local authority in...
    • Private Rented Accommodation Standards
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the progress made in reviewing the legislation in respect of standards in privately rented accommodation; and if he will make a...
    • Commercial Rates Issues
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will outline the process involved in resetting the different commercial rate levels once town councils are abolished and...
    • Local Authority Housing Rents
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if a local authority tenant who has been sentenced to time in prison is required to keep up rent payments during their prison...
    • Planning Issues
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 213 of 27 February 2013, if he will clarify the options open to him to initiate an...
    • Building Regulations
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the current status of the establishment of a register of builders; when he expects it to come into effect; what it will...
    • Leader Programmes Funding
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the status of LEADER funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15195/13]
    • Legislative Programme
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the necessary legislative changes will be introduced in order to empower the Standards in Public Office Commission to compel...
    • Planning Issues
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if, in view of his central role in the IROPI planning process, his Department will proceed with an IROPI application for the...
    • Wind Energy Guidelines
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if consideration will be given to placing a temporary moratorium on wind energy developments until such time as the review, by...
    • Local Authority Finances
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason Dublin City Council budget in 2013 has been reduced by more than 50% for the housing adaptation grant scheme...
    • Water Services Provision
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his Department will be having a water services investment programme in 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Water and Sewerage Scheme Grants
      To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when arrears due to Enniscorthy Town Council, County Wexford, in respect of a sewage scheme, provided by the council, will...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Garda Resources
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding the conditions of the Garda Terrace in Phoenix Park, Dublin; if he is currently responding to residents' requests to be...
    • Property Services Regulation
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the regulations protecting the owners of properties from rogue auctioneers who do not achieve the best price for the asset; and if he has any plans to...
    • Garda Deployment
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will review the road safety value of a regular Gardamobile safety camera van checkpoint (details supplied) in County Donegal; if he appreciates...
    • Residency Permits
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he has considered the possibility of an earned regularisation scheme for undocumented immigrant workers living here; if he has considered revisions...
    • Property Registration Fees
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his views on whether the recent increase in property registration fees is another form of property tax in view of the fact that the average home went...
    • Industrial Relations Issues
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the GRA and AGSI have access to the LRC or the Labour Court for the purposes of resolving industrial relations issues; the legislation under which...
    • Prison Accommodation
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of cells in each institution here; the number that accommodate two, three, four or more prisoners; the current levels of overcrowding...
    • Prisoner Numbers
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prisoners in total and in each institution that are at present in custody; the number required to slop out; the number required to use...
    • Public Order Offences
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if it is illegal to beg in the vicinity of a cash machine; and the actions the Gardaí can take to deter such activity. [14693/13]
    • Charities Regulation
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the permit required for those who wish to collect money for charity; and the entitlements and role given to collectors by the permit. [14696/13]
    • Prison Accommodation
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of cells in each institution; the number that accommodate two, three, four or more prisoners; and the current levels of overcrowding within...
    • Prisoner Numbers
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prisoners in total and in each institution that are at present in custody; the number required to slop out; the number required to use...
    • Ground Rents Abolition
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update regarding ground rents and the abolition of ground rents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14717/13]
    • Court Accommodation Provision
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when construction work will commence on the new Drogheda courthouse; when the courthouse will be open and fully operational; and if he will make a...
    • Garda Transport
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will allow An Garda Síochána to adopt a leasing policy for transport as is common in police forces across the EU; if he will agree...
    • Closed Circuit Television Systems
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when the Garda CCTV system in Ballina, County Mayo will be commissioned; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14760/13]
    • Garda Transport
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda personnel engaged in providing driver and security services to the members of the Government, members of the Judiciary, former...
    • Garda Deployment
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he has any plans to redeploy Gardaí to the County Louth area to cover Garda personnel shortages in the county; and if he will make a statement...
    • Asylum Applications
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when a decision on subsidiary protection and leave to remain will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if he will...
    • State Pathologists
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update on the joint capital project between his Department and Dublin City Council to construct new permanent accommodation for...
    • Residency Permits
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applications currently being processed by his Department seeking leave to remain in the State; if he will indicate the month and year...
    • Legal Matters
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide, for the period since the introduction of the new firearms licensing regime, the total forecast to the State of the High Court...
    • Asylum Applications
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update on the application for leave to remain in the State submitted by a person (details supplied) in Dublin 1; and if he will...
    • Legislation on Prostitution
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when he expects the current review of our prostitution laws to be concluded; when he will be in a position to introduce new legislation based on the...
    • Foreign Conflicts
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he has raised the issue of the treatment of Palestinian children by the Israel military justice system in the West Bank at his recent meeting with...
    • Road Traffic Offences
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he has requested a monthly breakdown by Garda district of the number of motorists who have been breath tested and have not been breath tested after...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if, in the determination of eligibility for naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare, cognisance will be taken of...
    • Road Traffic Offences
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if a new system has been put in place in terms of cases where a driving licence has not been produced in court; the reason there has been a delay in...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if an application for naturalisation will be expedited in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Garda Retirements
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will increase the retirement age for members of An Garda Síochána; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15100/13]
    • Garda Equipment
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will allocate funding for the purchase of additional vehicles for the Garda Traffic Corps later this year; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the purpose for which a variable fee is charged for citizenship under the Irish Nationality and Citizenship Regulations 2011; the amount raised per...
    • Asylum Applications
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the progress made to date in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare who has been living here for the past three years and has...
    • Garda Vetting of Personnel
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to the slow processing of Garda vetting applications for community and voluntary organisations; if measures have been...
    • Prisoner Transfers
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the arrangements in place to deal with Irish citizens who are sentenced to terms of imprisonment in Britain and repatriated to serve their sentence...
    • Garda Vetting of Personnel
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he has received correspondence from a company (details supplied) in relation to difficulties when seeking Garda vetting for prospective employees;...
    • Prisoner Numbers
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will confirm the number of prisoners who have sought or been provided with medical attention at Wheatfield Prison, Cloverhill Road, Dublin...
    • Garda Divisional Headquarters
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current status of the new Garda divisional headquarters announced under the national stimulus plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Equality Tribunal Cases
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of and settlements made in cases taken to the Equality Tribunal by citizens under the Equal Status Acts in the context of their exclusion...
    • Restorative Justice
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality with reference to the report of the National Commission on Restorative Justice published June 2009, the progress that has been made in implementing...
    • Departmental Agencies Issues
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of examiners employed at the Property Registration Authority for each of the past five years. [15320/13]
    • Property Registration Authority Applications
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the average waiting time for the Property Registration Authority to register a straight forward right of way over lands from the date of a valid...
    • Public Sector Remuneration
      To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide in tabular form a breakdown of the annual saving to the public sector pay bill in non-commercial State agency pay were capped at...
  • Department of Defence
    • Middle East Peace Process
      To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide further details on his recent visit to Israel, Lebanon and Palestine; if he discussed the peace process with the various Governments; if the...
    • Pension Provisions
      To ask the Minister for Defence the reason an army pension has been reduced in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15342/13]
    • Overseas Missions
      To ask the Minister for Defence the reason Ireland is spending €632,000 of taxpayers’ money on an E.U. military training mission in Mali; if this is a breach of our neutrality...
    • Public Sector Remuneration
      To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide in tabular form a breakdown of the annual saving to the public sector pay bill in non-commercial State agency pay were capped at...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding Common Agricultural Policy negotiations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15064/13]
    • Common Agricultural Policy Reform
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if, with regard to the Commom Agricultural Policy, he will continue with the current payments regime or if he will alter it to reflect the...
    • Common Fisheries Policy Negotiations
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will report on the recent agreement on EU level on fish discards; if he will confirm that up to 7% of all fish caught may be...
    • Common Fisheries Policy Reform
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will report on the European Maritime Fisheries Fund; if he will outline the measures available to support Irish fishermen through...
    • Sheep Technology Adoption Programme Eligibility
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider allowing all sheep farmers on offshore islands to join the sheep technology adoption programme scheme irrespective of...
    • Single Payment Scheme Eligibility
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will clarify an issue in regard to the recognition of entitlements (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Food Safety Authority Reports
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason the recommendations of the Fish Mislabelling Report 2011 have not been implemented. [14789/13]
    • Rural Environment Protection Scheme Appeals
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will review the case against a person (details supplied) in County Limerick regarding penalties applied to their 2011 REP scheme 4...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Applications
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when-agri environment option scheme payments for 2011 and 2012 will be finalised in respect of a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Applications
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding the 2012 disadvantaged area scheme programme in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Single Payment Scheme Applications
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding national reserve entitlements in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow; and if he will make a...
    • Farm Inspections
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding a fine in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Ministerial Meetings
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will report on any meetings he has attended at which the horse meat fraud was discussed; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Forestry Sector
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to publish the report on the consultation on the strategy plan on forestry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15066/13]
    • Fishing Industry Development
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will confirm that the deferral of further development of increased productive capacity for salmon set out in the Irish Seafood...
    • Aquaculture Development
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in view of his statement in the Dáil on 6 March 2013 that Food Harvest 2020 constitutes a Government strategic plan he will now have...
    • Fishing Industry Development
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his vision for the future development of the fishing industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14595/13]
    • Common Agricultural Policy Reform
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which he has studied recent submissions from the Irish Farmers' Association and other farming organisations in the context...
    • Dairy Sector
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans for the maximisation of benefit for the dairy sector in the aftermath of the abolition of quotas; and if he will make a...
    • Cereal Sector
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which he is satisfied in respect of the future prospects for the cereal growing sector over the next ten years; and if he...
    • Animal Welfare Expenditure
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which he continues to monitor the costs affecting the pig and poultry sectors arising from animal welfare regulations; and...
    • Beef Industry
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent, if any, to which inflation has been detected in the beef or other meat sectors; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Animal Welfare Issues
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which his Department continues to be in touch with the various planning authorities with a view to facilitating early...
    • Food Labelling
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which he in conjunction with his EU colleagues, expects to be in a position to introduce a reliable labelling and...
    • Food Harvest 2020 Strategy
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which he expects to achieve the targets set out in Food Harvest 2020 notwithstanding any changes in the common agricultural...
    • Food Labelling
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total number of labelling breaches detected throughout the food industry in each of the past three years to date; the action taken...
    • Common Agricultural Policy Reform
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which he expects to be in a position to ameliorate the concerns of the farming sector arising from discussions on the common...
    • Fish Farming
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which he is satisfied regarding quality control, production, processing, labelling, traceability and hygiene throughout the...
    • Suckler Welfare Scheme Payments
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when full payment for the suckler cow welfare scheme will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a...
    • Genetically Modified Organisms
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding GM Food production here and the trials being undertaken by Teagasc: if he will provide an update with reference to...
    • Rural Development Policy
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will take into consideration that further to the re-allocation of moneys from pillar 1 of cap to pillar 2 for the expansion of rural...
    • Public Sector Remuneration
      To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide in tabular form a breakdown of the annual saving to the public sector pay bill in non-commercial State agency pay were...
  • Department of Children and Youth Affairs
    • Foster Care Provision
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the parents and or guardians of fostered children highlighted in recent Health Information and Quality Authority reports as potentially not...
    • Youth Services
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs in view of the excellent work done by youth services in Dublin, her plans to reverse her decision to cut their budget in 2013; and if she will...
    • Asylum Seeker Accommodation
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she is satisfied that the rights, welfare and entitlements of children who live in direct provision accommodation are vindicated under the...
    • Missing Children
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs in view of Ireland currently holding the EU Presidency, if she will provide a definite time frame for when the EU Missing Children's Hotline...
    • Youth Services
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide an update in respect of funding for a school (details supplied) in Dublin 24; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Foster Care Provision
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 572 of 22 January 2013, if she will ensure that a national register is compiled of foster parents who are...
    • Public Sector Remuneration
      To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide in tabular form a breakdown of the annual saving to the public sector pay bill in non-commercial State agency pay were...
    • Home Help Service Provision
      To ask the Minister for Health if home help hours in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny will be restored as a matter of urgency; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Disabled Drivers Grant Eligibility
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the exceptional circumstances in respect of an application for motorised transport grant, with regard to an applicant's disabilities, mobility...
    • Home Help Service Provision
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of the number of home help hours delivered in Co.Kerry in 2010, 2011, 2012 and the number that will be delivered in 2013. [14758/13]
    • Medicinal Products Availability
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will increase custom and exercise supervision of commercial packaging operators, in order to deal with the explosion of prescription drugs being ordered...
    • National Children's Hospital Status
      To ask the Minister for Health the projected costs associated with the building of a new children's hospital and the way it will be funded. [14781/13]
    • Hospital Accommodation Provision
      To ask the Minister for Health the construction and development works that are being carried out on Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin and Temple Street Children's Hospital, Dublin that are...
    • National Children's Hospital Status
      To ask the Minister for Health what is planned for the staff and the sites of Tallaght's Children's Hospital and Temple Street Children's Hospital, Dublin [14788/13]
    • Home Care Packages
      To ask the Minister for Health the reason persons (details supplied) in County Leitrim have been assessed by the Health Service Executive West as requiring home care packages but have been...
    • Hospital Services
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide additional resources to Tallaght Hospital to deal effectively with the recently reported difficulties with patient x-rays; if he has had contact...
    • Health Services Provision
      To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding financial support from the Health Service Executive in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • General Practitioner Services
      To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a payment for medical services; if he has had any meetings with the representative bodies regarding same; if any progress has been made to...
    • Medical Card Applications
      To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12 was refused a medical card [14834/13]
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will be provided with a child and adolescent mental health service appointment; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Health Service Staff
      To ask the Minister for Health the percentage of nurses that are women [14845/13]
    • Health Service Inquiries
      To ask the Minister for Health when the report into the death of a person (details supplied) is due; if the leaking of the draft report is being investigated; and if the family have received a...
    • Guthrie Cards Retention
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will direct the Health Service Executive not to destroy the bio-bank of Guthrie cards on or after 31 March in order that there can be proper discussion...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      To ask the Minister for Health when an otolaryngology appointment will be available in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14856/13]
    • Homeless Persons Supports
      To ask the Minister for Health the residential accommodation and services provided by the Health Service Executive in Dublin 1 and Dublin 7; the staffing levels; the type of accommodation and...
    • Home Care Packages
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that a home care package is approved in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Medical Card Numbers
      To ask the Minister for Health the number of members of an Garda Síochána that currently have a medical card; the estimated cost of this to the Exchequer; and if he will make a...
    • Disability Support Service
      To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter regarding services providers (details supplied); if he will confirm that the agreed cut to the core disability budget will be applied...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide financial assistance to a home (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14899/13]
    • Health Services Expenditure
      To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos 612 and 570 of 12 March 2013, the reason the medicine olanzapine costs consumers €166 in this State compared with...
    • Disabled Drivers Grant Eligibility
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an explanation as to the reason a person (details supplied) in Dublin 22 had their primary medical certificate withdrawn by the Health Service...
    • Hospital Services
      To ask the Minister for Health the poition regarding a hospital appointment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14937/13]
    • Primary Care Centres Provision
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the current position with regard to the proposed provision of a Health Service Executive primary care centre (details supplied) in...
    • Pension Provisions
      To ask the Minister for Health the reason a staff member of the Health Service Executive from County Sligo who is due to retire at 65 cannot receive their pension until the age of 66; and if he...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Kildare will receive a date for a scan in Tallaght General Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14944/13]
    • Health Services Access
      To ask the Minister for Health the reason the ante natal clinics in Dundalk and Navan are being discontinued; if he is concerned about the impact of these changes on disadvantaged women and those...
    • Tobacco Control Measures
      To ask the Minister for Health the percentage of the 2000 plus respondents to the consultation on a proposal for an EU Directive on the Tobacco Products Directive that were for or against the...
    • Medical Card Applications
      To ask the Minister for Health if the medical assessors who assess the medical aspect of medical card applications are qualified doctors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14947/13]
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      To ask the Minister for Health the eligibility criteria for medical cards for those persons who have worked both in this State and another EU Member State, and who are in receipt of a non-social...
    • Medical Card Applications
      To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14963/13]
    • Water Fluoridation
      To ask the Minister for Health if he is giving consideration to ending the practice of artificially fluoridating our national water supplies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14966/13]
    • Respite Care Services
      To ask the Minister for Health if, in the context of determination of eligibility for respite care/home help in respect of their child in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Offaly,...
    • Hospital Services
      To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 567 of 5 March 2013, if he will provide the names of hospitals that referred 13 sub-arachnoid haemorrhage patients who were...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      To ask the Minister for Health the number of oncology patients in Mayo General Hospital on average for each week over the past year that have been left awaiting an oncology bed at their nearest...
    • Vaccination Programme
      To ask the Minister for Health if a package of supports for children who suffer from unique narcolepsy disorder is being submitted to the interested Departments for comment and approval; if the...
    • Hospital Charges
      To ask the Minister for Health if it is correct that a person (details supplied) in County Cork who, in emergency, availed of private treatment for hip replacement may not now avail of the public...
    • Animal Experimentation
      To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 636 of 12 March 2013, which does not include a reference to any specific enforcement activities undertaken by the Irish...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will immediately provide funding to clear the long orthotics waiting list in County Kerry; the way the waiting list time in County Kerry compares to other...
    • HSE Expenditure
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of each barrister who received payments from the Health Service Executive for legal services in 2010, 2011 and 2012; and the amount each...
    • Cancer Incidence
      To ask the Minister for Health the number of cases of breast cancer detected in each of the Health Service Executive regions for the past three years for which data is available. [15113/13]
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will give an assurance that the existing use of Toghermore House, Tuam, County Galway, will be maintained for the foreseeable future. [15122/13]
    • Programme for Government Implementation
      To ask the Minister for Health the way in which and when he intends to implement the Programme for Government commitment to create a primary care fund. [15123/13]
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      To ask the Minister for Health the person who took the decision and when to deny married or cohabiting medical card applicants with serious medical conditions the opportunity to apply for and be...
    • Orthodontic Services Waiting Lists
      To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the orthodontic treatment waiting list in the South East is currently dating back to August 2009; the reason for...
    • Primary Care Centres Provision
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will list the primary care centres contained within the two bundles announced as part of the national stimulus plan; the current status of each of these...
    • Neuro-Rehabilitation Services Provision
      To ask the Minister for Health if he has considered the recent Neurorehabilitation Manifesto from the Neurological Alliance of Ireland in relation to the neurorehabilitation strategy and...
    • Primary Care Reimbursement Service Payments
      To ask the Minister for Health the reason no action was taken by the Primary Care Reimbursement Service when evidence was submitted to them that the patient (details supplied) in County Sligo did...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      To ask the Minister for Health when a suitable chair will be provided for a person (details supplied) in County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15203/13]
    • HSE Expenditure
      To ask the Minister for Health the Health Service Executive's policy in relation to re-using or returning to the HSE stores, unused unopened medical, surgical or office supplies; and if he will...
    • Nursing Home Services
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the present admissions policy for St. Mary's Nursing Unit, Castleblayney, County Monaghan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15211/13]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      To ask the Minister for Health the reason the Artassist Device is no longer available to patients living in counties Mayo and Galway; if access to this limb saving device is also denied elsewhere...
    • Long-Term Illness Scheme Eligibility
      To ask the Minister for Health the reason bipolar affective disorder is not a qualifying medical illness for the long term illness card.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15322/13]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      To ask the Minister for Health if a below the knee prosthesis will be provided for a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny. [15323/13]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1023 of 16 January 2013, the position regarding surgery in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny [15324/13]
    • Medical Card Applications
      To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15327/13]
    • Home Help Service Provision
      To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding additional home help hours in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15328/13]
    • Health Services Staff Issues
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will investigate the dissatisfaction of the staff in psychiatric services in the Killarney area, County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Hospital Staff
      To ask the Minister for Health the cost to the State of engaging agency nursing staff in 2010, 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013; if he will provide a detailed breakdown of the cots by hospital; the...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite a hospital appointment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork to have an operation on their knee; and if he will make a...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Road Maintenance
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider extending the date by which submissions can be made by local authorities to include extra roads to be considered under the...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 231 of 31 January 2013, if he will arrange for his Department to write to the person concerned as...
    • Search and Rescue Service
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of call outs and rescues by day and night that have been undertaken by the different search and rescue coastguard helicopters...
    • Sports Capital Programme Applications
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to reopen the sports capital grant programme for 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14776/13]
    • Tourism Promotion
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures introduced to the tourism industry since March 2011; if he believes these measures have had a positive impact on the industry;...
    • Road Network
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide details of the amount of money spent by local authorities in 2011, 2012 and the expected spend in 2013 on the purchase of...
    • Atlantic Way
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the proposed Atlantic Way, County Mayo; if he will outline the proposed route of the Atlantic Way; the budget assigned to the...
    • Departmental Properties
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total value of all properties owned by CIÉ; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14897/13]
    • Taxi Regulations
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if discretion will be allowed with the suitability case for taxis specifically in the case of prohibiting tinted windows (details supplied)...
    • Road Safety
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will outline some of the measures contained within the road safety strategy that is due to be launched later this week; and if he will...
    • Road Maintenance
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will find out from the National Roads Authority the way they cleaned the N2 bypass in 2012 and the number of times they intend to clean...
    • Driving Licence Issues
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a company has been granted the contract to process photographs for the new driving licences being rolled out this year; and if he will make...
    • Post-registration Vehicle Modification
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide details regarding the Consultation on Post Registration Vehicle Modifications conducted by the Road Safety Authority; the...
    • Sports Funding
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide in tabular form a detailed breakdown of funding to the Olympic Council of Ireland for the years 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012...
    • Marine Accidents
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way he proposes to cooperate with the request from the Northern Ireland Coroner (details supplied) to reinvestigate the sinking of the FV...
    • Tourism Promotion
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the Tourist Office in Cahir will open for the summer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15118/13]
    • Legislative Programme
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the 2013 Road Transport Bill will be published; the key measures contained in the new legislation; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Road Network
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current status of the N17/N18 Gort to Tuam motorway project announced under the national stimulus plan; if a contractor has been...
    • Sporting Events
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on a potential bid for the rugby world cup by the Irish Rugby Football Union; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15197/13]
    • Public Transport
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to work with the Department of Social Protection to introduce leap card technology to the free travel scheme in order to more...
    • Official Engagements
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will report on his visit to Japan and Korea; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15274/13]
    • Tourism Industry
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures introduced in the tourism industry since the March 2011; his views on whether these measures will have had a positive impact on...
    • Rural Transport Services Provision
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will describe, with respect to rural transport, the expected efficiencies to be achieved from the proposed establishment of transport...
    • Driving Licence Issues
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will ensure that persons acquiring driving licences will have the option of supplying their own photo for the licence as is the case for...
    • Road Network
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if construction works are likely to commence in 2013 on the N17 Tubercurry bypass, N21 Abbeyfeale to Adare, N25 Midletown to Youghal and the...
    • Tourism Industry
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures introduced in the tourism industry since March 2011; his views on whether these measures have had a positive impact on the...
    • Road Maintenance
      To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures he is undertaking to ensure that funds for regional and local roads are being targeted at essential maintenance work to the...