Written answers
Wednesday, 17 April 2013
- Department of Education and Skills
- Higher Education Institutions Issues
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he intends that the higher education system should be reconfigured into five regional clusters; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- School Staffing
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on a Millward Brown survey that found that in addition to losing classroom subject teachers, many schools have also lost specialist teachers...
- Special Educational Needs Staffing
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the recent Impact study which indicated that 60% of special needs assistants in schools say they have been assaulted by the pupils with...
- Vocational Education Committees Staff
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the VEC sector has employed retired public servants for sitting on interview boards between the years 2010 - 2012; and if he will provide, in...
- Physical Education
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to improve physical education training at primary school level; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17558/13]
- Student Grant Scheme Reform
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the changes he plans for means testing third level financial supports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17532/13]
- Schools Guidance Counsellors
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has any plans to review the cuts in guidance counsellors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17537/13]
- Post-Leaving Certificate Courses
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider reversing the pupil teacher ratio and lifting the cap on student numbers in colleges of further education; and if he will make a...
- Schools Administration
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the need by some schools, due to circumstances outside of their control, to have policies in place that prevent children running in the...
- Performance Management Systems
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he intends to introduce annual evaluations and reviews of teacher performance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17527/13]
- Ministerial Travel
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will report on his visit to China; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17441/13]
- Teaching Council of Ireland
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in view of the fact that Section 30 of the Teaching Council Act, 2001 is due to commence on 1 November, 2013, his plans to ensure that teachers are...
- Fee Paying Schools
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures, if any, he intends to implement in response a report into the 55 private fee-charging schools in the State which have more than...
- Schools Building Projects Applications
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will ensure that funding is immediately made available for a refurbishment and building project (details supplied) in Dublin 15. [17589/13]
- Special Educational Needs Staffing
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will increase the number of special needs assistants, resource teachers or learning support teachers in a manner commensurate to the increase in...
- Croke Park Agreement Issues
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the impact of Croke Park II on the education budget; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17533/13]
- Public Procurement Regulations (2 comments)
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on the efforts he has made to ensure that schools will continue to be able to purchase stationery supplies from small...
- Schools Building Projects Applications
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if changes to the school building programmme will be made based on exceptional circumstances of accommodation needs of schools which were not fully...
- Post-Leaving Certificate Courses
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will reverse the decision to impose a 19 to 1 student teacher ratio for further education colleges which deal with the creative arts, such as...
- School Enrolments
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to change school enrolment practice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17538/13]
- School Curriculum
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for the subject of history as a mandatory part of the curriculum for the junior cycle; if he is considering merging history with a group of...
- Croke Park Agreement Issues
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the impact of the recent Croke Park agreement on the education budget; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17548/13]
- School Staffing
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review his policy on the staffing ratios in small rural schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17437/13]
- School Accommodation
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason 400 pupils are being educated in a prefabricated school (details supplied) in County Dublin and, less than 200 metres away, a new school is...
- Schools Guidance Counsellors
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to revisit the cuts to the number of guidance counsellors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17552/13]
- Student Grant Scheme Administration
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has confidence in City of Dublin Vocational Education Committee to continue to administer Student Universal Support Ireland for the 2013/14...
- Croke Park Agreement Issues
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the TUI's rejection of the Croke Park 2 Agreement; and if he will review the current proposals tabled by the Labour Relations Commission...
- Third Level Admissions Entry Requirements
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for reform of the points system for third level entry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17540/13]
- School Health and Safety Issues
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the findings of an Impact study that found 60% of special needs assistants SNAs in schools say they have been assaulted by the pupils...
- Special Educational Needs Staffing
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will remove the cap on the number of resource and learning support teachers working with special needs students; and if he will make a statement...
- School Inspectors
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline the procedures and criteria used in the selection of post primary school inspectors; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- State Examinations Issues
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether the proposed changes to the Junior Certificate cycle will devalue the status of the exam amongst students, parents and teachers;...
- State Examinations Reviews
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the actions he will take in response to concerns expressed by the Teachers Union Ireland and Association of Secondary Teachers of Ireland that the...
- Special Educational Needs Services Provision
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the actions he will take in respect of figures published by Dublin that show 1% of children attending school have autism and that a typical school is...
- Schools Building Contractors
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a contractor has not been appointed to complete the school works at a school (details supplied) in County Kildare, despite repeated...
- State Examinations Reviews
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in view of the TUI and ASTI’s determination to resist any attempt to implement measures that would result in the continual evaluation of...
- FÁS Training Courses
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that he decided not to allocate those participating in CPL Momentum Courses, which are being administered by FÁS, the training, travel...
- Further Education and Training Programmes Funding
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for the development of the further education sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17582/13]
- Garda Vetting of Personnel
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the assurances he will give that schools will not experience long delays when appointing new teachers under the new national vetting legislation; and...
- Special Educational Needs Services Provision
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of funding that is being provided for support services for children with autism; the numbers of staff employed in associated programmes; if...
- School Patronage
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to change school patronage at primary level; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17526/13]
- Schools Building Projects Status
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will ensure that funding is immediately made available for a building project (details supplied) in Dublin 15 involving the removal of...
- Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the action he has taken to date to improve equality of access at third level facing children of non-EU migrants; and if he will make a statement on...
- Student Grant Scheme Design
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the legislation governing the Student Universal Support Ireland grant discriminates against students whose parent for the purposes of...
- Special Educational Needs Services Provision
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the recent Impact study which indicated that more than half of special needs assistants in schools say they have been assaulted by...
- Residential Institutions Issues
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will report on the appointments to the Residential Institutions Statutory Board in 2012; when the applications to the RISB will be processed and...
- Special Educational Needs Services Provision
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will address the fact that Down's Syndrome is not categorised as a low incidence disability, meaning less teaching supports and acting as a...
- Skills Development
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will indicate, arising from the experience in recent years, the extent to which the education system adequately meets the requirements and...
- Physical Education
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way he plans to tackle the low average rate of physical education allocation time in schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17439/13]
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Diplomatic Representation
To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade in view of the fact that the Russian Government upgraded its mission to the Holy See to full embassy status (details supplied),...
- Department of Finance
- Property Taxation Exemptions
To ask the Minister for Finance the number of properties in the West Cork region which have been exempted from the local property tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17807/13]
- Liquor Licence Applications
To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 84 of 6 March 2013, if he will clarify that the Revenue Commissioners did in fact issue an intoxicating liquor licence on...
- Tax Reliefs Application
To ask the Minister for Finance if the Revenue Commissioners will consider withdrawing their appeal to a court decision in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Monaghan; and if he...
- Pension Provisions
To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 157 of 5 March 2013 if he will confirm that the legislation is now in place for individuals to withdraw up to 30% of their...
- Property Taxation Exemptions
To ask the Minister for Finance the basis on which owners of properties with pyrite will be asked to verify the presence of pyrite in order to qualify for an exemption of the local property tax;...
- Banking Sector Staff Issues
To ask the Minister for Finance if any former employee of AIB who left the bank as part of the voluntary redundancy arrangements has since re-joined the bank as an employee or is doing work for...
- European Banking Union
To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding a plan (details supplied) for the bank sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17756/13]
- Banking Sector Staff Issues
To ask the Minister for Finance his views on correspondence (details supplied) from ordinary bank workers in response to the Mercer Report; if he will acknowledge the importance of separating the...
- Liquor Licence Applications
To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 84 of 6 March 2013, wherein he pointed out that the Revenue Commissioners may only grant a liquor licence to a person when...
- Tax Reliefs Availability
To ask the Minister for Finance his views on considering amending Section 469 of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 (1) under Health Expenses to simply read Physiotherapy. [17826/13]
- Property Taxation Collection
To ask the Minister for Finance if consideration has been given to a matter (details supplied) in respect of the local property tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17875/13]
- Register of Residential Properties
To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons who will be liable for the local property tax on a single residential property; the number of letters issued by the Revenue Commissioners to...
- Property Taxation Collection
To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the local property tax and its collection and distribution (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17956/13]
- Tax Clearance Certificates
To ask the Minister for Finance if a person (details supplied) in County Kildare can be issued to a person for 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17959/13]
- Department of Education and Skills
- Departmental Properties
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the locations in 2010, 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013 that FÁS pays rent on a building it rents; the length of time remaining on each building it...
- Special Educational Needs Staffing
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a resource teacher in a school (details supplied) in Dublin 5; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17805/13]
- State Examinations Reviews
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the framework for junior cycle document and his further views that this will change the role of the teacher from that of an advocate to...
- Higher Education Grants Eligibility Criteria
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current status of plans to revise the higher education grant means assessment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17883/13]
- School Textbooks
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans, if any, to ensure universal availability of a school book rental scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17884/13]
- Educational Disadvantage
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he intends to take to address the increasing numbers of disadvantaged children within the education system in view of the reduction in...
- Bullying in Schools
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on the work of his Department on tackling bullying; if he will outline the timetable for the delivery of the action plan...
- National Literacy and Numeracy Strategy
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline the progress made to date on his literacy and numeracy strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17888/13]
- Pupil-Teacher Ratio
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an assessment of the impact which changes to the pupil teacher ratio is having on class numbers; and if he will make a statement on...
- School Staffing
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will take the increased enrolment figures into consideration as a matter of urgency and grant developing school status which would necessitate a...
- School Patronage
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which he expects to accommodate the concerns of the patrons of smaller denominational schools throughout the country; the extent to...
- Educational Disadvantage
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which he expects to be in a position to address such issues as early school-leaving or drop out from education in the short and medium...
- Fee Paying Schools
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which he has engaged with the authorities of the various fee-paying schools throughout the country with particular reference to the need...
- Schools Building Projects Status
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which, in the context of the school building programme, he has managed to replace temporary or prefabricated classrooms with permanent...
- Pupil-Teacher Ratio
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which the pupil teacher ratio has fluctuated in each of the past four years to date; the likely development in this area over the next...
- School Staffing
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of teachers at primary and post-primary levels due to retire for one or other reasons throughout County Kildare in the current year; the...
- Schools Building Projects Application Numbers
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of applications for new or extensions to existing schools, primary and post-primary currently pending throughout County Kildare; his...
- School Patronage
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the strongly expressed preferences of the authorities of the various primary schools feeding into the Maynooth...
- Higher Education Institutions Issues
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if third level institutions can be encouraged, through additional informal courses and other methods, to assist students in maintaining and improving...
- Languages Programme
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he intends to alter the focus of the curricula of foreign languages at second level in order to emphasise the attainment of oral linguistic skills...
- Employment Support Services
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to extend springboard beyond its existing industry areas, in particular to those industry sectors which complement the existing areas. [17987/13]
- Special Educational Needs Services Provision
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will confirm the number of primary schools in the country which have a dedicated autism unit; the staffing allocation for these units; and if he...
- Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
- Coastal Erosion
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if support is available to citizens and businesses to assist in combatting coastal erosion which poses a threat to a considerable number of...
- Croke Park Agreement Issues
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on the findings of a report (details supplied) in the Croke Park 2 proposals; his views on the findings; and if he will make a...
- Pension Provisions
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will clarify the possible legal deficit which exists regarding superannuation regulations whereby there is now a requirement for an...
- Commercial Rates Valuation Process
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the current arrangement by which full time community childcare facilities are in the main...
- Legislative Programme
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to his reply of 20 February 2013 in relation to the Construction Contracts Bill, if he will consider the inclusion of a provision of...
- EU Funding
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the long term funding implications of the change to the status of BMW regions in the February MMF agreement; and if he will make a statement...
- Croke Park Agreement Issues
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will report on his role and that of his Department in the recent Croke Park negotiations; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Public Sector Staff Recruitment
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the progress that has been made on the commitment in the Programme for Government on opening principal officer appointments to external...
- Proposed Legislation
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on the commitment in the Programme for Government to legislate for a reformulated code of laws, replacing both...
- Public Sector Staff Recruitment
To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is satisfied that TLAC has been overhauled to include the majority of members drawn from outside the public sector as per the Programme...
- Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
- Job Creation Issues
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his plans to support companies based here in attracting Irish emigrants back to Ireland on account of the particular skills set such...
- Business Regulation
To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the supports available to small to medium sized enterprises in complying with regulatory issues and in acquiring finance in view of the...
- Department of Social Protection
- Jobseeker's Allowance Payments
To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will support the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9. [17783/13]
- Jobseeker's Benefit Eligibility
To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will investigate the difficulties for members of the Fire Service to receive payment of jobseeker's benefit on the basis of availability for work,...
- Rent Supplement Scheme Appeals
To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a decision has been made on an appeal of a rent allowance application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make...
- Jobseeker's Allowance Eligibility
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason casual workers who work a fourth day in the week lose entitlement; her views on whether this represents a disincentive to work; the steps she...
- Pensions Legislation
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the action that she has taken to amend the law governing pensions to provide a more equitable outcome form members of defined benefit schemes who have...
- Family Income Supplement Appeals
To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an update in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Louth, with regard to a claim for family income supplement, and a...
- National Internship Scheme Administration
To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to continue the jobbridge scheme after June 2013; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17951/13]
- Carer's Allowance Numbers
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position in relation to the number of persons in receipt of disability payments, disability allowance, disability benefit, invalidity pension, who...
- Disability Allowance Numbers
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position in relation to the number of persons who received disability payments for the years 2006 to 2012 and the breakdown by nationality for each...
- Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility
To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a person who is in receipt of a jobseeker's payment takes up full time employment is entitled to retain social welfare ancillary benefits for a period...
- Employment Support Schemes
To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will outline the range of supports available to assist jobseekers back into the workforce; her Department's projected budget on this area for...
- Supplementary Welfare Allowance Expenditure
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the background to the decision to cut grants for religious ceremonies such as first communion and confirmation costs; if these grants will be reinstated...
- Social Welfare Appeals Status
To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a social protection appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- ESB Compensation Scheme
To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the amount of compensation that the ESB paid out annually since 2005 under the headings: the Board's mast interference or mast...
- ESB Procedures
To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the procedures and criteria used by the ESB following receipt of notice from a landowner of their intention to erect buildings...
- Building Regulations Application
To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of applications for a Building Prohibition Order received from the ESB under section 19 of the Electricity Supply...
- ESB Compensation Scheme
To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the reason the ESB has adopted non-statutory policies and codes of practice, that is, clause 7 of the Policy Towards...
- Alternative Energy Projects
To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will list the membership of the committee reviewing wind turbines; when they are expected to report; and if he will make...
- Broadband Services Provision
To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will outline the position regarding the provision of broadband (details supplied) in Threemilehouse village, County...
- Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
- Social and Affordable Housing Provision
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will outline the articles of association affecting the operation of Léim an Bhradáin Housing Association,...
- Private Residential Tenancies Board Remit
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the steps that have been taken to reduce the waiting time to hear cases by the PRTB; the relief that is available to those who...
- EU Funding
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if any projects within his Department or agencies within his Department received EU Funding in 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013;...
- Leader Programmes Funding
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will expedite the sanction of the issue of contracts for the funding of a project (details supplied) in County Mayo under...
- Commercial Rates Issues
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide details in tabular form by authority of the amount of commercial rates in each authority which has been...
- Rural Development Programme Funding
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the current position regarding rural development funding availability; the outlook for the rest of 2013; and if he will make a...
- Irish Water Establishment
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the costs associated with the establishment of Irish Water; if he will outline in detail the areas of spending his Department...
- Fire Safety Issues
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if European standards regarding panic/emergency exit doors and fire rated doors are mandatory here; if it is mandatory that...
- Water Meters Installation
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will consider reducing the minimum turnover required for a company to be eligible to tender for any future contract for...
- Property Taxation Collection
To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding the local property tax and its collection and distribution (details supplied); and if he will make a...
- Department of Justice and Equality
- Road Traffic Offences
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of motoring fines issued by An Garda Síochána in 2012 and to date in 2013 for passengers aged over 17 years for not wearing a...
- Garda Recruitment
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to recommence recruitment to An Garda Siochána this year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17758/13]
- Crime Prevention
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the additional resources he will allocate to deal with the rise in the number of theft of mobile phones in Dublin city centre; and if he will make a...
- Garda Transport Numbers
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of vehicles allocated to the Garda Traffic Corps as of 1 April 2013; if he will provide same as of 31 December 2012; and if he will make a...
- Asylum Applications
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding former asylum seekers who has been given leave to remain but is unable to present a valid passport through no fault of their...
- Anti-Social Behaviour
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of anti social behavioural orders issued by Gardai from 2007 to date in 2013 on a county basis; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Garda Strength
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the strength in numbers nationwide of An Garda Síochána for the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17809/13]
- Commissions of Investigation
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the date on which he intends to publish in full Chapter 20 of the Report of the Commission of Investigation into the Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin...
- Asylum Applications
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current or expected position in respect of an application for subsidiary protection in the case of persons (details supplied) in Dublin 15 going...
- Prisoner Releases
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if prisoners who have served their full sentences will be issued with a certificate of imprisonment upon release as a matter of course which will be...
- Courts Service Issues
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to provide additional resources to the Courts Service to provide for the expansion of family mediation services in courts throughout the...
- Garda Investigations
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason the computer and DVDs taken 10 months ago from a person (details supplied) in County Galway have not been returned; the legislation under...
- Crime Statistics
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of convictions, in tabular form, for the years 1997 to date in 2013, which have been secured under section 11 of the Non Fatal Offences...
- Garda Investigations
To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will support the case of a person (details supplied) in County Monaghan regarding a suspected fraud. [18000/13]
- Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
- Harbour Authority Properties
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding the decision on proposed parking plan at Howth, County Dublin and the need to protect local jobs. [17787/13]
- Forestry Premium
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when an applicant (details supplied) will expect forestry premium payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17788/13]
- Animal Welfare Issues
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding the code of ethics as set out under the Animal Welfare Bill; when the code of ethics will be published; what it...
- Food Labelling
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the tests being carried out to ensure that correctly labelled fish is being sold in supermarkets here; and if he will make a statement on...
- Grant Payments
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will review a case in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17797/13]
- Agri-Environment Options Scheme Applications
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive a decision on an agri environment option scheme 3 application; and if he will...
- Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding an agri environment option scheme payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cavan; when he...
- Fisheries Protection
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the presence of a trawler (details supplied) in Irish waters and that the span of its nets is as big as...
- Suckler Welfare Scheme Payments
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive their payment for cow suckler welfare scheme; and if he will make a statement...
- Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment will issue under agri environment scheme 2 in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if he will make...
- Animal Welfare Issues
To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the procedures and/or regulations in place to ensure proper adjudication of adequate animal welfare regulations in respect of the...
- Department of Children and Youth Affairs
- UN Convention on Children's Rights
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to sign and ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communications procedure; if she can give...
- Child Care Services
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if a social worker will be appointed and kept in place in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 11; and if she will make a statement...
- Child and Family Support Agency Remit
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will confirm that family resource centres will form an integral part of the new Child and Family Support Agency when it is established;...
- Youth Services
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reasons a club (details supplied) in County Galway suffered a 10% cut in funding from her Department; if her attention has been drawn to the...
- Inter-Country Adoptions
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to previous Parliamentary Questions, when does she expect that the Adoption Authority of Ireland will start processing adoptions from...
- Preschool Services
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of primary level schools in Connaught that operate the ECCE scheme on their grounds; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Aftercare Services
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide, in tabular form, on a regional basis, the number of aftercare workers employed by the Health Service Executive or...
- Children and Asylum Issues
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she has considered the recommendations of the recently published report by Barnardos and the Health Service Executive into separated children...
- Youth Services
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will confirm the level of cuts that her Department plans to put in place in its allocation to youth services in 2013, particularly...
- Adoption Legislation
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when the proposed legislation on adoption information and tracing services will be brought before Dáil Eireann; and if she will make a...
- Children and Family Services
To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she has considered the contents of a study (details supplied); if she will be recommending the inclusion of an early years programme for...
- Department of Health
- Nursing Staff Recruitment
To ask the Minister for Health the number of graduate nurses currently employed in Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9; the number of graduate nurses that were taken on in 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012; and...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
To ask the Minister for Health when an application for an appointment with a consultant at the Mater Hospital, Dublin 7, will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Wexford...
- Hospital Charges
To ask the Minister for Health if he has had any contact with the board of Tallaght Hospital, Dublin 24, regarding the introduction of a charge to patients for a call to its clinic for a blood...
- Orthodontic Services Provision
To ask the Minister for Health if an assessment will be carried out in respect of eligibility for orthodontic treatment in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he...
- Medicinal Products Availability
To ask the Minister for Health his plans to recommend that the Health Service Executive provide funding for Pirfenidone, a drug approved by the European Medicines Agency in February 2011 and also...
- Departmental Funding
To ask the Minister for Health if his Department, the Health Service Executive or any organisation funded by him or the HSE provides financial assistance by way of a grant or any other means to...
- Medical Card Eligibility
To ask the Minister for Health the payments currently paid to general practitioners in respect of medical card patients; the details of the individual charges for each category of card holder,...
- Legislative Programme
To ask the Minister for Health the role of the Junior Ministers in his Department in constructing abortion legislation; the number of meetings he has had with them; and if he will make a...
- Hospital Accommodation Provision
To ask the Minister for Health when the full complement of beds will be opened in a hospital (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17775/13]
- Services for People with Disabilities
To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the processes undertaken, with regard to an independent assessments of need, as per the Disability Act 2005; the assessment waiting times...
- Health Services Access
To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding provision of services to be provided in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Louth; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time for a patient referred by their general practitioner to the Phlebotomy Department of Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9, for an ordinary blood...
- Hospital Charges
To ask the Minister for Health the cost of an ordinary blood test in the Phlebotomy Department of Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9, for a non-medical card holder; and if he will make a statement on...
- Health Services Provision
To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite a call for an MRI scan in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17806/13]
- Nursing Home Accommodation
To ask the Minister for Health when a person is approved of the fair deal scheme the average length of time it takes for them to avail of a nursing home bed, nationally and specifically in County...
- Nursing Homes Support Scheme
To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the operation of the fair deal scheme to allow people to have the option to be cared for 24 hours a day in their own homes as an alternative to...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Galway on the inpatient waiting list in County Galway will receive treatment [17822/13]
- Legislative Programme
To ask the Minister for Health if he has engaged with members of Epilepsy Ireland with regard to their concerns about the possible consequences of people with epilepsy using the generic...
- Ambulance Service Provision
To ask the Minister for Health the overall budget for the National Ambulance Service over the past five years; if he will provide a county breakdown; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Medical Card Appeals
To ask the Minister for Health the progress made to date in respect of an appeal for a medical card in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement...
- Health Services Issues
To ask the Minister for Health if he can ascertain from the Health Service Executive when the psychological report in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 1 will be discussed with him...
- General Medical Services Scheme Review
To ask the Minister for Health if, in the context of the need to secure savings in the GMS scheme, he and his Department are mindful of the pressures which general practitioners practices are...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that a person (details supplied) in County Longford is admitted into St. Luke's Hospital, Dublin, immediately. [17990/13]
- Symphysiotomy Report
To ask the Minister for Health when he is going to make the Walsh Report on Symphysiotomy available to the public; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17991/13]
- Hospital Staff
To ask the Minister for Health the reason that there is no orthopaedic paediatric surgeon currently employed in the Lourdes Hospital Drogheda, County Louth; if he will confirm if the position has...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
To ask the Minister for Health the number of children who are on the waiting list for orthopaediatric surgery in the Louth area at present; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17994/13]
- Hospital Services
To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the new emergency monitoring units for epilepsy at Cork University Hospital and at Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9; when these units will be open...
- General Practitioner Services
To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 283 of 27 March 2013 (details supplied) if he will explain the way in which this will operate in the context of his commitment...
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- Tourism Industry Issues
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the discussions he has had with Fáilte Ireland in relation to possible redundancies at a golf club (details supplied) in County Kerry;...
- Regional Airports
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the group examining the future of Ireland West Airport Knock has been established; the membership of same; the terms of reference of same;...
- Tourism Promotion
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will confirm that Shannon Development will no longer be running the Tourist Office at Birr Civic Offices, County Offaly; if he will...
- Driving Licence Applications
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the renewal of a driving licence in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Monaghan; if he will also outline...
- Sport and Recreational Development
To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to recognise darts as a sport; the efforts being made to make this happen; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17957/13]
