Written answers

Tuesday, 23 April 2013

  • Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
    • Retail Sector
      97. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the measures he will put in place to help the retail sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18664/13]
    • Economic Growth Initiatives
      98. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the extent to which innovation/technology has contributed to national recovery with particular reference to the extent to which...
    • Employment Rights Issues
      99. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the action he proposes to take to deal with the position of workers whose contract of employment expires on their sixty-fifth birthday,...
    • European Council Meetings
      100. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will report on the recent EU EPSCO Council meeting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18671/13]
    • Economic Growth Initiatives
      101. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps he has taken with his counterparts in the Northern Executive to promote trade and support enterprises along the border...
    • Retail Sector
      102. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he has had any recent meetings with RGDATA; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18669/13]
    • Credit Guarantee Scheme Implementation
      103. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his assessment of the impact of the Credit Guarantee Act to date; the amount of jobs that have been supported by this investment to...
    • Economic Competitiveness
      105. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps he has taken to address the many utility costs facing enterprises which undermine our competitiveness. [18624/13]
    • Action Plan for Jobs
      106. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the role that will be played by the six industry partners in the implementation of the Action Plan on Jobs; the support that will be...
    • Trade Promotion Issues
      107. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the relationship that is in place between his agencies and the Department of Foreign Affairs to ensure that overseas trade...
    • Job Statistics
      108. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of jobs in exporting enterprises; the number in the domestic economy; and changes in these since 2007. [18618/13]
    • Local Enterprise Offices Establishment
      109. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the stage at which the creation of the new local enterprise offices are at; and when will they be functioning. [18635/13]
    • Job Creation Issues
      111. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation in view of the centrality of business and trade to economic recovery across the island, the proposals he has developed to extend the...
    • Employment Rights Issues
      112. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will detail the impact of the recent Industrial Relations Act on the wages of low paid workers; and the way his Department...
    • Economic Competitiveness
      113. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will detail the impact of the Competition Authority in reducing costs to business and the consumer. [18629/13]
    • Job Creation Targets
      114. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation in view of the fact that the private sector has not delivered the number of jobs predicted, his views on whether it is time for the...
    • Job Creation Numbers
      115. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the jobs that have been secured for each county by each of the trade missions in the past 12 months. [18634/13]
    • Industrial Disputes
      116. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the way that workers who have been in dispute with their employer for more than three years and who have been in the Labour Court and...
    • Job Creation Issues
      117. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the way he intends to monitor the number of jobs created by his initiatives to ensure that the number created matches those expected...
    • Exports Growth
      118. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his plans to expand the export capacity of the small medium enterprise sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18652/13]
    • Small and Medium Enterprises Supports
      119. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will detail the innovation voucher facility operated by Enterprise Ireland; if he will outline the way their facility may be...
    • Employment Rights Issues
      122. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on the response of the International Transport Federation (details supplied) to the Marine Casualty Investigation Board...
    • Industrial Development
      123. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if his attention has been drawn to the difficulty in attracting significant new industry to County Kerry; if his further attention has...
    • Economic Competitiveness
      124. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps he has taken to address the property costs to small and medium enterprises. [18620/13]
    • Job Creation Issues
      125. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his policies to support the creation of jobs in the town centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18592/13]
    • Industrial Development
      126. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will ask the Industrial Development Agency to assess the reason for the lack of new investments in County Donegal; the dynamic...
    • Industrial Relations Issues
      127. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps he intends to take to ensure that decisions made by the State's industrial relations machinery are upheld. [18597/13]
    • Job Creation Issues
      128. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his plans to develop State led research opportunities for the 4,000 post doctoral graduates who are currently unemployed whose skills...
    • Job Creation Targets
      131. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation at the current rates of change his views on when an additional 100,000 jobs will be created in the economy. [18619/13]
    • Joint Labour Committees Agreements
      133. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he has received a copy of the Labour Court Review of ten existing JLC; and if he will outline when he will be able to form a view...
    • Transport Costs
      134. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the way he intends to tackle the additional cost to business of transport and in particular businesses in areas with poor transport...
    • Economic Competitiveness
      135. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will detail policies being implemented by his Department to tackle the competitive disadvantage experienced by rural enterprises...
    • EU Funding
      136. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will advise on the amount of EU funding available to Ireland under the PCP and PPI in the ICT FP7 and CIP programmes; and if he...
    • Job Creation Issues
      138. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps he has taken to ensure that all job creation bodies, which seek to promote enterprises, do not pass on excessive cost to...
    • Job Creation Targets
      140. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the extent to which he expects to achieve targets in respect of job retention and job creation; if he has identified any particular...
    • Ministerial Travel
      141. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will report on his visit to Germany; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18348/13]
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Departmental Expenditure
      142. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide in a tabular form for each of the years 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012 the actual expenditure, and for 2013 the budgeted expenditure of the Director of...
    • Job Creation Numbers
      143. To ask the Taoiseach the number of jobs created on a monthly basis in each of the past three years to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18996/13]
    • Job Losses
      144. To ask the Taoiseach the number of jobs lost on an annual basis in each of the past five years to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18997/13]
    • Property Taxation Collection
      146. To ask the Taoiseach the information that was supplied by the Central Statistics Office arising from the Census of Population 2011 to the Department of Finance and or Revenue Commissioners...
    • Ministerial Adviser Pay
      147. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide in a tabular format a list of all his special advisers' pay and that of his Minister of State, to include each salary and name of employee above...
    • State Bodies Establishment
      149. To ask the Taoiseach the number of new State bodies that have been established under the aegis of his Department since February 2011; the number of such bodies subject to a sunset clause;...
    • Official Engagements
      150. To ask the Taoiseach his plans for an official visit to Burma Myanmar; and if so, if he will outline the circumstances in which such plans were devised. [18403/13]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      151. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide in tabular form the number of politicians under the remit of his Department who earn more than €500,000, between €400,000 and...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Passport Applications
      152. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if an application for passports by a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15 will be expedited, in view of the urgent...
    • Overseas Development Aid Provision
      153. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide a list of donations of €1m or more by Irish Aid to organizations in 2012, showing the...
    • Human Rights Issues
      154. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the restrictions, if any, that apply to Irish businesses and individuals doing business with Burmese Myanmarese military...
    • Overseas Development Aid Provision
      155. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will confirm his Department’s funding provided to the Republic of Uganda in 2012 and in 2013; and his views...
    • Certificate of Irish Heritage Issues
      156. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will confirm the cost of the Irish heritage certificate scheme to date and specifically the amount paid to date to...
    • Consular Services Expenditure
      157. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will set out in tabular form for each year 2011 and 2012, the cost, by country, of operating embassies, consulates,...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      159. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the contacts that he has had with key players on Capitol Hill in the US following the publication of the Outline of the...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      160. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the situation regarding his recent announcement regarding the allocation to refugees in Turkey, to outline the total such...
    • Public Sector Staff Remuneration
      161. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide in tabular form the number of civil/public servants under the remit of his Department who earn more...
    • Human Rights Issues
      162. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade in the context of the upcoming Universal Periodic Review of Colombia in the Human Rights Council, if he intends to press...
    • UN Security Council Resolutions
      163. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will consider supporting the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 in Colombia, in the context of...
    • Human Rights Issues
      164. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade with regard to the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, if he will indicate which Govrernment...
    • Diplomatic Representation
      165. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans for increasing an Irish presence in Taiwan since the closure of the Industrial Development Agency's Taiwan...
  • Department of Finance
    • Property Taxation Application
      167. To ask the Minister for Finance arising from recent demands for local property tax received by homeowners in recent times, if the current actual market value of a person's property remains...
    • Tax Code
      168. To ask the Minister for Finance in view of developments in Portugal, if he has considered a general increase in PAYE to higher earners over a three year period which would have less...
    • Customs and Excise Staff
      169. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm the number of full time Customs and Excise staff employed solely in the detection of drugs for 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012; and if he will...
    • Tax and Social Welfare Codes
      172. To ask the Minister for Finance if she will state the present procedures which a citizen in receipt of a social welfare payment must declare such income for taxation purposes; if there are...
    • Fuel Laundering
      173. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures being adopted by his Department to tackle the cross-border fuel laundering industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19128/13]
    • Property Taxation Collection
      175. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will clarify the position regarding a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12 and the collection of property tax; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • IBRC Liquidation
      176. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a breakdown of the ELG payments that comprise the €933m provided under the Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Act 2008, as...
    • Tax Code
      177. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will exempt women who do not receive a full salary top-up from their employers from the proposed tax on maternity benefit; and if he will make a...
    • Property Taxation Exemptions
      178. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide details of the exemptions in property value for persons who have a disability in respect of the local property tax; and if he will make a...
    • Fiscal Advisory Council
      179. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide the total moneys paid to the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council since it was set up in 2011; and if he will assess the work of the council to...
    • Universal Social Charge Application
      180. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason a person (details supplied) in Dublin 7 is being charged universal social charge on their pension income and income from a home help job that they...
    • IBRC Liquidation
      182. To ask the Minister for Finance following the statement by the Central Bank of Ireland on 7 March 2013 on the use of the deposit guarantee scheme to pay depositors at Irish Bank Resolution...
    • Financial Services Ombudsman
      183. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will outline the obstacles which prevent the Financial Services Ombudsman from releasing details confirming the identity of financial institutions...
    • Bank Stress Tests
      185. To ask the Minister for Finance further to confirmation that the Central Bank of Ireland has engaged BlackRock International to provide the stress-testing of Irish banks in 2013, if he will...
    • Tax Collection
      188. To ask the Minister for Finance further to the recent initiation of legal action in the High Court against several airlines including Aer Lingus, Ryanair and Comhfhirbairt Gaillimh in...
    • Personal Insolvency Act
      189. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will outline the tax liabilities that may arise for a debtor if, under the provisions of the Personal Insolvency Act 2012, some debts attaching to the...
    • IBRC Liquidation
      190. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will outline any representations that he or his Department has received from, or on behalf of, borrowers at the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation in...
    • National Debt
      193. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a breakdown of other debt management expenses of €38.27m in the March 2013 Exchequer Statement showing description of cost and...
    • NAMA Operations
      195. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm the approximate cost of capital at the National Asset Management Agency. [18449/13]
    • NAMA Portfolio Issues
      196. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 91 on 21 March 2013, if he considers the 4,000 homes that the National Asset Management Agency controls which are vacant...
    • NAMA Transactions
      197. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 272 on 29 January 2013, the reason it has taken nearly two years for the Financial Regulator to validate the process of...
    • NAMA Debtors
      198. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm the total number of individuals who are debtors of the National Asset Management Agency who have filed for bankruptcy outside the...
    • NAMA Bonds
      200. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm the total value of bonds issued by the National Asset Management Agency as part of the special liquidation of the Irish Bank Resolution...
    • IBRC Liquidation
      201. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will outline the process by which remaining unsold assets at the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation will be acquired by the National Asset Management...
    • Budget 2014 Issues
      204. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm the date on which Budget 2014 will be presented to Dáil Éireann; and if he will outline the key budget processes and documents to...
    • Budget Consultation Process
      205. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will outline the consultations that will take place in relation to Budget 2014, with both national and international parties, together with the nature...
    • IBRC Liquidation
      207. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm the value of loans at Irish Bank Resolution Corporation that have been refinanced out of IBRC between 6 February 2013 to date; and if he...
    • Financial Services Regulation
      208. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will outline the rationale for providing for a €100,000 termination bonus for the Financial Regulator who was appointed in January 2010 and who...
    • Banking Sector Remuneration
      211. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm the number of employment contracts at the Central Bank of Ireland that provide for termination bonuses, such as that recently reported in...
    • National Treasury Management Agency Remuneration
      212. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm the number of employment contracts at the National Treasury Management Agency that provide for termination bonuses, such as that recently...
    • Departmental Bodies Remuneration
      213. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm the status of salary waivers in 2013 at the National Treasury Management Agency and National Asset Management Agency, and specifically if...
    • Banking Sector Issues
      214. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has any concerns for the future of KBC Ireland which recently reported an additional bailout by its parent of €380m for 2012 after another...
    • NAMA Loans Sale
      216. To ask the Minister for Finance following news that the National Asset Management Agency is selling large portfolios of loans which bundle together loans to a single borrower, if he is...
    • IBRC Liquidation
      217. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will outline the safeguards which exist to prevent the special liquidator at Irish Bank Resolution Corporation from being subjected to improper...
    • Outright Monetary Transaction Scheme Eligibility
      219. To ask the Minister for Finance further to the European Central Bank press conference on 4 April 2013 in which the President of the ECB, Mr Mario Draghi, referred to OMTs and their precise...
    • Banking Sector Regulation
      220. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is concerned at the criticism of the former management of Halifax Bank of Scotland by the British Parliamentary Commission on banking standards in its...
    • NAMA Advisory Board
      222. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will outline the activity over the past year of the National Asset Management Agency Advisory Board comprising persons (details supplied); and if he...
    • NAMA Board Appointments
      224. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason he did not advertise the vacancy on the National Asset Management Agency board before deciding to appoint a person (details supplied) to the...
    • NAMA Loans Sale
      225. To ask the Minister for Finance if the National Asset Management Agency has compared its internal rate of return with internal rates of return targeted by investors bidding for, and buying,...
    • National Debt
      226. To ask the Minister for Finance the average maturity of each of the components and the overall average maturity of the general Government debt; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Mortgage Arrears Proposals
      227. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on reports that banks are refusing to restructure mortgages until customers stop paying the credit unions and other unsecured debts; and if he will...
    • Tax Reliefs Application
      230. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will clarify any recent changes in respect of VRT/VAT allowance on motor vehicles for persons with special needs; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Financial Services Regulation
      231. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason persons who pay off their mortgages early are being penalised by certain banks; his plans to address this issue; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Tax Collection
      232. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Revenue Commissioners will recalculate the liability for inheritance tax paid by a person (details supplied) in County Carlow in view of the current...
    • National Treasury Management Agency Bond Issues
      233. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of cash being held on balance by the National Treasury Managemnt Agency; the reason for this volume of this cash holding; if this cash is receiving...
    • Banking Sector Issues
      234. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 336 of 16 April 2013, the way he has cast his vote for each of the resolutions individually due for decision at the Bank...
    • Tax Yield
      235. To ask the Minister for Finance further to recent reporting that the Revenue Commissioners has recovered €45.5m from 328 individuals relating to trusts in Channel Islands,...
    • IBRC Liquidation
      236. To ask the Minister for Finance if it remains the case that the National Asset Management Agency will acquire the unsold remaining loans at Irish Bank Resolution Corporation in August 2013,...
    • Pension Provisions
      238. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will explain the approach of Allied Irish Banks, in which he controls 99.8% of the shares and which transferred €1.1bn to its pension fund to...
    • European Financial Stability Facility
      239. To ask the Minister for Finance following the Econfin statement on 12 April 2013, if he will set out, in tabular form, the old maturity of debt owing to the European contributors to the...
    • Property Taxation Administration
      240. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider extending the closing date for filing local property tax returns to facilitate all those people who have still had no communication from...
    • Banking Sector Regulation
      241. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm if a person who holds a US passport and an Irish passport is eligible to buy shares in financial institutions in the State; if he will...
    • Tax Yield
      242. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of money generated from VAT annually; if he will provide a breakdown of the way that the money is spent; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Banking Sector Remuneration
      243. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 178 of 26 March 2013 regarding the Mercier Report (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Staff Remuneration
      244. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide in tabular form the number of civil/public servants under the remit of his Department who earn more than €500,000, between...
    • Tax Collection Forecast
      246. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons here earning in excess of €100,000; and the estimates of income generated if the tax rate for this group were to be increased by...
    • Property Taxation Collection
      247. To ask the Minister for Finance if persons paying property tax through the post office are subject to a transaction charge. [18892/13]
    • Universal Social Charge Payments
      248. To ask the Minister for Finance where the money collected from the universal social charge is allocated to; the section that benefits from it; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Mortgage Arrears Proposals
      249. To ask the Minister for Finance the actions being taken to ensure that banks adequately engage with customers in relation to mortgage arrears; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Property Taxation Application
      251. To ask the Minister for Finance the advice provided to homeowners, if any, of the respective percentage reduction that should be applied to their property value when valuing their property...
    • Mortgage Arrears Proposals
      252. To ask the Minister for Finance his response to the proposal made in a newspaper article (details supplied) in relation to the deferral of mortgage debt. [19030/13]
    • NAMA Portfolio Issues
      253. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of non-residential properties the National Asset Management Agency has control over in Waterford City and county following the liquidation of the...
    • Tax Code
      254. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on a matter regarding VAT (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19089/13]
    • Tax Collection
      255. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary question No. 216 of 16 April 2013, if he will confirm if the Sheriff is permitted to break into a person's home; if he is permitted...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Teaching Contracts
      256. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the extension of teachers' working hours in the Croke Park Agreement will cease and the old teaching hours return post recession; and if he...
    • FÁS Training Programmes
      257. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will address the concerns raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18784/13]
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      258. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is any arrangement in place through FÁS to accept the work experience achieved abroad by apprentices who have had to leave here...
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      259. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will confirm that the pupil teacher ratio for English as an additional language, EAL, used to be 14:1; if he will indicate the ratio for...
    • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
      260. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider reversing the decision by his Department to stop the funding for an autistic child (details supplied) [18304/13]
    • State Examinations Issues
      261. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) in County Kildare who was given the benefit of a reader and waiver for the junior certificate may be given similar...
    • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
      262. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will be made for the application by a school for resource hours and a classroom assistant in respect of a person (details...
    • School Staffing
      263. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) in County Westmeath will be provided with a language support teacher; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • School Accommodation
      264. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when additional accommodation in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Westmeath will be completed. [18387/13]
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      265. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for a secondary school (details supplied) in County Westmeath.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18388/13]
    • Site Acquisitions
      266. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the building unit of his Department has met with the principal and/or the board of management with regard to identifying a suitable site for a...
    • Teacher Redeployment
      267. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider introducing a teacher exchange scheme for secondary school teachers to include those working within the vocational education...
    • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
      269. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider altering the definition of a dependent student for the purposes of the student grant; if his attention has been drawn to the...
    • Student Grant Scheme Applications
      270. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of student grant applications to Student Universal Support Ireland that were refused; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Student Grant Scheme Appeals
      271. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of student grant applications that were appealed to Student Universal Support Ireland; the amount of those appeals; and if he will...
    • Student Grant Scheme Delays
      272. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of student grant applications to Student Universal Support Ireland that are still awaiting payment; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      273. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when funding will be made available for the development of the Gaelscoil in Clonmel, County Tipperary, now that planning permission has been...
    • Free Education Scheme
      274. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide details of any financial arrangement of either a capital or current spending nature, provided by the State to Kilkenny College...
    • School Curriculum
      275. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the new Politics and Society leaving certificate subject will be rolled out; if there are proposals for up-skilling existing teachers to...
    • Teacher Training Provision
      276. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the upcoming change in length from a one year to a two year course, of the Professional Diploma in Education; if he will indicate...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      277. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the delay with regard to a school building project in Edenderry, County Offaly; if he will ensure that every...
    • Modern Language Teaching
      278. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline the current status of the provision of foreign languages that exists across the Irish education system at primary, secondary...
    • Home Tuition Scheme
      279. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision on a home tuition grant will be made in repsect of a person (details supplied) [18772/13]
    • Student Grant Scheme Application Numbers
      280. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students who qualified for a student maintenance grant in each of the past five academic years, detailed by the level of award and...
    • Further Education and Training Programmes Provision
      282. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a breakdown of the total number of participants who have successfully completed a springboard programme; the success rate of...
    • School Staffing
      283. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will deal with a matter concerning a school (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18854/13]
    • Student Grant Scheme Appeals
      284. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will investigate a student grant application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Staff Remuneration
      285. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide in tabular form the number of civil/public servants under the remit of his Department who earn more than €500,000,...
    • Schools Mental Health Strategies
      286. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on the drafting of guidelines for schools in relation to mental health in the State's education system; if he will...
    • Broadband Services Provision
      287. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to provide broadband and an internet connection to a rural school (details supplied) in County Clare;; and if he will make a statement...
    • School Syllabus
      288. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the procedure for a new poet being accepted to the English syllabus of the leaving certificate; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Post-Leaving Certificate Courses
      289. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will take steps to provide additional post leaving certificate places to cater for the increasing educational needs in County Westmeath;...
    • Student Grant Scheme Applications
      290. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an application for third level grants in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a...
    • Irish Language
      291. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the grants available to families who wish to educate their children in Irish but do not have a Gaelscoil in their area; and if he will make a...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      292. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a school (details supplied) in County Sligo was not included in his five year plan for school buildings, 2012 to 2016, despite the...
    • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
      294. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the legislation governing the Student Universal Support Ireland grant discriminates against students whose parent and/or guardian, for...
    • Education and Training Provision
      295. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to parliamentary Question No. 269 of 14 February 2013, if he will provide the data from FÁS detailed in the answer. [19119/13]
    • Teaching Qualifications
      296. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps a foreign citizen (details supplied) with foreign qualifications would need to take to work in the pere-school or primary education...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Croke Park Agreement Issues
      297. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the percentage cut to the salary of An Taoiseach and allowances under the terms of Croke Park 2; and if he will confirm if any public...
    • Flood Prevention Measures
      298. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the progress made to date in the provision of flood control measures to guard against damage to property arising out of any future...
    • Public Sector Staff Recruitment
      300. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the moratorium on recruitment in the public sector applies to the replacement of a person in a job-sharing post; and if he will make...
    • Freedom of Information Remit
      301. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when he expects to bring the Private Residential Tenancies Board under the scope of the Freedom of Information Act; and if he will make...
    • Croke Park Agreement Savings
      302. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 248 of 12 March 2013, the date on which new pay and allowance arrangements under Croke Park 2 need...
    • Croke Park Agreement Implementation
      303. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the next report of the Croke Park Implementation Body will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18742/13]
    • Departmental Staff Remuneration
      304. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide in tabular form the number of civil/public servants under the remit of his Department who earn more than...
    • National Lottery Funding Disbursement
      305. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the natural environment will be added to the list of purposes to which National Lottery funds may apply; and if he will make a...
    • Revised Estimates Publication
      306. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the savings in his Department's 2013 Revised Estimates of Expenditure which incorporate the savings which were part of the Labour...
    • Departmental Staff Redeployment
      308. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will confirm if a person (details supplied) in County Cork is eligible for a transfer within the civil service; and if he will...
  • Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
    • Employment Appeals Tribunal
      310. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his plans that he will put in place to reduce the waiting time, currently at least 77 weeks, before a case is heard by the Employment...
    • Employment Rights Issues
      311. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the reason NERA will not investigate a legitimate complaint raised by a person (details supplied) in County Waterford; if there is...
    • Redundancy Payments
      313. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on a matter regarding redundancy payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if he will make a...
    • Enterprise Ireland Funding
      314. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will confirm for each of the years 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 the State funding provided to Wicklow Enterprise Park...
    • Retail Sector
      315. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the projected outline for the opening of the Iceland store in County Longford; and if he will discuss the delay directly with the...
    • Job Statistics
      316. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide a breakdown of the level of employment, job losses and job creation in companies supported by the Industrial...
    • Public Sector Staff Remuneration
      318. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide in tabular form the number of civil/public servants under the remit of his Department who earn more than...
    • Work Permit Criteria
      319. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if his attention has been drawn to the situation affecting a number of holders of work permits who have resided and have been employed...
    • Job Creation Issues
      320. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the level of educational or skills requirements in respect of jobs created over the past three years to date; and if he will make a...
    • Foreign Direct Investment
      321. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the extent to which foreign direct investment has resulted in job creation in each of the past five years to date; his projections in...
    • Job Trends
      322. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the extent if any to which he has identified positives or negatives affecting job creation or retention based on the experience of the...
    • Job Creation Numbers
      323. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of jobs created in County Kildare indigenously or arising from foreign direct investment in each of the past five years to...
    • Job Creation Issues
      324. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the extent to which job creation has been assisted by science and or innovation technologies and related funding under this heading...
    • Job Losses
      325. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the extent to which he and his Department have addressed the issue of job relocation from this jurisdiction to other European and...
    • Economic Competitiveness
      326. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the extent to which the issue of costs and competitiveness have been addressed in the context of job creation and attracting foreign...
    • Foreign Direct Investment
      327. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the issues most likely affecting the determination of foreign companies in the course of their job-creating investment proposals in...
    • Commercial Rent Reviews
      329. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the extent to which upward only rent reviews continue to remain a reason for closure or job losses in the retail or commercial...
    • Work Permit Application Numbers
      331. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of Green Card applications that have been approved to date under the Special Assignee Relief Programme in each of the...
    • National Internship Scheme Placements
      332. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if the average cost per job created in Enterprise Ireland-supported companies, which increased almost three-fold in the previous...
  • Department of Social Protection
    • Job Losses
      333. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the prevalent skill or educational standards of employees in areas of major job losses over the past four years; if any particular skill levels were...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      334. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a review for carer's allowance will be expedited in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if she will make a statement...
    • Invalidity Pension Appeals
      335. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an appeal for invalidity pension will be granted in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Laois; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Pension Provisions
      336. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the way the Sterling exchange rate is arrived at for applicants in receipt of top up State pension payments to UK State pensions who are resident in...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility
      337. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) in County Donegal continues to be denied a social welfare payment based on the habitual residence condition;...
    • Mortgage Arrears Proposals
      338. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will respond to the issues raised in correspondence (details supplied) concerning the national campaign to assist people in mortgage arrears;...
    • Treatment Benefit Scheme Applications
      341. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if an application for funding under the treatment benefit scheme will be processed in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick....
    • Carer's Allowance Application Numbers
      344. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of care's allowance applications that are currently in the Department of Social Protection; the number of person who applied for carer's...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Payments
      346. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the correct level of job seeker's allowance payable in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare [18368/13]
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Applications
      347. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will approve payment for rent support in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Personal Public Service Numbers
      348. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if and when a PPS Number will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Community Employment Schemes Eligibility
      349. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the date the rule changed regarding persons who can now spend only up to 12 months on community employment and the effective date for this change;...
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      351. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will approve and expedite an appeal for disability allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a...
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      352. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding carer's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Family Income Supplement Appeals
      354. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will undertake a review of the recent refusal of family income supplement in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and...
    • National Internship Scheme Administration
      355. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an update on jobbridge (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18502/13]
    • One-Parent Family Payment Appeals
      356. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if and when an oral hearing will be rescheduled in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare in respect of their appeal for one...
    • Respite Care Grant
      357. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she is considering any alteration to the cut to the carer's respite grant. [18515/13]
    • Child Benefit Payments
      358. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the steps being taken, and continue to be taken, to address concerns about large sums of money being paid in children's allowance to families who...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Payments
      359. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will indicate the appropriate level of rent allowance applicable to a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15; and if she will make a...
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      360. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be made on the application for a carer's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5. [18539/13]
    • Social Welfare Appeals Status
      362. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person has to issue an overpayment (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18548/13]
    • Social Welfare Payments to Prisoners
      365. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will set out in tabular form for 2011 and 2012 and analysed by social protection headings, the amounts paid by her Department to citizens...
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      366. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an appeal for carer's allowance will be granted in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Laois; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Appeals
      367. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason for the delay in determining an appeal for suspending jobseeker's benefit with particular reference to an appeal in respect of a person...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
      368. 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...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Eligibility
      371. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will set out the entitlement to job seeker's benefit and or job seeker's allowance in the case of a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Gender Recognition Issues
      372. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the steps he has taken on legislation regarding gender recognition; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18718/13]
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Payments
      373. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if and when rent supplement will issue in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; the progress to date in determination of this...
    • Invalidity Pension Applications
      374. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 630 of 16 April 2013, the maximum time an applicant for invalidity pension is currently waiting to have their...
    • Disability Allowance Applications
      375. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 629 of 16 April 2013, the maximum time an applicant is waiting to have the assessment process for disability...
    • Carer's Allowance Delays
      376. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 627 of 16 April 2013, the maximum time an applicant is awaiting processing for carers allowance and carers...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals
      377. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if an appeal for domiciliary care allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny will be expedited; and if she will make a...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
      378. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision on an application for domiciliary care in repsect of a person (details supplied) will be made. [18771/13]
    • Public Sector Pensions Levy
      381. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if the pension related deductions are due to be abolished by next year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18779/13]
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      382. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a carer's allowance application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Unemployment Levels
      383. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide details of the current level of unemployment, including details of long-term unemployment, on a county-by-county basis; and if...
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      384. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite an appeal for disability allowance in respect of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Social Welfare Code Issues
      385. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will amend the regulation that prevents recipients of BASI from community welfare officers, from availing of two weeks holidays with payment...
    • Departmental Staff Remuneration
      387. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will provide in tabular form the number of civil/public servants under the remit of his Department who earn more than €500,000, between...
    • Community Employment Schemes Places
      388. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide a breakdown on a county basis of where the 10,000 additional community employment places announced in Budget 2013 have been...
    • Family Income Supplement Eligibility
      389. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if changes in a persons (details supplied) in County Kildare one parent family allowance payment will be taken into account when their family income...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Payments
      390. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the amount of rent supplement awarded to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18915/13]
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Appeals
      392. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if an appeal has been received in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15 in respect of their application for jobseeker's allowance;...
    • Youth Guarantee
      393. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the way that she intends to generate employment as an option under any youth guarantee scheme. [18614/13]
    • Job Initiatives
      394. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she is monitoring possible job displacement and job losses as part of the Tús and JobsBridge schemes; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Disability Allowance Eligibility
      396. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on a matter regarding means testing (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19094/13]
    • Pension Provisions
      397. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if there are any plans in place whereby individuals who are due to retire in 2014 can avail of some social welfare payment to bridge the gap between...
    • Youth Guarantee
      398. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider supporting with a full rate payment the youth guarantee proposal as put forward by Focus Ireland in view of the fact that there...
    • Invalidity Pension Appeals
      400. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be made on an application for invalidity pension in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; if she will...
    • Social Welfare Appeals Status
      401. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason for the delay in assessing the appeal of a person (details supplied) in County Cavan; when their file will be assessed; if her attention...
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      402. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if an application for carer's allowance now under appeal will be expedited and approved in respect of a person (details supplied) in County...
  • Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • National Monuments
      403. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he wil lay before the Dáíl Éireann the recent special report by Dublin City Council on the need to protect the...
    • Departmental Bodies Reports
      404. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will lay before the Dáil Éireann the latest report and accounts for the Irish Film Board / Bord Scannán na...
    • National Monuments
      406. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of visitors to the Rock of Cashel, Swiss Cottage and Cahir Castle to date in 2013; and if he will provide the figures for...
    • Departmental Staff Remuneration
      407. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide in tabular form the number of civil/public servants under the remit of his Department who earn more than...
    • Offshore Islands
      408. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will indicate the amount spent on the two airports, Cleggan and Inishbofin, County Galway, by the Exchequer since they were...
    • Commemorative Events
      409. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the funding options available to a village (details supplied) in County Kerry that wishes to mark a major anniversary; and if he will...
  • Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
    • Offshore Exploration
      410. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the estimated value of the pre-oil extraction industry here in recent years; if he has plans to develop...
    • Raidió Teilifís Éireann
      411. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will outline the financial liability of the State to Radio Telefís Éireann should the finances of that...
    • Dumping at Sea
      412. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he is working on obtaining a report from the British Government on the materials that were dumped off the coast of...
    • Energy Regulation
      413. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide a breakdown on a county by county basis of the number of electricity/natural gas disconnections; the...
    • Departmental Staff Remuneration
      414. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide in tabular form the number of civil/public servants under the remit of his Department who earn more...
    • Broadband Services Provision
      415. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when the 30 Mbps minimum national broadband penetration plan will be rolled out to the rural area surrounding Dungarvan,...
    • Offshore Exploration
      416. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he has any plans to examine seabed ice gas reserves that lie off the South West Coast;; and if he will make a...
  • Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
    • Water Charges
      417. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will rule out the introduction of flat rate domestic water fees; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Unfinished Housing Developments
      418. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if funding will be made available by his Department for playground facilities in an area (details supplied) in County...
    • Property Taxation Exemptions
      419. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of houses that are actually exempted from the property tax charge in an estate (details supplied) in County...
    • Local and Community Development Programme
      420. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on the restrictions that exist for membership of the State funded Inishbofin Development Company Limited...
    • Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists
      421. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if there are any circumstances in which a local authority housing applicant can be put back on the housing list if they...
    • Leader Programmes Applications
      422. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding an inspection of a project file (details supplied) in County Mayo; and if he will make a statement...
    • Mortgage to Rent Scheme
      423. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position in relation to the mortgage to rent schemes; if same is being employed by local authorities around the...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
      424. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if there is a dedicated person within his Department to liaise with other relevant Departments to facilitate and help...
    • Septic Tank Inspections
      425. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of money being allocated for septic tank upgrades in 2013 ; when inspections will begin and the total number of...
    • Urban Renewal Schemes
      426. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the money being allocated for village renewal in 2013 and under what schemes can it be applied for. [18291/13]
    • Unfinished Housing Developments
      427. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the mechanism available to residents in a housing estate (details supplied) in County Kildare where the estate is not...
    • Tenant Purchase Scheme Eligibility
      428. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if an application for a local authority tenant purchase scheme will be considered if an applicant had the necessary...
    • National Spatial Strategy
      429. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the status of the Midland Gateway of Athlone, Tullamore and Mullingar; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Library Services
      430. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide the figures for the numbers of visitors from 1 January 2012 to 31 December 2012 to the libraries in...
    • Local Authority Housing Applications
      431. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government If he will review the Social Housing Assessment Regulations 2011 whereby separated persons who are the joint owners of...
    • Electoral Divisions Report
      432. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when the review will be completed in relation to reviewing local electoral areas in advance of the local elections in...
    • NAMA Portfolio Issues
      433. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will confirm that stock is to be transferred from the National Assets Management Agency to Meath County Council for...
    • Property Taxation Exemptions
      434. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will release all analysis undertaken by his Department which informed the decisions on the developments listed in...
    • Leader Programmes Expenditure
      435. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the total amount of money that has been allocated to projects under the LEADER programme in County Roscommon to date; the...
    • Rural Development Programme Projects
      438. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when he expects his departmental review into the operation of the rural development programme to be concluded; and when he...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes Status
      439. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding a water supply scheme (details supplied) in County Tipperary, including the planning approval,...
    • Local Authority Staff
      440. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of requests received in the period 1 October 2012 to 30 March 2013 from Galway City Council seeking sanction to...
    • Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists
      442. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will confirm when the biannual housing needs assessment report produced by the Housing Agency will be published in...
    • Local Authority Housing Issues
      443. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the accuracy of the Property Price Register which records that 212 apartments at Herberton Rialto on Reuben Street in...
    • Local Authority Finances
      444. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 137 of 13 March 2013, if he will explain what is meant by debt due in the current...
    • Housing Adaptation Grants Funding
      451. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will review Kerry County Council's 2013 housing grant allocation that has been reduced by a massive 56% on the 2012...
    • Illegal Dumping
      452. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is considering amending current legislation to allow for the naming and shaming of illegal rubbish dumpers; if his...
    • Noise Pollution Issues
      453. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will commit to providing any necessary funds to complete an action plan on noise reduction in the Strawberry Beds...
    • Departmental Staff Remuneration
      455. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form the number of civil/public servants under the remit of his Department who earn more...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes Provision
      456. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his Department will provide approval for the production of a preliminary report to assess the current and future needs...
    • Local Government Reform
      457. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update on current proposals to realign local development companies; his views that their role will...
    • Buidling Control Regulations
      459. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding a mandatory building certification (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Local Authority Housing Issues
      460. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when the changeover from the points system in Dublin City Council to time on record will be approved and signed off by...
    • Local Authority Housing Repossessions
      461. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when section 62 of the Housing Act will be reviewed and legislation brought forward by him in order to close loopholes...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Closed Circuit Television Systems
      464. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will give details of community based CCTV schemes (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19064/13]
    • Cross-Border Co-operation
      465. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the outcome of any discussions he may have had with cross-border agencies, the Northern Ireland Executive and the British Government, in order to...
    • Proposed Legislation
      466. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide details of the convictions that will be dealt with under the Criminal Justice (Spent Convictions) Bill 2012; and if he will...
    • Garda Recruitment
      467. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 163 of 13 March 2013, if he or the Garda Commissioner sets the maximum age limit for entry into An Garda...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      468. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an explanation for the delay in processing the naturalisation application of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin....
    • Citizenship Applications
      469. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will confirm that he is awaiting a response from the Philippines authorities in order to complete the processing of a citizenship...
    • Deportation Orders
      470. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will review the decision to deport a person (details supplied) in County Waterford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18397/13]
    • Naturalisation Applications
      471. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the progress made to date in respect of determination of an application for naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Bankruptcy Statistics
      472. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of individuals adjudged bankrupt in the State in each of the years 2010, 2011 and 2012. [18408/13]
    • Tribunals of Inquiry Recommendations
      474. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the steps that he has taken to implement the recommendations of the Moriarty Tribunal. [18413/13]
    • Judicial Appointments
      477. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will confirm the total number of appointments of judges to the judiciary between 9 March 2011 to date in 2013. [18419/13]
    • Personal Insolvency Act
      478. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he has had discussions with the Troika about the commencement of all the provisions contained in the Personal Insolvency Act 2012; and if he...
    • Proposed Legislation
      482. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when he expects the Oireachtas Committee's report on Ireland's prostitution laws to be published; the reason for the delay in publishing the...
    • Asylum Seeker Accommodation
      483. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update on the direct provision system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18504/13]
    • Immigration Policy
      484. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update on his plans to reform the immigration system in relation to the length of time for court cases in this area to be...
    • Private Security Authority Remit
      485. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans, if any, to meet with electricians' trade representative bodies, including RECI, to discuss the development of the Private Security...
    • Sex Offenders Notification Requirements
      486. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will set out the procedure to be followed on completion of sentence for the release of a child sex abuse prisoner in the community into a...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      487. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will indicate the progress made to date in determination of an application for naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied) in...
    • Judicial Issues
      489. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the structures in place, both formal and informal to deal with any issues of concern that judges have; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Garda Investigations
      490. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding the banking enquiry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18567/13]
    • Joint Policing Committees Remit
      491. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the costs and resources given to the joint policing committees in 2012; if he will outline the number of times these committees met in 2012; the...
    • Crime Statistics
      492. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the amount of smartphone thefts reported to Gardaí in County Tipperary in 2012. [18587/13]
    • Courts Service Issues
      493. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he plans to allow limited media reporting to family court hearings. [18673/13]
    • Deportation Orders
      494. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will review a deportation order in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Longford; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Asylum Applications
      495. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will indicate eligibility for long term residency/naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will...
    • Family Reunification
      496. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will review the application for family reunification in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a...
    • Garda Youth Diversion Projects
      497. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will outline, in tabular form, the budget for Garda youth diversionary funding for 2012 and 2013; and the way that funding will be...
    • Personal Insolvency Act
      498. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if it is possible, under the Personal Insolvency Act, to include other professions such as financial brokers to act as personal insolvency...
    • Residency Permits
      499. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he is considering introducing a earned regularisation scheme for undocumented migrant workers [18768/13]
    • Family Reunification
      500. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the progress made in determination of eligibility for family reunification in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15; and if he...
    • Citizenship Applications
      501. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 105 of 14 March 2013, if documents requested have now been received by his Department to facilitate the...
    • Family Reunification
      502. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will review the policy of family reunification in order to ensure fairness, equality and justice for the families. [18851/13]
    • Garda Recruitment
      504. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will indicate when recruitment to an Garda Síochána is likely to recommence. [18890/13]
    • Garda Strength
      505. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of promotional positions, sergeants, inspectors, superintendents and so on, still available to be filled by the Garda...
    • Garda Deployment
      506. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of serving Garda sergeants, inspectors, superintendents in County Wicklow. [18902/13]
    • Garda Vetting Applications
      508. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding Garda clearance in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5. [18921/13]
    • Garda Vetting of Personnel
      509. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality in view of the delay in implementing the National Vetting Bureau Act 2012 if he will clarify the categories of employees currently are legally...
  • Department of Defence
    • Air Ambulance Service Provision
      511. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide a geographic breakdown of call outs by the aeromedical service to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18749/13]
    • Defence Forces Equipment
      512. To ask the Minister for Defence if Ireland will be represented at the international conference on Opportunities for Innovation Oriented Procurement in the Defence and Security Sectors in...
    • Departmental Staff Remuneration
      513. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide in tabular form the number of civil/public servants under the remit of his Department who earn more than €500,000, between...
    • Pension Provisions
      514. To ask the Minister for Defence if a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny is entitled to a pension based on the service of their spouse; and if they are due any other financial...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
      515. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment of the 2012 disadvantaged area scheme will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a...
    • Animal Disease Controls
      516. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the supports and guidance currently available within his Department to assist farmers in their bid to eliminate BVD from their farms;...
    • Turbary Rights
      517. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if Q3 agreements are in place in respect of turbary rights for persons (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a...
    • Farm Retirement Scheme Applications
      519. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a final decision on an early retirement scheme will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a...
    • Forestry Premium
      520. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding a forestry grant payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick. [18256/13]
    • Sale of State Assets
      521. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the concerns of an organisation (details supplied); if he will outline his views on the ownership of Coillte; and if he...
    • Dairy Equipment Scheme Applications
      522. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding grant aid under the dairy equipment scheme in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and...
    • Fish Farming
      523. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of salmon farms off the west coast that have been closed or have been allowed to go fallow over the past two years; and if...
    • Single Payment Scheme Appeals
      524. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding a 2012 single farm payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if he will make a...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Appeals
      525. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 421 of 11 December 2012, the position regarding a 2012 disadvantaged area scheme payment in...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      526. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 247 of 27 February 2013, the position regarding an agri environment option scheme payment in...
    • Rural Environment Protection Scheme Appeals
      527. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 175 of 7 February 2013, the position regarding a REP scheme payment in respect of a person...
    • Íocaíochtaí Deontais
      528. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine cé mhéid atá sa ró-íocaíocht a rinneadh le duine (sonraí tugtha), cé na scéimeanna agus...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      529. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment of 2012 agri-environment options scheme will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a...
    • Dairy Equipment Scheme Applications
      530. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18514/13]
    • Harbours and Piers Maintenance
      531. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will make funding of €90,000 approximately available to Kerry County Council as a matter of urgency to upgrade Dooks...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      532. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding an agri environment option scheme application for 2012 in respect of a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Forestry Premium
      533. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18525/13]
    • Fodder Crisis
      534. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will put in place a scheme to offer financial assistance to farmers in view of ongoing difficulties with farmers securing...
    • Agriculture Schemes Administration
      535. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to detail the practices, procedures and efforts in place to prevent the bullying and or harassment and or unlawful financial...
    • Grant Aid
      536. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding the application for the Irish Shows Association grant aid for this year; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
      537. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied) in County Galway has not received their disadvantaged area payment; and if he will make a...
    • Single Payment Scheme Payments
      538. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment of a single farm and area aid 2012 payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will...
    • Fodder Crisis
      539. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position in relation to the fodder crisis; if he will address concerns arising from those affected by the issue; and if he will...
    • Animal Welfare Issues
      540. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there is any legislation proposed regarding lame farm animals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18765/13]
    • Beef Industry Irregularities
      541. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if EU wide DNA testing of meat will be made a permanent feature of the meat processing industry; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Applications
      542. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding an agri environment options scheme application for 2012 in respecet of a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Agriculture Schemes Payments
      543. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a decision has been made on an application for a fencing grant in respect of a person (details provided) in County Kerry; and if...
    • Departmental Staff Remuneration
      545. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide in tabular form the number of civil/public servants under the remit of his Department who earn more than...
    • Stocking Rates
      546. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide details of stocking rates in respect of the years 1997, 1998 and 1999 for a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Suckler Cow Herd Numbers
      547. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of suckler cows in the national herd in each of the years 2000 to 2012. [18882/13]
    • Sheepmeat Sector
      548. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of sheep in the national herd in each of the years 2000 to 2012. [18883/13]
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Applications
      549. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding an agri environment options scheme in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [18885/13]
    • Single Payment Scheme Applications
      550. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a single farm payment will be granted to a person (details supplied) in County Laois; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Eligibility
      551. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there is any impediment to a person (details supplied) in County Galway, joining the new agri-environment options scheme, in view...
    • Food Industry Development
      552. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the procedures put in place by his Department to deal with Clostridium Esterthetitm which is an agent of spoilage in meat one of the...
    • Fisheries Protection
      553. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures he has put in place to ensure that large foreign registered vessels, commonly referred to as super trawlers, do not...
    • Fisheries Offences
      554. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to any infringements or related penalties registered under the national register of infringements...
    • Fisheries Protection
      555. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of pelagic trawlers, such as the Annelies Llena and the Naeraberg, have fished inside the Irish Exclusive Economic Zone in...
    • Alternative Farm Enterprises
      556. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department will assist contracted growers of miscanthus elephant grass to source alternative markets in view of the fact that...
    • Single Payment Scheme Applications
      557. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a single farm payment will be issued to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Applications
      558. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason an area aid payment issue remains unresolved (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Appeals
      560. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 423 of 5 March 2013, the reason the review submitted to his Department on 28 January 2013 has...
    • Single Payment Scheme Applications
      561. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the district veterinary office in Roscommon will accept single farm payment forms this year; if received on the closing date, will...
    • Animal Diseases Issues
      562. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No 172 of 13 February 2013 regarding all the bovine tuberculosis and brucellosis reactors removed...
  • Department of Children and Youth Affairs
    • Medical Records
      563. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 639 of 19 February 2013, if eight years is an acceptable time for people to have to wait to have...
    • Youth Services
      564. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when a decision will be made on applications for funding for youth cafes under the capital programme. [18536/13]
    • Child Care Services
      566. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will outline the progress being made in relation to the development of infrastructure for after school services; the extension of...
    • Departmental Staff Remuneration
      568. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide in tabular form the number of civil/public servants under the remit of his Department who earn more than...
    • Child Death Review Group Report
      569. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide an update on her plans to strengthen the new investment to aftercare as announced at the hearing of the child deaths...
    • Children in Care
      570. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will detail the external agencies and NGOs which are funded by the Health Service Executive or her Department to provide aftercare...
    • Health Services Staff Numbers
      571. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of aftercare workers employed directly by the Health Service Executive. [19075/13]
    • Children in Care
      572. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of young people who left care in 2012; and the number of those who received aftercare support. [19076/13]
  • Department of Health
    • Drug Treatment Programmes Availability
      574. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider the South East Fingal Drugs and Alcohol Project proposed by the Howth Sutton Community Council (details supplied) which serves the...
    • Air Ambulance Service Provision
      575. To ask the Minister for Health the current status of the aeromedical review; when it will be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18377/13]
    • Health Screening Programmes
      576. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to roll out, or help reduce the cost of calcification screening for heart health; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18222/13]
    • General Practitioner Training
      577. To ask the Minister for Health when the MICGP/alternative pathway scheme will be introduced (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18228/13]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      578. To ask the Minister for Health when an appointment for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will be made available, in view of the fact that this treatment was diagnosed as priority...
    • Social Inclusion Forum
      579. To ask the Minister for Health if he will explain the way the Social Inclusion Forum which plans to address poverty and social exclusion is compatible with the cuts faced by many families...
    • Health Services Issues
      580. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that the National Plan for Rare Diseases will be in place before the end of 2013 in view of the fact that it is required under the 2009...
    • Health Services Staff Recruitment
      581. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on when a clinical director for rare diseases will be appointed; the proposed location of the National Office for Rare Disease;...
    • Hospital Services
      582. To ask the Minister for Health the progress that has been made to date with reinstating the rheumatology service at Letterkenny General Hospital, County Donegal; and if he will make a...
    • Health Promotion
      583. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider banning the use of sunbeds for those under 18 years of age [18270/13]
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      584. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a dedicated person within her Department to liaise with other relevant Departments to facilitate and help persons (details supplied) who suffer...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme
      585. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a nursing home fair deal scheme in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Home Help Service Provision
      586. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding home help in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick. [18286/13]
    • Medical Card Applications
      587. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a yearly medical card renewal in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 3 [18287/13]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      588. To ask the Minister for Health if he will intervene to ensure speedy treatment of a person (details supplied) in County Cork suffering from adolescent scoliosis who is in danger of permanent...
    • Water Fluoridation
      589. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the current position on water flouridation, to address concerns that exist regarding an alleged artificial water flouridation of the water...
    • Home Help Service Provision
      590. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding home help hours in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18298/13]
    • Medical Card Applications
      591. To ask the Minister for Health if and when a medical card will issue in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Wexford. [18374/13]
    • Health Services Provision
      592. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a case review in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cavan has not been published by the Health Service Executive and forwarded to...
    • Cross-Border Health Initiatives
      593. To ask the Minister for Health when he intends to publish legislation implementing the EU cross border directive on medical care; the financial implications for this directive; and if he...
    • Speech and Language Therapy
      594. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which speech and language services are allocated in respect of young citizens who have a severe phonological disorder; if he will indicate the...
    • Medical Card Applications
      595. To ask the Minister for Health if and when a medical card will isssue to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18391/13]
    • Hospital Services
      596. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide figures relating to the number, type of injury and age profile of those who received hospital treatment as a result of contact with liquid...
    • Home Help Service Provision
      597. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide information on the percentage of the total home help hours administered by the Health Service Executive in County Donegal, allocated to...
    • Health Services Issues
      601. To ask the Minister for Health the supports available here to persons suffering from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis; if his attention has been drawn to the work done by the Irish Lung...
    • Health Services Expenditure
      602. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a financial breakdown of the current budgetary performance of every hospital providing acute services within the Health Service Executive...
    • Supported Residential Accommodation Provision
      603. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report in respect of the proposed closure of a hostel (details supplied) in County Kerry, the setting up of a forum as agreed at the meeting with...
    • Hospital Facilities
      604. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the development of a new acute admission and inpatient unit at St. Loman's Hospital, Mullingar, County Westmeath; and if he...
    • Nursing Home Services
      605. To ask the Minister for Health if he will request the National Treatment Purchase Fund to renegotiate and agree a fair price for the continuation of high quality long-term nursing home care...
    • Orthodontic Services Provision
      606. To ask the Minister for Health when orthodontic treatment will be approved in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Carlow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18553/13]
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      608. To ask the Minister for Health if he will support a matter (details supplied) in Dublin regarding services to those with an intellectual disability [18568/13]
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      609. To ask the Minister for Health in view of the commitments in the Health Service Executive National Service Plan 2013 to a number of objectives including the further developments of forensics...
    • Health Services Staff Recruitment
      610. To ask the Minister for Health in view of the impact that the delay in hiring key health specialist professionals can have on the welfare of vulnerable persons including many children and...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      611. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the total actual and total profile spend, split by capital and current, for his Department for the three months, January, February and March...
    • EU-IMF Programme of Support Issues
      612. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the information he is now required to provide each month to the programme finance Troika and the reason this additional information has been...
    • Medical Card Applications
      613. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a medical card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18687/13]
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      614. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the medical card changes made by the Health Service Executive, removing home improvement loans payments and excluding the...
    • Home Care Packages
      615. To ask the Minister for Health when is it expected that the tender for the Health Service Executive advanced home care packages will be renewed; when it will be advertised; when the proposed...
    • Speech and Language Therapy
      616. To ask the Minister for Health when an assessment regarding occupational and speech and language therapies will be made in respect of a child (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he...
    • Disability Support Services Provision
      617. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the measures being taken to increase the capacity and potential of persons with disabilities to participate in the labour market; and if he...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      618. To ask the Minister for Health if and when an appointment for a neurosurgical procedure in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Galway will be made; and if he will make a...
    • Respite Care Services
      619. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the Health Service Executive has now imposed charges of €170 per week for respite care in hospitals; if he will reverse this decision in view...
    • General Medical Services Scheme Administration
      622. To ask the Minister for Health in view of the acknowledgement by the Health Service Executive, as per correspondence dated 10 April 2013, that the most appropriate place for treatment of a...
    • Information and Communications Technology Issues
      623. To ask the Minister for Health the number of unique visitors to a website (details supplied) on a weekly basis; and if he will outline the top five most visited pages on that website [18767/13]
    • Hospital Services
      624. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the rehabilitation unit of a hospital (details supplied) in County Westmeath; and the progress that has been made [18777/13]
    • Dietician Service
      625. To ask the Minister for Health if he will reinstate the dietician service for families with high risk children in view of the fact that this service is vital for the security and health of...
    • Cochlear Implants
      626. To ask the Minister for Health if there are any plans to provide second cochlear implants for children who have already received one implant; and if he will provide two implants in future...
    • Disability Support Services Provision
      627. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the current status of a project (details supplied) in County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18795/13]
    • Health Services Staff Issues
      628. To ask the Minister for Health when the Acquired Brain Injury Services Case Manager will resume their work in County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18796/13]
    • Disability Support Services Issues
      633. To ask the Minister for Health if national Health Information Quality Authority standards for residential care in the area of disability services will be implemented this year; and if he...
    • Ambulance Service Provision
      634. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the progress being made in relation to the reform of ambulance services and the management and delivery of pre hospital care services; if he...
    • Abortion Services
      635. To ask the Minister for Health the evidence available in his Department to support the X-Case judgement to provide for abortion on suicide grounds; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      637. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the impact that cuts to Health Service Executive Beechpark Autism services are having on schools with ASD classes,...
    • Hospital Services
      638. To ask the Minister for Health if he will support the cystic fibrosis unit at Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9, in 2013 as a matter of urgency. [18852/13]
    • Departmental Staff Remuneration
      639. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form the number of civil/public servants under the remit of his Department who earn more than €500,000, between...
    • Organ Donation
      640. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding reviewing the system of organ donation to a presumed opt out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18888/13]
    • Hospital Services
      641. To ask the Minister for Health the funding provided for Carndonagh Community Hospital, County Donegal, in each of the past seven years; and the funding available to the hospital in 2013...
    • Home Help Service Eligibility
      643. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding home help in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18897/13]
    • Health Services Expenditure
      644. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a detailed breakdown of the way the palliative care budget was spent for the period 2010, 2011 and 2012 for the Waterford/Wexford,...
    • Patient Transport Provision
      645. To ask the Minister for Health if adequate transport will be provided to a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath to travel to necessary hospital appointments; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Appointment Delays
      646. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny will receive an appointment to see a consultant regarding their illness, following a referral from their...
    • Hospital Procedures
      647. To ask the Minister for Health the number of bariatric surgeries that have taken place in St Colmcilles Hospital, Dublin, in each of the years 2010, 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013; the...
    • Treatment Abroad Scheme
      648. To ask the Minister for Health the reason treatment for a person (details supplied) in County Louth has had their request for the treatment abroad scheme refused despite strong medical...
    • Hospital Charges
      649. To ask the Minister for Health the options available to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare who has recently had a heart operation, privately, and is now trying to recoup the cost...
    • Palliative Care Facility
      650. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients cared for by the palliative care homecare teams in 2011 and 2012 in each of the counties Waterford, Wexford, Carlow, Kilkenny and south...
    • Palliative Care Services
      651. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients cared for by the palliative care homecare teams in 2011 and 2012 in each of the counties Sligo, Leitrim and Donegal; the total cost of...
    • Mobility Allowance Administration
      652. To ask the Minister for Health if any further progress has been made with the way an alternative scheme to the mobility allowance and motorised transport grant will be administered; if a...
    • Abortion Legislation
      654. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the recently published peer reviewed paper (details supplied), a leading authority on abortion and psychiatry, to the effect that the law cannot...
    • Health Services Staff Recruitment
      655. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacancies currently in the Clongriffin/Donaghmede primary care teams, Dublin 13; if he will ensure that the vacancies are filled as soon as...
    • Hospital Charges
      656. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who visited Beaumont Hospital's Accident and Emergency Department, Dublin 9, that paid the €100 charge in the years 2009, 2010,...
    • Patient Transport Provision
      657. To ask the Minister for Health the position in relation to the ambulance bus that brings people from Baltinglass, County Wicklow, to St Luke's, Dublin, for radiotherapy daily and collects...
    • HSE Reports
      658. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a report being undertaken by the Health Service Executive into the death of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; if the final report...
    • Home Care Packages
      659. To ask the Minister for Health if the appropriate officials in the Health Service Executive will meet with the parents of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny to devise a plan for...
    • HSE Reports
      660. To ask the Minister for Health if a report into the charges being imposed on the service users of St Patrick's, Kells Road, County Kilkenny and those that use the community house at...
    • Care of the Elderly
      661. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the closure of a centre for the elderly (details supplied) in Dublin 3; if he will indicate if a new location has been found; the...
    • Hospital Appointments Administration
      662. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an appointment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19090/13]
    • General Medical Services Scheme Payments
      664. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding gluten free products;; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19106/13]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      665. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine the cost to the State of the rental of continuous positive airway pressure machines for persons with sleep apnoea from private firms rather...
    • Legislative Process
      666. To ask the Minister for Health if he will list the terms of reference and the membership of the oversight committee which he set up regarding the Protection of Maternal Life Bill; and if he...
    • Health Services Issues
      668. To ask the Minister for Health if he will support a matter regarding the length of time a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5 spent on a trolley in Beaumont Hospital, Dublin [19117/13]
    • Health Services Staff Issues
      669. To ask the Minister for Health the actions that will be taken to remedy the employment records of the North Eastern Health Board who, because of the loss of records from 1974 to July 1981,...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      671. To ask the Minister for Health if an early appointment will be arranged at Waterford Regional Hospital in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny in view of the fact that...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Road Projects Expenditure
      673. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total amount contributed to date by the State for the construction of the A5 primary road route between Derry and the N2 in the...
    • Road Maintenance
      674. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the investments planned for upgrading the deteriorating road surface along Blackhorse Avenue, Dublin, at two sections, the first between...
    • Road Projects Issues
      675. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if an application for funding (details supplied) was received from the National Roads Authority; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Road Safety Issues
      676. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the legal position in respect of the widespread use of quad bikes by young persons; if these bikes come within road traffic legislation;...
    • Rural Transport Programme Issues
      677. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which rural transport schemes in County Roscommon are likely to be affected by proposed changes to the operation of the...
    • Road Safety Issues
      680. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has any concerns about the impact that poor/substandard tyres have on road safety; and if he will consider introducing penalty...
    • Road Projects Status
      681. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to a previous Parliamentary Question, if he will confirm the future of the eastern bypass; if works will no longer begin on the...
    • Rural Transport Programme Issues
      682. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will ensure the continuence of the rural transport scheme in view of contracts being reduced from 12 months to six months; and if...
    • Departmental Staff Remuneration
      683. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide in tabular form the number of civil/public servants under the remit of his Department who earn more than...
    • Rural Transport Programme Expenditure
      684. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the savings he intends to make and the proposed budget in respect of the rural transport programme for the period 2013 to 2015. [18881/13]
    • Taxi Regulations
      685. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reasons hackneys cannot use bus lanes and if there will be any attempt to change this regulation; and if he will make a statement on...
    • The Gathering Expenditure
      689. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a breakdown of those groups in County Waterford that have been granted Exchequer funding specifically set aside for...
    • Rail Services
      690. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reasons the ticket office at a station (details supplied) in Dublin 13 is closed at the weekends; and if there are plans to have it...
    • Public Transport Provision
      691. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if Dublin Bus plans to have a third phase of its Network Direct Programme. [19061/13]
    • Rural Transport Programme Issues
      692. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding rural transport developments in County Donegal. [19105/13]
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Garda Recruitment
      504. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will indicate when recruitment to an Garda Síochána is likely to recommence. [18890/13]
    • Garda Strength
      505. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of promotional positions, sergeants, inspectors, superintendents and so on, still available to be filled by the Garda...
    • Garda Deployment
      506. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of serving Garda sergeants, inspectors, superintendents in County Wicklow. [18902/13]
    • Garda Vetting Applications
      508. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding Garda clearance in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5. [18921/13]
    • Garda Vetting of Personnel
      509. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality in view of the delay in implementing the National Vetting Bureau Act 2012 if he will clarify the categories of employees currently are legally...
  • Department of Defence
    • Air Ambulance Service Provision
      511. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide a geographic breakdown of call outs by the aeromedical service to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18749/13]
    • Defence Forces Equipment
      512. To ask the Minister for Defence if Ireland will be represented at the international conference on Opportunities for Innovation Oriented Procurement in the Defence and Security Sectors in...
    • Departmental Staff Remuneration
      513. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide in tabular form the number of civil/public servants under the remit of his Department who earn more than €500,000, between...
    • Pension Provisions
      514. To ask the Minister for Defence if a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny is entitled to a pension based on the service of their spouse; and if they are due any other financial...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
      515. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment of the 2012 disadvantaged area scheme will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a...
    • Animal Disease Controls
      516. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the supports and guidance currently available within his Department to assist farmers in their bid to eliminate BVD from their farms;...
    • Turbary Rights
      517. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if Q3 agreements are in place in respect of turbary rights for persons (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a...
    • Farm Retirement Scheme Applications
      519. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a final decision on an early retirement scheme will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a...
    • Forestry Premium
      520. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding a forestry grant payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick. [18256/13]
    • Sale of State Assets
      521. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the concerns of an organisation (details supplied); if he will outline his views on the ownership of Coillte; and if he...
    • Dairy Equipment Scheme Applications
      522. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding grant aid under the dairy equipment scheme in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and...
    • Fish Farming
      523. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of salmon farms off the west coast that have been closed or have been allowed to go fallow over the past two years; and if...
    • Single Payment Scheme Appeals
      524. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding a 2012 single farm payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if he will make a...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Appeals
      525. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 421 of 11 December 2012, the position regarding a 2012 disadvantaged area scheme payment in...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      526. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 247 of 27 February 2013, the position regarding an agri environment option scheme payment in...
    • Rural Environment Protection Scheme Appeals
      527. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 175 of 7 February 2013, the position regarding a REP scheme payment in respect of a person...
    • Íocaíochtaí Deontais
      528. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine cé mhéid atá sa ró-íocaíocht a rinneadh le duine (sonraí tugtha), cé na scéimeanna agus...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      529. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment of 2012 agri-environment options scheme will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a...
    • Dairy Equipment Scheme Applications
      530. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18514/13]
    • Harbours and Piers Maintenance
      531. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will make funding of €90,000 approximately available to Kerry County Council as a matter of urgency to upgrade Dooks...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      532. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding an agri environment option scheme application for 2012 in respect of a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Forestry Premium
      533. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18525/13]
    • Fodder Crisis
      534. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will put in place a scheme to offer financial assistance to farmers in view of ongoing difficulties with farmers securing...
    • Agriculture Schemes Administration
      535. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to detail the practices, procedures and efforts in place to prevent the bullying and or harassment and or unlawful financial...
    • Grant Aid
      536. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding the application for the Irish Shows Association grant aid for this year; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
      537. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied) in County Galway has not received their disadvantaged area payment; and if he will make a...
    • Single Payment Scheme Payments
      538. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment of a single farm and area aid 2012 payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will...
    • Fodder Crisis
      539. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position in relation to the fodder crisis; if he will address concerns arising from those affected by the issue; and if he will...
    • Animal Welfare Issues
      540. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there is any legislation proposed regarding lame farm animals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18765/13]
    • Beef Industry Irregularities
      541. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if EU wide DNA testing of meat will be made a permanent feature of the meat processing industry; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Applications
      542. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding an agri environment options scheme application for 2012 in respecet of a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Agriculture Schemes Payments
      543. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a decision has been made on an application for a fencing grant in respect of a person (details provided) in County Kerry; and if...
    • Departmental Staff Remuneration
      545. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide in tabular form the number of civil/public servants under the remit of his Department who earn more than...
    • Stocking Rates
      546. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide details of stocking rates in respect of the years 1997, 1998 and 1999 for a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Suckler Cow Herd Numbers
      547. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of suckler cows in the national herd in each of the years 2000 to 2012. [18882/13]
    • Sheepmeat Sector
      548. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of sheep in the national herd in each of the years 2000 to 2012. [18883/13]
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Applications
      549. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding an agri environment options scheme in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [18885/13]
    • Single Payment Scheme Applications
      550. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a single farm payment will be granted to a person (details supplied) in County Laois; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Eligibility
      551. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there is any impediment to a person (details supplied) in County Galway, joining the new agri-environment options scheme, in view...
    • Food Industry Development
      552. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the procedures put in place by his Department to deal with Clostridium Esterthetitm which is an agent of spoilage in meat one of the...
    • Fisheries Protection
      553. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures he has put in place to ensure that large foreign registered vessels, commonly referred to as super trawlers, do not...
    • Fisheries Offences
      554. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to any infringements or related penalties registered under the national register of infringements...
    • Fisheries Protection
      555. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of pelagic trawlers, such as the Annelies Llena and the Naeraberg, have fished inside the Irish Exclusive Economic Zone in...
    • Alternative Farm Enterprises
      556. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department will assist contracted growers of miscanthus elephant grass to source alternative markets in view of the fact that...
    • Single Payment Scheme Applications
      557. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a single farm payment will be issued to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Applications
      558. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason an area aid payment issue remains unresolved (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Appeals
      560. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 423 of 5 March 2013, the reason the review submitted to his Department on 28 January 2013 has...
    • Single Payment Scheme Applications
      561. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the district veterinary office in Roscommon will accept single farm payment forms this year; if received on the closing date, will...
    • Animal Diseases Issues
      562. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No 172 of 13 February 2013 regarding all the bovine tuberculosis and brucellosis reactors removed...
  • Department of Children and Youth Affairs
    • Medical Records
      563. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 639 of 19 February 2013, if eight years is an acceptable time for people to have to wait to have...
    • Youth Services
      564. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when a decision will be made on applications for funding for youth cafes under the capital programme. [18536/13]
    • Child Care Services
      566. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will outline the progress being made in relation to the development of infrastructure for after school services; the extension of...
    • Departmental Staff Remuneration
      568. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide in tabular form the number of civil/public servants under the remit of his Department who earn more than...
    • Child Death Review Group Report
      569. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide an update on her plans to strengthen the new investment to aftercare as announced at the hearing of the child deaths...
    • Children in Care
      570. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will detail the external agencies and NGOs which are funded by the Health Service Executive or her Department to provide aftercare...
    • Health Services Staff Numbers
      571. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of aftercare workers employed directly by the Health Service Executive. [19075/13]
    • Children in Care
      572. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of young people who left care in 2012; and the number of those who received aftercare support. [19076/13]
  • Department of Health
    • Drug Treatment Programmes Availability
      574. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider the South East Fingal Drugs and Alcohol Project proposed by the Howth Sutton Community Council (details supplied) which serves the...
    • Air Ambulance Service Provision
      575. To ask the Minister for Health the current status of the aeromedical review; when it will be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18377/13]
    • Health Screening Programmes
      576. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to roll out, or help reduce the cost of calcification screening for heart health; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18222/13]
    • General Practitioner Training
      577. To ask the Minister for Health when the MICGP/alternative pathway scheme will be introduced (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18228/13]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      578. To ask the Minister for Health when an appointment for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will be made available, in view of the fact that this treatment was diagnosed as priority...
    • Social Inclusion Forum
      579. To ask the Minister for Health if he will explain the way the Social Inclusion Forum which plans to address poverty and social exclusion is compatible with the cuts faced by many families...
    • Health Services Issues
      580. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that the National Plan for Rare Diseases will be in place before the end of 2013 in view of the fact that it is required under the 2009...
    • Health Services Staff Recruitment
      581. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on when a clinical director for rare diseases will be appointed; the proposed location of the National Office for Rare Disease;...
    • Hospital Services
      582. To ask the Minister for Health the progress that has been made to date with reinstating the rheumatology service at Letterkenny General Hospital, County Donegal; and if he will make a...
    • Health Promotion
      583. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider banning the use of sunbeds for those under 18 years of age [18270/13]
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      584. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a dedicated person within her Department to liaise with other relevant Departments to facilitate and help persons (details supplied) who suffer...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme
      585. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a nursing home fair deal scheme in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Home Help Service Provision
      586. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding home help in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick. [18286/13]
    • Medical Card Applications
      587. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a yearly medical card renewal in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 3 [18287/13]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      588. To ask the Minister for Health if he will intervene to ensure speedy treatment of a person (details supplied) in County Cork suffering from adolescent scoliosis who is in danger of permanent...
    • Water Fluoridation
      589. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the current position on water flouridation, to address concerns that exist regarding an alleged artificial water flouridation of the water...
    • Home Help Service Provision
      590. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding home help hours in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18298/13]
    • Medical Card Applications
      591. To ask the Minister for Health if and when a medical card will issue in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Wexford. [18374/13]
    • Health Services Provision
      592. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a case review in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cavan has not been published by the Health Service Executive and forwarded to...
    • Cross-Border Health Initiatives
      593. To ask the Minister for Health when he intends to publish legislation implementing the EU cross border directive on medical care; the financial implications for this directive; and if he...
    • Speech and Language Therapy
      594. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which speech and language services are allocated in respect of young citizens who have a severe phonological disorder; if he will indicate the...
    • Medical Card Applications
      595. To ask the Minister for Health if and when a medical card will isssue to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18391/13]
    • Hospital Services
      596. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide figures relating to the number, type of injury and age profile of those who received hospital treatment as a result of contact with liquid...
    • Home Help Service Provision
      597. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide information on the percentage of the total home help hours administered by the Health Service Executive in County Donegal, allocated to...
    • Health Services Issues
      601. To ask the Minister for Health the supports available here to persons suffering from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis; if his attention has been drawn to the work done by the Irish Lung...
    • Health Services Expenditure
      602. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a financial breakdown of the current budgetary performance of every hospital providing acute services within the Health Service Executive...
    • Supported Residential Accommodation Provision
      603. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report in respect of the proposed closure of a hostel (details supplied) in County Kerry, the setting up of a forum as agreed at the meeting with...
    • Hospital Facilities
      604. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the development of a new acute admission and inpatient unit at St. Loman's Hospital, Mullingar, County Westmeath; and if he...
    • Nursing Home Services
      605. To ask the Minister for Health if he will request the National Treatment Purchase Fund to renegotiate and agree a fair price for the continuation of high quality long-term nursing home care...
    • Orthodontic Services Provision
      606. To ask the Minister for Health when orthodontic treatment will be approved in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Carlow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18553/13]
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      608. To ask the Minister for Health if he will support a matter (details supplied) in Dublin regarding services to those with an intellectual disability [18568/13]
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      609. To ask the Minister for Health in view of the commitments in the Health Service Executive National Service Plan 2013 to a number of objectives including the further developments of forensics...
    • Health Services Staff Recruitment
      610. To ask the Minister for Health in view of the impact that the delay in hiring key health specialist professionals can have on the welfare of vulnerable persons including many children and...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      611. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the total actual and total profile spend, split by capital and current, for his Department for the three months, January, February and March...
    • EU-IMF Programme of Support Issues
      612. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the information he is now required to provide each month to the programme finance Troika and the reason this additional information has been...
    • Medical Card Applications
      613. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a medical card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18687/13]
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      614. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the medical card changes made by the Health Service Executive, removing home improvement loans payments and excluding the...
    • Home Care Packages
      615. To ask the Minister for Health when is it expected that the tender for the Health Service Executive advanced home care packages will be renewed; when it will be advertised; when the proposed...
    • Speech and Language Therapy
      616. To ask the Minister for Health when an assessment regarding occupational and speech and language therapies will be made in respect of a child (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he...
    • Disability Support Services Provision
      617. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the measures being taken to increase the capacity and potential of persons with disabilities to participate in the labour market; and if he...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      618. To ask the Minister for Health if and when an appointment for a neurosurgical procedure in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Galway will be made; and if he will make a...
    • Respite Care Services
      619. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the Health Service Executive has now imposed charges of €170 per week for respite care in hospitals; if he will reverse this decision in view...
    • General Medical Services Scheme Administration
      622. To ask the Minister for Health in view of the acknowledgement by the Health Service Executive, as per correspondence dated 10 April 2013, that the most appropriate place for treatment of a...
    • Information and Communications Technology Issues
      623. To ask the Minister for Health the number of unique visitors to a website (details supplied) on a weekly basis; and if he will outline the top five most visited pages on that website [18767/13]
    • Hospital Services
      624. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the rehabilitation unit of a hospital (details supplied) in County Westmeath; and the progress that has been made [18777/13]
    • Dietician Service
      625. To ask the Minister for Health if he will reinstate the dietician service for families with high risk children in view of the fact that this service is vital for the security and health of...
    • Cochlear Implants
      626. To ask the Minister for Health if there are any plans to provide second cochlear implants for children who have already received one implant; and if he will provide two implants in future...
    • Disability Support Services Provision
      627. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the current status of a project (details supplied) in County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18795/13]
    • Health Services Staff Issues
      628. To ask the Minister for Health when the Acquired Brain Injury Services Case Manager will resume their work in County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18796/13]
    • Disability Support Services Issues
      633. To ask the Minister for Health if national Health Information Quality Authority standards for residential care in the area of disability services will be implemented this year; and if he...
    • Ambulance Service Provision
      634. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the progress being made in relation to the reform of ambulance services and the management and delivery of pre hospital care services; if he...
    • Abortion Services
      635. To ask the Minister for Health the evidence available in his Department to support the X-Case judgement to provide for abortion on suicide grounds; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      637. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the impact that cuts to Health Service Executive Beechpark Autism services are having on schools with ASD classes,...
    • Hospital Services
      638. To ask the Minister for Health if he will support the cystic fibrosis unit at Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9, in 2013 as a matter of urgency. [18852/13]
    • Departmental Staff Remuneration
      639. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form the number of civil/public servants under the remit of his Department who earn more than €500,000, between...
    • Organ Donation
      640. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding reviewing the system of organ donation to a presumed opt out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18888/13]
    • Hospital Services
      641. To ask the Minister for Health the funding provided for Carndonagh Community Hospital, County Donegal, in each of the past seven years; and the funding available to the hospital in 2013...
    • Home Help Service Eligibility
      643. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding home help in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18897/13]
    • Health Services Expenditure
      644. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a detailed breakdown of the way the palliative care budget was spent for the period 2010, 2011 and 2012 for the Waterford/Wexford,...
    • Patient Transport Provision
      645. To ask the Minister for Health if adequate transport will be provided to a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath to travel to necessary hospital appointments; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Appointment Delays
      646. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny will receive an appointment to see a consultant regarding their illness, following a referral from their...
    • Hospital Procedures
      647. To ask the Minister for Health the number of bariatric surgeries that have taken place in St Colmcilles Hospital, Dublin, in each of the years 2010, 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013; the...
    • Treatment Abroad Scheme
      648. To ask the Minister for Health the reason treatment for a person (details supplied) in County Louth has had their request for the treatment abroad scheme refused despite strong medical...
    • Hospital Charges
      649. To ask the Minister for Health the options available to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare who has recently had a heart operation, privately, and is now trying to recoup the cost...
    • Palliative Care Facility
      650. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients cared for by the palliative care homecare teams in 2011 and 2012 in each of the counties Waterford, Wexford, Carlow, Kilkenny and south...
    • Palliative Care Services
      651. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients cared for by the palliative care homecare teams in 2011 and 2012 in each of the counties Sligo, Leitrim and Donegal; the total cost of...
    • Mobility Allowance Administration
      652. To ask the Minister for Health if any further progress has been made with the way an alternative scheme to the mobility allowance and motorised transport grant will be administered; if a...
    • Abortion Legislation
      654. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the recently published peer reviewed paper (details supplied), a leading authority on abortion and psychiatry, to the effect that the law cannot...
    • Health Services Staff Recruitment
      655. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacancies currently in the Clongriffin/Donaghmede primary care teams, Dublin 13; if he will ensure that the vacancies are filled as soon as...
    • Hospital Charges
      656. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who visited Beaumont Hospital's Accident and Emergency Department, Dublin 9, that paid the €100 charge in the years 2009, 2010,...
    • Patient Transport Provision
      657. To ask the Minister for Health the position in relation to the ambulance bus that brings people from Baltinglass, County Wicklow, to St Luke's, Dublin, for radiotherapy daily and collects...
    • HSE Reports
      658. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a report being undertaken by the Health Service Executive into the death of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; if the final report...
    • Home Care Packages
      659. To ask the Minister for Health if the appropriate officials in the Health Service Executive will meet with the parents of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny to devise a plan for...
    • HSE Reports
      660. To ask the Minister for Health if a report into the charges being imposed on the service users of St Patrick's, Kells Road, County Kilkenny and those that use the community house at...
    • Care of the Elderly
      661. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the closure of a centre for the elderly (details supplied) in Dublin 3; if he will indicate if a new location has been found; the...
    • Hospital Appointments Administration
      662. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an appointment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19090/13]
    • General Medical Services Scheme Payments
      664. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding gluten free products;; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19106/13]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      665. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine the cost to the State of the rental of continuous positive airway pressure machines for persons with sleep apnoea from private firms rather...
    • Legislative Process
      666. To ask the Minister for Health if he will list the terms of reference and the membership of the oversight committee which he set up regarding the Protection of Maternal Life Bill; and if he...
    • Health Services Issues
      668. To ask the Minister for Health if he will support a matter regarding the length of time a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5 spent on a trolley in Beaumont Hospital, Dublin [19117/13]
    • Health Services Staff Issues
      669. To ask the Minister for Health the actions that will be taken to remedy the employment records of the North Eastern Health Board who, because of the loss of records from 1974 to July 1981,...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      671. To ask the Minister for Health if an early appointment will be arranged at Waterford Regional Hospital in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny in view of the fact that...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Road Projects Expenditure
      673. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total amount contributed to date by the State for the construction of the A5 primary road route between Derry and the N2 in the...
    • Road Maintenance
      674. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the investments planned for upgrading the deteriorating road surface along Blackhorse Avenue, Dublin, at two sections, the first between...
    • Road Projects Issues
      675. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if an application for funding (details supplied) was received from the National Roads Authority; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Road Safety Issues
      676. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the legal position in respect of the widespread use of quad bikes by young persons; if these bikes come within road traffic legislation;...
    • Rural Transport Programme Issues
      677. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which rural transport schemes in County Roscommon are likely to be affected by proposed changes to the operation of the...
    • Road Safety Issues
      680. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has any concerns about the impact that poor/substandard tyres have on road safety; and if he will consider introducing penalty...
    • Road Projects Status
      681. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to a previous Parliamentary Question, if he will confirm the future of the eastern bypass; if works will no longer begin on the...
    • Rural Transport Programme Issues
      682. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will ensure the continuence of the rural transport scheme in view of contracts being reduced from 12 months to six months; and if...
    • Departmental Staff Remuneration
      683. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide in tabular form the number of civil/public servants under the remit of his Department who earn more than...
    • Rural Transport Programme Expenditure
      684. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the savings he intends to make and the proposed budget in respect of the rural transport programme for the period 2013 to 2015. [18881/13]
    • Taxi Regulations
      685. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reasons hackneys cannot use bus lanes and if there will be any attempt to change this regulation; and if he will make a statement on...
    • The Gathering Expenditure
      689. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a breakdown of those groups in County Waterford that have been granted Exchequer funding specifically set aside for...
    • Rail Services
      690. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reasons the ticket office at a station (details supplied) in Dublin 13 is closed at the weekends; and if there are plans to have it...
    • Public Transport Provision
      691. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if Dublin Bus plans to have a third phase of its Network Direct Programme. [19061/13]
    • Rural Transport Programme Issues
      692. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding rural transport developments in County Donegal. [19105/13]

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