Written answers

Wednesday, 24 April 2013

  • Department of Social Protection
    • Unemployment Levels
      9. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on addressing the problem of under-employment across the country; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18954/13]
    • Money Advice and Budgeting Service Remit
      10. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the role of the Money Advisory Bureau under the new personal insolvency regime; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18939/13]
    • Employment Support Services
      11. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of staff within her Department committed to employer engagement as part of the pathways to work strategy, the use of private contractors...
    • Social Welfare Appeals Administration
      12. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on allowing persons to avail of civil legal aid when making appeals either written or oral or both to the Social Welfare Appeals Office;...
    • Departmental Staff Numbers
      13. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of medical assessors currently employed by her Department; if the new panel of medical assessors has now been created; the number of...
    • Community Employment Schemes Places
      14. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an update on the introduction of a community employment programme for those who wish to become childcare providers; the number of...
    • Social Welfare Appeals Waiting Times
      15. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the average waiting time for finalisation of cases in the SWAO; the number of applicants during each of the years between 2008 and 2012 who waited...
    • Proposed Legislation
      16. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the date on which she will introduce the Social Welfare and Pensions Bill; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18845/13]
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      17. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide figures for the number of persons who have had their unemployment assistance and unemployment benefit cut because her Department...
    • Child Care Services
      18. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on whether a Scandinavian model of childcare could be adapted to an Irish context; her plans to develop same; and if she will make a...
    • Social Welfare Rates
      19. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the extent to which she expects to be in a position to meet the budgetary requirements of her Department without the imposition of extra curtailments...
    • Rural Social Scheme
      20. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will outline the maximum duration that a participant can stay in rural social scheme employment; her views on situations that have now...
    • National Internship Scheme Placements
      21. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the date on which she will publish the evaluation report on the JobBridge scheme. [18827/13]
    • Child Benefit Rates
      22. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans for the future of child benefit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18958/13]
    • Departmental Reports
      23. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 92 of 5 March 2013, the date on which the social impact assessment of the taxation and welfare changes...
    • Parliamentary Questions Numbers
      24. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she has instructed staff in her Department to routinely request the withdrawal of Parliamentary Questions before they are officially responded to;...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility
      25. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the steps she is taking to allow self employed persons who are seeking work but ineligible for a social assistance payment to be eligible for schemes...
    • Youth Guarantee
      26. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the progress she has made on implementing a youth guarantee scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18946/13]
    • Social Welfare Code Issues
      28. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will use the opportunity of the Social Welfare and Pensions Bill later this year to provide for the reimbursement to her Department by...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Eligibility
      29. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her Department will take property tax rates into considerations when means testing income to determine if an individual is eligible for...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Waiting Times
      32. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will state for each payment issued by the schemes administered by her Department the processing time that it is currently taking to process...
    • National Internship Scheme Administration
      33. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the situation in Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council owned Ballyogan Recycling Depot, aat which a number of...
    • Departmental Staff Numbers
      34. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of unfilled positions within her Department and their titles; and the dates on which she expects to fill these positions. [18838/13]
    • Departmental Properties
      35. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number and locations through which her Department operates; the amount being paid in rent for each unit for each of the past three years; and if...
    • Redundancy Payments
      36. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 110 of 5 March 2013, in which she stated that a person must be employed for 104 weeks before they have a...
    • Gender Recognition Issues
      37. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the date on which she will introduce gender recognition legislation. [18834/13]
    • Anti-Poverty Strategy
      38. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an update on the implementation of the National Action Plan for Social Inclusion 2007-2016; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Redundancy Payments
      39. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the date on which her Department’s website will reinstate the practice of showing a statistical breakdown of redundancy figures based on...
    • Community Employment Schemes Places
      41. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide details on the operation of the proposed local authority community employment scheme; if she will provide the timetable for its...
    • Social Welfare Offices
      42. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will outline her discussions in relation to the Office of Public Works and the advancing of her commitment to open a social welfare office in...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Eligibility
      43. To ask the Minister for Social Protection with regards to young homeless persons on the half rate social welfare payment who are trapped in emergency accommodation if she will consider...
    • Exceptional Needs Payments
      44. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the average payment made under the exceptional needs payment scheme during each of the first three months of 2013. [18825/13]
    • Social Welfare Code Issues
      45. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the Court of Justice of the EU, in the case of Servet Kamberaj v Servet Kamberaj v Istituto per...
    • Social Welfare Appeals Administration
      46. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the fact that in 2011, almost one in five decisions in social welfare appeals was overturned by getting the...
    • Community Employment Schemes Eligibility
      49. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide clarification on the situation concerning those mothers working in the home and their ability to receive a token social welfare...
    • Departmental Reports
      50. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her Department has conducted any research on identifying a minimum essential standard of living; if she will provide the results of this research...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Foreign Military Personnel
      55. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 201 of 6 March 2013 if permission was sought for US military personnel to wear...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      56. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if any of his Department’s 2012 capital expenditure allocation was used for current expenditure purposes last year,...
    • Military Aircraft Landings
      58. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 56 of 6 March 2013 if he will confirm that the 608 foreign military aircraft that...
    • Emigration Data
      59. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the statistics available to his Department on the numbers of emigrants from Ireland on a yearly basis in the past 10 years;...
  • Department of Finance
    • Property Taxation Administration
      60. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will outline the total costs incurred to date and the total estimated costs that will be incurred in establishing extra facilities to handle queries from...
    • Pension Related Deductions
      62. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason a person (details supplied) in County Louth has high pension related deductions taken from their salary at a very early stage during the year; the...
    • Tax Rebates
      63. To ask the Minister for Finance if a person (details supplied) in County Kildare is due a tax rebate for 2010 and 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19197/13]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      64. To ask the Minister for Finance if any of his Department’s 2012 capital expenditure allocation was used for current expenditure purposes last year, the amount used for this purpose;...
    • Tax Rebates
      66. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding a tax refund in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19318/13]
    • Tax Code
      67. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider classifying personal alarms for the elderly as a medical device for the purposes of VAT and applying zero VAT rating to these products; and...
    • NAMA Portfolio Issues
      68. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 260 of 16 April 2013, if he will clarify the apparent inconsistency in policy between the National Asset Management...
    • Banking Sector Issues
      69. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 280 of 16 April 2013, if he will identify the independent advisors to Allied Irish bank and the AIB pension fund in the...
    • NAMA Legal Fees
      70. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 274 of 16 April 2013, if he will confirm the reason legal fees were paid to ICSA Software International, a provider of...
    • Tax Code
      71. To ask the Minister for Finance his intentions to exempt (details supplied) from a benefit tax. [19420/13]
    • Tax Collection
      72. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to bring the State contributory pension within the standard PAYE taxing procedures (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Tax Yield
      73. To ask the Minister for Finance the tax yield from Capital Taxes (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19440/13]
    • Tax Reliefs Cost
      74. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update on tax reliefs (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19451/13]
    • Bank Guarantee Scheme Bond Repayments
      76. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide the total amount of pre-guarantee/unguaranteed debt paid out since the bank guarantee up to March 2011, and from March 2011 to date, by...
    • IBRC Liquidation
      77. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 275, 276, 277 and 278 of 16 April, 2013, if he will provide details of the way that the Irish Bank Resolution...
    • Tax Forms
      83. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding a HPL1 form request in respect of persons (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19471/13]
    • Property Taxation Application
      84. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will expedite a request in relation to a property tax application form in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if he will make...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • School Staffing Appeals Mechanism
      85. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills with regard to circular 0013/2013, as it relates to the primary school staffing appeals, if he will clarify the aspects of this circular which a...
    • Schools Amalgamation
      86. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide clarification regarding reports of the amalgamation of two schools (details supplied) in Dublin 13; and if he will make a...
    • School Curriculum
      87. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider setting up a pilot project in primary and secondary schools to start coding clubs with the aim of incorporating coding skills...
    • Student Grant Scheme Applications
      88. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when an application for a Student Universal Support Ireland grant will be approved in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Laois; and...
    • State Examinations Issues
      89. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the resolution available to a leaving certificate student (details supplied) in County Cork who is faced with a clash of examination times; and if...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      90. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will confirm the reason a school (details supplied) in County Cavan, has not progressed to building stage in view of the fact that its Band...
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      91. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a decision has been taken to continue to increase the pupil teacher ratio in fee paying schools until it reaches 28:1 being the option included...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      92. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on the permanent school building in respect of a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      93. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills with regard to the pupil-teacher ratio, if he will outline the way that this figure is calculated for primary schools; if he will list the posts...
    • Vocational Training Opportunities Scheme Eligibility
      94. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review the denial of a place on a VTOS course, on grounds of progression, to a person (details supplied) in County Cork who has been...
    • Third Level Facilities
      95. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding public access to a university library; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19381/13]
    • Higher Education Grants Eligibility Criteria
      96. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to review the higher education grant scheme to assess income based on net rather than gross income; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
      97. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the circumstance behind the decision to remove the entitlement to resource teaching hours in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      98. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has received an application for capital funding for the re-development of a school (details supplied) in County Kildare; the status and band...
    • Teachers' Remuneration
      99. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason his Department has failed to pay a teacher (details supplied) in County Kildare at the appropriate point on the scale for post primary...
    • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
      100. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to put in place special needs educational units within existing mainstream second level schools acknowledging that new second level...
    • School Staffing
      101. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the mainstream staffing for 2013/14 in respect of a school (details supplied) in Dublin 11; if he will outline his...
    • In-service Training
      102. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if retired principals are being employed by his Department, the vocational education committees or directly by schools or colleges to provide...
    • Public Sector Staff Recruitment
      103. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if persons who have worked in the education sector and have availed of retirement under the terms of the Croke Park 1 deal are barred from...
    • Student Grant Scheme Applications
      104. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a full Student Universal Support Ireland grant will be awarded to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Office of Public Works Projects
      105. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason for the delay in concluding an agreement to purchase a site at a location (details provided) in County Cork; and if he will...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      106. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if any of his Department’s 2012 capital expenditure allocation was used for current expenditure purposes last year, the amount...
    • National Procurement Service Savings
      108. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide details of the contrast in price and service between the mandatory Viking contract for stationery consumables for...
    • Public Sector Pensions Issues
      109. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if there will be an assurance given that no further cuts will be made to the pensions of retired Gardaí; and if he will make a...
    • Property Valuations
      110. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason the entire premises of sporting organisations are being evaluated under the commercial rateable jurisdiction of local...
  • Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
    • Departmental Expenditure
      111. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if any of his Department’s 2012 capital expenditure allocation was used for current expenditure purposes last year, the amount...
    • Job Creation Numbers
      113. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of jobs created, and jobs sustained, by each county enterprise board for each year since 2007. [19307/13]
    • Departmental Agencies Issues
      114. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if the Craft Council, which is under the auspices of his Department will be recognised as a cultural body in order to enable craft...
    • Local Enterprise Offices Remit
      115. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the reason the proposed LEOs are going to be less confusing for businesses; if the limit of 10 employees is maintained for the LEOs;...
    • Local Enterprise Offices Establishment
      116. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the way in which the proposal to maintain in excess of 30 LEOs meets the criteria of reducing the number of quangos in the McCarthy...
  • Department of Social Protection
    • Youth Guarantee
      117. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to Focus Ireland's proposal to introduce a Youth Guarantee; if she will provide education, training and support for...
    • Home Care Packages
      118. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of a home care package payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Respite Care Grant
      119. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will reverse the 19% cut to the respite care grant and actively support the campaign by carers to give carer's a break [19487/13]
    • Child Benefit Policy
      120. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans for the future of child benefit;; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19154/13]
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      121. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the situation regarding a carers allowance application in respect of a person (details provided) details supplied in County Cork; and if she will...
    • Ministerial Travel
      122. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will report on her visit to Chicago; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18695/13]
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Appeals
      123. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will review a jobseeker's allowance granted to a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • One-Parent Family Payment Applications
      124. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an application for social welfare in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if she will make a...
    • Homeless Persons Supports
      125. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the action is being taken by her Department to provide assistance to young persons who are homeless to ensure they do not become trapped in...
    • Mortgage Resolution Processes
      126. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider widening the pool of reference related to social welfare recipients in mortgage arrears to include experienced financial...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      127. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if any of her Department’s 2012 capital expenditure allocation was used for current expenditure purposes last year, the amount used for this...
    • International Agreements
      130. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if there is a mutual tax/social welfare agreement between Ireland and Canada which would allow a returning emigrant to have a disability payment...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Payments
      132. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason rent supplement was suspended in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; if all documentation has been received in...
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      133. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the progress that was made on a persons disability allowance appeal (details supplied) in County Sligo; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Payments
      134. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the maximum rent allowance to avail of rent support in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; if all arrears of rent support are...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Eligibility
      138. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 646 of 17 April 2013, if she will clarify a person's eligibility for rent allowance in a situation in which...
    • Invalidity Pension Appeals
      140. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an application for invalidity pension (details supplied) [19377/13]
    • Social Welfare Benefits Applications
      142. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of applications for various social welfare payments such as disability benefit, disability allowance, invalidity pension or other...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Eligibility
      143. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 667 of 16 April 2013 if she will indicate if in the determination of means, specific regard was had for...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Applications
      144. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total number of applications for disability allowance/invalidity pension approved on application, refused on application and/or subsequently...
    • Social Welfare Appeals Waiting Times
      145. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the average length of time taken to process appeals for means-tested or health-related social welfare payments in each of the past three years to...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Applications
      146. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of applications for health-related social welfare payments approved on application or referred to appeal in each of the past three years...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Application Numbers
      147. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of applications for domiciliary care allowance received in each of the past five years to date; the number approved, rejected or pending;...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Applications
      148. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of applications for rent allowance refused or reduced in each of the past two years to date; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Payments
      150. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider increasing rent support for recipients living in areas affected by higher rent markets; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Carer's Allowance Eligibility
      151. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total number of persons who have given up employment to care for a relative and who have subsequently been awarded State pension-related credits...
    • Social Welfare Overpayments
      152. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of overpayments of a social welfare payment and or allowance wherein the overpayment that occurred was not the fault of the applicant;...
    • Employment Support Services
      153. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total number of persons currently on community related training, employment or education schemes and supported by her Department in each of the...
    • Youth Unemployment Measures
      154. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the specific arrangements she has put in place to address the issue of youth unemployment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19401/13]
    • Unemployment Levels
      155. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the arrangements she has put in place to address the issue of long-term unemployment; the extent to which she expects such measures to impact on the...
    • Youth Unemployment Numbers
      156. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the extent to which youth unemployment currently reflected in the live register is likely to be affected by her proposals to address the issue of...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility
      157. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the extent to which previously the self-employed have been facilitated by way of social welfare payment and support; and if she will make a...
    • National Internship Scheme Placements
      158. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the time frame a person has to be in receipt of a job seeker's payment prior to being eligible for placement on an internship through the jobBridge...
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      159. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be made in relation to an appeal for carer’s allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway. [19418/13]
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals
      160. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Cork may expect a decision on their claim for domiciliary care allowance which is on appeal; and if she...
    • Illness Benefit Appeals
      161. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an appeal for illness benefit will be finalised in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if she will make a statement...
    • State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility
      162. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to correspondence (details supplied ) and if there are plans to bring the State contributory pension within the...
    • National Internship Scheme Administration
      167. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding the continuation of the JobBridge scheme for the remainder of 2013 (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      168. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite the medical referee decision on disability benefit for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Special Areas of Conservation Designation
      170. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the statutory footing for the management plan of lands owned by an organisation (details supplied) in County Wicklow; and if he will...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      171. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if any of his Department’s 2012 capital expenditure allocation was used for current expenditure purposes last year, the amount...
    • Architectural Heritage
      173. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if his attention has been drawn to the fact that many thatched houses are falling into ruin in view of the fact that owners cannot...
    • Forestry Grants
      174. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide an update on a forestry application (details supplied) [19405/13]
    • Arts Promotion
      175. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will consider a proposal to allow the Arts Council to register and recognise craft workers along the lines of people working in...
    • Irish Genealogy
      176. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the access and rights that will be afforded to adopted people in tracing their genealogy as part of the Irish genealogy. [19157/13]
  • Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
    • Departmental Expenditure
      177. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if any of his Department’s 2012 capital expenditure allocation was used for current expenditure purposes last...
    • Departmental Bodies
      179. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will reconsider the appointment of a person (details supplied) to the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland, that...
  • Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
    • Public Service Pension Scheme
      180. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason part time fire-fighters are not entitled to a pension although they are paying a pension levy [19196/13]
    • Energy Efficiency Programme
      181. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the positive results achieved under the DEHLG2010 Energy Efficiency Programme by Dublin...
    • Motor Tax Collection
      182. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on the following matter regarding motor tax (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Household Charge Collection
      183. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will outline, on a local authority basis, the compliance rate for payment of the household tax per month since...
    • Housing Grants
      184. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when he will allocate the much needed funding to Westmeath County Council for housing grants. [19191/13]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      185. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if any of his Department’s 2012 capital expenditure allocation was used for current expenditure purposes last year,...
    • Building Regulations Application
      187. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reasons for not including members of the Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologists in the list of competent...
    • Departmental Contracts
      189. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when final payment will be paid to a company (details supplied) by his Department. [19322/13]
    • Regeneration Projects
      190. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the proposals for the future funding of an organisation (details supplied). in Dublin 11. [19359/13]
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes Provision
      191. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to parliamentary question No. 186 on 18 April 2013, if he will provide the information sought in the second part...
    • Commercial Rates Write-Offs
      192. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if under existing provisions local authorities have the authority to waive/reduce outstanding commercial rate liabilities...
    • Litter Pollution Fines
      193. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to introduce legislation to assist local authorities with issuing fines in relation to dumping on private...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Personal Insolvency Act
      194. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the annual revenues that will be generated by the new personal insolvency sector being established to deal with the mechanisms in the Personal...
    • Equality Issues
      195. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will respond to the following query regarding the Employment Equality Act (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Residency Permits
      196. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the progress made to date in determination of eligibility for long term residency/naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied) in...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      197. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if any of his Department’s 2012 capital expenditure allocation was used for current expenditure purposes last year, the amount used for...
    • Garda Vetting of Personnel
      199. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to shorten the completion of the vetting process (details supplied). [19295/13]
    • Visa Applications
      200. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will facilitate the extension of stamp 3 visa in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if he will make a statement...
    • Garda Remuneration
      201. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality in view of the fact that the proposals of the Croke Park extension has been rejected by the trade union movement, if he will give consideration...
    • Recognition of Foreign Divorces
      202. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his views on the fact that certain divorces obtained outside the EU are not recognised here. [19353/13]
    • Declarations of Insolvency
      203. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position of this State recognising bankruptcy declarations in other jurisdictions; and if there are bankruptcy declarations in jurisdictions...
    • Debt Resolution Processes
      204. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an estimate of the number of applications for personal insolvency orders, bankruptcies and debt relief notices that will be...
    • Proposed Legislation
      205. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if legislation will be introduced to allow residents the right to light leylandii hedges impacting their own properties;; and if he will make a...
    • Asylum Applications
      206. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will indicate, pending decision under provision section 3(6) of the Immigration Act 1999 (as amended) and section 5 of the Refugee Act 1996...
  • Department of Defence
    • Departmental Expenditure
      207. To ask the Minister for Defence if any of his Department’s 2012 capital expenditure allocation was used for current expenditure purposes last year, the amount used for this purpose;...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Appeals
      209. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a decision will be made on an appeal to the 2012 disadvantaged area scheme appeal committee by a person (details supplied) in...
    • Limistéir faoi Mhíbhuntáiste
      210. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine cén uair a dhéanfar cinneadh ar achomharc faoi scéim na limistéar faoi mhíbhuntáiste 2012 atá...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      211. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if any of his Department’s 2012 capital expenditure allocation was used for current expenditure purposes last year, the amount...
    • Harbours and Piers Maintenance
      213. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to fund the dredging of Dunmore East Harbour, County Waterford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19411/13]
    • Single Payment Scheme Payments
      214. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the current position regarding a 2011 single farm payment claim in respect of a person (details supplied); if his Department has...
    • Coillte Teoranta Lands
      215. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on a matter regarding Coillte (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19435/13]
  • Department of Children and Youth Affairs
    • Departmental Reports
      216. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she has received the Report of the Special Rapporteur on Child Protection for 2012; and if so when she will publish same. [19187/13]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      217. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if any of her Department’s 2012 capital expenditure allocation was used for current expenditure purposes last year, the amount used...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme Issues
      219. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs with regard to the proposed allocation of €2.75 million under the childcare capital funding programme, if applications will be...
    • Inter-Country Adoptions
      220. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the Irish Adoption Authority will engage with its counterpart in the Philippines with a view to removing or increasing the recently...
    • Youth Services
      221. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will give priority to addressing the shortfall in funding to a youth service (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make...
    • Childcare Education and Training Scheme
      223. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason persons on the jobbridge schemes are treated differently from other persons on activation schemes and persons in receipt of...
    • Inter-Country Adoptions
      224. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs under the standardised framework for intercountry adoption assessments her understanding of the assessment process in relation to...
    • Youth Services
      225. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the community run youth service for Cabra, Dublin, is being put at risk because her...
    • Missing Children
      226. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs in relation to the European Wide Missing Children's Hotline 116000, if the proposed move of the missing children's hotline from a pilot...
  • Department of Health
    • Blind Welfare Allowance
      227. To ask the Minister for Health when an application for blind welfare allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Waterford will be awarded;; and if he will make a statement...
    • Prescription Charges
      228. To ask the Minister for Health if prescription charges apply to persons with long term illness cards; if prescription charges apply to persons with medical cards; and if he will make a...
    • Substance Misuse
      229. To ask the Minister for Health the number of alcohol related deaths that occurred here over the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19174/13]
    • Orthodontic Services Provision
      230. To ask the Minister for Health when funding will be made available through the Health Service Executive to the Orthodontic unit of Our Lady's Hospital, Navan, County Meath, to allow them to...
    • Health Services Issues
      231. To ask the Minister for Health the frequency of contact between the Health Service Executive and a person (details supplied) in County Leitrim: if he will instruct the HSE to reduce the...
    • Cochlear Implants
      232. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made on the introduction of a bilateral cochlear implant programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19198/13]
    • Medical Card Withdrawals
      234. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to any incident where a medical card was withdrawn without any notice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19200/13]
    • Medical Card Appeals
      235. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an appeal against the decision to refuse an application for a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare;...
    • Medical Certificate Applications
      236. To ask the Minister for Health when an application for a primary medical certificate in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 13, will be processed; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      237. To ask the Minister for Health if any of his Department’s 2012 capital expenditure allocation was used for current expenditure purposes last year, the amount used for this purpose;...
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      239. To ask the Minister for Health in relation to the filling of the 414 posts for community mental health services committed to in the Health Service Executive National Service Plan 2012, the...
    • Crisis Pregnancy Services
      241. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm for each year over the past ten years the number of women that have availed of services in State funded crisis pregnancy clinics to obtain...
    • Abortion Services
      242. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm for each year over the past 20 years the number of pregnancy terminations that have been carried out in this jurisdiction on the basis of...
    • Crisis Pregnancy Services
      243. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of funding per annum to all State funded crisis pregnancy advice clinics over the past 10 years; the conditions that pertain to their funding; and...
    • Domestic Violence Policy
      244. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider a submission from an organisation (details supplied) about the rationalisation of health services; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services Issues
      245. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 248 of 17 April 2013, if he will specify the person in the Health Service Executive that will be dealing with the...
    • Home Help Service Provision
      246. To ask the Minister for Health if an increase in home help assistance is available to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare whose home help has recently been reduced to one hour per...
    • Disability Support Services Issues
      247. To ask the Minister for Health with reference to mobility allowances and motorised transport grants, his plans for provision of services to persons who live with cystic fibrosis; if the...
    • Orthodontic Services Waiting Lists
      248. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in Dublin 11 will receive orthodontic treatment from the Health Service Executive and much needed braces in view of the fact...
    • Medical Card Numbers
      249. To ask the Minister for Health the amount that was recouped from EU member states for the awarding of medical cards to persons under EU regulation 883/04 in each year from 2010 to 2012; if...
    • Medicinal Products Expenditure
      253. To ask the Minister for Health if he approached the British National Health Service to explore if there are further economies of scale or efficiency savings that might be achieved on the...
    • Cochlear Implants
      254. To ask the Minister for Health when he will make the necessary funding available in order that both ears can benefit from cochlear implants to avoid problems caused by one implant breaking;...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      255. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine the case of a person (details supplied) in County Meath awaiting an urgent hip replacement surgery, who requires this surgery in order that...
    • Research Funding
      256. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide funding from the Health Research Board for research into the treatment of Rett Syndrome; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • HSE Funding
      257. To ask the Minister for Health if he will rescind the decision taken by the Health Service Executive to either wholly or partly stop the issue of a research grant provided by his Department...
    • Hospital Trusts
      265. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the concerns expressed by the Master of the Rotunda Hospital about the Project Plan for the establishment of Acute Hospital...
    • Hospital Staff
      266. To ask the Minister for Health the number of whole time equivalent posts currently filled at Waterford Regional Hospital; the number of these whole time equivalent posts filled at Waterford...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      267. To ask the Minister for Health the reason insulin pumps are not available at Waterford Regional Hospital for children suffering with type 1 diabetes; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme
      268. To ask the Minister for Health if he is satisfied that the funding available for the fair deal nursing home support scheme for eligible residents support scheme of nursing homes is...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      269. To ask the Minister for Health if he will support a person (details supplied) in County Offaly regarding support services for adults with autism. [19480/13]
    • Hospice Services
      270. To ask the Minister for Health if he will support a matter (details supplied) in Dublin 9 regarding hospital transport. [19481/13]
    • Departmental Oversight Committees
      271. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 235 of 17 April 2013, if he will detail the full composition of the oversight committee he established to construct...
    • Accident and Emergency Services Provision
      272. To ask the Minister for Health the reason there was no consultant in emergency medicine on duty at the Mercy University Hospital Cork on 22 March 2013; the reason the Mercy University...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Sports Funding
      273. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding a grant to a sports club (details supplied) in County Meath. [19472/13]
    • Harbour Authorities Appointments
      274. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport with regards to the new Commercial Executive Officer that has been appointed to Dun Laoghaire Harbour Company, the place in which the...
    • Harbour Authorities Staff
      275. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the persons, if any, employed within his Department or within the Dun Laoghaire Harbour Company to work on the Diaspora Centre project;...
    • Road Safety Issues
      276. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the guidelines for the placing of mobile speed cameras. [19205/13]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      277. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if any of her Department’s 2012 capital expenditure allocation was used for current expenditure purposes last year, the amount...
    • Air Freight Security
      279. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will clarify aviation rules that make the sending of sealed electronic equipment phones, games consoles and so on illegal to send...