Written answers
Wednesday, 8 May 2013
- Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
- Ash Dieback Threat
9. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will report on his consultation process on an all-Ireland control strategy for Ash dieback; when new measures will be introduced...
- Coillte Teoranta Harvesting Rights Sale
10. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of money the he estimates it can raise from the sale of the Coillte forest crop, net of expenses including funding the...
- Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations
11. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his proposal on internal convergence is still on the table for the Common Agricultural Policy negotiations; if this proposal has...
- Fodder Crisis
12. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the ongoing fodder crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21509/13]
- Departmental Investigations
13. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the names of the meat slaughtering and processing plants that have had their licences to operate suspended; if this is temporary or...
- Food Labelling
14. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will push for DNA testing of fish across the EU, similar to that undertaken in relation to the testing of beef products, in view...
- Commonage Division
15. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the proposals he has to update regulation of commonage lands; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19159/13]
- Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
16. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers that were written to in relation to their 2012 disadvantaged payments under the stocking density rule; the...
- Fodder Crisis
17. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is satisfied regarding the adequacy and availability of sufficient animal fodder to meet the needs of the agricultural community...
- Special Areas of Conservation Designation
18. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has made contact with a person (details supplied) in relation to the assessment of Waterford Estuary and Bannow Bay as suitable...
- Neonicotinoid Insecticides
19. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will justify his stance in relation to the temporary ban on neonicotinoid insecticides. [21409/13]
- Rural Development Programme Funding
21. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of money spent to date broken down between EU funding and national funding under each heading of the current 2007-2013...
- Fodder Crisis
22. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the failure of co-ops to extend three months' credit to farmers in order to address the fodder crisis; and if he will...
- Aquaculture Licences Applications
23. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when it is expected that a decision will be made on the application by Bord Iascaigh Mhara for an aquaculture licence in respect of a...
- Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
24. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers that have not yet been paid their 2011 and 2012 agri-environment options scheme 1 and AEOS 2 payments; the...
- Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Application Numbers
25. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers who applied under the disadvantaged areas payment scheme for 2012; the number who have received their payments;...
- Single Payment Scheme Expenditure
26. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he intents as President of the Council of Ministers of the EU that each country would have the flexibility to put a national cap on...
- Horse Passports
27. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the changes that he proposes to introduce regarding control of horse stud books; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21404/13]
- Food Labelling
28. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the changes made by him following the recent horse meat crisis; the further changes proposed; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Single Payment Scheme Payments
29. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers that have not yet paid their single payment for 2012; the number paid; the percentage paid broken down on a...
- Horse Slaughter Statistics
30. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of horses slaughtered each month in the past two years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21485/13]
- Coillte Teoranta Harvesting Rights Sale
31. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of meetings he has had with the Irish Timber Council in relation to the proposed sale of the forest crop of Coillte; the...
- Parking Charges
32. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of his proposals to impose paid parking charges on Howth Harbour, County Dublin; if he will release any analysis of the...
- Agri-Environment Options Scheme Applications
33. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the new agri-environment options scheme programme will commence; when farmers will be informed if their applications have been...
- Sugar Quotas Abolition
34. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will be supporting, as President of the Council of Ministers, the abolition of sugar quotas by 2015; the current position in...
- Coillte Teoranta Harvesting Rights Sale
35. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the up-to date position in relation to the proposed sale of the forest crop of Coillte Teoranta; the studies that have been carried...
- Common Fisheries Policy Negotiations
37. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress made to date in the negotiations on the common fisheries policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21479/13]
- Nitrates Usage
38. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if farmers who receive a derogation on an annual basis under the Nitrates Directive will be eligible for the greening payment under...
- Rural Environment Protection Scheme Payments
39. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers who have not been paid their REP scheme 4 payments for 2012; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a...
- Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations
40. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the redistributive payment proposal from the French Government and a similar proposal included in the Council of Ministers'...
- Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Eligibility
42. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers, broken down on a county basis, who were refused their 2012 disadvantaged area scheme payment to date because...
- Horse Statistics
43. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of horses in the State at present; the arrangement in place to keep a record of these horses; the proposals to upgrade this...
- Milk Price Issues
44. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he has taken to ensure that liquid milk producers get an adequate price for their product to ensure long term viability; and...
- Common Agricultural Policy Reform
45. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will outline in tabular form the adjusted figures for farmers following the revised CAP reform who had a single payment of...
- Aquaculture Development
47. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the fact that delays since 2010 in the assessment of applications for oyster-farming licenses at Bannow Bay and Waterford...
- National Cattle Herd Data
48. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has records of the number of suckler cows in the national herd; the estimated annual cost to farmers of maintaining...
- Commonage Framework Plans
50. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the updated situation on the revised commonage plans; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21477/13]
- Agri-Environment Options Scheme Application Numbers
51. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he intends increasing the number of places on the agri-environment options scheme 3 to cover all eligible applicants; and if he...
- Equine Related Issues
52. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he intends to introduce a scheme for the orderly destruction of unwanted surplus horse; when this scheme will be put in place; and...
- Aquaculture Licences Application Numbers
53. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of money expended by his Department and Bord Iascaigh Mhara to date on the development of applications for aquaculture...
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Foreign Conflicts
54. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has raised the subject regarding US drone attacks in Pakistan which have killed 4,000 men, women and children; if he...
- Overseas Development Aid Provision
55. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No.153 of 23 April 2013, if he will confirm the amount donated by Irish Aid to the...
- Election Monitoring Missions
56. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will list in tabular form the persons sent abroad from 2007 to date in 2013 to monitor elections and referenda; the...
- Ministerial Meetings
57. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide a report on his visit to Northern Ireland on 30 April 2013. [21702/13]
- Foreign Conflicts
58. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if any new initiatives are being considered at the European Union Foreign Affairs Council in relation to the ongoing...
- Air Services Provision
60. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the discussions, if any, he has had in relation to the need to develop direct flight connections between Ireland and west...
- Department of Finance
- Tax Code
61. To ask the Minister for Finance in relation to Part 18C Taxes Consolidation Act 1997, if he will confirm that the levy, in certain circumstances, applies to persons who are tax resident here;...
- NAMA Court Cases
62. To ask the Minister for Finance further to an affidavit filed in the High Court in Dublin in which the National Asset Management Agency was seeking a judgment against a person (details...
- NAMA Property Leases
63. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will outline the arrangement between the National Asset Management Agency and the National Association of Building Co-Operatives; the number of...
- NAMA Property Sales
64. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm for each of 2010, 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013, the number of housing units sold by the National Assets Management Agency in the State for...
- NAMA Accounts
65. To ask the Minister for Finance further to the publication of the 2012 unaudited accounts for the National Asset Management Agency, the reason interest income increased in 2012 compared with...
- Exchequer Returns
71. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a calendar of the future dates in 2013 when his Department’s monthly Exchequer statements will be published [21644/13]
- NAMA Accounts
72. To ask the Minister for Finance further to the publication of the 2012 unaudited accounts for the National Asset Management Agency, if he will provide his assessment of the performance of...
- NAMA Transactions
73. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a copy of the collateral posting agreement between the National Treasury Management Agency and the National Asset Management Agency which...
- Property Taxation Administration
74. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of letters returned by An Post to the Revenue Commissioners in respect of the local property tax and the follow up mechanism by the Revenue in...
- Revenue Documents Issuance
75. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will arrange for a document to be issued to a person (details supplied) in County Cork for each of the tax years 2010, 2011 and 2012 [21733/13]
- IBRC Account Holders
76. To ask the Minister for Finance if he intends to address the issues which have been raised relative to retirement funds such as ARF's and AMRF's and the fact that persons have lost...
- Property Taxation Exemptions
77. To ask the Minister for Finance if a family (details supplied) in County Meath may be exempt from the local property tax on the grounds that the family home had extensive adaptions carried...
- Credit Union Issues
78. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on a submission (details supplied) regarding a credit union special manager in County Kildare; the actions planned in relation to resolving this...
- Illicit Trade in Tobacco
79. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the recent Grant Thronton report on tobacco and the shadow economy which shows that up to €800 million is being lost...
- Property Taxation Administration
80. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will seek an immediate explanation from the Revenue Commissioners regarding the issues that have arisen with the payment system for the local property...
- Department of Education and Skills
- Higher Education Schemes
81. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide the name of a contact person, number or email of an official in springboard to advise and assist a group (details supplied) who...
- Higher Education Institutions Staff
82. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in regard to each separately of the seven universities and 14 institutes of technology, the percentage of staff that are academics and or...
- Special Educational Needs Services Provision
83. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he intends to review the situation whereby children with Down's syndrome are unable to access the maximum allocation of resource hours; if he...
- School Enrolments
84. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the mechanisms in place to ensure that children who have been adopted or fostered are not disadvantaged from enrolling in local schools where...
- Private Schools
85. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide details of all the private primary schools in both County Limerick and in the City of Limerick; and if he will make a statement...
- Institutes of Technology Issues
86. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will ensure that the Killybegs Campus of Letterkenny Institute of Technology will continue to be supported as part of Letterkenny IT to...
- Special Educational Needs Services Provision
87. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will add Down syndrome to the low incident list of intellectual disabilities to ensure that children can access the full suite of resources...
- Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
88. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person (details supplied) was refused a special rate grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21669/13]
- Schools Building Projects Status
90. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a new permanent building will be provided for a school (details supplied) in Dublin 16; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21674/13]
- Residential Institutions Issues
91. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if applicants for the student grant scheme who have been recipients of compensation relating to time spent in industrial schools, that was not...
- Teaching Qualifications
92. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person (details supplied) is receiving the unqualified teachers rate of pay when they qualified in June 2012; when will they be...
- School Accommodation
93. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will confirm the intended temporary location for a planned new primary school (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a...
- Student Grant Scheme Delays
94. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of grant applications to Student Universal Support Ireland that have not been finalised and the full payment made; the number of...
- Schools Building Projects Applications
95. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will immediately review his decision not to proceed with the extension of a college (details supplied) in Dublin 15; and if he will meet...
- Schools Building Projects Status
97. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the contract has been signed for the completion of a school (details supplied) in County Kildare; if so, the name of the contractor; the date...
- Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
- National Lottery Licence Sale
98. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide assurances that, in the context of the National Lottery Bill, the 6% margin on lottery sales for retailers will be...
- Flood Relief Schemes Expenditure
99. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if payments or funding is available to landowners whose land and fields have been damaged by the River Slaney bursting its banks; and if...
- Garda Stations Refurbishment
100. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans in relation to the up keep and maintenance of the former Garda barracks, Ballyragget, County Kilkenny; and if he will make a...
- Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
- Proposed Legislation
101. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his plans for legislation that allows persons who invested in projects via crowd sourcing websites to receive equity for their...
- Microenterprise Loan Fund Application Numbers
102. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of applications under the microenterprise loans fund scheme received in the period of 1 October 2012 to 31 March 2013 from...
- Review and Audit of Licences
103. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on the progress at reforming the 50 licences identified by Forfás which constitute a significant burden for our retail...
- Microenterprise Loan Fund Applications
104. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if his attention has been drawn to the fact that many retailers consider the interest rate and the term length of the finance services...
- County and City Enterprise Boards Reform
105. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will report on the planned reform of the city and county enterprise boards; and the steps being taken to ensure that the vital...
- Department of Social Protection
- Money Advice and Budgeting Service Funding
106. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if additional resources will be made available to the Money Advice and Budgeting Service to enhance the support, advice and information available to...
- Invalidity Pension Appeals
107. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be reached on an invalidity pension appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Laois; and if she will make a...
- Rent Supplement Scheme Eligibility
108. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will outline the way maintenance payments are taken into account for the calculation of rent supplement payments; if she will reference the...
- Social Welfare Appeals Status
109. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the progress to date in respect of determination of an appeal in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a...
- Employment Support Services
110. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the steps being taken to develop the pathways to work option to include private sector firms to assist, support and complement the current...
- National Internship Scheme Placements
113. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider correspondence from a person (details supplied) who is seeking a suitable internship placement; and if she will make a...
- Property Taxation Collection
114. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding the deduction of local property tax from the back to education allowance in respect of a person (details supplied); and if...
- Social Welfare Appeals Status
115. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in Dublin 24 will be informed of the outcome of their appeal to the Social Welfare Appeals Office in respect of...
- Jobseeker's Allowance Appeals
116. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an appeal against refusal of jobseeker's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; if she will...
- Disability Allowance Appeals
117. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an appeal for disability allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) [21680/13]
- Invalidity Pension Appeals
118. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will have their appeal heard regarding invalidity pension. [21690/13]
- Social Welfare Code Issues
119. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if applicants for social welfare who have been recipients of compensation relating to time spent in industrial schools, that was not awarded through...
- Services for People with Disabilities
120. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the concern amongst persons with a disability in Cork who have been dependent on Cork Accessible Transport for...
- Domiciliary Care Allowance Review
121. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an update on the review of domiciliary care allowance and disability allowance in the 16 to 18 age group. [21698/13]
- Jobseeker's Allowance Applications
122. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be made on an application for jobseeker's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal. [21711/13]
- EU Regulations
124. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a determination has been made in relation to the way the receipt of UK Winter fuel payment would affect recipients of fuel allowance here; and if...
- Family Income Supplement Appeals
125. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a decision has been made on an appeal of the rate of family income supplement awarded to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she...
- Community Employment Scheme Numbers
126. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons in community employment under the part time integration option which is a one year version of community employment; the number...
- Disability Allowance Appeals
128. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a review appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Carlow and if she will expedite a response. [21752/13]
- Jobseeker's Allowance Payments
130. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will include bank holidays in payment of jobseeker's allowance for casual workers who do not receive bank holiday pay from their employer;...
- Jobseeker's Allowance Applications
131. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding entitlements in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 3. [21809/13]
- Proposed Legislation
132. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an indicative time frame for the introduction of the legislation which will permit transgender persons to obtain a birth...
- Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
- Departmental Funding
133. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide a breakdown in the funding, by year, for various projects his Department has funded in an area (details supplied)...
- Regional Airports
134. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide an update on the usage of the air strips at Cleggan and Inishboffin, County Galway, which will improve access to...
- Air Services Provision
135. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide an update on the efforts to secure the air services to the Aran Islands beyond the current public service...
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Inland Fisheries Issues
136. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the reason for the change in the by-laws which have been introduced recently to prohibit the use of worms, prawns and...
- Better Energy Homes Scheme Expenditure
137. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if his attention has been drawn to the on-going issue with regards to the non-payment of a community based organisation...
- Broadband Services Provision
138. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will consider partnership arrangements with Eircom and other telecommunications companies who are undertaking...
- Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
- Animal Welfare Issues
139. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the policy that exists in relation to putting dogs down in the State's pounds; and if he has received any complaints...
- Water and Sewerage Schemes Status
140. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his Department has approved the application from Fingal County Council for the second phase of the sewerage pipeline...
- Local Authority Housing Provision
141. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will make funding available to the North Tipperary County Council for the provision of social housing (details...
- Electoral Divisions Establishment
142. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the progress made to date on the establishment of an Electoral Commission; the main function of the proposed Electoral...
- Environmental Protection Agency Governance
143. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will lay before the Houses of the Oireachtas the latest report and accounts for the Environmental Protection Agency....
- Local Government Management Agency
144. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will lay before the Houses of the Oireachtas the latest report and accounts of the Local Government Management...
- Waste Management Issues
145. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the plans, if any, he has to tackle the problem of dioxins from waste which are seeping into our atmosphere, if on land,...
- Departmental Funding
147. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if and when funding will be released for the Big House Festival, Castletown House, Celbridge, County Kildare, which is due...
- Leader Programmes Funding
148. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will report on the progress of reforming the structures of LEADER funding provision as contained in the Putting...
- Homelessness Strategy
149. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if work is underway on drawing up a new strategy to tackle the problem of homelessness in advance of the expiry of the...
- Department of Justice and Equality
- Prisoner Transfers
150. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the arrangements in place between Ireland and Germany regarding Irish persons serving sentences in jail in Germany being transferred to complete...
- Legal Aid Service Expenditure
152. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if additional resources will be made available to the Legal Aid Board to enhance the support, advice and information available to persons in...
- Property Registration Authority
153. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to any concerns relating to the method of registering judgement mortgages by the Property Registration Authority...
- Child Abduction
154. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of times the Hague Convention on child abduction has been invoked in this State in each of the years 2010, 2011, 2012 and to date in...
- Legal Aid Service Expenditure
152. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if additional resources will be made available to the Legal Aid Board to enhance the support, advice and information available to persons in...
- Property Registration Authority
153. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to any concerns relating to the method of registering judgement mortgages by the Property Registration Authority...
- Child Abduction
154. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of times the Hague Convention on child abduction has been invoked in this State in each of the years 2010, 2011, 2012 and to date in...
- Law Reform Commission Reports
155. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the possible legislative changes to jury composition here in view of the Law Reform Commission's Report on jury service; and if he will make a...
- Court Staff
156. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will outline the role of the Master of the High Court; the way a person is appointed to the position; the salary of the position; the...
- Citizenship Applications
157. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding an application for citizenship in respect of a person (details supplied); the time-frame for conclusion of the same; and...
- Garda Operations
158. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if Gardaí are required to issue a receipt upon seizing assets which may be used in a court case at a later date; the minimum requirements...
- Illegal Moneylenders
159. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if proposals to deal with illegal money lending in Ireland and persons involved in such practices will be regulated in any forthcoming...
- Civil Partnership Legislation
160. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he intends to extend the civil partnership legislation to incorporate (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21676/13]
- Internet Safety Issues
161. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the action he will take against websites that promote harmful and unhealthy behaviour such as promoting anorexia and bulimia and other eating...
- Crime Statistics
162. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the criteria for recording of burglary offences for purposes of national crime statistics has been altered in the past four years; if so, in...
- Garda Operations
163. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason for the 22% reduction in the number of Garda summonses in the first three months of 2013 compared to the first three months of 2012....
- Insolvency Service of Ireland Issues
164. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the form the personal insolvency register will take; the information it will contain; if it will be published on the web and if persons remain on...
- Prison Accommodation
165. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 416 of 26 March 2013, the reason for the delay in collating and issuing the information requested. [21739/13]
- Child Abduction
166. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will give details the way that the Irish Central Authority dealt with a case (details supplied) under the Hague Convention; and the action,...
- Owners Management Companies
167. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to a practice (details supplied) in County Meath; if he will outline the rights of these residents; and if he...
- Garda Operations
169. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will enquire of Garda authorities where the property of protestors involved in the occupied Dame Street movement was taken when the police...
- Employment Rights Issues
170. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when it is envisaged that the newly constituted Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission will be in a position to examine and report on the...
- Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
- Fodder Crisis
171. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in view of the continuing bad weather, stretching back to Summer 2012, the resultant fodder shortage at present and the probable...
- Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
172. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when agri-environment options scheme 1 and AEOS 2 payments will issue to farmers who have penalty reviews attached to their cases;...
- Coillte Teoranta Reports
173. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has commissioned a report on State forestry and the future of Coillte; the date on which he commissioned the report; the person...
- Forestry Grants
174. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding a forestry payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement...
- Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
175. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding an agri-environment option scheme payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; and if he...
- Agri-Environment Options Scheme Applications
176. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reasons for the delay in payment of an agri-environment option scheme application in respect of a person (details supplied) in...
- Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
177. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment of the agri-environment options scheme will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he...
- Fodder Crisis
178. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress he is making to source a ship to import large tonnage of hay from the UK; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Agriculture Schemes Payments
179. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress he is making to try to release area based compensation payments in advance of September 2013 to assist farmers currently...
- Single Payment Scheme Payments
180. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied) in County Kerry has not received any payments for 2011; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Fodder Crisis
181. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which he has evaluated the impact of the fodder shortage on the farming sector in all regions throughout the country;...
- Animal Welfare Issues
184. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which poultry and pig producers have been in a position to comply with animal welfare directives requiring extra...
- Beef Industry Irregularities
186. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is satisfied that all the issues that arose culminating in the inclusion of horsemeat in beef burgers have been resolved...
- Food Labelling
187. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is satisfied regarding the adequacy and accuracy of food and food-product labelling with particular reference to full...
- Food Safety Standards Regulation
189. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which regular monitoring of meat processing plants is carried out to ensure compliance with regulations; and if he will...
- Fisheries Protection
191. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which he continues to monitor fish stocks with particular reference to the degree to which particular stock in Irish...
- Ash Dieback Threat
193. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide an update on the progress of measures introduced to combat the effects of the ash die-back disease. [21866/13]
- Horse Passports
194. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress made to date in reforming the horse registration and passport scheme in view of the recent shortcomings identified....
- Coillte Teoranta Harvesting Rights Sale
195. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has studied the international experience of privatisation of public forests, particularly in New Zealand and the brief...
- Department of Children and Youth Affairs
- Missing Persons Hotline
205. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide an update in the 116000 missing child number. [21628/13]
- Youth Services
206. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to the impact of the cut in youth services in the Clondalkin, Palmerstown and Lucan areas; if her attention...
- Child Care Reports
208. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason for the delay in publishing the results of the audit produced on foot of the recommendations in the report on the Roscommon...
- Youth Services
209. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the steps being taken to protect frontline youth services in view of the projected 50% cut in the budget between 2009 and 2014; and if she...
- Child Care Services Provision
210. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will confirm that all childcare services provided by persons employed outside the child’s own home will be subject to the...
- Department of Health
- Medicinal Products Supply
211. To ask the Minister for Health the measures in place to identify and prevent the importation of drugs, prescription or otherwise, purchased on the internet in view of the dangers of the...
- Health Services Staff Issues
212. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) in County Meath will be permitted to embark on a one year career break to gain further experience in their field of practice; if...
- Hospital Appointment Status
213. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1145 of 16 April 2013, when an admissions appointment will be issued for Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin in...
- Medical Card Eligibility
214. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a number of GMS patients, who have an in date medical card are being denied medical services under the GMS...
- Hospital Appointment Delays
215. To ask the Minister for Health if he will clarify the reason a referral in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal who is experiencing great discomfort has been...
- Water Fluoridation
216. To ask the Minister for Health the number of water treatment plants that have fluoridation systems installed here; the number that are planned in future programmes of works; and the cost of...
- Home Help Service Provision
217. To ask the Minister for Health if the home help hours will be improved due to a medical condition in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Carlow; and if he will make a statement...
- National Treatment Purchase Fund
218. To ask the Minister for Health when will he make funding available to the national treatment purchase fund; the facilities has he put in place to address the waiting lists and the large...
- Generic Drugs Substitution
219. To ask the Minister for Health if he will respond to an issue of generic substitution raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [21666/13]
- Medical Card Applications
220. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; if he will expedite same; and if he will make a...
- Hospital Facilities
221. To ask the Minister for Health if any decision has been made regarding the future of St Joseph's Hospital in Ardee, County Louth; the investment there will be in the facility; and if he will...
- Hospital Appointment Status
222. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a hospital appointment for an operation. [21689/13]
- Care Services
223. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for Saint Joseph’s House, Stillorgan, County Dublin, a residential facility that caters for 30 to 40 deaf and blind adults; and if he will...
- Patient Transport Provision
224. To ask the Minister for Health the transport the Health Service Executive will provide to patients attending outpatient appointments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21706/13]
- Departmental Contracts
225. To ask the Minister for Health the value of contracts with a company (details supplied) whose address is located in the British Virgin Islands; the nature of the work carried out under this...
- Pharmacy Regulations
226. To ask the Minister for Health if pharmacists are covered under the remit of the Ombudsman; and if not, his plans to extend the Ombudsman's remit to cover such complaints [21721/13]
- Nursing Homes Support Scheme
227. To ask the Minister for Health in relation to the suspension of funding for the national home support scheme, when same will be resumed in the Kilkenny/Carlow area where elderly persons...
- Hospital Appointment Delays
228. To ask the Minister for Health when an appointment for an MRI scan will become available for a person (details supplied) who requires extensive surgery; if he will provide details of the...
- Hospital Appointment Status
229. To ask the Minister for Health the plans he has to deal with persons not turning up for out patients appointments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21745/13]
- Mental Health Services Provision
233. To ask the Minister for Health if he will list the current publicly funded maternity units or Section 38 voluntary maternity units which do not have on-site mental health services provided...
- Universal Health Insurance White Paper
234. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the process for drafting the White Paper on Universal Health Insurance including membership of teams and the timeframe for same; and if he...
- Health Services Reform
235. To ask the Minister for Health if he will detail the money follows the patient pilot project and plans to further extend this scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21784/13]
- General Practitioner Services
236. To ask the Minister for Health if he will clarify whether general practitioners are permitted to charge an administrative fee for blood tests on each occasion a medical card patient attends...
- Care Services
237. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a long term care plan in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5. [21867/13]
- Smaller Hospitals Framework
238. To ask the Minister for Health when the small hospitals framework report will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21872/13]
- Abortion Legislation
240. To ask the Minister for Health the persons who framed the terms of reference for the expert group on the A, B and C report on abortion; if there were draft guidelines; the persons involved...
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- Road Projects Contracts
242. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the details of the public private partnership deal that the National Roads Authority signed on his Department’s behalf regarding...
- Road Projects Expenditure
243. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount his Department has spent to date on the A5 dual carriageway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21713/13]
- Road Safety Issues
244. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 613 of 30 April 2013, if he will, in the context of any future changes to EU legislation on...
- Traffic Calming Measures
245. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if any standard designs for traffic calming measures, such as ramps exist; and if directions will be given to local authorities on the...
- Driving Tests
246. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide details on the way the standard of driving test examination are assured across the country particularly in view of the...
