Written answers

Tuesday, 28 May 2013

  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Education and Training Provision
      53. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which studies have been carried out to determine the educational skills and requirements needed to meet demands in the modern...
    • Higher Education Reform
      54. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on the status of proposed higher education reforms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25475/13]
    • School Staffing
      55. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of requests his Department has had from secondary schools for additional career guidance allocations; the number of such requests...
    • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
      56. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to include capital assets in assessing maintenance grant eligibility; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25486/13]
    • School Patronage
      57. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on his efforts on changing the patronage of some primary schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • School Curriculum
      58. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will expand on comments he made recently when speaking at Tullamore College, County Offaly, when he said that science would be compulsory if...
    • Student Grant Scheme Design
      60. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on the measures which have been taken to address the problems encountered by students using the Student Universal...
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      61. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will release the statement sent to him by the CDVEC on the effect the change in the pupil teacher ratio will have on colleges in the FE...
    • Straitéis 20 Bliain don Ghaeilge
      62. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cén fáth a ndearna sé neamhaird de mholtaí na Straitéise 20 Bliain don Ghaeilge, 2010 – 2030, nuair a thóg...
    • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
      63. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on findings of the National Council for Special Education report, Supporting Students with Special Educational Needs in Schools, which...
    • Student Grant Scheme Administration
      64. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding that is to be provided to implement the recommendations of the Accenture Review into Student Universal Support Ireland; and the...
    • Student Grant Scheme Payments
      65. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to cut the rate of maintenance grants this year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25484/13]
    • School Enrolments
      66. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plan regarding the upcoming legislation on enrolment policy; the effect that this legislation will have on some of the more common enrolment...
    • School Transport Provision
      67. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is satisfied the traversable route policy being applied to the allocation of school transport is being applied fairly; if he is satisfied...
    • Suicide Prevention
      68. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has considered the recent findings of the published report Suicide in Ireland 2003-2008, in particular the recommendation contained in the...
    • Early Childhood Education
      69. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of personnel in WTE terms that have been appointed to assist with implementing Aistear and Siolta at preschool level and at primary...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      70. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if funding will immediately be made available for the refurbishment, redevelopment and extension of a school (details supplied) in Dublin 15....
    • School Patronage
      71. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in respect of the announcement that eight new English medium schools are to be established in 2015/16, the processes his Department are putting in...
    • School Curriculum
      72. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on consultations he has had with regard to junior certificate reform; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Schools Refurbishment
      73. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will reinstate the minor works grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25488/13]
    • Modern Language Teaching
      74. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to reinstate the modern languages in primary schools initiative; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25498/13]
    • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
      75. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the allocation of resource hours he proposes for children with Down syndrome designated as mild on the ID spectrum; and if he will make a...
    • Teachers' Remuneration
      77. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide in tabular form the numbers of teachers working casual hours or as substitutes who are being paid a rate given to unqualified...
    • Third Level Fees
      78. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the plans of UCC to make medicine students cover the full cost of their accommodation for training placements required as part of...
    • Departmental Bodies
      79. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on concerns expressed regarding the decision to merge An Chomhairle um Oideachas Gaeltachta agus Gaelscolaíochta with the National...
    • Post-Leaving Certificate Courses
      80. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will ensure that students at a college (details suppplied) in Dublin 10 will have access to Irish certification and be eligible to apply for...
    • Student Grant Scheme Reform
      81. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether the pursuit of radical reductions by his Department in public sector costs undermined the ability of SUSI to provide for...
    • Teacher Training Provision
      82. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way new teachers will manage to gain the hours necessary to complete their probation if he radically reduces the sub teaching hours available...
    • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
      84. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when he foresees the full implementation of the Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act 2004; his plans to ensure the effective...
    • Student Retention Rates
      86. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide in tabular form, the number of students who were forced to drop out of college as a result of problems in the way third level...
    • Fee Paying Schools
      87. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of private schools his Department are in negotiations with regarding entry into the free fees scheme; and if he will make a statement...
    • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
      88. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide the choice for students on the autism spectrum who are being educated in mainstream classrooms to take part in summer camps...
    • School Textbooks
      90. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures he intends to implement as part of the State support for reducing the financial burden on parents when clothing and equipping their...
    • Early Childhood Education
      92. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the early childhood care and education joint evaluation undertaken by the Health Service Executive and his Department to assess the levels of...
    • Student Grant Scheme Administration
      93. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will indicate having regard to the experience to date, the extent to which particular administrative issues have been identified in the way...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      94. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline details of his proposals to provide school extensions for schools (details supplied) in County Dublin where both schools are in...
    • Teacher Recruitment
      95. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on a statement by the Association of Secondary Teachers of Ireland's General Secretary (details supplied) that the difficulties facing...
    • Special Educational Needs Staffing
      97. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will clarify the role of the special needs assistant; and his plans to broaden the scope of the role to further facilitate the needs of...
    • Teachers' Remuneration
      98. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the salary level on which new teachers will be hired from September 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25496/13]
    • School Staffing
      99. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review his policy on the staffing ratios in small rural schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25044/13]
    • School Accommodation
      100. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are any instances in which his Department is paying rental for prefabricated classrooms in schools for the purpose of use as autism...
    • Post-Leaving Certificate Courses
      101. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in the context of the uniqueness of a college (details supplied) in Dublin 12, if he will lift the cap on student numbers. [25047/13]
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      102. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will ensure that the extension to a school (details supplied) in Dublin 15 is at tender stage in time to qualify for the stimulus package...
    • Institutes of Technology Issues
      104. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide details of the investigation by the Higher Education Authority that is to examine the expense claims by institutes of...
    • Summer Works Scheme
      105. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there will be a summer works scheme this year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25490/13]
    • Tax Code
      106. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the discussions he has had with the Department of Finance regarding the removal of VAT from ebooks; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Schools Building Contractors
      107. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his policy in relation to the awarding of tenders for school construction projects; if there are any specific checks carried out to ensure that...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      108. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will indicate when a school (details supplied) in County Dublin will get the funds for upgrading and refurbishment for which it has been...
    • Site Acquisitions
      109. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress that has been made on the approval of the South Dublin Council owned site, identified as a suitable site to accommodate a school...
    • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
      110. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will give assurances that any homeowner who refuses to pay the household charge will not be penalised should their children apply for third...
    • Student Grant Scheme Administration
      111. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the additional resources that will be available to Student Universal Support Ireland in the 2013/2014 academic year; and if he will make a...
    • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
      112. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to address the difficulties that some parents face in enrolling a child with special educational needs in school due to overt or soft...
    • Post-Leaving Certificate Courses
      113. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on comments by the CEO of County Louth Vocational Education Committee (details supplied) who said the VEC will be forced to cut a...
    • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
      116. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on concerns expressed by the Irish National Teachers Organisation that have said that the implementation of recommendations, including...
    • Student Grant Scheme Delays
      117. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students currently waiting for a decision on grant applications made to the Student Universal Support Ireland; if the measures his...
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Disability Act Employment Targets
      118. To ask the Taoiseach the target of his Department and subsidiary offices throughout the country regarding the employment of persons in the special category with disabilities and whether the...
    • Departmental Legal Costs
      119. To ask the Taoiseach his views on whether sufficient progress is being made in reducing the State's legal bill in his Department and any State agencies under his aegis; and if he will make a...
    • Job Creation Numbers
      120. To ask the Taoiseach the number of jobs created throughout the economy in both manufacturing and service sectors in each of the past four years to date; the number of jobs lost in the same...
    • Economic Policy
      121. To ask the Taoiseach the number of submissions received by his Department in relation to the recent call for submissions concerning the policy statement on economic regulation; and if he...
    • IFSC Clearing House Group
      124. To ask the Taoiseach the number of officials who have been present at each IFSC Clearing House Group meeting since March 2011 including each working group. [25673/13]
    • European Council Meetings
      125. To ask the Taoiseach the Minister of State or Minister who represented Ireland at European Council meetings during the Irish Presidency to date; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Departmental Funding
      126. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the organisations awarded funding from his Department under the annual development education grant scheme for 2013; the...
    • Humanitarian Aid
      127. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will update Dáil Éireann on his response to the recent tornado in Oklahoma; if he will describe the...
    • Overseas Development Aid Provision
      128. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the amount of Irish Aid’s budget that was spent on nutrition specific programmes in 2012; and if he will detail...
    • Human Rights Issues
      129. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which international monitoring takes place in the matter of allegations of human rights abuses in Iran; if...
    • Overseas Development Aid Oversight
      130. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will ensure that the proposals arising from the Conference, Scaling up EU Impact on Community Resilience and...
    • Teachers' Remuneration
      131. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will engage in discourse with ISM school in Tripoli, Libya, on the issue of payment of moneys owed by ISM to 17...
    • Undocumented Irish in the USA
      132. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps officials in his Department and the Embassy of Ireland in Washington DC are taking regarding the Immigration...
    • Humanitarian Aid
      133. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will give details of Ireland's potential role in the European Commission initiative that was announced in September...
    • EU Presidency Engagements
      134. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will give details of the recent Western Balkans Conference that was recently held at Farmleigh; if he will provide...
    • Trade Statistics
      135. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the level of trade with Vietnam in each of the past five years. [25905/13]
    • Departmental Staff Numbers
      136. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of diplomats, officials and staff currently working in our overseas embassies for each of the past five years....
    • Foreign Conflicts
      137. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the progress made to date in the United Nations adopting a resolution in relation to the Syrian conflict following the...
  • Department of Finance
    • Tax Code
      140. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to maintain the 9% VAT rate for tourism services such as restaurant meals and hotel accommodation, beyond the end of 2013, to build on the momentum...
    • Illegal Tobacco Trade
      141. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the fact that the illegal importation of tobacco is treated as a relatively minor offence; if a serious crackdown on criminals involved will be...
    • Universal Social Charge Payments
      142. To ask the Minister for Finance if the universal social charge is or was deducted in the case a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Property Taxation Administration
      143. To ask the Minister for Finance when the local property valuation bands are increased every €50,000, the reason there no band between 0-€50,000 and €50,000-...
    • Global Remittances
      144. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has studied the World Bank report on global remittances; the level of discrepancies here with regard to per capita remittances; and if he will make a...
    • Money Advice and Budgeting Service Issues
      145. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Money Advice and Budgeting Service is being considered for the pilot project of coordinated resolution of multiple debts and if its extensive...
    • Corporation Tax
      146. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide details on the way companies other than Apple that have had special arrangements with the Irish tax authorities to reduce their tax levels,...
    • Fuel Laundering
      152. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons who have received a custodial sentence in the past ten years for illegal fuel smuggling activity; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Tax Yield
      153. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has an estimate of the amount of funds to be raised through a levy on texting on mobile phones; the estimated amount to be raised through a 1 cent levy...
    • Pension Provisions
      154. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding a pension scheme; his plans regarding same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25246/13]
    • Banking Sector Issues
      155. To ask the Minister for Finance the progress made towards the implementation of basic bank accounts here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25285/13]
    • Tax Yield
      156. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount that could be raised for the Exchequer if the current withholding exemption on royalties was abolished and a 1% withholding tax was applied to...
    • NAMA Loan Offers
      157. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will set out by region/country the percentage amount and individual monetary amounts of finance forwarded by National Assets Management Agency to...
    • Departmental Meetings
      158. To ask the Minister for Finance if he or anyone in his Department during this administration or during the previous administration held meetings with representatives of Apple. [25297/13]
    • Tax Code
      161. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will clarify the situation regarding capital gains tax (details supplied). [25303/13]
    • Property Taxation Exemptions
      163. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 202 of 14 May, 2013, if a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will be exempted from the local property tax; and if...
    • Tax Code
      164. To ask the Minister for Finance if, as part of his plans to extend taxation to online betting platforms like betting exchanges, he has given any consideration to imposing taxation on online...
    • Public Services Provision
      165. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm that the Revenue Commissioners Office at River House, Limerick is unable to provide assistance to the public regarding their taxation...
    • Tax Code
      166. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has considered a vacant land tax; if he will estimate the amount that could be raised for the Exchequer if a vacant land tax was applied in the same way...
    • Insurance Coverage
      167. To ask the Minister for Finance following the commencement date, if he will consider establishing mandatory furnishing of fire and accidental damage insurance policies prior to commencement...
    • EU Directives
      169. To ask the Minister for Finance if he or officials in his Department have received representations from the industry stakeholders regarding the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive...
    • Mortgage Arrears Proposals
      170. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will outline the workings and procedures that Irish banks are using under the Central Bank of Ireland's code of conduct on mortgage arrears; and if he...
    • Banking Sector Remuneration
      171. To ask the Minister for Finance when he expects bankers will take a pay cut as per the Mercer report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25444/13]
    • Corporation Tax
      172. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of corporate taxes that have been paid to the Exchequer by all alcohol producers in each of the past five years; and the highest percentage, the...
    • Property Taxation Application
      173. To ask the Minister for Finance when a person has a long term right of residence in a property and is liable to the local property tax, if they qualify and choose to exercise the deferral...
    • Non-Resident Companies
      174. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of companies and the names of same, that are incorporated here but are considered non-resident for tax purposes. [25521/13]
    • Tax Code
      178. To ask the Minister for Finance further to sworn statements given by Apple representatives to the U.S. Senate Committee investigating the company's tax matters, if he can explain the way...
    • NAMA Operations
      180. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 213 of 21 May 2013, if he will confirm the decision process entailed in forwarding £20,000 to the University of...
    • Departmental Resources
      181. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of requests his Department has received from the Revenue Commissioners requesting additional staffing, legislation and equipment in each of the...
    • Financial Services Regulation
      182. To ask the Minister for Finance if persons (details supplied) completed an application form for the Central Bank of Ireland to become regulated as a retails credit firm; and if he will make...
    • Tax Compliance
      185. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has sent any communication, or if he intends to send any communication or officials from his Department or the Revenue Commissioners to the U.S. Senate...
    • Central Bank of Ireland Issues
      187. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 105 of 21 May 2013, the reason he cannot state that the Central Bank of Ireland is outsourcing the running of its...
    • Central Bank Property
      188. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide details of the steps that have been taken to date on the development of the new office building for the Central Bank of Ireland at Spencer...
    • Living City Initiative
      191. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding his Department’s deliberations on the Living City Initiative in terms of maximising its uptake in Waterford and Limerick, and...
    • NAMA Operations
      192. To ask the Minister for Finance if the National Asset Management Agency intends to launch a Real Estate Investment Trust; the timetable involved; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Property Taxation Administration
      193. To ask the Minister for Finance the per minute cost to a person of phoning the local property tax 1890 telephone helpline. [25623/13]
    • Currency Circulation
      195. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of coins of each denomination that have been minted in each year here since the introduction of the Euro. [25659/13]
    • Bank Guarantee Scheme Termination
      196. To ask the Minister for Finance the effect the ending of the bank guarantee has on the caps on bonuses applying to bankers. [25660/13]
    • Tax Code
      197. To ask the Minister for Finance the options available to a sports professional, who has availed of the Tax Relief on Retirement for Certain Income of Certain Sportspersons S480A TCA 1997 and...
    • IFSC Clearing House Group
      201. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of officials who have been present at each IFSC Clearing House Group meeting since March 2011 including each working group. [25671/13]
    • National Pensions Reserve Fund Administration
      202. To ask the Minister for Finance if he intends to make funds available to the Western Development Commission, from the National Pension Reserve Fund, for investment in productive enterprise,...
    • General Government Debt
      203. To ask the Minister for Finance the overall current level of debt here; and if he will categorise the different debt amounts. [25896/13]
    • Departmental Staff Numbers
      205. To ask the Minister for Finance the current staffing levels at the Central Bank of Ireland, his Department and the Revenue Commissioners compared to five years ago. [25898/13]
    • General Government Debt
      206. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will list Ireland's creditors and itemise the amounts owed to each creditor. [25899/13]
    • Economic Growth Rate
      208. To ask the Minister for Finance the official estimated growth levels here for the next three years. [25901/13]
    • Banking Sector Issues
      209. To ask the Minister for Finance the percentage of non -performing loans in Irish State owned banks. [25902/13]
    • Mortgage Arrears Rate
      210. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will release figures or statistics on mortgage arrears on a county basis including incorporating three month arrears, six month arrears and 12 month...
    • Property Taxation Exemptions
      211. To ask the Minister for Finance the exemptions available to a person who has purchased a house for their child who has a severe disability, including autism and schizophrenia and other...
    • Property Taxation Administration
      212. To ask the Minister for Finance if the National Association of Building Cooperatives is liable for half the local property tax of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 17 who purchased an...
    • Tax Code
      214. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding the retention of VAT on restaurants and other key areas in the tourism industry at 9%, in view of the...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • FÁS Training Programmes
      215. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will ensure that training courses are provided for jobseekers in oracle and java computer software in order to ensure that they have the IT...
    • Residential Institutions Issues
      216. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the specific status in terms of access to financial compensation by the State for former inhabitants of the Bethany House Homes under the...
    • Teacher Redeployment
      217. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) in County Kerry who was recently confirmed to be on the fifth salary point by his Department will be added to the...
    • State Examinations Commission
      218. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of retired teachers from primary and second level schools throughout the country who were employed at any stage by his Department and...
    • State Examinations Issues
      219. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of retired teachers who were employed for State Examinations Commission practical and oral exams in any subject in 2013; and if he...
    • Suicide Prevention
      222. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way a suicide awareness programme for teenagers Bring Me Back Alive play could be taken to every school in the country. [25039/13]
    • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
      223. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 139 of 15 May 2013, if the policy with regard to July provision of home tuition for children with autism...
    • Schools Building Projects Expenditure
      224. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the stage of a proposed extension to a school (details supplied) in County Wicklow; if he will outline in tabular form the costs that have been...
    • Vocational Education Committees Amalgamation
      225. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when he expects the ECF figure for the to be merged Cork City and County Vocational Education Committee to be finalised; and if he will make a...
    • Student Grant Scheme Applications
      226. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a determination will be made regarding a Student Universal Support Ireland grant application in respect of a person (details supplied) in...
    • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
      227. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the maximum allocation of resource hours will be provided to children with Down syndrome, and that they be recognised in their entirety and in...
    • Special Educational Needs Expenditure
      229. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 306 of 29 January 2013 the way his Department has justified a situation in which €207,854.02 is...
    • School Accommodation
      231. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No.109 of 27 February 2013, if a decision has been reached on an application from a school (details supplied)...
    • Higher Education Grants Eligibility Criteria
      233. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which qualification income guidelines affect eligibility for a higher education grant in the case of a person (details supplied) in...
    • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
      234. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the allocation of a special needs assistants in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; when they will be...
    • Teacher Recruitment
      235. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he will take to ensure that new qualified teaching graduates can take up employment in their profession here; if his attention has been...
    • Student Grant Scheme Appeals
      237. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a person (details supplied) in County Clare who applied for a third level education grant to Student Universal Support Ireland in 2012 will...
    • Schools Building Projects Expenditure
      238. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding his Department has granted in respect of capital building and refurbishment projects, as well as rental accommodation, and to which...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      239. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an application for a school (details supplied) in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25215/13]
    • Student Grant Scheme Applications
      240. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an application for higher education grant will be approved in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      241. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the outstanding actions that are needed to bring a school (details supplied) in Dublin 15 from stage 2b to stage 3 in the construction process....
    • Schools Building Projects Applications
      242. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on the proposed extension to a school (details supplied) in Dublin 15 and if he will outline when construction will...
    • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
      243. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a full special maintenance grant was not issued by Student Universal Support Ireland in respect of a person (details supplied) in...
    • State Examinations Issues
      244. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that reasonable accommodations for the leaving certificate exam have not been granted to a person (details supplied) in County...
    • School Accommodation
      245. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will confirm that there is a decision made to build schools (details supplied) in County Dublin; if he will outline the demand, needs and...
    • Student Grant Scheme Applications
      246. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on each individual Student Universal Support Ireland (details supplied); if he will ensure that each of these...
    • Student Grant Scheme Administration
      247. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in relation to Student Universal Support Ireland student grant administration, the number of service providers that were invited to tender for...
    • Teacher Redeployment
      248. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider a submission (details supplied) by a teacher; if he recognises this teacher's contribution to education; if he will address...
    • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
      249. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to establish a consultative process with parents of children with Down syndrome in mainstream education; and if he will make a...
    • Bullying in Schools
      250. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider incorporating literature (details supplied) related to bullying in the revised junior certificate syllabus; and if he will...
    • Teachers' Remuneration
      251. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the efforts being made to secure all outstanding payments owed to teachers who were contracted by the ISM International School, Tripoli, Libya...
    • Irish Language Issues
      252. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will confirm if press releases will be released simultaneously in Irish and in English as was outlined in his Department's first Language...
    • School Staffing
      253. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the basis on which he intends to withdraw a teaching post from a school (details supplied) in Dublin 3 for the 2013/2014 academic year in view of...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      256. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on the Review Group to develop a modern apprenticeship system; and when and the way in which members of the public...
    • Schools Building Projects Administration
      257. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department was consulted by Dublin City Council regarding the proposed disposal of council land (details supplied) in Dublin 17; if the...
    • Irish Language Issues
      258. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the commitment in the 20 years strategy that the role of COGG will be strengthened to reflect the need to address various issues...
    • School Enrolments
      261. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline the impact that the proposed new enrolment legislation might have on enrolment policies in gaelscoileanna. [25555/13]
    • School Curriculum
      262. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for the restructuring of the NCCA; and the impact that this will hve on An Chomhairle Gaeltachta agus Gaelscoileanna. [25556/13]
    • FÁS Training Centres
      263. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will examine a business plan in respect of a training centre (details supplied) in County Kerry; if he will provide advice, assistance,...
    • School Enrolments
      264. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he or his Department have been in contact with the principal or board of management of a school (details supplied) in County Louth in relation...
    • Fee Paying Schools
      267. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills with reference to fee paying schools (details supplied), if he will rethink the proposed increase in pupil teacher ratio in view of the fact that...
    • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
      268. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will explain if, in the circumstances of two or more children from one family attending third level education who are entitled to the...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      269. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 294 of 5 February 2013, when a response a response issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • FÁS Training Programmes
      270. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) in County Kildare can obtain a training course with FÁS at an early date in order to facilitate access to...
    • School Enrolments
      273. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans he has in place to ensure that adequate school places are now available in a town (details supplied) for the forthcoming school year...
    • Teachers' Remuneration
      274. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will engage in discourse with ISM school in Tripoli, Libya, on the issue of payment of moneys owed by ISM to 17 Irish teachers; if his...
    • School Staffing
      275. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on a matter regarding a school (details supplied) in Dublin 20; if an official from his Department will make contact with the school...
    • Student Grant Scheme Applications
      276. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to a student grant application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; the reason this...
    • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
      277. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) will be eligible to apply for assistance under the higher education grant schemes; the assistance available; and...
    • Fee Paying Schools
      278. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans in respect of Protestant fee paying schools. [25689/13]
    • Schools Refurbishment
      280. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to provide funding in respect of refurbishment for a school (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Pension Provisions
      281. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will address the issues raised with his Department by a person (details supplied) in County Cork concerning the discontinuation of a...
    • Student Grant Scheme Application Numbers
      282. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total number of applications for higher education grants processed by Student Universal Support Ireland since its inception; the number of...
    • Skills Development
      283. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which he continues to monitor the skills and educational requirements as indicated by market demand; the extent to which he expects...
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      284. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which he and his Department continues to monitor class sizes with a view to minimising any negative impact arising from the...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      285. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is satisfied regarding the adequacy of resources available throughout the educational sector in the current year at primary, second, third...
    • Education and Training Provision
      286. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the full extent of the availability of training, reskilling or upskilling places likely to be made available through his Department by way of...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      287. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary schools throughout County Kildare currently awaiting approval in respect of replacement of buildings or provision of new...
    • Bullying in Schools
      289. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total number of incidents of school bullying including cyber bullying reported to his Department through the primary and or post primary...
    • Special Educational Needs Staffing
      290. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which he and his Department continue to try and meet the ongoing requirements in respect of special needs assistants at all levels...
    • School Staffing
      291. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent, if any, to which discussion has taken place with the various school authorities likely to be affected by the loss of one or more...
    • School Patronage
      292. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the concerns of the authorities of a number of smaller, mostly rural denominational schools regarding their...
    • Literacy Levels
      293. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will support the National Adult Literacy Agency's request that a specific commitment be included in the Further Education and Training...
    • Pension Provisions
      294. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will furnish a cost neutral early retirement quotation from age 50 in respect of a person (details supplied). [25871/13]
    • Youth Unemployment Measures
      295. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the discussion he has had at the Laureate International Universities Forum on the European Youth Employment Crisis: creating a road map to...
    • Education and Training Provision
      296. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the additional measures he proposes in order to increase the number of under 25 year olds participating in vocational and technical education...
    • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
      298. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the circumstances in which a person who fulfils all the criteria for a maintenance grant except for the residence condition in the State may...
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      299. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider phasing in the larger pupil-teacher ratio in vocational education committee schools over a longer time period; and if he will...
    • Post-Leaving Certificate Courses
      300. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider removing the cap on the number of students in vocational education committee controlled schools; and if he will make a...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      301. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the up-to-date position regarding the proposed building project for a school (details supplied) in County Cavan; the stage of this project at...
    • Teachers' Remuneration
      302. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 258 of 26 March 2013, the reason no contact has been made by his Department with the relevant person as per...
    • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
      303. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the fact that special educational needs supports have been withdrawn from a school (details supplied) in...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Pension Provisions
      304. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding pensions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25177/13]
    • Office of Public Works Properties
      305. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if there is a ban on making Office of Public Works sites available for commercial use where it would bring revenue into a local area and...
    • School Accommodation
      306. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the discussions he or his Department have had regarding the provision of funding to build an extension to a school (details supplied) in...
    • National Lottery Funding Disbursement
      307. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount of funding transferred from the National Lottery funds to Government Departments and agencies for good causes in 2008, 2009,...
    • Office of the Ombudsman Reports
      310. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he proposes to carry out a cost benefit analysis of all the Ombudsman’s offices. [25363/13]
    • Office of the Ombudsman Expenditure
      312. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will list the cost of each Ombudsman under his remit in the years from 2000 to 2012, within the on-going economic difficulties...
    • Office of the Ombudsman Staff
      313. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will outline the position of the Office of Ombudsman in relation to civil servants retiring during the course of an investigation;...
    • Public Sector Reform Implementation
      314. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of quasi autonomous non-Governmental organisations including State bodies, agencies and boards, that have been abolished,...
    • Public Sector Staff Recruitment
      315. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if consideration is being given to partially or fully lift the embargo on public service recruitment in key areas as part of his plans...
    • Heritage Sites
      316. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the intended transfer in trust of Mount Congreve Gardens in County Waterford to the State will take place; the reason for the non...
  • Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
    • Retail Sector Issues
      317. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if there is any support for those engaged in retail-start ups here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25094/13]
    • Industrial Relations Issues
      318. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the position regarding a ruling by a Rights Commissioner of the Labour Relations Commission in favour of a person (details supplied);...
    • Regional Development
      319. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation in relation to his Department’s monitoring of the South-East Employment Action Plan, the number of ideas that have been funded...
    • Liquor Licensing Laws
      320. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the way he will ensure that public health concerns will be addressed and oversight of licence applications will be retained with...
    • Action Plan for Jobs
      323. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the progress made regarding action 126 in the Action Plan for Jobs to compare consumer price levels and consumer price inflation here;...
    • Consumer Rights Directive
      325. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation further to Parliamentary Question No 259 of 4 December 2012 if he will introduce the statutory instrument to give effect to Articles...
    • Regional Aid Guidelines
      326. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when he expects the EU Commission Directorate-General for Competition to publish the new Regional Aid Guidelines 2014-2020; and the...
    • IFSC Clearing House Group
      327. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of officials who have been present at each IFSC Clearing House Group meeting since March 2011 including each working group....
    • EU Standardised Corporate Forms
      328. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if officials in his Department have had discussions with their counterparts in other EU member states or the European Commission...
    • Trademark Issues
      329. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide details of the trademark arrangements for the Book of Kells (details supplied); if he has assessed the impact that...
    • State Bodies Staffing
      330. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the staffing levels at Enterprise Ireland and the Industrial Development Agency for each of the past five years. [25908/13]
    • IDA Job Numbers
      331. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of Industrial Development Agency supported jobs created over the past 10 years in counties Cork, Waterford, Limerick,...
    • IDA Site Visits
      332. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of site visits arranged by the Industrial Development Agency in the past year on a county basis. [25910/13]
    • Foreign Direct Investment
      333. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if a representative of his Department or the Industrial Development Agency have advised or provided information on the establishment...
    • Job Initiatives
      342. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will, in conjunction with the Department of Social Protection, introduce a scheme for new college graduates, as a pilot scheme,...
  • Department of Social Protection
    • Social Insurance Issues
      343. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if his attention has been drawn to an anomaly in the implementation of USC/PRSI whereby when an employee moves, for example, from €352 gross...
    • Youth Unemployment Measures
      344. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the extent to which her Department continues to be in a position to address the question of youth unemployment in 2013 having regard to the special...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility
      345. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason, in view of the work the Government is carrying out on suicide prevention, genuine cases of suicidal ideation combined with severe...
    • Jobseeker's Benefit Appeals
      346. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an application for jobseeker's benefit in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility
      348. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if persons in receipt of deserted wive's benefit are eligible for jobseeker's benefit; and if she will outline the supports that may be available...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      349. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Offaly may expect a decision on an application for carer's allowance. [25074/13]
    • State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility
      350. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to a situation that has arisen due to the change in the rules in contributions for a contributory pension from 260...
    • Fuel Allowance Eligibility
      351. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding fuel allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 14; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25102/13]
    • Social Welfare Appeals Status
      352. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision on an appeal for partial capacity benefit will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) who has been waiting since August...
    • Invalidity Pension Applications
      353. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if an application for invalidity pension will be expedited in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15; the reason for the delay; and if...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals
      355. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a decision has been made on an appeal of a decision on a domiciliary care allowance application in respect of a person (details supplied) in...
    • Farm Assist Scheme Statistics
      356. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of farmers living in County Monaghan who are in receipt of farm assist payments; the corresponding figures for the same period in 2012;...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Applications
      357. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if and when rent supplement will be awarded in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; if all information sought has been...
    • Youth Guarantee
      358. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she is considering coordinating the relevant agencies in developing a youth guarantee tailored to assist at risk young persons to secure a home,...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
      359. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an application for domiciliary care allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if she will...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Payments
      360. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason behind a decision to deduct €6.40 from the jobseeker's allowance of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 1; and if she will make...
    • Child Benefit Appeals
      361. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a child benefit appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Social Welfare Appeals Status
      362. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a review of an appeal in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Supplementary Welfare Allowance Appeals
      363. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite a supplementary welfare allowance appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; if she will issue an...
    • Mortgage Interest Supplement Payments
      364. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the correct level of mortgage interest supplement to be paid in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; the way their level of...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Appeals
      365. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite a jobseeker's allowance appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Invalidity Pension Appeals
      366. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will issue on an invalidity pension review in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if she will make a...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility
      367. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider reviewing the age requirement for those social welfare applicants with a disability in view of the fact that many persons do...
    • Job Initiatives
      368. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons that have applied for the voluntary work option scheme in 2010, 2011 and 2012; the numbers that have been successful in 2010,...
    • Social Welfare Offices
      369. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will detail the social welfare offices where Intreo has been introduced; those offices where it is planned to be introduced by the end of...
    • National Internship Scheme Eligibility
      370. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reasons a persons on the blind pension are not eligible to participate in the JobBridge programme; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Jobseeker's Benefit Applications
      371. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of young persons under 25 years of age, in receipt of jobseeker's benefit for less than six months; for more than six months and less...
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      373. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite a carer's allowance appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry [25294/13]
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Payments
      374. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide, in tabular form, the number of instances recorded, either through the relevant form or on the integrated short-term schemes...
    • Pension Provisions
      375. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans in respect of the removal of the transition pension in 2014 (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25332/13]
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Eligibility
      376. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if graduate nurses who have not applied for the two year contract jobs offered by the Health Service Executive will continue to qualify for...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Claim Durations
      377. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 326 of 14 May 2013, if she will outline the average duration of time spent on jobseeker's allowance for each...
    • Disability Allowance Applications
      378. To ask the Minister for Social Protection If she will expedite an application for a disability allowance in respect of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Illness Benefit Appeals
      379. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an illness benefit payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [25376/13]
    • Invalidity Pension Appeals
      380. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an application for an invalidity pension will be approved in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Wexford. [25377/13]
    • Public Procurement Regulations
      381. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will insure that protection in the procurement competition for the delivery of this service will be provided for post offices and sub agents...
    • Community Employment Scheme Numbers
      382. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide in tabular form for each of the years 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 the number of persons participating in community...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Applications
      383. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if and when an application for job seeker's allowance will be determined in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; the progress...
    • Disability Allowance Application Numbers
      384. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide figures relating to the number of applications for disability benefit in 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013 broken down by...
    • Departmental Staff Grades
      385. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will confirm if the medical assessors employed in her Department to assess certain social welfare benefit applications are adequately...
    • Social Welfare Appeals Status
      386. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an appeal for invalidity pension will be granted in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Laois; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Anti-Poverty Strategy
      387. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she is satisfied with the results achieved by the State in 2012 in achieving its targets under the Europe 2020 Strategy; and if she will make a...
    • Pension Provisions
      388. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the grounds on which workers, on an individual basis, can be moved from a defined benefit pension system to another system without their agreement...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Applications
      389. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 326 of 14 February 2013, of those persons currently in receipt of jobseeker's allowance that have not, to...
    • Illness Benefit Appeals
      390. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision on an illness benefit appeal will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Appeals
      391. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a decision has been made on an application for jobseeker's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will...
    • Live Register Numbers
      392. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons formerly employed in the construction trade categories who are on the live register; if he will provide a the breakdown of...
    • Invalidity Pension Appeals
      393. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an application for invalidity pension will be approved in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Carlow; and if she will make a...
    • Job Initiatives
      394. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide details of the job activation procedures being implemented by her Department in terms of those on jobseeker’s allowance...
    • Departmental Funding
      396. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if funding will be restored for a project (details supplied); if this request will be given urgent consideration in view of the fact that this...
    • Invalidity Pension Appeals
      397. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an invalidity pension appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [25644/13]
    • One-Parent Family Payment Appeals
      The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that an appeal by the person concerned was referred to an Appeals Officer on 13 May 2013, who will make a summary decision on the appeal based on...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      400. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if there are any circumstances in which her Department will consider assisting persons leaving the country with the cost of doing so bearing in mind...
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      401. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an application for carer's allowance appeal will be finalised in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if she will...
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      402. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an application for carer's allowance appeal will be finalised in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if she will...
    • Invalidity Pension Appeals
      405. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an application for invalidity pension will be approved in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Wexford. [25774/13]
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
      406. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an application for domiciliary care allowance will be approved in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Wexford. [25775/13]
    • Invalidity Pension Appeals
      409. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Offaly may expect a decision on an appeal for an invalidity pension. [25788/13]
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals
      413. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Offaly may expect a decision on an appeal for a domiciliary care allowance. [25792/13]
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      414. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Offaly may expect a decision on an appeal for a disability allowance. [25794/13]
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      415. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Offaly may expect a decision on an appeal for carer's allowance. [25795/13]
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      416. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Offaly may expect a decision on an appeal for a disability allowance. [25797/13]
    • Advisory Group on Tax and Social Welfare
      417. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when she will be presented with the remaining modular reports of the Advisory Group on Tax and Social Welfare; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Applications
      418. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide in tabular form for the years 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013, the number of applications made to her Department for invalidity...
    • One-Parent Family Payment Reforms
      419. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will report on the new scheme launched by her Department to assist lone parents on the pathway back to work; the way her Department will...
    • Pathways to Work Strategy
      421. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the progress to date on delivering on the targets outlined in the pathways to work strategy, namely to ensure that 75,000 of those long term...
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      424. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will outline the details of the claim for carer's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Carlow; if the appeal which...
    • Pension Provisions
      425. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason the defined benefit schemes for public sector employees are exempt from the same funding standards that apply to defined benefit schemes...
    • Youth Guarantee
      426. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the provisions that she is making to ensure that employment creation and retention forms part of any youth guarantee scheme. [24442/13]
    • Youth Unemployment Measures
      427. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the actions her Department is taking to tackle youth unemployment; if she will give an assessment of the effectiveness of these actions; and the...
    • Departmental Agencies Funding
      428. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will list the cost of each Ombudsman under her remit in the years from 2000 to 2012, within the on-going economic difficulties which...
  • Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Special Areas of Conservation Designation
      429. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide an update on the work on special areas of conservation (details supplied); if documents are now available; and if...
    • Departmental Funding
      430. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount of funding his Department has allocated, and to which projects, in Tramore, County Waterford in each of the past five...
    • Architectural Heritage
      431. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht in view of the additions to the protected structure list, his plans to open a grant scheme in order that owners of these facilities...
    • National Museum
      432. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the action being taken for the upkeep of State owned artefacts, as these artefacts need to be protected in specialised wrapping that...
    • Commemorative Events
      433. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will outline the costs associated with the hosting of the Drogheda 2012 National Famine Memorial Day; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Funding
      434. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if consideration will be given to offering grant aid towards the holding of the annual Canal Festival at Robertstown, Naas, County...
    • Turbary Rights
      436. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the extent to which he has addressed the concerns of turfcutters in respect of special areas of conservation; if an alternative bog...
    • EU Presidency Engagements
      437. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will give details of Ireland's contribution to the European Maritime Day Conference recently held in Valletta, Malta; and if he...
    • Cultural Property
      438. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the Book of Kells is owned by the people of Ireland; the ownership arrangements of the Book of Kells; if his attention has been...
    • Heritage Council Funding
      440. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the funding options available through his Department which may be available to support a project (details supplied) in County Meath....
    • Departmental Agencies Funding
      442. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will list the cost of each Ombudsman under his remit in the years from 2000 to 2012, within the on-going economic difficulties...
  • Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
    • Energy Conservation
      443. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources in the context of Delivering Our Green Potential, published in 2012, the progress that has been made towards the...
    • Better Energy Homes Scheme Applications
      444. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will expedite a warmer homes scheme application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if...
    • Broadband Services Provision
      445. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his response to correspondence (details supplied) regarding broadband; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • EU Directives
      446. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will outline the background and detail of the infringement proceedings being brought against Ireland and additional...
    • Departmental Properties
      447. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position regarding the old Central Fisheries Board offices in Glasnevin, Dublin; his future plans for the site; if...
    • Metropolitan Area Networks Programme
      448. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the total cost to date of the Metropolitan Area Networks; the locations at which MANs is available; the uptake in these...
    • Broadband Services Provision
      449. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the extent to which high quality and high speed broadband is available to a person (details supplied in County Kildare;...
    • Energy Schemes
      450. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when he will approve the proposal of energy efficient infra red heating panels to be eligible for triple E listing on the...
  • Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
    • Private Residential Tenancies Board Remit
      451. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government with regard to the Private Residency Tenancies Board, if it is the case that pending litigation on behalf of the PRTB has...
    • Wind Energy Development
      452. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views regarding wind farms in Dublin Bay; if a foreshore licence is required; the terms of such a licence; the limits...
    • Election Management System
      453. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when will he formally respond to the report of the Constitutional Convention to hold a referendum to reduce the voting age...
    • Motor Tax Collection
      454. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the so-called sportsman tax (details supplied); his plans to reintroduce this measure;...
    • Building Regulations Application
      455. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government following the commencement date, if he will consider establishing mandatory furnishing of fire and accidental damage...
    • Housing Adaptation Grant Applications
      456. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding supports in respect of persons (details supplied) in Dublin 5. [25511/13]
    • Motor Tax Yield
      457. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of motor tax collected for each of the past 10 years; and if he will list each of the different categories of...
    • Septic Tank Remediation Scheme
      458. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will consider introducing a grant scheme for persons with existing septic tanks who wish to connect into main public...
    • Water Supply
      459. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government with regard to the algae in Dubin City Council's water filtration system which is leaving some areas of North Wicklow...
    • Leader Programmes Funding
      460. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when he will release the funding of €90m to LEADER groups under the rural development programme 2007-2013; and if...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
      461. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to resume the social housing programme in 2013; if he will refer specifically to the role that will be played by...
    • Electoral Divisions Report
      462. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the procedures that are in place if a boundary commission does not fulfil its remit as outlined in its terms of reference...
    • Water and Sewerage Scheme Grants
      463. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government following a recent announcement of a pilot group sewage scheme that is being rolled out in a number of areas throughout...
    • Household Charge Refunds
      464. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if any house in an area (details supplied) in County Longford recieved a refund of the household charge. [25238/13]
    • Proposed Legislation
      465. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 199 of 15 May 2013 if he will outline the flexibility and restrictions that will be...
    • Building Regulations Amendments
      466. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on a submission (details supplied) regarding a grandfather change in the building regulation; if the content can...
    • Carbon Budget
      467. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide details of any carbon credits held by local authorities; the net value of these credits; and if he will...
    • Leader Programmes Funding
      469. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when a decision is likely on a LEADER application for a project (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a...
    • Planning Issues
      470. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he plans to amend legislation in order to provide for cases in which recommendations of planning inspectors are...
    • An Bord Pleanála Remit
      471. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the procedures in place to ensure that no conflict of interest arises for members of An Bord Pleanála in arriving at...
    • Fire Service Issues
      472. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on a newspaper article (details supplied) providing clarification in relation to the appointment of new fire...
    • House Purchase Schemes
      473. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if persons who hold affordable housing mortgages with local authorities are allowed apply to transfer their mortgage to a...
    • Leader Programmes Expenditure
      474. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if there is any decision regarding administration of LEADER funding in the former MFG areas; and if he will make a...
    • Household Charge Collection
      475. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the percentage of those liable to pay the household charge that have now done so; the number that have paid after the...
    • Water Charges Introduction
      476. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the time frame for the allocation of contracts for water metering roll out; the number of contracts involved; and if he...
    • Licence Applications
      480. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views in relation to the recent price increase for dog licences; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25572/13]
    • Local Authority Funding
      481. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the implications of circular FIN 03/2009 dated 13 February 2009 entitled Control and Monitoring of Local Authorities...
    • Local Authority Housing Issues
      482. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on whether the 1966 Housing Act is out of date (details supplied). [25629/13]
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes Status
      483. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the progress made to date on a sewerage scheme (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Local Authority Housing Issues
      484. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if there are any plans to use part of the Respond complex on Gracepark Road, Dublin for housing. [25677/13]
    • Local Authority Expenditure
      485. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in view of the fact that in 2008 Sligo County Council sought approval from his Department to the raising of a loan of...
    • Local Authority Finances
      486. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in view of the fact that his Department, in a letter to the Sligo County Manager dated 2 November 2012, expressed concern...
    • Local Authority Staff Issues
      487. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form the names of members of the Local Authority National Partnership Advisory Group in 2002...
    • Non-Principle Private Residence Charge
      489. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the tax claimable allowances available under the non principal private residence scheme; and if this has differed between...
    • Non-Principal Private Residence Charge Collection
      491. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will clarify if persons who have not paid the non principal private residence tax will be pursued for back payments...
    • Environmental Policy
      492. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to him extending the smoky coal ban to towns in County Wicklow effective 1 May 2013, if he intends banning smoky...
    • European Union Citizens' Initiative
      493. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of dealings with various groups, Irish or otherwise, his Department has had regarding the Citizens Initiative;...
    • Leader Programmes Funding
      494. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason for the delay in approving a lease grant (details supplied). [25858/13]
    • Departmental Funding
      496. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of funding that has been allocated to purchase the derelict house beside Collooney waste water treatment plant,...
    • Unfinished Housing Developments
      498. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if any review of the derelict sites legislation has been conducted by his Department since 2011; and if he will make a...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Impounded Vehicles
      499. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to increase the fees to get vehicles that have been seized by An Garda Síochána returned; the last time these fees were...
    • Departmental Bodies
      500. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will examine if it will be appropriate or possible to amend the legislation that established the property services regulatory authority to...
    • Magdalen Laundries Issues
      502. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to the mother and baby home that was formerly on Leeson Street, Dublin 2; the reasons it is not a part of the...
    • Departmental Bodies
      503. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current size of the board of the Irish Film Classification office; the current number of vacant positions; the number of vacancies that have...
    • Film Classification
      509. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will outline the timeframe for the appointment of a permanent director of the Irish Film Classification Office; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Funding
      511. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason funding has been reduced to an organisation (details supplied) in County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25085/13]
    • Crime Levels
      512. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he has undertaken any studies of illegal money laundering here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25090/13]
    • Garda Investigations
      513. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his views regarding whether the Gardaí have sufficient resources to tackle white collar crime in view of the marked decline in the number of...
    • Garda Records
      514. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will ensure that a Garda record is amended in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry. [25144/13]
    • Proposed Legislation
      515. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will outline, in respect of banking consumers who suspect that they have been mis-sold financial products in recent years, he has any...
    • Garda Investigations
      516. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the progress made on the various reports requested by his office in relation to a case (details supplied); when they will be published; and if he...
    • Homophobic Crime
      517. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to include homophobic violence in the remit of COSC; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25239/13]
    • Garda Deployment
      518. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Community Gardaí in each Garda station in County Wicklow; the number of vacancies for the positions in each Garda Station in...
    • Equality Issues
      519. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to amend the Equal Status Act in order that it will apply to those under 18 years of age; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Legal Services Regulation
      520. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his proposals to amend the Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011 with regard to the appointment of lay persons to the board of the Legal Services...
    • Garda Corruption
      522. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if any members of An Garda Síochána have been charged and convicted in court with making false statements or perjury and convicted of...
    • Visa Applications
      523. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the progress made to date in determination of an application for family reunification in the case of persons (details supplied) in County...
    • Renunciation of Citizenship
      524. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of citizens per year, in each of the years from 2002 until 2012 inclusive, who have renounced their Irish citizenship, by declaration...
    • Data Protection
      526. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will report on the finding of inappropriate access to PULSE as outlined in the Annual Report 2012 of the Data Protection Commissioner...
    • Domestic Violence Policy
      527. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of personnel allocated to the Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Investigation Unit of the National Bureau of Criminal Investigation...
    • Road Safety Issues
      529. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his views on the accident on the N21 at Garryduff Cross, Newcastle West, County Limerick, on 12 September 2010 in which three people lost their...
    • Firearms Licences
      530. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will outline in tabular form the number of firearm licences issued and renewed per annum from 2005 to 2012 on a county basis; the number of...
    • Intestate Estates
      533. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of citizens that die here annually without having made a will; if there is a breakdown of age for these persons; his views on whether...
    • Garda Vetting Applications
      534. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the steps that have been taken to ensure that the whole process of Garda vetting can be speeded up (details supplied). [25652/13]
    • Commemorative Events
      535. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will instruct his Department to help locate the remains of the patriot Thomas Kent on the grounds of Cork Prison; if he will work with the...
    • Garda Stations Closures
      536. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans for a facility (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25750/13]
    • Peace Commissioners
      537. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he is satisfied that there is an adequate number of Peace Commissioners in the town of Tralee, County Kerry; and if he will make a statement...
    • Passport Controls
      538. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the opening hour restrictions that are in place at the self service passport control facilities as part of the immigration services in Dublin...
    • Missing Persons Issues
      539. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the organisations or persons that are being funded from Government sources to provide a missing persons helpline and the amount received by each;...
    • Prison Committals
      541. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the cost to the State of imprisoning persons who fail to pay fined imposed by the Courts; the number of such cases in the past three years; if an...
    • Departmental Agencies Funding
      542. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will list the cost of each Ombudsman under his remit in the years from 2000 to 2012, within the on-going economic difficulties which...
  • Department of Defence
    • Pension Provisions
      543. To ask the Minister for Defence the current pension entitlements in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 7 who worked in his Department General Headquarters between 1977 and...
    • Overseas Missions
      544. To ask the Minister for Defence the extent of Irish United Nations involvement in Syria at present; the numbers of personnel involved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25122/13]
    • Defence Forces Personnel
      545. To ask the Minister for Defence the number of vacancies at each rank currently in the Defence Forces; if further recruitment is likely in the Defence Forces in 2013; and if he will make a...
    • Defence Forces Operations
      546. To ask the Minister for Defence the reason full time summer training for the Reserve Defence Forces is planned to take place in Tralee, County Kerry, instead of Bere Island this year; and if...
    • Defence Forces Expenditure
      547. To ask the Minister for Defence the amount spent on peace keeping operations over each of the past five years; and if he will itemise the spend. [25907/13]
    • Fodder Crisis
      548. To ask the Minister for Defence if, in view of the current fodder crisis, he will consider giving the cut grass from the lands around Baldonnel Aerodrome, Dublin, to local farmers. [25937/13]
    • Departmental Agencies Funding
      549. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will list the cost of each Ombudsman under his remit in the years from 2000 to 2012, within the on-going economic difficulties which challenge us all to...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Harbours and Piers Funding
      550. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if jobs agency aid will be made available to assist a company (details supplied) in County Kerry that wishes to expand and create...
    • Coillte Teoranta Lands
      551. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position with regarding the future and development of Donadea Forest Park in North Kildare with particular reference to the...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      552. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment of the agri environment option scheme will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a...
    • Rural Environment Protection Scheme Appeals
      553. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding an appeal made in writing in March 2012, in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork on receipt...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Application Numbers
      554. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers awaiting 2011 payments and the number awaiting 2012 payment in respect of the agri environment option scheme;...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      555. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment of the 2012 agri environment option scheme 2 will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and...
    • Dairy Efficiency Programme
      556. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment under the dairy discussion group scheme 2012 will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Appeals
      557. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a decision has been made on an review of further evidence supplied to the disadvantaged area appeals committee to support an...
    • Rural Environment Protection Scheme Appeals
      558. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a decision has been made on a review of a decision on a penalty on a REP scheme payment in respect of a person (details supplied)...
    • Grant Aid
      559. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if any funding opportunities are available for a project (details supplied) in County Monaghan; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Fisheries Protection
      560. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the European Commission’s recent notification to the Faroe Islands regarding sustainable fishing; if he will...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Applications
      561. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when an application for payment under the agri-environment options scheme 2012 will be finalised in respect of a person (details...
    • Single Payment Scheme Eligibility
      562. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a person (details supplied) in County Wexford will have their entitlements reinstated; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Single Payment Scheme Applications
      563. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding single farm payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Wexford; and if he will make a...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      564. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding the agri-environment option scheme section 2 payment in respect of a person (details supplied ) in County...
    • Coillte Teoranta Harvesting Rights Sale
      565. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide an update on proposed changes to the ownership of Coillte. [25426/13]
    • Fodder Crisis
      566. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will introduce a fertilizer subsidy to address the fodder crisis and to assist cash strapped farmers to obtain rapid growth...
    • Beef Exports
      567. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of grass fed beef exported to Canada per annum for the past ten years; the value of this produce; and if he will make a...
    • Rural Environment Protection Scheme Applications
      568. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when an application for a REP scheme payment will be approved in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Laois; and if he...
    • Suckler Welfare Scheme Applications
      569. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a decision will issue in respect of an application under the breeding scheme for suckler herds to a person (details supplied) in...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      570. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment of an agri-environmebnt options scheme will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a...
    • Forestry Grants
      571. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a decision has been made on a forestry application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make...
    • Departmental Schemes
      572. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of persons from County Waterford that have applied for grants under the new rainwater harvesting scheme since it commenced...
    • Fodder Crisis
      573. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide in tabular form a break down by county of the number of calls received to his Department's animal welfare helpline...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      575. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Meath will be awarded the agri-environment options scheme payment; and if he will make a...
    • Rural Environment Protection Scheme Expenditure
      576. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if it is possible to seek EU approval for an extension of the REP scheme 4; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25670/13]
    • Single Payment Scheme Applications
      577. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 574 of 26 February 2013 regarding a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny, if their...
    • Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme Application Numbers
      578. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he intends to extend the time for the completion of projects under tranche 1 of targeted agricultural modernisation schemes in...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Eligibility
      580. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the dates of the scheme year that applies to the disadvantaged area scheme for stocking density purposes; and if he will make a...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
      583. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when an application for disadvantaged area payment will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Wexford. [25842/13]
    • Single Payment Scheme Payments
      585. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a deduction was made from a single farm payment in 2012 in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if...
    • Forestry Grants
      586. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a forestry grant will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      587. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Galway will receive their agri-environment options scheme payment. [25914/13]
    • Irish Land Commission
      589. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide maps of an area of bog (details supplied) in County Westmeath which was under the auspices of the Irish land...
    • Single Payment Scheme Eligibility
      590. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will clarify headage payments in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry who was notified by his Department...
  • Department of Children and Youth Affairs
    • Health Services Provision
      591. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide an update regarding the service users under the Health Service Executive (details supplied) [25107/13]
    • Missing Children
      592. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the 116000 number is funded by the Government; if so, if he will confirm the amount granted in each of the past three years; the extent...
    • Child Care Costs
      593. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to the varying levels of fees being charged by different creches to parents with children in the community...
    • Youth Work Projects Funding
      594. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she has given consideration to maintaining financial support for the Big Brother, Big Sister programme run by the Foróige...
    • Departmental Funding
      595. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the funding her Department has allocated, and to which projects, in Tramore, County Waterford, in each of the past five years. [25209/13]
    • Youth Services
      596. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the sections of the Youth Work Act 2001 that have been commenced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25270/13]
    • Children Services Committees
      598. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide details of those local authority areas in which children services committees have been established; if she will provide...
    • Youth Services
      599. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the cost of implementation of the National Quality Standards Framework in Youth Work in 2011 and 2012; and if she will make a statement on...
    • National Lottery Funding Disbursement
      600. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the date on which the details of the 2013 National Lottery grant scheme of once off funding to community and voluntary organisations from...
    • Constitutional Amendment on Children
      601. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when the amendment to the Constitution in relation to children's rights will take effect; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Child Detention Centres
      602. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs in view of the recent controversy in relation to a shortage of beds and staff, if she will outline the maximum number of beds available at...
    • Abortion Services
      603. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the position with respect to the C Case; the number of girls in the care of the State that applied to the court for permission to travel...
    • Children in Care
      604. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the average cost to the State of keeping a teenager in St Andrews Centre in Northampton, Britain, per day and per annum; and if she will...
    • Child Care Services Provision
      606. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the level of consultation undertaken to establish the budget of the after-school or CETs 2 scheme; her views on concerns expressed by...
    • Departmental Reports
      607. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when she intends to publish the Parenting Support Strategy. [25892/13]
    • Preschool Services
      608. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the inspection regime for the preschool sector; the number of such facilities per county; the number of same that have been inspected in...
  • Department of Health
    • Proposed Legislation
      609. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that the Private Member's Bill regarding the Statute of Limitations Amendment Act 2013 in relation to survivors of symphysoiotomy is...
    • Home Help Service Issues
      610. To ask the Minister for Health if a person providing homehelp care for a Government department will be permitted to work past their sixty fifth birthday; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Accident and Emergency Services Provision
      611. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to any increase in patients presenting to the accident and emergency at Tallaght Hospital, Dublin, in relation to drug linked...
    • Hospital Staff
      612. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that Tallaght Hospital, Dublin, has indicated that it is letting go contract staff as per Health Service Executive guidelines; if he will...
    • Capital Programme Expenditure
      613. To ask the Minister for Health the total capital expenditure each year at Wexford Hospital by his Department from 1997 to 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25348/13]
    • Mobility Allowance Decision
      614. To ask the Minister for Health the plans that have been put in place to replace the mobility allowance and the motorised transport grant; when it will be put in place in view of the fact...
    • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
      615. To ask the Minister for Health with reference to envisaged amalgamations within education, specifically with reference to children who have special educational needs, if he will respond to...
    • Medical Card Applications
      616. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card application in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5. [25563/13]
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      617. To ask the Minister for Health if additional home care hours and a personal assistance service will be granted to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement...
    • Pre-Term Births
      618. To ask the Minister for Health the number of unborn children that have been brought to a pre term birth in Irish hospitals as a result of a mother who experienced suicidal tendancies...
    • Diabetes Strategy
      619. To ask the Minister for Health when the Health Service Executive will fill sanctioned posts (details supplied) in County Cork in critical areas of diabetes care; the reason for the delay in...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      620. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary will receive an appointment for surgery. [25098/13]
    • Health Services Staff Numbers
      622. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time and full-time equivalent environmental health officers covering the Dublin region employed by the Health Service Executive for each...
    • Health Services Staff Recruitment
      623. To ask the Minister for Health if he will clarify, as of 18 May 2013, the number of relevant mental health staff that have commenced employment; the number that will commence employment by...
    • Ambulance Service Provision
      624. To ask the Minister for Health if it is the case that there is no ambulance cover in Dunshaughlin, County Meath, on Tuesdays due to recent rostering changes; the circumstances in relation to...
    • Health Services Provision
      625. To ask the Minister for Health his view of Landauklefner; if he will outline pertinent familial supports which are recognised by the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Ambulance Service Provision
      626. To ask the Minister for Health the staff and financial resources provided for ambulance services in County Meath for each of the past five years. [25123/13]
    • Home Help Service Provision
      628. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine the home help hours allocation in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      629. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine the waiting time for treatment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Orthodontic Services Provision
      630. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding braces in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25175/13]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      631. To ask the Minister for Health if an operation will be expedited in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25176/13]
    • Cochlear Implants
      632. To ask the Minister for Health if he will commit to include the Happy New Ear Campaign's business proposal for a cochlear implant for both ears for deaf children in the 2014 estimate...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      633. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Offaly can expect an appointment at St. James's Hospital, Dublin. [25179/13]
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme
      635. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an application for funding through the fair deal scheme in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Carlow; when a final...
    • Medical Card Reviews
      638. To ask the Minister for Health if he will reconsider the decision to refuse the reimbursement of medical expenses incurred by a person (details supplied) in County Donegal with learning...
    • Health Insurance Prices
      639. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of the membership of the Consultative Forum on Health Insurance; the number of times the group has met; the areas of work in which...
    • Suicide Prevention
      640. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of funding that has been allocated to the ASIST programme in 2011, 2012 and 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25269/13]
    • Respite Care Grant Expenditure
      641. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that due to a crisis request by the Health Service Executive to house two vulnerable children, the Sancta Maria...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme
      643. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an application for funding through the fair deal scheme in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Carlow; when a final...
    • Medical Card Reviews
      644. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite a medical card review and update a general practitioner card to a full medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Accident and Emergency Departments Waiting Times
      646. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a minor (details supplied) in County Cork was left in the emergency department of the Mercy Hospital in Cork from 3pm on Friday the 10 of May, 2013,...
    • Home Help Service Provision
      647. To ask the Minister for Health the number of home help hours allocated nationally for the care of senior citizens in their homes in 2012 and 2013; and the corresponding figures for...
    • Home Care Packages
      648. To ask the Minister for Health when funding will be made available to allow for a home care package to be put in place allowing persons currently taking up a hospital bed to return home...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      650. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 517 of 20 March 2013, when a reply will issue from the Health Service Executive; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Disabilities Services Funding
      651. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form funding for intellectual disability services in Dublin for 2008 to 2013 inclusive. [25421/13]
    • Primary Care Centres Provision
      653. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the new primary care centre for the Baggot St, Dublin 4 area which is promised in the 2013 Dublin Mid-Leinster Service Plan...
    • Health Services Staff Recruitment
      655. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 237 of 2 May, 2013 regarding the role of the Chief Dental Officer, if the position has been recently filled; if the...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      656. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding surgery in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick. [25519/13]
    • Health Care Infrastructure
      657. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to refurbish Raheny Health Centre, Dublin 5; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25540/13]
    • Hospital Facilities
      658. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hospitals that currently have full helicopter landing facilities and that are in use and available on a 24/7 basis; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      660. To ask the Minister for Health the reason an operation in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Sligo has been cancelled at Sligo General Hospital; when the operation will be...
    • Hospital Staff
      663. To ask the Minister for Health if recruitment has commenced for a 0.7 diabetes nurse specialist at Cork University Hospital to oversee the development of insulin pump therapy for children...
    • Medical Card Applications
      664. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite a medical card application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25618/13]
    • Symphysiotomy Report
      665. To ask the Minister for Health the progress he is making in dealing with the persons who had symphysiotomy procedures in hospitals here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25620/13]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      666. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a hospital appointment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick [25648/13]
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      667. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25653/13]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      668. To ask the Minister for Health if an early date will be set for an operation at Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny [25654/13]
    • Medical Card Applications
      669. To ask the Minister for Health if a medical card will issue as a matter of urgency in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny [25655/13]
    • Hospital Statistics
      671. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a yearly breakdown for the past five years in relation to a hospital (details supplied) in County Donegal; the budgets allocated; the...
    • Suicide Prevention
      672. To ask the Minister for Health the funding made available for suicide prevention services and initiatives in the Ballymun area, Dublin, in the years 2010, 2012 and 2013 respectively [25676/13]
    • Vaccination Programme
      673. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) in County Cork is recognised as a sufferer of narcolepsy as a result of the swine flu vaccine Pandermix; if not, if he will...
    • Care of the Elderly
      674. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider setting up a forum on long term nursing home care [25692/13]
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme
      675. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the fair deal scheme in view of the fact that the ESRI projects additional requirement for 888 long term residential care places per annum to...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Appeals
      676. To ask the Minister for Health if he will introduce an independent appeals mechanism to address failure to agree necessary fee for nursing home care with national treatment purchase fund...
    • Health Information and Quality Authority Inspections
      677. To ask the Minister for Health if he will introduce an independent appeals process to afford nursing homes the opportunity to address the Health Information and Quality Authority's...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      678. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form the numbers on the outpatient waiting list for ear, nose and throat, ophthalmology and orthopaedics at Waterford Regional...
    • Hospital Services
      681. To ask the Minister for Health if he will update Dáil Éireann on the proposed single all-island paediatric cardiac surgical service that may be provided from Our Lady's Children's...
    • Medical Card Applications
      682. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Offaly may expect a decision on an application for a medical card. [25798/13]
    • Medical Card Reviews
      683. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Offaly may expect a decision on a review of a medical card. [25799/13]
    • Medical Card Applications
      684. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Offaly may expect a decision on an application for a medical card. [25800/13]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      687. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite the case of a hip replacement in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25850/13]
    • Primary Care Services Provision
      688. To ask the Minister for Health the Health Service Executive policy in relation to the provision of respisense monitors for newborns; if these are available across all HSE areas and to all...
    • Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage
      689. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to include haemochromarosis on the list of eligible conditions covered by the long term illness scheme; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Ambulance Service Provision
      690. To ask the Minister for Health if he will hold an investigation into the lack of resources available to the ambulance services in County Meath and the resultant threat to patient safety....
    • Orthodontic Services Waiting Lists
      691. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children and young persons aged under 18 years waiting for the fitting of dental braces by the Health Service Executive in Dublin 15; if he will...
    • Proposed Legislation
      692. To ask the Minister for Health if he proposes that the EC Patient Mobility Directive will be transposed into Irish law this year by primary legislation or by statutory instrument; and if he...
    • Rare Diseases Strategy Implementation
      693. To ask the Minister for Health the way Ehler's Danlos syndrome is diagnosed and classified here; the incidence rate here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25918/13]
    • General Medical Services Scheme Payments
      695. To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive will consider reimbursing moneys paid for prescription medication per the approval of a medical card in respect of a person...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Road Improvement Schemes
      697. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a grant for road improvement will be made available to Kerry County Council. [25111/13]
    • Traffic Calming Measures
      698. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current funding status of the Whitehall Road phase 2 traffic calming scheme in Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Tourist Sites
      699. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the Office of Public Works will list the top 10 tourist sites here; the pricing structure for each site; and the number of visitors...
    • EU Funding
      700. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide details of projects which were included in Ireland's response to the most recent call for applications for EU Ten-T...
    • Rail Network
      701. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the latest estimated cost of a proposed transport infrastructure project (details supplied); the scale of...
    • Road Network
      702. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current status and possible time-frame for completion of the N 25 New Ross by-pass and the link between the proposed New Ross by-pass...
    • Road Safety Issues
      703. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the action the National Roads Authority are taking to address a safety issue (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a...
    • Rail Services
      704. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is satisfied with the level of connectivity in the inter-regional rail network; the reasons for the poor connectivity in the rail...
    • Cycling Policy
      705. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he supports the development of a greenway between Kilmorna and Listowel, County Kerry along the old railway line; and if he will make...
    • Road Maintenance
      707. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will help ensure continued aid for a project (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • National Lottery Funding Disbursement
      709. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of National Lottery sports funding his Department has granted, and to which clubs, in Tramore, County Waterford, in each of...
    • Tourism Industry Issues
      710. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the funding his Department has granted for tourism initiatives in Tramore, County Waterford, and to which local organisations or bodies,...
    • Road Maintenance
      711. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a road (details supplied) has been closed; if there is any funding available for the...
    • Aviation Issues
      712. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the need to enhance the rights and protection of air passengers which is not addressed in the consultation issues paper his...
    • Road Network
      713. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when funds will be provided to Galway County Council to construct the Claregalway relief road; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Clamping Industry
      715. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to examine the operation of clamping companies and the practice of clamping; when legislation will be brought forward to...
    • Rural Transport Services Provision
      716. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if legislative requirements are necessary to allow the voluntary driver proposal to operate under the rural transport scheme; and if he...
    • Public Transport Provision
      717. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of a tender to Bus Éireann for its vehicle recovery and towing service by a company (details supplied); when will a...
    • Tourism Promotion
      718. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a progress report on the Wild Atlantic Way; if the route is finalised; if there are spur routes adjacent to various...
    • Public Transport Provision
      719. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a licence will be granted for an hourly bus service proposed from Dublin Airport to Ennis in advance of the upcoming peak summer...
    • Cycling Policy
      720. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to review regulations in respect of cycle tracks; if he will outline the regulations in respect of the use of footpaths by...
    • Public Transport Provision
      721. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the possibility of extending a Dublin Bus Service to the airport to better serve the Dublin North West area; if the option...
    • Road Improvement Schemes
    • Tourism Industry Issues
      723. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in the context of positive national numbers for tourism for the first quarter of 2013, the action he has undertaken in conjunction with...
    • Road Tolls
      724. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to introduce a toll on the M2 motorway; the details of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25776/13]
    • Public Transport Provision
      725. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if ticket machines for the operations of Irish Rail, DART, Dublin Bus, Bus Éireann and Luas are currently accepting the new...
    • Tourism Industry Issues
      726. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the funding options available through his Department which may be available to support a project (details supplied) in County Meath....
    • Rail Network
      727. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide details of the costs to Irish Rail of the rebranding with their new logo; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Road Network
      728. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding an application by Donegal County Council for funding to develop a new bridge at Cockhill, Buncrana, County...

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