Written answers

Tuesday, 25 June 2013

  • Department of Health
    • Medical Card Issues
      79. To ask the Minister for Health if it is possible for medical card holders to change their general practitioners in certain circumstances where difficulties arise in the professional...
    • Ministerial Advisers Remuneration
      80. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the report in the Sunday Business Post of 16 June, which reports that two senior figures, working as advisers to the...
    • Alcohol Sales
      81. To ask the Minister for Health when he will bring forward measures to reduce alcohol consumption; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30423/13]
    • Symphysiotomy Report
      82. To ask the Minister for Health if he will give details of the membership of the Steering Committee on the Walsh review of symphysiotomy; the names of the members; the date on which they...
    • Hospital Services
      83. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that Health Service Executive home help workers will receive priority consideration for suitable opportunities in hospital services; and if he...
    • National Children's Hospital Status
      84. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a progress report on the development of the new National Children’s Hospital [30394/13]
    • Hospitals Policy
      85. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for the implementation of hospital reconfiguration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30438/13]
    • Health Reports
      86. To ask the Minister for Health the measures he has taken in response to the Health Service Executive Report on the death of Savita Halappanavar; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Programme for Government Implementation
      87. To ask the Minister for Health if he is satisfied that he is honouring the commitments to older persons as set out in the Programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Home Care Packages
      88. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to improve the regulation of home help and homecare services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30418/13]
    • Mobility Allowance Eligibility
      89. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to restore the mobility allowance after June; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30026/13]
    • Health Strategies
      90. To ask the Minister for Health the target date he is working to for the full implementation of the changes recommended in the model of care document for asthma; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Services
      91. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to increase thrombolysis rates for stroke patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30022/13]
    • Pharmacy Services
      92. To ask the Minister for Health his vision for pharmacy in the health service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30429/13]
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      93. To ask the Minister for Health if he will detail the acute mental health services for children here; the numbers on waiting lists for same; the average, shortest and longest waiting times;...
    • Alcohol Sales Legislation
      94. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made to date in bringing forward reforms to amend legislation in respect of the sale of alcohol to tackle the problem of binge drinking and...
    • Hospital Staff Issues
      95. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which adequate, consultant, medical and nursing staff levels remain available to meet requirements throughout the hospital services and primary...
    • Hospital Trusts
      96. To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe for the establishment of hospital groups and the timeframe of the development of hospital trusts; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Diabetes Strategy
      97. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to tackle diabetes nationwide, particularly paediatric diabetes; if he will commit to ensuring that the paediatric diabetes care posts are filled as...
    • Hospitals Policy
      98. To ask the Minister for Health the opportunity that will be provided for stakeholders to engage in the process of consultation provided for in the Higgins Report on Hospital Groups; the...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      99. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which his Department's expenditure has remained on target with budgetary expectations for the current year in respect of all services; the areas,...
    • Universal Health Insurance Provision
      100. To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe for the introduction of universal health insurance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30445/13]
    • Maternal Deaths
      101. To ask the Minister for Health the changes he intends to implement in relation to maternal mortality reporting and investigating procedures to improve the information gathered in order to...
    • Health Screening Programmes
      102. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the phased roll out of the national diabetic retinopathy screening programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30440/13]
    • Graduate Nursing Scheme Issues
      103. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the graduate nurse recruitment scheme; the take up to date; the way this compares to the original target; and if he will make a...
    • Air Ambulance Service Provision
      104. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the development of the air ambulance service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30023/13]
    • Hospital Services
      105. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for Loughlinstown Hospital in view of the Framework for Smaller Hospitals report and the reorganisation of the services across South Dublin; and if...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      106. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether services for persons with spina bifida are sufficient to their needs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30444/13]
    • Hospital Staff Issues
      107. To ask the Minister for Health if he will advise the now anticipated shortfall of non-consultant hospital doctors by hospital site as of 8 July; the specialist disciplines so affected by...
    • Mental Health Commission Reports
      109. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the recent annual report published by the Mental Health Commission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30424/13]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      111. To ask the Minister for Health the latest waiting list figures for day cases and in-patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30442/13]
    • Suicide Prevention
      113. To ask the Minister for Health the checks that are put in place by his Department in relation to funding to organisations who provide professional services for suicide, depression,...
    • Nursing Home Beds
      115. To ask the Minister for Health if he is satisfied that there is an adequate supply of nursing home beds in north Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30437/13]
    • Patient Safety Authority
      116. To ask the Minister for Health the date on which the Patient Safety Authority will be established; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30441/13]
    • Home Help Service Provision
      117. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to improve the regulation of home help and homecare services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30446/13]
    • Care of the Elderly
      118. To ask the Minister for Health if he is satisfied that the appropriate training and qualifications are being adhered to by private and voluntary organisations who provide services under the...
    • Diabetes Strategy
      120. To ask the Minister for Health if he will update Dáil Éireann on proposals to improve paediatric diabetes nursing supports in the northwest; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Health Insurance Prices
      121. To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe for the introduction of full charges to private health insurers for the use of public hospital beds; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      122. To ask the Minister for Health the measures he is taking to urgently address the ongoing situation at acute psychiatric services in County Roscommon; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Obesity Strategy
      123. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the introduction of a national strategy for a childhood obesity prevention and intervention service; if he has engaged directly or, if not, will...
    • Cochlear Implants
      125. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm his already signalled intent to provide funding in the health budget for the introduction of a bilateral cochlear implantation programme in...
    • Long-Term Illness Scheme Eligibility
      126. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to incidences where medication deemed to be available under the long term illness scheme is not being prescribed by pharmacists...
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      127. To ask the Minister for Health the mental health services in the Health Service Executive Dublin North East area for 16-18 year olds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30398/13]
    • Health Service Training and Development
      128. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a cost-benefit analysis of overseas training and development courses provided to staff of his Department and the Health Service Executive, and...
    • Ambulance Service Provision
      129. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the reconfiguration of ambulance and emergency services here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30401/13]
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      130. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children being treated for depression, anxiety and stress; if he will provide information on the direction that is taken for treatment when those...
    • Health Insurance Cover
      132. To ask the Minister for Health the action he will take on private health insurers passing on to customers the cost of over-charging for hospital treatments; and if he will make a statement...
    • Health Services Provision
      134. To ask the Minister for Health if he will detail the supports in place for patients with Huntington's Disease; if his attention has been drawn to proposals to develop specialist clinics at...
    • Hospital Bed Closures
      135. To ask the Minister for Health when the six closed beds in Carndonagh Community Hospital, County Donegal, will be re-opened, returning the hospital to it's 30 bed capacity; and if he will...
    • HSE Agency Staff Expenditure (1 comment)
      136. To ask the Minister for Health the current level of expenditure on agency staff both in hospitals and care institutions; the way his Department is working with the Health Service Executive...
    • Ministerial Advisers Remuneration
      137. To ask the Minister for Health if it is the case that persons appointed at senior executive or advisory level in the Special Delivery Unit are paid through overseas companies; his views on...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      138. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the delays being experienced by children with ear, nose and throat conditions to get a basic assessment by a consultant,...
    • General Practitioner Services
      139. To ask the Minister for Health if he will make a commitment that medical card holders who have undergone breast cancer treatment in hospital will not have to pay the cost of their general...
    • Dental Services Provision
      140. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the effect tthat he recruitment embargo is having on the provision of public dental services for children in the Kildare...
    • Hospital Services
      141. To ask the Minister for Health if he will update Dáil Éireann on his Department's review of proposals to establish a north-south deep brain stimulation service; and if he will make...
    • Hospice Services
      142. To ask the Minister for Health the additional support that will be provided to the three existing children’s hospitals pending the completion of the new hospital at the St....
    • Substance Misuse
      143. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the Drugs Advisory Group has not met since January; if it is to be replaced by a new structure; when this new structure will be in place and fully...
    • Home Help Issues
      144. To ask the Minister for Health the reason he has not yet honoured the Labour Court recommendations which ordered the payment of a gratuity of four and a half weeks for home helps who were...
    • Hospice Services
      145. To ask the Minister for Health the location of all specialist inpatient hospice units across the State; his plans to provide specialist inpatient hospice units at hospital sites where such...
    • Framework for Smaller Hospitals
      146. To ask the Minister for Health the nature and extent of the consultation process on the Framework for Smaller Hospitals which he published in May; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Accident and Emergency Departments Closures
      147. To ask the Minister for Health if he will defer any decision on the cutting of accident and emergency services at Bantry General Hospital, County Cork, currently scheduled for 8 July, for a...
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Irish Statute Book Application
      148. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide a detailed breakdown in the number of downloads that have occurred to date of the Irish Statute Book Application available for download on both the...
    • State Solicitors
      149. To ask the Taoiseach the current number of State solicitors operating here in different geographical areas; if he will detail the number of and identify the locations in which State...
    • Official Engagements
      150. To ask the Taoiseach if he raised the Boston College Belfast Oral History archive issue with President Obama during their meetings in Fermanagh at the G8 summit; and if he will make a...
    • Topical Issue Debate
      151. To ask the Taoiseach the number of Dáil topical issue debates submitted to his Department following selection by the Ceann Comhairle since March 2011; the number of topical issues taken...
    • Public Sector Staff Grades
      152. To ask the Taoiseach the number of persons employed within the public sector by his Department or agency by grade for each of the five consecutive years for which the most recent data is...
    • Ministerial Transport
      153. To ask the Taoiseach the total cost of Ministerial transport in his Department in 2010, 2011, 2012 and to date 2013; the number of drivers employed in each year; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      154. To ask the Taoiseach the total costs of photography incurred by his Department in 2011, 2012 and to date 2013 in tabular form per event. [30576/13]
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Overseas Missions
      156. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a request has been made to send Irish troops to Syria. [30100/13]
    • Overseas Development Aid Issues
      158. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide the figures for Irish Aid’s 2012 spending on programmes focused on agriculture, nutrition,...
    • Trade Missions Issues
      159. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when he expects the next trade mission to the US to occur; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30252/13]
    • UN Security Council Membership
      160. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps taken by the Permanent Mission of Ireland to the United Nations by both the outgoing and incoming Ambassadors on...
    • Topical Issue Debate
      161. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of Dáil topical issue debates submitted to his Department following selection by the Ceann Comhairle since...
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      162. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if, when responding to Parliamentary Questions, he will confirm that he has full official responsibility for matters...
    • North-South Ministerial Council
      163. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on whether the North South Ministerial Council are making enough progress on the the areas of cooperation and if...
    • Northern Ireland Issues
      164. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on whether there has been enough progress in relation to the implementation of shared education in Northern...
    • Northern Ireland Marching Season
      165. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if it is planned to discuss the Parades Commission at the next North/South Ministerial; and if he will make a statement on...
    • North-South Ministerial Council
      166. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on whether there should be a Language Act introduced in Northern Ireland; if it has recently been discussed at a...
    • Ministerial Transport
      167. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the total cost of Ministerial transport in his Department in 2010, 2011, 2012 and to date 2013; the number of drivers...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      168. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the total costs of photography incurred by his Department in 2011, 2012 and to date 2013 in tabular form per event. [30570/13]
    • Africa Ireland Economic Forum
      170. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the preparations that are under way for the upcoming Ireland Africa Economic Forum taking place on 3 October 2013; his...
    • Armenian Genocide
      171. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he intends to formally recognise the Armenian genocide of 24 April 1915 in which more than one million Armenian...
    • Northern Ireland Issues
      172. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has concerns regarding the accusation of the PSNI favouring one community over another in Northern Ireland; and if...
    • UN Protocol Ratification
      177. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he intends to sign and ratify the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural...
    • EU Presidency Expenditure
      178. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his final estimate of the cost of Ireland’s Presidency of the EU; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Department of Finance
    • Credit Review Office Remit
      181. To ask the Minister for Finance if the credit review office limit of appeals could be raised from €500k to €3m in order to better assist small and medium enterprises...
    • Fuel Laundering
      182. To ask the Minister for Finance if it is possible to have the sale of washed diesel stopped; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30641/13]
    • Tax Code
      183. To ask the Minister for Finance if he intends to take further steps on the treatment of private pensions, specifically with regards to the way they are taxed, for example, if he will look...
    • Tobacco Smuggling
      184. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of successful prosecutions that have been made for the supply of illegally obtained cigarettes and tobacco; the average length of sentence or fine...
    • IBRC Account Holders
      186. To ask the Minister for Finance the way persons who have business loans and mortgages with the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation in liquidation which are performing will be accommodated in...
    • Universal Social Charge Yield
      187. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide, in tabular form, the yield or estimated yield from increasing the basic 7% universal social charge to 8%, 9%, 10% and 11%; and if he will...
    • Tax Reliefs Availability
      188. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to amend the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 in order that patients are allowed to claim reimbursement in respect of physiotherapy expenses when they...
    • VAT Rates Application
      189. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the case of a shopkeeper in County Donegal from whom Revenue has demanded a tax payment in respect of the sale of Mass...
    • Tax Code
      190. To ask the Minister for Finance if the agricultural relief available to farmers to assist them in passing their farms to relatives in order to maintain a working farm within the family unit...
    • Property Taxation Data
      191. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will set out in tabular form the details of those who registered with the local property tax to include the numbers of persons who registered; if these...
    • NAMA Loan Book
      193. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a breakdown in geographical terms by region/country, percentage and value of the properties underlying the National Assets Management...
    • Tax Collection
      194. To ask the Minister for Finance the names of the top ten companies managed by the Revenue's Large Cases Division. [30250/13]
    • EU Funding
      195. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will outline Ireland's financial contribution to the EU for the past ten years. [30251/13]
    • Tax Code
      196. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding tax liability in respect of persons entering farming; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30264/13]
    • Company Registration
      197. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of companies his Department and the Revenue are aware of that are incorporated here but are non-tax resident anywhere in the world. [30290/13]
    • Tax Code
      198. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer of increasing the entry point for the 41% marginal rate of tax from its current level to the following respective categories,...
    • Financial Services Ombudsman Issues
      199. To ask the Minister for Finance if he intends to introduce a change to the legislation whereby consumers currently have six years from the date they purchased a financial product to submit a...
    • European Banking Sector
      200. To ask the Minister for Finance if officials in his Department or the Central Bank of Ireland have been in consultation with the European Central Bank regarding a programme to provide cheap...
    • Tax Avoidance Issues
      201. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 85 of 18 June 2013, the mandate given to the official of the Revenue Commissioners appointed to sit on the EU's tax...
    • Topical Issue Debate
      202. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of Dáil topical issue debates submitted to his Department following selection by the Ceann Comhairle since March 2011; the number of topical...
    • Betting Regulations
      203. To ask the Minister for Finance the tax income expected to be generated from the proposed legislative changes to the betting industry. [30359/13]
    • European Council Meetings
      204. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will outline the parameters of the discussions held with Ministerial colleagues at the 3248th ECOFIN Council meeting in Luxembourg on 21 June 2013; if...
    • NAMA Staff Issues
      205. To ask the Minister for Finance if any staff have left the National Assets Management Agency since January 2013 to date; and the number of those staff that have moved into private sector...
    • NAMA Property Sales
      206. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will explain the decision by the National Assets Management Agency to release two Dublin hotels for sale in 2013 after a previous statement of intent to...
    • NAMA Court Cases
      207. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of cases in which the National Assets Management Agency is involved in the commercial courts. [30476/13]
    • NAMA Operations
      208. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the National Assets Management Agency has decided to recently issue a tender for a business procurement support services when the National Treasury...
    • NAMA Debtors
      209. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of the the National Assets Management Agency developers who have applied for bankruptcy in Britain since the beginning of 2013. [30478/13]
    • Bank Stress Tests
      210. To ask the Minister for Finance the person that will conduct the stress testing of Irish banks to begin at the end of this year and conclude in the first half of 2014. [30479/13]
    • IBRC Liquidation
      211. To ask the Minister for Finance when he expects unsold loans at Irish Bank Resolution Corporation to be transferred to the National Assets Management Agency; and if the expected date of...
    • Tax Code
      213. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer of increasing the entry point to the 41% marginal tax rate for married couples with one earner to each of the respective amounts:...
    • National Debt
      214. To ask the Minister for Finance the potential savings that would be made in debt servicing if €10 billion of the current cash holdings in the National Treasury Management Agency was...
    • Ministerial Transport
      215. To ask the Minister for Finance the total cost of Ministerial transport in his Department in 2010, 2011, 2012 and to date 2013; the number of drivers employed in each year; and if he will...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      216. To ask the Minister for Finance the total costs of photography incurred by his Department in 2011, 2012 and to date 2013 in tabular form per event. [30569/13]
    • Mortgage Interest Relief Statistics
      218. To ask the Minister for Finance if statistics are collected on the breakdown of mortgage interest relief in accordance with the recipient's mortgage type; and if so, if he will provide the...
    • Tax Reliefs Application
      223. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a break down of the €250 million in carry-over for 2014 due to changes to the tax treatment of pensions; the way these changes would...
    • Tax Exemptions
      224. To ask the Minister for Finance the logic behind exempting savings bonds from DIRT and the revenue that could be raised for the Exchequer if DIRT was applied to the bonds, both at the...
    • Tax Yield
      225. To ask the Minister for Finance the revenue that could be raised for the Exchequer if DIRT was raised by the following; 2%, 3%, 4%, 5%. [30648/13]
    • Tax Code
      226. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has considered the proposal to introduce a fizzy drink tax and if so, the amount of revenue such a tax has the potential to raise. [30649/13]
    • Revenue Commissioners Investigations
      227. To ask the Minister for Finance following a submission by the Revenue Commissioners to the Comprehensive Expenditure Review, which set out that increased audit activity could raise in the...
    • Banking Sector Issues
      228. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the decision by Irish banks not to implement the Business to Business aspect of SEPA for February 2014; if he has discussed the implications of...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • FÁS Training Programmes
      232. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will allow a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary to complete an apprenticeship with FAS outside this jurisdiction; if she will...
    • Unemployment Statistics
      233. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount as a percentage and as a figure, of Ireland's total both EU and Government part-funding ESF spending in the past seven years that was...
    • Youth Services Funding
      234. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount as a percentage and as a figure, of Ireland's total both EU and Government part-funding ESF spending in the past seven years that was...
    • School Transport Eligibility
      235. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an application for concessionary school transport in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will...
    • FÁS Local Training Initiatives Eligibility
      236. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review the criteria in place for qualification for a named FÁS course (details supplied), if his attention has been drawn to the...
    • Education and Training Provision
      237. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in view of the success of a programme (details supplied) if he will consider introducing same on a national basis; and if he will make a...
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      238. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding smaller one-teacher to four-teacher primary schools; the number of teaching posts lost in September 2012 and projected to...
    • Education and Training Provision
      239. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will clarify the position for families with more than one child needing access to the July provision scheme; and if he will make a...
    • State Examinations Issues
      240. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the allowances made for students who sat honours mathematics in this years leaving certificate due to a mistake on question eight of paper two;...
    • School Textbooks
      241. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will investigate the claims of a company (details supplied) that it can publish schoolbooks at considerably cheaper prices, with particular...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      242. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for the development of a school (details supplied) in County Louth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30118/13]
    • Student Grant Scheme Design
      243. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will assess the land of farming families as an asset to be considered under the application process for a student grant. [30127/13]
    • Special Education Review
      244. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way he plans to respond to policy advice on the future of special needs education from the National Council Special Education; if an...
    • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
      245. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 282 of 14 May 2013, the reason a letter cannot be issued from Student Universal Support Ireland with the...
    • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
      246. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children at primary school level diagnosed with ADHD and the number of hours of support provided either through special needs...
    • Teacher Recruitment
      248. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if in the case of a two teacher school, Principal plus one, the second teacher is entitled to a deputy principal allowance and or special duties...
    • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
      249. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on the number of special needs assistant posts in a special needs school (details supplied) in County Wicklow; if...
    • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
      250. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an application to Student Universal Support Ireland in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; if the...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      251. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when construction work will begin on a permanent school building for a school (details supplied) in Dublin 18 and the projected deadline for the...
    • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
      252. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason resource allocation hours have not been provided to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      254. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to include a school (details supplied) in a new educational campus which is to open in August 2016; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      255. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are special grants available for transport to and from third level education where a student has a physical disability and is unable to...
    • Student Grant Scheme Delays
      256. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will examine an application to Student Universal Support Ireland for a higher education grant in respect of a person (details supplied) in...
    • Higher Education Courses Provision
      257. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to allow fee discounts or, fully funded places, on part time university run FETAC Level 7 certificate courses to allow funded access...
    • Student Grant Scheme Applications
      258. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will expedite a student grant payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Foirne Scoile
      259. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills an bhfuil freagra aige ar na hábhair imní a ardaíodh i gcomhfhreagras a seoladh chuige ó scoil i nDún na nGall...
    • Student Grant Scheme Appeals
      260. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a final review following an appeal being upheld in respect of payment of a higher education grant to a person (details...
    • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
      261. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the review of the decision not to award a higher education grant to a person (details supplied) in County Louth on the...
    • Student Grant Scheme Applications
      262. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an application for a higher education grant in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Meath; and if he will make...
    • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
      263. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will approve resource hours for a child (details supplied) in County Laois; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30276/13]
    • Schools Building Projects Application Numbers
      264. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline all new school buildings, school extensions and upgrades and investments planned for schools in an area (details supplied) in...
    • Schools Building Projects Applications
      265. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when an application for a replacement of prefabs will be successful in respect of a school (details supplied) in Dublin 12; and if he will make a...
    • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
      266. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider allowing for dual enrolment to take place for children with special educational needs, in such circumstances where a child is...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      267. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline the timeline for providing the new second level school which he announced for an area (details supplied) in County Wicklow;...
    • Topical Issue Debate
      268. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of Dáil topical issue debates submitted to his Department following selection by the Ceann Comhairle since March 2011; the number...
    • Child Care Services Provision
      269. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a service (details supplied) in County Kerry; the reason this service has not received the recognition of adequate...
    • Departmental Funding
      270. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when funding will be allocated for a project (details supplied) in County Cavan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30364/13]
    • Third Level Admissions Entry Requirements
      271. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will clarify the situation in relation to the circumstances that a student who holds a primary degree in sports science can now qualify for...
    • Schools Amalgamation
      272. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the proposal to amalgamate schools (details supplied) in County Kilkenny and the progress made towards a new joint school...
    • Schools Building Projects Applications
      273. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an application for an extension to a school (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Adult Education
      274. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the inclusion of adult literacy and numeracy in the SOLAS Bill 2013 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Student Grant Scheme Administration
      275. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the application process that exists for students, currently in receipt of a higher education grant but who are repeating first year in another...
    • Residential Institutions Issues
      276. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 267 of 26 February 2013, if he will provide an update regarding a fund which was to be administered by his...
    • Student Grant Scheme Applications
      277. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will be made on an appeal for higher education grant in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon; and if he...
    • EU Funding
      278. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are any European educational funds which members of the European Union can avail of through his Department; and if he will make a...
    • Minor Works Scheme Suspension
      279. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to re introduce the minor works grant scheme in view of the financial pressures schools are now experiencing; and if he will make a...
    • Emergency Works Scheme Applications
      280. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide assistance to a school (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30535/13]
    • Third Level Fees
      281. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department will be conducting a study or a report on the impact that increasing student fees for third level students is having on...
    • Student Grant Scheme Appeals
      282. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will investigate the circumstances surrounding the application under the student grant scheme to Student Universal Support Ireland in...
    • Ministerial Transport
      283. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total cost of Ministerial transport in his Department in 2010, 2011, 2012 and to date 2013; the number of drivers employed in each year; and...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      284. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total costs of photography incurred by his Department in 2011, 2012 and to date 2013 in tabular form per event. [30567/13]
    • Schools Refurbishment
      286. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reasons for the delay in processing an application for funding for wheelchair access, and the installation of a disabled persons' toilet for...
    • Emergency Works Scheme Applications
      287. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reasons for the delay in processing an application for funding for the provision of a science room in a college (details supplied) in County...
    • School Provision
      289. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will list the public secondary schools, either boys or co-ed, in the greater Dun Laoghaire area of Dublin; and if these schools adequately...
    • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
      290. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of special needs assistants from the reserve of 475 made available, that have been appointed to positions in schools; and if he will...
    • National Educational Psychological Service Administration
      291. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he will take to expedite an application for a psychological assessment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath;...
    • School Staffing Appeals Mechanism
      292. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason his Department will not consider an appeal by a person applying for Irish National Teachers Organisation primary school panel rights;...
    • School Staffing
      293. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if any primary schools in counties Cavan and Monaghan will lose teaching positions in September 2013 as a result of changes to the pupil-teacher...
    • Education Grants
      294. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will extend the remote area grant for island children to all boarding schools including those currently not eligible for the grant which...
    • Student Grant Scheme Applications
      295. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the decision to bring the deadline forward by one month for applications to be made to Student Universal Support Ireland for the...
    • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
      296. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 325 of 11 June 2013, if it was intended that siblings in a family receiving assistance under the July...
    • Student Support Schemes Issues
      297. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will explain the student financial options available to students of Higher Diplomas in Education, who qualified for such diploma via...
    • Student Grant Scheme Applications
      298. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the Student Universal Support Ireland grant application of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5; and if he will make a...
    • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
      299. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the action he will take to have a young person (details supplied) in County Westmeath assessed immediately by a clinical psychologist in view of...
    • Student Grant Scheme Appeals
      300. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the Student Universal Support Ireland appeals process takes up to six weeks; the reason a person (details supplied) has been required...
    • Site Acquisitions
      301. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the procurement of a site for a school (details supplied) in County Cork; if his attention has been drawn to the difficult...
    • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
      302. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will confirm that policy decisions regarding the science of applied behaviour analysis for the treatment of autism have been made without...
    • Student Grant Scheme Applications
      306. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the delay in the processing by Student Universal Support Ireland of additional information, in this case an invoice for the cost...
    • School Accommodation
      307. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if funding will be made available for the provision of disabled toilet facilities in a school (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Departmental Appointments
      308. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the percentage take-up by graduates of the summer work scheme in the civil service; the percentage of college undergraduates that have...
    • Ministerial Advisers Remuneration
      309. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if payments made to the advisors of serving members of the Government are expected to be reduced as part of the recently enacted...
    • Leader's Allowance Issues
      310. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide details in tabular form by Deputy and Senator of the total amount paid under the Leaders allowance to individual...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      311. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the full extent in money terms of the savings made to date achieved, across each Government Department, in the context of the cost...
    • Programme for Government Implementation
      316. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the actual value in money terms of the reforms achieved in each of the past five years to date as opposed to expenditure cuts across all...
    • National Procurement Service Framework Agreements
      318. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a directive has been issued to primary and post-primary schools requiring that they purchase all stationery/paper from an Office of...
    • Departmental Properties
      319. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 164 of 27 February 2013 and 542 of the 16 April 2013, if he will expedite the transaction with...
    • Topical Issue Debate
      320. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of Dáil topical issue debates submitted to his Department following selection by the Ceann Comhairle since March 2011;...
    • Ministerial Transport
      321. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total cost of Ministerial transport in his Department in 2010, 2011, 2012 and to date 2013; the number of drivers employed in each...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      322. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total costs of photography incurred by his Department in 2011, 2012 and to date 2013 in tabular form per event. [30574/13]
    • Coillte Teoranta Harvesting Rights Sale
      324. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will release the analysis carried out on the potential sale of the Coillte harvesting rights, which led to the decision not to...
    • Commercial Rates Valuation Process
      325. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will outline the basis for deciding which councils should be revalued and the reason certain councils were chosen over others; and...
  • Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
    • Consumer Protection
      330. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the protections that are in place for persons who purchase products and services from door-to-door salespersons; and if he will make a...
    • Microenterprise Loan Fund Application Numbers
      331. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will specify the breakdown of the numbers of females and males who have acquired finance under the microfinance loan fund; and...
    • Action Plan for Jobs
      332. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on whether a review of the Succeed in Ireland Project which was launched in March 2012 is warranted as the number of...
    • Topical Issue Debate
      333. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of Dáil topical issue debates submitted to his Department following selection by the Ceann Comhairle since March 2011;...
    • Copyright Legislation Review
      334. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on whether the High Court order requiring UPC, Vodafone, O2, Imagine, Digiweb and 3 to block a website (details supplied)...
    • Trade Agreements
      337. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will outline the proposals he has tabled to protect the beef sector within the European Union in the event of a EU/US Trade...
    • Copyright Legislation Review
      338. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when the Copyright Review Committee will make its recommendations as per its terms of reference established in May 2011. [30483/13]
    • Ministerial Transport
      339. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the total cost of Ministerial transport in his Department in 2010, 2011, 2012 and to date 2013; the number of drivers employed in each...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      340. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the total costs of photography incurred by his Department in 2011, 2012 and to date 2013 in tabular form per event. [30572/13]
    • Stock Markets Regulation
      342. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the progress that has been made on Corporate Governance commitments for a binding codeof practice for Irish Stock Exchange registered...
    • Foreign Direct Investment
      343. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the details surrounding the mobile and tablet application that is to be launched soon by the Industrial Development Agency Ireland;...
    • Registered Employment Agreements
      344. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on the recent Supreme Court decision upholding a constitutional challenge to the system of Registered Employment Agreements;...
    • Regional Aid
      345. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the maximum grant aid available to potential Industrial Development Agency clients for locating in each of the nine gateways...
  • Department of Social Protection
    • Unemployment Statistics
      346. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on the recent survey findings in Cherry Orchard, Ballyfermot, Dublin, that found a rate of 60.25% unemployment amongst those of working...
    • Tax and Social Welfare Codes
      347. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to introduce the second tier of child income support payment reform without abolishing family income supplement as suggested by the End...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      349. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will urgently review and or refer for appeal the refusal of carer's allowance in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare;...
    • Back to Education Allowance Eligibility
      350. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a person (details supplied) in County Kildare currently qualifies for back to education allowance or when they are likely to so qualify; and if...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility
      351. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the entitlement to one parent family allowance or alternative and or emergency payment in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare;...
    • Foster Care Expenditure
      353. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding child dependent payments in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Nursing Home Services
      355. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason maintenance payment paid to a person (details supplied) in Dublin 17 is under review. [30088/13]
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      356. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a decision has been made on an appeal of a decision on a carer's allowance application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry;...
    • Social Insurance Yield
      357. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide, in tabular form, the revenue or estimated revenue to the Social Insurance Fund from employees' PRSI, employers' PRSI and...
    • Child Benefit Eligibility
      358. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider reinstating the child benefit payment to all full time students up to 21 years of age; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Illness Benefit Appeals
      359. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the progress made to date in respect of an appeal for illness benefit in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Meath; and if she will...
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      360. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if the deciding officers in appeal cases have experience or training in disability issues. [30129/13]
    • Invalidity Pension Appeals
      362. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an decision will issue on an appeal for invalidity pension in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 16; and if she will make a...
    • Social Insurance Rates
      363. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a facility of tracking the switch over of direct employees in the construction sector to C2 operators, if she is satisfied that all C2 operators...
    • Job Initiatives
      365. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to allow jobseeker's selected and approved to take part in a TUS programme to work within a school environment where assistance could be...
    • Jobseeker's Benefit Eligibility
      366. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she is considering waiving the requirement to be available to work in respect of jobseeker's benefit for persons who are obliged to retire at the...
    • Job Initiatives
      367. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason that participants on jobbridge employed by a school in a non educational capacity, specific case is a caretaker role, must give up their...
    • Topical Issue Debate
      368. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of Dáil topical issue debates submitted to her Department following selection by the Ceann Comhairle since March 2011; the number of...
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      369. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on whether it is appropriate that a person (details supplied) in County Donegal whose long term disability payment was stopped by her...
    • Invalidity Pension Applications
      370. 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...
    • Ministerial Transport
      372. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total cost of Ministerial transport in her Department in 2010, 2011, 2012 and to date 2013; the number of drivers employed in each year; and if...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      373. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total costs of photography incurred by her Department in 2011, 2012 and to date 2013 in tabular form per event. [30575/13]
    • Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility
      377. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding entitlements to social protection payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • One-Parent Family Payment Appeals
      378. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the impact of recent legislative changes affecting recipients of one parent family payment as in the case of a...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals
      379. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a decision has been made on an application for domiciliary care allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she...
    • Pension Provisions
      380. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if and when the Labour Relations Commission recommendations (details supplied) will be implemented; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
  • Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Jaunting Car Operators
      381. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will consider creating a new entrance (details supplied) to Killarney National Park to facilitate Jarveys; and if he will make...
    • Údarás na Gaeltachta Expenditure
      382. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 384 and 385 of 14 May 2013, if he will provide a breakdown as requested by person and year....
    • Topical Issue Debate
      383. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of Dáil topical issue debates submitted to his Department following selection by the Ceann Comhairle since March...
    • Irish Music Promotion
      384. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the current strategy in the protection and promotion of national Irish music; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30526/13]
    • Turf Cutting Compensation Scheme Applications
      385. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when will compensation issue to a person (details supplied) in County Offaly; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30538/13]
    • Pension Provisions
      386. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will outline the details of pension payments in respect of persons (details supplied) in counties Donegal and Galway. [30544/13]
    • Departmental Funding
      387. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht total amount of money provided in funding either individually to the person and company (details supplied) since its establishment,...
    • Ministerial Transport
      388. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the total cost of Ministerial transport in his Department in 2010, 2011, 2012 and to date 2013; the number of drivers employed in...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      389. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the total costs of photography incurred by his Department in 2011, 2012 and to date 2013 in tabular form per event. [30563/13]
    • Natural Heritage Areas
      391. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when he plans to update the National Heritage Plan, 2002 to 2007; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30640/13]
  • Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
    • Angling Restrictions
      392. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the reason restrictions on salmon and trout fishing remain in force on the River Bride when they have been lifted on...
    • Better Energy Homes Scheme Applications
      393. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if a better energy home grant will be paid to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Agencies Board Appointments
      394. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if the mission of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland to provide informed advice to him is undermined by the fact...
    • Topical Issue Debate
      395. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of Dáil topical issue debates submitted to his Department following selection by the Ceann Comhairle...
    • Fisheries Protection
      396. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources further to Parliamentry Question No. 396 of 14 May 2013 if he will provide the reasons that a draft salmon fishing...
    • Ministerial Transport
      398. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the total cost of Ministerial transport in his Department in 2010, 2011, 2012 and to date 2013; the number of drivers...
    • Ministerial Expenditure
      399. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the total costs of photography incurred by his Department in 2011, 2012 and to date 2013 in tabular form per event. [30565/13]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      400. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the details and costs of any newspaper supplements his Department has been involved with in 2011, 2012 and to date in...
    • Broadband Services Provision
      401. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the current broadband service in Kinlough, County Leitrim is extremely...
    • Environmental Policy
      402. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the person that owns a site (details supplied) in County Cavan; the person responsible for maintaining this site; if the...
  • Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
    • Nitrates Action Programme Review
      403. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the issue of calendar farming will be reviewed, in view of the fact that the severe weather conditions experienced by...
    • Local Authority Charges Collection
      404. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will confirm that the non-principal private residence tax will no longer be charged after 2013; the way outstanding...
    • Public Sector Staff Recruitment
      405. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if Fingal County Council has applied for an exemption to the public sector recruitment embargo in order to overcome the...
    • Motor Tax Collection
      406. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if a person (details supplied) in County Dublin will receive a refund on their car tax due to their vehicle being stolen;...
    • Local Authority Charges Yield
      407. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the revenue that could be raised for the State if the second home tax was retained and increased to €300 per house....
    • Rural Development Programme Funding
      408. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when the new round of funding will be available at local level to support projects for rural businesses and communities,...
    • Rural Development Policy
      409. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update on the work of the Commission for the Economic Development of Rural Areas to date and of any...
    • Community Development Initiatives
      410. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in detail a breakdown of the annual salaries paid to the CEO's of the respective local development...
    • Rural Development Programme Projects
      411. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 455 of 26 February 2013, if he will provide an update and time scale on funding for...
    • Elected Mayor for Dublin Metropolitian Area
      412. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update on a directly elected Mayor for Dublin; if this proposal will abolish the Cathaoirleach roles...
    • Registration of Architects
      413. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if a grandfather clause will be inserted into new legislation to enable architects who have many years of experience to be...
    • Housing Statistics
      414. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of social housing units that were constructed here between January 1993 and May 1997; and if he will make a...
    • Water Services Funding
      415. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will confirm that he has received an application (details supplied) from Cork County Council; the date on which this...
    • Commercial Rates Calculations
      416. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to instruct local authorities to adjust commercial rates for businesses who can prove financial difficulties;...
    • Seniors Alert Scheme Issues
      417. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will confirm the number of applications received for the seniors alert scheme in 2011 and the number of grants...
    • Local Electoral Area Boundary Committee Report
      418. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he accepts in its entirety the Local Election Boundary Committee report he received in May 2013 and if this will form...
    • Leader Programmes Funding
      419. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will outline the current status of the Geraldine Hall Leader application for funding; the stage the application is...
    • Local Authority Housing Maintenance
      420. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when refurbishment is expected to start on the senior citizens complex in Ballygall Road East, Dublin; and...
    • Voluntary Housing Sector Issues
      421. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the plans, if any he has to change the criteria for buying out houses for voluntary housing groups such as Apex; and if he...
    • Dormant Accounts Fund Deposits
      422. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the current balance in the dormant accounts fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30300/13]
    • Local Authority Housing Issues
      423. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if local authorities are permitted to sell social housing units in order to fund the refurbishment of vacant social...
    • Local Authority Staff Remuneration
      424. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of the gross lump sum, the gross severance gratuity and annual pension that will be paid to the Sligo County...
    • Topical Issue Debate
      425. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of Dáil topical issue debates submitted to his Department following selection by the Ceann Comhairle since...
    • Ministerial Transport
      426. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the total cost of Ministerial transport in his Department in 2010, 2011, 2012 and to date 2013; the number of drivers...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      427. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the total costs of photography incurred by his Department in 2011, 2012 and to date 2013 in tabular form per event. [30568/13]
    • Non-Principal Private Residence Charge Collection
      429. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans regarding to penalties accruing on the non principal private residence charge once the new property tax comes...
    • Local Authority Expenditure
      430. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the total Costs of the Fix My Street Website to date; the number of incidents reported to the site per month and per...
    • Register of Electors Issues
      431. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if there is provision within the regulations which govern the creation of the electoral register to allow for a person...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Departmental Funding
      432. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update on funding in respect of an organisation (details supplied) in County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Property Services Regulatory Authority Remit
      433. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he has considered introducing a requirement that sellers packs including the certificate of title, engineers report and certificate of...
    • Crime Levels
      434. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the steps being taken to address reports of on-going disturbances, assault and theft at a railway station (details supplied) in Dublin 7; and if...
    • Data Protection
      435. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he has sought assurances from the Ambassador of the United States of America that the private electronic information of Irish citizens, or...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      436. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the appropriate fee in respect of an application for naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 20; and if he will make...
    • Residency Permits
      437. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current or proposed residency status/eligibility for naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15; and if he will...
    • Refugee Status Applications
      438. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current position regarding determination of eligibility for asylum/refugee status in the case of a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Charities Regulation
      439. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to regulate the practices of charities using street collectors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30074/13]
    • National Archives
      441. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if there are any old files on the political activist Jim Gralton who was deported from here in 1933. [30083/13]
    • Missing Persons Issues
      442. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he has discussed the missing persons cases (details supplied) with the Garda Commissioner and if he is satisfied with the progress of these...
    • Garda Vetting Applications
      443. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to alter the vetting legislation which requires the disclosure of court proceedings even when a person has been acquitted. [30094/13]
    • Court Procedures
      444. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will outline in the context of the Digital Audio Recording service, which was implemented in the court system as a way of providing an...
    • Departmental Staff Redeployment
      446. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will outline in tabular form, the number of officials seconded from his Department to various Embassies, Honorary Consuls and other...
    • Asylum Seeker Accommodation
      448. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the alternative accommodation provision that can be made in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Waterford; and if he will make a...
    • Garda Vetting Applications
      449. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason significantly incorrect information was sent from the Garda Vetting Unit to potential employers in County Donegal in respect of a...
    • Residency Permits
      450. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding residencey in respect of a person (details supplied) [30163/13]
    • Prisoner Transfers
      452. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if a prisoner (details supplied) in Castlereagh, County Roscommon, will be moved to a prison closer to their family in Dublin who have had a...
    • Anti-Social Behaviour
      453. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the action that can be taken regarding antisocial behaviour (details supplied) in Dublin 7. [30242/13]
    • Official Engagements
      454. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he raised the Boston College Belfast Oral History archive issue with US Attorney General Eric Holder during their meetings last week; and if...
    • Garda Operations
      455. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the cost of running the Garda Air Support Unit, excluding staffing costs, in 2010, 2011 and 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Data Protection
      456. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update in respect of recent amendments proposed by the European Council, regarding Data Protection Regulation, during the...
    • Courts Service Issues
      457. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to revise the monetary thresholds that apply to initiation of debt recovery proceedings in the District Court, Circuit Court and High...
    • Data Protection
      458. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department or An Garda Síochána have received any complaints or requests for an investigation as a result of a BBC Panorama...
    • Asylum Support Services
      459. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide a breakdown of the numbers of persons within direct provision, who made their application for protection more than five years...
    • Topical Issue Debate
      460. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Dáil topical issue debates submitted to his Department following selection by the Ceann Comhairle since March 2011; the number...
    • Gender Proofing of Policies
      462. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when he intends to open Strands 2 and 3 of the Equality for Women Measure 2010-2013 funded by the European Social Fund through the Human Capital...
    • Offensive Weapons
      463. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will enforce the ban on the possession of knives with limited exceptions, that is, trades people, in the work place, fishermen, and so on,...
    • Garda Vetting of Personnel
      464. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will clarify the reason that a person (details supplied) in Dublin 10 cannot get Garda clearance in view of the fact that the incident in...
    • Commercial Leases Database
      465. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when he expects to launch the new commercial leases database, which was due to be launched in early June. [30473/13]
    • Ministerial Transport
      466. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the total cost of Ministerial transport in his Department in 2010, 2011, 2012 and to date 2013; the number of drivers employed in each year; and...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      467. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the total costs of photography incurred by his Department in 2011, 2012 and to date 2013 in tabular form per event. [30573/13]
    • Citizenship Applications
      469. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reasons for the delay in the processing of a citizenship application in respect of persons (details supplied) in County Longford; and if he...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      470. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the cases in which his Department covers the cost of the translation of documents from other languages; the amount this practice will cost his...
    • Crime Data
      471. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of retailers that were prosecuted from January 2012 to 2013 for the under age sale of tobacco and alcohol; and if he will provide a...
    • Asylum Applications
      472. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons granted protection or resettled here from the beginning of 2003 until the end of 2012 and for each year; if he will provide...
    • Courts Service Issues
      473. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the District Court Office in Limerick is unable to process family law court matters, variation...
    • Legislative Programme
      474. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update on his progress with promised immigration and residency protection legislation; the way this legislation is likely...
    • Asylum Seeker Accommodation
      475. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will give further consideration to the true costs of the direct provision system for asylum seekers, including health care, social welfare...
    • Immigration Policy
      477. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his views regarding the issue of asylum seekers and permission to work. [30684/13]
    • Asylum Applications
      478. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his views on leave to remain for asylum seekers who have been in the system for a long time. [30685/13]
    • Road Traffic Accidents Data
      480. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of hit and run collisions in which there were fatalities which occurred in the years 2010, 2011 and 2012 here; the number of persons...
    • Registration of Wills
      481. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if consideration have been given to provide for a register of wills in Ireland; if Ireland ever signed the Convention on the Establishment of a...
    • Garda Vetting Applications
      482. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if an application for Garda vetting which was submitted in February in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9 will be finalised as...
    • Anti-Social Behaviour
      483. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he has had any discussions with An Garda Síochána regarding the reopening of a homeless hostel just off O'Connell Street, at Cedar...
    • Garda Operations
      484. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will confirm the frequency of Garda patrols in the Dublin 1 area that specifically target drug activity; and if he will make a statement on...
  • Department of Defence
    • Defence Forces Recruitment
      488. To ask the Minister for Defence the reason the current criteria for eligibility to be admitted as a cadet in the Air Corps includes having no previous corrections made to the...
    • Defence Forces Veterans
      489. To ask the Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 214 of 22 May 2013, if the relevant legislation provides for any Ministerial discretion to consider applications for an...
    • Topical Issue Debate
      490. To ask the Minister for Defence the number of Dáil topical issue debates submitted to his Department following selection by the Ceann Comhairle since March 2011; the number of topical...
    • Ministerial Transport
      491. To ask the Minister for Defence the total cost of Ministerial transport in his Department in 2010, 2011, 2012 and to date 2013; the number of drivers employed in each year; and if he will...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      492. To ask the Minister for Defence the total costs of photography incurred by his Department in 2011, 2012 and to date 2013 in tabular form per event. [30566/13]
    • Ministerial Transport
      494. To ask the Minister for Defence the total cost including maintenace and usage of the Government jet in 2010, 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013. [30594/13]
    • Departmental Properties
      496. To ask the Minister for Defence the amount of funding his Department has allocated for the upkeep and maintenance of properties owned by his Department and the Irish Defence Forces in 2012;...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Fodder Crisis
      497. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the practical steps and short to medium term interventions that can be and are being taken by his Department and TEAGASC to work...
    • Animal Welfare Issues
      498. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent of any outstanding issues regarding compliance arising from accommodation provided in respect of animal welfare...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      499. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the agri-environment option scheme payment will be paid for 2011 and 2012 in respect of a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Appeals
      500. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a decision will be made on an appeal for disadvantaged area payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway;...
    • Fodder Crisis
      501. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the efforts he has made to draw down financial support from the EU crisis fund to alleviate the severe financial difficulties...
    • Common Agricultural Policy Reform
      503. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans under the Common Agricultural Policy, Pillar 2, to compensate farmers who have lost out financially following the phasing...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Applications
      505. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding an agri-environment option scheme 2 application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal;...
    • Plantation Application
      508. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding plantation approval in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry. [30269/13]
    • Animal Diseases Issues
      509. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will clarify whether the BVD compensation scheme will be made available to both suckler and dairy farmers; and if he will make...
    • Single Payment Scheme Appeals
      510. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a decision has been made on an appeal of a penalty on a single farm payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Topical Issue Debate
      511. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of Dáil topical issue debates submitted to his Department following selection by the Ceann Comhairle since March...
    • Rural Environment Protection Scheme Payments
      512. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment in respect of the rural environment protection scheme will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if...
    • Live Exports
      513. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide details of any future live cattle exports; if he is actively engaged in development of markets for the live trade;...
    • Ministerial Transport
      514. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total cost of Ministerial transport in his Department in 2010, 2011, 2012 and to date 2013; the number of drivers employed in...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      515. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total costs of photography incurred by his Department in 2011, 2012 and to date 2013 in tabular form per event. [30562/13]
    • Milk Quota Trading Scheme
      517. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding a milk quota in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Horse Slaughter Statistics
      519. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide details in tabular form by local authority for the years 2010, 2011 and 2012 of the number of horses that have...
    • Milk Quota Applications
      520. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if an application will be granted for a new entrant for free quota by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; if this matter...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Applications
      521. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding an application to join the agri-environment option scheme 3 in respect of a person (details supplied); the...
    • Teagasc Rationalisation Programme
      522. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will arrange early payment for loss of earnings to persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Single Payment Scheme Application Numbers
      523. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers drawing down single farm payments on unenclosed hill land on a county basis; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Single Payment Scheme Payments
      524. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason the remaining balance on farm payment has not yet issued to a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will...
    • Suckler Cow Quota
      525. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the issue of the fertility of suckler herds has been brought to his attention; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Department of Children and Youth Affairs
    • Child Care Services Provision
      526. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will release any analysis carried out prior to the cuts of Health Service Executive funding to childminder officers; if she will...
    • Aftercare Services
      527. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will review the Health Service Executive's decision to discontinue the financial support to a person (details supplied) in Dublin 13...
    • Early Child Care Education Issues
      528. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will grant a child (details supplied) access to the early years education scheme in view of the availability of places at their...
    • Abortion Services
      530. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 236 of 9 May 2013, if she will provide an update on same; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Early Child Care Education Issues
      531. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs in relation to the free pre-school year, the number of persons employed as preschool teachers and leaders in approved preschools; the...
    • Child Care Services Funding
      532. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will examine an application by a child care facility (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Youth Work Supports
      534. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the steps she is taking to protect, enhance and develop youth work services, in particular those run by Foroige in County Meath; if she...
    • Topical Issue Debate
      535. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of Dáil topical issue debates submitted to her Department following selection by the Ceann Comhairle since March 2011; the...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      536. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the position regarding a service (details supplied) in County Kerry; the reason this service has not received additional funding; the...
    • Ministerial Transport
      537. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the total cost of Ministerial transport in her Department in 2010, 2011, 2012 and to date 2013; the number of drivers employed in each...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      538. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the total costs of photography incurred by her Department in 2011, 2012 and to date 2013 in tabular form per event. [30564/13]
    • Youth Services Issues
      540. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will report on the progress at addressing the issues raised by an organisation (details supplied) from County Galway. [30609/13]
    • Preschool Services
      541. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of relevant childcare facilities in existence in County Meath; the procedures in place to conduct regular inspections of such...
    • Child Care Services Regulation
      543. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding childcare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30715/13]
  • Department of Health
    • Nursing Home Services
      544. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding nursing home support scheme and the implications of the Government levy increase on nursing home residents from 5% to 7.5% under the...
    • Hospital Staff Issues
      545. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm if reports are correct that South Doc is regularly called into Bantry Hospital, County Cork, to attend patients in the absences of duty...
    • Patient Statistics
      546. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a record of the number of patients with minor injuries that have been redirected from Bantry Hospital, County Cork, to Cork city hospitals without...
    • Medical Card Issues
      547. To ask the Minister for Health if he will arrange for the change of name in respect of a medical card in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a...
    • Foster Care Provision
      548. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding foster care or a residential place in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5 [30086/13]
    • Health Services Provision
      549. To ask the Minister for Health when an appointment for physiotherapy will be approved for a person (details supplied) in County Laois; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30095/13]
    • Hospital Staff Recruitment
      550. To ask the Minister for Health when he intends to fill posts related to areas of diabetes care in Waterford Regional Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30111/13]
    • Ambulance Service Provision
      551. To ask the Minister for Health if he is satisfied that there is an adequate ambulance service in the greater Dublin area to respond to emergency calls, general practitioner requests for...
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      552. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to make medical cards available to all children suffering with cancer; if he wil outline the current position; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      553. To ask the Minister for Health if the Central Remedial Clinic in Clontarf, Dublin 3, or the Health Service Executive have a residential unit for young persons with a disability who are in a...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      554. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine the referral for orthotic shoes in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry in view of the fact that they are priority one on...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme
      555. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in reverting to applicants for fair deal assistance (details supplied). [30151/13]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      556. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that a person (details supplied) in County Clare will be supplied with a hearing aid as a matter of urgency [30156/13]
    • Departmental Schemes
      557. To ask the Minister for Health the current processing time for community ophthalmic scheme forms; his views on whether the current practice of returning forms to the patient and not to the...
    • Medical Card Applications
      558. To ask the Minister for Health when a decision will issue on a medical card application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Speech and Language Therapy
      559. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a Health Service Executive recommendation of speech and language therapy for a young child (details supplied)...
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      560. To ask the Minister for Health the rules governing the entitlements of Irish citizens under EU regulations, in relation to an over 70 years medical card, when they were previously entitled...
    • Hospital Staff Recruitment
      561. To ask the Minister for Health when he intends to fill posts related to areas of diabetes care in Waterford Regional Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30182/13]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      562. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the Health Service Executive has failed to deal with a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12 [30187/13]
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      563. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a medical card was refused in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12 [30192/13]
    • Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage
      564. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider adding Aicardi syndrome as one of the conditions that qualify for a long term illness card due to the severity of the condition [30193/13]
    • Care of the Elderly
      565. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address queries raised in correspondence (details supplied) regarding the national quality standards for residential care settings for older persons...
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      566. To ask the Minister for Health the reason an appeal for the general practitioners visit card was refused in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if he will make a...
    • HSE Properties
      568. To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive has indicated its plans in respect of using a building (details supplied) in Dublin 7; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme
      569. To ask the Minister for Health if there is an age limit which precludes a dementia patient under the age of 65 years from availing of the fair deal scheme to enter a nursing home that caters...
    • Disabilities Services Funding
      570. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the Health Service Executive funding for adult day services in Stewarts Hospital, Palmerstown, County Dublin, particularly in view of...
    • Home Help Service Provision
      571. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding extra home help hours in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30229/13]
    • Nursing Home Accommodation
      572. To ask the Minister for Health if he will explain the way the Health Service Executive in Tralee, County Kerry, refused to hand back the subsidy granted to a facility that was provided for...
    • Home Help Service Staff
      573. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of the current regulations that determine the retirement age of home help workers within the Health Service Executive; if he...
    • Hospital Services
      574. To ask the Minister for Health the reason Dexa scans are unavailable to public patients in Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9; his plans to have this service available to public patients; and if he...
    • Nursing Staff Provision
      575. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider the possibility of setting up a national transfer policy for nurses currently in the employment of the Health Service Executive who are...
    • Nursing Staff Recruitment
      576. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form per Health Service Executive region, the number of nurses that are on a national panel for current or future vacancies; and...
    • Medical Card Numbers
      577. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in detail the number of persons who attended general practitioners based in each of the health centres in County Limerick during the years...
    • Primary Care Strategy
      578. To ask the Minister for Health if a date has been set for the rolling out of the free general practitioner scheme for children with special needs. [30285/13]
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Provisions
      579. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to concerns regarding the proposal to increase the levy on the assets of nursing home residents from 5% to 7.5% (details...
    • Suicide Prevention
      580. To ask the Minister for Health If he will present a detailed report in tabular form a breakdown of the extra €35 million spending on suicide prevention that he has committed to this...
    • HSE Legal Costs
      581. To ask the Minister for Health if he will explain and justify the amount of legal fees expended by the Health Service Executive in 2012; and if he will explain and justify the significant...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      583. To ask the Minister for Health if and when an appointment /admission will be arranged at Beaumont Hospital, Dublin for a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a...
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      584. To ask the Minister for Health if the income guidelines for a medical card for those aged between 66 and 70 have increased since 2003; if he will detail the current thresholds; and if he...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      585. To ask the Minister for Health the expected timeframe in which a person (details supplied) in County Cavan will receive their hip-replacement operation; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Hospital Appointment Delays
      586. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite a hospital appointment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30319/13]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      587. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons currently waiting to have cataract operations carried out at Cork University Hospital; the length of time they have been waiting for...
    • Hospital Complaints Procedures
      588. To ask the Minister for Health his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding the treatment of a person at Cork University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Hospital Services
      590. 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...
    • Topical Issue Debate
      591. To ask the Minister for Health the number of Dáil topical issue debates submitted to his Department following selection by the Ceann Comhairle since March 2011; the number of topical...
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      593. To ask the Minister for Health if a date for an operation will be provided to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry without further delay; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Ambulance Service Provision
      594. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions No. 690 of 12 February 2013 and No. 623 of the 14 May 2013, if he will provide a detailed progress report on the Kenmare and...
    • General Medical Services Scheme Administration
      595. To ask the Minister for Health if he will revisit the possibility of having new medical stoma appliances and accessories made available through the GMS; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Ministerial Transport
      597. To ask the Minister for Health the total cost of Ministerial transport in his Department in 2010, 2011, 2012 and to date 2013; the number of drivers employed in each year; and if he will...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      598. To ask the Minister for Health the total costs of photography incurred by his Department in 2011, 2012 and to date 2013 in tabular form per event. [30571/13]
    • Health Services Provision
      601. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to include the National Asthma Programme in the upcoming Health Services Executive Service Plan for 2014; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Eligibility
      602. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider changing the Nursing Home Support Scheme Act 2009 to make provision for any dependent children the applicant may have; and if he will make...
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      603. To ask the Minister for Health the mental health facilities in County Louth; and the number of staff employed in each; and the number of staff vacancies in each [30631/13]
    • Orthodontic Services Provision
      605. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Laois will receive orthodontic treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30657/13]
    • Health Services Issues
      606. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 716 of 14 May 2013, if he will provide the details of the six month plan, to address significant factors impacting on the...
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      608. To ask the Minister for Health in view of the closure of St Luke’s secure unit in Ballinasloe, County Galway, the location to which it is proposed that patients leaving the Central...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      609. To ask the Minister for Health if a date for a cataract operation will be provided to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30683/13]
    • Departmental Investigations
      610. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 541 of 18 June 2013 (details supplied); if he will confirm if an investigation amended to an audit; and if he will make a...
    • Health Strategies
      612. To ask the Minister for Health if a national dementia strategy will be published in 2014 with clear timelines for delivery of its objective [30714/13]
    • National Maternity Hospital
      613. To ask the Minister for Health his plans regarding a national maternity hospital; the site, cost and the timeframe for delivery of a new state of the art maternity hospital [30717/13]
    • Hospitals Building Programme
      614. To ask the Minister for Health the building/refurbishment works that have been undertaken at the Coombe Women's Hospital, Dublin in the past ten years; and the cost involved for each project...
    • National Children's Hospital Status
      615. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in announcing the appointment of a Development Board for the the National Paediatric Hospital in the St James's Hospital complex,...
    • Nursing Home Services
      619. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made in having the purpose built public nursing home in St Michael's Estate, behind the primary health care centre, which has been uncommissioned...
    • Hospital Facilities
      620. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to increase the services available in the Cherry Orchard Hospital complex, Dublin; if he will list those currently there and in the primary health...
    • Drug Rehabilitation Clinics
      622. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to concerns regarding the presence of a number of methadone clinics in the north inner city area of Dublin; if he has had any...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      623. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that the Health Service Executive provides a person (details supplied) in County Monaghan with an orthopaedic seat which he has been advised...
    • Medical Card Applications
      625. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the refusal of a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30817/13]
    • Hospital Services
      626. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which the resources available to his Department remains adequate to meet the full range of services at hospital and community level envisaged at...
    • Medical Card Application Numbers
      627. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which the number of medical cards has fluctuated in each of the past five years to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30821/13]
    • Nursing Home Accommodation
      628. To ask the Minister for Health if adequate resources remain available to ensure the retention of the maximum number of public nursing homes having particular regard to the projected needs in...
    • Hospital Internships
      629. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which he expects to have sufficient junior hospital doctors to meet requirements throughout the hospital service in the coming years; if he sees...
    • Nursing Staff Provision
      630. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which sufficient nursing staff are readily available in line with requirements over the next three years; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      631. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which waiting lists have been reduced in all public hospitals throughout the country; the extent to which this compares favourably or otherwise...
    • Health Services Expenditure
      632. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which savings and efficiencies have been achieved throughout all sectors in the health services; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Nursing Staff Provision
      633. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which agency nursing staff continue to be replaced by part-time, temporary or whole time staff throughout the public health sector; and if he...
    • Health Insurance Regulation
      634. To ask the Minister for Health arising from recent announcements by health insurers, the extent to which his Department continues to monitor the health insurance sector with a view to...
    • Public Procurement Regulations
      635. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which central procurement in terms of medicine, drugs or services in the health sector is organised in order to give maximum benefit and...
    • Medicinal Products Prices
      636. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which the cost of prescription drugs to the Exchequer has fluctuated over the past four years to date; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Staff Issues
      637. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of consultant, non-consultant doctor and nursing posts currently vacant; those likely to be filled in the foreseeable future; and if he will...
    • Primary Care Centres Provision
      640. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the need to ensure the retention of the widest possible network of local health centres throughout County Kildare with...
    • Hospice Services
      641. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which hospice beds are available to patients throughout north Kildare; the extent to which this number is sufficient to meet requirements; if he...
    • Nursing Home Services
      642. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which he and his Department continues to monitor developments at St Bridget’s Nursing Home, Crooksling; if any changes have taken place in...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      643. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that waiting times for a consultation with an orthopaedic surgeon at Our Lady's Hospital Navan County Meath increased from eight months to...
    • Health Services Staff Issues
      644. To ask the Minister for Health if a Health Service Executive investigation is ongoing regarding the conduct of a care worker/personal assistant assigned to the care of a person (details...
    • Medical Card Reviews
      645. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite a medical card review in respect persons (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30850/13]
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Commemorative Events
      646. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding funding in respect of a project (details supplied) in Dublin. [30137/13]
    • Marine Safety
      647. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if in view of the recent tragedies in the fishing industries, he is considering making it compulsory for an alert system to be worn, if a...
    • State Airports
      648. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the actions he has taken to ensure that Shannon Airport is given at least equal recognition as one of the two transatlantic airports...
    • Public Transport Provision
      649. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider measures to regulate the use of rickshaws; if he or his Department has had any contact with local authorities...
    • Roads Maintenance Issues
      650. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the cost per kilometre the National Roads Authority is paying to contractors for all maintenance, including grass cutting and litter...
    • Sports Funding
      651. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the social inclusion measures, in terms of participation, that are required of those sporting organisations in receipt of funds from the...
    • Rural Transport Services Provision
      652. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide details of the new rural taxi licence, that is, the qualifying conditions and so on, the impact that this will have on...
    • Dublin Bus Services
      653. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the use of first care absence management system at some depots in Dublin Bus; if so, the reasons that...
    • Tourism Promotion
      655. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will request Tourism Ireland to have a major tourism sales blitz in Florida, New York, California and Ohio; and if he will make a...
    • Bus Éireann Services
      656. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the provision of full wheechair accessible transport by semi-State companies on intercity routes on this island; and if he...
    • Road Projects Contracts
      657. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 240 of 25 April 2013, if he will provide an update regarding the proposed national motorway...
    • Irish Diaspora Centre
      658. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the scoping study being carried out by Fáilite Ireland on the possible development of a Irish Diaspora Centre...
    • Dublin Bus Services
      659. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if Dublin Bus intends to roll-out free Wi-Fi on Dublin Bus services; if discussions have taken place between officials in his Department...
    • Topical Issue Debate
      660. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of Dáil topical issue debates submitted to his Department following selection by the Ceann Comhairle since March 2011;...
    • Haulage Industry Regulation
      662. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current guidelines in relation to haulage licences; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30527/13]
    • State Properties
      663. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will direct the board of Coras Iompar Éireann to undertake enhancement works to a site (details supplied) in Dublin 1 pending...
    • Bus Éireann Services
      664. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will request Bus Éireann to provide a bus shelter in Glenbeigh Village, County Kerry, in view of the fact that locals and...
    • Ministerial Transport
      665. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total cost of Ministerial transport in his Department in 2010, 2011, 2012 and to date 2013; the number of drivers employed in each...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      666. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total costs of photography incurred by his Department in 2011, 2012 and to date 2013 in tabular form per event. [30577/13]
    • Fishing Fleet Modernisation
      668. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of applications made to the Marine Survey Office for the de-rating of engines in vessels; if a certain tolerance level has...
    • National Transport Authority
      669. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if decarbonisation of transport, prioritisation of energy-efficient transport modes and upholding of social inclusion principles are...
    • National Car Test
      670. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will detail on a centre-by-centre basis, when the last audits of all National Car Testing Service centres and facilities were...

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