Written answers
Wednesday, 3 July 2013
- Department of Education and Skills
- Special Educational Needs Services Provision
10. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on the July Provision Programme for children with Autism and if siblings with Autism will be entitled to one-to-one...
- Education Statistics
11. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his response to the latest OECD Education at a Glance report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32265/13]
- Third Level Fees
13. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will confirm that no plans for a graduate tax, student loan or student voucher system in relation to university fees will be considered in...
- Student Grant Scheme Administration
14. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason school guidance counsellors were not informed by Student Universal Support Ireland that the closing date for higher education grants...
- Graduate Statistics
15. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the recent OECD Education at a Glance report showing that Irish graduates are more likely to be unemployed in comparison with other...
- Value for Money Reviews
17. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans regarding smaller rural schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32250/13]
- School Staffing
18. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the fact that guidance counsellors in many schools are reporting that up to seventy per cent of their case load...
- Public Procurement Regulations
19. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to change the procedures in place for stationery procurement in primary schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32272/13]
- Institutes of Technology Issues
21. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide details of the proposed reorganisation of third level education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32259/13]
- State Examinations Issues
22. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on the report he has ordered the State Examinations Commission to make into the typographical errors and mistakes...
- Student Grant Scheme Applications
26. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of Student Universal Support Ireland applications outstanding; the number of applications that are currently under appeal; the impact...
- Pupil-Teacher Ratio
27. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which he expects to be in a position to retain workable levels of pupil-teacher ratios in all schools throughout the country,...
- Third Level Funding
28. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will respond to objections raised by staff of Dublin Institute of Technology regarding the provision of Shell funding towards the new visual...
- Industrial Disputes
29. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the contingency plans he has in place to deal with any industrial action by teachers in the autumn; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Comhairle um Oideachas Gaeltachta agus Gaelscolaíochta
30. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills céard é an beartas faoi neamhspleáchas na Comhairle um Oideachas Gaeltachta agus Gaelscolaíochta; agus an ndéanfaidh...
- School Staffing
31. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason his Department wrote to the National Council for Special Education on 30 May regarding the 75% resource teaching allocations they were...
- Student Support Schemes Issues
32. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason Student Universal Support Ireland application system was not available online earlier than its launch in May when many sixth year...
- Special Educational Needs Expenditure
33. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the impact of the special needs assistant cap on access to special needs support from next September in view of the increase in demand; and if he...
- Student Support Schemes Issues
34. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will intervene to stop third level institutions employing debt collectors to pursue student debt, in view of the serious difficulties that...
- National Council for Special Education
35. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on reports that children with special educational needs from middle-class backgrounds continue to receive more support at school than...
- Traveller Community Issues
36. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if it is appropriate for the statistics section of his Department to contact schools to request in writing from the parents of traveller children...
- Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
37. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a guarantee that he has shelved plans to include assets such as farmland and business premises in the means tests for third...
- Child Care Guidelines
38. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is satisfied with the implementation of Síolta and Aistear; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32269/13]
- Special Educational Needs Services Provision
39. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason it is taking until 2015 to implement the National Policy on Educating Children with Autism; and the reasons behind the lengthy delay...
- Institutes of Technology Funding
40. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline in tabular form the capital funding which has been allocated to Institutes of Technology over the past three years; and if he...
- School Textbooks
41. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are plans for the wide-spread introduction e-books in schools nationwide; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32282/13]
- Educational Tours
42. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the arrangements for supervision of students during school organised Gaeltacht residential trips and classes; if his attention has been drawn to a...
- Student Universal Support Ireland Administration
43. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the case of a student (details supplied) who cannot access their examination results due to difficulties with Student Universal...
- School Completion Programme
44. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the proposals put forward by the SCP co-ordinator of the Dominican Campus School Completion Programme with the support of the three...
- Education and Training Boards Issues
45. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the impact of the move from Dun Laoghaire to Tallaght, Dublin, for the staff of Dun Laoghaire Vocational Education Committee and the delivery of...
- School Textbooks
46. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to assist families with the cost of school books; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32267/13]
- Special Educational Needs Staffing
47. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will examine the case of a school (details supplied) in County Wexford which has recently lost 2.5 special needs assistants even though two...
- Third Level Participation
49. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether third level institutions need to be more ambitious in opening up undergraduate programmes to Northern Ireland residents; if...
- State Examinations Issues
50. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason geography is being considered for removal as a compulsory junior certificate subject under his reform proposals; and if he will make a...
- School Staffing
51. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will respond to the claims that the reduction in the number of school guidance counsellors reflects his lack of understanding of the...
- Departmental Expenditure
52. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will respond to the findings contained in the education at a glance 2013 report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and...
- Special Educational Needs Services Provision
53. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he will take to address the increasing numbers of special needs pupils at primary level, in view of the curtailment in funding to...
- Third Level Fees
54. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a State-funded study on the impact of increasing student registration fees was conducted in recent years; and if so, what the findings...
- Pupil-Teacher Ratio
56. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an assessment of the impact the changes to pupil-teacher ratios is having on class numbers; and if he will make a statement on...
- Departmental Submissions
57. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will update Dáil Éireann on his Department's review of submissions that may have been received from organisations which represent...
- Special Education Review
58. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline his long-term plan for special needs education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32163/13]
- Schools Building Projects Status
60. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school (details supplied) in County Dublin may expect to receive funding for much needed refurbishment; when this refurbishment is...
- School Staffing
62. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the principal and board of management at a school (details supplied) in Dublin 2 have permission from his Department to allocate resource hours...
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Arms Trade
63. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 108 of 11 June 2013, if he will provide an update in the provision of legislation in...
- Election Monitoring Missions
64. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No.120 of 11 June 2013, the names of persons whom his Department sent on the Organisation...
- Human Rights Issues
65. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding human rights at Falun Gong and the organ transplant industry in...
- Undocumented Irish in the USA
66. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 132 of 28 May 2013, and the Immigration Reform Bill that on 27 June 2013 passed by...
- Overseas Development Aid Issues
67. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will outline the main points regarding the Minister of State for Trade and Development's address to the Association...
- Department of Finance
- Fuel Laundering
69. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm the amounts spent by the State in each year for the past five years to operate and maintain the addition of dye to diesel used for certain...
- Banking Sector Staff Issues
70. To ask the Minister for Finance if officials who were employed in banks that received bail-out and contingency funding from the Central Bank and other State institutions, were bound by the...
- Budget 2014 Issues
71. To ask the Minister for Finance the way it is justifiable to take €280 a year from the 300,000 pensioners in the Budget 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32370/13]
- Tax Code
72. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 82 of 26 June, if he will outline the effective tax rate effect for income earners whose tax credits were phased out with...
- Tax Collection
73. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 82 of 26 June 2013, if he will set out the additional average tax paid by employees in the categories mentioned if the...
- Tax Code
74. To ask the Minister for Finance the revenue that would be raised if personal and not employee tax credits for high income earners were phased out with a reduction of half the credits between...
- Tax Clearance Certificates
76. To ask the Minister for Finance the procedure by which companies with registered offices in the British Virgin Islands can obtain tax clearance certificates to be awarded contracts by public...
- Money Laundering
77. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will re-examine the requirement to have anti-money laundering identification requirements applied to the purchase of Prize Bonds over €25 as it is...
- Insurance Costs
78. To ask the Minister for Finance the protections there are for holders of life insurance policies against insurance companies unreasonably and arbitrarily increasing the premiums to be paid by...
- Banking Sector Investigations
79. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will state, in respect of each of the former covered institutions, if internal and or external telephone calls were recorded by the bank; when the...
- Bank Liabilities
80. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide the official breakdown by class of liability of the total amount of bank liabilities at 30 September 2008 covered by the bank guarantee...
- Central Bank of Ireland Investigations
81. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide details of each of the separate investigations currently underway by the Central Bank of Ireland into the banking collapse; the subject...
- Bank Guarantee Scheme Administration
82. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of money held by the then Central Bank and Financial Services Authority of Ireland at 30 September 2008 in respect of the deposit guarantee scheme...
- Economic Data
83. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the recent fall in GDP; the actions the Government will take to arrest the decline in output; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32534/13]
- Bond Redemption
84. To ask the Minister for Finance if sales have taken place to date by the Central Bank of Ireland of the portfolio of Irish Government bonds it holds which replaced the Irish Bank Resolution...
- Department of Education and Skills
- State Bodies Mergers
85. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on the merger of the National Centre for Technology in Education with the National Council for Curriculum and...
- School Accommodation
86. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a school (details supplied) in County Louth has proposed to integrate an autism unit into its...
- Student Support Schemes Issues
87. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider that there is little point in the Government fully accepting the recommendations of the Fottrell report, committing to...
- Schools Building Projects Administration
88. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the date by which tenders have to be submitted to his Department for the construction of a new school (details supplied) in County Waterford; if a...
- Emergency Works Scheme Applications
89. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding emergency funding in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Special Educational Needs Services Provision
90. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for an ASD unit, English speaking, for primary school children in the west Cork area. [32363/13]
- Student Grant Scheme Appeals
91. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an appeal made to Student Universal Support Ireland in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if he...
- Special Educational Needs Staffing
92. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of special needs assistants who will be allocated to primary and secondary schools in County Kerry from September 2013; the comparable...
- School Accommodation
93. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has received the application for capital funding in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Limerick requesting urgent repair of...
- Special Educational Needs Staffing
94. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of hours a permanent special needs assistant in a primary school is required to work on a weekly basis; and if he will make a statement...
- Special Educational Needs Services Provision
96. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the special needs assistant allocation for a child (details supplied) in County Cork currently receiving full-time assistance will be...
- School Staffing
97. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide in tabular form the number of release days from full-time teaching duties afforded by his Department to teaching principals;...
- School Management
98. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the training that was provided for members of boards of management at primary and post-primary level; the funding his Department provided for this...
- Pupil-Teacher Ratio
99. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to reduce the average class size in primary schools in Ireland, which according to OECD Education at a Glance 2013 is the second highest...
- School Staffing
100. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will list in tabular form the number of assistant principal posts and special duties posts in primary schools in March 2009; the number of...
- Special Educational Needs Services Provision
105. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of Section 29 appeals against suspension in post primary schools that were taken by parents of children with special needs; the number...
- School Funding
106. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the financial support being provided to each of the managerial bodies at primary and post primary level in each of the past five years. [32402/13]
- Departmental Funding
107. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the financial support being provided to the National Parents Council Primary and the National Parents Council Post Primary in each of the past...
- Student Grant Scheme Appeals
109. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a person (details supplied) may expect a response to their current appeal to Student Universal Support Ireland; and if he will make a...
- School Enrolments
111. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps being taken to secure a school place in respect of a child (details supplied) in Dublin 24; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Student Grant Scheme Applications
112. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a third level higher education grant application for 2012-13 will be processed in respect of a person (details supplied) as a dependent...
- Special Educational Needs Services Provision
114. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will clarify a situation regarding special needs assistants (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32433/13]
- Student Grant Scheme Appeals
115. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will examine a student grant appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the...
- School Accommodation
116. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a school (details supplied) in County Wicklow is being asked for a financial contribution; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Fee Paying Schools
117. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will confirm that the only State support to fee paying schools relates to teacher pay and that the schools themselves have to cover all of...
- Pupil-Teacher Ratio
119. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which he has been able to avert any loss of teachers at primary and second level schools throughout the country; the extent to...
- Special Educational Needs Services Provision
120. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which he expects to be in a position to meet the educational needs of children with special needs at primary and second level in...
- Fee-Paying Schools
121. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which he expects to facilitate dialogue with the authorities in catholic and protestant fee-paying schools with a view to...
- School Accommodation
128. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools at primary and second level throughout the country at which he has managed to replace temporary school buildings with...
- Schools Building Projects Status
129. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school (details supplied) in County Kildare will become fully operational; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32512/13]
- School Curriculum
131. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which the workplace educational and skills requirements continues to be monitored with a view to ensuring that students leaving...
- Student Grant Scheme Administration
132. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which he expects Student Universal Support Ireland to be in a position to deal with processing of higher education grants for...
- Bullying in Schools
137. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total number of incidents of school bullying including cyber bullying reported to his Department through the primary and or post-primary...
- Third Level Participation
138. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students known to have dropped out of third level education in each of the past three years to date for whatever reason; his plans...
- Special Educational Needs Staffing
139. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a special needs assistant will be assigned to a school (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- School Transport Eligibility
140. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a reply will issue to representations made by this Deputy on behalf of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a...
- Third Level Participation
141. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if it is possible for a person to participate in the DARE programme in a given academic year if their application is held up beyond the closing...
- Ministerial Meetings
142. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will report on his meeting with Down Syndrome Ireland on 25 June 2013; if he will provide the resource hours to children with Down syndrome...
- School Services Staff
143. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is a protocol or guideline in place governing the appointment of voluntary classroom assistants at primary and second level; if not, his...
- Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
- Banking Sector Investigations
144. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when he expects a banking enquiry to be started in order that all the information from the decision to guarantee the banks will be...
- Banking Sector Staff Issues
145. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if officials who were employed in banks that received bail-out and contingency funding from the Central Bank and other State...
- National Monuments
146. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his attention has been drawn to the present state of national monument DG025-029001, DG025-029003, DG025-029006, DG025-029004,...
- National Lottery Licence Sale
147. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if there is a requirement in the tendering process documentation for the National Lottery Licence for the successful applicant to be a...
- Public Procurement Regulations (1 comment)
148. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on public bodies granting contracts for works to be carried out here where the companies registered office are in the British...
- Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
- Registered Employment Agreements
149. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the legislative measures he intends to take on registered employment agreements following on from the recent striking down elements of...
- Department of Social Protection
- Birth Certificates
150. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the procedures to be followed in order for a person aged 89 years, with no living family members, to register their birth as it has not been...
- State Pension (Non-Contributory) Eligibility
151. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a person (details supplied) in County Kildare has an entitlement to a non-contributory State pension; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Departmental Staff Numbers
152. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of staff of her Department who were assaulted by members of the public or other members of staff in the past year; the number of...
- Housing Issues
153. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be made on an application for a relocation grant lodged by a person (details supplied) in County Galway; the reason for the...
- Social Welfare Benefits Numbers
154. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of casual-part time employees in receipt of social welfare payments such as jobseeker's allowance, jobseeker's benefit and family income...
- National Internship Scheme Placements
156. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding persons approaching the end of their nine month Job bridge placement; if she will outline the time-frame involved for such...
- Social Insurance Issues
158. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 363 of 25 June 2013, if her Department has a mechanism of tracking employees who have switched from direct...
- Departmental Funding
159. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the fact that Vantastic have had to introduce a flat rate charge for passengers on their hospital routes in...
- Social Welfare Replacement Rates
160. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide in tabular form the current respective replacement rates for the most common scenarios in the Irish social protection system....
- Free Travel Scheme Applications
161. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a companion travel pass will be approved in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Laois; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Mobile Telephony
162. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the arrangements put in place by the regulatory authorities to prevent exorbitant roaming charges being imposed on...
- Information and Communications Technology Issues
163. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will reassure Dáil Éireann as to the security of the email systems in his Department subsequent to recent...
- Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
- Library Projects
164. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will confirm that provision of capital funds has been made for the construction of a public library (details...
- Water and Sewerage Schemes Provision
165. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding the proposed new sewerage schemes for areas (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make...
- Leader Programmes Funding
166. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason approved LEADER funding is being withheld for the development of a sports ground (details supplied) in County...
- Irish Water Establishment
167. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if in the context of the establishment of Irish Water liabilities will be incurred by local authorities in the provision...
- Leader Programmes Funding
168. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to a previous Parliamentary Question, if he will confirm the information that has been requested from Kildare...
- Homeless Persons Supports
169. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown of the funding provided by his Department by agencies dealing with the issue of...
- Domestic Violence Policy
170. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown of the funding provided by his Department by agencies dealing with the issue of domestic...
- Road Improvement Schemes
171. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will clarify the basis on which Kildare County Council carried out improvements, upgrading and maintenance on a...
- Rural Development Policy
173. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will apply to the appropriate national and European bodies to amend the Rural Development Programme so that the Cnoc...
- Diplomatic Representation Issues
174. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the parameters of the Minister of State's recent address to the International Conference on Nuclear Security in Vienna,...
- Waste Water Treatment Inspections
175. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 191 of 27 June 2013, and the recently signed Domestic Wastewater Treatment Systems...
- Department of Justice and Equality
- Garda Vetting of Personnel
177. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when a person (details supplied) in County Louth will receive Garda vetting which has been applied for and which is essential for them to gain...
- Garda Stations Refurbishment
178. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda stations around the country that are not wheelchair accessible; and the steps being taken to address this issue. [32311/13]
- Immigration Status
180. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the procedures used by an Garda Síochána when establishing the marital status of a Brazilian citizen living here who proposes to get...
- Criminal Investigations
181. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to the presence of the Anglo tapes; the date on which he was made aware of their presence; the action he has...
- Legal Aid Applications
182. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason that there are delays in giving new appointments to persons seeking the assistance of the Free Legal Aid Board;his plans to provide...
- Criminal Law Matters
183. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will investigate the legality of a mosquito device and clarify if there is any breach of Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person Act (details...
- Rights of Way
185. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will clarify the basis on which the legal representatives of Kildare County Council have informed persons (details supplied) in County...
- Juvenile Offenders
186. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when all teenage offenders will be taken out of St Patrick's Institution; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32479/13]
- Garda Vetting Process
188. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if a person should receive confirmation when he or she has passed the vetting process by the Garda central vetting unit; if a person may request...
- Prison Committals
190. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality in the situation where a person receives a custodial sentence and in the absence of a specific direction for the judge, the person who decides in...
- Human Trafficking
193. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will update Dáil Éireann on European Council dialogue in respect of trafficking; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Naturalisation Applications
194. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason a person (details supplied) in County Galway who has lived here for 13 years and is married to an Irish citizen has to pay €980...
- Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
- Sugar Industry
195. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he proposes to take to ensure the re-establishment of the sugar industry here (details supplied); and if he will make a...
- EU Directives
196. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if new legislation will be required to implement required standards for the testing and use of agricultural sprayers in accordance...
- Agri-Environment Options Scheme Conditions
199. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the flexibility that is applied in relation to agri-environment options scheme 3 applications by farmers in disadvantaged areas,...
- Forestry Management
200. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will account for the discrepancy in respect of the calculation on the size of a forestry plantation as determined by the Forest...
- Department of Children and Youth Affairs
- Missing Children
201. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will update Dáil Éireann as to recent EU dialogue about Finland's position on the EU missing children help line; and if...
- School Completion Programme
202. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she is committed to retaining funding for the school completion programmes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25499/13]
- Preschool Services
203. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the progress she can report on her plans for a second free preschool year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32278/13]
- After-School Support Services
204. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the steps she intends to take to address the lack of availability of after-school services for children; and if she will make a statement...
- Department of Health
- Sunbed Usage
205. To ask the Minister for Health if he has any proposals to bring in regulations with regard to persons who operate sun beds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32708/13]
- Price of Medicines
207. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 901, 902 and 941 for 11 June 2013, if the Health Service Executive concluded its consideration of the Intermune offer...
- Hospital Car Parks
208. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a list of all private companies who operate car parking facilities at publically funded hospitals here; the location and terms of the...
- Medical Card Applications
210. To ask the Minister for Health the reason persons who are in their seventieth year cannot apply for a medical card for over seventies, in the months leading up to their seventieth birthday,...
- Organ Donation
211. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the programme for Government commitment to allow for an opt out system for organ donation; and if he will make a statement on...
- Medical Card Eligibility
213. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the withdrawal of a medical card from a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath. [32341/13]
- Ambulance Service Response Times
214. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the Navan Ambulance Control Room; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32359/13]
- Ambulance Service Provision
215. To ask the Minister for Health when the proposed new ambulance control centre will be opened in Tallaght, Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32360/13]
- Accident and Emergency Departments Waiting Times
216. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in County Kerry was waiting for 12 hours in accident and emergency in Kerry General Hospital before being admitted to a...
- Symphysiotomy Report
217. To ask the Minister for Health if the Walsh Report has been given to groups, group representatives or persons and if so, to whom it has been given, and the date of same. [32378/13]
- Patient Statistics
218. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients residing in psychiatric hospitals and units during the period 2006 to 2011; of the number discharged, the number who went into community...
- Medical Card Eligibility
219. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a medical card has been withdrawn in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Waterford; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Dental Services Provision
220. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the forthcoming review of the Dental Act 1985, which will identify the regulatory and other reforms required in the dental...
- Drug Treatment Programmes Funding
222. To ask the Minister for Health if he has plans to review the funding his Department provides to tackle the issue of cocaine use; if this review will have an impact on the services currently...
- Home Help Service Provision
223. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in County Monaghan who has been awarded extra home help hours is still awaiting the implementation of the additional...
- Nursing Home Services
224. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of care for public nursing homes for 2011 for each of the nursing homes in the country; the average weekly cost per patient in each of these nursing...
- Health Services Issues
225. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 225 of 8 May 2013, when the information requested will be supplied by the Health Service Executive; and if he will make a...
- Medical Card Applications
226. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 1. [32449/13]
- Health Strategies
227. To ask the Minister for Health if he will support national vision strategy for eye health in 2013. [32453/13]
- Hospital Services
228. To ask the Minister for Health the reason there has been no orthoptist services available in Our Lady's Hospital Cashel, County Tipperary since December 2012; when will the previous...
- Maternity Benefit Issues
229. To ask the Minister for Health the total amount paid out in maternity cash grants to medical card holders in 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32455/13]
- Medical Card Appeals
230. To ask the Minister for Health if medical cards will be reinstated to persons (details supplied) in County Kerry in view of the the fact that they were awarded after notification of a...
- Primary Care Centres Expenditure
231. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an assurance that the funds for a primary care centre at a location (details supplied) in Dublin 11 will be ring-fenced in the event that...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
232. To ask the Minister for Health when a patient who is under the care of a consultant (details supplied) in County Donegal since November 2012 was informed that their surgery will not be...
- Hospital Consultants Contract Issues
234. To ask the Minister for Health if he will identify, by name, hospitals where management have implemented elements of the deal agreed between health service management and hospital...
- Health Services Staff Remuneration
237. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff in the Health Service Executive currently being paid a salary on the basis of the grade of national director; and if he will make a...
- Health Services Staff Issues
238. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff in the Health Service Executive actually serving as a national director and the number of staff who continue to be paid as a national...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
239. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1341 of 16 April 2013, if a date for a heart operation will be set in respect of a person (details supplied) in County...
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- Marine Safety
240. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his Department's strategy on saving lives in man overboard situations; if his Department will consider making it compulsory to wear...
- Public Transport Initiatives
242. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will outline the service provided by the new Real Time Ireland app by the National Transport Authority, integrating all real time...
- Driving Licence Issues
243. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on whether the measure contained with the Road Traffic (No. 2) Bill 2013 regarding the graduated driver licence system and the...
- Roads Maintenance Issues
244. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will clarify the basis on which Kildare County Council carried out improvements, upgrading and maintenance on a regular basis on...
- National Transport Authority
245. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the funding that the National Transport Authority, NTA, has made available for the provision of a footpath and improved alignment at a...
- Bus Éireann Services
246. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will reverse the changes being made to the 6.15 a.m. express Bus Éireann service from Mullingar (details supplied); if he will...
