Written answers

Tuesday, 16 July 2013

  • Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
    • Rural Recreation Policy
      63. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the programme of work laid out by his Department for rural recreation development this year; the new aspects to the...
    • Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists
      64. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government having regard to the more than 100,000 families currently on various local authority housing lists throughout the country,...
    • Homelessness Strategy
      65. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his position on the supports local authorities should provide to those made homeless when their dwelling is condemned such...
    • Property Taxation Administration
      66. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 149 of 19 June 2013, if he will indicate precisely the definition he applies to...
    • Seniors Alert Scheme Issues
      67. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of money made available for the seniors' scheme this year, the amount sanctioned to date and the amount paid...
    • Dormant Accounts Fund Administration
      69. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the programmes he intends to run under the Dormant Accounts Fund this year; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Waste Management Issues
      70. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the legislation in place prohibiting a local authority from negotiating contracts whereby waste collection companies would...
    • Local Authority Housing Repossessions
      72. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of shared ownership homes that have been repossessed; the number still occupied by the person who entered into...
    • Pyrite Remediation Programme Implementation
      73. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will confirm that the testing of the underfloor fill to IS 398-2 as part of the pyrite remediation process, will not...
    • RAPID Programme
      74. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of meetings organised since March 2011 at national level between his Department and the Chairs and co-ordinators...
    • Forbairt na nOileán
      75. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government cén méid airgid atá fágtha lena cheadú ag Comhar na nOileán Teo faoi Chlár Leader i...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      76. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the estimated amount of money to be spent on the creation of additional councillors in County Dublin under Putting People...
    • Rental Accommodation Scheme Administration
      77. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will investigate claims by officials that Exchequer funding for Dublin City Council's Rental Accommodation Scheme...
    • National Spatial Strategy
      78. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the timescale for the development and implementation of a new national spatial strategy; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Expenditure
      79. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the full costs of providing social housing via the rental accommodation scheme and long term leasing broken down by...
    • Dormant Accounts Fund Deposits
      80. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the net amount transferred into the Dormant Accounts net of repayments to the financial institutions each year since the...
    • Local Authority Housing Maintenance
      82. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to retro-fit social housing across the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33767/13]
    • Homelessness Strategy
      83. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans for homeless services across the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33647/13]
    • Waste Management Regulations
      84. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a detailed update on his Department’s development of a new domestic waste policy setting out a...
    • Departmental Bodies
      85. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the date of the last meeting of Comhairle na Tuaithe; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33741/13]
    • Proposed Legislation
      87. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plan to publish legislation for the levy to fund pyrite reparation work before the summer recess; and, if not, when he...
    • Planning Issues
      90. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the timescale for the investigation of planning procedures and practices in six local authorities to be carried out by...
    • Capital Assistance Scheme Funding
      92. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown of the way the new funds announced for disability housing will be used; and the criteria...
    • Housing Assistance Payments Implementation
      94. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an up to date projected timeline for the establishment of the new housing assistance payment and the...
    • Proposed Legislation
      96. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the timeframe for the introduction of legislation to implement his Putting People First local government policy; and if he...
    • RAPID Programme
      97. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of money available for projects under the RAPID programme this year from the specially dedicated RAPID fund; and...
    • Dormant Accounts Fund Administration
      98. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he intends making any money available from the Dormant Accounts fund for small projects in RAPID areas this year and...
    • Climate Change Policy
      99. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if there has been any contact or discussions between his Department and his Northern Ireland Assembly counterpart, Mr Alex...
    • NAMA Social Housing Provision
      100. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update on the delivery of housing from the National Assets Management Agency special purpose...
    • Air Quality
      101. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in view of the joint north-south study on air quality, if he agrees that in order to avoid fuel poverty alternative...
    • Regeneration Projects Status
      103. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update on the delivery of housing units as part of Limerick Regeneration Project. [33781/13]
    • Water Services Provision
      105. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the extent to which any review of requirements in terms of capacity and transmission in respect of domestic drinking water...
    • Housing Adaptation Grant Application Numbers
      108. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to deal with the large number of persons waiting extended periods for adaption grants in order to make their...
    • Priory Hall Development
      110. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will indicate when an announcement will be made on the resolution of the appalling problems faced by householders at...
    • Waste Water Treatment Inspections
      111. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the expected number of inspections on waste water treatment systems in 2013 and 2014; the expected failure rate and...
    • Dormant Accounts Fund Administration
      112. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if it is intended to introduce legislation to reduce the liability on the State for the re-imbursement of dormant...
    • Domestic Violence Policy
      113. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to address the need for specific emergency housing for victims of domestic abuse and plans to work with advocacy...
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Tourism Data
      115. To ask the Taoiseach in view of the latest tourism figures which show an increase in the number of visitors here, if he will provide details of the impact of these increases on the numbers...
    • Job Losses
      116. To ask the Taoiseach the number of net jobs losses in the economy for each year from 2006 to 2013. [34710/13]
    • Income Data
      117. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide details of the average weekly income in the south of Ireland in comparison with Northern Ireland and Britain for the most recent five years for which...
    • Export Statistics
      118. To ask the Taoiseach the total value of exports for the most recent five years for which data is available by sector and by destination. [35306/13]
    • Departmental Reports
      119. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide in tabular form the name, costs, date of commission, date or expected date of publication and name of the external consultant of all external reports...
    • Commemorative Events
      120. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide a breakdown of the total cost to his Department, for its involvement in the recent JFK50 commemoration events; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Bodies Board Remuneration
      121. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide, in tabular form, a breakdown of the fees and expenses paid to each member of each State board to include the chair and board member and the number of...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      122. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide in tabular form the annual salary of all non commercial State sponsored bodies chief executive officers under the aegis of his Department. [34536/13]
    • Exchequer Savings
      126. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide in tabular form the annual saving to the Exchequer of 1%, 5%, 7%, 10%, 12%, 15%, 17% and 20% reduction to travel and expenses for his Department....
    • Programme for Government Implementation
      129. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide in tabular form the commitments in the Programme for Government under his remit; if the commitment has been met or is in the process of being met; the...
    • Consultancy Contracts Issues
      130. To ask the Taoiseach if he will detail in tabular form, the names of all external public relations, communications consultants and organisations used by organisations or agencies under the...
    • Data Retention
      131. To ask the Taoiseach further to Parliamentary Question No. 123 of 9 July 2013, the changes in the filing and retention of documents in his Department that have been introduced since this...
    • Departmental Websites
      132. To ask the Taoiseach the reason his Department's web site was changed; the person who undertook this work; the cost of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34914/13]
    • Departmental Legal Costs
      133. To ask the Taoiseach if he has sought and received legal advice outside of the Office of the Attorney General; the number of times advice was sought per year from 2011, 2012 and to date in...
    • Official Travel
      134. To ask the Taoiseach if he is confident that all overseas travel undertaken by staff in State agencies is necessary; if the agencies ensure that there is a robust business case submitted...
    • Exchequer Savings
      135. To ask the Taoiseach the annual saving to the Exchequer if all State agency board fees were reduced by 25% under the aegis of his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Bodies
      136. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide in a tabular form a list of all non-commercial State-sponsored bodies under the aegis of his Department; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Passport Applications
      137. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will re-visit the old system of supporting Deputies helping their constituents in their passport application in case...
    • Undocumented Irish in the USA
      139. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the actions he has taken to ensure that the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act of...
    • Overseas Development Aid Issues
      140. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position regarding the new policy for international development, One World, One Future; the priority areas for...
    • Consular Services Provision
      142. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if there is any assistance his Department can offer the family of an Irish citizen (details supplied) on life support in a...
    • Northern Ireland Issues
      143. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will meet with the Greater Ardoyne Residents Collective, as requested, 19 of whom face prosecution for engaging in a...
    • Departmental Reports
      144. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide in tabular form the name, costs, date of commission, date or expected date of publication and name of...
    • Foreign Conflicts
      145. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason Ireland, the EU and UN is staying silent about the overthrow of an elected president in Egypt; his views on...
    • Election Monitoring Missions
      146. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will consider prioritising sending experienced election observers and agents on further election observer missions...
    • Overseas Development Aid Issues
      148. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a cost benefit analysis of Ireland's membership of the Asian Development Bank has been carried out in view of the fact...
    • Departmental Bodies Board Remuneration
      149. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide, in tabular form, a breakdown of the fees and expenses paid to each member of each State board to...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      151. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide in tabular form a list of all professional fees, including but not limited to legal, consultancy, IT...
    • Exchequer Savings
      153. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide the annual saving to the Exchequer of a 20% reduction to all professional fees, including but not...
    • Programme for Government Implementation
      157. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide in tabular form the commitments in the programme for Government under his remit; if the commitment has...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      158. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide in tabular form, the names of all external public relations, communications consultants and...
    • Foreign Conflicts
      159. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if Ireland attended a Friends of Syria meeting in Tunisia and the person that invited our State. [34825/13]
    • North-South Ministerial Council
      160. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will outline the issues discussed at the recent North-South Ministerial Council; the proposals for follow-up action;...
    • Consular Services Representations
      161. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the recent interaction that the Irish Consulate General had recently with the Governor of West Virginia in the United...
    • Departmental Legal Costs
      162. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has sought and received legal advice outside of the Office of the Attorney General; the number of times advice was...
    • Road Projects Issues
      163. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to meet with the Northern Ireland Secretary of State, and with Members of the Northern Ireland Executive on the...
    • Air Navigation Order
      164. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 562 of 9 July 2013 the procedure of notification that is required to be given to...
    • Monument to the International Brigades
      165. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the action that can be taken by the Government regarding a recent decision by the Spanish supreme court to remove a...
    • Departmental Websites
      167. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will list all the Twitter accounts for which officials in his Department have had and currently have...
    • Passport Applications
      168. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position regarding a passport application in respect of a person (details supplied); if he will expedite the...
    • Human Rights Issues
      170. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the increasing use of self-immolation by protestors in Tibet; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Diplomatic Representation Issues
      171. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 113 of 7 May 2013, if the review of the Irish network on Honorary Consuls worldwide...
    • Human Rights Issues
      173. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if missions to Burma are being refused entry to Rohingya IDP camp; the way they can address the human rights issues of the...
    • Official Travel
      176. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is confident that all overseas travel undertaken by staff in State agencies is necessary; if the agencies ensure...
  • Department of Finance
    • Household Charge Collection
      177. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason a householder cannot pay the €200 household charge from payroll in the same way as local property tax is deducted, as is outlined in...
    • Tax Credits
      178. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason persons in long-term relationships but who are not married or in a civil partnership, cannot transfer their tax credits to their partner and if...
    • Tax Reliefs Application
      179. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider facilitating tax relief on physiotherapy expenses without the requirement of a referral from a general practitioner; and if he will make a...
    • Living City Initiative
      180. To ask the Minister for Finance if in view of the fact that Cork city has had a decline in population between the two most recent census of population and that the city, similar to both...
    • Money Laundering
      182. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will reconsider the application of an anti-money laundering regulations to prize bond purchases of €100 or less; and if he will make a statement...
    • EU Budget Contribution
      183. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will detail Ireland's contribution to the EU for 2013; the way this was calculated and the amount this would have been if redomiciled companies were...
    • IBRC Liquidation
      184. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 109 of July 2013, the basis on which the Special Liquidators have two years from the date of their appointment to make...
    • NAMA Expenditure
      198. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of fees paid to date to a person (details supplied) on behalf of the National Assets Management Agency since vacating their position as Attorney...
    • Central Bank of Ireland Issues
      199. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of fees paid to date to a person (details supplied) on behalf of the Central Bank since vacating their position as Attorney General on the 9 March...
    • IBRC Expenditure
      200. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount and details of pension entitlements paid out to the former directors and non-executive directors of the Irish Resolution Bank Corporation since the...
    • Banks Recapitalisation
      202. To ask the Minister for Finance why the audited accounts prepared by Ernst and Young for Anglo Irish Bank for the Year end 30 September 2008 , signed off by Alan Dukes and others in February...
    • Banking Sector Investigations
      203. To ask the Minister for Finance the consideration that is being taken against the former directors and non-executive directors and officers of Anglo Irish Bank regarding their obligations...
    • State Banking Sector
      205. To ask the Minister for Finance if any banks in which the State has shares, avail of the use of public auctions auctioneering service provided by a company (details supplied) which...
    • NAMA Transactions
      206. To ask the Minister for Finance if the National Assets Management Agency avails of the use of public auctions auctioneering services provided by a company (details supplied). [34254/13]
    • IBRC Sale of Assets
      207. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation avails of the use of public auction auctioneering services provided by a company (details supplied). [34255/13]
    • NAMA Code of Conduct
      209. To ask the Minister for Finance the protections that exist to ensure necessary protections are in place to ensure no National Assets Management Agency or State controlled bank property sales...
    • Security and Exchange Commission Issues
      210. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding any security and exchange commission filing irregularities by Allied Irish Bank in the United States. [34259/13]
    • Bond Redemption
      213. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm that in June 2013 AIB was unable to repay a €3.5 billion loan owed to the National Treasury Management Agency. [34262/13]
    • State Banking Sector
      218. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm the percentage of shares now held by the State in AIB Bank. [34267/13]
    • Banking Licence Applications
      219. To ask the Minister for Finance if AIB is in full compliance with its banking license requirements with the Central Bank and European Central Bank. [34268/13]
    • Banking Sector Issues
      220. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will list the consultant fees accumulated by AIB in 2011 and 2012; if the bulk of these fees were paid to a company (details supplied); and if he is...
    • IBRC Investigations
      221. To ask the Minister for Finance further to the statement made by former Public Interest Director at Anglo Irish Bank, Alan Dukes, that decisions about evidence to be given to investigations...
    • Banking Sector Issues
      223. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is now aware of which telephone lines were recorded in Anglo Irish Bank; and if he knows, if he will list who the other persons recorded on the tapes...
    • Public Interest Director Responsibilities
      227. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will set out the responsibilities he believes the role of public interest director in a State owned or partially State owned bank entails. [34328/13]
    • Public Interest Directors Issues
      228. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will put before Dáil Éireann any job description, advice, guidance given to Alan Dukes upon his appointment as a public interest director in...
    • Mortgage Arrears Proposals
      230. To ask the Minister for Finance the way in which each bank is meeting the Central Bank's targets for mortgage arrears resolution; if he will provide a breakdown of the sustainable offers...
    • Departmental Reports
      231. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide in tabular form the name, costs, date of commission, date or expected date of publication and name of the external consultant of all...
    • Property Taxation Collection
      232. To ask the Minister for Finance if a review of the payments committed by households in regards to the local property tax in each local authority at the end of May has been conducted; and if...
    • Property Taxation Administration
      233. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Revenue Commissioners will transfer all of the local property tax income to the Local Government Fund for 2013; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Budget 2014 Issues
      234. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is supportive of retaining the 9% VAT rate for the tourism sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34430/13]
    • Tax Avoidance Issues
      235. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will pursue with the Revenue Commissioners the requirement for a tracking mechanism for former employees who switched to C2 operators without any...
    • Departmental Bodies Board Remuneration
      236. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide, in tabular form, a breakdown of the fees and expenses paid to each member of each State board to include the chair and board member and...
    • Departmental Agencies Staff Remuneration
      237. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide in tabular form the annual salary of all non commercial State sponsored bodies chief executive officers under the aegis of his Department....
    • Departmental Expenditure
      238. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide in tabular form a list of all professional fees, including but not limited to legal, consultancy, IT related, advisory, advertsiing and...
    • Departmental Staff Training
      239. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide in tabular form a breakdown of all third level courses, training programmes and courses and accompanying cost for the 2012/2013 academic...
    • Exchequer Savings
      240. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide the annual saving to the Exchequer of a 20% reduction to all professional fees, including but not limited to legal, consultancy, IT...
    • Money Laundering
      244. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to concerns raised by the Irish Post Masters Union regarding the requirement for anti-money laundering regulations to be...
    • Banking Sector Issues
      245. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide details of the persons who were the partners and senior executives responsible for conducting the PWC Project Atlas - Anglo Irish Bank...
    • IBRC Mortgage Loan Book
      246. To ask the Minister for Finance the total number of firms who tendered to the Special Liquidator for the mandate to value the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation loan book; if PWC offered the...
    • IBRC Legal Cases
      247. To ask the Minister for Finance the person who is responsible for assessing whether there is merit in the continuing legal corporate entity of Irish Bank Resolution Corporation suing the...
    • IBRC Liquidation
      248. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide details of the names of the partners and senior management responsible in KPMG for the auditing of Irish Nationwide and Irish Life and...
    • Banking Sector Issues
      249. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to news reports in Spain that Deloitte may lose its Spanish licence to operate in the country as an auditor as a result of the...
    • Mortgage to Rent Scheme Administration
      250. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of lenders operating in the Irish property market who are prepared to operate the mortgage to rent scheme; the number of mortgage restructurings...
    • Programme for Government Implementation
      251. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide in tabular form the commitments in the Programme for Government under his remit; if the commitment has been met or is in the process of...
    • Consultancy Contracts Expenditure
      252. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will detail in tabular form, the names of all external public relations, communications consultants and organisations used by organisations or agencies...
    • Motor Tax Yield
      253. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm that €150 million was taken in the form of motor tax in budget 2013; and if he will confirm where this money was redirected. [33803/13]
    • NAMA Loan Book
      254. To ask the Minister for Finance the position local authorities hold in order of priority as creditors when the National Assets Management Agency take over unfinished housing developments...
    • Code of Conduct on Mortgage Arrears
      258. To ask the Minister for Finance the procedure in place where an official of a financial institution does not offer the code of conduct for mortgage arrears from the Central Bank of Ireland...
    • NAMA Legal Issues
      260. To ask the Minister for Finance ff his attention has been drawn to a letter sent on 17 June from the National Assets Management Agency to a number of litigants in a case in New York, where...
    • NAMA Loan Book
      262. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of asset management companies that have been commissioned by the National Asset Management Agency to date; their names; the total value of the...
    • Garda Investigations
      263. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the allegations made in a national newspaper on Tuesday 9 July by former Irish Life and Permanent Chairman (details...
    • Banking Sector Issues
      266. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm that Anglo Irish Bank sought as a solution to its difficulties on 29 and 30 September 2008, the provision of short term liquidity support;...
    • Tax Yield
      267. To ask the Minister for Finance the revenue that could be raised for the Exchequer with the Standard Fund Threshold for pensions reduced to the amount proposed by budget 2013; the income...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      268. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of fees paid to a person (details supplied) by his Department since vacating the position as Attorney General on the 9 March 2011. [34910/13]
    • Tax Collection
      269. To ask the Minister for Finance if it is preferred policy by the Revenue Commissioners to recover tax liabilities to seek judgments on the homes of previously self-employed persons as...
    • Money Laundering
      270. To ask the Minister for Finance the regulation in place for money being transferred out of the country through over the counter mediums such as Western Union, Moneygram and so on; the...
    • Tax Collection
      271. To ask the Minister for Finance if capital gains tax is collated in such a way as to be able to determine the revenue that would be raised if capital gains tax was higher on vacant land that...
    • Banking Sector Regulation
      273. To ask the Minister for Finance if an observer on behalf of the Central Bank or the Department of Finance was ever present at an Anglo Irish Bank board meeting subsequent to the 2008 bank...
    • Central Bank of Ireland Investigations
      275. To ask the Minister for Finance when the Central Bank of Ireland first learned of the existence of, as distinct to the content of, the Anglo Irish Bank tapes. [34946/13]
    • Departmental Legal Costs
      276. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has sought and received legal advice outside of the Office of the Attorney General; the number of times advice was sought per year in 2011, 2012 and to...
    • Tax Credits
      277. To ask the Minister for Finance if the parents of a child with a hearing disability (details supplied) in Dublin 3 qualify for the incapacitated child tax credit scheme. [35017/13]
    • Disabled Drivers Grant Eligibility
      279. To ask the Minister for Finance if tax relief will be provided to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35111/13]
    • Income Data
      280. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will set out the effective tax rates paid by income earners in certain categories (details supplied). [35112/13]
    • European Banking Sector
      281. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on comments (details supplied) by Commissioner Barnier on 10 July stating that the proposed bank resolution scheme would not have fully protected...
    • VAT Rates Reductions
      283. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to reduce the 23% VAT rate on furniture; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35132/13]
    • Vehicle Registration Issues
      284. To ask the Minister for Finance if registration number plates for Tipperary vehicles will change following the merger of north and south county councils next year; the way this will affect...
    • Corporation Tax
      285. To ask the Minister for Finance the once-off saving that could be made for the Exchequer if he ended the provision allowing companies to carry back losses for tax rebate purposes. [35154/13]
    • Tax Yield
      286. To ask the Minister for Finance the current treatment of undistributed reserves in companies; if he will set out the revenue that could be raised for the Exchequer if the tax-free lump sum...
    • Tax Rebates
      287. To ask the Minister for Finance if a person (details supplied) in County Kildare is due a tax refund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35166/13]
    • NAMA Transactions
      288. To ask the Minister for Finance if the National Asset Management Agency has advanced a project completion loan to a person (details supplied); the amount of the loan that has been advanced...
    • Disabled Drivers Grants
      290. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding VAT and VRT in respect of a disabled person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35181/13]
    • Credit Availability
      291. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is satisfied that the banks are making adequate credit available to small and medium-sized businesses; the amount which was made available in 2012 and...
    • Budget 2014 Issues
      292. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will extend the 9% VAT rate for the hospitality sector for the next 12 months in view of the fact that budgetary targets are being met; and if he will...
    • Tax Yield
      295. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of revenue he expects to raise from the local property tax from July to December of this year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35365/13]
    • Departmental Functions
      296. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps he is taking to ensure that conditions do not exist for the re-emergence of a property bubble in the future; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Tax Credits
      298. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No.74 of 3 July 2013, if he will set out the increase in the effective tax rates that would be incurred if the measures set...
    • Budget 2014 Issues
      299. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will retain VAT at 9% for labour intensive services and tourism related services; if he recognises the considerable success of the reduction in VAT for...
    • VAT Rates Reductions
      300. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will reduce the rate of VAT payable by ice-cream parlours to 9% in recognition of the labour intensive nature of the business and the heavy dependency...
    • Tax Yield
      301. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of corporation tax separately on trading income and on non-trading income that have been paid to the Exchequer by all manufacturers of prescription...
    • Budget 2014 Issues
      302. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will introduce further measures, which would help the sale of new cars by reducing the VRT tax, and so on; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Prize Bonds
      303. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will review the new anti-money laundering requirements for prize bonds costing more than €25; his views on raising this to €100 in view of...
    • Official Travel
      305. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is confident that all overseas travel undertaken by staff in State agencies is necessary; if the agencies ensure that there is a robust business case...
    • Departmental Bodies
      306. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide in a tabular form a list of all non-commercial State sponsored bodies under the aegis of his Department; and if he will make a statement on...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      307. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which a motor mechanic apprenticeship or alternative is available in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare who...
    • School Transport Appeals
      308. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will ensure that an appeal lodged by a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath is approved. [34421/13]
    • School Transport Provision (1 comment)
      309. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the profit or loss incurred by Bus Éireann in respect of the provision of the school transport scheme each year since 2004. [34427/13]
    • Schools Building Projects Expenditure
      311. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total capital cost of school building in 2013 and 2014. [34847/13]
    • Vocational Training Opportunities Scheme Numbers
      312. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total number of persons in receipt of the vocational training opportunities scheme in 2010, 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013; the current...
    • Special Educational Needs Staffing
      314. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason his officials requested the National Council for Special Education to make the announcement of the resource teacher and special needs...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      315. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on the proposed extension of a school (details supplied) in County Cork. [34192/13]
    • School Accommodation
      316. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide details on the number of schools in County Cork that have benefitted from additional accommodation approval in the past 12...
    • Schools Building Projects Application Numbers
      318. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress being made on developing new schools in Cork city, Douglas and Carrigaline areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • School Funding
      320. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding extra funding in 2013 in respect of a school (details supplied) in Dublin 13 to deal with increased running costs; and if...
    • School Textbooks Rental Scheme
      321. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the annual cost of providing free school books to all children in the State. [34304/13]
    • Speech and Language Therapy
      323. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the significant delays in speech and language therapeutic input for children of school going age and that the...
    • Departmental Agencies Issues
      324. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide in tabular form all appointments made to the National Council for Special Education consultative forum since March 2011; the...
    • Special Educational Needs Staffing
      325. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if resource hours will be reduced in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [34367/13]
    • Education Schemes
      326. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a review for July provision hours in respect of children (details supplied) in County Donegal; the reason these children...
    • Departmental Staff Recruitment
      327. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person who in currently employed at executive officer level in an Irish university to transfer to a similar level in his Department. [34384/13]
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      328. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide details of school building projects including emergency works, building extensions, prefab replacement and new-build projects...
    • Consultancy Contracts Issues
      329. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide in tabular form the name, costs, date of commission, date or expected date of publication and name of the external consultant...
    • School Transport Provision
      330. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if provision will be made in the forthcoming academic year to facilitate bus transport for post-primary students in Celbridge, County Kildare who...
    • Site Acquisitions
      331. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a school (details supplied) in County Wicklow has been asked for local contribution view of the fact that the site was given in lieu...
    • State Examinations Commission
      332. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason unemployed teachers have lost out again on exam supervisory posts this summer in view of eight to ten jobs going to full time or...
    • Schools Building Projects Applications
      333. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a school extension application (details supplied) in County Wicklow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34462/13]
    • Exchequer Savings
      334. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the net and gross annual saving to the Exchequer if VEC chief executive officers salaries were capped at €100,000. [34481/13]
    • Student Grant Scheme Applications
      336. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person (details supplied) was refused a grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34490/13]
    • Departmental Bodies Board Remuneration
      337. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide, in tabular form, a breakdown of the fees and expenses paid to each member of each State board to include the chair and board...
    • Departmental Agencies Staff Remuneration
      338. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide in tabular form the annual salary of all non-commercial State sponsored bodies chief executive officers under the aegis of his...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      339. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide in tabular form a list of all professional fees, including but not limited to legal, consultancy, IT related, advisory,...
    • Exchequer Savings
      342. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide in tabular form the annual saving to the Exchequer of 1%, 5%, 7%, 10%, 12%, 15%, 17% and 20% reduction to travel and expenses...
    • Education Grants
      345. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the back to education grants that are available to stay at home mothers who do not have enough credits and are not in receipt of social welfare...
    • Post-Leaving Certificate Courses
      346. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the non EU student fee could be waived in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Programme for Government Implementation
      347. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide in tabular form the commitments in the Programme for Government under his remit; if the commitment has been met or is in the...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      348. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will detail in tabular form, the names of all external public relations, communications consultants and organisations used by organisations...
    • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
      349. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which a proposed new model to improve the way resources for children with special educational needs are allocated to schools will be...
    • Special Educational Needs Staffing
      350. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is a method of geographically prioritising, or moving between panels for teachers who have children with special needs. [34745/13]
    • Education Grants
      351. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the grants available to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal. [34785/13]
    • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
      352. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the cuts made regarding special needs assistants and that no further cuts be made to special education. [34787/13]
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      353. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the projected annual savings to be made from increasing the pupil-teacher ratio in Gaeltacht schools from September 2013 onwards. [34831/13]
    • Exchequer Savings
      354. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the projected annual savings that are to be made from cutting the Gaeltacht grant for teachers delivering the school curriculum through the...
    • Gaelscoileanna Issues
      358. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on his plans to overhaul the school admissions policies and the way he intends to bring to an end the practice of...
    • Legal Matters
      359. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has sought and received legal advice outside of the Office of the Attorney General; the number of times advice was sought per year from...
    • Education Grants
      360. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a peson (details supplied) in County Kerry attending Queen's University, Belfast, was told that they were not entitled to assistance...
    • Education and Training Provision
      361. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding vocational training in the hospitality industry (details supplied) in which there are no training for the past two years;...
    • Education and Training Boards Issues
      362. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the opportunities for the vocational education committees to participate in the hospitality industry (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • School Accommodation
      363. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the findings of the report following the pilot study on school accommodation in five areas as announced by his Department in June 2012. [35142/13]
    • School Textbooks Rental Scheme
      365. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the efforts being made by his Department to ensure that all resource material and relevant text books relating to the school curriculum at...
    • Student Grant Scheme Applications
      366. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) in County Laois will be considered for fees which were incurred as part of the approved course they attended; and...
    • Schools Building Projects Expenditure
      367. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding his Department has granted in respect of capital building and refurbishment projects, as well as rental accommodation and to which...
    • Physical Education
      372. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will respond to concerns raised by the National Activity Planning Group that physical education will be downgraded from 180 hours to 100...
    • School Accommodation
      373. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of prefabs in primary and secondary schools here at the end of March 2011; the number that have been replaced since then, providing a...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      374. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount that was spent or invested by his Department over the past twenty years on capital infrastructure, summer or emergency works and other...
    • Schools Building Projects Administration
      376. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of new primary or secondary classrooms that have been built or provided for including the replacement of prefabs since 1 March 2011 by...
    • Education Grants
      378. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total number of higher education maintenance grants awarded in the last academic year; the number awarded to students with a parent working...
    • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
      379. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will change Special Education Circular 02/05 to include Down syndrome as a low incidence disability; if he will ensure that children with...
    • Schools Building Projects Expenditure
      380. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide, in tabular form, the schools in County Kerry that have received or have been allocated funding since March 2011 for summer...
    • Education and Training Provision
      381. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No 131 of 10 July 2013, if he will outline the specific education and training supports to lone parents and the...
    • Public Sector Pensions Issues
      383. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a pension review in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5. [35507/13]
    • Student Support Schemes Issues
      384. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the Student Universal Support Ireland application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he...
    • School Transport Provision
      385. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason annual school transport charges for category B have increased while the other categories, A, A1, C and D, remain unchanged; and if he...
    • Student Support Schemes Issues
      386. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will advise the reason the IT section of Student Universal Support Ireland have failed to answer a security breach notified to them on 29...
    • Exchequer Savings
      387. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the annual saving to the Exchequer if all State Agency board fees were reduced by 25% under the aegis of his Department; and if he will make a...
    • Official Travel
      388. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is confident that all overseas travel undertaken by staff in State agencies is necessary; if the agencies ensure that there is a robust...
    • Departmental Bodies
      389. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide in a tabular form a list of all non-commercial State sponsored bodies under the aegis of his Department; and if he will make a...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Public Sector Pensions Expenditure
      390. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the remuneration, termination lump sums or pensions entitlements that have been paid or are due to a person (details supplied) arising...
    • National Lottery Funding Disbursement
      391. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the proceeds of the National Lottery fund from 2008 to 2012. [34291/13]
    • Flood Prevention Measures
      392. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if funding will be made available for a project (details supplied) in Dublin 3. [34657/13]
    • Public Procurement Regulations
      393. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the barriers to micro and small and medium sized enterprises in tendering for public contracts. [34851/13]
    • Flood Prevention Measures
      395. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total amount of capital investment made by his Department in flood defence improvements in the past five years; if he will provide a...
    • Public Sector Staff Recruitment
      396. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the projected annual cost of lifting the public recruitment embargo; and if this cost can be broken down to frontline staff. [34308/13]
    • Open Government Partnership
      397. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the outcomes of the recent Open Government Partnership Meeting held in Dublin; if future meetings are to take place; and if he will make...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      398. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide in tabular form the name, costs, date of commission, date or expected date of publication and name of the external...
    • Exchequer Savings
      399. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide in a tabular form the annual net and gross saving to the Exchequer, following the implementation of the Haddington...
    • Departmental Bodies
      404. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide in a tabular form a list of all non-commercial state sponsored bodies under the aegis of his Department. [34468/13]
    • Departmental Bodies Board Remuneration
      405. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide in a tabular form the annual salary of all commercial state company chief executive officers under the aegis of his...
    • Exchequer Savings
      408. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he wll provide in tabular form the annual saving to the Exchequer of a 5%, 7%, 10%, 12%, 15%, 17% and 20% reduction to travel and...
    • Oireachtas Members' Remuneration
      410. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide in a tabular form details of the following Oireachtas allowances (details supplied) [34475/13]
    • Exchequer Savings
      411. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide the annual saving to the Exchequer if all Ministers’ Special Advisors pay was capped at the first point of the...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      414. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide in tabular form a list of all professional fees, including but not limited to legal, consultancy, IT related,...
    • Programme for Government Implementation
      420. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide in tabular form the commitments in the Programme for Government under his remit; if the commitment has been met or is...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      421. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will detail in tabular form the names of all external public relations, communications consultants and organisations used by...
    • Official Engagements
      422. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the parameters of his recent address to the Bureau of European Policy Advisors high-level seminar of the European Commission in Brussels...
    • Departmental Legal Costs
      423. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has sought and received legal advice outside of the Office of the Attorney General; the number of times advice was sought per year...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      424. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform in respect of an event held in the Pearse Museum in St. Enda's Park, Rathfarnham, last autumn which was addressed by the Minister for...
    • National Lottery Staff
      426. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the future of current National Lottery staff; if staff will return to An Post and have their current contractual agreements maintained;...
    • Exchequer Savings
      427. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide in tabular form the expected carryover of current expenditure savings from 2013 into the next year for his...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      432. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide the details of the budget allocated to capital expenditure in tabular form; the amount spent in tabular form; the...
    • Public Procurement Regulations
      433. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of notifications of an appointment of an arbitrator under the Capital Works Management Framework notified to the National...
    • Value for Money Reviews
      434. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the cost of the value for money assessment by the National Development Finance Agency on the proposed waste to energy incinerator in...
    • National Monuments
      435. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason the majority of the Garden of Remembrance at Parnell Square is inaccessible to wheelchair users or those with impaired...
    • Appointment of Ombudsman
      436. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 145 of 10 July 2013, when he expects the current Ombudsman to step down from their current...
    • Public Private Partnerships Data
      437. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide in tabular form details of the international banks that invested in the Irish public private partnership market each...
    • Official Travel
      439. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is confident that all overseas travel undertaken by staff in State agencies is necessary; if the agencies ensure that there is a...
  • Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
    • State Bodies Functions
      440. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the role and objectives of the Irish Auditing and Accounting Supervisory Authority. [34252/13]
    • Trade Agreements
      441. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views regarding the EU-India free trade agreement meeting in Brussels on 15 April 2013; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Job Creation Numbers
      442. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of jobs created in Cork in the past twelve months which have been supported by his Department or associated agencies; and...
    • Job Creation Issues
      443. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the funding that has been provided by his Department and associated agencies to support job creation in Cork; and if he will make a...
    • Research and Development Funding
      444. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide details of the funding provided by his Department and associated agencies for scientific research; the amount of...
    • Regional Development
      446. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation regarding efforts to boost research and innovation at regional level, his views on the Cork Declaration arising from the WIRE2013...
    • IDA Site Visits
      447. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of visits carried out by the Industrial Development Agency to Mullingar, Athlone and Longford since 2011 and the outcome of...
    • Job Creation Numbers
      448. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of jobs announced by Industrial Development Agency supported companies, and by Enterprise Ireland supported companies since...
    • Microenterprise Loan Fund Expenditure
      449. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide details of the funding allocated under the microenterprise loan fund scheme since 1 January 2013, broken down by...
    • Departmental Reports
      450. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide in tabular form the name, costs, date of commission, date or expected date of publication and name of the external...
    • Job Creation Issues
      451. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps he and his Department have taken and plan to undertake to address the scourge of unemployment in counties Cavan and...
    • Industrial Development
      452. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will take the appropriate steps to compel the Industrial Development Authority to act as a State body, treating all counties and...
    • Departmental Bodies Board Remuneration
      453. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide, in tabular form, a breakdown of the fees and expenses paid to each member of each State board to include the chair...
    • Departmental Agencies Staff Remuneration
      454. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide in tabular form the annual salary of all non-commercial State-sponsored bodies' chief executive officers under the...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      455. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide in tabular form a list of all professional fees, including but not limited to legal, consultancy, IT related,...
    • Departmental Staff Training
      456. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide in tabular form a breakdown of all third level courses, training programmes and courses and accompanying cost for...
    • Exchequer Savings
      458. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide in tabular form the annual saving to the Exchequer of a 1%, 5%, 7%, 10%, 12%, 15%, 17% and 20% reduction to travel...
    • Departmental Schemes
      461. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when the review of the BMW regions grant system will be undertaken; if submissions from interested groups, commercial and industrial...
    • Programme for Government Implementation
      462. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide in tabular form the commitments in the programme for Government under his remit; if the commitment has been met or...
    • Consultancy Contracts Numbers
      463. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will detail in tabular form, the names of all external public relations, communications consultants and organisations used by...
    • EU Commission Green Papers
      464. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his plans to make a submission to the European Commission based on its recent Green Paper publication on unfair trading practices in...
    • Departmental Legal Costs
      465. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he has sought and received legal advice outside of the Office of the Attorney General; the number of times advice was sought per...
    • Work Permit Applications
      466. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the position regarding a work permit in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Enterprise Ireland Expenditure
      467. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the total amount of grant assistance made available by Enterprise Ireland to companies in County Limerick during 2012 and the first...
    • Productivity Levels
      468. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will detail the productivity performance of the manufacturing sector here in comparison with that of Northern Ireland for the...
    • Trade Data
      469. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the total value of exports to the North of Ireland and imports from the North of Ireland for the most recent five years. [35307/13]
    • Job Creation Numbers
      470. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of Enterprise Ireland supported jobs in Waterford for the years 2010, 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013 in tabular form; and...
    • IDA Site Visits
      472. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of Industrial Development Agency site visits to Waterford and the south east for 2011, 2012 and the first 6 months of 2013;...
    • Industrial Development
      473. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of new start-up businesses that were established in Waterford in 2012 and in the first half of 2013; and if he will make a...
    • IDA Staff
      474. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he is assured that all overseas travel undertaken by staff in the Industrial Development Agency Ireland is necessary; if the...
    • Enterprise Ireland Staff
      475. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he is assured that all overseas travel undertaken by staff in Enterprise Ireland is necessary; if the organisation ensures that...
    • Job Creation Issues
      476. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will consider making funding available to support job creating bodies such as the west Cork jobs initiative as part of this...
    • Unemployment Levels
      477. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on the main strengths, opportunities, weaknesses and threats in relation to job retention and creation in County Kerry; if...
    • Departmental Bodies
      479. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide in a tabular form a list of all non-commercial State sponsored bodies under the aegis of his Department; and if he...
  • Department of Social Protection
    • Pension Provisions
      480. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will respond to the issues raised in correspondence (details supplied) regarding a pension scheme wind-up. [34281/13]
    • School Meals Programme
      481. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the projected cost of the school meals programme in 2014. [34306/13]
    • Community Employment Schemes Funding
      482. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the responsibility the vocational education committee has in relation to employees on community employment schemes part funded by them. [35542/13]
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
      483. 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...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Applications
      484. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision on jobseeker's allowance will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      485. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite a carer's allowance appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Invalidity Pension Appeals
      486. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite and award an invalidity pension appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a...
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      487. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a disability allowance appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [34195/13]
    • Defined Pension Benefit Schemes Issues
      488. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will set out in tabular form the number of defined benefit pension schemes whose closure has been notified to the pensions board in each year...
    • State Pensions Reform
      489. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to extend the State pension transition which is currently payable to claimants aged 65 beyond the proposed cut-off date of 1 January 2014;...
    • Farm Assist Scheme Appeals
      490. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a decision has been made on an appeal on a farm assist application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry. [34287/13]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      491. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide in tabular form the amount that was spent on the core weekly social protection rates for each of the past five years; the amount...
    • Social Insurance Yield
      494. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the projected amount of PRSI to be paid to the State for the first six months of the year to end of June and the projected amount for the full year...
    • Social Welfare Code Reform
      495. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the cost of increasing the fuel budget for six weeks. [34307/13]
    • Back to Education Allowance Applications
      496. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare they can transfer from jobseeker's allowance to back to education allowance to...
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      497. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite a decision on a disability allowance appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a...
    • Social Welfare Code Issues
      498. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider the introduction of a system of collateral benefit reimbursement; if she will provide details on the total savings envisaged in...
    • Money Advice and Budgeting Service Issues
      499. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will list the waiting times a person may expect for an appointment with the Money Advice and Budgeting Service in each county-office area....
    • Invalidity Pension Appeals
      501. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an invalidity pension appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [34341/13]
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals
      502. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a domiciliary care allowance will be approved in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; if she will confirm the amount of...
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      503. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a decision has been made on a review of a decision on a carers allowance application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry;...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Payments
      504. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will issue arrears of jobseekers allowance to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Eligibility
      505. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the changes, if any, that have been made to jobseekers allowance and jobseekers benefit eligibility for employees who have been temporarily laid off...
    • Invalidity Pension Appeals
      506. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an invalidity pension appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [34369/13]
    • Pension Provisions
      507. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the action she has taken following the European Court of Justice ruling earlier this year that the State is in breach of its obligations under the...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      508. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide in tabular form the name, costs, date of commission, date or expected date of publication and name of the external consultant of...
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      510. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite a carer's allowance appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath. [34501/13]
    • Departmental Bodies Board Remuneration
      511. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide, in tabular form, a breakdown of the fees and expenses paid to each member of each State board to include the chair and board...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      513. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide in tabular form a list of all professional fees, including but not limited to legal, consultancy, IT related, advisory,...
    • Exchequer Savings
      516. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide in tabular form the annual saving to the Exchequer of 1%, 5%, 7%, 10%, 12%, 15%, 17% and 20% reduction to travel and expenses...
    • Invalidity Pension Appeals
      519. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an invalidity pension appeal will be approved in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Carlow; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      520. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an appeal in respect of a carer's allowance application will be granted in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Laois; and if she...
    • State Pension (Non-Contributory) Appeals
      521. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an appeal in respect of an application for a non-contributory widow's pension will be approved in the case of a person (details supplied) in...
    • Invalidity Pension Applications
      522. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an application for an invalidity pension in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Meath; if she will reverse this...
    • Departmental Funding
      523. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of successful applications for funding under her Department's grants system for projects within County Kildare for each of the past four...
    • Programme for Government Implementation
      524. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will outline, in tabular form, the commitments in the programme for Government which come under her remit; if each commitment has been met or...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      525. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will detail, in tabular form, the names of all external public relations companies, communications consultants or communications companies...
    • Social Welfare Appeals Waiting Times
      526. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of inspectors within her Department dealing with social welfare appeals; the number of appeals awaiting a decision; the average waiting...
    • National Carers Strategy Status
      527. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding carers. [34712/13]
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      528. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a carer's allowance appeal will be approved for a person (details supplied) in County Laois; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Child Benefit Eligibility
      529. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total cost of restoring the payment of child benefit to the children of asylum seekers living in direct provision. [34717/13]
    • Local Employment Service Issues
      530. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to provide a table of local employment service providers showing the number of staff they employ, the grant they receive from the State and the...
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      531. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite a carer's allowance appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Black Economy Issues
      532. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the action being taken to address black market activities, particularly in the area of construction. [34740/13]
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      533. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an application for carer's allowance will be granted in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a...
    • National Internship Scheme Eligibility
      534. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a company (details supplied) in County Kerry will qualify as a JobBridge employer in view of the fact that its business is not solely...
    • Supplementary Welfare Allowance Eligibility
      535. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if assistance will be given to a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15 in securing an emergency needs payment to help towards patient transport to...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Data
      538. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will outline in tabular form the total number of applications for family income supplement in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013; the...
    • International Agreements
      574. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide details of the bilateral social security agreement which exists between this jurisdiction and Australia and the social welfare...
    • Supplementary Welfare Allowance Applications
      575. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) in County Mayo has been refused supplementary welfare allowance; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      577. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an appeal for a carer's allowance will be granted in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Laois; and if she will make a statement...
    • Child Benefit Rates
      578. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans for the future of child benefit; if she intends to tax it or means test it; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34857/13]
    • Social Welfare Benefits Numbers
      579. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total number of persons in receipt of the jobseeker's benefit in 2010, 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013; the current number in receipt broken down...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Applications
      582. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total number of persons in receipt of the jobseeker's allowance aged 18-19, 20-21, 22-24 broken down by county; the total amount spent on...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Numbers
      591. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total number of persons in receipt of the partial capacity benefit in 2010, 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013; the current number in receipt broken...
    • Supplementary Welfare Allowance Application Numbers
      608. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total number of people in receipt of the special funeral grant; the current number in receipt broken down by county; the total costs of the...
    • Departmental Schemes
      624. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total number of persons in receipt of the humanitarian assistance scheme in 2010, 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013; the current number in receipt...
    • Free Travel Scheme Applications
      626. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the current delays in processing applications for travel passes on medical grounds; the total number of applications on hand; the corresponding...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
      627. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when payment of a domiciliary allowance will issue to persons (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Legal Costs
      628. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she has sought and received legal advice outside of the Office of the Attorney General; the number of times advice was sought per year from 2011,...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Payments
      629. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of former self-employed persons now receiving benefits or jobseeker's allowance. [35013/13]
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
      630. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding domiciliary care allowance and other benefits in respect of a person (details supplied) In Dublin 3. [35015/13]
    • Back to School Clothing and Footwear Allowance Scheme Eligibility
      635. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason foster parents who foster children long term are not entitled to the back to school clothing and footwear allowance; if same will be...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      637. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will issue on an application for carer's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon. [35113/13]
    • Social Welfare Benefits Waiting Times
      640. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the actions taken by her Department to clear backlogs on social welfare claims processed in the Longford office; if there has been a subsequent...
    • Employment Support Services
      641. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of integrated employment and support service Intreo offices operating here; if further offices will open this year; where those offices...
    • Public Services Card
      642. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the progress being made in issuing public services cards; the rationale for their issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35173/13]
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Payments
      643. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) has not been facilitated in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35183/13]
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      644. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will examine a disability allowance appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Invalidity Pension Appeals
      645. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will examine the invalidity pension appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Invalidity Pension Waiting Times
      647. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the average waiting time for the issuing of payment to applicants who have had invalidity pension appeals upheld; the number of upheld appeals...
    • Invalidity Pension Appeals
      648. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she wil examine an invalidity pension appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Social Welfare Rates
      650. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will set out replacement rate values in tabular form comparing social welfare income, including fuel allowance and rent and or mortgage...
    • Live Register Statistics
      651. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide a yearly breakdown by local authority area of the average length of time a person is long term unemployed, short term unemployed...
    • Social Welfare Appeals Status
      652. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will examine the backdating of a living alone allowance appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Payments
      653. To ask the Minister for Social Protection in respect of recipients of domiciliary care allowance, what the process is when the child in respect of whom payment is made reaches sixteen years...
    • Proposed Legislation
      654. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the dates and purpose of amendments to the Civil Registration Act, 2004; when the issue of sham marriages will ba addressed;; and if she will make a...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      655. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she has achieved the savings indicated in Budget 2013 of €5 million in the cost to her Department of medical certificates and reports for...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Data
      658. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the amount saved in the year to date from additional fraud and control measures as indicated at Budget time; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Social Welfare Code Issues
      660. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she has considered reducing the eligibility period for activation schemes such as community employment and JobBridge to nine months to bring it...
    • Departmental Schemes
      661. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of social employment scheme places filled to date; have any trial schemes being launched; if she will provide a breakdown by local...
    • Farm Assist Scheme Statistics
      662. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the amount spent on farm assist in 2012 and to date in 2013; if she will provide a breakdown by county of where recipients are based; do recipients...
    • Farm Assist Scheme Eligibility
      663. To ask the Minister for Social Protection for assessment under farm assist why are only some, rather than all payments under rural environment protection scheme, agri environment scheme and...
    • Disability Support Services Issues
      665. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if assistance will be provided to a person with a disability (details supplied) in County Dublin in securing appropriate training or education...
    • Departmental Records
      666. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if consideration is being given to make the historical records available in digitised format to members of the public; if she intends to expand...
    • Bullying in the Workplace
      668. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if FÁS has a duty of care to those working on community employment schemes in relation to a responsibility to protect them from bullying and...
    • Invalidity Pension Appeals
      669. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an appeal for invalidity pension for a person (details supplied) in County Wexford will be approved. [35543/13]
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      670. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an application for carer's allowance will be approved for a person (details supplied) in County Wexford. [35544/13]
    • Exchequer Savings
      671. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the annual saving to the Exchequer if all State Agency board fees were reduced by 25% under the aegis of her Department; and if she will make a...
    • Official Travel
      672. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she is confident that all overseas travel undertaken by staff in State agencies is necessary; if the agencies ensure that there is a robust...
    • Departmental Bodies
      673. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide in a tabular form a list of all non-commercial State sponsored bodies under the aegis of her Department; and if she will make a...
  • Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Architectural Heritage
      674. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the steps he will take to ensure the protection of a protected structure (details supplied) in Dublin 5, in view of its local...
    • Departmental Reports
      675. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide in tabular form the name, costs, date of commission, date or expected date of publication and name of the external...
    • EU Directives
      676. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if an Environmental Impact Assessment and/or a Natura Impact Assessment were carried out on lakeshore of a marina (details provided)...
    • Departmental Bodies Expenditure
      677. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide, in tabular form, a breakdown of the fees and expenses paid to each member of each State board to include the...
    • Departmental Bodies Board Remuneration
      678. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide in tabular form the annual salary of all non commercial State sponsored bodies chief executive officers under the...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      679. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide in tabular form a list of all professional fees, including but not limited to legal, consultancy, IT related,...
    • Exchequer Savings
      682. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide in tabular form the annual saving to the Exchequer of 1%, 5%, 7%, 10%, 12%, 15%, 17% and 20% reduction to travel...
    • Grant Payments
      685. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of successful applications made for funding under his Department grants system for projects within County Kildare for each...
    • Programme for Government Implementation
      686. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide in tabular form the commitments in the Programme for Government under his remit; if the commitment has been met or...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      687. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will detail in tabular form, the names of all external public relations, communications consultants and organisations used by...
    • Departmental Legal Costs
      688. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he has sought and received legal advice outside of the Office of the Attorney General; the number of times advice was sought per...
    • Special Areas of Conservation Designation
      689. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason compensation was not paid to farmers in the Twelve Bens/Maam Turk complex between November 2012 and May 2013 despite the...
    • Stocking Densities
      690. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if there will be a new scheme of destocking in the Twelve Bens/Maam Turk complex to replace the current scheme once the current...
    • Film Industry Promotion
      691. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the efforts being made to promote Ireland as a location for feature film making; if he will provide an annual breakdown in tabular...
    • Official Travel
      692. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he is confident that all overseas travel undertaken by staff in State agencies is necessary; if the agencies ensure that there is...
    • Departmental Bodies
      693. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide in a tabular form a list of all non-commercial State sponsored bodies under the aegis of his Department; and if he...
  • Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
    • Inland Fisheries Data
      695. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the total number of successful applications made to his Departtment in each of the past four years for restocking of...
    • Better Energy Homes Scheme Applications
      696. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the reasons dormer housing is not eligible for attic insulation under the Sustainable Energy Ireland free scheme [34736/13]
    • Research and Development Funding
      699. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide an update on the Government supported International Energy Research Centre and the involvement of...
    • Wind Energy Generation
      701. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide an update on discussions with the UK Government on the export of wind generated renewable energy and...
    • Broadband Services Provision
      702. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide details of the schools where high-speed broadband has been installed under the scheme funded by his...
    • Offshore Exploration
      703. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to set up a forum, made up of third-level institutions, oil and gas companies, trade unions, Government...
    • Departmental Reports
      704. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide in tabular form the name, costs, date of commission, date or expected date of publication and name of...
    • Hydraulic Fracturing Policy
      705. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding a ban on fracking; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Bodies Board Remuneration
      706. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide, in tabular form, a breakdown of the fees and expenses paid to each member of each State board to...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      708. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide in tabular form a list of all professional fees, including but not limited to legal, consultancy, IT...
    • Exchequer Savings
      711. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide in tabular form the annual saving to the Exchequer of 1%, 5%, 7%, 10%, 12%, 15%, 17% and 20% reduction...
    • Broadband Services Provision
      714. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans for the type of broadband for the Ballinhassig area and Ballygarvan area in County Cork; and if he will make a...
    • Programme for Government Implementation
      716. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will outline in tabular form the commitments in the Programme for Government under his remit; if the commitment has...
    • Consultancy Contracts Issues
      717. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will detail in tabular form, the names of all external public relations, communications consultants and...
    • Inland Fisheries Issues
      718. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the person who owns the fishing rights on the River Barrow, Carlow side, from Borris to St. Mullins and the restrictions...
    • Departmental Legal Costs
      720. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he has sought and received legal advice outside of the Office of the Attorney General; the number of times advice was...
    • Enterprise Support Schemes
      721. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on the operation to date of the Business Online voucher scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Energy Schemes Issues
      722. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if the all island energy initiative is a priority for him; and if it will be discussed at the next North South...
    • Broadband Services Provision
      724. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position regarding the rollout of high speed broadband in County Tipperary; the way it has improved since 2011; when...
    • Energy Schemes Issues
      725. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will arrange and provide a date for a meeting with the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland official in west...
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      726. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if there has been an analysis of the greenhouse gas emissions from Ireland's three peat burning power stations and the...
    • Public Service Obligation Levy Payments
      727. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the amount on an annual basis from 2007 to date in 2013 that was provided as a subsidy to Ireland's three peat burning...
    • National Postcode System Establishment
      730. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if a new post code system should be based on numbers and two letters representing Ireland, as is the norm in other...
    • Broadband Services Speeds
      731. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when an area (details supplied) in County Wicklow will be upgraded to ensure that faster broadband may be availed of by...
    • Official Travel
      733. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he is confident that all overseas travel undertaken by staff in State agencies is necessary; if the agencies ensure...
    • Departmental Agencies Staff Remuneration
      734. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide in tabular form the annual salary of all commercial State company chief executive officers under the...
    • Departmental Bodies
      735. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide in a tabular form a list of all non-commercial State sponsored bodies under the aegis of his...
  • Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
    • Tribunals of Inquiry Recommendations
      736. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update on the intention expressed last year to forward the Mahon Tribunal report to the Director of...
    • Local Authority Charges Application
      737. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if a child care facility (details supplied) in County Kildare is exempt from rates; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Non-Principal Private Residence Charge Yield
      739. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of revenue he expects to raise from the non-principal private residence charge from July to December of this...
    • Local Authority Charges Collection
      740. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if, in the interests of the economic difficulties that small businesses across the country are experiencing, he will...
    • Environmental Regulations
      741. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if there are any regulations controlling signage fronting the public roadway to advertise the availability of residential...
    • Local Authority Charges Yield
      742. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of revenue estimated to be received from the levy on landfill disposal; and where this money is spent....
    • Tax Yield
      743. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the revenue received in tabular form from the plastic bag levy since its inception. [34292/13]
    • Noise Pollution Issues
      745. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide clarity about the obligations of local authorities with regard to noise pollution emanating from road...
    • Rural Recreation Policy
      746. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if two walks in County Kerry will be linked up (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34357/13]
    • Local Authority Staff Issues
      747. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the tenure of the current Sligo County Manager will expire on 3 November...
    • Consultancy Contracts Issues
      748. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form the name, costs, date of commission, date or expected date of publication and name of...
    • Motor Tax Collection
      749. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if road tax funds still go into the local government fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34417/13]
    • Property Taxation Administration
      750. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to introduce regulations or guidelines with respect to the setting of the local adjustment factor as per the...
    • Planning Issues
      751. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the procedure for the changing of the name of a private housing estate; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Commemorative Events
      752. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown of the total cost to his Department, for its involvement in the recent JFK50 commemoration...
    • Irish Water Establishment
      753. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if Irish Water will take on liability for the pensions of local authority water services staff through local service...
    • Water Services Funding
      754. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form a county by county breakdown of funding under the rural water programme from 2010 to...
    • Local Authority Staff Numbers
      755. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form the current number of county managers in the local authority structure; the current...
    • Local Authority Expenditure
      756. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the shortfall in the cost of planning for the years 2006-2012 inclusive and the fees recouped in those years. [34449/13]
    • Commercial Rates Issues
      757. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the estimated revenue received from removing the exemption from commercial rates for State owned buildings. [34450/13]
    • Planning Issues
      758. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if substitute consent in relation to unauthorised development at a location (details provided) in County Westmeath will...
    • Local Authority Staff Remuneration
      759. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in a tabular form the current salaries paid to all city and county managers of local authorities....
    • Exchequer Savings
      760. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the annual saving to the Exchequer if salaries across all local authorities were capped at €100,000. [34484/13]
    • Local Authority Staff Remuneration
      761. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of local authorities public sector workers in receipt of salaries within the following bands (details...
    • Water Charges Introduction
      762. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the exemptions he plans to introduce to alleviate hardship on certain sectors of society when water charges are introduced...
    • Water Services Funding
      763. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will report on the aggregate known cost, or estimated cost, to public funds, of providing the public water supply in...
    • Irish Water Expenditure
      764. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the estimated revenue of Irish Water in 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34495/13]
    • Planning Issues
      765. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if there is a register of planning permissions granted and completed since 1963; his views on whether there would be value...
    • Departmental Agencies Board Remuneration
      766. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide, in tabular form, a breakdown of the fees and expenses paid to each member of each State board to...
    • Departmental Agencies Staff Remuneration
      767. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form the annual salary of all non commercial State sponsored bodies chief executive officers...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      768. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form a list of all professional fees, including but not limited to legal, consultancy, IT...
    • Exchequer Savings
      771. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form the annual saving to the Exchequer of 1%, 5%, 7%, 10%, 12%, 15%, 17% and 20% reduction...
    • Departmental Staff Remuneration
      773. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form the annual saving to the Exchequer if all his special advisers pay was capped at the...
    • Local Authority Housing Issues
      774. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide details, broken down by electoral area, of the number of empty local authority housing units in...
    • Nuclear Waste
      775. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in relation to EU Directive 2011/70/EURATOM (Nuclear Waste), if his attention has been drawn to the fact that this...
    • Programme for Government Implementation
      776. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will outline in tabular form the commitments in the programme for Government under his remit; if the commitment has...
    • Consultancy Contracts Issues
      777. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will detail in tabular form, the names of all external public relations, communications consultants and...
    • Planning Issues
      778. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the up to date position of the report into bonds, insurances and other methods of collateral used by the construction...
    • Housing Adaptation Grants Funding
      779. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to an application from Meath County Council for increased funding for its housing...
    • Illegal Dumping
      782. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the cost of illegal dumping in the State in 2012. [34840/13]
    • Waste Management Issues
      783. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on a system where income from the collection of recyclables can be raised for local Government as a similar...
    • Dormant Accounts Fund Administration
      784. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the total amount of funds in dormant accounts; the amount being transferred in the past three years; the amount expected...
    • Local Government Reform
      785. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the cost of implementing a gender quota of 40% on the new social economic committees. [34845/13]
    • Local Authority Charges Yield
      786. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the total revenue obtained from commercial water rates from 2010-2012. [34848/13]
    • Property Valuations
      788. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the value of brown field sites in the State and if he will provide details of same [34850/13]
    • Local Government Reform
      789. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the cost of devolving planning powers back to councillors. [34852/13]
    • Local Authority Funding
      790. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown of local Government funding for each of the years 2008 to 2012 inclusive. [34854/13]
    • Local Authority Expenditure
      791. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to provide a breakdown of local Government spending for each of the years from 2008 to 2012 inclusive. [34855/13]
    • Motor Tax Yield
      792. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of funding collected in each county through motor tax in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013; the...
    • Leader Programmes Funding
      793. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the total amount of money drawn down in tabular form by each LEADER Company on a yearly basis since the scheme commenced....
    • Mortgage Arrears Proposals
      794. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has prepared for an increase in demand in services from his Department as a result of upcoming developments such as...
    • Departmental Legal Costs
      795. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has sought and received legal advice outside of the Office of the Attorney General; the number of times advice was...
    • Local Authority Charges Application
      796. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount outstanding in development levies to local authorities by an authority-by-authority basis; if he will compare...
    • Leader Programmes Administration
      797. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding an application to Mayo North East Leader by an organisation (details supplied) in County Mayo; when...
    • Water Services Provision
      799. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if funding will be provided to Cork County Council to connect homes in an area (details supplied) in County Cork to the...
    • Fire Service Issues
      800. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of hoax calls received by the Fire Brigade in each County for 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012; the cost...
    • Regeneration Projects Status
      801. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding Ballymun shopping centre Dublin; and the future plans in place in view of the fact that it is...
    • Departmental Staff Numbers
      803. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the increase in revenue that would be received from having one additional staff member employed in credit control in his...
    • Local Authority Charges Application
      805. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the revenue earned from charging commercial rates to permanent offshore structures. [35163/13]
    • Local Authority Housing Rents
      806. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the revenue earned from removing the maximum rent level from local authority housing. [35164/13]
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      807. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the action he will take following the publication of the EPA report in April 2013 on our greenhouse gas emissions which...
    • Dormant Accounts Fund Administration
      809. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if there has been any analysis of how much the Dormant Accounts Fund would benefit in the event of the legislation being...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes Funding
      810. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide funding to Kerry County Council for group sewerage schemes in County Kerry in 2013; and if he will make...
    • Waste Water Treatment Issues
      811. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the statutory basis upon which a local authority can decline to take into charge of an on-site wastewater treatment...
    • Departmental Funding
      814. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will increase, as a matter of urgency, Kerry County Council's 2013 housing grants allocation that was reduced by 56%...
    • Litter Pollution Issues
      815. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if county councils have the power to compel the owners of shopping centres to ensure the shopping centre environs are kept...
    • Property Valuations
      828. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the value of land purchased by individual local authorities for the purposes of social housing and other developments that...
    • Local Authorities Management
      830. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the local authorities that use the Agresso accounting system; if cost savings could be made by transferring to a system...
    • Local Authority Banking Issues
      831. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide details of bank overdrafts and the interest paid on these for individual local authorities for the...
    • Local Authorities Management
      832. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the savings that can be made through shared services with other local authorities. [35299/13]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      833. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the savings achieved when acting up arrangements are ceased within his Department. [35300/13]
    • Fire Stations Provision
      834. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 837 of 16 April 2013, if this project is still envisaged to start in quarter 3 of...
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      836. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if there has been an analysis of the greenhouse gas emissions from Ireland's three peat burning power stations and how...
    • Public Procurement Contracts Tenders
      837. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 318 of 9 July 2013, if the Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals'...
    • Local Authority Funding
      838. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide by local authority the expected annual increase and or decrease in revenue when local authorities...
    • Public Private Partnerships Data
      839. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form a list of public private partnership projects that have proceeded under traditional...
    • Commercial Rates Valuation Process
      842. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is considering reviewing the way local authorities levy commercial rates on small and medium sized enterprises; if...
    • Commercial Rates Issues
      843. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he envisages difficulties for businesses when local town councils are abolished in 2014 and where the application of...
    • Illegal Dumping
      845. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is concerned with the amount of used nappies that are being illegally dumped around the country, largely due to the...
    • Non-Principal Private Residence Charge Collection
      846. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason a person (details supplied) in County Cork has to pay the non-principal private residence charge when they only...
    • Rental Accommodation Scheme Administration
      847. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in view of the Government's reliance in part on the rental accommodation scheme and long-term leasing arrangements to meet...
    • Local Authorities Management
      848. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the arrangements currently in place for the storage, access and maintenance of extensive local government records; the...
    • Local Authority Banking Issues
      849. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the arrangements to be put in place for Town Councils who have funds in a bank account such as Leixlip Town Council; if...
    • Official Travel
      852. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is confident that all overseas travel undertaken by staff in State agencies is necessary; if the agencies ensure...
    • Departmental Bodies
      853. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in a tabular form a list of all non-commercial State-sponsored bodies under the aegis of his...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Auctioneering Licences
      854. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if a company (details supplied) holds a current auctioneering licence in accordance with the Property Services (Regulation) Act 2011. [34256/13]
    • Personal Insolvency Practitioners
      855. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of personal insolvency practitioners that have been appointed to date. [34761/13]
    • Garda Recruitment
      856. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the current existing panel of Garda applicants will be used for recruitment; if recruitment for the Garda will commence; and if he will make a...
    • Referendum on Marriage Equality
      857. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding a referendum to provide for marriage equality in the Irish Constitution (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Crime Prevention Officers
      858. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the position of Garda Crime Prevention Officer in the Tipperary Garda Division has been filled; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Immigration Status
      859. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the requirements for update of stamp 4 in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Passport Applications
      860. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the procedure to be followed in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin who has applied for passport on behalf of their child,...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      861. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current or expected position in regard to residency entitlement for consideration for naturalisation in the case of a person (details...
    • Sentencing Policy
      864. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the steps open to a person who has concerns based on an examination of judgments that a member of the Judiciary is consistently awarding lenient...
    • Garda Resources
      865. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide a report of the Garda resources for an area (details supplied) in north Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Garda Vetting Applications
      874. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if and when Garda vetting will be complete in respect of applications received from overseas visitors intending to visit Ireland to take part in...
    • Departmental Reports
      875. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide in tabular form the name, costs, date of commission, date or expected date of publication and name of the external consultant...
    • Garda Transport Provision
      876. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide in tabular form the total number of Garda Vehicles that are permanently located for normal police duties excluding any vehicle...
    • Domestic Violence Policy
      877. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to sign the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combatting Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence. [34443/13]
    • Departmental Agencies Board Remuneration
      882. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide, in tabular form, a breakdown of the fees and expenses paid to each member of each State board to include the chair and board...
    • Departmental Agencies Staff Remuneration
      883. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide in tabular form the annual salary of all non commercial State sponsored bodies chief executive officers under the aegis of his...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      884. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide in tabular form a list of all professional fees, including but not limited to legal, consultancy, IT related, advisory,...
    • Exchequer Savings
      886. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide the annual saving to the Exchequer of a 20% reduction to all professional fees, including but not limited to legal,...
    • Human Rights Issues
      890. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to the allegations of forced human organ harvesting from prisoners in China; his views on whether there is a...
    • Anti-Social Behaviour
      891. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if there is any action under current laws that can be taken by residents in apartment blocks that have to put up with excessive noise, abuse, and...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      892. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason for the delay in making a determination in the naturalisation application of a person (details supplied); and when a decision will...
    • Departmental Funding
      893. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of successful applications made for funding under his Department grants system for projects within County Kildare for each of the past...
    • Programme for Government Implementation
      894. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide in tabular form the commitments in the Programme for Government under his remit; if the commitment has been met or is in the...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      895. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will detail in tabular form, the names of all external public relations, communications consultants and organisations used by organisations...
    • Magdalen Laundries Issues
      896. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his views on the inclusion of the Sisters of Mercy Laundry, also called House of Mercy, in Baggot Street to the redress scheme for the Magdalenes...
    • Courts Service Issues
      897. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the Irish Courts Service will update their website with accurate information with full costings for CD ,DVD, VCR; the reason the recordings in...
    • Garda Stations Opening Hours
      901. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the Garda Stations in the Dublin region that will have an open day between now and year end; the dates and times of each; and if he will make a...
    • Stardust Fire Issues
      902. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will be recommending the establishment of a parliamentary inquiry under the Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures)...
    • Legal Aid Service Expenditure
      904. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the total cost of the free legal aid service that the State provides on annual basis for the years 2010, 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013; and if...
    • Legal Aid Service Issues
      905. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the total amount of money that has been recouped by the free legal aid service on an annual basis for the years 2010, 2011, 2012 and to date in...
    • Refugee Appeals Tribunal
      906. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the serving members of the Refugee Appeals Tribunal and the date on which their terms expire. [34947/13]
    • Electronic Tagging
      907. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the total cost to date of the electronic tagging programme; the number of persons on remand and on conditional release respectively with an...
    • Direct Provision System
      908. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons in the direct provision system for less than six months; between six and 12 months; in excess of one, two, three, four,...
    • Refugee Numbers
      910. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of new applicants who sought protection from the State to date in 2013; the breakdown of the nationality of those persons; the...
    • International Agreements
      912. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current extradition agreements with Brazil; if recent discussions or negotiations have taken place on this matter within his Department or...
    • Departmental Legal Costs
      913. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he has sought and received legal advice outside of the Office of the Attorney General; the number of times advice was sought per year in 2011,...
    • Garda Vetting Applications
      914. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to the average four to seven month delay in processing Garda clearance for unemployed persons interviewed by...
    • Personal Debt
      915. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department has made representation to, or has any contact with, any UK authorities agencies in connection with Irish citizens availing of...
    • Departmental Programmes
      916. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applications under the immigrant investor programme and the start up entrepreneur programme since the programmes were opened to...
    • Garda Vetting Applications
      917. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide in tabular form on a county basis the timeline for processing applications for Garda clearance from the date of initial...
    • Road Traffic Accidents Data
      918. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of drivers involved in fatal and non-fatal collisions that were unaccompanied drivers on a learners permit in each of the years 2010,...
    • Hoax Calls
      919. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of hoax calls received by the Garda Síochána in each county for 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2012; the cost incurred as result...
    • Garda Recruitment
      920. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding the recommencement of Garda recruitment; the timeframe for same; if proposals have gone to Cabinet and the feedback on...
    • Garda Investigations
      921. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he has any information on the theft of six valuable oil paintings from a church (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a...
    • Direct Provision System
      922. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide a yearly breakdown, from 2003 to date in 2013, of the number of persons who have committed suicide while a resident in a...
    • Garda Vetting of Personnel
      924. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will consider a more innovative approach to current Garda vetting procedures that would involve a licence for up to three years post...
    • Residency Permits
      925. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of residency applications in each of the past three years and to date in 2013 from non-EU nationals as a spouse of an EU citizen; the...
    • Prison Accommodation
      926. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number and capacity of each low security accommodation unit within the Irish Prison Service; if such persons are maintained by the Prison...
    • Dissident Republican Activity
      927. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he is concerned by the threat posed by criminal elements known commonly as dissident republicans; what is being done to protect citizens of...
    • Criminal Law Review
      928. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he considers the act of deliberately ramming a Garda vehicle to be serious enough to warrant its own legislative response; if he is concerned...
    • Sentencing Policy
      929. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his views on whether the mandatory life sentence for murder should be increased in duration; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Drugs Crime
      930. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he had been in contact with this counterparts in Europe, particularly the Netherlands, on the use of a number of websites which provide...
    • Garda Disciplinary Proceedings
      931. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the circumstances in which a young undercover garda was disciplined and returned to uniformed duties in spite of the fact their work led to the...
    • Garda Vetting Applications
      932. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason for the delay in processing a Garda vetting application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make...
    • Departmental Bodies Board Remuneration
      933. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the annual saving to the Exchequer if all State agency board fees under the aegis of his Department were reduced by 25%; and if he will make a...
  • Department of Defence
    • Departmental Reports
      935. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide in tabular form the name of the external consultant involved and the costs, date of commission and date or expected date of publication of...
    • Legislative Programme
      936. To ask the Minister for Defence the position of the proposals made as a result of his Department's withdrawal of the Curragh of Kildare Bill; if he has reviewed the withdrawal of the Bill;...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      937. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide a breakdown of the total cost to his Department of its involvement in the recent JFK 50 commemoration events; and if he will make a...
    • Ministerial Travel
      938. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide in tabular form details of the usage of the Government jet from 1 January 2012 to 31 December 2012, to include the Minister, the country...
    • Departmental Bodies Board Remuneration
      939. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide, in tabular form, a breakdown of the fees and expenses paid to each member of each State board to include the chair and board member and...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      941. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide in tabular form a list of all professional fees, including but not limited to legal, consultancy, IT related, advisory, advertising and...
    • Departmental Staff Training
      942. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide in tabular form a breakdown of all third level courses, training programmes and courses and accompanying cost for the 2012/2013 academic...
    • Exchequer Savings
      944. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide in tabular form the annual saving to the Exchequer of 1%, 5%, 7%, 10%, 12%, 15%, 17% and 20% reduction to travel and expenses for his...
    • Programme for Government Implementation
      947. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will outline in tabular form the commitments in the programme for Government under his remit; if the commitment has been met or is in the process of...
    • Consultancy Contracts Issues
      948. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will detail in tabular form, the names of all external public relations, communications consultants and organisations used by organisations or agencies...
    • Defence Forces Recruitment
      949. To ask the Minister for Defence his plans to engage in further recruitment campaigns for Army personnel. [34786/13]
    • Departmental Legal Costs
      950. To ask the Minister for Defence if he has sought and received legal advice outside of the Office of the Attorney General; the number of times advice was sought per year from 2011, 2012 and...
    • Air Ambulance Service Provision
      951. To ask the Minister for Defence his plans to expand the role of the Air Corps air ambulance service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35082/13]
    • Naval Service Vessels
      953. To ask the Minister for Defence in view of the decommissioning of LE Emer in September 2013 and the LE Aoife in September 2014, if he will provide further details regarding the two...
    • Defence Forces Properties
      956. To ask the Minister for Defence his plans regarding development in the Curragh Camp, County Kildare; the position regarding unoccupied housing, housing stock, general buildings, barracks,...
    • Official Travel
      958. To ask the Minister for Defence if he is confident that all overseas travel undertaken by staff in State agencies is necessary; if the agencies ensure that there is a robust business case...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Commonage Framework Plans
      960. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the outcome of the review of the Commonage Framework Plan that was carried out by the National Parks and Wildlife Service and his...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
      961. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will expedite a disadvantaged area scheme payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will...
    • Trade Agreements
      962. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Norway recently imposed huge import duties on particular agricultural products; the...
    • Departmental Properties
      963. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding the lease on a premises (details supplied) in County Limerick which was until recently the offices of the DVO...
    • Departmental Reports
      964. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide in tabular form the name, costs, date of commission, date or expected date of publication and name of the external...
    • Departmental Bodies Board Remuneration
      965. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide, in tabular form, a breakdown of the fees and expenses paid to each member of each State board to include the...
    • Departmental Agencies Staff Remuneration
      966. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide in tabular form the annual salary of all non commercial State sponsored bodies chief executive officers under the...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      967. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide in tabular form a list of all professional fees, including but not limited to legal, consultancy, IT related,...
    • Departmental Staff Training
      968. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide in tabular form a breakdown of all third level courses, training programmes and courses and accompanying cost for...
    • Exchequer Savings
      970. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide in tabular form the annual saving to the Exchequer of 1%, 5%, 7%, 10%, 12%, 15%, 17% and 20% reduction to travel...
    • Rural Environment Protection Scheme Payments
      973. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when an application for a REP scheme payment will be approved in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Laois; and if he...
    • Programme for Government Implementation
      975. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide in tabular form the commitments in the Programme for Government under his remit; if the commitment has been met or...
    • Consultancy Contracts Issues
      976. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will detail in tabular form, the names of all external public relations, communications consultants and organisations used by...
    • Sugar Industry
      977. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of meetings he has had or his officials have had with interested groups in relation to the reconstruction of the beet...
    • Decentralisation Programme Staff Transfers
      978. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of his Department staff in County Galway that have transferred to Government Departments in counties Mayo or Sligo; and if...
    • Horse Breeding Industry
      979. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is satisfied with the management and regulation of the horse breeding industry here with Horse Sport Ireland (details...
    • Common Agricultural Policy Reform
      980. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine following the recent Common Agricultural Policy agreement, the process that will inform all stakeholders of the proposed changes that...
    • Beef Technology Adoption Programme Payments
      981. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Carlow will receive a BTAB discussion group payment which has been cleared for payment for...
    • Food Safety Authority Investigations
      982. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 178, 179, and 180 of 31 January 2013, if he will provide an update on the issues raised; the...
    • Fodder Crisis
      983. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he is taking to prevent a re-emergence of a fodder shortage later this year; his views on whether there is an adequate...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
      985. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total savings in 2012 disadvantaged area scheme payments solely due to the changes in the stocking rates; and if he will make a...
    • Live Exports
      986. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 202 of 29 May 2013, the current status of each application; if further applications have been...
    • Horse Slaughter Statistics
      987. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he is taking to provide an outlet for horses surplus to the horse industry; if consideration has been given to introducing...
    • Departmental Legal Costs
      988. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has sought and received legal advice outside of the Office of the Attorney General; the number of times advice was sought per...
    • Single Payment Scheme Eligibility
      989. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the penalty that is being imposed on a person (details supplied) in County Galway under the single payment scheme; the reason for...
    • International Bodies Membership
      992. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will outline Ireland's contributions to the biennial 38th meeting of the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United...
    • Farm Inspections
      993. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farm inspections carried out in 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013; the figures for County Kerry in comparison to each of...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      994. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will expediate an agri-environment options scheme 2 payment that is overdue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Harbours and Piers Funding
      995. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide in tabular form the amount of capital funding his Department has allocated to the piers in Helvick Head,...
    • Live Exports
      998. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the possibility of the recommencement of export of livestock to the UK; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme Payments
      999. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if payment has issued for a fencing grant to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Tax Reliefs Availability
      1000. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the continuance of tax relief available to help farmers to pass their farms to relatives and maintain a working farm...
    • Rural Development Policy
      1001. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when it is proposed to commence the strategic environmental analysis for the fisheries operational programme under the new Common...
    • Export Controls
      1002. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the recent decision by the Gulf Cooperation Council to lift its ban on the importation of Irish beef and lamb; the...
    • Fisheries Protection
      1003. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is supportive of reopening spurdog fishing in Irish waters; if his attention has been drawn to the considerable employment...
    • Public Sector Pensions Issues
      1004. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide information regarding pension benefits paid in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork who worked...
    • Exchequer Savings
      1005. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the annual saving to the Exchequer if all State agency board fees were reduced by 25% under the aegis of his Department; and if he...
    • Official Travel
      1006. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is confident that all overseas travel undertaken by staff in State agencies is necessary; if the agencies ensure that there is...
    • Departmental Bodies
      1008. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide in a tabular form a list of all non-commercial State-sponsored bodies under the aegis of his Department; and if...
  • Department of Children and Youth Affairs
    • Foster Care Expenditure
      1009. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the benefits associated with foster care can be awarded in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will...
    • Inter-Country Adoptions
      1010. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the procedure to be followed by a person (details supplied) in County Kildare to facilitate inter-country adoptions in respect of two...
    • Youth Services Funding
      1011. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if She will address the issue of funding cuts to a youth service (details supplied) in County Kerry; if She will provide additional...
    • Foreign Adoptions
      1012. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will ensure that the adoption waiting lists for countries like the Philippines are regularly updated to ensure any withdrawals are...
    • Rights of the Child
      1014. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide an update on the progress of the State ratifying optional protocols 2 and 3 to the UN Convention on the Rights of the...
    • Departmental Reports
      1015. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide in tabular form the name, costs, date of commission, date or expected date of publication and name of the external...
    • Departmental Bodies Board Remuneration
      1016. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide, in tabular form, a breakdown of the fees and expenses paid to each member of each State board to include the chair...
    • Departmental Agencies Staff Remuneration
      1017. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide in tabular form the annual salary of all non commercial State sponsored bodies chief executive officers under the...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1018. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide in tabular form a list of all professional fees, including but not limited to legal, consultancy, IT related,...
    • Departmental Staff Training
      1019. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide in tabular form a breakdown of all third level courses, training programmes and courses and accompanying cost for the...
    • Exchequer Savings
      1021. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide in tabular form the annual saving to the Exchequer of 1%, 5%, 7%, 10%, 12%, 15%, 17% and 20% reduction to travel and...
    • Departmental Funding
      1024. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of successful applications made for funding under her Department grants system for projects within County Kildare for each of...
    • Programme for Government Implementation
      1025. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide in tabular form the commitments in the Programme for Government under her remit; if the commitment has been met or is...
    • Consultancy Contracts Issues
      1026. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will detail in tabular form, the names of all external public relations, communications consultants and organisations used by...
    • Departmental Legal Costs
      1027. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she has sought and received legal advice outside of the Office of the Attorney General; the number of times advice was sought per year...
    • Audit Report on Neglect Cases
      1028. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when it is expected that audits of all serious neglect cases will commence; the estimated number of files to be reviewed and the timeline...
    • Child Care Reports
      1030. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the action her Department has taken since the broadcast in May of Prime Time’s undercover exposé of issues of serious concern...
    • Exchequer Savings
      1031. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the annual saving to the Exchequer if all State Agency board fees were reduced by 25% under the aegis of her Department; and if she will...
    • Official Travel
      1032. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he is confident that all overseas travel undertaken by staff in State agencies is necessary; if the agencies ensure that there is a...
    • Departmental Bodies
      1033. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide in a tabular form a list of all non-commercial State sponsored bodies under the aegis of her Department; and if she...
  • Department of Health
    • HSE Staffing
      1034. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding working hours in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9 [34505/13]
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      1035. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the adequacy of mental health support services to direct provision residents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35360/13]
    • Proposed Legislation
      1037. To ask the Minister for Health the action he plans to take to prohibit the trafficking of human organs from non-consenting persons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35379/13]
    • Medicinal Products Availability
      1038. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to make Selincro/Nalmefene available here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34183/13]
    • Medical Disclosure Code
      1039. To ask the Minister for Health if he will furnish details on any national and European initiatives to develop a disclosure code regarding incentives paid to doctors by pharmaceutical...
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      1041. To ask the Minister for Health dental treatments covered by a medical card, and in particular if dental surgery can be provided free of charge to persons with medical cards; and if he will...
    • Health Care Abroad
      1043. To ask the Minister for Health the arrangements in place between Ireland and the United Kingdom to ensure that Irish citizens living in the UK receive healthcare there and that UK citizens...
    • Primary Care Strategy
      1044. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 344 of 8 November and 239 of 25 October 2012, if he will provide the figures for the period September to December and...
    • Home Help Service Provision
      1045. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of increasing home-help hours to the 2011 provision; and the additional hours this would entail. [34309/13]
    • Hospital Charges
      1046. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of reducing accident and emergency attendance by €10. [34310/13]
    • European Health Insurance Card Issues
      1047. To ask the Minister for Health if and when an updated EU health insurance card can be effected in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      1048. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the current waiting time for therapeutic input in the Wellmount Healthcare is over a year and that the Health...
    • Speech and Language Therapy
      1049. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children aged between three and 12 years who are on a waiting list for speech and language therapy. [34348/13]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1050. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children aged between three and 12 years who are on a waiting list for behavioural therapy. [34349/13]
    • Health Services Issues
      1051. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address the waiting lists and delays in waiting times for audiology services in County Kerry as the current waiting time for initial assessment for...
    • Health Services Staff Issues
      1052. To ask the Minister for Health if a replacement is been sought for the staff member who carries out assessments at the early intervention centre in Springfield, Mullingar, County Westmeath;...
    • Hospital Staff Issues
      1053. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form by grade the number of hospital staff assigned to Midland Regional Hospital, Mullingar, County Westmeath, that are...
    • Patient Transport Provision
      1054. To ask the Minister for Health if he will instruct the Health Service Executive to restore the mini bus transport service for patients in County Kildare who need to avail of this facility...
    • Departmental Reports (1 comment)
      1055. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form the name, costs, date of commission, date or expected date of publication and name of the external consultant of all...
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      1056. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding mental health reform (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34422/13]
    • Mental Health Services Report
      1057. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the mental health report, A Vision for Change; the steps he has taken to implement the holistic service propounded in this report in...
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      1058. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding emergency beds for children and teenagers who need emergency in-patient treatment in psychiatric hospitals; the number of beds...
    • Primary Care Services Provision
      1061. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in County Cork who needs oxygen daily will not be covered under their medical card while in a nursing home. [34432/13]
    • Symphysiotomy Report
      1062. To ask the Minister for Health the meetings that took place between the Health Service Executive with regards to symphysiotomy; the details of the meetings; the number of meetings; the...
    • Haddington Road Agreement Issues
      1063. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in a tabular form the annual net and gross saving to the Exchequer, following the implementation of the Haddington Road Agreement, if...
    • Exchequer Savings
      1064. To ask the Minister for Health the annual saving to the Exchequer if the full economic cost for the use of beds in public and voluntary hospitals for the purposes of private medical...
    • HSE Staff Remuneration
      1065. To ask the Minister for Health the number of Health Service Executive public sector workers in receipt of salaries within the following bands (details supplied). [34480/13]
    • Hospital Appointment Delays
      1066. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite a medical appointment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare who urgently requires medical treatment; and if he will...
    • Medical Card Applications
      1067. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review a decision to refuse a medical card application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary. [34502/13]
    • Departmental Agencies Board Remuneration
      1069. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, a breakdown of the fees and expenses paid to each member of each State board to include the chair and board member and...
    • Departmental Staff Remuneration
      1070. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form the annual salary of all non commercial State sponsored bodies chief executive officers under the aegis of his Department....
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1071. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form a list of all professional fees, including but not limited to legal, consultancy, IT related, advisory, advertising and...
    • Departmental Staff Training
      1072. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form a breakdown of all third level courses, training programmes and courses and accompanying cost for the 2012/2013 academic...
    • Exchequer Savings
      1074. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form the annual saving to the Exchequer of 1%, 5%, 7%, 10%, 12%, 15%, 17% and 20% reduction to travel and expenses for his...
    • Hospital Consultants Recruitment
      1077. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address the difficulties being faced by parents of children with diabetes who normally attend the consultant paediatrician specialising in diabetes...
    • Programme for Government Implementation
      1078. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form the commitments in the Programme for Government under his remit; if the commitment has been met or is in the process of...
    • Consultancy Contracts Issues
      1079. To ask the Minister for Health if he will detail in tabular form, the names of all external public relations, communications consultants and organisations used by organisations or agencies...
    • Medical Card Applications
      1080. To ask the Minister for Health if he will issue full medical cards in respect of persons (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34711/13]
    • Care of the Elderly
      1081. To ask the Minister for Health if he has considered establishing a forum on long-term residential care to include all relevant stakeholders involved in the provision of such care for older...
    • Primary Care Services Provision
      1082. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to set national criteria for access to primary care services in view of the geographic discrimination that applies when accessing health care, for...
    • Health Services Issues
      1086. To ask the Minister for Health if he will direct the Health Service Executive to change the way they process medical treatment for children on medical cards who also have school insurance...
    • Patient Transport Provision
      1088. To ask the Minister for Health if patient transport will be provided to a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15 who cannot get transport to their service either by private or scheduled...
    • Nursing Education
      1089. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) in County Kerry who sat the written assessment for application to pre-registration nursing and midwifery degree programmes...
    • Ambulance Service Staff
      1090. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to issue anti-stab vests to all Health Service Executive ambulance staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34917/13]
    • Programme for Government Implementation
      1091. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the work of the Programme Management Office in his Department; its functions, membership and the date of its establishment;...
    • Drug Prescribing
      1092. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the work of the National Task Force on Prescribing and Dispensing Practice in the first half of 2013; and if he will make a...
    • Health Services Reports
      1093. To ask the Minister for Health if a review of Integrated Service Areas has been completed [34934/13]
    • Health Services Provision
      1094. To ask the Minister for Health the number of Sectoral Plans for Shared Services and External Service Delivery developed by his Department and the Health Service Executive in 2012; the...
    • Care of the Elderly
      1095. To ask the Minister for Health when the Single Assessment Tool for older persons services will be rolled out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34936/13]
    • Departmental Strategies
      1096. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department and the Health Service Executive has published an eHealth Strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34937/13]
    • Health Services Reform
      1097. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department and the Health Service Executive has established an Information and ICT Strategy Unit with a Chief Information Officer; and if he will make...
    • Ambulance Service Staff
      1098. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm if the National Ambulance Service has a policy of not replacing a crew member calling in sick or going out sick on a day shift; the number...
    • Health Services Staff Recruitment
      1099. To ask the Minister for Health the number of consultant posts advertised under the new consultant contract; the number filled to date and if any of these posts were at a higher remuneration...
    • Health Services Staff Data
      1100. To ask the Minister for Health the number of whole time equivalent consultant posts in acute stroke medicine in each acute hospital; the number of posts which are vacant in each hospital;...
    • Health Services Staff Remuneration
      1101. To ask the Minister for Health the current payment structure for a consultation on acall by a consultant; the annual cost to the Exchequer; the corresponding payment structure and annual...
    • Health Services Expenditure
      1102. To ask the Minister for Health the total cost of purchasing remote presence solution robots for the telemedicine rapid access for stroke and neurological assessment programme; the number of...
    • Health Services Provision
      1103. To ask the Minister for Health the current thrombolysis rate for each acute hospital; the number of patients presenting with stroke in each acute unit in the last available 12 month period;...
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      1104. To ask the Minister for Health the progress to date in relocating long term psychiatric patients from acute units in Roscommon and Ballinasloe; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      1105. To ask the Minister for Health if he will instruct the Health Service Executive to carry out a disability impact assessment on public toilets leased by local authorities and if he will...
    • Departmental Legal Costs
      1106. To ask the Minister for Health if he has sought and received legal advice outside of the Office of the Attorney General; the number of times advice was sought per year from 2011, 2012 and...
    • Medical Card Applications
      1107. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 3 [35016/13]
    • Health Services Issues
      1108. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the safety of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5 [35018/13]
    • Nursing Home Services
      1109. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of care for public nursing homes for 2012 for each of the nursing homes in the country; the average weekly cost per patient in each of these nursing...
    • Non-Consultant Hospital Doctors Working Conditions
      1110. To ask the Minister for Health his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding the working conditions of non consultant hospital doctors; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1111. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) in County Cork is on the waiting list for treatment at the respiratory outpatient clinic in Cork University Hospital; the...
    • General Practitioner Services
      1112. To ask the Minister for Health the progress that has been made towards free general practitioner care for all; the reason for delays; and the way he plans to proceed with the efficient...
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      1113. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite an appointment for a hip operation for a person (details supplied) in County Cork [35128/13]
    • Tobacco Control Measures
      1115. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to hold a public consultation on the introduction of plain packaging for cigarettes; when this consultation will begin; if the drafting of the...
    • Hoax Calls
      1116. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hoax calls received by the Ambulance Service in each Health Service Executive region for 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012; the cost...
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      1117. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 250 and 251 of the 16th of May 2013 if final approval has been issued to the two remaining Health Service Executive...
    • Medical Card Applications
      1120. To ask the Minister for Health If he will expedite and award medical cards in respect of persons (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35171/13]
    • Mental Health Services Report
      1121. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide accounting of all programmes dedicated to the treatment for research on mental illness; the amount each programme receives annually; the...
    • Medical Card Applications
      1123. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Budget Submissions
      1124. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the Disability Federation of Ireland pre-budget submission for 2014. [35214/13]
    • Hospital Appointments Administration
      1125. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a referral to Cork University Hospital in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on...
    • National Cancer Strategy Implementation
      1126. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form the 55 recommendations of the strategy for cancer control here; and the action taken regarding each recommendation [35248/13]
    • Health Services Staff Issues
      1127. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the anamoly whereby nurses who will undergo training to become public health nurses next year will be guaranteed employment...
    • Primary Care Centres Provision
      1128. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update in respect of the promised primary care centres in Waterford city and Dungarvan, County Waterford; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1129. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a detailed yearly breakdown in tabular form of the average waiting times for outpatient services for the Galway Roscommon Hospital Group,...
    • Nursing Home Services
      1132. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider implementing a more transparent framework for negotiations under the Fair Deal which acknowledges the costs of providing high quality care...
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      1134. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the proposed self-assessment review forms for medical card holders [35374/13]
    • Generic Drugs Substitution
      1136. To ask the Minister for Health the amount that has been saved by using generic drugs in 2013; his plans to ensure further savings are made; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Graduate Nursing Scheme Application Numbers
      1137. To ask the Minister for Health the number of positions that have been filled under the nursing and midwifery graduate initiative to date in 2013; the way this level of recruitment affects...
    • Home Help Service Provision
      1138. To ask the Minister for Health the number of home help hours that are currently being delivered in Cork South West; if he will undertake a review of hours in areas (details supplied); and...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1139. To ask the Minister for Health the supports he plans to put in place for persons suffering from narcolepsy and other medical complications following vaccination with Pandemrix; if he has...
    • Health Services Issues
      1140. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a child (details supplied) in County Kildare has been informed that their support services will cease in August of this year; and if he will make a...
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      1142. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the meeting with Roscommon/Galway primary, community and continuing care services of 4 July regarding mental health services in the area...
    • General Medical Services Scheme Administration
      1143. To ask the Minister for Health if he will include new medical stoma appliances on the list of reimbursable items under the GMS scheme; when the list of reimbursable items was last revised...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      1144. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding qualification for disability in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 3. [35501/13]
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      1145. To ask the Minister for Health if he will disclose further details on his recent statements regarding the granting of medical cards to non-terminal cancer patients, whereby he stated that...
    • Medical Card Applications
      1146. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35512/13]
    • Home Help Service Provision
      1148. To ask the Minister for Health the number of home help hours allocated to the Health Service Executive Area 6 and Area 7; the corresponding allocation for home care packages; and if he will...
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      1150. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review as a matter of urgency recent changes to the rules for medical card eligibility, namely the exclusion of home improvement loan payments and...
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      1151. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Wexford will be given an urgent appointment at Waterford Regional Hospital due to a serious illness. [35545/13]
    • Hospital Procedures
      1152. To ask the Minister for Health if he will arrange to have dialysis provided by the Health Service Executive for an Irish-born person (details supplied) in County Wexford who is returning...
    • Exchequer Savings
      1153. To ask the Minister for Health the annual saving to the Exchequer, were all State agency board fees under the aegis of his Department reduced by 25%; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Official Travel
      1154. To ask the Minister for Health if he is confident that all overseas travel undertaken by staff in State agencies is necessary; if the agencies ensure there is a robust business case...
    • Departmental Agencies Staff Remuneration
      1155. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form the annual salary of all commercial State company chief executive officers under the remit of his Department; and if he...
    • Departmental Bodies
      1156. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in a tabular form a list of all non-commercial State sponsored bodies under the aegis of his Department; and if he will make a statement on...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Road Maintenance
      1157. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide details of regional and local road repair projects that have been announced since 1 January 2013, broken down by...
    • Public Transport Subsidies
      1158. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the cost of public transport to the State for the period from 2008 to 2012; and if he will provide details of same. [34853/13]
    • Cycling Facilities
      1159. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the revenue and costs incurred in respect of the Dublin Bike rental scheme since its inception. [34856/13]
    • Cross-Border Projects
      1160. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to advance to construction stage the Narrow Water Bridge project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34913/13]
    • Public Transport Subsidies
      1161. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the cost of public transport here in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012; and if he will provide details of same. [35288/13]
    • Cycling Facilities
      1162. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the revenue and costs incurred by the Dublin Bike rental scheme since its inception. [35291/13]
    • Tourism Industry Issues
      1163. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if an economic impact assessment has been carried out on the impact of cruise liners; if he will provide specific details of the number...
    • Tourism Projects Funding
      1165. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department has details on the economic benefits of convention centres and concert venues on local economies; and if he will make...
    • Sports Facilities Expenditure
      1167. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the funding provided by his Department for sport facilities and organisations in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Semi-State Bodies Dividends
      1168. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the possible Irish Aviation Authority bid for the 42% stake in the British air traffic agency; if he foresees the IAA being...
    • State Airports
      1169. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will ensure that Cork Airport retains its 24 hour continuous air traffic control coverage; if his attention has been drawn to the...
    • Aviation Issues
      1171. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the implications the European Commission’s proposed single European sky have for airports here, the Irish Aviation Authority and...
    • Driving Licence Issues
      1172. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if an Irish driving licence is recognised by the authorities in each Canadian province and territory; the status of negotiations for...
    • Traffic Calming Measures
      1173. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if traffic calming will be put in place at a location (details supplied) in County Kerry to slow through traffic; and if he will make a...
    • Cycling Facilities
      1174. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide details of sustainable transport projects announced since 1 January 2013, broken down by county; and if he will make...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1175. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide in tabular form the name, costs, date of commission, date or expected date of publication and name of the external...
    • EU Regulations
      1176. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is satisfied that adequate measures have been taken to ensure compliance with EU transparency regulations regarding Bus...
    • Cycling Facilities
      1177. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he or any of the agencies under the aegis of his Department have investigated the further development of canal banks or lands within...
    • Departmental Bodies Board Remuneration
      1178. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide, in tabular form, a breakdown of the fees and expenses paid to each member of each State board to include the chair...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1180. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide in tabular form a list of all professional fees, including but not limited to legal, consultancy, IT related,...
    • Departmental Staff Training
      1181. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide in tabular form a breakdown of all third level courses, training programmes and courses and accompanying cost for the...
    • Exchequer Savings
      1183. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide in tabular form the annual saving to the Exchequer of 1%, 5%, 7%, 10%, 12%, 15%, 17% and 20% reduction to travel and...
    • Programme for Government Implementation
      1186. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide in tabular form the commitments in the programme for Government under his remit; if the commitments have been met or...
    • Consultancy Contracts Issues
      1187. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will detail in tabular form, the names of all external public relations, communications consultants and organisations used by...
    • Sports Capital Programme Eligibility
      1188. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to detail the funding options available for North Kildare Cricket Club, which wishes to construct a bowling green in the near future for...
    • Road Traffic Offences
      1189. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to set out the minimum and maximum fine or reprimand for a driver caught driving without insurance. [34721/13]
    • Parking Provision
      1190. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 547 of 10th July 2012, if he will consider introducing a pilot scheme for partial footpath parking...
    • Tourism Industry Issues
      1191. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will request Tourism Ireland to have a major advertisement campaign on billboards in major ferry ports, airports, train stations...
    • Departmental Legal Costs
      1192. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has sought and received legal advice outside of the Office of the Attorney General; the number of times advice was sought per year...
    • Rural Transport Programme Issues
      1193. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to outline the number of meetings held with rural transport companies and the other consultations that were held prior to the...
    • Bus Éireann Staff
      1194. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will direct persons in Bus Éireann if they have suspicion of corruption in Bus Éireann to inform the Garda of such and...
    • Regional Road Network
      1195. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures he has taken to date in 2013 to protect the regional road network nationally; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Road Improvement Schemes
      1197. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to his announcement of the 5 June 2013 whereby an additional €50,000,000 for the repair and restoration of regional and...
    • Airport Security
      1199. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 562 of 9 July 2013 the number of notifications given to his Department when civilian aircraft on...
    • Dublin Bus Services
      1200. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when Dublin Bus is due to receive 80 additional buses; the extra routes that will be added when the buses come into service; and if he...
    • Bus Éireann Services
      1201. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will replace a Bus Éireann shelter in Rathmore, County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35187/13]
    • Tourism Industry Issues
      1202. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport following on from the decision to reduce the VAT rate from 13 % to 9% and the significance of this reduction to the tourism sector here...
    • Overseas Visitors Statistics
      1204. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total number of non-domestic visitors to Waterford for the years 2011 and 2012 and for the first half of 2013; and if he will make a...
    • Regional Road Network
      1205. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will clarify the instructions that he gave to local authorities in respect of making available funding for local funds from...
    • Air Services Provision
      1206. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to a proposal by the Irish Aviation Authority to end the existing guaranteed 24 hour air traffic control...
    • Cycling Facilities
      1207. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the National Transport Authority's work in the design of a cycle route in an area (details supplied) in...
    • Road Improvement Schemes
      1208. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the National Transport Authority’s work in the design of a footpath (details supplied), land...
    • Public Transport Initiatives
      1209. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the National Transport Authority's work in the design, tender and construction of an interchange scheme...
    • Air Accident Investigations
      1211. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the persons who are perceived to be interested parties by the air accident investigation unit of his Department when a draft final...
    • Road Traffic Offences
      1212. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will outline the different blood alcohol levels and concentrations for drinking under the influence of alcohol here that are...
    • Bus Éireann Services
      1213. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to detail his long-term plans for the public service obligation routes here; if he is considering alternative models of PSO contract...
    • Regional Road Network
      1214. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to set out the amount of funding in tabular format that has been allocated to or spent in County Kerry on local, regional and national...
    • Sports Capital Programme Expenditure
      1215. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to provide funding for another round of sports capital grants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35477/13]
    • Air Services Provision
      1216. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for details on the submission the Government will be making to the EU Commission review of state aid rules on the public financing of...
    • Bus Éireann Services
      1217. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will review and revise the recently announced changes to route 115, which includes the bus transport service from Mullingar to...
    • Taxi Licences Renewals
      1218. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will review a case regarding a taxi licence in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5. [35508/13]
    • Rail Services
      1219. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the position of caretaker at a train station (details supplied) in County Sligo will be filled; and if he will make a statement on...
  • Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
    • Departmental Reports
      450. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide in tabular form the name, costs, date of commission, date or expected date of publication and name of the external...

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