Written answers
Thursday, 5 December 2013
- Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
- Irish Water Staff
1. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the total number of staff currently in employment with Irish Water; the total number anticipated when it reaches full...
- National Pensions Reserve Fund Investments
8. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if any of the borrowings Irish Water availed of from the National Pensions Reserve Fund were used to service contracts for...
- Climate Change Negotiations
9. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update on the climate change talks recently concluded in Poland; and if he will make a statement on...
- Social and Affordable Housing Provision
10. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his Department's work in addressing the ongoing social housing crisis; and if a more advanced level of a social housing...
- Wind Energy Guidelines
12. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to revise the planning regulations covering wind turbines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51807/13]
- Water and Sewerage Schemes Status
13. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update on the progress with wastewater treatment projects in Youghal and Cobh in County Cork; and if...
- Tenant Purchase Scheme Administration
14. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if a new tenant purchase scheme is being considered for local authority housing other than apartments; if so, if he will...
- Hydraulic Fracturing Policy
16. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is concerned that after a period of sustained lobbying by pro-fracking industry that the EU Parliament refused to...
- Rural Recreation Policy
18. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to ensure the potential of rural recreation is achieved, as a creator of wealth and jobs in rural Ireland; and if...
- Septic Tank Grants
19. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a county breakdown of the number of septic tank improvement grants distributed to date; and if he will...
- Social and Affordable Housing Provision (1 comment)
20. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 6 of 23 October 2013, if he will provide details of the 5000 new social housing units...
- Proposed Legislation
21. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to revise the planning legislation on the taking in charge of housing developments; and if he will make a...
- Local and Community Development Programme Project Funding
22. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the special supports he has put in place to assist urban disadvantaged communities overcome the challenges they face; and...
- Voluntary Housing Sector
23. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the capacity of tier 3 housing associations has been enhanced under his tenure; his plans for the sector; the quantity of...
- Housing Assistance Payments Implementation
24. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the pilot scheme for the housing assistance payment has commenced; if so in which areas; if not, the timeline for the...
- Local Authority Housing Provision
26. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the extent to which contact has been made with the local authorities in the eastern region with a view to addressing as a...
- Voluntary Housing Sector
27. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of his Department’s expenditure allocated to approved housing bodies through funding to local...
- Local Government Fund
28. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 426 of 19 November 2013, with regard to payment of 2014 local property tax receipts...
- Philanthropy Initiatives
30. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his policy on philanthropy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50122/13]
- Local and Community Development Programme Planning
33. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans for Dublin north inner city under the local government Bill due to the fact that there is no partnership in the...
- Water Services Provision
34. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will set out the priorities in respect of meeting current and future requirements of domestic drinking water with...
- Wind Energy Guidelines
35. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has recommended or otherwise pursued with wind industry representatives on the matter of an index linked bond...
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Syrian Conflict
38. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he supports the Geneva II conference, to be held in January 2014, which aims to create a settlement to the Syrian...
- Humanitarian Aid
39. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if any Irish aid supplies are being sent to Kurdish regions in Syria; and if his attention has been drawn to aid supplies...
- Departmental Reports
40. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department's Annual Report for 2012 has been published yet. [52273/13]
- Human Rights Issues
41. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on recent statements by UN Human Co-ordinator, Mr. James W. Rawley, regarding the humanitarian crisis in Gaza;...
- Syrian Conflict
42. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he proposes to raise at the next EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting the ongoing crisis in Syria; and if he will make a...
- Humanitarian Aid
45. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the total assistance provided by Irish Aid to date to assist the relief efforts following Typhoon Haiyan; if there are...
- Foreign Conflicts
47. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will raise the escalating crisis in the Central African Republic at the next meeting of the Foreign Affairs Council...
- Department of Finance
- Tax Credits
50. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding the one-parent family tax credit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52460/13]
- Property Taxation Administration
51. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason householders who chose to pay their local property tax by credit card or debit tax must make their 2014 LPT payments by 27 November 2013, a full 31...
- NAMA Expenditure
52. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 194 of 26 November 2013, if the figures he provided included payments to the named firms by companies to which the...
- State Banking Sector
53. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of contracts to manage mortgage and other loan books that have been awarded to a company (details supplied) by State-owned banks since 2009. [52260/13]
- Consultancy Contracts Data
54. To ask the Minister for Finance the private firms that have provided advice-consultancy services gratis for his Department in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013, or any years where...
- EU-IMF Programme of Support
55. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has received a questionnaire from the European Parliament's economic and monetary affairs committee regarding the role of the troika in Ireland; when he...
- Property Taxation Collection
57. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding a deduction for local property tax in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Carbon Tax Implementation
58. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider holding a full evaluation of the benefits and drawbacks of implementing the next phase of the carbon tax in 2014; if he will consider a...
- Banking Sector Issues
59. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is concerned regarding recent reports on Ulster Bank; if he will have an investigation conducted regarding a matter (details supplied); and if he will...
- Central Bank of Ireland Staff
60. To ask the Minister for Finance if exit interviews are conducted in view of the recent departure of some senior management from the Central Bank; the measures he is taking to address this...
- Property Taxation Administration
61. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 106 of 12 November 2013, if he intends to make property tax paid in respect of a rented property deductible for income...
- IBRC Loans
62. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has approved the continuation of an existing contract or the signing of a new contract with the Russian asset recovery company A1 with regard to the...
- Mortgage Interest Relief Application
63. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has considered introducing mortgage interest relief temporarily for those on higher rate mortgages for example those on non-tracker mortgages paying...
- Mortgage Interest Rates
64. To ask the Minister for Finance if it his intention to advise Irish banks against any increase in interest rates in view of continuing reductions by the European Central Bank. [52340/13]
- Property Taxation Administration
65. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will arrange for the Revenue Commissioners records to be amended in relation local property tax liability for 2013 in respect of persons (details...
- NAMA Social Housing Provision
66. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of properties the National Asset Management Agency has offered to homeless charities; if he will set out the status of these properties and the...
- Banking Sector Remuneration
67. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to reduce the top-ups paid to senior bank executives who have breached Government pay policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52366/13]
- Credit Unions Regulation
68. To ask the Minister for Finance his views that any restrictions applied to credit unions by the Central Bank to lend will lead directly to the increase in moneylenders; and if he will make a...
- National Debt
69. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide in tabular form his Department's prediction for the national debt figures, interest payments, economic growth figures and unemployment rates...
- Property Taxation Administration
70. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a response to the issues raised in correspondence (details supplied) regarding the local property tax. [52410/13]
- Mortgage Interest Relief Eligibility
73. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Revenue Commissioners has changed the basis on which it pays mortgage interest relief from one paid on interest payable by the customer to one based on...
- NAMA Operations
74. To ask the Minister for Finance if he expects the National Asset Management Agency to voluntarily agree with the code of conduct on mortgage arrears in the event that they take on the...
- Cycle to Work Scheme Numbers
75. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will set out in tabular form the number of participants who received tax relief and the annual cost under the cycle to work scheme in each year from 2007...
- IBRC Mortgage Loan Book
76. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of Irish Bank Resolution Corporation residential mortgages in arrears of less than 90 days, of 90 to 180 days, of 180 to 360 days, or 360 to 720...
- Banks Recapitalisation
77. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will set out in tabular form the capital investments made by the State to Bank of Ireland in each year since 2009; the repayments of capital made to date...
- NAMA Portfolio
78. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will set out on a county basis the number of homes identified by the National Asset Management Agency as suitable for social housing; and the number of...
- Banks Recapitalisation
79. To ask the Minister for Finance the current value assigned to the State's investment in Bank of Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52426/13]
- Economic Policy
82. To ask the Minister for Finance the person coordinating the publication of the State's forthcoming economic update; if the scope of the report has changed substantially from what was...
- IBRC Mortgage Loan Book
83. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 53 of 6 November 2013, the position regarding his statement that the continued applicability of the Central Bank code of...
- Department of Education and Skills
- Apprenticeship Programmes
84. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an apprenticeship in mechanical engineering can be made available in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will...
- Site Acquisitions
85. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will confirm that a new site has been identified for purchase for a school (details supplied) in Dublin 24; the approximate timescale...
- Student Grant Scheme Applications
86. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to a student grant application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; the reasons for the...
- Home Tuition Scheme Administration
87. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills with reference to departmental circular 0006/2013 regarding the home tuition scheme, the reason he has changed the criteria for early intervention...
- Departmental Reports
88. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department's annual report for 2012 has been published yet. [52270/13]
- School Services Staff
89. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to a situation at a school (details supplied) in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- School Transport Provision
90. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 106 of 26 November 2013, if he will explicitly detail the reason his Department is not undertaking its own...
- Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
91. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason invalidity pension payments are not disregarded as income like disability allowance payments are, when calculating means for Student...
- Departmental Correspondence
92. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will respond to correspondence (details supplied). [52313/13]
- Student Grant Scheme Applications
93. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will expedite a student grant application in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52322/13]
- Schools Building Projects Status
94. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a new school project (details supplied) in County Kildare in the Department's capital programme; the way the project is...
- School Enrolments
95. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will confirm that the feeder area for Gaelscoil Shliabh Rua will remain as Ballinteer-Stepaside in the event of Gaelscoil Shliabh Rua...
- Student Grant Scheme Applications
96. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a higher education grant will be approved in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the...
- School Placement
97. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the other procedure that can be followed in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare who has so far failed to obtain a school...
- Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
99. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason special rate of higher education grant is not payable in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make...
- Student Grant Scheme Appeals
100. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; if the appropriate application form will be sent...
- Site Acquisitions
101. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on negotiations to secure a site for the new post-primary school in Ashbourne, County Meath. [52442/13]
- Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (1 comment)
- Consultancy Contracts Data
102. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the private firms that have provided advice-consultancy services gratis for his Department in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and to date in...
- Departmental Reports
103. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department's annual report for 2012 has been published yet. [52277/13]
- Public Sector Staff Sick Leave
104. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the transition arrangements for the new public sector sick leave scheme to be implemented from 1 January 2014; and if he will make a...
- State Bodies Mergers
106. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update regarding the planned merger of Bord na Móna and Coillte; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Ministerial Advisers Remuneration
107. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to reduce the top-ups paid to Government advisers who have breached Government pay policy; and if he will make a statement on...
- Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
- Work Permit Applications
108. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when a decision will be made on a work permit in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
- Departmental Reports
109. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if his Department's annual report for 2012 has been published yet. [52275/13]
- Industrial Development
110. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his plans for job growth in County Wicklow; the number of Industrial Development Agency visits to the county in 2011, 2012 and to date...
- Job Protection
111. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the extent to which further options continue to be examined to resolve the issues at a company (details supplied) with particular...
- Architectural Qualifications
112. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding the registration of architects; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Department of Social Protection
- Departmental Reports
116. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her Department's annual report for 2012 has been published yet. [52278/13]
- Rent Supplement Scheme Administration
118. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the action a person who cannot rent a house for the maximum rate allowed can take to secure a rented home. [52304/13]
- Farm Assist Scheme Data
119. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of farm assist during each month since January 2012 to date in 2013; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Medical Aids and Appliances Applications
120. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath has had his medical appliance benefit claim refused on the basis he does not have the...
- Social Welfare Benefits
121. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 83 of 28 November 2013, the way a person who is on a back to work self-employment scheme can become eligible...
- Rent Supplement Scheme Applications
122. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when rent support will issue in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare who was in receipt of payment prior to moving to new...
- Jobseeker's Allowance Payments
123. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if and when any arrears of jobseeker's allowance will be restored in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15; and if she will make a...
- Rent Supplement Scheme Payments
124. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the appropriate level of rent support in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 22; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52385/13]
- Mortgage Interest Supplement Applications
125. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when mortgage interest support will be restored in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on...
- Jobseeker's Allowance Eligibility
126. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the correct jobseeker's allowance payable in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Jobseeker's Allowance Payments
127. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the correct jobseeker's allowance payable in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Guardian's Payment Applications
128. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an application for guardianship payment in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a...
- Guardian's Payment Appeals
129. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 128 of 21 November 2013, if, when the original decision was made by the deciding officer, it was acknowledged...
- Pensions Reform
131. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding the abolition of the transition pension; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
- Road Projects
132. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the details of discussions between his Department officials in the office of the National Parks and Wildlife Service and Galway...
- Special Areas of Conservation Designation
133. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason for the extraordinary delay in finalising the threat response plan in respect of the hen harrier population in...
- Departmental Reports
134. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if his Department's annual report for 2012 has been published yet. [52266/13]
- Departmental Properties
135. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if Nure Bog in County Westmeath or any portion thereof has been purchased by the National Parks and Wildlife Service from a company...
- Ionad Stórála
136. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an bhfuil iarratas déanta ag Cumann Tarrthála Sléibhe na Gaillimhe chuig Údarás na Gaeltachta ar ionad...
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Energy Conservation
137. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the steps being taken by way of energy conservation measures in homes and businesses throughout the country with...
- National Parks and Wildlife Service Investigations
138. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of reports carried out by National Parks and Wildlife Service into the impact on wildlife of the Corrib gas...
- Hydraulic Fracturing Policy
139. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources in view of the recently published national ground water vulnerability map which indicates that some of Leitrim's ground...
- Departmental Reports
140. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if his Department's annual report for 2012 has been published yet. [52268/13]
- Consultancy Contracts Expenditure
141. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the amount paid to date by his Department on consultancy services in relation to the proposed 440 kVA electricity lines...
- Electricity Transmission Network
142. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if the Government will, in the interest of environmental best practice and planning, consider doing an analysis of the...
- Broadband Services Provision
143. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position regarding broadband in an area (details supplied). [52358/13]
- Bord Gáis Privatisation
144. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position regarding the sale of Bord Gáis; the number of bids received; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Departmental Expenditure
146. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will outline the costs incurred by his Department, New ERA and Bord Gáis Éireann in preparing Bord...
- Electricity Transmission Network
147. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will state the arrangements in place when wind speeds are low, reducing the power contributed by wind turbines to...
- Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
- Land Issues
148. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the tax penalities for developers hoarding up land banks around Dublin; his plans to introduce a new policy to ensure land...
- Climate Change Negotiations
149. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding the climate change talks that recently concluded in Poland; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Rental Accommodation Standards
150. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views regarding Threshold's latest 2012 Annual report which states that families are being forced to live in...
- Waste Management Issues
151. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the additional green charges being proposed by him; and if his attention has been drawn to the fact that indirect taxes...
- Housing Adaptation Grants Funding
152. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will request local authorities in County Cork to provide in tabular form the amount they each spent on housing...
- Local Authority Staff Recruitment
153. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if a competition will be held to appoint a new county manager for Fingal County Council; the manner in which this...
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions
154. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the audits or examinations that have taken place to determine the impact the implementation of carbon tax has had on...
- Foreshore Licences Applications
155. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Sligo County Council intends to carry out dredging at the channel to...
- Local Elections Expenditure
156. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the spending limits in place for candidates in the 2009 local elections; the rebate paid to candidates and the conditions...
- Local Authority Housing Provision
158. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the measures he is taking to increase the supply of housing in Dublin and to reduce house prices; and if he will make a...
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions
159. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the extent if any of fines or penalties imposed on this country to date arising from failure to meet carbon emission...
- Waste Management Regulations
160. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the Environmental Protection Agency propose to ban the burning of hedge...
- Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists
166. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the extent to which contact has been made with the various local authorities with a view to identification of the number...
- Housing Adaptation Grants Expenditure
167. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the extent to which the housing adaptation grant requirements in respect of older person's or persons with specific health...
- Waste Disposal
168. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the fixed price plan to which former waiver customers of a waste management company (details supplied) have recently...
- Leader Programmes Applications
169. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding funding in respect of a project (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement...
- Department of Justice and Equality
- Garda Operations
170. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department has requested the continuation of Operation Freeflow this year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52448/13]
- Charities Regulation
171. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his views on appointing an independent regulator for charities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52458/13]
- Departmental Staff Sick Leave
173. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will examine the case of a person (details supplied) employed in his Department who was recently on sick leave and who is now owed both...
- Judicial Council Legislation
174. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will bring forward plans to establish an office of a judicial council, in view of concerns on the appointment of judges and the lack of...
- Consultancy Contracts Data
175. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the private firms that have provided advice-consultancy services gratis for his Department in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013, or any...
- Departmental Reports
176. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department's annual report for 2012 has been published yet. [52276/13]
- Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Investigations
177. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason the CT68 forms used by An Garda Síochána are not made available to the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, in the...
- Courts Service
178. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of personal injury cases decided by the High Court in the years 2012 and to date in 2013 which relate to actions for personal injury...
- Personal Insolvency Act
180. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his views on the number of insolvency cases that have been taken under the new legislation; the average cost of court proceedings to date; the...
- Criminal Assets Bureau
181. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to update the laws that regulate the Criminal Assets Bureau in view of the sophistication of these gangs; and if he will make a...
- Proposed Legislation
182. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality in view of the recent report of the Law Reform Commission in relation to the issue of online harassment and its opinion regarding the...
- Crime Investigation
183. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to the recent spate of burglaries in Donaghmede, Dublin 13; the discussions he has had with Garda authorities on...
- Succession Act
184. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will specify the legal basis on which the details of persons' wills are published; if he has any plans to review this issue; and if he will...
- Naturalisation Applications
185. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current residency status-eligibility to apply for naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Cavan; and if he will...
- Passport Applications
186. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the procedure to be followed by a person (details supplied) in Dublin 22 who is having difficulty obtaining a homeland passport; and if he will...
- Immigration Status
187. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the outstanding procedures to be followed by a person (details supplied) in County Kildare in the matter of family reunification; and if he will...
- Deportation Orders Issues
188. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the procedures to be followed to regularise residency-prepare for eligibility for naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied) in...
- Naturalisation Applications
189. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current residency status and eligibility to apply for naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; the...
- Immigration Status
190. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the residency status in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 22; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52378/13]
- Residency Permits
191. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the residency status and eligibility for update in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Meath; and if he will make a statement on...
- Leave to Remain
193. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when the appropriate authorisation will issue to facilitate travel to the UK to obtain passport documentation in the case of a person (details...
- Adoption Legislation
194. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which further examinations can be undertaken in the case of their wish to adopt a family relative in the case of a person (details...
- Property Services Regulatory Authority Staff
195. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide information on resources allocated to the Property Services Regulatory Authority; the timeline in which a person should expect...
- Department of Defence
- Departmental Reports
196. To ask the Minister for Defence if his Department's Annual Report for 2012 has been published yet. [52269/13]
- Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
- Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
197. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a 2013 agri-environment option scheme payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a...
- Departmental Reports
199. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department's annual report for 2012 has been published yet. [52265/13]
- Coillte Teoranta Lands
200. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will follow the example of the Northern Ireland Minister for Agriculture and Rural Development by giving an undertaking that no...
- Horticulture Sector Issues
201. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the discussion document prepared by Doctor Charlie Spillane, formerly of UCC, entitled Plants for...
- Special Areas of Conservation Designation
202. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will clarify the regulations from the EU and or from his Department regarding the fencing of non-commonage land in special...
- Fish Quotas
205. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider allowing an increase in the quota allocated to smaller vessels less than 20 m in the sentinel Celtic Sea herring...
- Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
206. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding disadvantaged areas money in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a...
- Department of Children and Youth Affairs
- Early Child Care Education Issues
207. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will address the issues raised in correspondence (details supplied) regarding the early childhood care and education scheme; if she...
- Adoption Records Provision
208. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 564 and 569 of 26 November 2013, in which she outlined that she would not have an audit of all...
- Youth Cafes Expenditure
209. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when she expects a final decision to be made by Pobal on the awarding of the €1 million fund available from her Department for the...
- Departmental Reports
210. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her Department's annual report for 2012 has been published yet. [52267/13]
- Child Poverty
211. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when a decision will issue on an application under the area-based response to Child Poverty Programme 2013-2016 (details supplied); and if...
- Children in Care
212. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15 has been informed by the authorities of the reason their children have been placed in care; and...
- Department of Health
- Medical Card Data
213. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 524 of 8 October 2013, 137, 138, 133 and 168 of 16 October 2013, and 193 and 194 of 17 October 2013, when replies will...
- Substance Misuse
214. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that as many pubs are only surviving because they sell food and close at 2.30 p.m. this will cost jobs. [52245/13]
- Health Services Expenditure
215. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of money that was cut from C.R.C. in Clontarf Dublin 3 over the past three years [52248/13]
- Health Services Issues
216. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the safety concerns of staff working at Connolly Hospital, Blanchardstown on exiting and entering the hospital during the...
- Departmental Reports
217. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department's annual report for 2012 has been published yet [52274/13]
- Health Services Staff Remuneration
218. To ask the Minister for Health if any person in either Waterford Regional Hospital or any other Health Service Executive operated institution within Waterford city and county has been in...
- Hospital Charges
219. To ask the Minister for Health regarding Waterford Regional Hospital car parking facilities, the amount annually that has been collected over the past five years - 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011...
- Hospitals Funding
220. To ask the Minister for Health if he or his Department have agreed any capital investment in the three Dublin children's hospitals in the near future; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Accident and Emergency Departments Waiting Times
222. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting on trolleys in Galway University Hospital each day during the past 30 days; the way this compares to the same 30 days in 2010;...
- Medical Card Delays
223. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite a medical card application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52321/13]
- Hospital Charges
224. To ask the Minister for Health the annual rents that have been paid to Beaumont Hospital for each of the past five years by the third party car park operators; and if he will make a...
- Medical Card Data
225. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of money he expects the Health Service Executive and his Department to achieve in savings from medical card probity for 2014; if that number has...
- Departmental Agencies Staff Remuneration
226. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to ask the board of the Central Remedial Clinic to resign in view of the top-ups scandal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52327/13]
- Health Services Staff Remuneration
227. To ask the Minister for Health the actions his Department or the Health Service Executive are taking in view of the top-up culture for senior managers in the health service; and if he will...
- Estimates Process
228. To ask the Minister for Health the amount he expects the budget deficit to be for his Department and for the Health Service Executive for 2013; his views on whether a Supplementary Estimate...
- Departmental Staff Data
229. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff seconded from the Department of the Taoiseach and other Departments to his Department and the Health Service Executive; their roles and...
- Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage
230. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine the long-term illness scheme, with a view to including the condition of Nephrotic syndrome (details supplied); and if he will make a...
- Cancer Screening Programmes
231. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 193 of 27 November 2013, the course of action open to CervicalCheck patients who are asked for their insurance details by...
- HSE Staff Remuneration
233. To ask the Minister for Health the salaries, bonuses and top-ups for pension schemes paid to senior executives of the Health Service Executive since its foundation; and if he will make a...
- Medical Card Applications
234. To ask the Minister for Health if an application for a medical card will be reviewed in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Nursing Home Services
235. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the current waiting list for admission under the fair deal nursing home scheme and the current average waiting time; if he will confirm that...
- Services for People with Disabilities
236. To ask the Minister for Health if specific provision will be made in the 2014 disability services programme to assist deaf persons with an intellectual disability in residential and...
- Departmental Staff Data
237. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE and staff employed within his Department with a direct role in communications and-or public relations for either internal or external...
- Hospital Staff Issues
239. To ask the Minister for Health the reason nurses in accident and emergency who have been there for two years or more are being made to sign new contracts every two weeks; and if he will make...
- Departmental Agencies Staff Remuneration
241. To ask the Minister for Health when the Health Service Executive was first informed of the payment of top-ups at the Central Remedial Clinic; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Medical Card Applications
242. 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. [52452/13]
- Hospital Accommodation Provision
244. To ask the Minister for Health when the remaining beds in Kenmare Community Hospital will be opened; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52455/13]
- Nursing Homes Support Scheme Applications
245. To ask the Minister for Health his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding the fair deal scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52461/13]
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- Industrial Relations Issues
246. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will explain the status of the personal letter of guarantee received from the Government in 1990 by TEAM Aer Lingus workers, which...
- Public Service Obligation Services
247. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the National Transport Agency will consider a PSO bus route between Kinsale and Bandon to facilitate the increasing demand for further...
- Sports Capital Programme Applications
249. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 185 of 28 November 2013, given that a club (details supplied) in County Kerry was considered for...
- Departmental Reports
250. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department's annual report for 2012 has been published yet. [52279/13]
- Cycling Facilities Funding
251. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide the necessary funding to Kerry County Council and South Kerry Development Partnership to develop the greenway between...
- Public Transport Issues
252. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way his Department plans to improve the reliability and frequency of Dublin Bus and Bus Éireann services; the current statistics...
- Road Improvement Schemes
253. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the surfacing of the road through Sneem village in County Kerry; the proposed funding that will be made available...
