Results 101-120 of 28,162 for speaker:Catherine Murphy

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (29 Jun 2005)

Catherine Murphy: Question 116: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if places in public nursing homes have been assigned for short stay care to relieve pressure on acute hospital beds; if so, their number and location. [23172/05]

Written Answers — Nursing Home Subventions: Nursing Home Subventions (29 Jun 2005)

Catherine Murphy: Question 117: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason enhanced subvention for nursing home care is available in some parts of the country and not in others; and the way in which it is intended to remedy this. [23173/05]

Written Answers — Flood Relief: Flood Relief (29 Jun 2005)

Catherine Murphy: Question 189: To ask the Minister for Finance the proposals submitted for consideration and funding by the OPW related to flooding incidents in Kildare. [23157/05]

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (29 Jun 2005)

Catherine Murphy: Question 190: To ask the Minister for Finance the average waiting time for issuing by the Revenue Commissioners of tax free allowance and tax rebates. [23159/05]

Written Answers — Road Network: Road Network (29 Jun 2005)

Catherine Murphy: Question 281: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has considered reducing to zero the tolls on the West Link toll bridge; and if so, the outcome of such consideration and the way in which it was reached. [23192/05]

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (29 Jun 2005)

Catherine Murphy: Question 448: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of special needs assistants assigned to schools (details supplied) in County Kildare; the number of these that will have their contracts renewed prior to the ending of the current school year; if she intends to put a more formal structure in place for SNAs given that many are investing their own funds in training and have...

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (29 Jun 2005)

Catherine Murphy: Question 449: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the policy in her Department for progression to second level schools for children with autism; the provision her Department has made now that some are in their final year of primary education and require places in September of this year. [23268/05]

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (29 Jun 2005)

Catherine Murphy: Question 450: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a second level school place rather than a place of care will be provided this September for a person (details supplied) in County Kildare and if so where. [23269/05]

Written Answers — School Places: School Places (29 Jun 2005)

Catherine Murphy: Question 451: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of second level school places her Department will have in place in the following areas (details supplied) for September 2004 and September 2005 and the number of pupils expected to seek places. [23270/05]

Written Answers — School Places: School Places (29 Jun 2005)

Catherine Murphy: Question 452: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the way in which she intends to provide for pupils seeking places in 2005 in second level schools who were formally in the catchment area for schools in Naas, Clane, Celbridge and Maynooth and now find that the catchment area is restricted because of pressure of population growth (details supplied). [23271/05]

Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (29 Jun 2005)

Catherine Murphy: Question 478: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if An Bord Pleanála grants planning permission in a floodplain, the sanctions that apply and to whom. [23158/05]

Written Answers — Disabled Person's Grant Scheme: Disabled Person's Grant Scheme (29 Jun 2005)

Catherine Murphy: Question 485: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amount returned to his Department from local authorities in 2004 under the disabled person's grant scheme. [23147/05]

Written Answers — Disabled Person's Grant Scheme: Disabled Person's Grant Scheme (29 Jun 2005)

Catherine Murphy: Question 486: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he plans to introduce reforms in the disabled person's grants system; and if those reforms will remove the requirement of local authorities to match the funding provided by the Department. [23148/05]

Written Answers — Local Authority Staff: Local Authority Staff (29 Jun 2005)

Catherine Murphy: Question 487: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he plans to increase the powers available to former town commissioners; if so, the criteria he intends using; the timeframe he is working to; and the power he envisages for towns currently seeking town council status. [23149/05]

Written Answers — Radon Gas Levels: Radon Gas Levels (29 Jun 2005)

Catherine Murphy: Question 488: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the plans his Department has to extend the monitoring of radon gas in domestic dwellings. [23151/05]

Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (29 Jun 2005)

Catherine Murphy: Question 489: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if there are plans to put in place formal arrangements regarding notification of relevant local authorities by the Irish Aviation Authority of substantial changes, including the re-designation of the code assigned to the Airport and Aerodrome which have implications for land use planning; and if he will make...

Social Welfare Benefits. (30 Jun 2005)

Catherine Murphy: Question 3: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the way in which the poverty trap inherent in the payment of rent assistance will be addressed when the rental accommodation scheme is fully rolled out later in 2005; if it was considered in the context of the national anti-poverty strategy; if so, the conclusions which were drawn; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Social Welfare Benefits. (30 Jun 2005)

Catherine Murphy: My experience of rent supplement is that it deters people from going to work. I do not have a problem with the concept of local authorities taking significant responsibility for what is a housing issue. However, I want to ask some questions regarding problems with the scheme or perhaps to elicit more information about it. The public service embargo will have a bearing on the ability of local...

Social Welfare Benefits. (30 Jun 2005)

Catherine Murphy: Local authorities already have problems delivering the housing programme. In the absence of extra staff, I believe this simply will not happen. No additional resources were provided in the budget and the embargo has not been lifted so I am seriously concerned that these funds will be returned without anyone being housed by this scheme.

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (30 Jun 2005)

Catherine Murphy: Question 71: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the arrangements being put in place to guarantee funding to local authorities which secure long leases on rental properties beyond the three-year transition programme of the RAS scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22934/05]