Written answers
Tuesday, 9 November 2010
- Department of Education and Science
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 61: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills with regard to the forthcoming budget, the expected proportion of reductions in expenditure between pay and non-pay...
- Ministerial Travel
Question 62: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on her recent visit to the United States of America; the locations she visited, with whom...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 63: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the amount of the €578 million allocated in the 2010 schools capital budget that has been spent at 31 October 2010; if...
- Post-Primary Education
Question 64: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the steps she will take to ensure greater participation of males in senior cycle in post-primary schools; and if she will...
- Programme for Government
Question 65: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she is committed to the delivery of the renewed programme for Government commitments on education for 2011; and if she...
- Departmental Reports
Question 66: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the number of proposals contained in the Cromien Report from 2000 that are currently under consideration for...
- Departmental Funding
Question 67: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the reason approximately only €8.4 million out of €32 million has been drawn down from the labour market activation...
- Vocational Education Committees
Question 68: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the timeline for the restructuring of the vocational education committee sector; the staffing changes that will be...
- School Staffing
Question 69: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she will rule out any further reductions in the number of special needs assistants posts in budget 2011; and if she...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 70: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if the design team to initiate the architectural planning of the extension to a college (details supplied) in County Cork...
- Pension Provisions
Question 71: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the deficit in the FÁS pension fund; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36396/10]
- School Staffing
Question 72: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the number of special needs assistants withdrawn from both primary and post-primary schools since the commencement of the...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 73: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills her plans to reorganise the school planning and building unit in Tullamore, County Offaly to enable it to mange the...
- On-line Text Books
Question 74: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she will support the provision of online text books for primary and post-primary schools; and if she will make a...
- Pupil-Teacher Ratio
Question 75: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the steps she will take to address the issue of overcrowding in classrooms resulting in high pupil-teacher ratio; the...
- Third Level Drop-out Rates
Question 76: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills her views on the recently published Higher Education Authority report which indicates that college drop out rates are...
- Departmental Programmes
Question 77: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills her views on whether the 2,000 places sanctioned under the work placement programme are sufficient in view of the fact...
- Departmental Reports
Question 78: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the reasons she has not yet published the Hunt report, which was effectively completed by August this year; when she will...
- Pupil-Teacher Ratio
Question 79: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the number of additional teachers she expects to provide in the primary school sector taking into account the continuing...
- Site Acquisitions
Question 80: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 105 of 29 September 2010, the further progress, if any, in the provision of...
- Graduate Unemployment
Question 81: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the policy she will pursue to ensure that very high graduate unemployment, which is indicated by the 30% of graduates from...
- Student Registration Fee
Question 82: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she will rule out any increase in the student registration fee in budget 2011; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Public Sector Pay
Question 83: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she has submitted proposals to the Croke Park Public Service Agreement Implementation Body chaired by Mr. P.J....
- Departmental Bodies
Question 84: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills her plans for the reorganisation of FÁS; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41086/10]
- Departmental Programmes
Question 86: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide the details of the TGB Learning report on the job fit programme due at the end of October; and if she...
- School Staffing
Question 87: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the number of unqualified and untrained personnel at present employed in primary schools and second level schools; if she...
- Education Reform
Question 88: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she has undertaken any initiative to promote the reforms in education which have been sought by the leaders of some of...
- Community Employment Schemes
Question 89: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if any community employment scheme participants in receipt of either disability or one parent payments have requested and...
- Employment Support Services
Question 92: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the steps she is taking to assist the 88,663 persons under 25 years who are on the live register to find employment or to...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 93: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she has examined fully the major role of the educational system in the future of the economy with particular reference...
- Third Level Access
Question 94: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the progress since 2007 in making universities here accessible to persons from disadvantaged areas and lower socio...
- Aitheantas Scoile
Question 95: To ask the Tánaiste agus Aire Oideachais agus Scileanna sa chomhthéacs gur osclaíodh bunscoileanna nua san Uaimh, Co. na Mí, sa Nás, Co. Chill Dara, agus i mBaile Brigín, Co....
- Higher Education Grants
Question 97: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the level of delay in the processing of student grants; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41265/10]
- School Placement
Question 98: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 218 of 29 September 2010 the further progress made by her Department regarding the...
- School Staffing
Question 99: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the discussions she has had with the representatives of the privately run Protestant secondary schools, especially in the...
- Department of An Taoiseach
- Tourism Statistics
Question 100: To ask the Taoiseach if she has had discussions with the Central Statistics Office and the Department of Finance with a view to reaching a staffing arrangements which will allow a...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 101: To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an itemised list of payments made to external solicitors and to external barristers whose services were procured directly by the Department...
- Departmental Reports
Question 102: To ask the Taoiseach the number of reports commissioned by his Department for the years 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and to date in 2010; the average cost spent on...
- Telecommunications Services
Question 103: To ask the Taoiseach if his Department operates any number utilising the Lo-Call designation, 1890; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that use of this number can impose...
- Daylight Savings Time
Question 104: To ask the Taoiseach the cost in man hours, of changing clocks from summer time to winter time and vice versa in public buildings; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Department of Education and Science
- FÁS Training Programmes
Question 105: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the reason single participants on FÁS schemes are being deducted 5.5% from their weekly income when the original...
- European Globalisation Fund
Question 106: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) in County Limerick will qualify for funding under the European Globalisation Fund. [41530/10]
- Departmental Bodies
Question 107: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the restructuring of FÁS; when the board of FÁS is expected to present a new blueprint for the...
- School Curriculum
Question 108: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills her views on the proposal from an organisation to make transition year a community service year; and if she will make a...
- Residential Institutions Redress Board
Question 109: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No 104 of 27 October 2010, the date and publications in the UK in which the Residential...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 110: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the reason for her recent notification that a facility (details supplied) is to be closed by her Department; if she has...
- Site Acquisitions
Question 111: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the progress that has been made in acquiring a site for permanent buildings for a school (details supplied) in Dublin 15;...
- No Question Heading
Question 112: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 53 of 14 October 2010, and given that agreement has been reached with Naas Town...
- Telecommunications Services
Question 113: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if schools and third level institutions can avail of the e-Government tariff for telephone bills; and if she will make a...
- Teacher-Pupil Ratio
Question 114: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills when the census of primary school class sizes for 2010 will be available; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Schools Building Projects
Question 115: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills when she will facilitate a meeting between the school building section in Tullamore and the board and principal of a...
- FÁS Training Programmes
Question 116: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons in permanent employment with FÁS; the number directly employed in the position of training...
- School Staffing
Question 119: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the number of special needs assistants employed in primary, special and post primary schools in Dublin city and county in...
- Telecommunications Services
Question 120: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if her Department operates any number utilising the lo-call designation, 1890; if her attention has been drawn to the...
- Schools Amalgamation
Question 121: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the amalgamation of schools (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement...
- School Curriculum
Question 123: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she will identify schools where the provision of arts needs to be upgraded; if she is will install a programme to...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 125: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the number of general assessments and reviews of the provision of education and related support services to children with...
- FÁS Training Programmes
Question 126: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if participants on FÁS training courses are provided with lunchtime refreshments free of charge by the training agency;...
- School Placement
Question 127: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the number of secondary school places in Navan; if any secondary school pupils have been directed away from Navan areas...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 128: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the number of school projects at primary and second level announced to go to construction during 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008,...
- School Transport
Question 130: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if the report on school transport will recommend the abolition of the school catchment areas as at present structured;...
- Mature Student Allowance Schemes
Question 131: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she will take responsibility for the processing of the back to education and mature students allowance schemes; and...
- Teacher Training
Question 132: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the number of students at training colleges here and participating in Hibernian College's programme for primary teacher...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 133: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she will deal with a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41489/10]
- Schools Utilities
Question 134: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider grant aid to schools for the provision of rain water harvesting and the provision of an appropriate...
- School Transport
Question 135: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider further extending the use of the school bus fleet during the hours between morning collection and...
- Third Level Access
Question 136: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the number of students participating at third level who have entered through access programmes at first year, second...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 137: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she will investigate a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41509/10]
- Departmental Bodies
Question 138: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills, further to her recent announcement regarding the replacement of FÁS with a new State training agency early next year,...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 140: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware that despite a meeting with her predecessor and officials from her Department, a school (details...
- School Accommodation
Question 141: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills her plans for a new community college in Ashbourne, County Meath; if she will acknowledge the need for a new secondary...
- Departmental Agencies
Question 142: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the annual budget for FETAC for each of the past four years, and for each of those four years to provide the following...
- Departmental Programmes
Question 143: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills with regard to the labour market activation fund administered by her Department, if one of the projects under this fund...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 144: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the application for large scale capital funding in respect of a school (details supplied) in...
- Schools Recognition
Question 160: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which she has reviewed temporary recognition of a school (details supplied) in County Kildare with the...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 161: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills when she received an application for large scale capital funding in respect of a school (details supplied) in County...
- Bullying in Schools
Question 165: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which any special attention is paid to school bullying with particular reference to the need for her...
- School Staffing
Question 166: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the number of teaching posts to be filled throughout the country; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41677/10]
- Pupil-Teacher Ratio
Question 167: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the average pupil-teacher ratio at schools throughout Leinster; if she will provide the schools currently with the best...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 168: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which the school building programme for 2010 has been met; the number of capital projects provided for...
- Special Educational Needs
Question 169: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the total number of children recorded with attention deficit disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder,...
- School Enrolments
Question 172: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the total number of children expected to enrol at primary and second level schools in each of the next five years; the...
- Schools Building Projects
Question 173: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that the tendering process for the construction of a new school (details supplied) in County Sligo,...
- Daylight Savings Time
Question 176: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the cost in man hours, of changing clocks from summer time to winter time and vice versa in public buildings; and if she...
- Department of Finance
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 177: To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to issue a directive so that professional fees for doctors, solicitors and other professional fees are reduced in line with the drop in...
- Tax Code
Question 178: To ask the Minister for Finance if the purchaser of a new property, subject to section 23 or rural renewal scheme tax relief, at a current fire sale price, is entitled to the full...
- Customs and Excise
Question 180: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of private aircraft searched by customs authorities at Ireland West, Carrickfinn, Sligo and Galway airports sine 1 January 2010; and if...
- Tax Collection
Question 182: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons eligible to pay PAYE in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and to date in 2010 in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on...
- Tax Yield
Question 184: To ask the Minister for Finance the yield from PAYE in the years 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41115/10]
- Tax Code
Question 185: To ask the Minister for Finance if excise and VAT is applied to natural gas and oil used for electricity generation. [41132/10]
- Customs and Excise
Question 186: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of coastal patrols carried out by the cutter boats between 1 January 2009 and 31 October 2010 between and including counties Clare and...
- Bank Charges
Question 188: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has imposed a 50 cent charge on banks to write cheques for customers who are old age pensioners; if his attention has been drawn to the fact...
- Departmental Contracts
Question 189: To ask the Minister for Finance the role the national public procurement operations unit has in negotiating contracts for telecommunications and energy services for Departments,...
- Public Sector Staff
Question 190: To ask the Minister for Finance the average wage and total number of staff employed in the public service each year from 2007 to 2010 broken down by job title and grade; and if he...
- Telecommunications Services
Question 191: To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department operates any number utilising the lo-call designation, 1890; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that use of this number...
- National Asset Management Agency
Question 192: To ask the Minister for Finance the provisions in place to pay salaries to developers involved in the National Asset Management Agency; the way the salaries will be decided and if...
- Departmental Contracts
Question 194: To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding a procurement matter (details supplied). [41423/10]
- Departmental Reports
Question 195: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has received the final report from the expert group on mortgage arrears and personal debt; when will he publish the report; and if he will...
- Banking Sector Regulation
Question 196: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the decision of Bank of Ireland, a partially State-owned and fully State-guaranteed bank, to donate the proceeds of the sale of some...
- Public Procurement
Question 197: To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 181 of the 2 November 2010, if he will provide a detailed breakdown by organisation and the nature of each...
- Flood Relief
Question 198: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has given consideration to a submission made by a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary regarding an engineering process which has...
- National Asset Management Agency
Question 199: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of enforcement actions the National Asset Management Agency has taken against developers where viability is not being demonstrated or...
- Pension Provisions
Question 200: To ask the Minister for Finance his estimate of the cost of pension increases for all public and Civil Service pensioners in each of the past three years with a breakdown by...
- State Property
Question 201: To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 196 of 2 November 2010 the details of the two leases which the office of Public Works holds for Park House;...
- Daylight Savings Time
Question 202: To ask the Minister for Finance the cost in man hours, of changing clocks from summer time to winter time and vice versa in public buildings; and if he will make a statement on...
- Tax Code
Question 203: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether the air travel tax has had a major effect and has ill served the industry; if he will ensure removal of same; and if he will...
- Department of Health and Children
- Missing Persons
Question 204: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if funding in respect of a helpline for missing children is under consideration in the forthcoming budget; and if she will make a...
- Health Services
Question 205: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that a person (details supplied) has received no direct provision payment from a local...
- Medical Cards
Question 206: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a decision will issue on an appeal for a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will...
- Health Services
Question 208: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in County Clare has not been facilitated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41064/10]
- Children in Care
Question 209: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason a Health Service Executive audit of children who died in State care will only consider the past ten years; and if she will...
- Hospitals Building Programme
Question 210: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will support a matter (details supplied) [41080/10]
- Hospital Accommodation
Question 212: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of beds currently available for cystic fibrosis inpatients at St. Vincent's Hospital; if her attention has been drawn to the...
- Health Services
Question 213: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will support a matter (details supplied) [41103/10]
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 215: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding an appointment for surgery in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [41107/10]
- Nursing Home Accommodation
Question 216: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will respond to a query regarding the provision of nursing home accommodation (details supplied) [41109/10]
- Hospital Accommodation
Question 217: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the new cystic fibrosis unit at St. Vincent's Hospital is proceeding on schedule; the building work that has taken place to date; and...
- General Practitioner Services
Question 218: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if it is still the case the Dub-Doc scheme will not accept patients whose general practitioner is not a member of the co-op but will...
- Health Service Reform
Question 219: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the progress that has been made in moving to an 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., five days over seven work pattern as provided for in the Croke Park...
- General Practitioner Co-operatives
Question 221: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason the Health Service Executive advertised a contract for nurse triage for NEDOC; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Health Services
Question 223: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when an application will be processed in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Medical Cards
Question 224: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will expedite an application for a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny. [41153/10]
- Hospitals Building Programme
Question 225: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the proposed new 151 sq.m extension to the National Rehabilitation Hospital at Rochestown Avenue, Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin is...
- Telecommunications Services
Question 226: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if voluntary and Health Service Executive hospitals can avail of the e-Government tariff for telephone bills; and if she will make a...
- Departmental Property
Question 227: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the action she plans to take in relation to the allegation by a person (details supplied) that they have rights to the ground rent of a...
- Health Services
Question 228: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the average waiting list for orthodontic treatment in counties Meath, Cavan, Dublin and Louth. [41216/10]
- Departmental Agencies
Question 229: To ask the Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No. 281 of 12 October 2010, when a reply will issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Telecommunications Services
Question 230: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her Department operates any number utilising the lo-call designation, 1890; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that use of...
- Nursing Home Inspections
Question 231: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of Health Information and Quality Authority staff performing nursing home inspections who have a qualification and previous...
- Departmental Meetings
Question 232: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she and the Health Service Executive met with a foundation (details supplied) on 12 October 2010 or whether the meeting was attended...
- Health Services
Question 233: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will support the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5. [41428/10]
- Health Service Staff
Question 236: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to reinstate a community welfare officer to an area (details supplied) in County Tipperary; if the officer will be reinstated...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 237: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon will be called for a procedure; the reason for the delay in same; and if she will...
- Medical Cards
Question 239: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason it takes four days for the Health Service Executive primary care reimbursement service medical card system to be updated when...
- Health Service Staff
Question 240: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she or the Health Service Executive will have any power or authority to refuse any applications under the voluntary redundancy scheme...
- Health Services
Question 241: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the respite services provided to adults with intellectual disabilities in the mid west...
- Child Abuse
Question 242: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the review of all serious child neglect cases in County Roscommon commenced; the timetable for the completion of the review by a...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
Question 243: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Dublin will be given a date for a procedure sooner than advised; and if she will make a...
- Health Services
Question 245: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding an assessment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [41589/10]
- Medical Aids and Appliances
Question 246: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the provision of a special device for a person (details supplied) in Cork City [41590/10]
- Long-Term Illness Scheme
Question 247: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the situation regarding the long-term illness card and if narcolepsy qualifies as being in the family of conditions approved under...
- Health Services
Question 248: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when approval will be given for replacement speech and language therapists in an organisation (details supplied) in County Limerick,...
- Foster Care
Question 250: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she has made provision for grant aid for persons who are designated to become foster parents to undertake necessary home improvements...
- Child Care Services
Question 251: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views in relation to a matter (details supplied); the actions she proposes to take to assist the persons in question; and if she...
- Health Services
Question 253: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will support the case of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin [41717/10]
- Daylight Savings Time
Question 254: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the cost in man hours of changing clocks from summer time to winter time and vice versa in public buildings; and if she will make a...
- Department of Transport
- Road Network
Question 255: To ask the Minister for Transport if the cross-Border study on the Ballynacarry bridge between County Monaghan and County Armagh has now been completed; and if he will make a...
- Telecommunications Services
Question 256: To ask the Minister for Transport if his Department operates any number utilising the Lo-Call designation, 1890; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that use of this number...
- Daylight Savings Time
Question 257: To ask the Minister for Transport the cost in man hours of changing clocks from summer time to winter time and vice versa in public buildings; and if he will make a statement on...
- Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
- Visa Applications
Question 258: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform when a decision will issue on an application for a visa in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
- Prison Procedures
Question 259: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the type of control and restraint procedures in both adult and juvenile prisons as set out in the Control and Restraint handbook; and...
- Anti-social Behaviour
Question 260: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the progress that has been made in respect of the review of anti-social behaviour orders; the measures in place to tackle anti-social...
- Visa Applications
Question 262: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the percentage of visa decisions, excluding appeals, reviewed each month either by a senior official in his Department or by senior...
- Road Traffic Offences
Question 264: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the number of arrests that have been made in relation to lorries or trucks travelling at more than 80 km/h each year since 2004; and...
- Garda Vetting
Question 265: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the numbers of persons awaiting a decision on Garda clearance; the number of applications that are in respect of a job application;...
- Taxi Licences
Question 266: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the reason a taxi licence application to the Garda carriage office in Santry has not been processed in respect of a person (details...
- Closed Circuit Television Systems
Question 267: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the cost of maintaining and upgrading the Garda closed circuit television network in each of the years from 2005 to 2009 and to date...
- Departmental Correspondence
Question 268: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform if he will support the case of a person (details supplied). [41200/10]
- Garda Transport
Question 269: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the number of Garda cars and vans per Garda district that are currently in operation; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Daylight Savings Time
Question 270: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform if he has contacted his counterpart in the British Government on current UK proposals to move to central European time; if so, if he...
- Telecommunications Services
Question 271: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform if his Department operates any number utilising the lo-call designation, 1890; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that use...
- Asylum Support Services
Question 272: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform if women in direct provision centres have been consulted directly to establish their views on whether women-only centres are...
- Departmental Staff
Question 273: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 201 of 20 October 2010, when this information will be supplied; and if he will make a statement...
- Residency Permits
Question 274: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the position regarding an application for residency in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 2; and if he will make a...
- Refugee Status
Question 276: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the position regarding an application for leave to remain here in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he...
- Deportation Orders
Question 277: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the position regarding an application for leave to remain under subsidiary protection application in the case of a person (details...
- Residency Permits
Question 278: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the position regarding residency in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 2; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Garda Recruitment
Question 280: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform when the next intake from the Garda recruitment panel will take place; when the next Garda training programme will commence; and if...
- Prison Accommodation
Question 282: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the cost of security on a site (details supplied) for 2010; the corresponding figure for the previous year; and if he will make a...
- Taxi Regulations
Question 283: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform if he will deal with a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41476/10]
- Garda Operations
Question 284: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform if section 99 of the Charities Act 2009 has been enabled and if it is being implemented by the Garda Síochána; the number of...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 285: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 365 of 2 February 2010, if he has reviewed the matter of cash for gold outlets; his plans to...
- Prison Visiting Committees
Question 286: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform if he will provide details of the cost in each of the past three years in respect of each of the 15 prison visiting committees; the...
- Official Transport
Question 287: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the number of official cars in use for court judges in 2008, 2009 and to date in 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Refugee Appeals Tribunal
Question 288: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the reason close scheduling of appeal hearings has continued over the past ten years at the Refugee Appeals Tribunal, despite...
- Subsidiary Protection
Question 291: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform since the introduction of subsidiary protection in October 2006 under the European Communities (Eligibility for Protection)...
- Prison Medical Service
Question 292: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the number of reports and complaints relating to influenza, smallpox, swine flu and tuberculosis in all prisons here; and if he will...
- Temporary Release of Prisoners
Question 293: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the number of persons here who have been granted temporary release from prison and who cannot be accounted for as of 26 October 2010;...
- Daylight Savings Time
Question 294: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the cost in man hours, of changing clocks from summer time to winter time and vice versa in public buildings; and if he will make a...
- Department of Foreign Affairs
- Good Friday Agreement
Question 295: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he has raised with the British Prime Minister the commitment contained in the Good Friday Agreement that consideration would be given to...
- Passport Applications
Question 296: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the reason for the delay in renewal of a passport in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- International Agreements
Question 297: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs when the EU-Korea free trade agreement will be ratified at EU level and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41106/10]
- Telecommunications Services
Question 298: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his Department operates any number utilising the lo-call designation, 1890; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that use of this...
- Product Labelling
Question 299: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the position regarding plans aimed at drafting guidelines for retailers in labelling of goods from illegal Israeli settlements and his...
- Human Rights Issues
Question 300: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on the situation of Saharawi citizens who, in protest at state activity, have established refugee camps and are under threat of...
- Passport Applications
Question 301: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 386 of 27 October 2010 (details supplied), where a child with an Irish birth certificate can be...
- Daylight Savings Time
Question 302: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the cost in man hours, of changing clocks from summer time to winter time and vice versa in public buildings; and if he will make a...
- Department of Social and Family Affairs
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 303: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason for the delay in considering an appeal on behalf of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9 and if he will ensure that this...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 304: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an application will be processed in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 308: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an oral hearing will be heard in respect of an appeal by a person (details supplied) in County Donegal in relation to their...
- Telecommunications Services
Question 310: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if his Department operates any number utilising the lo-call designation, 1890; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that use of...
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 311: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if funding remains available under the technical assistance and training fund for successful applicants under the back to work enterprise...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 313: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the progress to date regarding the introduction of gender recognition legislation; the timetable for introduction of same; and if he will...
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 314: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will use his discretionary powers to refer back to the appeals officer for reconsideration the appeal file in the case of a person...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 316: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will provide a copy of the agreement between his Department and Dublin Bus regarding the funding provided to the company under the...
- Social Welfare Code (1 comment)
Question 317: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if his attention has been drawn to the problems for Irish citizens returning home due to the application of the habitual residence rule...
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 319: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the outcome of an appeal for jobseeker's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo [41493/10]
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 322: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the amount of money being paid by his Department on child benefit for children not resident here; the way this figure is distributed...
- Social Welfare Appeals
Question 323: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be made on a domiciliary care allowance appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway [41526/10]
- Social Welfare Benefits
Question 331: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be approved and paid domiciliary care allowance [41704/10]
- Daylight Savings Time
Question 333: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the cost in man hours, of changing clocks from summer time to winter time and vice versa in public buildings; and if he will make a...
- Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism
- National Sports Campus Development Authority
Question 334: To ask the Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport the costs that have been incurred by the National Sports Campus Development Authority in the pursuit of the VAT claim relating to...
- Tax Code
Question 335: To ask the Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport the tax or other incentives available to investors in film production; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41068/10]
- Telecommunications Services
Question 336: To ask the Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport if her Department operates any number utilising the lo-call designation, 1890; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that...
- Tourism Industry
Question 337: To ask the Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport if she has specific targets for the number of tourists and the amount of money generated in the economy here as a result of the...
- Daylight Savings Time
Question 338: To ask the Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport the cost in man hours, of changing clocks from summer time to winter time and vice versa in public buildings; and if she will...
- Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
- Animal Welfare Regulations
Question 339: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his plans to introduce a system of compulsory microchipping for dogs; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Motor Vehicle Registration
Question 340: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if a vehicle (details supplied) is subject to commercial tax or private tax. [41142/10]
- Local Authority Housing
Question 341: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on a housing matter. (details supplied) [41081/10]
- Emergency Planning
Question 342: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the arrangements that have been made to have emergency management plans in place for each of the following...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 344: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will legislate to make the 0.7% maximum sulphur content of coal mandatory; and if he will make a...
- Telecommunications Services
Question 345: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his Department operates any number utilising the lo-call designation, 1890; if his attention has been...
- Proposed Legislation
Question 346: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the consultations he is having with interested parties in respect of the proposed residential tenancies...
- Water and Sewerage Schemes
Question 348: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the long delays in the waste water treatment plants for Skibbereen,...
- Alternative Energy Projects
Question 349: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amount of money spent for the purpose of providing energy efficient homes in the Dublin City Council and...
- Water and Sewerage Schemes
Question 350: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if a site has been identified for the provision of a sewage treatment plant at Kinvara, County Galway; and if...
- Water Quality
Question 351: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that residents living in County Cork (details supplied) have had...
- Water and Sewerage Schemes
Question 352: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has received the design review report from Galway County Council for the provision of a sewage...
- Electoral Franchise Extension
Question 353: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has considered extending the franchise to Irish emigrants living abroad; and if he will make a...
- Daylight Savings Time
Question 354: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the cost in man hours of changing clocks from summer time to winter time and vice versa in public buildings;...
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Postal Services
Question 355: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if the postal services Bill, which will transpose the EC third postal directive into law, will include recital...
- Broadcasting Services
Question 357: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources in view of concerns raised over transactions between RTE's public service arm and its commercial arm, if he...
- Broadcasting Legislation
Question 361: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on RTE's introduction of RTE Apps; his further views on whether this introduction falls under RTE's...
- Energy Prices
Question 363: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland will submit an up to date review of electricity and gas prices...
- Electricity Generation
Question 364: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he has approved the purchase of Northern Ireland Electricity by ESB and the process that will be gone...
- Telecommunications Services
Question 366: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position regarding the provision of broadband to an area (details supplied); and if he will make a...
- Alternative Energy Projects
Question 368: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources further to Parliamentary Question No. 45 of 20 October 2010 if he will explain his contention that onshore wind...
- Electricity Network
Question 370: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the cost of upgrading the electricity network to facilitate the connection of 800 MW on onshore wind and 800 MW...
- Television Licence Fee
Question 371: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources in view of the large number of television owners who do not have a television licence and the costs involved in...
- Telecommunications Services
Question 372: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if his Department operates any number utilising the lo-call designation 1890; if his attention has been drawn...
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 373: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position regarding the proposed decentralisation to Cavan; the accommodation arrangements in place; the...
- Telecommunications Services
Question 374: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will confirm if the national broadband scheme has completed its work in County Westmeath; the number of...
- Departmental Bodies
Question 375: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he has received estimates of income and expenditure from the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland for the next...
- Telecommunications Services
Question 376: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when the installation of the national broadband scheme infrastructure will be completed in County Kerry; and if...
- State Aid Clearance
Question 377: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will confirm if his Department has submitted the revised renewable energy feed in tariff for biomass to...
- Daylight Savings Time
Question 379: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the cost in man hours of changing clocks from summer time to winter time and vice versa in public buildings;...
- Department of Agriculture and Food
- Proposed Legislation
Question 380: To ask the Minister for Agriculture; Fisheries and Food when he expects to publish animal welfare legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41159/10]
- Grant Payments
Question 381: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a single farm payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if he will make a statement on...
- Rural Environment Protection Scheme
Question 388: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will review the case of persons (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; if they will be included in the REP scheme in...
- Grant Payments
Question 389: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a person (details supplied) will receive their payment; the reason for the delay in same; and if he will make a...
- Departmental Schemes
Question 390: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the investment strategy for the beef and sheepmeat fund and the dairy investment fund; the total of these funds; the...
- Decentralisation Programme
Question 391: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the actions taken by him in 2009 and 2010 under the decentralisation programme; the actions intended under this programme in...
- Departmental Expenditure
Question 392: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if, in view of the level of service provided by an organisation (details supplied), he will increase its annual grant under...
- Telecommunications Services
Question 393: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if his Department operates any number utilising the lo-call designation, 1890; if his attention has been drawn to the fact...
- Grant Payments
Question 394: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the reason single farm payment was short up to 8 ha of the payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County...
- Forestry Sector
Question 403: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will assure farmers who have permanently committed their land to forestry that there will be no further cuts to the...
- Grant Payments
Question 405: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will expedite payment an application for single farm payment scheme and disadvantaged area scheme in respect of a...
- Alternative Energy Projects
Question 413: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will provide details of the results of the expressions of interests for large scale biomass scheme that was tendered...
- Daylight Savings Time
Question 415: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the cost in man hours, of changing clocks from summer time to winter time and vice versa in public buildings; and if he will...
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Innovation
- Redundancy Payments
Question 416: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation when a redundancy payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Telecommunications Services
Question 420: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation if his Department operates any number utilising the lo-call designation, 1890; if his attention has been drawn to the fact...
- Industrial Development
Question 421: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation further to Parliamentary Question No. 551 of 27 October 2010 and Parliamentary Question No. 552 of 2 November 2010, if any...
- Redundancy Payments
Question 423: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation if he will deal with a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41478/10]
- Proposed Legislation
Question 425: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation when the consultation on the retail code of practice will be completed and when the report will be available to the public;...
- Industrial Development
Question 426: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the progress he has made in developing toolkits for Irish business trying to enter new markets as outlined in Trading and...
- Daylight Savings Time
Question 427: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the cost in man hours, of changing clocks from summer time to winter time and vice versa in public buildings; and if he...
- Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
- Community Development
Question 429: To ask the Minister for Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs the total allocation to Pobal from the local community development programme budget; the amount of funding from...
- Telecommunications Services
Question 430: To ask the Minister for Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs if his Department operates any number utilising the lo-call designation, 1890; if his attention has been drawn to...
- Community Development
Question 431: To ask the Minister for Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs the way an organisation (details supplied) in Dublin 10 is funded; the way these funds are spent; the services it...
- Daylight Savings Time
Question 432: To ask the Minister for Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs the cost in man hours, of changing clocks from summer time to winter time and vice versa in public buildings; and...
- Department of Defence
- Defence Forces Reserve
Question 433: To ask the Minister for Defence the number of Reserve Defence Forces training man-days allocated for use in 2009 and 2010 respectively; the number of same which were used in 2009...
- Telecommunications Services
Question 434: To ask the Minister for Defence if his Department operates any number utilising the lo-call designation, 1890; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that use of this number...
- Defence Forces Reserve
Question 435: To ask the Minister for Defence the legal mechanism available to him to deploy members of the Reserve Defence Forces in aid to the civil power or in any other capacity; the most...
- Daylight Savings Time
Question 441: To ask the Minister for Defence the cost in man hours, of changing clocks from summer time to winter time and vice versa in public buildings; and if he will make a statement on the...
