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Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 May 2005
28 Mr. Stanton asked the Minister for Defence the level of Defence Forces support that will be sent to Sudan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17528/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 25 May 2005
99 Mr. Stanton asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food the communication she has had with the European Commission regarding current and future milk prices; the action she has taken or intends to take; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17392/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 25 May 2005
37 Mr. Stanton asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food the measures she is taking to promote the use of higher quality foods; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17393/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 May 2005
313 Mr. Stanton asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the membership of the city and county child care committees; the amount expended by each of these committees each year since they were established; if the work of the committees has been evaluated; his further plans for the future development of these committees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17003/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 May 2005
257 Mr. Stanton asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs, further to Parliamentary Question No. 207 of 17 May 2005, when he will publish the review carried out and completed by his Department on the supplementary welfare allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17423/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 May 2005
240 Mr. Stanton asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the efforts he is making to tackle the new phenomenon of the working poor; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17347/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 May 2005
131 Mr. Stanton asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on the use of aspartame in food and drink products; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17411/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 May 2005
51 Mr. Stanton asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will report on the guidelines issued to social welfare offices regarding the habitual residency condition; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17346/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 May 2005
48 Mr. Stanton asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the supports provided by the State for carers; his views on whether they are adequate and equitable; his plans to enhance these supports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17345/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 19 May 2005
180 Mr. Stanton asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the impact of the new EU Directive on recycling electronic waste on independent electrical retailers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16765/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 19 May 2005
160 Mr. Stanton asked the Minister for Education and Science if she will examine the need to appoint additional staff to a school (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16766/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 19 May 2005
138 Mr. Stanton asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his future plans for Spike Island; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16814/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 19 May 2005
137 Mr. Stanton asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of prison officers that were located at Spike Island prison and that have been relocated; the number relocated to each new location; if relocation is on a permanent basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16813/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 19 May 2005
92 Mr. Stanton asked the Minister for Finance the number of licensed moneylenders currently in operation in the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16812/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 19 May 2005
74 Mr. Stanton asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the diagnostic services and early intervention services in place for children and others with dyspraxia and developmental co-ordination disorders; the number of persons diagnosed and treated for dyspraxia and developmental co-ordination disorders each year since 2000; the success of these services in treating persons with these conditions; the efforts her Department has made or will make to improve these services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16811/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 19 May 2005
64 Mr. Stanton asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the average cost per annum of providing a bed for an older person in a community hospital in the respective Health Service Executive areas; the number of such beds in each area at present; her plans to increase the number of such beds; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16755/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 19 May 2005
6 Mr. Stanton asked the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the role his Department plays in the allocation of socially monitored alarms through the scheme of community support for older people; his plans to extend or create a new scheme to support the provision of socially monitored alarms to persons with disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16645/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 18 May 2005
183 Mr. Stanton asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the efforts he is making at local authority level to reduce poverty; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11900/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 May 2005
311 Mr. Stanton asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when the rate of direct provision allocated to asylum seekers was last increased; his plans to increase the amount of direct provision; if the current amount is sufficient; his plans to allow asylum seekers to engage in paid work to supplement this income; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16483/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 May 2005
310 Mr. Stanton asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he has examined whether the system of direct provision and the placing of asylum seekers in accommodation centres is in contravention of the Equal Status Act 2000, Article 40.1 of the Constitution or the European Convention on Human Rights; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16482/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 May 2005
309 Mr. Stanton asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform with reference to the Children Act 2001, the community sanctions which have been implemented to date; when they were implemented; the community sanctions which have not been implemented; when these sanctions will be implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16481/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 May 2005
279 Mr. Stanton asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the crime statistics for the Mallow area of County Cork for 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004 under each headline, including the total recorded and detected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15989/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 May 2005
278 Mr. Stanton asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the crime statistics for the Mitchelstown area of County Cork for 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004 under each headline, including the total recorded and detected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15988/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 May 2005
277 Mr. Stanton asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the crime statistics for the Fermoy area of County Cork for 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004 under each headline, including the total recorded and detected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15987/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 May 2005
276 Mr. Stanton asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the crime statistics for the Midleton area of County Cork for 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004 under each headline, including the total recorded and detected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15986/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 May 2005
275 Mr. Stanton asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the crime statistics for the Youghal area of County Cork for 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004 under each headline, including the total recorded and detected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15985/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 May 2005
274 Mr. Stanton asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the crime statistics for the Cobh area of County Cork for 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004 under each headline, including the total recorded and detected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15984/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 May 2005
211 Mr. Stanton asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs, further to the publication of the Travers report, if his Department has carried out a review of the legal basis for all charges and fees levied by his Department and agencies under the aegis of his Department; the outcome of such review; and if charges have been identified which do not have an adequate legal basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16206/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 May 2005
209 Mr. Stanton asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will consider increasing the family income supplement payment to persons whose income has decreased since first being awarded FIS and who still qualify for FIS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16052/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 May 2005
207 Mr. Stanton asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the programmes, schemes and services administered by his Department and which were reviewed in 2003 and 2004 or are under review in 2005; the number of these reviews which have been completed; the number of these reviews that are not completed and when he expects these reviews to be complete; the persons who are carrying out each review; the cost of each completed review and the amount of time each review took to complete; the expected cost of each uncompleted review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15972/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 May 2005
148 Mr. Stanton asked the Minister for Finance the amount of VAT his Department received from the annual monitoring fees charged by service providers for socially monitored alarms which are provided through the scheme of community support for older persons in 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 and to date in 2005; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15971/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 May 2005
47 Mr. Stanton asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his Department has carried out its own review of the living conditions and health of asylum seekers in accommodation across Ireland since their introduction in 2000; the findings of such reviews; if his Department is satisfied with the living conditions and health of asylum seekers in accommodation centres; when his Department intends to carry out the next review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16167/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 12 May 2005
76 Mr. Stanton asked the Minister for Transport the progress that has been made in the decentralisation of State agencies to Mitchelstown; the number of posts to be decentralised to this location; the number of personnel identified and willing to move to Mitchelstown; if he has secured suitable accommodation in this location for decentralisation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13423/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 11 May 2005
216 Mr. Stanton asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if his attention has been drawn to any country that requires electronic funds transfers or equivalent arrangements for the standard method of paying most benefits and making analogous payments; if so, if any such country has experienced levels of fraud and error that suggest that electronic funds transfer might not be a cost-effective alternative payment arrangement compared to pension books, cheques and cash; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15682/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 11 May 2005
215 Mr. Stanton asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if the computerisation of births, deaths and marriage records has eliminated the perceived risks previously identified with electronic funds transfer payment systems for social welfare recipients; if automatic computer systems are in place to link in appropriate ways and subject to data protection requirements the computerised records of births, deaths and marriages with his Department’s computer systems in so far as these issue or generate payment instructions for periodic benefits such as pensions that could be paid efficiently by electronic funds transfer. [15681/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 11 May 2005
92 Mr. Stanton asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the practice of health authorities holding the pension books of elderly patients to pay for their long-term care has reconvened; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11893/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 10 May 2005
296 Mr. Stanton asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food the way in which farmers who need to spread slurry on their own land may be affected by building development which is to occur on the boundaries of their land; if the REP scheme guidelines regarding the advice not to spread within 50 m of residents will apply when the housing development is new; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14981/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 10 May 2005
276 Mr. Stanton asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if estimates have been made of the administrative and agency services charge savings for printing, distribution, cashing and reconciling; if any estimates have been made of the potential losses that could occur under EFT systems using the Department’s own experience with equivalent systems and the experience of the private pensions industry that would seem to face similar risks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15400/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 10 May 2005
275 Mr. Stanton asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if, in view of perceived risks that persons could emigrate while continuing to claim social welfare assistance payments and that such frauds could be facilitated by the adoption of EFT, he has considered an extension of An Post arrangements for unemployment payments whereby his Department could be enabled to receive precise and detailed information on the cashing or withdrawal patterns adopted by beneficiaries that would help identify potential fraudulent situations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15398/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 10 May 2005
267 Mr. Stanton asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if, in view of the alarming rise in the value of cash taken in armed robberies, he will consider accelerating the take-up of electronic funds transfers or equivalent payment arrangements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15048/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 10 May 2005
266 Mr. Stanton asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of directors, managers, secretaries or other officers of bodies corporate who have been charged with offences under section 213(7) of the Social Welfare (Consolidation) Act in the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15045/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 10 May 2005
265 Mr. Stanton asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if any work on standards for social service cards or their replacement, that is, the public service cards, was undertaken or could have been undertaken in earlier years, particularly in the context of the interdepartmental report on the development of an integrated social services system, which was published in August 1996; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15039/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 10 May 2005
264 Mr. Stanton asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the potential developments described for the integrated social services system described in a report published in 1996 which are no longer considered relevant due to the passage of time, technological innovation or changes in policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15038/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 10 May 2005
263 Mr. Stanton asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the key potential developments described for the integrated social services system described in a report published in 1996; the progress regarding each of them in the period since 1996 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15037/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 10 May 2005
262 Mr. Stanton asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when the Government first considered proposals for the integrated social services system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15036/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 10 May 2005
261 Mr. Stanton asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he has satisfied himself that the proposed issue of public service cards is being dealt with expeditiously; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15035/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 10 May 2005
223 Mr. Stanton asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if a new honorary consul has been appointed in Ecuador; if so, when the consul was appointed; if not, when the appointment will be made; if the Irish Consul Office in Ecuador is operational; if so, when it came into operation; if not, when it will come into operation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15478/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 5 May 2005
38 Mr. Stanton asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources when the review of the Irish whitefish fleet and available fishing opportunities in the whitefish sector will commence; when this review will be completed; the way in which he will involve the whitefish fishing industry when his Department considers policy changes and options for change to deliver a long-term sustainable and economically viable future for the whitefish sector here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14543/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 5 May 2005
28 Mr. Stanton asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources further to a meeting in Ballycotton with a delegation, the plans he has to support the development of the harbour in Ballycotton, County Cork; the timescale involved for the beginning and completion of this project; the resources of funding which will be made available for the development; the overall budget available for his Department for fishery harbour development in 2005; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14478/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 4 May 2005
459 Mr. Stanton asked the Minister for Education and Science if she has received an application for special support for a person attending a primary school (details supplied); if this essential support will be in place by September 2005 when this person starts in a mainstream national school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13931/05]