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Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 29 June 2004
195 Mr. Cregan asked the Minister for Education and Science if he will review the school transport in a catchment area (details supplied) in County Limerick. [19183/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 June 2004
148 Mr. Cregan asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the plans he has to increase the retirement age for existing gardaí, sergeants, superintendents and chief superintendents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18234/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 June 2004
94 Mr. Cregan asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food the reason a person (details supplied) in County Limerick has accrued an overpayment from his Department in respect of the early retirement scheme, despite their spouse not being in receipt of a social welfare payment at the time of application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18233/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 June 2004
170 Mr. Cregan asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if he has plans to facilitate the provision of a vaccine to farmers here whose livelihoods and the welfare of their animals are being seriously threatened by the lack of such a vaccine in view of the increasing incidence of the fatal disease of botulism amongst the cattle population in certain parts of the country; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there is a vaccine available to farmers in Northern Ireland. [17683/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 June 2004
151 Mr. Cregan asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress being made on the application by a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny for registration of land; and when this dealing is likely to be finalised. [16979/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 25 May 2004
164 Mr. Cregan asked the Minister for Education and Science if he will approve the provision of a minibus in an area (details supplied) in County Laois to facilitate children who have had no school transport in the past; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15275/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 19 May 2004
179 Mr. Cregan asked the Minister for Health and Children when he expects a person (details supplied) to be transferred from Limerick Regional Hospital to the National Rehabilitation Hospital in Dún Laoghaire for rehabilitation, following a serious road traffic accident. [14803/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 11 May 2004
424 Mr. Cregan asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if the criteria for qualifying for a free travel pass can be altered or adjusted in order to allow persons who were State employees, retired on ill health, and in receipt of a State pension only to qualify; if some allowance can be made for persons over 55 and under 66 years, not in receipt of a social welfare payment and with no other income other than their State pension which is nearly equivalent or a little above the rate of disability allowance. [13546/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 11 May 2004
287 Mr. Cregan asked the Minister for Health and Children to include patients aged below and over 70 years in the scheme whereby payments are made to general practitioners for services provided to medical card holders; if he agrees that general practitioners must visit patients in their homes when required; the number of complaints made about general practitioners not visiting homes; and the disciplinary action that can be taken against them; and if their association supports them. [13527/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 11 May 2004
286 Mr. Cregan asked the Minister for Health and Children if he will examine a case where a person suffering from advanced Alzheimer’s is cared for by an 80 year old spouse; if appliances or aids are can be prescribed to assist patients with Alzheimer’s who qualify for same. [13525/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 11 May 2004
214 Mr. Cregan asked the Minister for Education and Science if he will respond to a school (details supplied) in Dublin 11 and to its recent request for classroom assistants in order that children can be kept within the educational system; and when these children will be psychologically assessed to determine the nature and level of support required in their case. [13559/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 11 May 2004
213 Mr. Cregan asked the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding a grant which was approved in 2002 for the provision of security fencing for a school (details supplied) in Dublin 11; if funding is now available; if planning permission has been sought for this work; and when work will be carried out. [13558/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 11 May 2004
212 Mr. Cregan asked the Minister for Education and Science about education and arts trusts which have run into difficulty in the past few years due to low interest rates, and in view of the fact that the normal payment and bursaries paid by these trusts are declining and in some cases cannot be met in recent years; if he will make suggestions, ideas or funds available so that the normal bursaries paid by these trusts could be continued; and if they have a record of the number of such trusts in their overall Ministerial area, if same could be quantified in relation to their capital value and in relation to their normal annual spend. [13530/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 11 May 2004
189 Mr. Cregan asked the Minister for Education and Science the reason a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny appointed to a permanent position in September 2003 is only being paid as a part-time employee; if this person will be paid for bank holidays, school holidays and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13347/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 11 May 2004
157 Mr. Cregan asked the Minister for Finance the policy for recruiting persons with disabilities in the public service; if a special competition is held for persons with disabilities; if the same competition is held for all applicants; when the last competition was held and if there are plans to hold one in the near future; if a separate panel is set up for persons with disabilities; the percentage of persons with disabilities currently employed in the public service; and if any exceptions are made. [13557/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 11 May 2004
156 Mr. Cregan asked the Minister for Finance the concessions, tax relief and grants which are made available throughout the taxation system to persons or companies for the provision of child care for themselves or for their employees; if, in view of the less favourable increase in child benefit over the past two years, providing tax relief on child care payments is under consideration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13556/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 11 May 2004
155 Mr. Cregan asked the Minister for Finance the levels of capital acquisitions tax which apply between unmarried siblings living together all their lives; when these levels were introduced or last revised; if there is a concession when an estate is passed onto a next generation, for example, nieces or nephews; if there is a backdated concession for siblings when capital acquisitions tax was paid ten years ago on the death of one, before the most recent revision, and when capital acquisitions tax must now be paid again on the death of the last of three siblings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13555/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 11 May 2004
154 Mr. Cregan asked the Minister for Finance on the criteria of Departments and State agencies to deal with newly set up private sector service companies; if companies are supposed to be in existence for a particular period of time; the terms they should meet; if they must be tax compliant; the documentation which substitutes for this when companies are only recently legally established; if the operation of these criteria is universally adopted; and if individual Departments or agencies are open to set their own more stringent rules. [13554/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 11 May 2004
153 Mr. Cregan asked the Minister for Finance the situation on income tax exemption limits; if there is an addition to the €31,000 couples figure for old age pensioners for persons over 80 and any other tax allowance addition; and if not, if the couples figure stays at €31,000 irrespective of extras. [13553/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 11 May 2004
98 Mr. Cregan asked the Minister for Defence if he has plans to issue other ranks of the PDF with some form of dress uniform; if he has plans to alter or update the current No. 1 uniform for ceremonial purposes; and, if there are changes being considered, when they are likely to be implemented. [13370/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 11 May 2004
92 Mr. Cregan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the situation regarding statutory redundancy for employees of 25 years standing; if redundancy is altered by the fact that an employee became a director for a few months before liquidation; if the employees rather than the recently appointed director are looked after first; if redundancy for the director is based on his period as an employee inclusive or exclusive of his few months of directorship; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13534/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 1 April 2004
68 Mr. Cregan asked the Minister for Finance if immediate payment of income tax rebate will be arranged for a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny. [10353/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 March 2004
95 Mr. Cregan asked the Minister for Education and Science if, in view of the submission made by the parents’ association of a national school (details supplied) in County Kilkenny, he will give immediate sanction to its proposal to retain the extra teacher; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9337/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 March 2004
489 Mr. Cregan asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if current legislation governing minors being on licensed premises after 9.00 pm can be amended to permit minors involved in the playing of traditional music to remain on licensed premises while performing after 9 p.m. [8624/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 March 2004
488 Mr. Cregan asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if garda management will supply the number of Garda Síochána members and their ranks who have been granted the full 18 month lodging allowance, from 1 January 2000 to date as allowed for in transfer regulations applicable when members of an Garda Siochána are promoted and transferred. [8623/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 March 2004
434 Mr. Cregan asked the Minister for Transport if social welfare free travel passes will be available on the new Luas service; if negotiations have been completed with the operator to date; if the same rules will apply as exist on the heavy rail, Irish Rail service; if the free service will be confined to off-peak period as is the case with Bus Átha Cliath. [8493/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 March 2004
376 Mr. Cregan asked the Minister for Health and Children if the present rate of health board subvention is likely to be increased in the short term; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8713/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 March 2004
259 Mr. Cregan asked the Minister for Education and Science further to recent correspondence to his Department from a secondary school (details supplied) with regard to its application for funding under the access for all scheme, if he will arrange for his Department’s architect to call to this school at the earliest possible date to resolve outstanding matters; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8757/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 10 March 2004
183 Mr. Cregan asked the Minister for Education and Science the outcome of an appeal by a person (details supplied) in County Carlow to the school transport appeals board regarding transport for their child to a particular school. [7972/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 March 2004
227 Mr. Cregan asked the Minister for Finance if the Office of Public Works will withhold further legal proceedings on the vacating of property to allow discussions to take place between both parties (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7497/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 2 March 2004
386 Mr. Cregan asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when an amended land registry map will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny. [6849/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 25 February 2004
162 Mr. Cregan asked the Minister for Finance the situation in relation to inheritance tax from parents of three children; the details of the exemption thresholds; if the family home in which one single working child lives with parents is valued and included in the estate; the situation if the house, for example, of €500,000 is to go to such a child and the balance of, for example, €400,000 is to be divided equally, if this would push one person over the threshold; if not, if the estate and exemption limits are tested in totality; if it is advisable to share the estate equally and allow the siblings make private arrangements to settle the house transfer; and if this is in order. [6394/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 February 2004
286 Mr. Cregan asked the Minister for Education and Science when approval will issue to a school (details supplied) in County Carlow in respect of resource teaching for a person; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5760/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 February 2004
219 Mr. Cregan asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if he will examine his Department’s demand for repayment of an alleged overpayment made in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick in receipt of the scheme for early retirement from farming, whose spouse was in receipt of a contributory old age pension from the Department of Social and Family Affairs. [5755/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 19 February 2004
176 Mr. Cregan asked the Minister for Health and Children if an assessment will be carried out for a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny, in order that their application for a bath lift can be processed further and whose application is with the board for the past 18 months. [5403/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 February 2004
512 Mr. Cregan asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the position regarding replacement funding for a child care facility (details supplied) which had its funding severely reduced by social welfare estimates decisions announced in November 2003; the source from which replacement funding will come; the length of time her Department award crèche supplements for existing children; if the Department of Health and Children is arranging payments directly or through its agencies for new children placed in same by NAHB personnel. [5026/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 February 2004
414 Mr. Cregan asked the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding replacement funding for a childcare facility (details supplied) which had its funding severely reduced by social welfare estimates decisions announced in November 2003; the source from which replacement funding will come from; the length of time his Department will pay crèche supplements for existing children; if his Department is arranging payments directly or through its agencies for new children placed in same by NAHB personnel. [5027/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 February 2004
326 Mr. Cregan asked the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding plans for new science laboratories which are a matter of concern from a health and safety point of view at a school (details supplied) in Dublin 4; if the laboratories have been inspected lately; if same can be arranged; and the timetable for construction of new laboratories. [5001/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 February 2004
250 Mr. Cregan asked the Minister for Finance the entitlements or discretionary benefits, from a tax point of view, for persons. [5030/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 12 February 2004
116 Mr. Cregan asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food the reason entrants to the milk quota restructuring scheme (details supplied) were not allocated quota despite the fact that all applicants were under 35 years of age and all applications submitted were in order; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4443/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 4 February 2004
308 Mr. Cregan asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the procedure and approximate costs involved for married persons with a house in the name of one spouse who wish to have the house in joint names; if it can be done directly with the Land Registry office or other statutory agency; if stamp duty or other costs of significance apply; the rights of a spouse married for 40 years, living in the house but without his or her name on the ownership deeds; if such a spouse's rights are protected during his or her lifetime; and if he or she has any legal say in the passing on of the property. [3373/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 4 February 2004
279 Mr. Cregan asked the Minister for Health and Children if laser treatment for eyes is available to public patients; if so, the hospitals in which; if there is special criteria; the numbers currently on waiting lists; the reason some patients are being told that treatment is only available for private patients; and if this is the case, the reason it is allowed to take place in public hospitals. [3370/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 4 February 2004
268 Mr. Cregan asked the Minister for Health and Children when a third geriatrician will be appointed to the Mid-Western Health Board region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3322/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 4 February 2004
242 Mr. Cregan asked the Minister for Finance the procedure and approximate costs involved for married persons with a house in the name of one spouse who wish to have the house in joint names; if it can be done directly with the land registry office or other statutory agency; if stamp duty or other costs of significance apply; the rights of a spouse married for 40 years, living in the house but without his or her name on the ownership deeds; if such a spouse's rights are protected during his or her lifetime; and if he or she have any legal say in the passing on of the property. [3372/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 4 February 2004
234 Mr. Cregan asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food when his Department will be in a position to provide directional signage indicating the location of the new Department of Agriculture and Food offices at Raheen, Limerick. [3306/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 February 2004
331 Mr. Cregan asked the Minister for Education and Science the progress on acquiring a site to allow progress on the amalgamation of two national schools (details supplied). [2928/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 February 2004
330 Mr. Cregan asked the Minister for Education and Science the progress on acquiring a site for a new national school (details supplied). [2927/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 29 January 2004
102 Mr. Cregan asked the Minister for Education and Science if he will respond to a school (details supplied) in Dublin 11 and their recent request for classroom assistants, at least on a pilot basis to see if these children can be kept within the educational system which will result in an obvious benefit to them and to society as a whole. [2549/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 28 January 2004
260 Mr. Cregan asked the Minister for Health and Children the progress that has been made regarding the provision of an Alzheimer's unit for St. Ita's Hospital, Newcastlewest, County Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2321/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 January 2004
875 Mr. Cregan asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of Garda Síochána members and their ranks, who have been granted the full 18 month lodging allowance as allowed for in transfer regulations applicable when members of the Garda Síochána are promoted and transferred from 1985 to date. [1484/04]