282. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide the number of public servants that earn more than €100,000 annually; and the proportion of this number that this represents of the public sector pay bill. [45732/12]
210. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Education and Skills the funding available to students for part-time courses or if there are any plans to introduce funding for part-time courses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45773/12]
550. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will give any consideration to introducing another band in the disadvantaged area payment in view of the fact that some areas in the west and north west are particularly disadvantaged and farmers face severe difficulties in making their farming activities provide an adequate income; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44746/12]
549. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a breakdown in tabular form of quota allocated to each vessel in the north west herring fishery in September 2012 and a comparative table for September 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44745/12]
412. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the project supervision costs incurred by way of professional or consultants fees for a regeneration project (details supplied) in 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44441/12]
261. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the provision of a new primary school building for a school (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44744/12]
81. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 135 of 4 October 2012, if she will provide further analysis of the number of families that are recipients of both a social welfare payment and child dependent payment that receive a payment for more than one child; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43833/12]
33. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Communications; Energy and Natural Resources with regard to the exploratory licence recently granted to a company (details supplied), when the drilling in Dublin bay is due to commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43743/12]
20. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Communications; Energy and Natural Resources if, in view of a possible oil find in Dublin Bay, if his attention has been drawn to the pamphlet, produced by Dublin Shell to Sea Campaign, Liquid assets: Ireland's oil and gas resources and how they can be managed for the people's benefit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43747/12]
573. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Health his views on the progress of the national colorectal screening programme; and if he will list the sites of such screening centres currently running [42634/12]
185. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Finance if he intends to pay public money to the ESM; and if so, the amount in advance of the legality of the ESM being considered by the ECJ. [43323/12]
135. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of people on a core social welfare payment who are also recipients of a child dependent payment; and if she will provide a breakdown of same [42442/12]
78. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Finance if he will provide a breakdown of the way the €7.5 billion given during the banks recapitalisation for mortgage debt has been used; which banks received this capital and the amount of this has been used to deal with the mortgage debt crisis. [42440/12]
64. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Finance if he is concerned by the recent statement by the German, Dutch and Finnish foreign Ministers suggesting that the European Stability Mechanism should not be used to provide debt relief for past banking losses taken on by states such as Ireland; the implications that this has for Ireland's campaign for debt relief; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42285/12]
6. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Finance if he will comment on reports that companies (details supplied) based in Shannon, County Clare, are paying very low effective rates of corporation tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42286/12]
103. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of public servants that earn between €80,000 and €100,000 annually; and the proportion that this number represents in the public sector pay bill. [42125/12]
44. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will comment on the de-facto upgrade of the EU-Israel Association Agreement strengthening trade relations between the two. [42126/12]
308. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Justice and Equality when the report regarding a particular series of events which took place after the conviction of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will be completed; and when it is scheduled to be published. [40279/12]
210. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of the child benefit budget allocated to those who are not recipients of social welfare payments, including family income supplement. [40246/12]
209. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of recipients of child benefit who are also in receipt of a social welfare payment, including family income supplement, and the percentage that they compose of the child benefit budget. [40245/12]
100. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Finance the number of those whose annual income is €80,000 and more and who claim a home carer tax credit. [40248/12]
99. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Finance the number of those with an income of €80,000 and more per annum; and the number of those with an income of €100,000 and more per annum. [40247/12]
369 Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Social Protection her plans, if any, to ensure that those who are over the age of 18 years who are made homeless but were not in care when under 18 years will be provided with a full adult payment .
[36241/12]
148 Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Education and Skills the progress that has been made on the cross-Border education survey; and if he can provide a timescale for completion of same.
[36137/12]
32 Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he intends to intervene in the continued Israeli military occupation of Palestinian territories.
[36518/12]
30 Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans, if any, to exert pressure on Israel to remove its illegal settlements and end its military occupation of Palestinian territories.
[36486/12]
749 Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Health if he will ensure that a full and appropriate service will be provided to school leavers with an intellectual disability who rely on such a service to maintain a basic quality of life.
[34475/12]
407 Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide a breakdown of all moneys spent on the MMV Ostrea since its procurement.
[34520/12]
409 Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the persons within his Department who has responsibility to adjudicate in disputes between landowners and turf cutters regarding turbary allocated by the Irish Land Commission.
[33216/12]
22 Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Finance in view of the announcements emanating from the recent EU meetings on the European banking crisis, the relief Irish citizens may expect in terms of an end to and reversal of cuts and austerity measures over the coming period; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
[32815/12]
212 Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if any rights of turbary existed on a bog (details supplied) prior to the turbary regulations being made under instrument 1546/9/56, 24 September 1956 and instrument 1673/5/56 of 14 May 1956; and if so, if he will list the plot numbers for which these rights exist.
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210 Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the Land Commission entered into any Q3 purchase agreements for plots in a bog (details supplied); and if so, if he will list the plot numbers for which Q3 agreements exist; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
[32515/12]
555 Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 484 of 26 June 2012, if he will outline, in tabular form, the locations and year that each of these licences were granted.
[32196/12]
29 Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for the Environment; Community and Local Government his plans to reduce the numbers on the housing waiting lists, which currently stand at 96,000; if he is proposing a maximum waiting time for housing applicants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31261/12]
21 Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of social housing units that will be provided in 2012 and 2013 in each local authority; the manner in which they will be provided whether by direct provision of council houses, by leasing arrangements with private landlords or by discussions with the National Assets Management Agency; if he will provide details of any agreements already in place with NAMA; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
[31260/12]
29 Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for the Environment; Community and Local Government his plans to reduce the numbers on the housing waiting lists, which currently stand at 96,000; if he is proposing a maximum waiting time for housing applicants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31261/12]
484 Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of aquaculture licenses granted to non-Natura 2000 sites since late 2007; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
[30775/12]
470 Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures that are being taken to protect migrating smolts being killed at hydros and from sealice emanating from his Department licensed fish farms.
[30423/12]
338 Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the measures that are being taken to protect migrating salmon smolts being killed going to sea from hydros and fish farms causing sealice; and his plans to review dams under the responsibility of his Department.
[30424/12]
97 Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources further to Parliamentary Question No. 434 of 1 May 2012, in relation to a study conducted by Inland Fisheries Ireland (details supplied) his views on the way such a conclusion could be reached, in view of the fact that the study in question did not address the issue of lice larvae emanating from farmed salmon as the source of infection was not examined in the publicily funded experiment and that no information was presented regarding the origin of the parasite; his views on the nine year study carried out by the Marine Institute of Ireland on the same topic, including the causes of the mortality of wild salmon.
[29906/12]
39 Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will intervene in the matter of two Palestinian political prisoners who are currently on hunger strike in an Israeli prison and have been confirmed as facing an imminent threat to their lives.
[29907/12]
277 Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the transforming public services office in his Department has considered the report on the whole system of work submitted by Donegal County Council in 2010; their views on same; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
[27689/12]
785 Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans, if any, to conduct an inquiry into the diocese of Raphoe; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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737 Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his policy regarding the acquisition of prescriptive rights of turbary on land vested in his Department; if his Department in general, dispute or acquiesce to such claims; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
[26369/12]
736 Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the year in which the Irish Land Commission last collected annual bog rents for turbary on a bog (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.
[26365/12]
734 Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide details of the number of times that the Natura 2000 steering committee met in the past six months; the dates and the issues discussed; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
[26352/12]
584 Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if the Local Government Efficiency Review Group has considered and evaluated the report on the Whole System of Work from Donegal County Council submitted in 2010; if they have a view on the value of this project; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
[26729/12]
555 Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of regeneration funding spent in 2009 on regeneration schemes (details supplied); the expenditure on project staff salaries on each of the said regeneration schemes; the project staff salaries as a percentage of overall expenditure on each scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
[26354/12]
353 Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Social Protection when a redundancy payment will be granted in respect of a person (details supplied).
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