Parliamentary questions

Consumer Protection

Patrick Nulty

173. Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Minister for Jobs; Enterprise and Innovation if he has met a delegation from the Consumers Association of Ireland to discuss their funding problems; and if there are any plans for a follow up meeting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40372/12]

Consumer Protection

Patrick Nulty

174. Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Minister for Jobs; Enterprise and Innovation if the Consumers Association of Ireland has made an application for funding for 2012 or 2013; if his Department has evaluated same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40373/12]

Consumer Protection

Patrick Nulty

175. Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Minister for Jobs; Enterprise and Innovation if any public funding has been made available to the Consumers Association for 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40374/12]

Energy Schemes Issues

Patrick Nulty

288. Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Minister for the Environment; Community and Local Government the grants available, if any, towards the installation of solar panels on local authority housing; if there is no such scheme in place, if he will consider the provision of such funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40370/12]

Mental Health Services Provision

Patrick Nulty

448. Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Minister for Health the number of persons who have been discharged from psychiatric hospitals and the type of accommodation that they have been discharged into in each of the years 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and to date in 2012 in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40371/12]

National Children's Hospital Location

Patrick Nulty

449. Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Minister for Health when the report of the review group on the national children's hospital, the Dolphin Report, will be published; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40375/12]

Medical Card Applications

Patrick Nulty

257. Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Minister for Health if he will expedite the renewal of a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39935/12]

Derelict Sites

Patrick Nulty

48. Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update on plans to review the Derelict Sites Act 1990 to deal with the increase in derelict sites; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37871/12]

Social and Affordable Housing Provision

Patrick Nulty

68. Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the action he will take to ensure that a sufficient supply of social housing is available to cope with housing needs; his views on whether his policy of encouraging housing associations to access finance from the Housing Finance Agency to acquire or build new units is running into difficulty because so few housing associations have been approved for finance from the HFA; his views on the number of social housing units provided by the National Asset Management Agency; the action he will take to address shortcomings in social housing policy and its implementation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36900/12]

Social Insurance Refunds

Patrick Nulty

234. Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Minister for Finance further to parliamentary question No. 58 of 6 June, 2012 when a PRSI refundm will be granted to a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15; the reason for the further undue delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37697/12]

Building Regulations Application

Patrick Nulty

526. Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if there will be a stipulation insisting that only builders and developers who have fully discharged their responsibilities with regard to previous developments be eligible to tender for stimulus funding in the construction sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37937/12]

Gender Recognition Issues

Patrick Nulty

635. Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Minister for Social Protection when transgender-intersex citizens will be recognised and the reason for the failure to date to provide such recognition. [37934/12]

Rent Supplement Scheme Payments

Patrick Nulty

637. Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of occasions in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and to date in 2012 in which one month’s rents in advance have been provided through exceptional needs payments. [38746/12]

Rent Supplement Scheme Applications

Patrick Nulty

683. Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will confirm if the freephone number for the central rents unit serving Dublin 15 has been moved, and replaced with a Lo-call number; if so if she will re-instate the freephone number given the difficulties it is causing rent supplement applicants, many of whom have very limited means and for whom the expense of ringing the Lo-call number is prohibitive; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37698/12]

Alternative Energy Projects

Patrick Nulty

1000. Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Minister for Communications; Energy and Natural Resources the grants available, if any, towards the installation of solar panels on local authority housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39230/12]

Planning Issues

Patrick Nulty

1066. Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Minister for the Environment; Community and Local Government the number of developers being refused planning permissions under section 35 of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended by the Planning and Development Act 2010, which provides for the refusal of planning permission by a local authority where the authority is satisfied that a person is not in compliance with a previous permission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37935/12]

Building Regulations Amendments

Patrick Nulty

1067. Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Minister for the Environment; Community and Local Government if he will introduce a system of mandatory registration of builders and property developers; if builders and developers who fail to discharge their responsibilities with regard to existing and previous developments will be barred from registration under such a system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37936/12]

Pyrite Remediation Programme

Patrick Nulty

1068. Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Minister for the Environment; Community and Local Government if he will introduce a waiver from the household charge and forthcoming property tax for homeowners affected by pyrite until such time as their developments have been fully remediated; if this waiver will apply retrospectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37938/12]

Insurance Industry Regulation

Patrick Nulty

1069. Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Minister for the Environment; Community and Local Government if he will introduce regulations regarding structural insurance, home insurance and insurance for building projects and quarries to ensure that there is adequate consumer protection as per recommendations 22, 16 and 19 in the Pyrite Report; if he will further ensure that the insurer in these instances will be entirely independent of the entity responsible for construction and of the building industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37939/12]

Pyrite Remediation Programme

Patrick Nulty

1070. Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Minister for the Environment; Community and Local Government in relation to the Pyrite Panel report if he has adopted a definition of what constitutes significant damage; the way in which homeowners confirm which category they are in terms of the red and amber categories; the way in which and when he intends to clarify this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37940/12]