Parliamentary questions

Traveller Community Issues

Gerry Adams

6. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to introduce legislation to recognise Traveller ethnicity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39341/12]

Prisoner Numbers

Gerry Adams

45. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the total number of prisoners held in the State on the 13 September for each of the past five years; the recommended capacity broken down by prison; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39340/12]

State Bodies Mergers

Gerry Adams

87. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to merge the Forensic Science Laboratory of the Department of Justice and Equality into the State Laboratory and its transfer to his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39387/12]

State Bodies Mergers

Gerry Adams

88. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if there will be significant cost savings as a result of the proposed merger of the Forensic Science Laboratory of the Department of Justice and Equality into the State Laboratory and its transfer to his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39389/12]

State Bodies Mergers

Gerry Adams

89. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on whether the provision of a high quality, independent and seamless scientific service in the administration of justice will be lost by separating the Forensic Science Laboratory from the rest of the criminal justice system and merging it into another organisation with disparate objectives, many of them unrelated to the administration of justice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39390/12]

Energy Schemes Issues

Gerry Adams

145. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Communications; Energy and Natural Resources if his attention has been drawn to the situation facing residents in an estate (details supplied) in County Louth; if the development received funding from Sustainable Energy Ireland; the amount of funding that was provided; if he has taken any steps to re-coup any of this money; if he has been in contact with the local authority or other stakeholders in relation to the situation at this estate; if he will intervene in this situation on behalf of local residents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39515/12]

State Bodies Mergers

Gerry Adams

162. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if the Forensic Science Laboratory underwent any external reviews of its functions and staffing levels in recent years; if the proposed merger into the State Laboratory emerged as an option or a desired outcome from any of these reviews; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39388/12]

Discussions with European Leaders

Gerry Adams

1. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Taoiseach the contacts that he has had with European leaders since the summer recess. [37878/12]

Discussions with European Leaders

Gerry Adams

2. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Taoiseach the issues he will prioritise for the European Council meeting of 18 and 19 October. [37879/12]

Discussions with European Leaders

Gerry Adams

3. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Taoiseach if he has been in contact with German Chancellor Angela Merkel since the Dáil went into recess. [37880/12]

Waste Management Regulations

Gerry Adams

71. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government when he will make public his proposals to regulate the domestic waste collection industry. [39070/12]

Departmental Staff Training

Gerry Adams

138. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Taoiseach the amount of money spent on an annual basis on education and training of staff in 2011 and to date in 2012; the number of staff that availed of each course; if he will provide a list of the courses staff undertook and the cost of each course per person. [38492/12]

Departmental Staff Training

Gerry Adams

179. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the amount of money spent on an annual basis on education and training of staff in 2011 and to date in 2012; the number of staff that availed of each course; if he will provide a list of the courses staff undertook and the cost of each course per person. [38486/12]

Job Assist Scheme Expenditure

Gerry Adams

204. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer to date of the Revenue job assist programme. [37031/12]

Departmental Staff Training

Gerry Adams

280. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Finance the amount of money spent on an annual basis on education and training of staff in 2011 and to date in 2012; the number of staff that availed of each course; if he will provide a list of the courses staff undertook and the cost of each course per person. [38485/12]

Departmental Staff Training

Gerry Adams

436. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of money spent on an annual basis on education and training of staff in 2011 and to date in 2012; the number of staff that availed of each course; if he will provide a list of the courses staff undertook and the cost of each course per person. [38483/12]

Public Procurement Tenders

Gerry Adams

492. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if it is the case that a recent tender process operated by the National Procurement Service on managed print services operated a criteria which effectively excluded more than 90% of potential tenderers on the basis of requiring a minimum average turnover of more than €10 million for the previous three years; his plans to make such tender processes less restrictive to allow small and medium enterprises to tender for State contracts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38462/12]

Departmental Staff Training

Gerry Adams

532. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount of money spent on an annual basis on education and training of staff in 2011 and to date in 2012; the number of staff that availed of each course; if he will provide a list of the courses staff undertook and the cost of each course per person. [38490/12]

Departmental Staff Training

Gerry Adams

614. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the amount of money spent on an annual basis on education and training of staff in 2011 and to date in 2012; the number of staff that availed of each course; if he will provide a list of the courses staff undertook and the cost of each course per person. [38488/12]

Tax and Social Welfare Codes

Gerry Adams

639. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Social Protection the steps she has taken to address the issues of tax parity and PRSI contributions for self-employed workers; her views on whether the current system discourages persons from becoming self-employed due to the absence of a social safety net if business fails; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37166/12]

Illness Benefit Eligibility

Gerry Adams

744. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Social Protection if she has decided to withdraw disability benefit payment to persons who take up addiction rehabilitation as part of a community employment scheme; when this decision was made; the savings made as a result of this cut; and the assessments carried out to determine the effect this cut will have on the amount of drug misusers taking up special community employment rehabilitation. [38167/12]

Departmental Staff Training

Gerry Adams

784. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Social Protection the amount of money spent on an annual basis on education and training of staff in 2011 and to date in 2012; the number of staff that availed of each course; and if she will provide a list of the courses staff undertook and the cost of each course per person. [38491/12]

Departmental Staff Training

Gerry Adams

933. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Arts; Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount of money spent on an annual basis on education and training of staff in 2011 and to date in 2012; the number of staff that availed of each course; if he will provide a list of the courses staff undertook and the cost of each course per person. [38479/12]

Broadband Services Provision

Gerry Adams

982. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Communications; Energy and Natural Resources if the targets contained in the recently published national broadband plan for 30MB broadband speed across rural Ireland involves fibre connectivity as opposed to mobile broadband; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38422/12]

Broadband Services Provision

Gerry Adams

983. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Communications; Energy and Natural Resources the way he will assess where there has been market failure in the provision of high speed broadband in rural Ireland; if this process has already begun; if any specific areas in County Louth have been identified where the market has failed to provide adequate high speed broadband; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38423/12]

Broadband Services Provision

Gerry Adams

984. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Communications; Energy and Natural Resources if the towns of County Louth will be included in the 50% of the population to which he is aiming to deliver 70 - 100MB broadband speeds by 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38424/12]

Broadband Services Provision

Gerry Adams

985. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Communications; Energy and Natural Resources the percentage of the population of County Louth that currently have access to broadband speeds in excess of 70MB and the way this compare to the average across the State. [38425/12]

Departmental Staff Training

Gerry Adams

987. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Communications; Energy and Natural Resources the amount of money spent on an annual basis on education and training of staff in 2011 and to date in 2012; the number of staff that availed of each course; if he will provide a list of the courses staff undertook and the cost of each course per person. [38481/12]

Departmental Staff Training

Gerry Adams

1099. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for the Environment; Community and Local Government the amount of money spent on an annual basis on education and training of staff in 2011 and to date in 2012; the number of staff that availed of each course; if he will provide a list of the courses staff undertook and the cost of each course per person. [38484/12]

Departmental Staff Training

Gerry Adams

1241. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the amount of money spent on an annual basis on education and training of staff in 2011 and to date in 2012; the number of staff that availed of each course; if he will provide a list of the courses staff undertook and the cost of each course per person. [38489/12]

Departmental Staff Training

Gerry Adams

1332. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Defence the amount of money spent on an annual basis on education and training of staff in 2011 and to date in 2012; the number of staff that availed of each course; if he will provide a list of the courses staff undertook and the cost of each course per person. [38482/12]

Agri-Environment Options Scheme Reopening

Gerry Adams

1389. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Agriculture; Food and the Marine his plans to put together a new agri environment options scheme for farmers for the remainder of 2012; the steps he has taken on the matter; the meetings he has had with farming organisations on the issue; if funding been secured to resource the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37908/12]

Departmental Staff Training

Gerry Adams

1409. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Agriculture; Food and the Marine the amount of money spent on an annual basis on education and training of staff in 2011 and to date in 2012; the number of staff that availed of each course; if he will provide a list of the courses staff undertook and the cost of each course per person. [38478/12]

Child Protection Issues

Gerry Adams

1480. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if a case conference has been held in relation to the cases of persons (details supplied) in County Meath; if no case conference was held the reason for same; and if the Health Service Executive has sought legal advice on this case. [38477/12]

Departmental Staff Training

Gerry Adams

1481. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount of money spent on an annual basis on education and training of staff in 2011 and to date in 2012; the number of staff that availed of each course; if she will provide a list of the courses staff undertook and the cost of each course per person. [38480/12]

Hospital Equipment

Gerry Adams

1504. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Health the number of insulin pumps now in operation at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda. [37041/12]

Hospital Equipment

Gerry Adams

1505. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Health the timeframe for children to be fitted with insulin pumps at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, County Louth. [37042/12]

Health Services Provision

Gerry Adams

1506. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Louth will be fitted with an insulin pump. [37043/12]

Health Services Staff

Gerry Adams

1507. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Health if a care provider (details supplied) in County Louth was engaged by the Health Service Executive to train staff; the reason the training was outsourced; its cost; and his views on whether such practices are cost effective considering that most HSE training takes place within HSE facilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37044/12]

Health Services Staff

Gerry Adams

1508. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Health if, as a result of budget constraints, some Health Service Executive staff are no longer rostered to work on weekends and that instead agency staff are hired to plug these gaps; and the cost or saving implications of measures such as these. [37045/12]

Health Services Staff Issues

Gerry Adams

1682. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1298 of 18 April 2012, if the two posts in the Rian counselling service in the Health Service Executive north east area have been appointed and if staff are now in position. [37906/12]

Hospital Services

Gerry Adams

1683. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Health if he has been in contact with management of a hospital (details supplied) in County Louth and-or Louth County Hospital in Dundalk in relation to implementing cutbacks or reductions in services which will affect patients between now and the end of 2012; the services that will be affected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37907/12]

Health Services Staff Issues

Gerry Adams

1687. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Health if the recommendations of the report into the circumstances pertaining to the death of a person (details supplied) in County Louth were implemented in full; if any of the decisions announced by the Health Service Executive recently with respect to cuts in agency staffing and overtime hours compromise the implementation of these recommendations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38025/12]

Hospital Staff Issues

Gerry Adams

1688. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Health if he will provide a detailed breakdown, including details on the position, role and grade of staff, the number of posts cut from each of the Louth-Meath hospitals as a result of the Health Service Executive decision to cut back on agency staff and overtime hours. [38026/12]

Health Services Provision

Gerry Adams

1689. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of all measures being undertaken to cut costs in the Louth-Meath area, including details on the likely impact on health service users of these measures. [38027/12]

Health Services Provision

Gerry Adams

1690. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Health if he will provide the risk assessments carried out in relation to decisions by the Health Service Executive to introduce cost cutting measures including the elimination of agency staff and cuts to overtime in the Louth Meath hospital group. [38028/12]

Health Services Provision

Gerry Adams

1694. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Health if any reductions in services in mothers' and children's services in the Louth-Meath hospital group are planned as part of the cost-cutting plans between now and the end of the year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38073/12]

Health Services Staff Issues

Gerry Adams

1695. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Health if he will provide a month-by-month breakdown in tabular form of the number of exemptions granted to the recruitment embargo for each Health Service Executive region since March 2011. [38074/12]

Eating Disorders

Gerry Adams

1704. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Health the supports or treatments available to persons suffering from bulimia nervosa here; the number of places available in the State to treat patients suffering from bulimia; the number of persons on waiting lists for such treatment; the timeframe patients are on waiting lists before they receive treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38120/12]

Eating Disorders

Gerry Adams

1705. Deputy Gerry Adams asked the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) in County Meath is currently on a waiting list for admittance to a treatment programme for bulimia nervosa; the supports in place or that are being put in place to ensure they get the treatment they require; and the timeframe they will be waiting before they are admitted to a treatment programme. [38121/12]