Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

Judicial Appointments

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

2. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to restore public confidence in the judicial appointments process in view of media revelations that as many as one third of judges here have personal or political connections to political parties before being appointed to the bench. [46417/12]

Restorative Justice

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

5. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to expand community restorative justice programmes throughout the State; and his views on the contribution these programmes can make to the overall justice system. [46414/12]

Invalidity Pension Appeals

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

114. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding invalidity pension in respect of a person (details supplied) and if she will review same. [46815/12]

Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

58. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to introduce guidelines for local authorities to facilitate a transparent housing waiting list system in which applicants would have access to their own standing via a reference number. [46203/12]

Local Government Reform

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

61. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the engagement and discussions that have taken place with relevant Departments to further devolve functions to local authorities; and the functions which will be devolved. [46076/12]

IDA Site Visits

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

298. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide statistics on the number of site visits for potential investors arranged by the Industrial Development Agency on a county basis from 2002 to 2012. [46487/12]

Enterprise Ireland Investments

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

299. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide statistics on the levels of investment by Enterprise Ireland in companies on a county basis from 2002 to 2012. [46488/12]

Garda Vetting of Personnel

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

514. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will examine the case of a person (details supplied) who has had difficulties attaining employment because the Garda vetting process continues to release alleged offences and for which they were not convicted, to potential employers. [46400/12]

Cancer Incidence

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

694. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health the number of persons diagnosed with any type of cancer on a county basis from 1990 through to 2012 [46492/12]

Ferry Services Provision

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

74. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he is taking to ensure the continued operation of the Greencastle-Magilligan Ferry. [45135/12]

Pilot Training Colleges

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

77. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he is taking to help the people who were let down by the pilot training college having paid large tuition fees. [45131/12]

Middle East Peace Process

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

9. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to reports from German news organisation, Der Speigel, which states that Germany is providing military submarines to Israel, which are capable of firing nuclear armed cruise missiles; and if he has raised this matter with the German Government. [44808/12]

Human Rights Issues

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

47. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the recently released Children in Military Custody report, which was sponsored by the British Foreign Office, and details the imprisonment and torture of Palestinian children by Israeli forces; if he has raised the report with the Israeli Government in view of the fact that it shows that Israel is in breach of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44805/12]

Invalidity Pension Eligibility

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

79. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Social Protection if she is concerned by the refusal rate on invalidity pension applications which is exceptionally high at 87% between January and July 2012. [44560/12]

Fuel Allowance Payments

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

97. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will make additional provision by way of the partial or whole restoration of the cuts made to the fuel allowance in view of the further price hikes approved by the Commission for Energy Regulation last month. [44559/12]

Pilot Training Colleges

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

291. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when this Deputy may expect a response from him to the correspondence emailed to him on 31 July 2012 appealing to the him to take responsibility for ensuring that the young trainee pilots and their families impacted by the breakdown in the commercial relationship between the Pilot Training College in Waterford and the Florida Institute of Technology are provided with alternative training at no additional cost that enables them to attain their pilots licence. [44710/12]

Army Barracks Closures

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

476. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Justice and Equality when he will issue a response to this Deputy to my query (details supplied) seeking to clarify if he had issued any electronic mail to his constituency members or constituents, welcoming the move of personnel from McKee Barracks in North Dublin to Cathal Brugha Barracks in South Dublin. [44715/12]

Hospital Staff

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

677. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health if he will provide details on overall staff levels at every individual hospital in the State for 2010 and 2011; and if he will ensure that a full and substantive reply is included in his reply and that the reply does not consist only of a direction to a specific website. [44707/12]

Hospital Services

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

686. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health following a recent Hydrocephalus information day in County Donegal, it emerged that there is no emergency plan in place from Letterkenny Hospital to Beaumont or Temple Street hospitals, Dublin, when a child with a problem relating to their Hydrocephalus and that there needs to be links between these hospitals to make sure that services in an emergency situation are coordinated as time is an important factor in these situations; his plans to rectify this issue [44752/12]

Health Services Provision

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

687. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health his plans to resource the much needed support for persons living with Huntington's disease (details supplied) [44753/12]