149 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Health and Children if the Health Service Executive has provided her with a schedule of clear timelines for completing all reviews of child deaths which are currently in progress but not yet complete; if such schedule includes, in respect of each review, milestone dates for completion of the review, finalisation of the report and publication of an executive summary; when she proposes to lay a copy of the schedule before the Houses of the Oireachtas and publish it; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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148 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Health and Children if the report being prepared by the Independent Review Group into the death of children in care will be completed by 31 December 2010 as originally promised; if any time extension has been requested and or granted for the furnishing of the report; when it has been finalised and received; when it will be published; if, to date, she has received any reports indicating that the numbers of children who died in care since the commencement of the year 2000 exceed 188; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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95 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills whether she has any concerns about adults who have not been vetted attending FÁS courses in a school (details supplied) in Dublin 16 when pupils are attending the school and her policy applicable to such arrangements.
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94 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she will detail all moneys paid out in respect of FÁS courses held in a school (details supplied) in Dublin 16 from September 2008 to date in 2010; to whom such moneys were paid; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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93 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she will detail all FÁS courses which are currently taking place or which have taken place in a school (details supplied) in Dublin 16 since September 2008; in respect of each course, under whose aegis such course is or was held; and in respect of each course, if it is or was part time or full time, the number of hours duration per day and if daytime or evening.
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69 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Taoiseach the estimated number of Irish citizens who emigrated from the State during 2009; the number of Irish citizens who returned to reside here in 2009 and the net emigration and immigration figure for that year; and to ask that the same information be furnished for the period 1 January 2010 to 30 November 2010.
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214 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he has called in the Russian Ambassador to discuss with him the use of Irish passports by persons allegedly carrying out long-term deep cover assignments in the United States; if any official in the Russian embassy is known to have been involved in activities relating to this matter; and the action, if any, taken to date to record this State’s disapproval of the misuse of Irish passports in such circumstances.
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183 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform when the next intake of Garda recruits will commence training in Templemore; and the reason his June announcement of 100 recruits to the Gardaí has not been implemented.
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165 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the number of persons who have been prosecuted and the number of persons who have been convicted under the Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009.
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117 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Health and Children if the report that has been prepared on the provision of funding for voluntary agencies by a person (details supplied) has been furnished to her Department; the reason for the delay in the publishing of the report and when she intends to publish same
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30 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills in the context of the second phase of the tendering process for the construction of a school (details supplied) in Dublin 16, to make it a condition of the construction contract that in so far as is possible local persons are employed in the construction of the school and that this be a condition of the awarding of the contract; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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129 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform if he will provide a breakdown of the Garda pay and allowances cuts that have been made since the publication of the Report of the Special Group on Public Service Numbers and Expenditure Programmes.
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128 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the suggestions of the Report of the Special Group on Public Service Numbers and Expenditure Programmes which have been implemented by him.
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126 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform his plans to change the jurisdiction in the District and Civil Court in civil cases.
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110 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Health and Children the reasons for a delay of up to eight months for an initial appointment with the Health Service Executive hearing services at a location (details supplied) for patients requiring a hearing aid and a further two months delay for a second appointment for the hearing aid to be supplied and fitted.
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129 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the total sum received by RTE in each of the years 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and to date in 2010 by way of television licence fee; if he has engaged in any discussions with RTE with regard to any future increase or decrease in the licence fee or with regard to a decrease in operating costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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28 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Tourism; Culture and Sport if she has received representations from the car hire industry; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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166 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform to detail in respect of each prison the number of prisoners who, in the period 1 November 2009 to 31 October 2010, having been sentenced to terms of imprisonment for non-payment of a fine, were unconditionally released without such fine having been paid or with only a portion of such fine having been paid; the loss of revenue to the State resulting from the non-payment of such fines; the cost to the State of the process of securing the conviction and imprisonment of such offenders; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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165 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform, further to Parliamentary Question No. 348 and the letter furnished by him in response to that question, to furnish to this Deputy in reply to this question a copy of the circular referred to in the letter as issued recently by the Irish Prison Service to all prison governors; to state the issue date of such circular; and to furnish a copy and to state the issue date of the previous circular and-or instruction which was replaced by such circular.
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160 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the steps he is taking to provide a publically accessible database of commercial leasehold interests and rents payable; his views on whether it is in the public interest that legislation be enacted to provide for such a database to provide reliable rent comparators to stabilise the commercial rental market; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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155 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform if he regards it as appropriate that solicitors appointed District Court judges, immediately or a short time after their judicial appointment, be appointed to or preside over a District Court in the local town or area in which prior to their appointment they practised as a solicitor; if a determination as to the location in which they should initially preside as a judge is determined by the Minister, the Courts Services or the President of the District Court; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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152 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the estimated annual cost to the State of the Legal Aid Board administering the criminal legal aid scheme; if heads of a Bill have yet been prepared to make provision for the Legal Aid Board administering the criminal legal aid scheme; when he expects to publish and circulate the required Bill before the House; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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148 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the number of prosecutions that have been initiated against prisoners in the period the 1 January 2010 to the 30 September 2010 as a consequence of the seizure of drugs in prison; the number of such prosecutions initiated in each of the past five years; and the number of convictions obtained in each of the aforesaid periods.
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147 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform in the context of the 1,387 mobile telephone seizures in prisons during the first nine months of this year, the number of prosecutions initiated against prisoners as a consequence of the finding and seizure of mobile telephones; the number of prosecutions initiated in 2008 and 2009 following the seizure of mobile telephones in prison; the number of convictions obtained and the number of such prosecutions awaiting determination; and if he is concerned that convicted offenders are using mobile telephones to orchestrate criminal activities by associates.
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119 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Finance the steps he is taking to reduce the amount of smuggling of cigarettes and other tobacco products into the State and to ensure that those found guilty of such offence are properly punished; if he is aware that the average fine for such smuggling in 2010 is less than €600 and if he regards this as appropriate; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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153 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to reports that a member of a gang suspected of the killing of a drug dealer (details supplied) obtained a security licence from the Private Security Authority despite having a conviction for gun crime; the steps, if any, he is taking to ensure that members of criminal gangs do not obtain such licences nor engage in the provision of security services; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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151 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the developments, if any, that have occurred since the answer given by him to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 42, 51 and 56 of 10 December 2009 as a consequence of the Garda assistant commissioner, northern region being appointed to examine the file concerning the original investigation which took place into the matter and suspected rape of a person (details supplied) in 1970; if he will state if it has been established that obstacles were placed in the way of the original investigation which inhibited its completion and a prosecution taking place; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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68 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 234 of 30 September 2010, if he will provide the information sought in question, and the reason for the continuing delay in the furnishing of the information sought.
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154 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the number of convicted sex offenders presently serving a prison sentence; the location in which the sentence is being served; the treatment programmes for sex offenders presently operating within the prison system and their location; the qualifications and the numbers of persons employed in the provision of such programmes and the number of prisoners presently participating in such programmes.
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41 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform his views that pre-existing commercial leases which prescribe upwards only rent reviews pose a serious threat to the economic viability of many businesses and to the protection of employment and the action he proposes to take; if his attention has been drawn to any reports of landlords incentivising commercial tenants to agree artificially high rent increases in order to provide artificial rent comparators for the purpose of other rent reviews under arbitration; if he proposes to introduce any legislation to criminalise such arrangements; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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39 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to an article (details supplied) relating to the death of Fr. Niall Molloy on 18 July 1985 regarding the investigation conducted into his death and the trial that followed; if in view of the revelations contained in the report he will ask the Garda Commissioner for the investigation into Fr. Molloy’s death to be reopened so that the facts surrounding his death may be re-examined with a view to determining whether any new prosecution should take place; if he intends to ask the Garda Commissioner that an assistant commissioner now conduct an investigation into the original investigation that occurred and examine all relevant files and papers to report on whether the initial investigation was properly conducted or, as an alternative, to ask that the Garda Ombudsman undertake such further investigation and report on the matter
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37 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform if he has received a report from the Garda Commissioner on the policing of the student demonstrations that took place outside Leinster House and in the vicinity of Leinster House on Wednesday 3 November 2010; the number of gardaí injured as a result of objects being thrown at them and the nature of the injuries sustained; if he has received or is aware of any complaints made by students who participated in the demonstration and if he has any concerns regarding the approach taken by An Garda Síochaná in dealing with some demonstrators; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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193 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 348 of 19 October 2010, if he yet has available to him the required information to provide the promised response; if he will provide the information in response to this question and if he does not have the relevant information to explain the nature of the difficulty that has arisen in this regard.
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89 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the remaining sanction required to facilitate the construction of a new school (details supplied) to go to tender; when it is expected a decision will be made to sanction commencement of the tendering process; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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84 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the co-location policy; her views that the Voluntary Health Insurance, VHI, will not cover its customers in co-located private hospitals; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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60 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Finance his specific proposals to incentivise bank customers to more frequently use plastic cards and to reduce their use of ATM machines to access their own cash from their own bank accounts; to detail the exact additional charge he proposes the banks impose on bank customers accessing cash; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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286 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform if he will provide details of the cost in each of the past three years in respect of each of the 15 prison visiting committees; the expenses paid to each member of each prison visiting committee; if he will detail all other costs in each of the past three years connected with each visiting committee’s work and the drafting and publication of all prison visiting committee reports
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560 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs if a review of the family mediation service was carried out by a consultancy (details supplied) at the request of the Family Support Agency and a report on the review completed; the date on which the report was completed; the cost of the consultancy and report; and the reason the report has not to date been published when same will be published.
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379 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of marriages that took place in the State between 1 January 2010 and 30 September 2010 where one party to the marriage was a non-Irish EU national and the other party was a non-EU national; the breakdown of the nationalities of the parties who participated in such marriages; the number of such marriages notified to be celebrated that did not proceed following such notification.
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323 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the number of non-EU nationals who have applied for continuing residency here this year to date as a spouse who has married a non-Irish EU national here; the breakdown of the nationality and gender of the applicants and their EU spouses; the nationalities and number of applicants granted such residence to date; the numbers awaiting decision; the numbers refused such residency and the reasons for such refusal.
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319 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the position regarding the announced review into the cases of asylum seekers who are waiting five years or more to receive a final decision on applications made to continue residing here; the number of individuals in such circumstances; when the review will be complete and to detail the purpose of the review.
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318 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the steps being taken by the Garda Síochána to counteract the upsurge in the use of illegal mobile phone jammers; if they are being used by gangland criminals during bank raids to prevent persons from calling the Garda Síochána; his views that the current law is adequate to address this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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317 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the progress made to date in cross-Border discussions with regard to the management of sex offenders between Northern Ireland and this State; the legislation, if any, he proposes to introduce to facilitate the harmonisation of laws in practice in both Northern Ireland and this State in this area; the differences to date identified between the two jurisdictions; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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316 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform if the legislation is being prepared to facilitate this State to ratify the Hague Convention on the International Recovery of Child Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenance adopted on the 23 November 2007 to better facilitate the international enforcement of spousal maintenance and child support orders; the reason for the delay in preparing such legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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315 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the current visa arrangements applicable to Chinese citizens who wish to attend a recognised school or third level college here and to visit Ireland as tourists; the reforms, if any, he intends to introduce to make it easier for Chinese tourists to visit the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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307 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the proposals detailed in the action plan prepared by him relating to his Department under the terms of the Croke Park agreement to bring about reform, efficiencies and financial savings in the justice and law reform area and the steps taken to date to agree implementation of what is proposed in the plan
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58 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the number of drug seizures in each of our prisons from 1 January 2010 to 30 September 2010
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57 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the number of prisoners presently serving sentences of one year or less in each of our prisons; the weekly cost of such sentences to the taxpayer and the estimated comparative cost to the taxpayer if each such prisoner had been sentenced to a maximum period of community service
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56 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the number of mobile phone seizures in each prison here in the nine-month period from 1 January 2010 to 30 September 2010 and the action being taken to prevent the furnishing of mobile phones to prisoners
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