184 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will inquire from the Health Service Executive the reason for the decision made to close down the emergency HSE unit for troubled young persons in Galway; the number of young persons in private residential places being paid for by the HSE; the weekly cost to the HSE for such private residential care provided throughout 2009 and to-date in 2010.
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183 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Health and Children the inquiries she has made into the circumstances surrounding an alleged burglary of 15 Health Service Executive laptop computers at the community care offices in Roscommon town which occurred prior to the commencement by the group (details supplied) inquiring into the circumstances surrounding the Roscommon incest case; if the laptop computers were ever recovered; if she has sought information from the HSE as to whether information contained on the computers was of relevance to the investigation being conducted; if her attention has been drawn to any person being prosecuted arising out of the theft of these computers; if the laptop computers have not been recovered, the extent to which their disappearance inhibited the investigation that occurred; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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181 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will confirm the number of Health Service Executive special care units; the names, addresses and contact details of each unit; the management structure and the number of children for which each unit is certified; the plans that the HSE has regarding a special care unit (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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179 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the operation of a head shop directly opposite a secondary school (details supplied) in Dublin 6; the action that she plans to take to address the concerns expressed by the parents of the children attending this school; when she plans to introduce the appropriate legislation to regulate both the operation of these head shops and the products sold there.
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134 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Finance if consideration is being given to the State undertaking a valuation of a bank’s (details supplied) art collection; if he will require the bank, in consideration of the support provided by the State and taxpayers, to gift the collection to the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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122 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will provide details on drug treatment facilities for children; the number of residential detox and residential rehabilitation beds for children; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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121 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Health and Children the total amount of money paid for solicitors and barristers in respect of guardians ad litem per year for each of the past five years; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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120 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will provide details on the way in which reports of child abuse or neglect are risk assessed; the criteria used for same; if she will provide details on what is involved in an initial assessment; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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119 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Health and Children if all reports of child abuse in a given year are responded to; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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226 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will take the action necessary to attach to a school (details supplied) in Dublin 6 a full clinical team including a consultant psychiatrist, psychologist, occupational therapists and speech and language therapists as was attached to it until approximately six years ago to provide essential services for the educational needs of 60 children attending the school with emotional, behavioural and learning difficulties; that such clinical team should be provided in conjunction with the Lucena clinic in Rathgar or through the appointment of appropriate staff directly to the school; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that many of the children attending this school are in urgent need of structured and regular occupational therapy and or speech and language therapy; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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124 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will inquire from the Health Service Executive the reason for the decision made to close down the emergency HSE unit for troubled young people in Galway; if she will detail the number of young people in private residential places being paid for by the HSE; the weekly cost to the HSE for such private residential care as provided throughout 2009 and this year to-date.
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123 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Health and Children the inquiries she has made into the circumstances surrounding an alleged burglary of 15 Health Service Executive laptop computers at the community care offices in Roscommon town which occurred shortly prior to the commencement by the group (details supplied) inquiring into the circumstances surrounding the Roscommon incest case; whether the laptop computers were ever recovered; whether she has sought information from the HSE as to whether information contained on the computers was of relevance to the investigation being conducted; if her attention has been drawn to any person being prosecuted arising out of the theft of these computers; and if the laptop computers have not been recovered, the extent if any to which their disappearance inhibited the investigation that occurred; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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122 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will make immediate contact with the Health Service Executive with regard to the care required by a person (details supplied) in Dublin 22 who poses a risk to himself and to others as a consequence of his anti-social conduct; if she will seek to provide appropriate residential care and to further inquire with the HSE as to the reason, in recent times, when accommodation has been provided, it has been at an adult service for drug abusers; and if she will detail the response received by her from the HSE.
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346 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of Health Service Executive special care units here; the names, addresses and contact details of each unit; the management structure and the number of children for which each unit is certified; the plans that the HSE has regarding a special care unit (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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324 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Health and Children the progress made towards the funding and provision of a 116000 telephone number for the reporting of cases of missing children in keeping with the EU Universal Service Directive; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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306 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the operation of a head shop directly opposite a secondary school (details supplied) in Dublin 14; the action that she plans to take to address the concerns expressed by the parents of the children attending this school; when she plans to introduce the appropriate legislation to regulate both the operation of these head shops and the products sold there.
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205 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will ask the Health Service Executive to supply an insulin pump to persons (details supplied) in Dublin 16.
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68 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Health and Children the details on Health Service Executive plans to set up its own law office while at the same time outsourcing its legal services needs; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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49 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Health and Children when the report relating to the abuse of children (details supplied) and the failure of our child protection services to intervene appropriately and promptly to protect the welfare of the children will be published; the action taken following the publication of the report into the death of Kelly Fitzgerald in 1996 to attempt to ensure the failures of the Western Health Board documented in that report did not recur.
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206 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding the plans of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council for the redevelopment of an estate (details supplied) and the sanction required by the council and the moneys necessary to progress the proposal; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that due to the deteriorating condition of the dwellings, the council has commenced de-tenanting the flats; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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146 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the procedures that are in place to effect the removal of a parent and their children from the jurisdiction in situations where the children are in the care of the Health Service Executive and the parent is the subject of a deportation order and in cases where children have been removed from the jurisdiction in such circumstances; and the number of children that have spent some time in care apart from their parents prior to deportation in each of the past ten years.
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123 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will supply an insulin pump to a person (details supplied) in Dublin 16.
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79 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will establish a regulatory framework applicable to crisis pregnancy agencies, a licensing system and a code of ethics similar to that enforced in other health professions and a mechanism to investigate allegations of unethical conduct and the application of appropriate sanctions; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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35 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Health and Children if the review of Services for Children and Families 2008, published by the Health Service Executive, discloses a failure by the State to properly protect children at risk; her views on whether it is acceptable that of 24,668 reports regarding children at risk, only 15,364 resulted in an initial assessment; and the action she is taking to ensure all reports are properly investigated and assessed.
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5 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Health and Children the action she will take to ensure the Health Service Executive engages in discussions with an organisation (details supplied) to provide the estimated €1,970,000 per annum additional financing required to enable the expansion of its home care services for severely disabled children to children under the age of six years; her views on the fact that such an extension of services offers significant cost reductions to the State and also the uniform delivery of better services for severely disabled children and their parents; her further views on the conclusions of the report entitled, There’s No Place Like Home — A Cost and Outcomes Analysis of Alternative Models of Care for Young Children with Severe Disabilities in Ireland, published on 3 February 2010.
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168 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Health and Children the steps she will take to address the failures in our child protection services disclosed in the Health Information and Quality Authority national children in care inspection report of 2008; the steps she will take to ensure that the Health Service Executive vets all foster carers and to ensure there is a care plan in place in respect of every child in foster care and allocated social worker.
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167 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Health and Children the action the Minister of State with responsibility for children has taken since meeting with persons (details supplied) on 6 October 2009 in respect of the tragic death of their nephew, having advised them that he would contact them within a period of three weeks; if she plans to order an independent inquiry into the manner in which the Health Service Executive dealt with this family as this inquiry is required as an issue of public importance to ensure that no other family is treated in a similar manner to this family; if she will make public the findings of such an independent inquiry; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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708 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Education and Science if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a family (details supplied) that moved to Dublin from Cork in December 2009 has been unable to obtain school places for their children having applied to seven second level schools in the vicinity of their home in Dublin 16 and that the earliest places offered to the children are for September 2010; if his further attention has been drawn to the fact that these children have now not attended school for two months; the educational facilities that will be provided for these children; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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645 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the reason for the delay in publishing the Animal Health and Welfare Bill; if heads of the Bill have been approved; the general areas of reform that the Bill will address; when the Bill will be published and be before Dáil Éireann.
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352 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the consideration given to designating the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg and the European Court of Justice sitting in Luxembourg as prescribed bodies to which section 40(7)( b ) of the Civil Liability and Courts Act 2004 apply and to ask that the aforesaid courts be so prescribed by an order of the Minister pursuant to the 2004 Act to ensure that no difficulty arises in the giving of information or evidence given in proceedings to which section 40 of the 2004 Act applies which result in a related hearing taking place in either of the aforementioned European courts.
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99 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Finance the salaries which would be payable to members of the Judiciary if the legislation enacted to provide for the public sector pension deductions and the public sector wage deductions implemented pursuant to budgetary measures adopted in 2009, applied to judicial remuneration in the same manner as it applies to public sector workers in receipt of comparable salaries; and the specific reductions which would have been effected in judicial remuneration in respect of judges appointed to the District, Circuit, High and Supreme Court.
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689 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Education and Science the reason for the delay in sanctioning the funding for the construction of a new permanent school building at a school (details supplied) in County Dublin in view of the fact that original permission had already been given; if his attention has been drawn to the conditions at the school which both students and teachers have to tolerate; and when he will sanction the commencement of the school building project.
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108 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he has been involved in the compilation of an application to the EU Solidarity Fund for compensation for farmers and growers who have suffered losses due to recent extreme weather conditions; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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588 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Education and Science the additional financial contributions to be made by religious orders and congregations to the redress board funds contributed to date in 2010 and which may be utilised in the future to make compensation payments to victims of institutional abuse; the proposals made by each religious order and congregation regarding both moneys and property by way of a further acknowledgement of their liability to the victims of institutional abuse.
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587 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Education and Science the arrangements made to create an independent trust to support the needs of survivors of institutional abuse for general education and welfare purposes; the funds to be furnished by religious orders and congregations for such trust; if he will publish, in draft form, the documentation required for the establishment of such a trust; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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366 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the establishment of a new children’s mental health coalition; if he will act on its recommendation to establish a diversion system for a child with a mental health problem away from the criminal justice system into specialised mental health services; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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365 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the establishment of a new children’s mental health coalition; if he will act on its recommendation that there should be a national framework for mental health assessment of children in detention, and at community level post release, including monitoring that the necessary follow-up services are delivered; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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364 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of unaccompanied children who have come here, aged six years and under, aged between seven years and 12 years, and aged between 13 years and 18 years, who have been allowed to remain here upon reaching 18 years.
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264 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Health and Children if funding will be provided for an operation to be carried out in Tallaght Hospital, Dublin, in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 16.
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112 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the processing time for each individual social welfare office to deal with a claim for jobseeker’s benefit; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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192 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the salary payable to the chief registrar of the High Court; to individual High Court registrars; and to county registrars of the Circuit Court.
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191 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the remuneration payable to an ordinary judge of the District Court, the Circuit Court, the High Court, and the Supreme Court; the salary payable to the Presidents of the District Court, the Circuit Court and the High Court; the salary payable to the Chief Justice; and the salary payable to the Master of the High Court.
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246 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if, at their recent meeting, the Papal Nuncio agreed that he and the Vatican would furnish the Murphy commission with all documentation and information previously sought by it in connection with its inquiry into the archdiocese of Dublin; if he confirmed that there would be similar co-operation with regard to the inquiry being conducted into the diocese of Cloyne and with regard to any other diocese that may be the subject of investigation; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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245 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on the need for the dean or head of the diplomatic corps to be the longest serving ambassador resident in the State; if he supports the Papal Nuncio continuing as dean or head of he diplomatic corps; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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45 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his proposed visit to Israel has been cancelled or postponed; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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120 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the Garda Vetting Unit has in place a system of checking criminal records of persons who may have offended in Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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121 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if it is mandatory for youth workers or those with unsupervised access to children and young people to be vetted by the Garda vetting unit; if not, whether he proposes to make it mandatory; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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119 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the procedure of the Garda vetting unit in checking the criminal records of persons who apply to it to be vetted; the length of time this procedure takes; the method used to check records of persons convicted prior to the introduction of the Pulse system; the length of the backlog in the system; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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100 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of meetings of the national youth work advisory committee held in 2009; the criteria for membership of this body; the remuneration its members receive either by way of salary or expenses; if she will provide minutes of these meetings; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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99 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Health and Children the budget allocated for child protection in 2006, 2007 and 2008; the amount of this budget spent in each of these years by the Health Service Executive and other organisations mandated to carry out work in regard to it; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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