184 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his plans to require local authorities to provide facilities for construction and demolition waste; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that some local authorities do not provide such facilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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183 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when he will require uniformity from local authorities regarding construction and demolition waste where currently some authorities require a permit to move construction and demolition waste while other authorities do not; if his attention has been drawn to this problem; his views on whether it is unfair to allow this situation continue; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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136 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she has submitted recommendations to the special group on public expenditure in advance of the McCarthy report being formulated.
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1250 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Education and Science if his attention has been drawn to a situation (details supplied) whereby a pupil with Asperger’s syndrome is not being facilitated in the school with the prescribed hours as set down by his Department.
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1131 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Education and Science the initiatives that are in place to support international students in higher education; the funding that is in place to support international students in higher education; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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1129 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Education and Science the envisioned budget for the Higher Education Authority access funding for 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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1128 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Education and Science the budget for the Higher Education Authority access funding for 2009; the budget for HEA access funding in each year for the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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1130 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Education and Science if the Higher Education Authority funding will be reduced as a result of the Special Group on Public Service Numbers and Expenditure Programmes proposal to merge the HEA and his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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1127 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Education and Science the budget of the Higher Education Authority recurrent funding for 2009; the budget for HEA recurrent funding in each year for the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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1122 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Education and Science if he will review the decision taken by County Louth Vocational Education Committee to award a full adjacent third level trainee maintenance grant to the value of €1,370 to a person (details supplied) in County Louth, rather than a non-adjacent grant of €3,420; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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1041 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the numbers in employment in the food processing sector in 2009; the numbers in employment in the food processing sector in each of the past ten years; the numbers in employment in overall industry in 2009; the numbers in employment in overall industry in each of the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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1040 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the cost to indigenous agrifood enterprises of loopholes in labelling that allow raw materials produced outside of Ireland and subsequently processed here to label and market themselves as Irish; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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1039 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the procedures he has in place in order that consumers are not misled by products claiming to be Irish; the procedures in place to ensure that raw agrifood materials being imported are not being labelled or marketed as Irish; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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1038 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the criteria in place in order that an agrifood company can label and market its products as Irish; the percentage of Irish raw materials to be used so that agrifood companies can market and label their products as Irish; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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1037 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the initiatives he has taken to promote indigenous agrifood products domestically; the initiatives he has taken to promote indigenous agrifood products abroad; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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943 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the return to the Exchequer if the tax on second homes were raised to €1,000.
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843 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the amount that would be raised by abolishing the ceiling on PRSI.
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585 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Health and Children if she plans to discontinue the nursing home subvention scheme, to change the eligibility criteria for receiving nursing home subvention or change the scheme in any way; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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378 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Finance if he has examined increasing capital gains tax on share trading; and the return for the Exchequer if he increased this tax to 50%.
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374 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Finance the amount that would be saved by the Exchequer if mortgage interest relief for landlords was abolished.
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370 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Finance the return to the Exchequer if the health levy was increased by 3% on persons earning in excess of €100,000.
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366 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Finance the amount that would be raised by introducing a third tax rate of 50% on income earned in excess of €100,000.
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365 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Finance the amount that would be raised by introducing a third tax rate of 48% on income earned in excess of €100,000.
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364 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Finance the financial impact on the Exchequer of the abolishment of the 2% income levy on persons earning up to €75,036.
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363 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Finance if he will make a statement on the amount an annual 1% wealth tax on assets worth more than €1 million would return to the Exchequer in the course of a year.
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362 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Finance if a study has been undertaken to assess the return to the Exchequer if a wealth tax was introduced here; and if such a study has not been completed, if he will do so.
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197 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the implications of the Services Directive, Directive 2006/123/EC for the competitiveness of Irish businesses in relation to other EU Member States with a lower cost base; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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196 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the implications of the Services Directive, Directive 2006/123/EC for Irish businesses in view of the fact that Ireland was the tenth largest exporter of services in the world in 2007; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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195 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment her plans in respect of the Services Directive, Directive 2006/123/EC; if she will bring it before Dáil Éireann in legislative form, thereby allowing a full parliamentary debate on the implications of the directive; if she will move it by way of statutory instrument; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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133 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the contacts he has had with Foras na Gaeilge with a view to securing alternative employment for the 10 workers who have lost their jobs with the cessation of the publication of a newspaper (details supplied) in County Galway; the role he had in attempting to save these jobs; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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123 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of agrifood companies as a percentage of total companies and businesses here; the number of export orientated agrifood companies as a percentage of export orientated companies here; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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122 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of food production companies that are involved in organic production; the number of companies that are involved in organic production in each of the past five years; the number of organic companies as a percentage of total companies involved in the agrifood sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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121 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of jobs created in the agrifood sector in the past five years; the number of job losses in the agrifood sector in the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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120 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of agrifood businesses that have been created over the past five years; the average size of new agrifood businesses; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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119 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of companies involved in food processing; the breakdown between large companies and smaller micro enterprises involved in food processing; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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118 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of companies involved in the agrifood sector; the number of companies in the agrifood sector for each of the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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71 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on whether the EU’s Free Trade Agreement negotiations with Columbia should be halted in view of the increasing number of murders of trade unionists in that country; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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29 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the action he has taken in the past 12 months in support of efforts to rehouse the Roma refugees living near toxic waste dumps in Mitrovica, Kosova; the further action he will take; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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333 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the sales growth of the agrifood sector over the past decade; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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