648 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on the European Trade Union Confederation’s warning to the European Central Bank to stop its crusade against fair wages, following a statement made by bank president Jean-Claude Trichet in January 2008; when he referred to minimum wages as unnecessary.
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647 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on the findings by the European Court of Justice in the Laval case; and the implications the findings may have for the Irish labour force.
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183 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance his views on the CPSU’s decision to recommend to its members the rejection of the methodology behind benchmarking, after the union’s members failed to receive pay increases in 2008.
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128 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the impact of recent developments in international financial markets on the National Pensions Reserve Fund.
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127 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance his views on whether the European Commission is determined to see the introduction of a common consolidated corporation tax base across the EU; and the impact this would have on this State.
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93 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if his Department have conducted research into the likely revenue that would accrue to the Exchequer if oil and gas exploration companies were subject to the same taxation and royalties as in Norway.
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138 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Taoiseach when he will meet with the family of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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119 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the impact the proposed North-South interconnector will have on the local environment in the areas through which it passes.
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117 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the targets that have been set for reducing carbon emissions from electricity generating stations; and if they will be met.
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85 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason funding to the Irish naturalisation and immigration service is being decreased by 4% when according to his parliamentary question responses the numbers of applications being processed have increased dramatically in recent years.
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19 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of gardaí who were allocated to the national and local Garda drugs units for each of the past ten years.
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124 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of agency staff providing extra care in the community; and the number of hours per week in each of the Health Service Executive areas.
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123 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of home help support workers who have signed or are expected to sign contracts in each of the Health Service Executive areas.
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122 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of home help support workers employed by the Health Service Executive in each of the HSE areas.
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999 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will review the salmon hardship scheme with a view to offering reasonable buy out rates to fishermen, some of whom have fished seasonally for several generations; when such a review will commence and conclude; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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64 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the lack of facilities at a school (details supplied) in County Laois which has no physical education hall, computer room or library and has had eight prefabs serving as classrooms for the past nine years; and if she will make a statement on the matter particularly in relation to the school’s need to secure a permanent site with a fully resourced school building to ensure it caters for the growing demand for Irish-medium education.
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56 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the implementation of the McIver report; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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623 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of applications received by Sustainable Energy Ireland in respect of the various types of approved energy conserving methods, including wood pellet and wood chip burners, biomass boilers, solar hot water and central heating systems; and the amount of grant aid approved in respect of each category.
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604 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on whether the rental accommodation scheme is achieving value for money.
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515 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views on the construction of a scheme which would allow asylum seekers, many of whom have skills which could be put to good use in the labour force here, to work while they are awaiting residency visas.
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377 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the amount it would cost to extend the fuel allowance scheme to those persons previously in receipt of short term social welfare who take up community employment schemes.
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182 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the cost of living expenses awarded to the Taoiseach, Ministers, Ministers of State and TDs in 2006; and the increases per year of living expenses for the aforementioned since 2002.
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142 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his views on the setting up of a one-stop information centre, co-ordinated by his Department, FÁS, the Money Advice and Budgeting Service and other relevant bodies, to keep people informed of their social welfare rights.
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224 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Education and Science if there has been a health and safety assessment carried out on a school (details supplied) in Dublin 22; if her attention has been drawn to the growing number of health related complaints from children in the school believed to be due to the ill-serving 14 year old prefabricated huts in which the school sits; if there are plans to supply the school with a building; and if so, the status of those plans.
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186 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he plans to introduce legislation that will make it mandatory for employers to grant bereavement leave, as advocated by the Irish Hospice Foundation.
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112 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the fact that up to 200 of those who lost their jobs in the Seagate plant in October 2007 were agency workers and that they are being told they have no redundancy rights; if his further attention has been drawn to the growing number of agency workers here who face the same predicament; and the way he proposes to deal with the issue.
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85 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will support the trade union movement’s campaign to give agency workers equal rights.
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694 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the cost of increasing the number of homes dealt with under the Sustainable Energy Ireland warmer homes scheme to 10,000 homes per annum.
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672 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the cost of building 12,000 houses for social provision in 2008.
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664 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amount it would cost to construct 12,000 social housing units in 2008.
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621 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the cost of introducing payment in respect of parental leave where that payment would be paid at the same rate as maternity leave is at present.
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551 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Education and Science the annual cost of introducing a universal pre-school session of three and a half hours per day, five days a week for all children in the year before they go to school, as recommended by the National Economic and Social Forum in its Report on Early Childhood Care and Education published in 2005.
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550 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Education and Science the annual cost of reducing all class sizes for children under nine years of age to a maximum of 20 pupils.
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549 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Education and Science the annual cost of reducing the pupil teacher ratio to 15:1 in all primary schools.
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548 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Education and Science the cost of increasing investment in information and communications technology provision in post primary schools to €130 per pupil.
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423 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the amount it would cost on an annual basis to implement the recommendation in the report of the working group on drugs rehabilitation published in May 2007 to establish a national drug rehabilitation implementation committee, and to appoint a senior rehabilitation coordinator, 10 regional rehabilitation coordinators and support staff.
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422 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the amount it would cost on an annual basis to implement the full recommendations of the report of the working group on drugs rehabilitation published in May 2007.
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406 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the amount spent on the rent allowance scheme in 2007; the projected cost for 2008; and the potential savings in rent allowance if 12,000 recipients of the scheme were removed from the private renting sector and placed in social housing.
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353 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will be attending the Council of Ministers’ meeting on 5 December 2007 when the EU Agency Workers’ Directive will be decided on.
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254 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Health and Children the estimated annual cost of increasing the number of years for which a person entering the labour market can keep their medical card from three to five as recommended by the National Economic and Social Forum Report Creating a More Inclusive Labour Market 2006.
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253 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Health and Children the amount it would cost to extend the cervical cancer screening programme across the State in 2008.
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252 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Health and Children the annual cost of increasing the full medical card threshold to €337.35 per week for 2008 in order that all those on the minimum wage would qualify.
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251 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Health and Children if she has plans to increase the full medical card qualification threshold.
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250 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Health and Children the annual cost of delivering into the hospital system the additional 3,000 hospital beds required.
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219 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Health and Children when a reply will issue from the Health Service Executive to Parliamentary Question No. 101 of 17 October 2007.
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184 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Health and Children the cost of introducing a disability payment of €40 per week for people with disabilities regardless of whether they are in work or not.
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176 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the cost per year of pay raises awarded to An Taoiseach, Ministers, Ministers of State and TDs over the past five years.
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174 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the status of the former offices of the Department of Social and Family Affairs at Barrack Street, Dundalk; if there are plans to dispose of the building on the open market; the costs of maintenance and security on the building which has been empty since the Department of Social and Family Affairs moved to new premises in 2002; if he will provide a breakdown of these costs for each year since then; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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166 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the amount spent in 2006 and 2007 on leasing properties for Government Departments or State agencies which are not being used because decentralisation has not proceeded as planned.
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