96 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Health and Children if all oncology services in the north east region and at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda, in particular, will remain in place until centres of excellence are fully functioning in order that the 1,000 patients attending Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital weekly can avail of a reasonable level of service rather than having patients who are very ill, and in many cases dying, being forced into already overcrowded wards in Beaumont and the Mater hospitals in Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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82 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Health and Children the contingencies in place to treat patients denied treatment due to the closure of the orthopaedic unit at Our Lady’s Hospital, Navan due to Health Service Executive cutbacks; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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168 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the percentage of households in poverty in 2006 and to date in 2007 which were headed by a person with a job.
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97 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the new revised housing adaptation scheme for adapting houses for people with disabilities is still inadequate as it does not provide 100% funding to owner-occupiers affecting low-income households greatly and that the 5% funding shortfall and the maximum grant of €30,000 will often not cover the cost of works which often produces problems due to the well documented links between poverty and disability.
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90 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his real intentions regarding the provision of social housing units until 2010 in view of the fact that there have been 13,000 fewer social housing units constructed than committed to in the last national development programme; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the Government has repeatedly committed itself to eradicating homelessness by 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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531 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the names of all members of the board of SEI; when they were appointed; and the criteria he used for selecting appointees.
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530 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the reason for his decision to withdraw €10 million from the group broadband scheme and award it to Sustainable Energy Ireland; the lobbying received for such a move; and the details of all correspondence between himself and SEI on this matter.
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529 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on his itinerary of 5 October 2007; the groups he met; and the functions carried out.
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528 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the plans to provide broadband access to residents in the Hackballscross and Kilkerley areas of County Louth.
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377 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Education and Science if her Department recognises years of teaching service in the Six Counties when assessing an application for early retirement; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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376 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Education and Science if there are guidelines for primary schools as to how early before the start of formal lessons children may be admitted to school property; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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375 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Education and Science if he will grant full funding for a full-time home-school liaison officer for a school (details supplied) in County Louth.
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374 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Education and Science the responsibilities of the various VEC’s in the State under the Freedom of Information Act 1997.
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373 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Education and Science the progress made in ensuring that relevant third level colleges and voluntary organisations for Irish will be asked to provide improvement courses in spoken Irish for teachers as announced on 11 March 2007.
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361 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Education and Science the estimated cost per year of providing free pre-school places for all children aged three to five.
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298 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the reason her Department made no allocation to Louth County Council for coastal protection; the further reason her Department earlier in 2007 stated that no application was made by Louth County Council for coastal protection; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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287 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the cost per year of increasing the disability allowance limit for disregarded earnings applying to rehabilitative work from €120 per week to €150 per week.
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285 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the cost per year of increasing the maximum disability allowance payment of €185.80 per week by €20 to €205.50 per week.
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288 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the estimated cost per year of extending the family income supplement to participants on the back to work enterprise allowance.
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284 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the cost per year of increasing the minimum payment of family income support from €20 per week to €30 per week.
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281 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the cost per year of reducing the weekly hours of work required to be eligible for family income support to 15 hours per week or at least 30 hours every fortnight.
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280 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the cost per year of increasing the daily income disregard for jobseekers benefit to €25.
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286 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the cost per year of increasing all the minimum income limits for the back to school clothing and footwear allowance by €20.
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279 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the cost per year of removing the old limit of €317.43 for back to school clothing and footwear allowance where it applies and increase it to €400.
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278 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the cost per year of increasing the income threshold for entitlement to the one parent family payment by €100 per week to €500 per week.
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277 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the cost per year of increasing the earnings disregard under the social welfare allowance rent mortgage supplement by €25 per week to €100 per week.
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195 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Health and Children if there are procedures in place to deal with situations whereby Health Service Executive staff mislead or misinform a meeting of the various regional health fora.
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186 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Health and Children the estimated cost per year of allowing a person returning to the labour market, where eligible, to keep their medical card for five years instead of three.
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176 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Health and Children the cost per year of increasing the medical card threshold by an additional €66 per week for a single person, €158.50 for a couple and €40 for each dependent child aged up to 18 as proposed by the Combat Poverty Agency.
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139 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Health and Children the income limits for medical card eligibility in each of the past five years; and her plans to increase the current limits.
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130 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the number of workers who paid no tax in 2006 and the estimated number for 2007, as a consequence of earning the minimum wage or less.
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129 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the number of income tax payers in the State in each of the past ten years.
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29 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Defence if he proposes to reinstate the Committee for the 1916 100th anniversary commemoration.
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91 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the criteria that will be used in recruiting members to the Integration Taskforce; if the taskforce will include members of ethnic minorities; if the Integration Taskforce will have a statutory mandate such as, for example, the consumer panel of the Financial Regulator; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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45 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason his Department and the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government are only now, at the end of 2007, in discussion with local authority representative bodies regarding the disbursement of the funding to joint policing committees provided for 2007.
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139 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Taoiseach when he will meet with the family of a person (details supplied); when he will establish a commission to investigate the matter as proposed by the Joint Committee; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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95 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his views on the findings of the latest actuarial review of the Social Insurance Fund which found that while total income to the fund is projected to equal or exceed benefit outgo up to 2010 thereafter the fund’s net cash flow position is projected to decline rapidly.
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114 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will roll out a State wide school breakfast and meal scheme free of charge to pupils.
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128 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on the concerns raised by union representatives that employers are using the growing phenomenon of obtaining staff through employment agencies to undermine and dismantle agreements on standards, pay and conditions.
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112 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the action being taken by him and by the enterprise development agencies to ensure the creation of jobs in east Cork, an area which has been particularly badly affected by job losses in recent years in view of the announcement by a company (details supplied) that it is postponing indefinitely its plans to come to Carrigtwohill, County Cork.
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4 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Taoiseach the opt-out protocol on a fundamental rights charter that Ireland will sign up to if it ratifies the EU reform treaty.
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527 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when an application for naturalisation by a person (details supplied) in County Louth will be processed; the expected period of time to complete the processing of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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347 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the way he ensures that his Department’s Labour Inspectorate ensure that contracted workers working in the south of Ireland but employed by employers based in the north of Ireland are paid the industry rates as outlined in the Employment Regulation Orders or the Registered Employment Agreements; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Transport the circumstances surrounding the fact that while officials within his Department were aware on 13 June 2007 of implications for the Shannon to Heathrow route of proposals from Aer Lingus management to establish a new base in Belfast, he maintains that he was not made aware of these matters until 27 July 2007; and if he will provide full details regarding briefings which he received on developments in Aer Lingus upon taking office.
285 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of IDA premises which are vacant in each county including the town in which each of the vacant premises is located.
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114 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Health and Children the timetable for the introduction of the community child care subvention scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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101 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of community care packages affected by funding freezes under Health Service Executive cuts; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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319 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the response of the British Foreign Secretary, Mr. David Miliband, to new evidence that there were many more cancer deaths from radioactive fall out from the Windscale/Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant in Britain than first thought; if the British Foreign Secretary explained the conduct of the then British Prime Minister in ordering a cover-up of the disaster; the actions that were promised by the British Foreign Secretary in relation to these matters; and the further action he will take in this case.
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