588 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Health and Children the progress made regarding a health centre (details supplied) in County Donegal.
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584 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Health and Children the budget provided for the home help scheme for 2007 to 2010, inclusive, in tabular form; the number of home helps employed; the number of home help hours provided for these years on a county basis; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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544 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of staff and their cost at all levels and grades employed in the minor injuries unit in Louth County Hospital in Dundalk; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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543 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of additional staff at all levels and grades that have been recruited for the emergency department at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, County Louth; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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542 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Health and Children the cost of transferring the 24-hour accident and emergency department from Louth County Hospital in Dundalk to Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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469 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Finance the cost outstanding of discontinued tax reliefs and the amount of these tax reliefs that are related to property.
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468 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Finance the way the current tax reliefs for mining and petrol exploration are applied and the cost to the State in a full year.
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447 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Finance the numbers of staff in the funding bank and the asset recovery bank; the salary costs for these staff; the length of time these staff will be on these salaries; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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429 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Finance if he has considered introducing a wealth tax; and the potential return of a wealth tax in a full year levied at 1% on all assets over €1 million.
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428 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Finance the impact on the Exchequer of removing those previously below the tax net from the Government imposed levy.
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427 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Finance the proportion of gross domestic product spending on essential public services; the proportion of gross domestic product spending on essential public services in comparison with other EU 27 member states; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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426 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Finance the distribution of wealth in the State in each of the past five years; the inequalities of wealth distribution that exist; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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425 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Finance the total number of persons in public service employment here for each of the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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417 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Finance the return to the Exchequer in a full year if corporation tax was increased by 1% to 13.5%.
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416 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Finance the return to the Exchequer in a full year if the current top rate of tax was increased from 41% to 42%.
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415 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Finance the return to the Exchequer in a full year if he were to cap the maximum salary available to public servants and semi-State bodies at approximately four times the basic entry rate, or three times the average industrial wage cap at €100,000.
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414 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Finance the return to the Exchequer in a full year if Ministerial salaries were capped at €120,000; Deputies’ salaries capped at €80,000 and Senators’ salaries capped at €60,000.
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413 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Finance the return to the Exchequer in a full year if he re-introduced tax at betting meetings at the rate at which the tax was last applied before its abolition.
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411 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Finance the return to the Exchequer in a full year if all remaining property based tax relief were abolished.
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410 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Finance the return to the Exchequer in a full year if all discretionary tax reliefs were standardised.
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409 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Finance the return to the Exchequer in a full year if capital acquisitions tax was increased to 35%.
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408 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Finance the return to the Exchequer in a full year if capital gains tax was increased to 40%.
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407 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Finance the return to the Exchequer in a full year if a 48% tax on individual incomes in excess of €100,000 was introduced.
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344 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an application for major capital works for a primary school (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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312 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she will deploy additional staff in local authorities and vocational educational committees in order to process grant applications in a timely manner in order to avoid delays such as that which occurred at the beginning of the 2009-2010 academic year.
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311 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she plans to issue a directive to all third level institutions ordering the temporary registration of all grant applicants until such a time as the grant has been fully processed.
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224 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills her plans to include politics as an examinable subject in the secondary school curriculum; her further plans to introduce politics in the second level curriculum outside of the current civic, social and political education course; the timeline for implementation of same; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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310 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the number of grant applications received and the number which have been processed for each local authority and VEC here on a county basis in tabular form.
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185 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the number of buses more than 20 years old that are under contract for transporting children in the State; the number of buses that are more than 20 years old that are used for transporting children to school in County Louth; if there is any provision regarding the use of a bus that is more than 20 years old when applying for a contract; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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157 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Taoiseach the economic dependency ratio here for each of the past ten years; the economic dependency ratio on a county basis; the economic dependency ratio as compared to other jurisdictions; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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137 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Taoiseach the number of persons in the State with no formal educational qualifications as compared to other jurisdictions; the number of persons in the State with a third level qualification as compared to other jurisdictions; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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122 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she will be announcing any new measures to combat early school leaving; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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131 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills in view of the recent OECD Education at a Glance report which showed that Ireland ranks fourth from the bottom of the OECD countries in terms of expenditure on education, if she intends the education budget to be cut in this year’s budget; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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281 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will issue in relation to the application for domiciliary care allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Louth; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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276 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of PPS numbers that have been issued in each of the past ten years.
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215 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform when a decision will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Louth; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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214 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to an alleged back dating of a High Court Order by an employee of the Courts Service in a case involving a person (details supplied); if an investigation or inquiry has been carried out in this case to establish the facts; if the outcome of any investigation or inquiry has been or will be carried out in this case to establish the facts; if the outcome of any investigation or inquiry will be communicated to the person involved; the way the matter can be dealt with to allow this person to proceed with an appeal to the Supreme Court as they wish to do so; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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193 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Health and Children when a procedure will be carried out on a child (details supplied) at Crumlin Children’s Hospital, Dublin; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that this operation was cancelled twice in the past 16 months; the steps she will take to have this necessary operation undertaken as soon as possible; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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107 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to plans in relation to the development of Doe Castle and its grounds in County Donegal as a tourist attraction; the details of these proposals; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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427 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the progress that has been made to introduce a broadband scheme that would provide broadband coverage to areas which were outside the scope of the rural broadband scheme such as the townland of Drumkeen in County Donegal.
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398 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if there are regulations or guidelines in place on the way local authorities should treat applicants on their housing waiting list who have received a financial settlement as a result of a marital breakdown following which the applicant to the local authority housing list has left the family home; the circumstances under which persons who find themselves in this position can access a local authority housing waiting list; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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237 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Health and Children when the Health Service Executive will confirm the go-ahead for a new consultant haematologist for Letterkenny General Hospital, County Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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150 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Finance his view of the possible implications of AIB’s proposed sell-off of its northern subsidiary, First Trust Bank, in relation to the development of a single island economy through structured co-operation which has been widely acknowledged as a key aim of public policy here; his views on whether this is a partitionist policy and should not become his policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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89 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will intervene to prevent the closure of Loughloe House, Athlone, County Westmeath; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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46 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of acute hospital beds which are closed here; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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50 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Finance the reasons behind the additional €2 billion capital contribution to Anglo Irish Bank; if he will be required to adjust the promissory note to Anglo Irish Bank again; if there will be an adjustment of the promissory note to Anglo Irish Bank above €10.3 billion; if so, the amount of same; if there is a cap on the amount that can be adjusted on the promissory note; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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46 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer of the restructuring plan of Anglo Irish Bank to split into a good bank and a bad bank; the cost that will be incurred by the State if Anglo Irish Bank is split into a good bank and a bad bank in terms of the costs of nationalisation, recapitalisation and restructuring; the cost of a wind-down of the bank over ten years and over 20 years and of liquidating Anglo over a year; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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128 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a decision will issue regarding an application for naturalisation in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Louth; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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65 Deputy Arthur Morgan asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the action being taken to make Irish small medium enterprises aware of the European research and development fund FP7; the Enterprise Development Agency that has been tasked with helping SMEs in their application and advising them of the processes involved; if there will be equal access for all enterprises to make an application in this fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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