193 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children the reason the welfare officer who regularly called to a premises in County Cork has ceased calling and has informed persons that they must now go to Macroom; if she will reverse this.
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138 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children the reason the social welfare officer who regularly called to a premises in County Cork has ceased calling and has informed persons that they must now go to Macroom resulting in inconvenience to local persons; and her plans to reverse the situation.
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78 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs his plans for implementing the recommendations of the hunger task force in 2010 and subsequent years; the proportion of the 2010 overseas development aid budget being directed at implementing the recommendations; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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151 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason a person (details supplied) in County Cork has their domiciliary care allowance terminated.
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114 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will investigate the reason the Land Registry will not accept an application by persons (details supplied) in County Cork; and if the Land Registry will send one of its personnel to the site to confirm that matters are in order so that the sale will be allowed to proceed.
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92 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will investigate the position regarding the postponement of surgery in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Cork.
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168 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the activities that are being undertaken at a centre (details supplied)in County Cork; the numbers and categories of staff at the centre; the number of young offenders passing through the centre on a daily basis; the projected growth within the next five years; if the activities at the facility at Cove Street are being transferred to Patrick’s Hill.
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201 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will establish the location of the burial grounds of patients in a former hospital (details supplied) in County Cork particularly those patients who had no relatives to bury them; and if there are records of the burial places.
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269 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Education and Science if a child of a non-EU national working here who has lived here for almost three years on a valid permit will qualify for EU fees in our universities and institutes of technologies.
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248 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the position regarding the case of a person (details supplied) in County Cork who was refused their entitlement under the domiciliary care scheme; and if she will re-examine the case.
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135 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on the situation whereby funding which had been granted for three years to a play-school (details supplied) in County Cork is being sidelined for another purpose; and if she will review the situation in view of the quality of service which the play-school has provided for almost 25 years in the Cork community.
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134 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) cannot receive an out patient’s appointment with the Cork University Hospital in view of the fact that they have been waiting since March 2008.
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34 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food his views on the reported decline in the suckler cow herd; his plans for the future of the suckler cow welfare scheme in this context; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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54 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will have discussions with EirGrid to promote the construction of a 7 km cable from Sorne Station in County Donegal to Coolkeeragh Station in Derry, which would enable wind energy produced in the north west to be sold in the UK and European markets; his views on the potential for wind energy production on the peninsular north west Atlantic coast; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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108 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the way the implementation of the recommendations of the hunger task force has been affected by the reduction in the overseas aid budget in 2009; his plans for implementing these recommendations in 2010 and subsequent years; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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80 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the control measures she will introduce to assist in reducing fraud; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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440 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Education and Science the reason a person (details supplied) in County Cork was refused a grant under the higher education grant scheme by Cork City Council.
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341 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason a person (details supplied) in County Cork was refused disability allowance.
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276 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of persons the courts have directed to carry out community service since 2002 to date in 2009; the number of persons directed to carry out community service who have been injured or who have complained of an injury during this service; the number of persons who have lodged compensation claims for injuries sustained during their community service; the amount of compensation which has been paid out to persons who lodged claims; and the number of compensation claims which are currently before his Department.
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239 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Education and Science when a decision will be made on a grant for an extension to a school (details supplied).
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1169 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Education and Science if he will make a statement regarding Mary Immaculate Teacher Training College, Limerick, which cannot give an indication to applicants for the 18 month teacher conversation course due to commence in January 2010 in view of the fact that they state that they have received no sanction from him for this course.
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871 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason a person (details supplied) in County Cork has been refused a disability payment.
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571 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will receive a hearing aid test.
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320 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Finance if he will make a statement on a shortfall of €5 million in a pension scheme (details supplied); if the scheme has been transferred to the Department of Finance; and if so the details and circumstances of the transfer.
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167 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children when an outpatient’s appointment will be given to a person (details supplied) in County Cork.
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55 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he has concluded consideration of a value for money review on the issue of temporary veterinary inspectors; the action he proposes to take arising from this review; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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44 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if the operational programme for fisheries has been finalised; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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236 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when a decision will be made on the appeal by a person (details supplied) in County Cork.
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206 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a decision will be made on an application for residency by a person (details supplied) in County Louth.
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126 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the measures in place to replace social welfare inspectors in view of the delay in processing applications for social welfare payments which can occur due to their absence; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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909 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when the one-parent family payment appeal by a person (details supplied) in County Cork will be heard in view of the fact that they have been waiting since February 2009.
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648 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding a naturalisation application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork in view of the fact that their application was submitted in October 2007.
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222 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a decision will be made on an application for family reunification in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork in view of the fact that their application was submitted more than a year ago.
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42 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason suspects subject to European arrest warrants were released in 2008 due to processing delays; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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1149 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Education and Science when the portacabins at a school (details supplied) in County Cork will be replaced by a permanent structure for reasons already outlined to his Department by the board of management of the school.
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587 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a decision will be made on the application for residency in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Cork.
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579 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a decision will be made on the application for residency on humanitarian grounds in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Cork.
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471 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on the fact that a planning proposal application for a biofuel facility lodged with Cork County Council (details supplied), could be accepted in view of the fact that the land is zoned as A1 and the application would require a material contravention of the development plan; if the applicants were advised by the planners of the situation prior to the lodgement of the application.
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53 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment her plans to appoint an advisory council of business leaders as outlined in the Government’s smart economy document; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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220 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on the situation at Mallow Hospital, Cork, where a CAT scanner is again lying idle with a radiographer unable to operate it as a result of staffing problems and patients are being sent to a private hospital in Cork for scans at a minimum daily cost of €3,000; and if she will investigate this case.
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165 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children when a decision will be made on the application in respect of by a person (details supplied) in County Cork.
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35 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the measures he has introduced to facilitate the development of the aquaculture sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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31 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will introduce new planning guidelines for the urban and village centres; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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279 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a decision will be made on the application by a person (details supplied) in County Cork for residency on humanitarian grounds.
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175 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in County Cork will not receive a contribution towards their prescribed new digital hearing aid.
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147 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of persons awaiting eye tests in the Cork City and Cork County area; the average waiting period and the number of persons awaiting sanction for spectacles; and if her attention has been drawn to the fact that some people have been waiting since at least January 2009 to receive a decision on their application.
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58 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism his views on whether the structure of the organisations leading the tourism industry are best designed to deliver the strategic direction required during the current economic downturn; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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236 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children when a decision will be made on the application by a person (details supplied) in County Cork for domiciliary care allowance.
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133 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in County Cork is obliged to pay the pension levy despite the fact that they have a private pension.
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