565 Mr. O’Shea asked the Minister for Education and Science the proposals she has to meet the job-share need of a person (details supplied) teaching in County Waterford; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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399 Mr. O’Shea asked the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he will respond to an e-mail of 22 January 2007 from a person (details supplied) in England; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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354 Mr. O’Shea asked the Minister for Health and Children the proposals she has to address as a matter of extreme urgency the crisis in relation to the cataract surgery waiting list at Waterford Regional Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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298 Mr. O’Shea asked the Minister for Health and Children the proposals she has to provide additional funding for the weight management clinic at St. Columcille’s Hospital, Loughlinstown (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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285 Mr. O’Shea asked the Minister for Health and Children the position in regard to the provision of a 35 bed hospice at Waterford Regional Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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200 Mr. O’Shea asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding the granting of residency to a person (details supplied) in County Waterford; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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64 Mr. O’Shea asked the Minister for Transport the reasons he has not transposed Regulation (EC) No.561/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 March 2006 on the harmonisation of certain social legislation relating to road transport and amending Council Regulations (EEC) No. 3821/85 and (EC) No. 2135/89 and repealing Council Regulation (EEC) No. 3820/85.
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147 Mr. O’Shea asked the Minister for Finance his proposals to address the concerns of a person (details supplied) in County Waterford; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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107 Mr. O’Shea asked the Minister for Health and Children the position of the living kidney transplant programme; her views on the family (details supplied) who described receiving a letter informing them of the suspension of the transplant programme; her further views on subsequent letters from Beaumont Hospital which stated that the programme will recommence in August 2007; the measures she will take to help those waiting for this programme to restart; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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239 Mr. O’Shea asked the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the entitlement of a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary under the new pension scheme for primary school caretakers employed under the 1979 scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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149 Mr. O’Shea asked the Minister for Finance his proposals to extend the incapacitated child tax credit to parents of children with Asperger’s syndrome; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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87 Mr. O’Shea asked the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism his views on providing increased funding to the National Chamber Choir following reductions of financial support for the choir from other sources; if his attention has been drawn to the generally low salaries paid to members of the choir; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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592 Mr. O’Shea asked the Minister for Education and Science the entitlements of a person (details supplied), now deceased, under the pension scheme for school care-takers employed under the 1979 scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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566 Mr. O’Shea asked the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the pension entitlement of a person (details supplied) in County Waterford under the scheme for primary school caretaking staff employed under the 1979 scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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431 Mr. O’Shea asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources his proposals to amend the fishing vessels decommissioning scheme to include bi-valve vessels (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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137 Mr. O’Shea asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he will direct ComReg to intervene directly on behalf of end users where service contracts or the universal service obligation have been broken and to ensure compliance by undertakings with the terms of those contracts; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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172 Mr. O’Shea asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he has reviewed the recent report by European Consumers’ Organisation BEUC and French consumer group UFC Que Choisir (details supplied); if he will direct ComReg to investigate and establish precise and reliable statistics regarding the volumes and revenues of international telecom services by all mobile service providers operating here including all termination and roaming rates; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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236 Mr. O’Shea asked the Minister for Education and Science if she will provide the €132,000 which a project (details supplied) has applied for to cover the provision of two youth workers with associated costs for one year; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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207 Mr. O’Shea asked the Minister for Education and Science the discussions she has had with the Higher Education Authority in relation to the application from Waterford Institute of Technology for university status; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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206 Mr. O’Shea asked the Minister for Education and Science when the Port report in regard to the upgrading of Waterford Institute of Technology to university status will be completed; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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205 Mr. O’Shea asked the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the application of Waterford Institute of Technology for upgrading to university status; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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54 Mr. O’Shea asked the Minister for Education and Science her views on the introduction of voluntary random drugs checks in second level schools; if her Department has considered the introduction of such a scheme; if her attention has been drawn to the growing concern among schoolteachers, staff and students of rising drug use among schoolchildren; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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20 Mr. O’Shea asked the Minister for Education and Science if she will increase the number of places on Youthreach programmes in order to ensure that young people who drop out of school early have opportunities to develop their potential; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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116 Mr. O’Shea asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on the most recent report of the Independent Monitoring Commission; if he is concerned at its assessment of loyalist organisations and their ongoing criminal and paramilitary activity; if the Government maintains contact with these organisations; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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89 Mr. O’Shea asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his attention has been drawn to recent reports that according to a former British Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, the British Prime Minister gave a written guarantee of a number of side deals to Sinn Féin leaders at the Weston Park negotiations in 2001; if the Irish Government had any knowledge of these side deals; if he will raise this issue with his British counterpart; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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902 Mr. O’Shea asked the Minister for Education and Science the entitlements of a person (details supplied) in County Waterford under bench-marking; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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901 Mr. O’Shea asked the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the pension entitlements of a person (details supplied) in County Waterford under the scheme for primary school caretaking staff employed under the 1979 scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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900 Mr. O’Shea asked the Minister for Education and Science the proposals she has to ensure that all children of primary school going age living in Tramore, County Waterford will be provided with a primary school place in the town when requested; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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441 Mr. O’Shea asked the Minister for Health and Children her proposals to address the concerns and proposals of a group (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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414 Mr. O’Shea asked the Minister for Health and Children the estimate of the number of speech and language therapists required to provide for the needs of persons in the south east region and throughout the country; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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386 Mr. O’Shea asked the Minister for Health and Children if an estimated costing for the full implementation of the cancer strategy has been calculated; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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96 Mr. O’Shea asked the Minister for Finance his views on the increasing number of high net worth individuals avoiding capital acquisitions tax on multi-million euro house transfers as a consequence of section 86 of the Consolidated Capital Acquisitions Act 2003; if an audit of such transactions has been conducted by the Revenue Commissioners; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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95 Mr. O’Shea asked the Minister for Finance if his Department has carried out an analysis of the implications of the recent interest rate rises and of further expected interest rate increases on small business here; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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116 Mr. O’Shea asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 97 of 1 March 2007, if he will accept some method of identification other than a passport, as the person (details supplied) can not obtain a passport; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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36 Mr. O’Shea asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food the range of measures An Bord Bia has introduced to assist small food producers to adapt to emerging market opportunities; the budget available to An Bord Bia in 2007 which is allocated specifically to this range of measures; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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37 Mr. O’Shea asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food her views on the difficulties faced by farmers in obtaining veterinary medicines, in particular in areas where veterinary surgeons are not readily available; the actions she will take to get the veterinary profession to write prescriptions; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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271 Mr. O’Shea asked the Minister for Education and Science her proposals to provide basic expenses for trainee teachers to cover the high costs that trainee teachers incur during their mandatory teaching practice placement (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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269 Mr. O’Shea asked the Minister for Education and Science the number of students who graduated from the two year masters course in speech and language therapy in University Limerick in June 2005; the number of students pursuing the BSc courses at University College Cork and National University of Ireland, Galway in 2007; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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289 Mr. O’Shea asked the Minister for Education and Science her proposals in regard to the demands of the Aontas pre-election campaign (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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180 Mr. O’Shea asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of speech and language therapists employed by the Health Service Executive and health boards in each of the past five years; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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128 Mr. O’Shea asked the Minister for Defence his proposals for recruiting professionals such as doctors and engineers through the Reserve Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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471 Mr. O’Shea asked the Minister for Education and Science her proposals to ensure that a centre (details supplied) in County Waterford can continue all their classes; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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163 Mr. O’Shea asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the cost to his Department of implementing the Official Languages Act 2003; the number of documents that were published in both languages in 2006; the number of documents that were published in only one language; the number of documents that were published in both languages, but where the version in the second language was published more than two weeks after the version in the first language was published; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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154 Mr. O’Shea asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will report on progress made in the establishment of the office of the director of employment rights compliance; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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172 Mr. O’Shea asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his proposals to allow those persons whose income before their 56th birthday was below the threshold for liability to pay class S contributions and could not make voluntary contributions prior to their 56th birthdays due to the fact that they did not fulfil the requirements, make voluntary contributions retrospectively in order to qualify for State contributory old age pension; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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149 Mr. O’Shea asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if estuary drift net salmon fishermen on the Suir fishery will be granted licences to fish when the salmon stock exceed the conservation limit; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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148 Mr. O’Shea asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if, in the event of snap net fishermen not being given licences to fish in 2007, persons who held licences in 2006 will retain their entitlement to licences when they are next issued; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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147 Mr. O’Shea asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if licences will be issued to snap net salmon fishermen on the Suir, Nore and Barrow in 2007; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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97 Mr. O’Shea asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when is it proposed to renew the certificate of registration of a person (details supplied) in County Waterford; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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74 Mr. O’Shea asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the steps he will take arising from criticism by the Pensions Ombudsman of what he called the theft by employers of pension contributions deducted from employees but not remitted to pension schemes, particularly in the construction sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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