108 Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to introduce a third band of higher maintenance grant category in between the full adjacent and half adjacent qualifying distance between the student’s home and college to facilitate those who previously fell into the full adjacent grant category; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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92 Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Finance the number of persons who have previously been declared bankrupt who are receiving support of payments from the National Assets Management Agency; the level of support or payment each person has received for their business broken down on a monthly basis since the establishment of NAMA; the location of these businesses; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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91 Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Finance if there is a register of persons who have received payments or support from the National Assets Management Agency; the persons who have access to such a register; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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35 Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the recourse open to a horse owner whose animals were alleged to have been severely abused by a trainer with residential stable facilities; the legislation which governs such a series of events; the bodies responsible for monitoring and enforcing the legislation; the provision made for compensation in the event of income loss and proven abuse; his views that policy and legislation in this regard is inadequate; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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436 Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if his attention has been drawn to the inadequacies of current policy, legislation, responsibilities, monitoring and follow up on allegations of horse abuse when the animals are stabled at trainers facilities here; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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178 Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Icelandic and Hungarian sign language have been recently recognised in their respective states; his plans to make Irish sign language an official language; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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177 Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Education and Skills the mechanisms he will examine to promote the recognition of Irish sign language; the persons who examine these mechanisms; the time-frame during which they will conduct their examination; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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52 Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Defence his plans to streamline the approach to emergency planning to improve this State’s preparedness and capacity to cope with emergencies; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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47 Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Defence his plans regarding closed barracks that are currently unsold to be put to State or community uses, or by Government offices and agencies; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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11 Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Justice and Equality his views on the report by the Inspector of Prisons, Judge Michael Reilly; his proposals on the back of its recommendations; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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21 Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will confirm if any raised bog obtained or will obtain favourable conservation status under the EU habitats directive to allow the continuation of turf cutting.
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345 Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Health the date on which he will announce the details of the review of the National Children’s Hospital project; the scope of this review; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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242 Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the level of funding awarded to each county council for working on unfinished housing estates; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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174 Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the fact that persons residing within areas of Crumlin, Dublin 12, have to travel to Terenure, which has no direct bus service, to see a community welfare officer; if her further attention has been drawn to the problems this causes for persons accessing their entitlements; her plans to rectify this situation; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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129 Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he has engaged with the National Asset Management Agency on the use of its properties for social housing when appropriate.
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6 Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will not decrease the level of funding provided by him to support the community and voluntary fora across the State.
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2 Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will give a guarantee that private companies will not be charged with the installation and control of water meters.
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609 Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Health the date on which the medical assessment unit at Tullamore Hospital, County Offaly, will be opened.
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608 Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Health the date on which the new equipment purchased four years ago for the cancer unit in Tullamore Hospital, County Offaly, will be put into use; the cost of having this stored to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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607 Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that more than 21 long stay beds are out of use in Ofalia House, Edenderry, County Offaly, leaving only 38 out of 59 beds in use; if his further attention has been drawn to the fact that there is a shortage of public nursing home beds; his plans to reopen these beds; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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606 Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to plans to close Clouchan House on the campus of Tullamore Hospital, County Offaly; his views on whether this is a suitable location for a residential respite care unit; and the steps he is taking to ensure that the services there will be protected.
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605 Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that referrals from 2009 for orthodontic treatments in County Laois are only being reached now; if his attention has further been drawn to the fact that when a person gets to see a consultant they must wait a further year for treatment, leading to a three year wait it total; and the steps he is taking to address this.
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599 Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Health his plans for the provision of services to persons with diabetes in counties Laois and Offaly; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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600 Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Health if he will establish between seven and ten regional diabetes paediatric networks to deliver care to children with diabetes.
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598 Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Health his plans to resource paediatric diabetes nurse specialists, ring-fenced diabetes dietetic support and nursing resources to support the delivery of optimal care for persons with diabetes.
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597 Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Health if he will ensure that each regional paediatric diabetes network is headed up by one whole-time equivalent paediatric endocrinologist or a paediatrician with an interest in diabetes and that each network will provide a 24-hour emergency service for the children and adolescents with diabetes.
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596 Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Health if he will ensure that each hospital providing paediatric diabetes care will allocate a paediatric nurse to care for paediatric patients who will be supported by paediatric diabetes nurse specialists within the local paediatric diabetes network.
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595 Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Health if he will ensure robust psychological and social work supports are provided to regional diabetes networks.
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475 Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the date on which he will publish his report on the cash for gold trade here.
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431 Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will give a commitment that his new waste management policy statement will not contain plans for incinerators or other thermal treatment plants.
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415 Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the date on which he will publish his policy statement on local government reform.
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408 Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that new application forms for local authority housing require applications based on medical conditions to provide a consultant’s report; if his attention has further been drawn to the fact that many persons who are applying for social housing do not have the means to see a consultant privately leaving them on long waiting lists in the public system further delaying their application and that many consultants are unwilling to provide letters of this nature in view of the fact that they do not see it as part of their role; and the steps he will take to address this.
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355 Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht his plans for the National Library to make all microfilm Catholic registers available online free of charge.
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75 Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Taoiseach his plans to make Ireland a centre of excellence in the management of carbon; and his plans to work with his Northern Ireland counterpart in doing so.
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57 Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Social Protection her views that in the absence of specific safeguards the introduction of the Tús scheme may facilitate a driving down of wages, conditions and qualifications in this sector; and the steps she will take to guard against that.
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37 Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Social Protection the amount of money saved by her through measures identifying welfare fraud and non-malicious overpayments, respectively, each month to date in 2011.
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124 Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will give a commitment that he will not allow demolition of any existing section of the national monument on Moore Street, Dublin 1, including any attached structures within the curtilage of the site.
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123 Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will designate the entire terrace of buildings on which 14-17 Moore Street is situated, from Henry Place to O’Rahilly Parade, as a national monument.
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75 Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to an anomaly in the higher education grant system in which a student’s whole family income is assessed for awarding of a higher education grant at the full non-adjacent rate, but when the student’s family passes the reckonable income limit for receipt of the special rate of grant but the family income is received by a non-biological parent of the student, and the biological parent is unable to receive a social welfare payment in their own right, the student in financial need is unable to receive the special rate grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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153 Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí who were on duty during the visit of Queen Elizabeth II; if he will provide a breakdown of the number of gardaí on duty at each stage of the visit; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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66 Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will he consider reviewing the unregulated patron power and the procedures that are used to authorise the dismissal of a teacher.
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42 Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Education and Skills the implications resulting from his decision to change the criteria by which gaelscoileanna are founded; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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295 Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food his plans to include a ban on fur farming in the new Animal Health and Welfare Bill.
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247 Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his plans, in the absence of a publicly provided waste collection system, to introduce a public service obligation for private operators which would require a fee waiver scheme for low-income households.
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246 Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to ensure specific producer responsibility requirements for construction and demolition projects over certain thresholds, with recycling and waste management requirements enforced through mandatory compliance bonds.
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245 Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will introduce a mechanism to require local authorities to carry out a flood risk report in the preparation of their city and county development plans and when he will introduce a legal requirement for local authorities to manage flood risk through sustainable planning and development.
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244 Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government when he will introduce a planning and development (amendment) Bill to allow for detailed public submissions on zoning.
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243 Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government when he will introduce a mechanism to require all local authorities to carry out an educational impact assessment for all new zoning for residential development to ensure an adequate supply of school places.
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242 Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the date on which he will introduce legislation to allow local authorities to take housing estates in charge after three years.
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239 Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to drive a waste reduction programme through extension of producer responsibility initiatives and a levy on packaging.
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