93 Deputy Ciarán Lynch asked the Minister for Health and Children if he will state, in respect of the hospitals or other medical centres at which paediatric and adolescent diabetes care is provided by the Health Service Executive, whether insulin pump technology is available to paediatric and adolescent patients at each of these centres; the number of paediatric patients who have been fitted with insulin pumps at each centre since 2005; the counties in which each of these patients are or were resident; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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91 Deputy Ciarán Lynch asked the Minister for Health and Children in which hospitals or other medical centres paediatric and adolescent diabetes care is provided by the Health Service Executive; the number of patients under the age of 19 years who attend for diabetes care at each of these hospitals or centres; if he will indicate, for each hospital or centre, the counties in which each of these patients is resident; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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90 Deputy Ciarán Lynch asked the Minister for Health and Children when he expects the vacant consultant paediatric endocrinologist post to be filled at Cork University Hospital; the stage the recruitment for this position has reached; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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88 Deputy Ciarán Lynch asked the Minister for Health and Children if and when it is intended to restore the dental benefits previously enjoyed by medical card holders; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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52 Deputy Ciarán Lynch asked the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to introduce a scheme which would facilitate apprentices who have been made redundant in the completion of their apprenticeships; when such a programme will be put in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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170 Deputy Ciarán Lynch asked the Minister for Social Protection the amount allocated to the Money Advice and Budgeting Service in each year since 2000; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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83 Deputy Ciarán Lynch asked the Minister for Education and Skills the procedure open to a parent who wishes to challenge a management decision made by the principal of a primary school in regard to an operational matter; the formal complaint procedures available; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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65 Deputy Ciarán Lynch asked the Minister for Finance if he will confirm that full equal treatment, from the start of this financial year, will be applied in respect of income tax, inheritance tax, gift tax and all other taxation matters in regard to persons entering into relationships under the Civil Partnership Act; when the appropriate legislative provisions regarding taxation will be introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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64 Deputy Ciarán Lynch asked the Minister for Finance his views on the difficulties being encountered by house buyers in obtaining a letter of release on property that is National Assets Management Agency owned; the measure that will be taken to speed up the process; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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44 Deputy Ciarán Lynch asked the Minister for Finance if he will rectify the anomaly whereby a person (details supplied) who has retired on grounds of ill health is required to pay the universal social charge on a pension which is smaller than an illness benefit payment which is not subject to USC; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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140 Deputy Ciarán Lynch asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will grant a second year of pre-school education to a child (details supplied) under the early childhood care and education scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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135 Deputy Ciarán Lynch asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if a full medical card will be granted as a matter of urgency in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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134 Deputy Ciarán Lynch asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the dental treatment a person (details supplied) in County Cork is entitled to; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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68 Deputy Ciarán Lynch asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the number of prisoners, in total and in each institution, that are locked up for 23 hours or more in a normal day; for 22 to 23 hours in a normal day; for 20 to 22 hours in a normal day; for 18 to 20 hours in a normal day; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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67 Deputy Ciarán Lynch asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 55 of 8 December 2010, if the requested information is now available; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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88 Deputy Ciarán Lynch asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will provide up-to-date figures for the cost of storage of the e-voting machines both centrally stored and not centrally stored; when it is anticipated that the inter-departmental task force into the disposal of the redundant electronic voting equipment will issue its final report including a timeframe for the ending of outstanding leases and the disposal of the equipment; the cost of maintaining an official e-voting website and the reason it is considered necessary to maintain a website long after the e-voting project has been scrapped; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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397 Deputy Ciarán Lynch asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if consideration or direction have been given to local authorities to reduce rates for 2011 in view of the adverse trading conditions experienced by many businesses; his plan to require local authorities to compensate businesses such as restaurants, which have suffered losses when the local authority was unable to provide essential services such as a consistent water supply; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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248 Deputy Ciarán Lynch asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the grounds on which a person (details supplied) in County Cork was refused supplementary payment by a local community welfare officer; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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219 Deputy Ciarán Lynch asked the Minister for Defence the number of serving members of the Defence Forces Reserve in each county; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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46 Deputy Ciarán Lynch asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will respond to the most recent reports regarding the Baha’i community of Iran.
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22 Deputy Ciarán Lynch asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on the implications of the most recent developments in relation to the US — India nuclear agreement and the International Atomic Energy Agency; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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90 Deputy Ciarán Lynch asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the steps being taken to counter the reported practice of non-qualified persons posing as auditors and signing off on company accounts; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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97 Deputy Ciarán Lynch asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the process for the proposed review of the framework registered employment agreements and employment regulation orders arrangements, as promised in the National Recovery Plan 2011-2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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358 Deputy Ciarán Lynch asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if, following his recent meeting with local representatives, he plans to approve the waiver system for rates proposed by Carrick-on-Suir Town Council, County Tipperary; his plans to facilitate similar schemes nationally; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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357 Deputy Ciarán Lynch asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his plans to implement the recommendations of the local government efficiency review group; if he plans to set up regional housing authorities to replace city and county council housing departments and to merge the housing departments of the four Dublin authorities; the proposed timeframe and the expected costs, the structural changes involved and the changes to existing processes for application; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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307 Deputy Ciarán Lynch asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the itineraries that are in preparation for Ministers and Ministers of State to represent Ireland abroad over the course of the St. Patrick’s Day celebrations; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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112 Deputy Ciarán Lynch asked the Minister for Health and Children when a date will be set for the hearing of an appeal by the Chief Appeals Officer in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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19 Deputy Ciarán Lynch asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of new social workers appointed in 2010; the sections of the services in which these social workers have been employed; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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796 Deputy Ciarán Lynch asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if the adjusted tenant purchase scheme, which provides a 45% discount, has commenced and if a directive has been issued to local authorities; if he will indicate the duration that this scheme will remain in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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788 Deputy Ciarán Lynch asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his plans to introduce a new national differential rent system for local authority residents in view of the fact that approved housing bodies are at present required to cope with numerous differential rent systems in local authorities; when he will introduce such a system; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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786 Deputy Ciarán Lynch asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the way a market value is calculated in areas where there is insufficient market demand to accurately determine the market value rent; his plans to introduce a minimum market value in such areas and the level of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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380 Deputy Ciarán Lynch asked the Minister for Health and Children if the national diabetes clinical programme team will receive funding for the development of diabetes foot care and retinopathy screening in 2011; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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372 Deputy Ciarán Lynch asked the Minister for Health and Children when the amount of Health Service Executive funding for homeless services around the country will be confirmed; when this will be communicated to the voluntary organisations providing those services; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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107 Deputy Ciarán Lynch asked the Minister for Finance if the prudential liquidity assessment plan for Irish banks has been completed, as foreseen in the memorandum of understanding on specific economic policy conditionality, signed with the International Monetary Fund, to set out the target loan to deposit ratios to be achieved by end 2013 for each of the Irish banks; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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70 Deputy Ciarán Lynch asked the Minister for Finance his views on the net exposure of the National Asset Management Agency and the credit institutions supported by the Eligible Liabilities Guarantee to derivative instruments; the extent to which these exposures arise from hedging arrangements or from speculative positions; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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312 Deputy Ciarán Lynch asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if it is his intention to restructure the provision of emergency services in light of the likely disruption resulting from the reduction of 37% in the funding provision for local authority fire and emergency services; if he has given a direction to local authorities in regard to future management of emergency services within this reduced budget; if he will indicate the reason the reduction in funding in this area is proportionately so much greater than the cut backs in other State services; if he plans to set up a national fire service as recommended in the Farrell Grant Sparks report; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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251 Deputy Ciarán Lynch asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the number of children who have a parent in prison each year; the policies in place to mitigate the damage caused to children by the imprisonment of a parent; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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249 Deputy Ciarán Lynch asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform his plans to offer relief under the national recovery plan to retail tenants locked into upward only rent reviews under existing leases having regard to the action points listed in 2.24 of the plan to assist other sectors; if his attention has been drawn to the serious threat to employment in the retail sector unless relief is forthcoming; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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73 Deputy Ciarán Lynch asked the Minister for Defence when he will respond to correspondence from the recently dismissed senior manager of the Irish Red Cross; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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64 Deputy Ciarán Lynch asked the Minister for Defence if any part of the grant-in-aid paid to the Irish Red Cross has been used to fund the ongoing legal action being taken against a company (details supplied) or if any part of it will be used for the continuing action against the company; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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376 Deputy Ciarán Lynch asked the Minister for Defence the number of personnel in the Army, Naval Service and Air Corps at present; the amount of sick leave claimed by members of each service in the years 2007, 2008, 2009 and to date in 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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234 Deputy Ciarán Lynch asked the Minister for Social Protection if he will review the case of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; if he will offset the amount of €1,679.80 from the arrears of disablement benefit on grounds of financial hardship; if he will also reduce to €10 the amount to be deducted to clear the amount overpaid; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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233 Deputy Ciarán Lynch asked the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 1258 of 29 September 2010, if he will review the rejection of an appeal in respect of a person (details supplied); if he will consider that the appeals officer refers to the close proximity of the separated parents’ accommodation while, in reality, they live at opposite sides of the city; if he will consider that where each party has custody for 50% of the time one party is judged to have no obligation to provide accommodation; if he will indicate in cases of joint custody, where rent allowance is paid to one party only, the percentage of cases it is paid to the father only; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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227 Deputy Ciarán Lynch asked the Minister for Social Protection if he will review a decision denying the habitual residence of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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220 Deputy Ciarán Lynch asked the Minister for Social Protection if he will reinstate supplementary welfare payment for a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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203 Deputy Ciarán Lynch asked the Minister for Social Protection if he will review the decision in respect of a person (details supplied) who has been required to move house because the rent for which rent supplement is sought is €4.30 in excess of the limit; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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177 Deputy Ciarán Lynch asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the number of applicants that have successfully completed stages one and two of the selection process for the Garda Síochána and are being processed through background screening, medical examination and physical competence test and so on; the number of candidates who have completed these stages and will begin training in 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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174 Deputy Ciarán Lynch asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform when a decision will issue regarding a person (details supplied) who is appealing a deportation; if he will confirm that all relevant appeal documents have been received; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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38 Deputy Ciarán Lynch asked the Minister for Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs his views on the roll out of the new Dial to Stop Drugs campaign; if there have been any reports on its success to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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89 Deputy Ciarán Lynch asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the agencies, groups, quangos and committees funded or part-funded by his Department; if he will instance their cost, remit, role, the number of staff in each and the number of board members and their remuneration; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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