648 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Minister for Health and Children the average waiting times for orthodontic assessment and treatment services for children on a county basis; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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602 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Minister for Health and Children the years the BCG vaccine was not available to every child born in Cork hospitals; the reason this decision was made; the number of children born in the Cork region in these years; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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601 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Minister for Health and Children the system of providing the BCG vaccine in Cork hospitals; if babies born in Cork hospitals are now given or their parents are offered the BCG vaccine; the circumstances in which these babies would not be given the BCG vaccine; the options open to parents whose baby did not receive the BCG vaccine; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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600 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of TB cases in each county here each year between 2005 and 2010, inclusive, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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599 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Minister for Health and Children if her Department has ever investigated the connection between the lack of a BCG vaccine for newborn babies in Cork and the ongoing above average rate of TB cases in Cork; if this will now be investigated in view of the outbreak of TB in a primary school in 2010 and the outbreak in two creches in Cork in 2007-2008; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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598 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of persons on the waiting list for the BCG vaccine in each Health Service Executive region and her plans to reduce these waiting lists; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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597 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will outline in tabular form the number of persons on a waiting list for the BCG vaccine in the Cork region for each month in the years 2008, 2009 and to date in 2010; the way this compares with such waiting lists in other parts of the country; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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583 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Minister for Health and Children the steps she will take to reduce the instances of TB in the Cork area and review the TB services that currently exist; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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579 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Minister for Health and Children if the provision of a 20-bed inpatient unit and school facility at Sacred Heart Convent in Bessboro, Blackrock, Cork will include beds specifically dedicated for eating disorders; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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451 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Minister for Finance the revenue brought in through the €10 travel tax in each month since its introduction; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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446 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Minister for Finance if a registered charity that intends to purchase a vehicle for use for charitable purposes only could be considered exempt from vehicle registration tax and other vehicle related taxes; the steps, if any, the registered charity can take to reduce the tax payable on such a vehicle; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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445 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Minister for Finance his plans to review the system of vehicle registration tax on vehicles and replace the current system; if an exemption for vehicles owned by registered charities will be considered in such a review; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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320 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills her policy on the allocation of special needs assistants to schools; the approval of pupils for the service provided by special needs assistants and the way these policies have changed in view of the restrictions on the number of SNAs that now exist; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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319 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the number of pupils entitled to special needs assistants in schools in September of 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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318 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the steps she will take to meet the requirements of pupils who were provided with the services of special needs assistants in the event of the number of special needs assistants in their school being reduced; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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275 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the number of special needs assistants employed in schools in September of 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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274 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the number of special needs assistants in schools in Cork county and city in September of 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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234 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she is satisfied with the implementation of the revised requirements for entry to medicine that is the health professions admissions test system; if she has carried out a review of the scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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184 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills her plans to provide an all-Irish secondary school, Gaelcholaiste, in Carrigaline, County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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170 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she will report on the implementation of the work place programme for graduates including the number of graduates accommodated; her future plans for the scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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138 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Taoiseach the number of overseas visitors in each month since the introduction of the €10 travel tax in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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135 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the steps she has taken to introduce a system for the awarding of CAO bonus points for Leaving Certificate maths; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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134 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the steps she has taken to improve information and communications technology facilities in schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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104 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the steps she has taken to introduce a system for the awarding of CAO bonus points for Leaving Certificate maths by 2012; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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670 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the steps she will take to respond to the repeated calls for the introduction of bonus points for maths at leaving certificate level; if such a decision will be taken in time for students entering fifth year in September 2010 to make an informed choice; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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669 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the number of assistant principals and special duty teachers in the Cork area who have retired from primary teaching since the embargo on filling middle management posts was introduced in 2009; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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661 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the number of new school principals appointed in 2008 and 2009; the training and supports provided for new school principals; the changes made to the training and supports available to school principals since 2007; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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660 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the number of school principals retired in each county here in the years 2008 and 2009 in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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473 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Minister for Defence his plans to develop Fort Camden, County Cork; if he has discussed the possibility of handing it over to Cork County Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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451 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Minister for Social Protection the way the introduction of homemaker’s credits for qualification for a State contributory pension will operate within the current pension framework; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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450 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Minister for Social Protection his plans to introduce homemaker’s credits for qualification for a State contributory pension as outlined in the national pensions framework; when such a scheme will be introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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432 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Minister for Social Protection if the decision of the High Court last year regarding the Enforcement of Court Orders Act has had an impact upon the operation of the liability to maintain a family scheme; if the Enforcement of Court Orders Amendment Act 2009 addressed these issues; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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431 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Minister for Social Protection the workings of the liability to maintain a family scheme and to whom it applies; the money recovered under this scheme in each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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338 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Minister for Transport the support he will provide to help develop the Cork docklands project and the eastern gateway bridge; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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265 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of persons diagnosed with eating disorders here in each of the past five years, broken down by age and gender in tabular form; if she has reviewed the consequences eating disorder problems have for both the patient and the health service; her plans to address this problem; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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264 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding a project (details supplied) in County Cork; when construction work will be complete; when the new unit will the open to patients; the number of staff that will be appointed to this unit; when staff will commence working in the new unit; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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263 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of beds available in child and adolescent mental health services in each county; her plans to increase the level of this service; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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55 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the assistance he is providing to deal with the food crisis in Niger; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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183 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform if he will clarify if the Enforcement of Court Orders Amendment Act 2009 applies to persons who have been brought before the courts for refusing to pay agreed maintenance payments; the way the Act applies in these cases; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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89 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform how the lack of provisions for the enforcement of the non-payment of maintenance are impacting on the court system; the reason the current legislation is not operating sufficiently; if his attention has been drawn to the impact that this is having on families when court awarded maintenance is not being paid because of the current lack of enforcement options available to the courts; the steps he will take to address this problem; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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89 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the way the lack of provisions for the enforcement of the non-payment of maintenance are impacting on the court system; the reason the current legislation is not operating sufficiently; if his attention has been drawn to the impact that this is having on families when court awarded maintenance is not being paid because of the current lack of enforcement options available to the courts; the steps he will take to address this problem; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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58 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the reason the provisions for the enforcement of the non-payment of maintenance provided for under current legislation are not operating sufficiently; if his attention has been drawn to the impact this is having on families when court awarded maintenance is not being paid because of the current lack of enforcement options available to the courts; the steps he will take to address this problem; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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385 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the recourse a person and their family have whose former spouse is refusing to pay court approved maintenance; the steps that can be taken by the courts to enforce this maintenance; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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384 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the steps that were taken after the High Court decision in 2009 on the legislation on the enforcement of maintenance orders; the reason these ongoing problems have not been addressed; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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372 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform if he will review the appeal of a person (details supplied) in County Cork to the refusal of their application for an extension to a working holiday authorisation; when the person can expect to receive a response; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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304 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of staff providing development checks for infants in each of the past five years; the number of children who have received development checks in each of the past five years; the current waiting list for such checks; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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303 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will address the concerns that exist regarding the reallocation of staff that may result in development checks for infants being put at risk; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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211 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Minister for Health and Children her plans to employ a specialised consultant to deal with the current double lung transplant waiting lists; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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208 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will outline the services that currently exist for cystic fibrosis patients; the plans that currently exist to establish new cystic fibrosis units; where such units will be located; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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207 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of people currently on the waiting list for double lung transplant; the number of double lung transplants carried out here in each of the past five years; the number of patients on the waiting list for double lung transplant who died while on the waiting list in each of the past five years; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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