204 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Minister for Finance the steps he has taken and will take to implement the innovation taskforce’s key recommendation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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164 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the options open to an employee if their employer has failed to pay them redundancy claiming inability to pay but that same employer proceeds to establish a new company; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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163 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps he will take to address the situation when an employer who has failed to pay his employees any redundancy payments when a company is wound up on the basis of an inability to pay can then proceed to establish a new company; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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161 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps he has taken and will take to implement the innovation taskforce’s key recommendation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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160 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps he has taken and will take to implement the innovation taskforce’s key recommendation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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159 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps he has taken and will take to implement the innovation taskforce’s key recommendation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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158 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps he has taken and will take to implement the innovation taskforce’s key recommendation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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157 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps he has taken and will take to implement the innovation taskforce’s key recommendation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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156 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps he has taken and will take to implement the innovation taskforce’s key recommendation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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155 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps he has taken and will take to implement the innovation taskforce’s key recommendation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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154 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps he has taken and will take to implement the innovation taskforce’s key recommendation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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153 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps he has taken and will take to implement the innovation taskforce’s key recommendation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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152 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps he has taken and will take to implement the innovation taskforce’s key recommendation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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151 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps he has taken and will take to implement the innovation taskforce’s key recommendation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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150 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps he has taken and will take to implement the innovation taskforce’s key recommendation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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149 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps he has taken and will take to implement the innovation taskforce’s key recommendation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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148 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps he has taken and will take to implement the innovation taskforce’s key recommendation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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147 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps he has taken and will take to implement the innovation taskforce’s key recommendation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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146 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps he has taken and will take to implement the innovation taskforce’s key recommendation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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145 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps he has taken and will take to implement the innovation taskforce’s key recommendation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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120 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Taoiseach the steps he has taken and will take to implement the innovation taskforce’s key recommendation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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145 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his Department issues citizenship certificates in both Irish and English or just in the Irish language; his views on whether it is acceptable to issue such certificates only in the Irish language to applicants who were not born or educated here and have very little knowledge of the Irish language; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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85 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if she has received representations with regard to royalty rights for actors; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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180 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Minister for Finance when he will be in a position to allocate funding for flood relief measures under the minor works scheme; the amount of moneys available under this scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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129 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the recommendations for action by Irish Aid in the medium and longer term made by the technical team he sent to Haiti to undertake an analysis of priority needs; the actions he has taken and plans to take resulting from these recommendations; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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46 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if a Garda Síochána code of ethics, as provided for the section 17 of the Garda Síochána Act 2005, has been completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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70 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Minister for Transport if he will amend the Roads Act 2003 to compel the National Roads Authority to seek toll decreases in line with the consumer price index on roads controlled by private investors; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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777 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Minister for Education and Science if the examination supports provided to a student (details supplied) in County Cork at junior certificate will be available for their leaving certificate examination; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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658 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the provisions that are available to local authorities to deal with graffiti; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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657 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if schools and other educational establishments are exempt from planning development changes; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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521 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the grants and supports available for start-up companies in the tourism sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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520 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the support grants that are available to a person setting up a company that will run tours of historic areas in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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134 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps she takes to recover money from an employer, when that employer has refused to pay redundancy, but has been unable to prove that they are unable to pay redundancy and when the employees involved have secured a decision from the Employment Appeals Tribunal that they are entitled to redundancy and this has been paid by her Department; the number of employers that fall into this category; the amount that her Department is seeking to recover from such employers; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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133 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the timeframe employees seeking redundancy from her Department but were asked to take a case to the Employment Appeals Tribunal are waiting for their cases to be heard by the Employment Appeals Tribunal; the timeframe they are waiting for redundancy payments from the date of application for each year from 2005 to 2009; if she has reviewed this problem in view of the fact that such employees are being penalised for the actions of their employers; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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132 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of companies which have claimed an inability to pay redundancy for each year between 2005 and 2009 in tabular form; the number of employees that were affected for each year from 2005 to 2009; the number of these companies which failed to provide sufficient information to her Department to allow their employees to be paid redundancy each year from 2005 to 2009; the number of employees that were denied redundancy or asked to take a case to the Employment Appeals Tribunal as a result of such failures by their employers each year from 2005 to 2009; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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131 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the amount that has been paid out in redundancy payments for each year between 2005 and 2009 in tabular form; the amount that has been reimbursed to employers who have paid redundancy to employees and who are seeking to recover 60% from her Department for each year between 2005 and 2009; the amount that has been paid out directly to employees of companies who have not been able to pay them directly for each year from 2005 to 2009; the amount that has been recovered by her Department from such companies for each year from 2005 to 2009; the amount that her Department is seeking to recover from companies where it paid redundancy to employees; the amount that her Department is seeking to recover some or all of that from the company for each year from 2005 to 2009; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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130 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of persons that have applied for redundancy payments for each year between 2005 and 2009 in tabular form; the number that received redundancy payments between the years 2005 and 2009; the number that were advised to take a case to the Employment Appeals Tribunal due to the fact that their employer had not provided adequate information to her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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119 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Minister for Health and Children if adoptions from Hague ratified contracting states, when such adoptions are legislated for and administered in line with the Hague Convention good practice guidelines, will be recognised following the passing of the Adoption Bill; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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19 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the position regarding ongoing European Commission discussions in relation to the review of eligibility criteria for inclusion in the disadvantaged areas scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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176 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Minister for Health and Children if primary school children at a school (details supplied) in County Cork will receive an eye examination during the current school year.
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175 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Minister for Health and Children if children in primary schools are entitled to a hearing or sight examination; the number of staff that were employed in each of the past five years in the south Lee area to carry out such examinations; the number of such examinations that were carried out in the south Lee area in each of the past five years; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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126 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Minister for Finance if he has assessed the factors that have led to the accelerated rate of business failures here.
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64 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Minister for Finance the latest estimate of the decline in the value of property here which is likely to underlie the National Asset Management Agency loans.
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38 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the redundancy section of her Department now refuses to pay redundancy to employees when they encounter problems with dealing with their former employers; if they now require these employees who cannot get redundancy from their former employers to take a case to the Employment Appeals Tribunal; if so, when this policy was changed; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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37 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if there has been a change in policy regarding the payment of redundancy to employees when their former employer is not co-operating with the redundancy section of her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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36 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if she will review an application for redundancy in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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241 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the planning requirements for communication masts and antennae in residential areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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421 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has replied to a request from Cork County Council, on behalf of the South West Regional Authority, seeking authorisation for that authority to employ two extra staff as part of a project fully funded by the European Union; if the request has not yet been replied to when he will reply; if he will confirm that failure to employ these two extra staff will result in the Authority losing €500,000 in EU funding; the reason behind his decision to authorise this request or not; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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420 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when he received a request from Cork County Council, on behalf of the South West Regional Authority, seeking authorisation for that authority to employ two extra staff as part of a project fully funded by the European Union; if his attention was drawn to the fact that this was an urgent request and that a delay in responding to it may result in the South West Regional Authority losing the EU funding for the project; when this request was acted upon; the reason there was a delay in replying to it; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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168 Deputy Deirdre Clune asked the Minister for Finance if he has replied to a request from Cork County Council on behalf of the South West Regional Authority seeking authorisation for that authority to employ two extra staff as part of a project fully funded by the European Union; if the request has not yet been replied to when he will reply; if he will confirm that failure to employ these two extra staff will result in the Authority losing €500,000 in EU funding; the reason behind his decision to authorise this request or not.
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