345 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for Education and Science the reason a student (details supplied) in County Kildare has not received an education grant; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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344 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for Education and Science the reason a student (details supplied) in County Kildare is not being awarded a grant towards their education; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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343 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for Education and Science the reason a student (details supplied) in County Kildare is not being awarded a grant towards the cost of their education; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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328 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for Education and Science the position of an application for a new school (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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327 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding a school extension (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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326 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding an application for a new secondary school in a town (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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325 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the situation in a primary school (details supplied) in County Kildare, who since 2005 have had three emergency works moneys from her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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322 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for Education and Science the discussion that has taken place in relation to rationalisation and reconfiguration of primary schools in County Kildare; when a decision will be issued in relation to a new school building for a primary school (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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321 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for Education and Science if her attention was drawn to the fact that in 2004 her Department carried out a technical survey on a school (details supplied) in County Kildare and recommended a new school building; when a new school will be provided; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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281 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the action he will take or the funding he will provide, to assist groups to develop the Gordon Bennett Car Rally theme in the towns and villages that facilitated the race at the start of the last century, to ensure that the route is clearly defined and protected and that each town and village and settlement has its own unique attraction and history in relation to their connection with the race in view of its importance.
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277 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if a support group (details supplied) in County Kildare are entitled to funding under the dormant accounts scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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274 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the problems that persons are having in seeking to obtain a PPS number in County Kildare due to a change in procedure that the applicant must now apply to the Newbridge office instead of the local offices; the reason these changes are being made; if a review of the procedure will take place to ensure that applicants are not having delays in obtaining payments due to the changes made; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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273 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if there is a waiting list in relation to oral hearings of social welfare claims; if so, the period of time an applicant has to wait; the number on the waiting list; the number of appeal officers employed by his Department; if there are vacancies of staff due to illness or retirement; if so, the number of placements vacant; the procedures in place in the interim to ensure that the applicant has income; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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265 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if a support group (details supplied) is entitled to funding under any of his Departments schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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247 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of labour inspectors that are stationed in County Kildare or operate specifically in the Kildare area; the number of investigations carried out in each of the past two years; the results of such investigations; the number of court cases; the results of such cases; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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246 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of labour inspectors employed through the National Employment Rights Agency; the areas that the inspectors operate; the number of court cases determined as a result of their investigations; the number of convictions as a result of such cases; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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206 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of employment vacancies within the Health Service Executive in Kildare and West Wicklow in relation to occupational therapists, speech and language therapists, child physiologists, nurses, dentists and orthodontists; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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190 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for Health and Children if a person (details supplied) in County Kildare is entitled to treatment under the National Treatment Purchase Fund; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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155 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Kildare will receive home help assistance; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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153 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Kildare will receive a decision in relation to an application for home help assistance; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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152 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding training for the community responders; if a person has been appointed to oversee this community scheme; if funds have been allocated to out the scheme to different communities; the locations that have a community first responders scheme; her views on whether such schemes are worthy of further investment and support; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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134 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of adolescent psychiatric beds available in the HSE system; if there is a waiting list for such beds; if so, the period of waiting time; the number on the waiting list; the geographical area of those awaiting such beds; the plans the HSE has to provide same; the area where such beds will be provided; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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94 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if a person (details supplied) will be issued with a P21 for 2007; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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93 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if a person (details supplied) in County Kildare has all of their entitlements in relation to their pension and taxation payments; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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61 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance his views on the introduction of income tax relief on environmental service charges; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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46 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance his views on the introduction of income tax relief on payments for private health insurance; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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189 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if an application for a stamp four permanency can be determined for a person (details supplied) from the date that they sought and were granted their work permit; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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181 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for Education and Science if a school project is not funded or commenced before the tender date expires, the procedure that must occur or if there is extra costs involved the person who has to fund such costs and if the total project has to be re-advertised in such instances for new tenders; the period of time such a tendering process would take in normal circumstances if all of the criteria was addressed in the first instance; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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182 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for Education and Science if there is any difficulty with the tendering process, drawings, proposed site or any other aspect of a college building project (details supplied) in County Kildare that is preventing it being included on the capital building list for funding in 2008; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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180 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for Education and Science the position of the provision of a new college to replace the existing college for a school (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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159 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for Education and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 731 of 11 December 2007, when she will make a decision on the way to provide for the learning needs of young people who leave school early or who may not wish to progress directly into employment or higher education and adults seeking second chance education in the adult, further and vocational education sector as per the National Adult Education Learning Council; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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113 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for Education and Science the interest rate being charged by the preferred tenderer which is being procured by the National Development Finance Agency in respect of the first bundle of major projects in the third level public private partnership programme, announced on 15 January 2008; the duration of the first bundle three contracts; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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696 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the grants available to persons seeking to renovate buildings (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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493 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for Education and Science the position of a new school building (details supplied) in County Kildare; when funding will be announced for the project; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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428 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the mechanism available to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare to obtain a panic alarm through the social welfare individual or community grant system; if such grants are available to senior citizens by any mechanism within his Department; if so the mechanism a person must use to obtain such a grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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416 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the position of an application for supplementary rent allowance by a person (details supplied) in County Laois; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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209 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for Health and Children if the Health Service Executive has taken up the twenty percent option on placements in retirement villages in County Kildare that have been determined in the planning applications of such facilities; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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208 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for Health and Children if her Department investigated the cost saving factor of subvention for applicants to reside in retirement villages rather than long stay hospital placement; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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199 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance his plans to remove creches and preschools from the rateable valuation net or the plans his Department has to open a new category of rateable valuation for child-care facilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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255 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the guidelines set out by his Department on the import of coal to Ireland; the procedure an applicant should follow to obtain the necessary permission; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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248 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the ESB is seeking a payment on deposit of €300 towards an ESB connection for new tenants in the new rental accommodation scheme of allocating tenancies by local authorities and that this matter is a cause of major concern for applicants in that they are unable to meet such requests thus finding themselves in a position of having to consider their position in the scheme; if he has had meetings with the ESB in relation to this problem; the result of such meetings; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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247 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the regulations his Department has to determine the amount that a local authority can charge a tenant for the renting of a local authority house; if a 10% rise or greater in rent is permissible under the regulations in one actual increase; if there is a national average determined by him in relation to such rent increases; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that such a 10% or greater increase in rent will in fact mean that a social welfare recipient will pay all of the recent family budget 2008 increases to the local authority as part of the rent increase (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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232 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if, under his Department’s regulations on rent payments to local authorities, the living alone allowance and the fuel allowance are excluded in the determination of the total family income that local authorities calculate the rent payments on; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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190 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for Education and Science the guidelines or procedures laid down by her Department for a situation (details supplied); the mechanisms available to ensure that the student is able to enrol in a second level school; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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138 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the protection his Department has under social welfare regulations, legislation or guidelines to ensure that social welfare recipients in receipt of recent family increases in Budget 2008 do not have the percentage rise clawed back by a local authority increasing its rent by a similar amount as to the budget rise; if, in determining social welfare payments in general the percentage of social welfare payments is determined by him as possible rent or accommodation payments; and if fuel or living alone allowances are included; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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123 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the action he is taking to overcome the loss of employment in Athy, County Kildare due to the closure of a company (details supplied); the reason the Industrial Development Authority has only created three visiting itineraries to the area in relation to employment creation in the past five years; the reason he has not invited any of the development officers or council officials of the local authority of the area to accompany him on all of the trade missions that he has undertaken under his brief since he became Minister, to permit such officials the opportunity to seek employment opportunities; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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27 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs his views in relation to the major drug find in County Kildare on 6 February 2008; if he had meetings with the relevant authorities in regard to such a find; his plans to protect such communities as those in the county of Kildare where areas of the county appear to be used as bases for drug activity for the Dublin market; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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7 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if analysis has been completed on the cost of volunteering in Ireland, the training of such volunteers, insurance costs, the retention factor of volunteers and the recruiting of volunteers; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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2 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs his views on whether the recent welcome seizures of drugs by the Garda, including the seizure of an estimated €10 million worth of cannabis in County Kildare, reflects the continuing widespread availability of and demand for illicit drugs; the steps he plans to take to reduce the demand for drugs in communities; if he is satisfied with the work of the local drug task forces in this regard; if he plans new initiatives to reduce demand; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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407 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if any local authority has sought funding for the provision of initiating community garden allotment schemes within their authority; his views on such applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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