224 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of people that have used an x-ray facility at a Kildare Hospital (details supplied); the opening hours of this facility; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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223 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for Health and Children the figures in relation to waiting times for a child to see a speech and language therapist in County Kildare; the number of therapists working in the county; if this number is in line with the agreed figures for such a service; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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193 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of home care packages provided in the Kildare and west Wicklow areas for each year since the inception of the scheme; the cost for each year; the average cost of each package; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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192 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of persons in receipt of home help hours in the Kildare and west Wicklow areas for each year since 2003; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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191 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for Health and Children the reason the administrative system that operates the travel pay system for home helps in the Kildare and west Wicklow areas cannot operate a travel allowance system similar to all other areas that has such a mechanism for paying such a payment to personnel; when the matter will be rectified; the amount of arrears due for each year since the inception of the travel allowance payment for home helps to the home helps in the Kildare and west Wicklow areas; when her attention was drawn to the discrepancy that the home helps in the Kildare and west Wicklow areas are not on a par with home helps in the other areas of the Health Service Executive; 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 the date on which travel allowances were first agreed to be paid to home helps within the Health Service Executive; the amount of funding paid in relation to such allowances for each year for each area since that date; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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178 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in County Kildare with a medical card has to pay for a blood test each month; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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158 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the position of an application for vehicle registration tax by a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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127 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the justification for including carers allowance as part of the means test for the back to school clothing and footwear allowance scheme; and if he will commit to amending legislation in the next Social Welfare Act to disregard income from carer’s allowance in these circumstances.
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64 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the action he is taking to ensure his Department is fully compliant with the Data Protection Act 1988; and the steps, in view of recent newspaper reports, that have been taken to ensure data stored by his Department is properly secured and unavailable to third parties.
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80 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for Health and Children if a person (details supplied) in County Kildare is entitled to repayments from the Health Service Executive; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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35 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the capital funding available to help local community based arts and cultural organisations to undertake capital projects, in view of the ACCESS II scheme successful recipients being announced; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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537 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position of the property of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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370 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the position of a supplementary rent allowance for a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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208 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Kildare will have a hip replacement operation carried out; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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105 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the Irish Government’s view in relation to the importance of ending the denial of the Armenian genocide and vindication of the human rights of those within Turkey who wish to discuss this issue.
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114 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the position of the Government on new initiatives at the level of the Security Council of the United Nations to impose an arms embargo on Burma with the intention ofputting an end to sales and arms transfers.
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232 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position of an application by a local authority (details supplied) in County Kildare to purchase social houses; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the local authority gave a commitment in January 2007 to purchase the houses; if, in view of the number of persons on the housing list, his Department will provide a definitive date when sanction will be given; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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208 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for Education and Science the reason a person (details supplied) in County Kildare has not received a bus pass; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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203 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for Education and Science, further to Parliamentary Question No. 434 of 2 October 2007, if a person (details supplied) in County Kildare is entitled to attend one of the primary teaching colleges to do a graduate diploma course in view of the fact that they are now a temporary resource teacher in a primary school; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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87 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for Transport his intentions to amend regulations to allow hackneys to use bus lanes; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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18 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for Transport if he will introduce primary or secondary legislation to set higher standards for the testing of heavy goods vehicles in view of the high percentage of Irish trucks found to be in breach of standards in the UK; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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371 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of refuge centres in each local authority area; the number proposed; the stage of those that are proposed; the funding provided by his Department for such facilities over each of the past five years to each local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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352 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the period of time an applicant must wait for an appointment at the free legal aid centres in Newbridge, Portlaoise and Carlow; the number on the waiting list in each area; the number seeking barring orders that are on the waiting list; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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351 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of gardaí specially trained within each division of the Garda to deal with domestic violence incidents; if such personnel receive refresher courses; if such personnel meet in group sessions to ensure consistency of the Garda guidelines in relation to such occurrences; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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350 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if within his Department there is funding available to groups (details supplied) who are involved in the support mechanism for families and persons who suffer domestic violence in regard to the training of personnel to meet the demands placed on such groups and their personnel and whom due to lack of funding are not in a position to provide such funding themselves; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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320 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for Education and Science her views in relation to a submission (details supplied); the plans she has or is proposing to address the issue; the cost to her Department of such a proposal; the meetings she or her Department has had with the interested parties; if not, her plans to meet with the parties; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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319 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the provision of schools in an area of high population density in County Kildare (details supplied); the number of meetings she or her Department has had or proposes to have with the relevant bodies and interested parties in the area; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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294 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the position of an appeal by a person (details supplied) in County Kildare against the decision to refuse their application for a diet supplement; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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203 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of facilities, that is, access centres available within the Health Service Executive for parents to meet with their children where court proceedings have determined that either parent in a separation agreement has access to their children; if no such facilities are available if she will provide such given the grave concern being expressed by support groups that the lack of such facilities is a danger to the children; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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189 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for Health and Children the involvement of her Department with refuge centres for those who have suffered from domestic violence; the funding or personnel her Department supplies: the research her Department has carried out in relation to such centres; if she is satisfied with the results of such research; the action proposed or taken as a result; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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99 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of complaints received by the Health Service Executive in relation to harassment of home helps by family members of recipients or the recipients of such a service; the action taken; the procedures that are in place in relation to such an event occurring; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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84 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the concerns expressed by the chief medical scientist at the national MRSA reference laboratory that the facility is in dire need; the steps she will take to ensure that the laboratory is able to provide hospitals with the support they need in tackling this problem in view of the serious threat posed by MRSA; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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237 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Kildare will receive an appointment date for an outpatients clinic; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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236 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Kildare will receive an appointment date for a clinic; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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135 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he is considering new proposals or methods to remove the 21% VAT on fees for non-resident artists performing here; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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117 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for Education and Science the reason a person (details supplied) in County Kildare has to pay six hundred euro for an assessment in relation to exemptions for their leaving certificate examinations; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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52 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will bring forward a microgeneration strategy in the context of figures that indicate that there are just 21 microgeneration units connected to the energy system here; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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33 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will address the skyrocketing levels of fuel and energy poverty in society here; when he will publish the 2006 Fuel Poverty Action Research Project; his views on a formal mechanism to review utility prices on an ongoing basis in the context of fluctuating prices on global oil and gas markets and the harsh impact of utility prices on low income families and senior citizens; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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298 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position of an application by a person (details supplied) in County Kildare to remain in the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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289 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of persons from County Kildare that have joined the Garda Reserve; the number of persons from County Kildare who applied to join; the location of the Garda stations throughout the county that have Garda Reserve members working in them; his plans to increase the number of Garda Reserve members working in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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287 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of community Gardaí stationed in County Kildare; the stations at which the community Gardaí are stationed; his plans to extend the number of community Gardaí in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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286 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of Gardaí stationed at the various stations throughout County Kildare; the increase over the last 12 months; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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249 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the grants he or his Department have to allow persons in receipt of the State pension to purchase house alarms; the plans he or his Department have to introduce such a scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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245 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the grants he or his Department have to allow persons in receipt of the State pension to purchase house alarms; if he or his Department have plans to introduce such grants; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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244 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the position of an appeal in relation to supplementary welfare allowance payments by a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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216 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Minister for Transport and the Marine if a person (details supplied) in County Kildare is entitled to a disabled person's sticker for their car; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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170 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if the Office of Public Works completed its negotiations with Kildare County Council in relation to the purchase of lands at Newbridge, County Kildare in regard to the decentralisation of the Department of Defence to Newbridge; the reason for such a delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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169 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if the Office of Public Works has plans or proposals to rent accommodation in relation to an advance section of the Department of Defence’s decentralisation programme moving to Newbridge County Kildare; if there are delays in relation to the proposed offices there; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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168 Deputy Jack Wall asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance when the Office of Public Works expects development work to commence in relation to the decentralisation of the Department of Defence to Newbridge, County Kildare; the timescale of the completion of the development; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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