1079 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has proposals to implement a reporting system which would act as an indicator or early warning system of any potential slowdown or over pricing in the housing market; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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926 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the staffing levels in his Department specifically allocated to processing naturalisation applications in each of the years 2003 to date in 2007; the numbers of applications for those years; his plans to address the long delays in processing naturalisation applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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595 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason the income limits for the back to school clothing and footwear allowance seem to discriminate against lone parent families as the income limits are higher for families with two parents or two partner families; his views on increasing or revising the limit upwards for lone parent families; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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399 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will make additional resources available for cytology services at the Rotunda Hospital, taking into account the closure of cytology services in some hospitals and the resultant additional workload experienced in the Rotunda Hospital, where smear tests have gone from four to six weeks to a longer period of eight to nine weeks, and longer if the test result is abnormal; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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395 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children if her Department has a chief dental officer; and if not, when one will be appointed; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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28 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the status of the redevelopment of the Lansdowne Road Stadium; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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594 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans for the ESB company; the effect those plans will have on the workforce and the cost of electricity to the consumer; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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398 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Education and Science if she will be appointing additional resource teachers to the national schools in Rush, Oldtown and Balbriggan; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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259 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Transport and the Marine if he will examine the possibility of providing a bus service for the people of north Dublin to Beaumont Hospital as currently access is difficult for those who have to depend on public transport.
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89 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the political and security situation in the Middle East; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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86 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Transport and the Marine the role his Department has in the provision of two bus services to utilise the new port tunnel; the reason the service lasted for only one day due to the lack of a licence from his Department; the reason such a public transport service needs a licence.
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9 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Transport and the Marine the proposals he has to extend the DART service north of Malahide to Balbriggan, servicing Donabate, Rush, Lusk, Skerries and Balbriggan; the timescale for the provision of such a service; and if he will ensure the planned metro service connects to the main rail line at Donabate
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368 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will make a statement on the media reports regarding rural housing regulations and in particular the reports that the EU will rule that local authority restrictions on applications for planning permission in rural areas be limited only to rural residents are illegal and unenforceable; and if so, his Department’s plans to address such a situation.
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347 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if Garda Reserve manpower will be allocated to Dublin north; if such manpower would have a role in addressing well known points of anti-social behaviour, such as large groups of youths engaged in illegal underage drinking in parks and residential estates in Dublin north; if anti-social behaviour orders and warning letters have a role in such situations; and if there are proposals to allocate extra Garda manpower to the rapidly growing area of Dublin north.
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325 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he has plans to issue regulations or bring forward legislation to address the shortfalls in the operation of management companies and to address the situation where late filing of annual returns is blocking the sale of properties under the aegis of such management companies; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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317 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Education and Science if she will examine and reconsider the regulations regarding the supply of language support teachers for national schools to help them cope with the range of nationalities attending the schools in particular the regulation regarding 13 pupils per language teacher; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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316 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Education and Science if she will reconsider her Department’s position on ABA and ABA schools and recognise, approve and provide funding, support and training for such schools in the education of children with autism; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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315 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Education and Science her plans to address the crisis situation in primary school education brought about by the reluctance of organisations and individuals to become patrons of new badly needed national schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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314 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Education and Science her plans to resolve the crisis situation developing in Skerries where a national school site is available and a need for a new national school has clearly been identified with a demand for at least 80 places in 2008; her plans to have a school in place by then; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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313 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Education and Science when a new primary school will be provided in Balbriggan, County Dublin; when a new secondary school will be provided in Skerries, Balbriggan, Swords and Lusk, County Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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251 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will provide a stock of extra, spare replacement trolleys for use by ambulances in a secure, clean storage area at all accident and emergency facilities and hospitals in order to prevent and terminate the current situation where ambulances are parking and laid up while they wait the return of their trolleys from patients lying and waiting on them for admission to or in accident and emergency departments and hospitals; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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250 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children if an independent inspectorate has been established, funded and staffed; and if it will inspect State nursing homes; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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249 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children if adequate resources, manpower and funding is in place to carry out comprehensive annual inspections in all nursing homes; if State nursing homes are included in these inspections; and if not, the reason for same.
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248 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of nursing homes that remain to be inspected; and when a nationwide inspection will be completed.
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247 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children if the inspection teams report on the standard of nursing home care and its adequacy and inadequacy; if not the reason for same; and her plans to address this shortfall if it exists.
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245 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on the inappropriateness of locating the Central Mental Hospital in the grounds of the proposed prison site at Thornton Hall and the negative message and connotations that such a location sends out to the patients and families of the Central Mental Hospital and the appropriateness of locating the hospital in an isolated area with very poor private transport links and no public transport links for patients’ families and staff of the Central Mental Hospital.
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206 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the proposals she has to reduce the burden of child care costs on parents; if she will examine innovative ways such as the VAT system for reducing such costs; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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167 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of doctor only medical cards issued to date, with a breakdown on a county basis of where these have been issued; the average income of those who have received these cards; her proposals to improve the uptake of these cards; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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160 Deputy James Reilly asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of cases of MRSA in each of the past five years; the number of deaths from MRSA that have occurred in each of the past five years; the liabilities that have arisen for the State out of both infections and deaths from MRSA; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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176 Deputy James Reilly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance his views on reducing the VAT rate on insulation materials, solar panels, wool pellet burners, heat recovering units and other such materials and equipment which increase energy efficiency and reduces the wasteful use of energy; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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121 Deputy James Reilly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance his views on reform of the stamp duty system, exempting from stamp duty any house purchased by a person with a disability due to the appropriateness of that house for their disability; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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