402 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Education and Science if she will abolish the practice of Bus Éireann handing over responsibility of school transport to taxi drivers or hackney drivers and introduce instead an appropriate bus service.
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401 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Education and Science if, given that her Department is ultimately responsible for school transport and contracts out the provision of school transport to Bus Éireann, she will take immediate action to guarantee heath and safety and child protection standards for children with special needs in cases where Bus Éireann contracts out its school transport to taxi drivers.
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356 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Education and Science if, given that her Department is ultimately responsible for the welfare and protection of children, she will take immediate action to guarantee health and safety and child protection standards for children with special needs in cases where Bus Éireann contracts out its school transport to taxi drivers.
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309 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason a person, who is here on a tourist visa, must return to their country of origin if they decide to make an application to remain in Ireland on a student visa.
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152 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will take immediate steps to ensure that a mandatory obligation is placed on every organisation working with children to carry out comprehensive vetting procedures on the employment or contracting of staff.
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161 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will introduce a national hearing screening programme for all newborn babies in view of the fact that the failure to introduce this screening is causing serious lifelong disadvantage to deaf children arising from late diagnosis of deafness and consequent delay in receiving essential support services and in further view of the fact that universal newborn hearing screening is the accepted standard in all developed countries.
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6 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Taoiseach if he has received the third interim report from the MacEntee commission into the Dublin and Monaghan bombings; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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180 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will substantially increase the amount women in receipt of deserted wife’s benefit are allowed to earn in employment before their benefit is affected in view of the fact that from June 2006 persons in receipt of one-parent family payment, earning between €146.50 and €375.00 per week, can still qualify for a reduced payment.
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14 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Taoiseach the issues he intends to discuss with the US President Mr. George W. Bush during his visit to the White House on St. Patrick’s weekend 2006; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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871 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the way in which he intends to strengthen the ability of the Private Residential Tenancies Board to effectively enforce registration of private properties, in view of the fact that most of the enforcement notices sent by the Private Residential Tenancies Board to over 250 houses in Tallaght have effectively been ignored.
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832 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Defence if, in view of his reply to Question No. 570 of 7 March 2006, he will undertake to update his Department’s website concerning the case of a person (details supplied) to the effect that the report of the Judge Advocate General publicised on the website was subsequently quashed by the High Court in July 2005.
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771 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Education and Science if she will sanction funding to enable ACORN applied behavioural analysis school for autistic children to set up a unit on Dublin’s north side for 12 autistic children, in view of the long waiting lists for existing schools providing this type of education for autistic children and the great benefit of early intervention and one-to-one tuition for these children.
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701 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he has received a request for funding from the Missing in Ireland Support Service.
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373 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if a stamp will issue in honour of Michael Davitt to commemorate the 100th anniversary of his death.
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342 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Finance if a company (details supplied) utilised the arrangement whereby it paid no income tax for its employees here.
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270 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if an investigation will be ordered into the circumstances whereby a baby (details supplied) became profoundly mentally and physically handicapped subsequent to the administration of the three in one vaccine in 1985.
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245 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason her Department has advised pharmacists to refer persons with prescriptions for deltacortril and prednisolone qualifying for the drugs payment scheme back to their general practitioners to have another tablet prescribed instead.
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244 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will reverse the decision not to reimburse the current market price of deltacortril tablets under the drugs payment scheme.
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144 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the Health Service Executive will be directed to treat home helps on a par with all other health service employees by granting them written terms of employment, eliminating zero hour contracts and by granting both patients and home helps enough hours to ensure a proper service prevails.
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1 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Taoiseach if he has had communication from the family of murdered solicitor, Mr. Pat Finucane, in relation to the terms of an inquiry.
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67 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he has arranged to meet families bereaved by the Stardust disaster.
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570 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Defence if, in view of the fact that the High Court order made on 27 July 2005 quashed the report of the Judge Advocate General from the inquiry into the documentation held by the Department of the Defence and by the Defence Forces into the retirement of a person (details supplied) in 1969 and in further view of the fact that Mr. Justice Quirke of the High Court in his judgment noted that in the absence of an explanation concerning documentation the injustice to this person remains apparent, he will remove from the website and published documentation of his Department’s statements and press release documentation announcing and lauding the findings of the Judge Advocate General’s report.
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569 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Defence if he had prior knowledge of the visit of US President Mr. George W. Bush to Shannon Airport on 1 March 2006.
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568 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Defence the number of Army personnel deployed as part of the security arrangements for the visit of US President Mr. George W. Bush to Shannon Airport on 1 March 2006.
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567 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Defence the cost of security arrangements for the visit of US President Mr. George W. Bush to Shannon Airport on 1 March 2006.
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477 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he had prior knowledge of the visit of US President, Mr. George W. Bush, to Shannon Airport on 1 March 2006.
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476 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of gardaí deployed as part of the security arrangements for the visit of US President, Mr. George W. Bush, to Shannon Airport on 1 March 2006.
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475 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the cost of security arrangements for the visit of US President, Mr. George W. Bush, to Shannon Airport on 1 March 2006.
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317 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he was consulted beforehand on the meeting between US President George W. Bush and United States’ troops at Shannon Airport.
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316 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he authorised the commander in chief of a foreign army to conduct a meeting in Shannon Airport with US troops under his command who are in military occupation of another country.
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315 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he had prior knowledge of the visit of US President, George W. Bush, to Shannon Airport on 1 March 2006; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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79 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason a medical card holder (details supplied) in Dublin 12 cannot get the cost of dental treatment covered by their medical card.
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6 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Taoiseach when the new task force on active citizenship last met; and when he expects the next meeting to take place.
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3 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Taoiseach his Department’s legislative programme for the current Dáil session; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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12 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the implementation of the decentralisation programme as it affects his Department.
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9 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Taoiseach the cost to date in 2006 to his Department of the Moriarty tribunal; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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5 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Taoiseach the appointments made by him to State boards or other agencies under his Department’s aegis since 2002; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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11 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the progress to date in implementing the recommendations of the OECD report Regulatory Reform in Ireland.
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6 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Taoiseach the files which were released under the National Archives Act 1986 by his Department; the number of files withheld by his Department from the National Archives in respect of 1975; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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4 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Taoiseach the progress made by the cross-departmental team on infrastructure and public-private partnerships; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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