259 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Education and Science if, as part of the school inspections proposed by her Department, there is provision for inspecting the existence and efficacy of methods to prevent bullying of children in schools.
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258 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Education and Science if she will meet a person (details supplied) to discuss a method to combat the problem of bullying in schools.
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257 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Education and Science the action she will take to implement the Government’s stated pledge to radically reduce class sizes (details supplied).
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90 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will review current practice with regard to organ donation in view of the fact that there is no central register of persons who would be willing to have their organs used for transplant and in further view of the fact that signing an organ donor card indicating willingness to have organs used for transplant, does not necessarily mean such organs will be used in practice.
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89 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the steps she is taking to raise awareness regarding the importance of organ donation in view of the imbalance between the need for and supply of organs for transplantation.
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249 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the investigation into the way in which documents from his Department, relating to Ireland’s EU Presidency, were found on an illegal dump at Eskra, County Tyrone, in February 2004 has been completed; and if so, if he intends to make the findings of this investigation public.
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8 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the position regarding the implementation of the recommendations of the All-Party Oireachtas Committee on the Constitution.
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416 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if lone parents participating in community education initiatives will be allowed to retain all of their supplementary benefits.
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415 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if the situation will be changed whereby lone parents participating in community education initiatives have their training allowance, above a €60 disregard, assessed for rent supplement thus completely negating the recent €10 increase in training allowance, just under one third of the entire training allowance being taken off their rent supplement.
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339 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Finance if the Office of Public Works has received requests from Bus Éireann to allow bus routes from Dublin 15 to the city centre through the Phoenix Park; and the response of the Office of Public Works.
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130 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the costs to his Department during 2005 of the Mahon tribunal; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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24 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Taoiseach when he next expects to meet with the President of the United States of America, Mr. George W. Bush; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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11 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Taoiseach the studies currently being carried out by the National Economic and Social Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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533 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the reason motorists, who are obliged by financial constraints to pay their motor tax on a quarterly basis, should have to pay substantially more than if they could afford to make a single payment for their yearly motor tax; and if this iniquitous situation will be changed.
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526 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Defence the reason retired army non-commissioned officers and privates have to date in 2006 not received increases in their pensions arising from benchmarking and the last round of national pay agreements despite the fact that such increases were due from July 2005 and that retired commissioned officers received their pension increases in July 2005; and if he will ensure that retired non-commissioned officers and privates receive the pension increases due to them.
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495 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Education and Science if funds will be made available in order that a second person may be appointed to the remaining 13 one-teacher schools here on the basis of health and safety.
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458 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if, in accordance with the recommendations made in July 2005 by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women in relation to Ireland the steps he will take to adopt and implement a comprehensive strategy to combat trafficking of women and girls, including preventive measures, the prosecution and punishment of offenders and the enactment of specific legislation in the area.
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355 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Transport the position regarding plans for the reinstatement of the Dublin-Navan rail line; and if resources will be made available to ensure that this project is expedited.
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318 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if, in view of the strong inflow of migrant workers into Ireland, and the fact that many depend on private employment agencies, whose only goal is profit maximisation, the sector will be investigated to stamp out exploitative practices.
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296 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the reason the 673 pensioners who left Eircom in the second half of 1997 were not paid their bonus due on 31 March 1997 in view of the fact that they received no financial benefit and were excluded from the €100 million transfer to the ESOT, €50 million of which was made up of forgone bonus payments for the years 1997 to 2001.
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20 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Taoiseach the studies being carried out by the National Economic and Social Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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12 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Taoiseach the official visits abroad he plans to make during the current Dáil session; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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560 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if a report from each local authority manager in the operation of management companies whose remit includes public services normally provided by local authorities has been sought; and his views on what he has found to be the practice nationally.
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559 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if, in view of his and the Taoiseach’s statements in Dáil Éireann concerning the operation of management companies in housing estates, all local authority managers have been instructed to ensure that all services in public areas normally provided by local authorities are removed from the remit of management companies.
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22 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Taoiseach if he will report on meetings he held on the margins of the recent European Council summit in Brussels.
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21 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the matters discussed and conclusions reached at the recent European Council summit in Brussels.
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10 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Taoiseach the matters discussed and conclusions reached at the EuroMed summit in Barcelona; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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8 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with the President of the Republic of Cyprus, Mr. Tassos Papadopoulos.
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683 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if Ireland received a request to grant political asylum to two ethnic Uighurs (details supplied) whose detention at the US prison facility at Guantanamo Bay has been deemed unlawful by a US district judge.
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595 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if, noting the arrangement whereby Venezuela agreed to provide oil at cheaper prices for some categories of citizens of the United States, the Venezuelan Government will be approached for a similar arrangement for people here for whom the high market prices are causing great difficulty.
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538 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Finance if in the upcoming Finance Bill he will make provisions for childminding relief to be linked to social insurance in order that all childminders will be covered under class S and that all their income will be included for social insurance purposes.
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373 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when legislation will be brought before the Houses of the Oireachtas to provide a clear legal framework for a repayments scheme in relation to over-charging for publicly funded, long-term residential care.
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278 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when the Department began inspecting the Morning Star mother and baby unit.
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248 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the State had a statutory function that would allow it to inspect the Morning Star mother and baby unit, as opposed to whether documentation detailing actual inspections of that institution can be located.
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3 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Taoiseach the expected timeframe for the completion of the report of the commission of investigation into the Dublin and Monaghan Bombings 1974.
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