119 Deputy John Lyons asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to issue social procurement provisions and guidelines to Irish public bodies; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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118 Deputy John Lyons asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on the proposed reforms of public procurement to support Irish firms and to allow greater access by Irish small and medium enterprises to public contracts; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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105 Deputy John Lyons asked the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to scale up the supply of foreign language skills being taught at third level, in particular for emerging market languages; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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104 Deputy John Lyons asked the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to develop a national foreign language education policy with a five to ten year vision to provide an integrated and coherent approach to foreign language teaching in all learning contexts; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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103 Deputy John Lyons asked the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to improve the supply of domestic foreign language capability to act as a boost to enterprise activity and export potential; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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102 Deputy John Lyons asked the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to build up the development of soft skills and competences within second and third level education and training courses; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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101 Deputy John Lyons asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider setting national targets for Irish work and study placements in European countries to aid development of language skills; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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100 Deputy John Lyons asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he has considered ways to increase the number of Irish student study placements in the BRIC countries; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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99 Deputy John Lyons asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will detail for the past ten years the percentage of leaving certificate students who took one foreign language and those who took two foreign languages, including, if possible, which level they took; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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98 Deputy John Lyons asked the Minister for Education and Skills the Higher Education Authority accredited courses that are currently assessed using the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages; his plans to align all third level foreign language courses with the CEFRL; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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90 Deputy John Lyons asked the Minister for Education and Skills in view of the target to train a further 800 computer software professionals to NFQ Level 8, if he will consider the expansion of cost effective ways of training computer software professionals that meet industry needs in a shorter period of time than it takes to achieve a level 8 qualification (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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729 Deputy John Lyons asked the Minister for Health if he will provide an update in relation to funding for a group (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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722 Deputy John Lyons asked the Minister for Health if patients will be allowed to continue to receive non-generic drugs under the general medical scheme in cases where they have presented with side effects to the generic alternative.
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700 Deputy John Lyons asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will report on the position regarding a bilateral agreement to facilitate inter-country adoptions between Ireland and Russia.
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599 Deputy John Lyons asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update in relation to the review of the drugs treatment courts; when the review will become available; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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433 Deputy John Lyons asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if consideration is being given to establishing a new independent regulatory authority for the waste management sector which would provide a greater transparency in the sector and which would have a remit to decide on the charging structure for waste services.
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270 Deputy John Lyons asked the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 347 of 3 July 2012, with regard to the four year time limit governing the refund of PRSI contributions, the reason, in this instance, no similar time limit was imposed vis-à-vis the amount of illness benefit claimed by this person since 2001; if she will outline the way such an error occurred over a very extensive period of time; and if she will reconsider the decision to rescind this person's entitlement to class A entitlements.
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393 Deputy John Lyons asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will review the decision of the Refugee Integration Agency to send a person (details supplied) to County Sligo in circumstances in which they have been accepted to a third level course in a Dublin college and they have no connections in County Sligo; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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254 Deputy John Lyons asked the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an appeal for a carer’s allowance in respect of a person (details supplied).
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231 Deputy John Lyons asked the Minister for Social Protection when an application for carer’s allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 11 will be assessed; and if she will expedite a decision on same.
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205 Deputy John Lyons asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he has considered using the European Progress Microfinance Fund as a source of funding for youth unemployment initiatives; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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204 Deputy John Lyons asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he has considered any youth specific enterprise initiatives to encourage entrepreneurial activity; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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429 Deputy John Lyons asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his plans for the introduction of a national bin waiver scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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347 Deputy John Lyons asked the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a refund in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9 in relation to the overpayment of PRSI contributions.
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282 Deputy John Lyons asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the cost of increments in 2013, 2014 and 2015 for people in the public sector who are currently in the following earning bands salary plus allowances/bonus, less than €20,000; in increments of €5,000 from €20,000 to €100,000; €100,000-€125,000; €125,000-€150,000-€200,000; greater than €200,000; if he will further provide separate tables to be provided for office holders, Deputies, judges, civil servants, public servants, those in the wider public sector including commercial semi-State bodies; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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281 Deputy John Lyons asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the expected level of savings through adjustments from the Croke Park agreements in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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127 Deputy John Lyons asked the Minister for Social Protection if all staff in local offices have received suitable information and training in the new part-time job incentive and employer job PRSI incentive schemes being offered by her Department; and if suitable unemployed people are being identified by her Department and informed directly of these new schemes.
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126 Deputy John Lyons asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide figures on the number of long-term unemployed persons who have taken part in the part-time job incentive scheme by year to date; and if she will provide the take up of the scheme on a constituency basis.
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125 Deputy John Lyons asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide a breakdown of the take-up of employer job PRSI incentive scheme by employers; if she will provide the figures of the number of jobs created under the scheme; and if it is possible to provide this information on a constituency or area-specific basis.
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73 Deputy John Lyons asked the Minister for Finance if he will provide a breakdown on the take-up of the Revenue job assist programme by employers; if he will clarify if figures on the number of jobs created under the scheme are available; and if it is possible to provide this information on a constituency or area-specific basis.
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602 Deputy John Lyons asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to consult with Irish Rail to expand the service of allowing passengers to bring bicycles on inter-city train services, beyond the current limitation of three bicycles per train on all lines except Dublin to Cork; if a study has been done to examine the feasibility of same for other lines, particularly to key tourist destinations; if Irish Rail will be reintroducing the facility to book bicycles on trains via its website in the near future.
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308 Deputy John Lyons asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an update on an application for rent supplement in respect of a person (details supplied).
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71 Deputy John Lyons asked the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an application under the insolvency payments scheme in respect of a person (details supplied).
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48 Deputy John Lyons asked the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 41 of 14 June 2012, if will he provide clarification on the provision of a special needs assistant for this child.
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397 Deputy John Lyons asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will review a decision not to award an oral hearing in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 11.
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254 Deputy John Lyons asked the Minister for Education and Skills the extent, if any, to which school properties containing and affected by pyrite can be offered assistance; the particular supports available to a school (details supplied) in Dublin 11 to remediate the major structural damage caused by pyrite and the commencement date for these required works.
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150 Deputy John Lyons asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to pursue another round of capital funding for preschool child care provision in 2013 or in the near future in view of the large number of applications for 2012.
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61 Deputy John Lyons asked the Minister for Social Protection if he will provide an update on a rent supplement application in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 11 and if it will be processed as soon as possible.
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41 Deputy John Lyons asked the Minister for Education and Skills if an application for special needs support for the 2012/2013 academic year was received in respect of a child (details supplied) who was recently diagnosed on the Autistic Spectrum.
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161 Deputy John Lyons asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if a direction has been issued by him to local authorities to include the public service pension reduction as part of assessable income for local authority tenants (details supplied); if he is currently developing proposals for the national rent scheme which may include alternative treatment of the public service pension reduction.
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63 Deputy John Lyons asked the Minister for Finance if he will give consideration to correspondence (details supplied) regarding fitness and probity standards as issued by the Central Bank of Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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58 Deputy John Lyons asked the Minister for Finance if he will provide a full breakdown of the tax liability in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9; and if tax will be deducted in this particular case and on what basis.
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637 Deputy John Lyons asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the statutory situation regarding paternity leave; his plans to introduce paternity leave as currently it is not recognised in employment law in Ireland and employers are not obliged to grant male employees special paternity leave, either paid or unpaid, following the birth of their child.
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553 Deputy John Lyons asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the reason a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9 has had their payment for the household charge returned to them; if this is an appropriate course of action in view of this person’s willingness to pay the charge but the omission of the late penalty fee.
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571 Deputy John Lyons asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding voting entitlements for D class voters; the rationale for restricting voting rights to Dáil Éireann elections, European elections and local elections; his plans to reform the system of voter registration and extending voting rights to this cohort taking into account the duration of residency in the State and paid taxes and social insurance contributions.
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146 Deputy John Lyons asked the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the financial supports and grant assistance available to postgraduate students commencing courses in May 2012 in view of the fact students must wait until the grant application system goes live in the next number of weeks, the supports available to those who require funding in the intervening period.
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338 Deputy John Lyons asked the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an application for rent allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9.
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336 Deputy John Lyons asked the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a social welfare appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 11.
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77 Deputy John Lyons asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to hire additional staff in the Office of Public Works in the area of heritage services; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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