367 Deputy Jonathan O’Brien asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if, when the Equality Tribunal’s functions are transferred, he will retain the equal status function of the Tribunal in the newly constituted body.
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366 Deputy Jonathan O’Brien asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on whether introducing a fee €50 for anyone making a complaint under employment rights legislation which will be a huge deterrent to many groups protected under equality legislation.
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365 Deputy Jonathan O’Brien asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation in view of his proposal to amalgamate employment rights bodies, if he intends to address the unique feature of employment equality cases; if he will make reference to rights enforcement or the concept of anti-discrimination; if he will address the unique investigative nature of employment equality hearings.
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176 Deputy Jonathan O’Brien asked the Taoiseach if he will provide the details of the solicitors and barristers who received payments from the Director of Public Prosecutions during each of the past five years; and the amounts each individual received for their services.
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175 Deputy Jonathan O’Brien asked the Taoiseach if he will provide details of the work outsourced by the Office of the Director of Public Prosecution under the category general operative; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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174 Deputy Jonathan O’Brien asked the Taoiseach if he will provide details of the memberships for staff paid for by the Office of the Chief State’s Solicitor.
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173 Deputy Jonathan O’Brien asked the Taoiseach if he will provide the details of all foreign travel undertaken by staff in the Office of the Chief State’s Solicitor during each of the past three years.
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172 Deputy Jonathan O’Brien asked the Taoiseach the reason €2.225 million was spent on office machinery by the Office of the Chief State’s Solicitor between 2009 and 2011; if he views this figure as excessive; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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171 Deputy Jonathan O’Brien asked the Taoiseach the items that may be claimed by staff in the Office of the Chief State’s Solicitors for travel subsistence and incidental expenses; the average payment to staff members in expenses; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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170 Deputy Jonathan O’Brien asked the Taoiseach if he will provide the details of each of the solicitors and barristers who received payments from the Office of the Chief State’s Solicitor during each of the past five years; and the amount each individual received for their services.
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169 Deputy Jonathan O’Brien asked the Taoiseach if the Office of the Chief State’s Solicitor intends to reduce consultancy spending in the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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168 Deputy Jonathan O’Brien asked the Taoiseach the measure that have been taken by the Office of the Chief State’s Solicitor to reduce expenditure; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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167 Deputy Jonathan O’Brien asked the Taoiseach if spending on furniture, fittings, maintenance and repairs by the Office of the Chief State’s Solicitor is audited; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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166 Deputy Jonathan O’Brien asked the Taoiseach the amount of money that would be saved in the Office of the Chief State’s Solicitor if public sector wages were capped at €100,000; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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165 Deputy Jonathan O’Brien asked the Taoiseach the amount of money that would be saved if public sector wages were capped at €100,000; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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164 Deputy Jonathan O’Brien asked the Taoiseach if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the Office of the Chief State’s Solicitor spent €423,474 on furniture in the years 2009, 2010 and 2011; if he views this cost as excessive; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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163 Deputy Jonathan O’Brien asked the Taoiseach the reason telephonist services are outsourced by the Office of the Chief State’s Solicitor.
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162 Deputy Jonathan O’Brien asked the Taoiseach if he will provide details of companies that provide external IT services to the Office of the Chief State’s Solicitor.
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161 Deputy Jonathan O’Brien asked the Taoiseach the number of telephones that were purchased by the Office of the Chief State’s Solicitor in the years 2009, 2010 and 2011; the number of staff who were allocated these phones; if each staff member has their mobile phone bill paid by the Office of the Chief State Solicitor; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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160 Deputy Jonathan O’Brien asked the Taoiseach if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the Office of the Chief State Solicitor spent €540,795.78 on telephones during 2009, 2010 and 2011; if he views this cost as excessive; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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140 Deputy Jonathan O’Brien asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the National Lottery licence contract will include a clause committing the new operator to maintaining the current good cause funding of 30% of sales as committed to by him earlier this month.
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63 Deputy Jonathan O’Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a timeframe for the consultation with families living along the Border corridor and which seeks to establish the levels of interest in sending children to schools across the Border; and if he will further provide a projected date when the survey will conclude.
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57 Deputy Jonathan O’Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills his views on applied behaviour analysis; if he still subscribes to the view that official recognition should be conferred on ABACAS schools using the applied behaviour analysis method of one-to-one teaching with pupils as a means of ensuring an honest and open evaluation of the effectiveness of the ABA method.
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1167 Deputy Jonathan O’Brien asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to the fact that persons who are engaged in inter-country adoption processes and who have received declarations of suitability and eligibility, will have their declarations expire at the end of October; the number of persons whose declarations expire in October; the date on which the Adoption Authority of Ireland will make an announcement on renewing or extending these declarations; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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1166 Deputy Jonathan O’Brien asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of persons here currently engaged in the process of attempting to adopt children from India; the date on which the meeting between CARA and the Adoption Authority of Ireland will take place; if she will ensure that the AAI keeps these prospective parents informed of the ongoing dialogue with CARA; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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1023 Deputy Jonathan O’Brien asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the procedures within immigration rules for an Irish national who marries a non-EEA national overseas and both wish to reside in Ireland but are unable to prove relationship history for the purposes of immigration procedures due to the parties having willingly consented to an arranged marriage which would not have allowed a relationship history to develop in the manner required for Irish immigration law; if there is sufficient flexibility within the system for non-EEA national spouses of Irish nationals to reside in Ireland when they have entered into a genuine marriage but are of a culture that would not have allowed for such a relationship history to develop in this manner; if there is provision to prevent discrimination based on religious faith in these cases; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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983 Deputy Jonathan O’Brien asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the salaries of each governor of each prison here; if he will give details of their expenses for each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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831 Deputy Jonathan O’Brien asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that landlord owners of residential properties are passing payment of the household charge on to rental tenants and his plans to end this practice.
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20 Deputy Jonathan O’Brien asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his response to recent comments made by Vital Moreira, chair of the European Parliament’s trade committee, stating that some African countries may have to start paying an 8.5% to 15.7% duty on their exports to Europe if they fail to sign Economic Partnership Agreement agreements by end 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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8 Deputy Jonathan O’Brien asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position regarding the follow up work that has been done jointly between him and the Colombian Government on issues discussed during President Santos’s visit to Ireland in January; and the recent efforts that have been made by him at European level to raise ongoing human rights concerns in advance of free trade agreement negotiations. [17221/12]
185 Deputy Jonathan O’Brien asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if all residential property owned by Government Ministers is exempt from payment of the household charge; the purpose for which Ministers are exempted; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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663 Deputy Jonathan O’Brien asked the Minister for Health if he will provide a full breakdown by gender of all appointments to State boards since February 2011; the current status of State boards in relation to the percentage of participation of women and men in each one; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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539 Deputy Jonathan O’Brien asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide a full breakdown by gender of all appointments to State boards since February 2011; the current status of State boards in relation to the percentage of participation of women and men in each one; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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525 Deputy Jonathan O’Brien asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a full breakdown by gender of all appointments to State boards since February 2011; the current status of State boards regarding the percentage of participation of women and men in each one; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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487 Deputy Jonathan O’Brien asked the Minister for Defence if he will provide a full breakdown by gender of all appointments to State boards since February 2011; the current status of State boards in relation to the percentage of participation of women and men in each one; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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479 Deputy Jonathan O’Brien asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide a full breakdown by gender of all appointments to State boards since February 2011; the current status of State boards in relation to the percentage of participation of women and men in each one; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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453 Deputy Jonathan O’Brien asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason the State will not opt into Directive 2003/86/EC on family reunification; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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354 Deputy Jonathan O’Brien asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide a full breakdown by gender of all appointments to State boards since February 2011; the current status of State boards in relation to the percentage of participation of women and men in each one; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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345 Deputy Jonathan O’Brien asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide a full breakdown by gender of all appointments to State boards since February 2011; the current status of State boards in relation to the percentage of participation of women and men in each one; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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283 Deputy Jonathan O’Brien asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide a full breakdown by gender of all appointments to State boards since February 2011; the current status of State boards in relation to the percentage of participation of women and men in each one; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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268 Deputy Jonathan O’Brien asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a full breakdown by gender of all appointments to State boards since February 2011; the current status of State boards in relation to the percentage of participation of women and men in each one; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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252 Deputy Jonathan O’Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a full breakdown by gender of all appointments to State boards since February 2011; the current status of State boards in relation to the percentage of participation of women and men in each one; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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160 Deputy Jonathan O’Brien asked the Minister for Finance if he will provide a full breakdown by gender of all appointments to State boards since February 2011; the current status of State boards in relation to the percentage of participation of women and men in each one; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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109 Deputy Jonathan O’Brien asked the Taoiseach if he will provide a full breakdown by gender of all appointments to State boards since February 2011; the current status of State boards in relation to the percentage of participation of women and men in each one; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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108 Deputy Jonathan O’Brien asked the Taoiseach if he will provide a breakdown of moneys spent by the Office of the Chief State Solicitor on external legal services over each of the past three years; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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107 Deputy Jonathan O’Brien asked the Taoiseach if he will provide a breakdown of administration, non-pay related, in the Offices of the Chief State Solicitor during each of the last three years.
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106 Deputy Jonathan O’Brien asked the Taoiseach if he will provide a breakdown of general law expenses form the Office of the Chief State Solicitor for each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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105 Deputy Jonathan O’Brien asked the Taoiseach if he will provide a breakdown of fees paid to counsel during each of the past five years by the Office of the Chief State Solicitor; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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104 Deputy Jonathan O’Brien asked the Taoiseach if he will provide a breakdown of moneys paid during each of the past three years by the Office of the Chief State Solicitor for consultancy services and value for money and policy reviews; the names of those who provided these services and reviews and the purpose of each review and service.
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103 Deputy Jonathan O’Brien asked the Taoiseach the details of any office premises expenses of the Office of the Chief State Solicitor during each of the past three years; the amount paid in rent; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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