11 Deputy Leo Varadkar asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the full cost of moving all Enterprise Ireland offices to a single location in East Point, Dublin 3; the cost per year of leasing office space in East Point; the length of time for which a lease has been signed; if Enterprise Ireland rents car park spaces in Dublin; if so, the number of same and the cost; if there were additional staff costs associated with moving Enterprise Ireland to East Point; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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32 Deputy Leo Varadkar asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons participating in community employment schemes; the numbers of same who are in receipt of other social welfare payments including the one-parent family payment, disability allowance, disability benefit and deserted wives’ benefit; her plans to review the practice of paying double payments in this way; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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30 Deputy Leo Varadkar asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she will accept the recommendation of the Labour Court regarding pensions for community employment scheme supervisors; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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406 Deputy Leo Varadkar asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 437 of 18 May 2010, if he will provide a breakdown by the grade and position of the staff employed by local authorities prior to the introduction of the moratorium; if he will further provide the same information relating to those currently employed; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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394 Deputy Leo Varadkar asked the Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 426 of 18 May 2010, if he will provide in terms of whole time equivalents a breakdown by rank of the members of the Permanent Defence Forces prior to the introduction of the moratorium; if he will further provide the same information relating to those currently employed; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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292 Deputy Leo Varadkar asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform further to Parliamentary Question Nos 331 and 332 of 18 May 2010, if he will provide in terms of whole-time equivalents a breakdown by the grade and position of staff in the Prison Service employed prior to the introduction of the moratorium; if he will further provide the same information relating to those employed; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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291 Deputy Leo Varadkar asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 331 and 332 of 18 May 2010, if he will provide in terms of whole-time equivalents a breakdown by the rank of members of the Garda employed prior to the introduction of the moratorium; if he will further provide the same information relating to those employed; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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132 Deputy Leo Varadkar asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 171 of the 18 May 2010, if he will provide in terms of whole time equivalents a breakdown by grades of the civil servants employed in March 2009 prior to the introduction of the recruitment and promotion moratorium; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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67 Deputy Leo Varadkar asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the research that is being carried out by the Marine Institute; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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453 Deputy Leo Varadkar asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills, further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 513 and 514 of 18 May 2010, the number of full-time primary school teachers employed on 31 March 2009; the number of part-time primary school teachers employed on the same date; if she will provide the comparable figures for both categories on 31 March 2010; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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339 Deputy Leo Varadkar asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has appointed, as proposed in the budget 2010, a bord snip for local government; if so, the members of same; the deadline he has set for the group to report; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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301 Deputy Leo Varadkar asked the Minister for Social Protection if consideration has been given to allowing persons on jobseeker’s benefit, jobseeker’s allowance or the one-parent family payment to apply for the living alone allowance; the estimated cost of such a change in policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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300 Deputy Leo Varadkar asked the Minister for Social Protection if any research has been carried out on the excess costs of living alone; the way this relates to the current level of the living alone allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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299 Deputy Leo Varadkar asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of the living alone allowance; the cost of same in each of the past ten years; if he will provide a breakdown in numbers of recipients by contributory pensioner, non-contributory pensioner, widowed pensioner, incapacity recipient or disability allowance recipient, invalidity pensioner and blind pension and by age, the total number 66 years or older and 65 years or younger; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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298 Deputy Leo Varadkar asked the Minister for Social Protection the details of the promised scheme to give employers a PRSI holiday for newly created jobs; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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237 Deputy Leo Varadkar asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, further to Parliamentary Question No. 179 of 13 May 2010, if a unique reference number is given to crime reported directly to the Garda station by telephone or in person rather than using the emergency telephone number; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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236 Deputy Leo Varadkar asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, further to Parliamentary Question No. 179 of 13 May 2010, the categories of crime for which the PULSE system generates a reference number and letter that is sent to the person reporting the crime; the categories of crime that are not covered; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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234 Deputy Leo Varadkar asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding the Thornton Hall prison project, County Dublin; the costs incurred to date both in terms of land purchase and other matters; the estimated final cost; the estimated date of completion; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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228 Deputy Leo Varadkar asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will assist a person (details supplied) in obtaining a new unconditional residency stamp on their new passport.
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139 Deputy Leo Varadkar asked the Minister for Finance the number of exemptions requested by Departments and or State agencies to the current moratorium on recruitment and promotion; if he will provide the full details in each such case including the requesting body; the reasons for the request; the number of staff requested and to provide in detail, his response to each such request.
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129 Deputy Leo Varadkar asked the Minister for Finance if a sole trader or small-medium enterprise may seek a review from the credit review office where a bank seeks to remove or reduce overdraft facilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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128 Deputy Leo Varadkar asked the Minister for Finance if a sole trader or small-medium enterprise who has an overdraft operating within the approved parameters and reverting regularly to credit may seek a review from the credit review office where a bank uses a standard annual review clause to either increase the margin applicable to the overdraft over EURIBOR or apply an excessive renewal or annual charge; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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127 Deputy Leo Varadkar asked the Minister for Finance if a sole trader or small-medium enterprise who has a performing loan may seek a review from the credit review office where a bank uses a standard annual review clause to either increase the margin applicable to the loan over EURIBOR or apply an excessive renewal or annual charge; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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125 Deputy Leo Varadkar asked the Minister for Finance when he intends to apply VAT to services provided by local authorities such as refuse charges; the amount he anticipates he will raise from this in a full year; if he will consider using the money to reduce local authority rates charges to business; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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124 Deputy Leo Varadkar asked the Minister for Finance his plans to appoint a bord snip to assess costs and propose savings within the semi-State sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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123 Deputy Leo Varadkar asked the Minister for Finance if he will require that the credit review group to issue monthly reports on the scale of bank lending to small and medium enterprises; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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122 Deputy Leo Varadkar asked the Minister for Finance the additional VAT taken in as a result of the increase in the price of petrol and diesel over and above budget day predictions; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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121 Deputy Leo Varadkar asked the Minister for Finance the amount of carbon tax received from petrol sales for each of the first four months of 2010 and each of the first four months of 2009 in tabular form; the amount of same in respect of diesel sales; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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120 Deputy Leo Varadkar asked the Minister for Finance the amount of excise received from petrol sales for each of the first four months of 2010 and each of the first four months of 2009 in tabular form; the amount of same in respect of diesel sales; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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119 Deputy Leo Varadkar asked the Minister for Finance the amount of VAT received from petrol sales for each of the first four months of 2010 and each of the first four months of 2009 in tabular form; the amount of same in respect of diesel sales; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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516 Deputy Leo Varadkar asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the number of third level lecturers in terms of whole time equivalents employed prior to the introduction of the moratorium; the estimated number currently employed; the target point at which point the moratorium will end; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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515 Deputy Leo Varadkar asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons in terms of whole-time equivalents employed in third level institutions prior to the introduction of the moratorium; the estimated number currently employed; the target point at which point the moratorium will end; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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514 Deputy Leo Varadkar asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the number of secondary school teachers in terms of whole-time equivalents employed prior to the introduction of the moratorium; the estimated number currently employed; the target point at which point the moratorium will end; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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513 Deputy Leo Varadkar asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary school teachers in terms of whole-time equivalents employed prior to the introduction of the moratorium; the estimated number currently employed; the target point at which point the moratorium will end; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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512 Deputy Leo Varadkar asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons in the State Examinations Commission, the Higher Education Authority, the National Education Welfare Board and any other agency under the remit of his Department in terms of whole-time equivalents employed prior to the introduction of the moratorium; the estimated number currently employed; the target number at which point the moratorium will end; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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511 Deputy Leo Varadkar asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills his views to allowing participants on the work placement programme who lose their jobseeker’s benefit while in the programme and fail the means test for jobseeker’s allowance to continue to receive some payment while they are still participating on this programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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507 Deputy Leo Varadkar asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons participating in community employment schemes; the number of same who are in receipt of other social welfare payments including one parent family, disability allowance, disability benefit and deserted wives benefit; her plans to review the practice of paying double payments in this way; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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506 Deputy Leo Varadkar asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she will accept the recommendations of the Labour Court regarding pensions for community employment scheme supervisors; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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486 Deputy Leo Varadkar asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of persons employed in Teagsc, An Bord Bia, Marine Institute, An Bord Iascaigh Mhara, the Sea Fisheries Protection Authority and any other agency within under the remit of his Department; the number of persons in terms of whole time equivalents employed prior to the introduction of the moratorium; the estimated number currently employed; the target number at which point the moratorium will end; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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437 Deputy Leo Varadkar asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of staff employed by local authorities in terms of whole time equivalents employed prior to the introduction of the moratorium; the estimated number currently employed; the target point at which point the moratorium will end; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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436 Deputy Leo Varadkar asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of persons employed in Private Residential Tenancies Board, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Radiological Protection Institute of Ireland, An Bord Pleanála, the Rent Tribunal, the Heritage Council and any other agency under the remit of his Department; the number of persons in terms of whole time equivalents employed prior to the introduction of the moratorium; the estimated number currently employed; the target number at which point the moratorium will end; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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426 Deputy Leo Varadkar asked the Minister for Defence the number of persons within the Defence Forces in terms of wholetime equivalents employed prior to the introduction of the moratorium; the estimated number currently employed; the target point at which point the moratorium will end; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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425 Deputy Leo Varadkar asked the Minister for Defence the number of persons in Coiste an Asgard and any other agency under the remit of his Department in terms of wholetime equivalents employed prior to the introduction of the moratorium; the estimated number currently employed; the target number at which point the moratorium will end; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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378 Deputy Leo Varadkar asked the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the number of persons in Údarás na Gaeltachta, An Foras Teanga, Waterways Ireland, the Western Development Commission and any other agency under the remit of his Department in terms of whole-time equivalents employed prior to the introduction of the moratorium; the estimated number currently employed; the target number at which point the moratorium will end; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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374 Deputy Leo Varadkar asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport the number of persons in Tourism Ireland, Fáilte Ireland, Irish Sports Council, the National Museum of Ireland, the Irish Film Board and any other agency under the remit of her Department in terms of whole time equivalents employed prior to the introduction of the moratorium; the estimated number currently employed; the target number at which point the moratorium will end; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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332 Deputy Leo Varadkar asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of gardaí in terms of whole-time equivalents employed prior to the introduction of the moratorium; the estimated number currently employed; the target point at which point the moratorium will end; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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331 Deputy Leo Varadkar asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of persons employed in the Human Rights Commission, the Legal Aid Board, the National Disability Authority, the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner and any other agency under the remit of his Department; the number of persons in terms of whole-time equivalents employed prior to the introduction of the moratorium; the estimated number currently employed; the target number at which point the moratorium will end; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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309 Deputy Leo Varadkar asked the Minister for Transport the number of persons in the National Roads Authority, Road Safety Authority, the Medical Buerau of Road Safety and any other agency under the remit of his Department in terms of whole time equivalents employed prior to the introduction of the moratorium; the estimated number currently employed; the target number at which point the moratorium will end; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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236 Deputy Leo Varadkar asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of staff within the health service in terms of whole time equivalents employed prior to the introduction of the moratorium; the estimated number currently employed; the target point at which point the moratorium will end; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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235 Deputy Leo Varadkar asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of nurses aides within the health service in terms of whole time equivalents employed prior to the introduction of the moratorium; the estimated number currently employed; the target point at which point the moratorium will end; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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