360 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will receive their backdated rent supplement.
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86 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation when redundancy will be awarded in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary.
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101 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will make a statement regarding the payment of outstanding REPS 4 moneys.
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66 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he has read the report of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Agriculture, Fisheries and Food on farming and fishing in the west; and if he plans to implement the proposals recommended by the Oireachtas committee when it considered the report.
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404 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when REP scheme payment will be awarded to a person (details supplied).
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403 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when REP scheme will be awarded to a person (details supplied).
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105 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation if he has held discussions in the last 18 months with management of a company (details supplied) regarding the future of its two factories in Abbeyfeale, County Limerick and Mallow, County Cork; if not if he has plans to do so in the near future; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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83 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Social Protection if he will make changes to the habitual residency requirement for receipt of many social welfare payments which is acting as a barrier to many returned Irish persons from accessing the protections they need.
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74 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Social Protection if he will take steps to amend section 7 of the Protection of Employees (Employer Insolvency) Act 1984 to ensure that in situations of insolvency involving pension deficits employees will receive at least 50% of their pension entitlements to rectify the current situations in which employees can be left with less than that.
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207 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when a REP scheme payment will be awarded in respect of a person (details supplied).
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37 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on Turkish membership of the EU; if he agrees that Turkish membership should not be considered until such time as Turkey withdraws from our fellow EU member State, Cyprus, and lifts all its restrictions on trade, airflight and shipping and so on in relation to Cyprus.
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564 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons in her Department and offices under her aegis employed in the civil and public service who are in receipt of a State pension.
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497 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of persons in his Department and office, including any agencies and offices under his aegis, employed in the civil and public service who are in receipt of a State pension.
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381 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the number of persons in his Department and office, including any Departments and Offices under his aegis, employed in the civil and public service who are in receipt of a State pension.
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376 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport the number of persons in her Department and office, including any Departments and Offices under her aegis, employed in the civil and public service who are in receipt of a State pension.
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370 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of persons in his Department and office, including any departments and offices under his aegis, employed in the civil and public service who are in receipt of a State pension.
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316 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Transport the number of persons in his Department and office, including any Departments and offices under his aegis, employed in the civil and public service who are in receipt of a State pension.
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306 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of persons in her Department and office, including any Departments and offices under her aegis, employed in the civil and public service who are in receipt of a State pension.
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205 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Finance the number of persons in his Department and office, including any Departments and offices under his aegis, employed in the civil and public service who are in receipt of a State pension.
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199 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Finance the total cost in wages of those currently employed in the civil and public service and also in receipt of a state pension.
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162 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the number of persons in his Department and office, including any Departments and offices under his aegis, employed in the civil and public service who are in receipt of a State pension.
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139 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Taoiseach the number of persons in his Department and office, including any Departments and offices under his aegis, employed in the civil and public service who are in receipt of a State pension.
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126 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Health and Children the discussions she has had with the Health Service Executive regarding the cuts to dental services for medical card patients; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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82 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Health and Children the discussions she has had with the Health Service Executive regarding proposed further cuts to the home help service; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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227 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she is satisfied that her Department is not breaching national legislation which expressly prohibits employers from making any deductions from wages without permission of the employee, in the case of a person (details supplied) who worked for her Department for ten years as a special needs assistant and whose pension has been stopped until an overpayment that was subsequently discovered is repaid.
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37 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he has read the report Breakdown of Trust — A Report on the Corrib Gas Dispute; and if he will accede to the earlier existing Garda Ombudsman Commission request to be allowed to conduct a general investigation into policing of the protest there.
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15 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding his response to head shops; and if the Bill he has discussed with the media will alter the currently very slow process by which drugs are banned.
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113 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation when a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary may expect to receive their statutory redundancy payment.
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57 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the breakdown of the 2,600 applicants under the second round of the employment subsidy scheme by employee numbers; the further breakdown of the successful applicants under the scheme by employee number; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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283 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Social Protection the reason funding can not be made available to private transport providers in order to subsidise the cost of bus travel for persons attending cancer care treatment from the Kerry region.
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104 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation his views on the fact that employers are allowed to claim an inability to pay agreed wage rates; and that the State will in effect be forced to subsidise them through the family income supplement.
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26 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if, in view of the provisions available to Gaelscoileanna to practice early total immersion education, this practice will be replicated in Gaeltacht schools; if she has any objection to Gaeltacht schools following suit; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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16 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the steps she will take in order to make science subjects more appealing to secondary school students in view of revelations that growing numbers of students are not taking any science subjects.
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104 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation when a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will receive their 60% reimbursement for redundancy payment.
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43 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the position he will be taking during negotiations on the reform of the Common Fisheries Policy.
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33 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food his views on the future of the Common Agricultural Policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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121 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the numbers of persons who have been placed in jobs through the work placement programme over the past three years.
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48 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Finance his views on the Mazars review of lending to small and medium-sized enterprise in the final quarter of 2009 which showed that SME lending was down by 3.6% in the year; when Bank of Ireland is required to submit its SME lending plan to his Department, as required under the terms of recapitalisation of the institution; if this lending plan will be presented to the Houses of the Oireachtas; when AIB and Bank of Ireland plan to start making the €3 billion in credit facilities, as required under the recapitalisation plan, available to small and medium-sized enterprises; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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330 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will provide a timescale for the removal of waste at Patrick’s Road, Ballymartin, County Down.
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329 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will provide a copy of the framework agreement which paves the way for work to begin on putting in place contractual arrangements to remove the waste illegally dumped in the 20 sites.
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328 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will confirm and name the 20 sites that have been identified in the north of Ireland that contain around 250,000 tonnes of waste illegally transported from the south of Ireland.
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65 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his plans to bring forward legislation to allow existing local authority mortgage holders to remortgage without triggering the clawback; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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38 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of additional homeless households that were housed in 2009 and in the first quarter of 2010 above the allocation pattern from 2005 to 2008 in line with the commitments outlined in The Way Home Homeless Strategy, to end long term homelessness by the end of 2010.
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764 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the capital costs for introducing domestic water meters.
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685 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of unemployed persons with addresses in Ballyduff, County Kerry.
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113 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if, in view of the reduction of the amount spent by his Department on mortgage interest supplements, he will use his position to influence the banking sector to require more banks to allow persons in financial difficulty to make borrowed sum only repayments rather than interest only repayments for the duration of those difficulties in view of the fact that over the long term the application of interest only repayments places a greater financial burden on the mortgagee and by extension potentially on the State via the payment of mortgage interest supplements.
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73 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his views on whether lowering the age of the child criteria for the making of lone parent payments will result in more children living in relative poverty in view of the level of unemployment and also in view of the ESRI prediction that unemployment will not reduce until economic growth in the region of 4% to 5% is reached.
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28 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs his views on whether the prevention pillar of the national drugs strategy cannot be properly implemented as a result of policy choices by the Department of Education and Science in view of his Department’s responsibility for the national drugs strategy.
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128 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will re-examine the decision not to fund bus transport by a group (details supplied) in view of the fact that payments by the Health Service Executive to taxis in respect of hospital visits are more costly.
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393 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the percentage of REP scheme four applicants that have been paid on a county basis.
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