531 Deputy Mary Wallace asked the Minister for Education and Science the rules and regulations regarding entitlement to special needs assistants in primary schools; if there has been a recent change in the rules and regulations which prevents more than one special needs assistant being in a classroom; if he will explain the particular ruling; when same was implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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479 Deputy Mary Wallace asked the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding an extension to a school (details supplied) in County Meath, particularly in relation to going to tender; the expected timeframe from here to construction commencing; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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324 Deputy Mary Wallace asked the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the position in relation to a programme (details supplied); the number of projects that have been assisted and approved to date; the total amount of funding that has been allocated; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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276 Deputy Mary Wallace asked the Minister for Education and Science if consideration has been given to the provision of an autism unit in a town (details supplied) in County Meath; if he will verify the reason that there is no autism unit or autism class.
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233 Deputy Mary Wallace asked the Minister for Education and Science the action which has taken place over the past 12 to 18 months regarding the substantial extension proposed for a school (details supplied) in County Meath; if he will clarify the way such a project could be delayed for so long over what appears to be minor technical issues; if he will assign an official to take responsibility for progressing this file; if he will make arrangements for an official to meet with a delegation from the community to discuss the impasse; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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203 Deputy Mary Wallace asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the reason for the delay in extending broadband to the village of Kilmessan, County Meath; the efforts made to remove obstacles and to progress this issue; the timeframe for the full provision of broadband to the residents and businesses of Kilmessan; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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158 Deputy Mary Wallace asked the Minister for Finance the position with regard to the employment of seasonal workers at important heritage sites such as the Hill of Tara and Newgrange, County Meath, in view of the public service embargo; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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144 Deputy Mary Wallace asked the Minister for Finance the way rural money has been allocated by his Department towards County Meath beaches in each of the past five years; the purpose of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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130 Deputy Mary Wallace asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the changes due to come into effect on 1 June 2009 in respect of work permits and non-EU workers in relation to renewal of future work permit holders, renewal of existing work permit holders and a work permit holder who is made redundant in relation to labour market needs test and other proposed changes; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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201 Ms M. Wallace asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if physiotherapy and chiropractic treatment is available to medical card patients over 70 years of age in the Health Service Executive north-east region; and if the location of such services will be identified.
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769 Ms M. Wallace asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the position in regard to a United States citizen who wishes to work here; if this person can apply for a work permit or work visa; the circumstances in which to make such an application; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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321 Ms M. Wallace asked the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the amount of Government funding which has been provided for the National Aquatic Centre, Croke Park, Lansdowne Road, and other relevant national stadia in the city of Dublin which is of benefit to young persons and to sporting organisations since 1997; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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627 Ms M. Wallace asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the schemes (details supplied) which are included in the WSIP; if they are not included, when the next opportunity will arise for including them; the reason they have not been included in the present WSIP; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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197 Ms M. Wallace asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the average annual funding per person in he intellectual disability sector for a day activation place; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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523 Ms M. Wallace asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position in relation to the skateboard park grant which is due to local authorities in 2005; the timeframe upon which these grants will be allocated; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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371 Ms M. Wallace asked the Minister for Transport the number of new commuter carriages due for delivery to the Drogheda depot; the date upon which the carriages are expected to be commissioned; the details of the timetable revision expected on the Drogheda and Dublin lines effective from the December 2005 timetable revision; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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343 Ms M. Wallace asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide details of the allowances made in health and safety instruction for road workers and for persons in other similar employments to ensure that employees whose first language is not English understand the health and safety instruction and guidance provided on the use of manual signage and other instructions to motorists using the road during roadworks; his views on whether a lack of understanding of such instruction gives rise to danger to all employees working in such an environment and to the general public; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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263 Ms M. Wallace asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the average annual funding per client in the intellectual disability sector for a day activation place; if the €5,800 per client per annum paid to an organisation (details supplied) is below the norm; the steps she will take to ensure that services such as this are provided with appropriate annual funding and should not have to rely on emergency December funding as occurred in 2003 and 2004; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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226 Ms M. Wallace asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the report of the Lourdes Hospital inquiry; if she will provide clarification on the present position regarding a redress board in view of the delay in publishing this report; if she will further provide any information arising from the news report this week regarding copies of some missing files now being available; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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171 Ms M. Wallace asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the list of guidelines and regulations within his Department that deals with telecommunications masts.
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91 Ms M. Wallace asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the maximum frequency emissions permissible in any one location by telecommunications masts.
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1135 Ms M. Wallace asked the Minister for Education and Science the reason for the long waiting list for children with autism in County Meath seeking an autism specific education place such as at CABAS at Drogheda and Stepping Stones at Kilcloon; and her plans to provide additional places to alleviate waiting lists in cases in which three-year old children are advised that they are No. 40 on the list and have no hope of obtaining a school place.
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649 Ms M. Wallace asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide details of the allowances made in health and safety instruction for building site workers and other similar workers to ensure that employees whose first language is not English understand the health and safety instruction and guidance provided; his views on whether a lack of understanding of such instruction gives rise to danger to all employees working in such an environment; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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322 Ms M. Wallace asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the home support which is available to parents of children with autism in County Louth, County Wexford and County Meath; the reason for the variation in this service; and if it depends on the county one lives in.
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174 Ms M. Wallace asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that children with cerebral palsy have extra medical costs and that it is important that such needs are covered by a medical card; the reason a person (details supplied) has such costs covered by a medical card from age two to 13 years and has had the card removed with no substantial change in family income or circumstances to warrant the case being treated differently from the previous 11 years; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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867 Ms M. Wallace asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the concerns of groups (details supplied) regarding the fact that the UK has postponed the implementation of the waste electrical recycling law until January 2006 and that there is no indication yet from his Department that it intends to postpone same from 18 August 2005 to January 2006; if his attention has further been drawn to views among retail outlets here that there should be visibility regarding the recycling fee, shown and charged in order to keep a level playing pitch in the sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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726 Ms M. Wallace asked the Minister for Education and Science the number of school buses operated by Bus Éireann; the number of school buses operated by private operators; the number of Bus Éireann school buses that operate under the three for two seat rule; the number of privately operated buses that operate under the three for two seat rule; if she will report on the proposal within her Department to phase out the three for two seat rule to ensure that every eligible child attending post primary school will have a seat on a school bus; the proposals in her Department to ensure that every eligible primary school child will have a seat on a school bus; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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725 Ms M. Wallace asked the Minister for Education and Science the number of primary school buses which have seat belts fitted to them; the number of post primary school buses which have seat belts fitted to them; if she will report on the work in progress within her Department in relation to the seat belt on school buses issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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432 Ms M. Wallace asked the Minister for Education and Science if her Department will provide a recommendation to a senior primary school (details supplied) receiving five classes of second class pupils from a junior primary school which has no teacher to teach one of these five classes as there are only four sixth classes leaving the school, in circumstances where the junior school involved is receiving five junior infant classes and does not have a teacher to release to the junior school.
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433 Ms M. Wallace asked the Minister for Education and Science if her Department will review the changes made three years ago where a 16-classroom school with 450 pupils had its pupil-teacher ratio reduced to 441; and if consideration will be given to provide further similar reductions at this time to assist the overall school number.
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431 Ms M. Wallace asked the Minister for Education and Science if her Department’s attention has been drawn to the fact that the average class size for 2003-04 was 23.9; if, in such circumstances her Department would review the requirement to have 29 additional pupils to obtain an additional classroom teacher and change this requirement to 23.9 to be in line with the average class size.
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423 Ms M. Wallace asked the Minister for Education and Science the amount of funding approved for capital works in respect of post-primary schools in Drogheda during the past five years on a project by project basis; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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422 Ms M. Wallace asked the Minister for Education and Science the amount of funding approved for capital works in respect of primary schools in Drogheda during the past five years on a project by project basis; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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373 Ms M. Wallace asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the steps his Department has taken to deal with the issue of anti-social behaviour in urban communities and that the protection of the rights of the individual as a victim of anti-social behaviour is paramount; the legislation which has been put in place to support the Garda Síochána in dealing with anti-social behaviour; the guidelines which are in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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288 Ms M. Wallace asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the way in which his Department, in determining the funding for local authorities, provides balance between urban authorities and rural authorities in funding; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that urban authorities afford such a luxury as parks departments whereas the rural authorities are struggling for basic necessities; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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304 Ms M. Wallace asked the Minister for Education and Science the amounts of funding approved for capital works in respect of post-primary schools in County Meath during the past five years, on a project basis; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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303 Ms M. Wallace asked the Minister for Education and Science the amounts of funding approved for capital works in respect of primary schools in County Meath during the past five years, on a project basis; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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253 Ms M. Wallace asked the Minister for Transport if the DTO has not met for the past two years; if so, the reason therefore; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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252 Ms M. Wallace asked the Minister for Transport if he has received a request from Iarnród Éireann for a meeting regarding Dunboyne Rail; if he will report on progress on the issue since the January 2005 feasibility study; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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250 Ms M. Wallace asked the Minister for Transport the funding options for the proposed Dunboyne Rail; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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468 Ms M. Wallace asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the manner in which a village is designated as a heritage village; if consideration has been given to the designation of Slane in County Meath as a heritage village; the circumstances in which this can be brought about; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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464 Ms M. Wallace asked the Minister for Defence the reason for the decision taken in 1994 that soldiers in the Army would no longer serve 21 years and that the service contract would be 12 years, leaving a 17 year old at 29 years of age on discharge; his views on whether it is a waste of resources to discharge young, fit and extensively trained personnel at 29 years of age without reason and to incur further costs in training replacement personnel; the position with regard to the commitments given that alternative training opportunities would be provided prior to discharge; if plans have been put in place to provide such training in advance of the 2006 discharges; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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95 Ms M. Wallace asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the various locations in County Meath in which broadband infrastructure is in place and operational; the position regarding the provision of broadband to the rest of County Meath, including clarification on the estimated timescale regarding same; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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512 Ms M. Wallace asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of gardaí assigned to Laytown Garda station; the opening hours of the station; if there is a 24-hour Garda car working in the area; if the area is without a garda and manned solely from Drogheda for long periods of time during the working week; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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129 Ms M. Wallace asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the way in which her Department will deal with the many inquiries from families whose elderly relatives were in private nursing care, as distinct from public nursing care, and who when they phoned the special helpline open from 28 February to 4 March 2005 were advised that staff would only deal with cases in public health care; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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86 Ms M. Wallace asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her Department’s proposals for a hostel for psychiatric patients in the highly populated area of south east Meath including Ratoath, Dunboyne, Dunshaughlin and Ashbourne; and if she will report on the service plan proposals submitted to her Department by the North Eastern Health Board for the provision of such a service.
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362 Ms M. Wallace asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the criteria under the housing aid scheme for the elderly which prevents two elderly persons from qualifying for the grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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206 Ms M. Wallace asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the progress being made within his Department on the proposal to create a new statutory body to investigate bullying in the workplace; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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342 Ms M. Wallace asked the Minister for Education and Science her views on whether the next step to be taken with regard to the four classroom extension to the existing primary school at Ratoath is the appointment of an architect; if she will provide a time frame regarding when she will be in a position to give a decision on this matter; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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316 Ms M. Wallace asked the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the proposed extension to a school (details supplied) in County Meath, including clarification on the estimated cost of the project and the estimated timescale regarding same; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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