377 Deputy Michelle Mulherin asked the Minister for Justice and Equality his views on a ban on solicitors giving undertakings to financial institutions in conveyancing transactions; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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376 Deputy Michelle Mulherin asked the Minister for Justice and Equality his views on a ban on solicitors acting on both sides of any transaction; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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322 Deputy Michelle Mulherin asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will require the Sustainable Energy Authority Ireland to investigate the possibility of offering group insurance for the public liability risk to BER assessors in carrying out their duties.
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75 Deputy Michelle Mulherin asked the Minister for Finance the amount paid to each individual consultancy company or individual for services rendered to the National Asset Management Agency for each of 2009, 2010 and 2011; and if he will identify each such consultancy company or individual.
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74 Deputy Michelle Mulherin asked the Minister for Finance the amount paid to consultants for services to the National Asset Management Agency for each of 2009, 2010 and 2011.
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70 Deputy Michelle Mulherin asked the Minister for Finance if he is satisfied that all the required social welfare employer and employee contributions were made by two sub-contracting companies (details supplied) employed at a construction site; and if he will confirm that the employees of the two companies in question satisfy the terms and conditions of RCT1.
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280 Deputy Michelle Mulherin asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will report on the roll out of the national broadband scheme; and the way it is being measured and assessed.
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245 Deputy Michelle Mulherin asked the Minister for Social Protection her plans for the Government funding of the EmployAbility service and the offices of the Supported Employment Network Mayo in the short and medium terms.
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184 Deputy Michelle Mulherin asked the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a school (details supplied) in County Mayo has not been approved by him for any of the post-leaving certificate courses for which it has applied and the additional requirements of the school to meet the Department’s requirements.
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106 Deputy Michelle Mulherin asked the Minister for Education and Skills in view of the closure of the Jobfit programme at the end of June, the body from which unemployed persons will receive the support which that organisation provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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260 Deputy Michelle Mulherin asked the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will issue on appeals for child benefit and disability benefit payments in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo.
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128 Deputy Michelle Mulherin asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Mayo County Council passed a unanimous resolution calling on semi-State companies in possession of data relating to our natural resources to disclose that information; his views that openness and transparency should be standard practice in projects that seek to develop our natural resources and that semi-State companies which are more than 90% owned by the citizens of this country have a special responsibility in this regard; if he will write to the boards of Bord na Móna and the ESB asking that they disclose the wind resource data for their wind farm project at Bellacorick, a few miles from the Shell terminal, which is to be built on lands acquired from the local community, by compulsory purchase order in some cases, for the purposes of cutting turf and if he will ask the boards to publish their proposals for community funds in relation to their wind farm projects as is best practice in most EU States.
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127 Deputy Michelle Mulherin asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Mayo County Council has adopted a new renewable energy strategy which designates many hundreds of square kilometres of lands as preferred or open to consideration for onshore wind farming including very large areas of north-west Mayo; if he will provide the estimate of the wind turbine capacity in megawatts per square kilometre at 50 m and 100 m above ground at Bellacorick; the capacity factor and mean annual energy production per square kilometre at 50 m and 100 m above ground at Bellacorick; the possible error range of his calculations; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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380 Deputy Michelle Mulherin asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the total amount of fossil fuel generating capacity in the single electricity market; the amount of fossil fuel-flexible generation plant in the SEM and in the Gate 3 licensing programme; the amount of fossil fuel-flexible generation capacity in the least cost portfolio of the all-island grid study in megawatts and as a percentage of total fossil fuel generation; the amount of electricity fossil fuel-flexible plant is predicted to produce in the modelling scenario that best reflects our current economic situation; the average number of hours per year fossil fuel-flexible generation plant is predicted to generate electricity and the predicted mean cost of a megawatt hour of electricity produced by fossil fuel-flexible generation as well as unit costs of production from other sources.
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379 Deputy Michelle Mulherin asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if the single electricity market is of the type known as a regulatory requirement market in which labour and energy costs are treated as expenses and passed on to consumers without markup and in which generators make profits from investment in capital equipment such as fossil fuel-flexible generation plant and grid infrastructure.
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314 Deputy Michelle Mulherin asked the Minister for Social Protection the total budget allocated to the free travel pass scheme nationally; the private operators’ allocations per county; if she will provide clarification of the compensation awarded due to extreme remoteness and high level of deprivation, PSO, no train service, distance from the general hospital, distance from large towns, banking services, essential services, health clinics and so on; if a service is discontinued by the operator, the position regarding the awarded free travel pass allocation toward that service; if she will provide the results of the most recent value for money and performance audit; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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130 Deputy Michelle Mulherin asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position regarding ownership of the power transmission grid; his views on whether the previous Government missed the EU deadline for unbundling the grid and transferring ownership to EirGrid; if the EU will now impose fines until we comply with the relevant EU directives; if he intends to seek a derogation from the directive; and if he intends to compensate the ESB for loss of the asset.
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89 Deputy Michelle Mulherin asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of passports issued from the Passport Office each year for the past five years; the staffing levels and average waiting times for each year; the amount of ordinary fees paid for passports by applicants and the amount of additional fees paid for the express service in respect of each year.
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44 Deputy Michelle Mulherin asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an additional member, a money advisor, to the north Mayo Monetary Advice and Budgeting Service office which has a seven week waiting list and services from Blacksod to Ballaghaderreen and south Sligo which includes an area with one of the highest unemployment rates in the country and has not had an increase in staff numbers since 2004.
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54 Deputy Michelle Mulherin asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food his priorities in the negotiations on the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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41 Deputy Michelle Mulherin asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food his views on the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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128 Deputy Michelle Mulherin asked the Minister for Education and Skills the criteria used in awarding the second allocation of grants under the summer works scheme 2011; the priority given to the application of a school (details supplied) in County Mayo for new external windows in circumstances when a school extension is under construction and the existing windows are more than 30 years old and not fit for purpose; and if this school will be prioritised for future funding.
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100 Deputy Michelle Mulherin asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the immigration status of a person (details supplied); and the steps they may take to regularise their position.
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57 Deputy Michelle Mulherin asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will prioritise the construction of a new school building in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Mayo.
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296 Deputy Michelle Mulherin asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the outcome of an internal investigation into the alleged non-execution of a bench warrant or community order issued at Castlebar District Court, County Mayo, in respect of a person (details supplied).
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149 Deputy Michelle Mulherin asked the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to reverse the charges proposed to the primary school transport scheme from September 2011 in view of the fact that to maintain a school transport service for a minimum number of seven eligible school going children for pupils in rural areas when no other public transport option is available, the charges will have a disproportionately negative impact on these children and their families.
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91 Deputy Michelle Mulherin asked the Minister for Finance the public sector employment vacancies that exist to be filled and the grades in Sligo and Mayo by staff transfers between Departments, State agencies and local authorities pursuant to the Croke Park Agreement.
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398 Deputy Michelle Mulherin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of applications for foreshore licences that have issued in the past five years and the number of applications outstanding; and the length of time of same.
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397 Deputy Michelle Mulherin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the length of time An Bord Pleanála takes to issue a decision upon an application for confirmation of a compulsory purchase order.
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396 Deputy Michelle Mulherin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the length of time it takes An Bord Pleanála to issue a decision in relation to a planning appeal distinguishing between residential cases and non-residential development.
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345 Deputy Michelle Mulherin asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport if he will require the Arts Council to expedite the processing of the annual programming grant 2011 for an arts centre (details supplied) in County Mayo.
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132 Deputy Michelle Mulherin asked the Minister for Finance if the National Asset Management Agency used public relations consultants; and if so the amount of money that has been spent on public relations.
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285 Deputy Michelle Mulherin asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the date on which Bord Iascaigh Mhara processed the application of Iascairí Chois Chósta Iorrais Teoranta for the Marine Stewardship Council Standard.
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137 Deputy Michelle Mulherin asked the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he wiil take to immediately assist in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo who cannot now attend at a school owing to lack of provision of the necessary support services for their education.
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63 Deputy Michelle Mulherin asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the shortest period within which an emergency passport can be issued for the purposes of business.
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61 Deputy Michelle Mulherin asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food his priorities in the negotiations for reform of the Common Agricultural Policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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55 Deputy Michelle Mulherin asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food his views on the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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116 Deputy Michelle Mulherin asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will sign and make effective two Statutory Instruments made by the Rules of the Superior Courts committee, namely, the Rules of the Superior Courts (Lodgement of Documents) dated 23 July 2009 and the Rules of the Superior Courts (costs of Judgement in Default of Appearance) dated 30 October 2008.
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345 Deputy Michelle Mulherin asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food his plans to open and fund the agri-environment options scheme for farmers for 2011.
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