317 Deputy Mary Mitchell O’Connor asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the Labour Court recommendation LCR20238 in respect of a claim under section 20(1) of the Industrial Relations Act 1969 relating to a company (details supplied) has not been implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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196 Deputy Mary Mitchell O’Connor asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the purpose for which moneys provided by Irish Overseas Aid to Uganda were given; if he investigated if the moneys provided were used for its intended purpose; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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195 Deputy Mary Mitchell O’Connor asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if all foreign aid to Uganda is given directly to the Ugandan Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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194 Deputy Mary Mitchell O’Connor asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide, in tabular form, the sums provided by Irish Foreign Aid to Uganda each year since 2005; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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126 Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Social Protection if she has given any consideration to a proposal for reform of the manner in which the UPII-1-10 forms are treated by her Department (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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1403 Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the final cost to the State of the construction of the port tunnel, Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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1243 Deputy Mary Mitchell O’Connor asked the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form the number of nursing homes that were foreclosed by the Health Information and Quality Authority in the years 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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1242 Deputy Mary Mitchell O’Connor asked the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form the number of nursing home inspections that were conducted by the Health Information and Quality Authority in the years 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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1244 Deputy Mary Mitchell O’Connor asked the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form the amount spent in the years 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 by him on education materials and awareness campaigns on elder abuse; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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1241 Deputy Mary Mitchell O’Connor asked the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form the number of persons who were trained in dealing with victims of elder abuse in the years 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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1240 Deputy Mary Mitchell O’Connor asked the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form the number of alleged elder abuse cases reported to the Health Information and Quality Authority in the years 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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959 Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will lend his support to the introduction, on a pilot basis, of a reciprocal one year visa arrangement with Taiwan to support a youth mobility scheme similar to the scheme they have in place with the UK.
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977 Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to the concerns among staff at the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal that they all face redundancy as a result of the implementation of the Legal Services Regulation Bill; if all or any of the staff will be transferred to the new disciplinary body or will there be an entirely new recruitment process put in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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940 Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will expedite the part-payment of a compensation award due this August/September to a person (details supplied) in Dublin 14; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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801 Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if consideration has been given to requiring owners of public buildings and in particular hotels to provide fire alerting systems for deaf persons; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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583 Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an update on her statement in Dáil Éireann (details supplied) that she would seek to make graduate architects eligible for the jobbridge scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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104 Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Finance if he will consider exempting from VAT the personal domestic home paging system for the deaf (details supplied) to make it affordable for those who do not qualify for the seniors alert scheme under which the qualifying elderly receive it completely free of charge; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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113 Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the pressure he can bring to bear, to ensure the Labour Court recommendation that a company (details supplied) pay an ex-gratia payment of four week’s per year to the former workers is actually implemented in view of the fact that they apparently have declined to observe it; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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56 Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the issue of cabotage; if he has engaged with his United Kingdom counterparts on this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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15 Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the activities in which he is engaged in order to promote tourism to this country from Asia and the Middle East; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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610 Deputy Mary Mitchell O’Connor asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to research conducted on the possible carcinogenic properties of the sugar substitute aspartame; if he has done any research on aspartame; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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609 Deputy Mary Mitchell O’Connor asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a report in a newspaper (details supplied) on 21 November 2011 in relation to an suspected incident of a severe allergic reaction resulting in death, to the chemical substance, paraphendiamine, which is used in hair dye products; if his further attention has been drawn to the fact that the use of PPD is banned in France, Germany and Sweden; if he is considering a similar ban on the use of PPD here; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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443 Deputy Mary Mitchell O’Connor asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide in tabular form the number of speed check operations carried out each year since 2000 in suburban areas, motorways, dual carriageways, single carriageways and secondary roads; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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442 Deputy Mary Mitchell O’Connor asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide in tabular form the number of speed check operations carried out each year since 2000 in speed limit zones under 50 km, under 60 km, under 80 km, under 100 km and under 120 km; the number of alleged speed limit offences that were detected and processed for each of these zones; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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404 Deputy Mary Mitchell O’Connor asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government when the heads of the Noise Nuisance Bill are expected to be approved; if the Bill will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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217 Deputy Mary Mitchell O’Connor asked the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the average extra cost imposed on families who have a child partaking in transition year; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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216 Deputy Mary Mitchell O’Connor asked the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to any Irish or international research that has proven education or social benefits resulting from participation in transition year; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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215 Deputy Mary Mitchell O’Connor asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide in tabular form the number of students as a percentage of the cohort of eligible students who are partaking in transition year in 2012; the percentage who have partaken in transition years since its inception; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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214 Deputy Mary Mitchell O’Connor asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide in tabular form the number of students who are partaking in transition year in 2012; the number of students per year who have partaken in transition year since its inception; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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213 Deputy Mary Mitchell O’Connor asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of teachers that are employed by the State to teach transition year students; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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212 Deputy Mary Mitchell O’Connor asked the Minister for Education and Skills if there is a national transition year curriculum programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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211 Deputy Mary Mitchell O’Connor asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide in tabular form the cost of the provision of transition year imposed on the Exchequer each year since its conception; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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136 Deputy Mary Mitchell O’Connor asked the Minister for Finance if, in view of the fact that companies are offering early draw down of pension funds that he will reconsider legislating for the early draw down of AVCs and personal pension schemes as previously requested; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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135 Deputy Mary Mitchell O’Connor asked the Minister for Finance if Ireland is losing tax revenue due to the early draw down of pensions referred to in a publication (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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134 Deputy Mary Mitchell O’Connor asked the Minister for Finance if he is investigating recent assertions that companies are offering early draw down of pension savings (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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62 Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Health if, in view of the reports that VHI are allowing customers who have been made redundant downgrade their policies without penalty, he accepts the VHI explanation that they must charge other customers downgrading their policies such high penalties because of the health insurance levy; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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55 Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Health if he will request the VHI to desist from using the Government health insurance levy as a means of preventing persons in financial difficulties from downgrading their policies; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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150 Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will amend section 4(3) of the Local Government (Household Charge) Act 2011 and section 4(2) of the Local Government (Charges) Act 2009 in order that the current exemption from payment of the two charges within three months of the date of issue of the grant of representation to the house of the deceased be extended until such time as that property is sold, in view of the difficult state of the current housing market; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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167 Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Education and Skills if, in cases of clear inability to pay, payment of the third level registration fee can be postponed pending receipt of the grant which does not come for some months after the registration payment deadline; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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151 Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will clarify when the special schools (details supplied) in County Dublin will go to construction in view of the fact that the principals were under the impression that they would go to construction at the end of this year; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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150 Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will clarify when a school (details supplied) in Dublin 16 will go to construction as it was understood that this school was sanctioned to complete tender documents and go to construction; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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129 Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will give consideration to introducing a waiver for the household charge and non-principal private residence levy, repayable upon house sale, to persons who have been appointed as executors and assumed responsibility for disposing of a deceased person’s house, considering that such executors assume liability, among other charges, for the household charge and the NPPR levy and are finding difficulty in selling the house in the current property market; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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47 Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Finance the total drawdown of new loans by small and medium enterprises from all credit institutions here in 2011 compared with 2010; if there are any plans to set targets for drawdown as opposed to approval of loans; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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46 Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Finance the total drawdown of new loans by small and medium-sized enterprises in 2011 compared with 2010 from the two pillar banks; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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571 Deputy Mary Mitchell O’Connor asked the Minister for Health if he will confirm that the National Rehabilitation Centre will continue to provide music therapy services; if the senior music therapist’s (details supplied) contract will be renewed; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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573 Deputy Mary Mitchell O’Connor asked the Minister for Health how cosmetic surgery clinics are currently regulated; in view of the recent defective breast augmentation procedures, his plans to update the current regulation regime; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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530 Deputy Mary Mitchell O’Connor asked the Minister for Health how cosmetic surgery clinics are currently regulated and if, in view of the recent defective breast augmentation procedures, he plans to update the current regulation regime; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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188 Deputy Mary Mitchell O’Connor asked the Minister for Education and Skills when the national languages educational report, as recommended by the Council of Europe in 2008, will be published.
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134 Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government following the reported reluctance of some citizens to provide their personal public service numbers to the Local Government Management Agency, if he can clarify if a citizen can in fact be legally obliged to surrender a personal public service number to the Local Government Management Agency.
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64 Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to reports that the two pillar banks are approving loans but later imposing conditions so strict and so unreasonable as to prevent drawdown; if he will clarify if banks’ claims of compliance with the €3 billion target is based on loans approved or on those actually drawn down.
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