53 Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the funding application towards a resource room in respect of a school (details supplied) in Dublin 14 and if the application for this work can be facilitated at an early date.
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99 Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills to clarify her decision on the higher education grant appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 14; the grounds upon which this decision was made; if the guideline will be reviewed considering the criteria of independent mature candidate and candidate dependent on parents appear to conflict with one another in certain circumstances; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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322 Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the purpose and role of the section in his Department entitled “Sugar” in the current edition of the State directory; the number employed and the costs associated with this particular section; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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226 Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs his plans to issue passports for periods shorter than the 10-year minimum to facilitate citizens in their 60s who will not be liable to any charge when they reach retirement age; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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132 Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Finance if he has received the report of the group set up to review the role and future of the semi-State companies in the Irish economy; when that report will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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104 Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she will expand on the possibility of FÁS providing a full range of Lean Sigma training courses in view of the fact that it is now a standard requirement for manufacturing jobs; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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103 Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the possibility of securing funding through the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund for the staff of a company (details supplied), whose employees were made redundant in December 2009 when the company relocated to Larnaca, Cyprus; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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173 Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Health and Children the position of parents seeking to adopt a child through one of the adoption agencies (details supplied) whose legal status now appears uncertain.
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90 Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she can clarify that in order to qualify for the training aspect of a community employment scheme a participant must give up social welfare entitlements; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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132 Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the current position and her response to parents in south County Dublin for the establishment of a gaelcolaiste to meet the secondary school needs of children graduating from the many successful gaelscolieanna in the area; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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122 Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the reason persons currently on disability benefit who could benefit from further training are not eligible for the labour market activation scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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441 Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Defence the cost in man hours, of changing clocks from summer time to winter time and vice versa in public buildings; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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432 Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs the cost in man hours, of changing clocks from summer time to winter time and vice versa in public buildings; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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427 Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the cost in man hours, of changing clocks from summer time to winter time and vice versa in public buildings; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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415 Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the cost in man hours, of changing clocks from summer time to winter time and vice versa in public buildings; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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379 Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the cost in man hours of changing clocks from summer time to winter time and vice versa in public buildings; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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354 Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the cost in man hours of changing clocks from summer time to winter time and vice versa in public buildings; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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338 Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport the cost in man hours, of changing clocks from summer time to winter time and vice versa in public buildings; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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333 Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Social Protection the cost in man hours, of changing clocks from summer time to winter time and vice versa in public buildings; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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302 Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the cost in man hours, of changing clocks from summer time to winter time and vice versa in public buildings; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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294 Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the cost in man hours, of changing clocks from summer time to winter time and vice versa in public buildings; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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266 Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the reason a taxi licence application to the Garda carriage office in Santry has not been processed in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 16, despite the fact that the application was submitted on 11 May 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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257 Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Transport the cost in man hours of changing clocks from summer time to winter time and vice versa in public buildings; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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254 Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Health and Children the cost in man hours of changing clocks from summer time to winter time and vice versa in public buildings; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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229 Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No. 281 of 12 October 2010, when a reply will issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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202 Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Finance the cost in man hours, of changing clocks from summer time to winter time and vice versa in public buildings; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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196 Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Finance his views on the decision of Bank of Ireland, a partially State-owned and fully State-guaranteed bank, to donate the proceeds of the sale of some of its art collection to charity and if this is consistent with the National Asset Management Agency position which has prohibited certain developers from making charitable contributions while indebted to the taxpayer; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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176 Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the cost in man hours, of changing clocks from summer time to winter time and vice versa in public buildings; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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140 Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware that despite a meeting with her predecessor and officials from her Department, a school (details supplied) in Dublin 24 has still received no response to its requests for special needs assistant support for pupils admitted in September 2010 and that there has been no recognition of the new autism unit where pupils with challenging behaviour lack vital and promised support and if she will intervene to resolve this ongoing problem.
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104 Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Taoiseach the cost in man hours, of changing clocks from summer time to winter time and vice versa in public buildings; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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132 Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will examine the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 16; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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195 Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Finance in respect of Anglo Irish Bank, the value of bonds, both senior and subordinated, that matured and were redeemed at full face value in the period between September 2008 and September 2010; the number and the negotiated price paid for bonds, of any variety, which were redeemed prior to maturity in the period between September 2008 and September 2010; if there is any reason this information should be withheld from the public; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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194 Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Finance the percentage loss of consumer spending power resulting from tax and price index changes since the budget of October 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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157 Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she will respond to a request from students in private third level colleges for their inclusion in access to the higher education grants scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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133 Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Finance if he will explain the delays in registering vehicles under the disabled drivers and disabled passengers scheme since the scheme has come under the administrative control of the National Car Testing Service; if he will intervene directly to restore appropriate processing times; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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120 Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the reasoning behind circular 58/2010 which requires the three-year period required to complete probation for primary school teachers to commence from the date of registration rather than from the date of employment; the reason the satisfaction of this condition is being made more onerous at a time when there are many teachers unable to find employment; the reason the Department is involving itself in the need to deal with applications for exemption from the three-year time frame on a case by case basis when there is no clear benefit from the rule change; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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463 Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when the Climate Change Bill will come before the Dáil in view of the fact that the Bill is still on list C of the Government’s legislative programme and that no progress appears to have been made since the outcome of the climate change conference in Copenhagen last December; if he will provide an outline of the contents of the Bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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441 Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport if she will respond to complaints of allegedly potentially dangerous and life threatening crowd situations for persons leaving a stadium (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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439 Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport if she will take responsibility for either design changes or improved crowd control to ensure crowd safety in the potentially dangerous crush situations reported at a stadium (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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438 Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport if she will take responsibility for requiring improved crowd control measures at a stadium (details supplied) following repeated reports of potentially dangerous crush situations for patrons leaving the stadium; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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314 Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will award a medical card to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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310 Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the promised facility for cystic fibrosis sufferers at St. Vincent’s Hospital; the reason for the delay in construction; the expected completion date; the estimated opening time; the number of rooms provided for isolation purposes; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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281 Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Health and Children the structures and staffing of each of the corporate functions within the Health Service Executive; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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209 Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the reason a mature student (details supplied) now attending a full-time degree course was obliged to pay fees in full for the first year of their course on the basis that they had completed one year of an evening course level eight undergraduate bachelor’s degree in a college but had in fact paid in full €2,500 for the course and had not been in receipt of their entitlement to free third level education before entering the full-time course; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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311 Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the way he intends to respond to the National Consumer Agency’s report on supermarket prices and on the absence of price competition between the existing supermarkets; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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300 Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when the Animal Health and Welfare Bill will be published; if he is aware of the urgent need to update legislation in this area; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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290 Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he intends to respond to the National Consumer Agency recommendation to change the law governing the size of supermarkets in order to encourage new entrants and in turn promote competition leading to lower prices; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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174 Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Finance the number and value of bonds, both senior and subordinated, that matured and were redeemed at full face value in the period between September 2008 and September 2010; the number and the negotiated price paid for bonds, of any variety, which were redeemed prior to maturity in the period between September 2008 and September 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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160 Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if media reports were correct in indicating funding for an extension to a school (details supplied) in Dublin; if she would clarify the current position; when construction is likely to commence; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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187 Deputy Olivia Mitchell asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will award a medical card to a person (details supplied) in view of his changed circumstances; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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