551 Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if capital funding will be provided to construct permanent changing facilities for sports clubs in Hartstown Park, Dublin 15, in view of the fact that existing facilities were recently destroyed by vandalism; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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533 Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Minister for Health if the number of neurosurgical intensive care beds in Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, has been increased within the past five years; if so the reason for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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515 Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Minister for Health when the preferred site for the proposed new national children’s hospital will be made public; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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514 Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Minister for Health if he will report on the proposed merger of James Connolly Memorial Hospital, Dublin 15 and Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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307 Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if any procedures and protocols are in place with digital TV service providers to deal with household arrears with a particular sensitivity towards vulnerable and low income households; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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286 Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite an application for carer’s allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15; the reason for the delay; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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233 Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding disability allowance appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15; if an early oral hearing will be granted; the reason for the delay; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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184 Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) in Dublin 15 is included in the capital programme for school buildings improvements; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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136 Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Minister for Finance the reason there was a three month delay between the completion of the ESRI research on a financial transactions tax and its publication; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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131 Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Minister for Finance if he supports the introduction of a financial transactions tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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129 Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Minister for Finance if the agreement reached between EU leaders on the separation of banking debt from sovereign debt reached at the recent EU summit will result in a retrospective easing of Ireland’s national debt burden, namely, in relation to the €64 billion used to capitalise Irish banks but which now forms part of Ireland’s national debt; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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113 Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Minister for Finance if there is a possibility that banks operating in here have attempted to manipulate inter-bank lending rates, along the lines that Barclay’s PLC in London, England, have been found to have attempted to rig the London inter-bank offered rate, Libor, and euro inter-bank offered rate, Euribor; if he will take steps to investigate this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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83 Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will make contact with the Ukrainian ambassador to Ireland with relation to Law 8711 which may undermine the human rights of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community in the Ukraine; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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36 Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the position regarding Irish children who are detained abroad on High Court orders; if she will take action to ensure that appropriate places are made available for these children within this jurisdiction; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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254 Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Minister for Health if he will confirm that funding for special needs assistants in creches for those availing of disability services in Dublin 15 will remain in place for next year and on a permanent basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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233 Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Minister for Health his views on the submissions made to the public consultation exercise held by his Department in October-November 2011 regarding transposition of Directive 2010/63/EU relating to animal experimentation; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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178 Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the groups that may apply for funding to the community led local development fund 2014 to 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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633 Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Minister for Health the advice he and or his officials have received from the Department of Health bioethics unit regarding meeting Ireland’s ethical obligations when transposing Directive 2010/63/EU relating to animal experimentation, and any other animal experimentation policy issues; if will he publish such advice; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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630 Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Minister for Health if he will expedite legislation regarding the use of sunbeds by under 18 year olds, as well as other sunbed related matters requiring regulation; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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629 Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Minister for Health the legislative measures, policy actions and targets he intends to implement in order to ensure that the 3 Rs principles of reduction, replacement and refinement of animal experiments are achieved in practice when transposing Directive 2010/63/EU; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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628 Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Minister for Health the reason the he intends to move children, who are attending the Daughters of Charity Service, Navan Road, Dublin 7, and provide their support from agency services in the community; if he will outline the consultation that has taken place with these children and their families regarding same; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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601 Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Minister for Health when the Health Service Executive will provide the necessary funding to open and adequately staff Saint Francis Hospice, Blanchardstown, Dublin 15; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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600 Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Minister for Health the number of patients resident in a hospital (details supplied) in Dublin 15, who are awaiting access to step down care in the community, in order to be discharged from the hospital
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599 Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Minister for Health if a decision has yet been made regarding the provision of capital funding for a care centre (details supplied) in Dublin 15; if not if he will outline when a decision will be made; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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408 Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the steps he is taking to implement the recommendations of the report of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Communications, Natural Resources and Agricultures on offshore oil and gas exploration, in particular the recommendation for an increase in royalty payments to the State from multi-national companies extracting oil and gas; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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409 Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he has entered into discussions with the regulator regarding possible increases in gas prices for consumers, and in particular, the steps he will take to prevent energy poverty as result of any such increase; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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357 Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite an application for carer’s allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15; the reason for the delay; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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321 Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Minister for Social Protection if a disability allowance appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15 can be expedited; the reason for the undue delay in their file being forwarded by the Department to the appeals office;if an urgent oral hearing will be granted; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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294 Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 303 of 22 May 2012, if he will outline, in tabular form, the projects on which the 52% of EU Structural Funds under the 2007-2013 round, which have not yet been drawn down, will be spent; if he will further outline the timeframe by which applications were made for each amount of money of funds not yet drawn down; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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274 Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the Government will pay increments to public sector employees to which they are contractually entitled to, as they fall due in the coming year; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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242 Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Minister for Education and Skills if the National Council for Special Education falls under the remit of the Ombudsman for Children; if not, the reason for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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229 Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the Higher Education Authority has decided to discontinue the teaching of carpentry apprentice classes at a college (details supplied) in Dublin 15, in particular in view of the fact that the college has the most state-of-the-art equipment for this purpose in the country; if he will publish all relevant documentation outlining the case for this decision; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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206 Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Minister for Finance the number of times he and the officials in his Department have met with the tobacco industry and their representatives since he has taken office; if he will provide details, in tabular form, of the dates of each meeting, the names of the organisations and representatives involved, the titles of the Departmental officials involved; the reason for each meeting and the matters discussed; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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25 Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Taoiseach the job creation proposals and proposals for stimulus he will be bringing to the EU summit in Brussels on 23 May; the contact he has had with other EU Governments on proposals for job creation and an EU wide stimulus; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25061/12]
400 Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update on the work of the Task Force on the Cessation of the Electronic Voting Project; if he will confirm if the tendering process has yet been concluded and a contract agreed for the disposal of the e-voting machines; if not, the reason for the delay and when a contractor will be chosen; if he will consider having all e-voting machines not held in Gormanston Army Camp stored at Gormanston Camp from the 13 other local premises as a matter of urgency in order to avoid further storage costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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219 Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Minister for Education and Skills the date on which the SOLAS implementation group was initially established; the number of times it has met since its establishment; if he will ensure that his Department's funding will be maintained at an increased level to cover SOLAS, taking into account the funding transferred from the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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151 Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on his recent meeting with Aung San Suu Kyi; his views on the position of the estimated 400 political prisoners in Burma; his views on the economic investment and trade with Burma that is appropriate; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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152 Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs in relation to the ten children in detention in the UK and Nebraska in specialised units as a result of High Court Detention Orders, the reason sufficient secure places are not available in this jurisdiction; the measures he is taking to ensure that sufficient places will be made available urgently; his policy or evidence based criteria that supports the practice of sending Irish children abroad to be detained; if it would be more cost effective to provide secure places in this jurisdiction; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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160 Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Minister for Health if he will consider ensuring that the d-doc out of hours GP service is more widely advertised in order that persons who may be in need of the service would be more aware of it; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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138 Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Minister for Defence if his attention has been drawn to the impact of the recruitment ban on the Reserve Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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715 Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if LEAP cards can be topped up at railway stations; if not, if he will confirm whether this facility is being put in place and the timeframe for its availability; the reason for this delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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714 Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the Dublin Airport Authority has put restrictions in place preventing taxi drivers from picking up fares from the older Terminal One building during the night and in the early morning; if so, whether the DAA consulted with taxi drivers and or their representative organisations before the restrictions were put in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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644 Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) in County Cavan will receive occupational therapy and physiotherapy; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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619 Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Minister for Health if there are plans to privatise and introduce charges for staff car parking in any public hospital in the Dublin region; if so, if consultations have been initiated with hospital staff and/or their representatives; if he will outline his policy in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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498 Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the procedure by which a prisoner may apply for a transfer to a different prison; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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405 Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the steps he will take to ensure the protection of Aldborough House, Portland Row, Dublin 1, a protected structure, in view of its importance as part of Dublin’s architectural heritage;; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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378 Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Minister for Social Protection the current position regarding a domiciliary care allowance appeal and a carer’s allowance appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cavan; if an early oral hearing will be granted; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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360 Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Minister for Social Protection if recipients of disability allowance will be allowed to access the JobBridge scheme; if so, when will they be allowed to do so; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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313 Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding the domiciliary care allowance review; the length of time it will take to complete same; if she will confirm who will sit on the review panel; if she will confirm if parents, such as the DCA Warriors group will be given input into the review; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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304 Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Minister for Social Protection if a supplementary welfare allowance appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15 will be expedited; if an urgent oral hearing will be granted; the reason for the delay; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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