156 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Taoiseach the average earnings level of persons at different levels of completed education and different sectors, that is industrial, private services and public services.
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155 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Taoiseach the employment rate that is the percentage of the total population at work; the unemployment rate that is the percentage of the labour force out of work at different levels of completed education, primary, secondary, third level, fourth and different age categories.
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154 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Taoiseach the gross inward and outward migration flows for Irish citizens and for non-Irish citizens in each of the past five years.
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153 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Taoiseach the number of persons over 15 years of age who are not Irish citizens who were at work, unemployed, students or engaged in home duties in each of the past five years in different age groups.
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152 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Taoiseach the estimated age profile of inward migration and of outward migration and of net migration flows in each of the past five years.
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741 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the reason the millennium fund is being cut; if she has considered opening the scheme to applicants in 2010/2011; if she believes closing the scheme will reduce the number of persons from disadvantaged backgrounds gaining access to third level institutions; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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740 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the budget available for school buildings in 2010; the amount of capital which has already been allocated; when she intends to have allocated all available capital for school buildings; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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739 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she will list the schools (details supplied) which have applied to carry out renovations and building works; the renovations or building works they intend to carry out; the status of their applications; the length of time before their application is approved, or not; when moneys are expected to be made available to schools approved for building works and renovations; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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625 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she will indicate the proportion of first year enrolments among men and among women at third level in science and applied science, engineering and technology in 2008-2009, in distinguishing universities and institutes of technology.
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550 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when he plans to publish legislation for a directly elected mayor of Dublin; when he intends the first election for a directly elected mayor to take place; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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81 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Finance if he will provide revised employment forecasts for 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014.
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67 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation in respect of each of the job creation agencies reporting to his Department, the number of new jobs created and the number of existing jobs lost in each quarter since the start of 2006, distinguishing the pattern in foreign-owned businesses from Irish-owned.
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66 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation in respect of each of the job creation agencies reporting to his Department, the number of projects on which agreements have been signed to establish new businesses or to expand an existing business in each quarter since the start of 2006, indicating the aggregate jobs scheduled to be created in each case.
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65 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the floor area of accommodation occupied by each division of his Department and each agency reporting to his Department; and if in each case the accommodation is owned or leased; and the rental paid.
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64 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the number of staff at each grade deployed in each of the programmes operated by his Department and the agencies reporting to his Department.
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63 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the age profile of staff in his Department and agencies; the number of retirees not replaced since the embargo commenced; and the number who have opted for voluntary retirement under the recent scheme.
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62 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation if the Estimate formation process for 2011 has commenced; and if he will estimate the overall expenditure reduction planned and its distribution across key programmes.
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61 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the number and value of the recommendations of the special group on public service numbers and expenditure programmes that have been implemented in full, in part and not at all; if he will provide in each case the value of savings made as a percentage of the total; and the other cost saving proposals which his Department has proposed as alternatives.
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60 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the number and subject matter of value for money reviews that have been planned and completed in each of the past five years; the value of the programme involved; and the savings that have been generated in each case by implementing the recommendations.
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59 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation his views on the strategic impact indicators set by his Department, namely, competitiveness benchmarks, trade performance of the indigenous sector, average salary in IDA projects, research and development intensity ratio as a percentage of GNP, business expenditure on research and development, number of days lost through strikes, reduction in the administrative burdens on business; the statistics he uses to measure progress in respect of each; the change in the value of each of these statistics in the past five years; and the target he has set for each in respect of the next three years.
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58 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the benefit of transferring responsibility for developing the skills of the labour force from his Department to the Department of Education and Skills; if the oversight of agencies in this sphere by his Department has now effectively discontinued; and the way he will monitor the capacity of the education and training sectors to meet the needs of enterprise in the coming years.
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57 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the number of employees, administrative budget and total grant payment in the most recent year for which figures are available on a county enterprise board basis; and the way these have changed in the past five years.
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56 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the number of new start-up businesses on a county enterprise board basis; and the initial numbers employed in these start-ups in each of the past five years.
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616 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the amount paid by the Churches towards the compensation of victims of child abuse in residential institutions; the way this money is held; the way it is paid out; the role of survivors of child abuse, if any, in the disbursement of these moneys.
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519 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when the power to sell local authority dwellings in multiple unit developments to tenants will be brought into effect; if he will issue a circular to local authorities outlining the optimal legal transfer arrangements in the coming months.
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366 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the steps he has taken to reduce incidents of crime and anti-social behaviour, particularly in the lead up to Halloween; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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225 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Health and Children if standards have been established in respect of the provision of facilities in community homes for psychiatric patients; her views on the way it is proposed to conduct inspections to see that standards both physical standards and standards of care provision are meeting requirements; if the moneys being released from the sale of psychiatric residential institutions will be earmarked for a programme of improvements in community homes; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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163 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Health and Children her plans to introduce a scheme whereby persons whose health condition is unchanging and whose income sources are constant, would not have to submit forms for regular renewal of a medical card; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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137 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Finance his views on making it compulsory for capital acquisitions tax to be filed on-line; the consideration given to those without Internet or computer access; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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279 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the number of pupils at senior cycle among boys and among girls who take one science subject; the number who take two science subjects and the number who take three or more.
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278 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the proportion of first year enrolments among men and among women at third level in science and applied science and in engineering and technology in each of the academic years 19990-2000, 2004-2005 and 2009-2010, distinguishing between universities and institutes of technology.
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277 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the number of students who sat examinations at pass level and at honours level among boys and among girls and the grades achieved in each of the academic years 1999-2000, 2004-2005 and 2009-2010.
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276 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the number of students taking each of the science subjects at senior cycle among boys and among girls in each of the academic years 1999-2000, 2004-2005 and 2009-2010.
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261 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to Traveller training projects being the victims of budget restrictions (details supplied); if her Department conducts an assessment of the cutbacks chosen by different subsidiary bodies, to ensure that the impact reflects sound public priorities, particularly in a case such as this; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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231 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Social Protection in view of assessing means tested entitlements, if he will indicate the way his Department treats financial lump sums paid as a result of accidents which are made in order to meet the expected medical costs in the future; and if they are disregarded in whole or in part in assessing capital resources of an applicant.
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108 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation further to Parliamentary Question No. 108 of 15 June 2010, if his Department retains a contingency fund which could be channelled to support the development of start up enterprise facilities, when a town, as detailed, suffers a sudden and significant job loss.
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15 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport the number of survival actions recommended by the Tourism Renewal Group that have been implemented to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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353 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Social Protection if jobseeker’s payment will be paid directly into a person’s account; if all persons claiming jobseeker’s payments have to be in the country and sign on once a week; if he is confident that no person who has left the country continues to receive payments on grounds they are available for and seeking work; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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74 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Finance the extent to which the halting of decentralisation has left the Government in possession of sites, leases or underoccupied buildings; the costs of the acquisition, the leases and the constructions that are not fully occupied; and if there is a strategy in place for managing this portfolio to minimise the cost to the taxpayer.
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35 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Finance the extent of State aid that has been involved in the bank guarantee scheme since it commenced operation; and if there are plans to recoup this aid for the Exchequer.
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185 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she has received a submission from a school (details supplied) in Dublin 2 regarding the difficulties it is experiencing in coping with recent reductions in resources; and if she will arrange for a review of their particular need in view of the special needs of all of their pupils.
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149 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Social Protection if he will consider relaxing the means test rules for jobseeker’s and disability allowance, when a qualifying person takes in sub-tenants in order to spread the cost of the mortgage in view of the fact that if the tenants were expelled the State could face paying both the mortgage interest supplement and the full rate of jobseeker’s allowance.
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119 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Health and Children if a grant is available to adapt a car by fitting a swivel seat in order to accommodate the transport of a spouse whose mobility is severely impaired.
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118 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Health and Children if she has investigated the experience of mothers who survived the practice of symphysiotomy but suffered serious side effects; and if she plans any initiatives to investigate the position of survivors and offer support.
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117 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Health and Children when the proposed charges for medical card holders will become effective; if she has had cause to reconsider any elements of these charges; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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116 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Health and Children if nurses have been included in the early retirement proposals introduced in the past two years; if the further development of such schemes for nursing is contemplated in the future; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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349 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the ease of access in Ireland to websites which promote child pornography; if his further attention has been drawn to the actions taken by other countries to block such access; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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275 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Health and Children if she is satisfied with the level of respite care currently available in Dublin; her views on whether the decision to cease respite support (details supplied) will have a negative effect on residents; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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265 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Health and Children the potential impact of a ban on alcohol advertising on underage drinking or health costs associated with the abuse of alcohol; and if she has adopted a policy position on this issue.
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