181 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Finance if he has audited the delivery of lending commitments by banks (details supplied) made as part of the €7 billion recapitalisation agreement in 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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129 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Finance his views on the inability of the new CAT form, CA24, to be completed on-line and if a system compatible with the Revenue On-line System can be developed.
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108 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation if he has considered establishing a fully serviced office and workshop infrastructure dedicated to new start up businesses (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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13 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will undertake a review of health services for persons who experience dementia or Alzheimer’s diseases; if her attention has been drawn to the particular gap in services for persons who experience these illnesses in advance of reaching retirement age; and her plans to introduce a statement of strategy outlining goals to be achieved in the coming years.
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3 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Finance if payment by the Health Service Executive to service providers such as fostering, home help and so on are treated as tax free income; and if so, if there are ceilings on the amount of tax free income that can be earned from such sources.
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344 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons who have been successfully placed in work experience under the scheme announced in 2009; if a new tranche of placements will soon become available; and her views on a scheme whereby short work experience placements could be permissible with any employer certified as suitable and that welfare entitlements could be retained during the placement.
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332 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons who have been successfully placed in work experience under the scheme announced in 2009; if a new tranche of placements will soon become available; and her views on a scheme whereby short work experience placements could be permissible with any employer certified as suitable and that welfare entitlements could be retained during the placement.
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264 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Social Protection if he has any measure of support for the 18 year olds who are in full time education and are currently excluded from child payments and would only get support if they dropped out of school and became eligible for Youthreach and in order to support children in particular who might be at risk of early drop-out from school.
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171 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the obligations of a person on the sexual offenders register when they move to a new area; if local residents have a right to information about oversight of such past offenders for protection of the public; if stricter provisions apply when a person has been released before the end of their sentence by way of probation or otherwise; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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165 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the policy of requiring applicants for naturalisation to be in work has been modified due to the fact of the present difficulty in holding jobs or due to the fact of legal challenges.
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164 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if there is a system whereby a driver who was disqualified from driving can lodge a case for consideration to have the duration of disqualification reduced; and if there are criteria that would be up for consideration in such a case.
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132 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Health and Children her views on waiving the accident and emergency charge for persons who attend A&E as a result of being victims of crime; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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56 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Finance when dividends on preference shares in a bank (details supplied) are due to be paid; and the terms on which he will acquire shares if these cannot be paid.
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42 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Revenue is disallowing tax relief on investment houses that are not registered with the Private Residential Tenancies Board; if he is satisfied that those affected were given sufficient information on the proposed changes; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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96 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the reduction in the availability of respite care on the north side of Dublin; and if she has established any policy guidelines for the Health Service Executive regarding respite care.
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47 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Defence the reason, in view of the fact that €20 million to €30 million has been spent on Reserve defence force annually, no reservists are qualified to take part in overseas service; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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206 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that Mexico, which is compliant with the Hague agreement on adoption, is willing to change its adoption process in order to accommodate Irish adoptions; and if the Bill, as currently drafted, will go ahead, due to the fact that in Mexico the central government authority is not involved in approvals prior to proceedings for adoption commencing.
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181 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Finance if he has met with the chairman of the board or chief executive of the National Asset Management Agency to discuss the progress made and its ability to meet various schedules for the acquisition of loans and other associated activities; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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180 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Finance if the National Asset Management Agency has submitted to him codes of practice, a revised business plan, requests for staff or funding and a policy statement; and if he will outline whether it has met all of the schedules set out in the Act or requested by him in respect of such documents.
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179 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Finance if he has received a copy of the first quarterly report of the National Asset Management Agency; and if, in the context of this report, he has issued any guidelines, directions or requests for specific information.
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173 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Finance his views on extending the credit appeal mechanism developed for small businesses to include householders; his further views on developing codes of practice which would give banks guidance as to when they ought to accept requests by mortgage holders to move to interest-only payments for a certain period; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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170 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Finance if he has plans to amend the Freedom of Information Act in order that it apply to the Office of the Ombudsman in the same way as to any other body and subject to the same grounds for declining information and the same process of appeal when parties are unhappy with the outcome of a request for information.
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160 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Finance the legislation that is necessary to implement the new EU consumer credit directive due to be implemented on 11 June 2010; and if he will include measures to avail of the discretion in that directive to treat credit unions differently from other financial institutions.
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43 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to invest in and promote the development of a marine energy research centre adjacent to the National Maritime College, Ringaskiddy, County Cork.
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86 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Health and Children, in assessing the eligibility of persons over 70 for the medical card, the reason for the provision to look at the medical condition and medical expenses of a person whose income exceeds the €700 limit; and if the Health Service Executive has the discretion to grant a card in exceptional medical circumstances.
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79 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Health and Children the average length of time it takes to process a medical card application in the primary care reimbursement service; the average length of time it takes to process appeals; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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73 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Finance if he has considered any initiative that would forestall the risk that rising mortgage rates might put more people into difficulties with repayments such as, for example, making euro bonds more widely available to banks that could underpin mortgages which tracked the European interest rates; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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72 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Finance the basis on which benchmarking awards were extended to include pensioners; and if he will indicate whether pensioners in An Post are entitled to benchmarking awards that would have applied to parallel grades in the public service under the terms of the act establishing An Post which provided that there should be equivalents in terms and conditions for persons who were transferred to the new bodies.
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55 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the reason for the delay in awarding redundancy payment in respect of a person (details supplied) from the insolvency fund.
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253 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the number of special needs assistants employed in each primary and second level school in Dublin 3, Dublin 5, Dublin 9 and Dublin 17 in the 2006-07 to 2009-10, inclusive, academic years.
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205 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views on the need for regulation of the on-line gaming sector; the state of preparedness for his proposals for the regulator and the taxation of this sector; when it is expected that legislation will be published on the matter.
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193 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of crimes broken down by category carried out in an area (details supplied) in 2009 and to date in 2010; the detection rates; the number of successful convictions recorded; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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140 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Finance if he will indicate his estimate of tobacco consumption here on which duty has not been paid; the estimated loss to the Exchequer over a 12 month period; the scale of the revenue loss; if the 27% smuggled product estimated by the trade is accurate; and his views on whether further scanning machines would be a cost effective investment based on his estimate of the cost of installing one more scanner.
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417 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if there is any financial support that is be available for a young Irish graduate (details supplied) to participate in a Masters in International Affairs which is very competitively sought throughout the world.
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65 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Social Protection the details of the implementation of the national pensions framework; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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243 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons employed to carry out inspections (details supplied) in schemes or agencies under her remit.
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242 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons primarily employed to process entitlement payments (details supplied) in schemes or agencies under her remit.
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225 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of persons primarily employed in export refunds.
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226 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of persons primarily employed in the issuing of licences (details supplied) in agencies or schemes under his remit.
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224 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of persons employed to carry out inspections (details supplied) in schemes or agencies under his remit.
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223 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of person employed to process entitlements payments (details supplied) in schemes or agencies under his remit.
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216 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of persons primarily employed in the issuing of licences (details supplied) in agencies or schemes under his remit.
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215 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of persons employed to carry out inspections (details supplied) in schemes or agencies under his remit.
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207 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of persons employed in the issuing of licences (details supplied) in agencies or schemes under his remit.
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206 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of persons employed in the collection of overpayments.
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205 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of persons employed to carry out inspections (details supplied) in schemes or agencies under his remit.
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200 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Defence the number of persons employed to carry out inspections (details supplied) in schemes or agencies under his remit.
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196 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons primarily employed in the collection of overpayments.
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195 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons primarily employed to process entitlement payments (details supplied) in schemes or agencies under his remit; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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190 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the number of persons employed to carry out inspections (details supplied) in schemes or agencies under his remit.
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