722 Deputy Bruton asked the Minister for Education and Science the number of staff in his Department, and any agency under his remit, who are primarily employed in one of a number of areas (details supplied) in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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677 Deputy Bruton asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of staff in his Department, and any agency under his remit, who are primarily employed in one of a number of areas (details supplied) in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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663 Deputy Bruton asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of staff in his Department, and any agency under his remit, who are primarily employed in one of a number of areas (details supplied) in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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634 Deputy Bruton asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of staff in his Department or any agency under his remit who are primarily employed in one of a number of areas (details supplied) in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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620 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if there is capital funding available from his Department for voluntary run services for dog protection; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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611 Deputy Bruton asked the Minister for Defence the number of staff in his Department, and any agency under his remit, who are primarily employed in one of a number of areas (details supplied) in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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543 Deputy Bruton asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of staff in her Department and any agency under its remit who are primarily employed in one of a number of areas (details supplied) in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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524 Deputy Bruton asked the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the number of staff in his Department and any agency under its remit who are primarily employed in one of a number of areas (details supplied) in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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515 Deputy Bruton asked the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the number of staff in his Department, and any agency under his remit, who are primarily employed in one of a number of areas (details supplied) in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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508 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if Irish troops are still serving in Afghanistan, even though the United Nations mandate for the presence of troops in Afghanistan has now expired; and if he will indicate whether there are plans to bring this Irish mission to an end.
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498 Deputy Bruton asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of staff in his Department, and any agency under his remit, who are primarily employed in one of a number of areas (details supplied) in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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496 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the action taken to date following the discovery that Irish passports were used by perpetrators of an assassination; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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429 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the fact that applicants for naturalisation are having their applications deferred if they become unemployed, even when their work authorisation confines them to specific fields of employment; and his views on relaxing the work authorisation terms to allow such persons to apply for other jobs.
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414 Deputy Bruton asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of staff in his Department, and any agency under his remit, who are primarily employed in one of a number of areas (details supplied) in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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406 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if there has ever been a prosecution brought on indictment for an offence under the Companies Acts 1963 to 2009; if there has been any such prosecution since 2000; and the details of all such prosecutions.
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356 Deputy Bruton asked the Minister for Transport the number of staff in his Department, and any agency under his remit, who are primarily employed in one of a number of areas (details supplied) in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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333 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Health and Children her policy in respect of social worker support to foster families and to children who are fostered; the number of foster families served by each social worker; if foster children have independent access to a different social structure in the event of mutual difficulties arising; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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312 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Health and Children if the existing medical card contract with general practitioners includes the taking of necessary blood tests or if medical card patients are required to attend hospital for such tests; if she has done an analysis on the comparative cost and turnaround of requiring blood tests to be done in hospital compared to general practitioner surgery; and her views on an incentive for GPs to take blood tests at their surgeries.
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309 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Health and Children the aggregate budget that has been made available to fund rehab day care places for persons in 2010 and beyond, in particular a centre (details supplied); her plans to increase this; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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308 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that children who are with the Beechpark services who progress to a secondary school placement lose their home support grant even though they have the same care needs; the steps she will take to ensure that there will be uniformity of treatment of children based on their needs rather than the accident of the particular service to which their care is attached; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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282 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that persons who plan to adopt from a country (details supplied) are now in a race against time to get approval for adoption from the Adoption Board; and if she will make arrangements for a transition period to allow persons who have been pursuing this option for a long time to complete the process.
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252 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Health and Children the spending to date in preparing plans and undertaking preparatory works at the Mater for the new children’s hospital; if she has set aside moneys to commence the construction; and if she will outline the phasing.
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205 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Finance his views on exempting e-books from VAT; and the discussion he has had with his EU colleagues on the taxation of this sector.
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226 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Finance his views on whether the Spanish Presidency amendments to the EU alternative investment fund managers directive would have the effect of closing off the European markets and European institutional investors from non-European investment firms; if he supports the Swedish Presidency amendments that deleted the three year moratorium that specified that EU access for non-EU AIF and AIFM would be granted on the basis of adherence to a set of standards to be established by the Committee of European Security Regulators and on the existence of co-operation agreements between the regulatory authorities in the EU and in the third country; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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225 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Ireland is the largest hedge fund administration centre in the world representing approximately 49% of global hedge fund assets and employing more than 3,000 persons; if he has received advice from his Department as to the effect the most recent Spanish Presidency compromise text of the alternative investment fund managers directive will have for this industry here; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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187 Deputy Bruton asked the Minister for Finance the number of staff in his Department, and any agency under his remit, who are primarily employed in one of a number of areas (details supplied) in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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184 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Finance if he was consulted before the announcement that a bank (details supplied) will close; if other options were considered to avoid the loss of service to customers and of jobs; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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183 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Finance his plans to consolidate or reform the Central Bank Acts 1942 to 2004; the position regarding such plans; his further plans to bring amending legislation; and when such legislation will be published.
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182 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Finance the titles, responsibilities, grades and professional qualifications of all staff employed in the Office of the Financial Regulator; if there are any unfilled positions within this office; and the titles, responsibilities and grades of all unfilled positions.
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181 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 49 of 28 January 2010, the number of prosecutions brought for offences under the Central Bank Acts 1942 to 2004 in each of the years 2004 to 2009; the number of prosecutions on indictment brought in each year; the number of summary prosecutions brought in each year; the number of convictions on indictment obtained in each year; the number of summary convictions obtained in each year; the reason in his previous answer to the same question he addressed the number of administrative sanctions imposed but not the number of prosecutions brought.
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180 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Finance the number of indictable offences contained within the Central Bank Acts 1942 to 2004; and the number of summary offences contained within the Central Banks Acts 1942 to 2004.
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126 Deputy Bruton asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of staff in her Department and any agency under her remit who are primarily employed in one of a number of areas (details supplied) in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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111 Deputy Bruton asked the Taoiseach the number of staff in his Department and any agency under his remit who are primarily employed in one of a number of areas (details supplied) in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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209 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Education and Science if schools are at liberty to dispose of lands for purposes other than education; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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208 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Education and Science if he has plans to alter the age at which pupils may enrol in primary schools now that the provision of a pre-school year up to the age of 4.5 years has been put in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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179 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if a person applying for planning permission must establish peer title to the lands before planning permission is obtained; if a subsequent dispute about ownership arises would this invalidate the permission granted; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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156 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the target period of delay while her Department conducts a means test for a person whose entitlement to jobseeker’s benefit has expired and whose spouse is working; 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, in circumstances where a child has purchased a home jointly with their parent but the parent has undertaken none of the payments towards the mortgage, the assessment under the fair deal will regard the parent as owning a 50% share, or would that share be reduced to take into account the fact that the parent had made no contribution towards the purchase costs; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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115 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Health and Children the reason there has been a delay in recognising the rights of dental technicians to deal directly with the public in the provision of dental prosthetic services; if she has now recognised a system under which these skilled service providers can have their experience recognised and be certified as eligible to provide services directly to the public; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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114 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Health and Children if patients who have established rights to beds in public long stay nursing homes are subvented beds in private nursing homes, can apply to move to other nursing homes and retain their right to remain on this more favourable payment system; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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24 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the progress that he is making in meeting bioenergy scheme targets; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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139 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Finance the proposal for the separation of a bad bank within Anglo Irish Bank; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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94 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Finance his proposal for the separation of a bad bank within Anglo Irish Bank; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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55 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Finance if he plans to request a further report from the Special Group on Public Service Numbers and Expenditure Programmes in 2010.
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44 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Finance if he is satisfied with the effectiveness of the powers of enforcement when regulatory failures or failures of corporate governance occur in the banking sector.
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40 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Finance the cumulative cuts in the public investment programme made to date; and if further cuts in investment in 2011 represents a sound basis for economic recovery.
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355 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his plans to update landlord and tenant legislation for a clearer set of obligations in respect of the condition of rented property; and when the legislative proposals will be presented to the Houses of the Oireachtas.
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270 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if there are photographic identity documents that can be provided to persons who do not drive or have occasion to require a passport, now that financial institutions frequently require such for avoidance of money laundering and so on.
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149 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Finance the credit guidelines that he plans to issue to the banks as a result of the new powers given to him under the National Asset Management Agency legislation; the number of appeals against declined cases that have been heard by the appeals officer that he has appointed; the percentage of cases in which the appeal had successfully overturned the decision to decline credit; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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80 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment her plans for a co-ordinated programme of actions on competitiveness.
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