62 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Health and Children her views on requesting the Medical Council to undertake an inquiry into the practice in which women had their pelvis broken during childbirth; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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221 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of years of credit as a homemaker that have been acknowledged in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 3; if this establishes an entitlement to the payment of a 98% retirement pension and contributory old-age pension; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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146 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Health and Children the current state of waiting lists for orthodontic services in Dublin and in the rest of the country; if these waiting lists have grown as persons can no longer afford the high cost of private work; if she has proposals to improve the capacity of the public service to meet the growing demand by making a special application to fill vacant posts or by other methods; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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72 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Health and Children when legislation to introduce graphic images to cigarette packs will be introduced; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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441 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the planned roll out of the National Insulation and Conservation Retrofit Programme; the dates, targets for coverage and budgets; the training standard required of contractors undertaking the work to ensure a high standard of same.
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413 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that when a property becomes vacant during the course of the year, the current scheme does not provide for part refund of a rates bill levied by the council; his plans to introduce a system in which partial relief could be obtained for the proportions of the year when the premises was not drawing upon council services.
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337 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the income limit for a pensioner who does not have a social welfare pension to qualify for the free schemes, distinguishing the upper limit for a single person living alone, a single person living with others and a pensioner couple.
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336 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if social welfare payments being made are automatically notified to the Revenue Commissioners; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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310 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the reporting arrangements for recording details of passports that have been lost or stolen; the action being taken to use those details to prevent lost or stolen passports from being used for illegal purposes; if he is satisfied with the existing procedures; if new initiatives are planned in view of the recent events where Irish passports have allegedly been used in criminal activity; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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251 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the relatives of Stardust victims have been consulted regarding the composition of the committee recommended in the Coffey Report to monitor the needs of families; the extent to which representatives of medical or other professions have been included and if a broader based committee could be formed in consultation with relatives.
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193 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Health and Children the steps that have been taken to address the major deficiencies and waste of resources in the Department as reported in the newspapers on 18 February 2010, the information on which was presented to the Department as far back as September 2009.
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181 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Health and Children her views on establishing a policy review of the challenges of an ageing population by way of a Green Paper or otherwise.
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173 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Finance the evidence necessary by a separated parent to establish that they are paying maintenance which should be deducted from their income for the purpose of calculating tax liability; if he has satisfied himself that a parent who has not yet obtained a judicial separation has the opportunity to provide evidence of maintenance payments being made which would be accepted by the Revenue Commissioners; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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172 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Finance if the lone parent tax credit can be availed of by a separated parent who is substantially maintaining a child when they have entered into a new relationship and are cohabiting; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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171 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Finance if the person to be charged with deciding a residual value in Anglo Irish shares has yet been appointed; and if persons making tax returns are being advised on the way to quantify capital losses on such shares.
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156 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Finance if the restriction of tax relief for nursing homes has now been restricted to the standard rate; the date on which that change came into force; if taxpayers are entitled to have this relief credited on a monthly basis instead of waiting until year end.
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140 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if her attention has been drawn to the fact that businesses who operate as sole traders rather than as limited liability companies who wish to do business in Arabic countries will often require certification by the authorities in those countries that they are compliant with all regulatory requirements, have their affairs properly registered and are trading solvently; her views on developing an appropriate certified document that would serve the needs of sole traders seeking to enter such potential markets; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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143 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the promise of engineering courses in a DIT for persons who worked at a company (details supplied) had not been delivered allegedly due to the fact that necessary funding has not been forthcoming from her Department; if her further attention has been drawn to the fact that the 12 month entitlement period under jobseeker’s benefit will soon be expiring for these persons who will thereby not only lose the opportunity to reskill but also lose their eligibility for continuing welfare payments if they have a spouse who is at work; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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66 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the target date for the switch off of analogue television broadcast services.
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111 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding the garda inquiry into the Stardust fire in 1981 following the findings of the Coffey report that there was no evidence to support a verdict of arson; if post-mortem photographs of victims continue to be held on file; and if these will continue to be held pending a decision to undertake further investigation.
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54 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Finance the tax position of a person who has retired to Ireland but owns certain pension rights in the US and the UK, countries which generate some annuity income.
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122 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Health and Children if independent adoptions in Mexico will be recognised in Irish adoption law in view of the fact that they are under the Hague Convention, and if she will provide reassurance to Irish adoptive parents who are in this position.
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80 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Defence if reports have been commissioned into the status and needs of the military archives; if the current premises are suitable for the protection, usage and storage of the archives in the possession of the military archives; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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491 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Education and Science his views on implementing an early retirement scheme in education or extending the scheme that is available elsewhere in the public service to the teaching sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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429 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if the Heritage and Wildlife Service have reconsidered its opposition to the proposal to breach the causeway linking the Bull Island, County Dublin to the mainland in order to restore a tidal flow and prevent the island from silting up; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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368 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if a person switching from an invalidity pension to a retirement pension retains entitlement to the free schemes; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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177 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that widows who returned to the public service post 1995 are treated less favourably for pension purposes than widows who returned pre-1995 despite having the same years service, as result of the introduction of co-ordinated pensions in the public service and his plans to remove this anomaly.
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175 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Finance if he will make a provision in the heads of legislation of the new banking commission that a regulatory regime that is proportionate as appropriate is developed for the credit union movement which will not seek to impose requirements which would overlook the voluntary and community tradition of the movement.
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172 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Finance if he or his officials or agencies have been involved in discussions between a bank (details supplied) and other banks regarding the establishment of a third banking force that would have provided a broad-based mix of banking services; if he encouraged its formation; if his attention has been drawn to the resistance by a building society that hampered its emergence; and the efforts that were taken by him to overcome that resistance.
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75 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of job facilitators; the average waiting times to access support from a job facilitator; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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620 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Education and Science if parents who are unable to gain admission for their children to their chosen school can apply to his Department to gain admission to a suitable school; and if his Department allows the parents any choice in the school chosen.
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562 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food his views on the EU suggestion of electronically tagging the sheep flock; the estimated compliance cost of this proposal; the estimated benefits in terms of traceability that will be gleaned from the system; his further views on whether the present system of traceability is adequate to meet the objectives set by the EU; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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504 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Defence his plans to provide apprentice place in the Air Corps in 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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386 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the planned cuts in the combined budget of community development and local development social inclusion; the impact it will have on numbers employed in the programmes; the number of clients served in various categories in Dublin; his plans to protect projects which are of particular high social value; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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381 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if funding alternatives will be explored for social centres (details supplied) in Dublin 5 which face a loss of their administrator under the latest cutbacks.
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222 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Health and Children the progress made to date in reducing the number of people engaged in under age smoking; the follow-up studies that were conducted, following the enactment of the Public Health (Tobacco) Act 2002 and the increase in the minimum number of cigarettes that can be sold in a packet; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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182 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Finance the new effective income tax rates which will apply in a graduated manner to high income individuals earning between €125,000 and €400,000; the way these graduated rates have changed from the previous graduated range of €250,000 to €500,000; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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218 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if there is capital funding available from his Department for voluntarily run services for dog protection; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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186 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if a decision will be made on an application in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9 for an exemption from illness benefit rules in order is participate in a community employment scheme of considerable rehabilitative benefit which is due to start imminently; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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96 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Finance if he has initiated a review of credit union legislation; if a steering group within his Department has been established to co-ordinate the various aspects of this review; and if he will give assurances that the review will not adopt a solely regulatory perspective.
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93 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Finance the data he has on the distribution of bank liabilities across the different categories of deposit or other instruments; the average interest payment in each, distinguishing current account balances, standard deposits, term deposits and so on in order that an accurate average cost of funds would be calculated for each bank; and if he will provide this data and in particular the aggregate retail banking sector here.
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12 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of heart and lung transplants conducted here in 2009; if she is satisfied with the number of heart and lung transplants that took place in 2009; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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283 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Education and Science if the terms of the vocational training opportunities scheme and back to education allowance have been aligned and in respect of the period of claiming before eligibility is established for different types of courses; and the eligibility of those under 21 years who have a severe disability.
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147 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that persons in job sharing arrangements have suffered a pay cut based on the rate applicable to full-time earnings, which in the tiered structure is higher than that paid by other persons with equivalent earnings; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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137 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Finance the estimated loss to the Revenue Commissioners of tax due as a result of liquidations, receiverships and examinerships in each of the past four quarters in 2009; the way in which the Revenue Commissioners manage collection policy with companies experiencing trading difficulties; if the Comptroller and Auditor General has advised on the matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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692 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Education and Science if funding for third level access programmes in the Dublin universities for students from disadvantaged backgrounds are affected by budgetary cuts; the funding from his Department to each of the Dublin universities under this heading; the number of pupils assisted in each case; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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653 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Education and Science if contract researchers in universities have to pay the pension levy and take the recent pay cut, even though these posts are funded by private money and are not eligible for a public service pension.
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652 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Education and Science if he has assessed the implications of his decision to withdraw funding from 38 community drug projects including a project (details supplied) on clients and their families.
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579 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amount of money being allocated to each county council home improvement grant distinguishing the allocations under housing aid, mobility aid, monthly aids and Housing Adaptation (Disability) 2010; if the county councils have indicated the expected level of take up of these grants; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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481 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the date from which the restrictions on eligibility for treatment benefit will apply during 2010.
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