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Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 June 2011
533 Deputy Robert Dowds asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide the figures on the absentee rate of 20 days or more at primary schools (details supplied). [15710/11]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 June 2011
532 Deputy Robert Dowds asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide the figures on the absentee rate of 20 days or more at secondary schools (details supplied). [15709/11]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 June 2011
356 D’fhiafraigh Robert Dowds den Aire Gnóthaí Ealaíon, Oidhreachta agus Gaeltachta an bhfuil aon phlean aige comhoibriú a dhéanamh leis an Aire Stáit nua atá ag rialtas na hAlban, a bhfuil dualgas air Gàidhlig na hAlban a chur chun cinn, ionas gur féidir leis an dá rialtas oibriú le chéile chun caidreamh cultúrtha idir an dá thír a neartú agus an Ghaeilge agus an Ghàidhlig a chur chun cinn sa dá thír. [15527/11]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 June 2011
137 Deputy Robert Dowds asked the Minister for Finance if he proposes that the first tranche of the pension levy will be paid in mid-July 2011 retrospective to January 2011; if pension firms will have the option of asking existing pensioners to pay this back-payment out of their July pensions. [15273/11]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 June 2011
136 Deputy Robert Dowds asked the Minister for Finance the work he has undertaken to determine the impact of the pension levy on individual pension funds or schemes; and if he will outline this work. [15272/11]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 June 2011
135 Deputy Robert Dowds asked the Minister for Finance the date on which he intends the pension levy to take effect. [15271/11]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 June 2011
134 Deputy Robert Dowds asked the Minister for Finance when the pension levy will be imposed. [15270/11]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 June 2011
59 Deputy Robert Dowds asked the Minister for Finance if he intends to ensure that the 0.6% levy on the pensions industry will be taken from its charges or profits rather than from pensioners themselves. [14863/11]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 June 2011
58 Deputy Robert Dowds asked the Minister for Finance if the 0.6% levy on the pensions industry will be applied to pension funds in distress, particularly those in debt; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14862/11]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 June 2011
210 Deputy Robert Dowds asked the Minister for Health if there are any plans by the Health Service Executive to complete a service level agreement with a counselling centre (details supplied) in Dublin 22; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14708/11]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 7 June 2011
297 Deputy Robert Dowds asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide a breakdown of the absentee rate of 20 days or more per annum for the past three school years for each of the second-level schools in the Dublin Mid-West constituency. [14295/11]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 7 June 2011
296 Deputy Robert Dowds asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide a breakdown of the absentee rate of 20 days or more per annum for the past three school years for each of the first-level schools in the Dublin Mid-West constituency. [14294/11]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 7 June 2011
212 Deputy Robert Dowds asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if ESB Electric Ireland plans to offer the same terms for microgeneration of wind energy North and South of the Border; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that microgeneration of energy could be of value as an enterprise for small farmers and landowners; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14176/11]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 7 June 2011
165 Deputy Robert Dowds asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when he will publish legislation to effect the transposition of the EU directive on the establishment of a European works council or a procedure in Community-scale undertakings and Community-scale groups of undertakings for the purposes of informing and consulting employees (2009/38/EC) into Irish law. [14252/11]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 7 June 2011
146 Deputy Robert Dowds asked the Minister for Education and Skills, if there has never been an audit to ascertain the average number of contact hours per week lecturers in publicly funded third level institutions are engaging in, if he will give an explanation; and his plans to carry out any such audit. [14345/11]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 7 June 2011
145 Deputy Robert Dowds asked the Minister for Education and Skills if an audit has ever been conducted to ascertain the average number of contact hours per week lecturers in publicly funded third level institutions are engaging in; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14344/11]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 7 June 2011
113 Deputy Robert Dowds asked the Minister for Finance if there is evidence of tax being collected from a car repair and sales business operating at a location (details supplied) in Dublin 22 since the 1970s; and what, if any, is the evidence. [14336/11]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 1 June 2011
117 Deputy Robert Dowds asked the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) in Dublin 22 will be approved for two new classrooms in view of the fact that pupil numbers are projected to increase from 375 to 426 over the next two years; when a decision will issue, and his views on whether it would be more logical to build the two classrooms at the same time in view of the fact that it is too late for one to be ready for September 2011. [13831/11]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 1 June 2011
89 Deputy Robert Dowds asked the Minister for Finance if there is prospective legislation in progress which will give pension schemes the authority to reduce payments to people who are already in receipt of a pension. [13800/11]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 May 2011
120 Deputy Robert Dowds asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the role of An Garda Síochána in regulating the taxi industry. [13151/11]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 May 2011
119 Deputy Robert Dowds asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the operation of the national car testing service at a facility (details supplied) in Clondalkin, Dublin 22; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13150/11]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 May 2011
118 Deputy Robert Dowds asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his response to a television programme (details supplied) on the taxi industry. [13149/11]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 25 May 2011
233 Deputy Robert Dowds asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will make arrangements to enable all vehicle owners to pay their motor tax online. [12864/11]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 25 May 2011
131 Deputy Robert Dowds asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if vehicle owners are making declarations of non-use of vehicles after the time of supposed non-use has elapsed and in some cases when they in fact used the vehicle during that period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12866/11]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 25 May 2011
130 Deputy Robert Dowds asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the extent to which the facility to declare non-use of vehicles for taxation purposes is used; and the amount of revenue lost from the practice. [12865/11]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 25 May 2011
107 Deputy Robert Dowds asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation his views on the alleged practice of car insurance companies giving glass replacement contracts to a small number of companies; if such an arrangement is regarded as a cartel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12857/11]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 May 2011
471 Deputy Robert Dowds asked the Minister for Health and Children his plans for the reorganisation of paediatric diabetes services currently provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11286/11]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 May 2011
210 Deputy Robert Dowds asked the Minister for Education and Skills if the request from a school (details supplied) in County Dublin for an English teacher as an additional language support post will be granted. [11732/11]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 May 2011
209 Deputy Robert Dowds asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will examine the case of a school (details supplied) in County Dublin, which is due to lose two posts due to the suppression of resource teachers for Traveller pupils; and the action that can be taken to save these posts for the school. [11731/11]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 May 2011
208 Deputy Robert Dowds asked the Minister for Education and Skills if primary schools will be given a little flexibility in terms of retaining excellent temporary teachers who may not be on the redeployment panel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11729/11]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 12 May 2011
45 Deputy Robert Dowds asked the Minister for Finance if he expects that legislation regarding credit unions may be necessary after the Commission on Credit Unions completes its work. [11035/11]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 12 May 2011
44 Deputy Robert Dowds asked the Minister for Finance the remit which will be given to the Commission on Credit Unions. [11034/11]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 12 May 2011
43 Deputy Robert Dowds asked the Minister for Finance when the Commission on Credit Unions is expected to begin its work; and the length of time it will take to complete same. [11033/11]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 10 May 2011
348 Deputy Robert Dowds asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of public health care institutions here in which there is a practice of outsourcing of administrative tasks to other countries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10239/11]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 10 May 2011
347 Deputy Robert Dowds asked the Minister for Health and Children if a hospital (details supplied) has outsourced the sending of letters to patients to the Philippines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10238/11]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 10 May 2011
346 Deputy Robert Dowds asked the Minister for Health and Children when the national substance misuse strategy will be published; and the cause of the delay in its publication. [10237/11]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 10 May 2011
345 Deputy Robert Dowds asked the Minister for Health and Children if he will provide a complete list of names of the persons on the steering group working on the national substance misuse strategy. [10236/11]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 10 May 2011
228 Deputy Robert Dowds asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will update the law regarding noise as public nuisance. [10203/11]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 10 May 2011
227 Deputy Robert Dowds asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will outline the current law regarding noise as a public nuisance. [10202/11]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 10 May 2011
130 Deputy Robert Dowds asked the Minister for Education and Skills the annual budgetary allocation of the Teaching Council. [10381/11]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 10 May 2011
129 Deputy Robert Dowds asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he is considering the abolition of the Teaching Council. [10380/11]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 10 May 2011
128 Deputy Robert Dowds asked the Minister for Education and Skills the purpose of the Teaching Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10379/11]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 May 2011
242 Deputy Robert Dowds asked the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to return to participation in drugs task forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9491/11]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 May 2011
152 Deputy Robert Dowds asked the Minister for Finance his plans to abolish mortgage interest relief for first time buyers in June 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9619/11]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 April 2011
31 Deputy Robert Dowds asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will report on his recent briefings with Irish ambassadors to EU countries in terms of outlining our current economic situation to our EU neighbours. [8825/11]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 20 April 2011
156 Deputy Robert Dowds asked the Minister for Health and Children the situation regarding the number of vacancies currently available in the Health Service Executive for speech and language therapists; and the extent to which there will be employment possibilities for them in Ireland in the future. [8677/11]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 20 April 2011
155 Deputy Robert Dowds asked the Minister for Health and Children his plans to reverse the December 2010 decision to phase out payments to student nurses doing fourth year placements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8676/11]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 20 April 2011
154 Deputy Robert Dowds asked the Minister for Health and Children if the SLAN survey will be going ahead in 2011. [8675/11]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 20 April 2011
120 Deputy Robert Dowds asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if the electoral commission Bill due to be published during the summer session will provide for a computerised electoral register based on PPS numbers, as is used in Northern Ireland; and if not, if he will consider its inclusion. [8678/11]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 20 April 2011
72 Deputy Robert Dowds asked the Minister for Finance in view of the fact that it is likely that in the near future there will be no building societies operating here, if he will ensure that there is diversity in the newly restructured Irish retail financial service sector by using his golden share to convert one of the two new pillar banks into a building society, co-operative bank or other mutual entity. [8681/11]