136 Deputy Ruairí Quinn asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will confirm that in the event of a general election taking place before 15 February 2011 that persons who have added themselves to the draft register of electors 2011-2012 will have their names automatically included in the supplementary voters register; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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36 Deputy Ruairí Quinn asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the progress made regarding the commitment given in the renewed programme for Government to undertake an independent review of the effectiveness of State agency support for enterprise, including interaction between the Industrial Development Authority, Enterprise Ireland and county enterprise boards; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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35 Deputy Ruairí Quinn asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation his response to the report Mapping the Golden Circle, published by the research body TASC, which showed that Ireland’s corporate world was dominated by a small number of interconnected business persons which the report said posed a serious threat to corporate governance; the action he will take to ensure that corporate power does not remain concentrated in the hands of a small number of persons; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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93 Deputy Ruairí Quinn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the arrangements in place to ensure posts as supervisors for the State examinations are open to suitably qualified members of the public; if she will instruct the State Examinations Commission to drop the requirement that all supervisors must be teachers; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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83 Deputy Ruairí Quinn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the role played by him in the introduction of the beef price grid; if he was consulted on any aspect and if so which aspects and his response to same; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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38 Deputy Ruairí Quinn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when the dairy hygiene scheme will be introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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229 Deputy Ruairí Quinn asked the Minister for Social Protection his plans to assume responsibility for community welfare officers who are currently treated as employees of the Health Service Executive; if he will identify the relevant legislation governing this change; the policy reasons justifying this change; his plans to assume ownership of the buildings and centres belonging to the HSE from which community welfare officers currently operate; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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166 Deputy Ruairí Quinn asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will provide a breakdown of spending on the national child care investment programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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84 Deputy Ruairí Quinn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills, further to Parliamentary Question No. 133 of 2 November 2010, and the subsequent correspondence arising (details supplied), if she will explain what the full-time special needs assistants support on a shared basis, means in practice; if it is the decision of the special educational needs officer or the school principal to determine the number of hours special needs assistants spend supporting a particular child when they are assigned to more than one child; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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83 Deputy Ruairí Quinn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the numbers of persons in permanent employment with FÁS; the number directly employed in the position of training instructor directs; the number employed in administration indirects; the number employed in management roles indirects; and the number of additional part-time and or temporary staff employed in management and administration on 1 October 2008, 1 October 2009 and 1 October 2010 in tabular form.
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78 Deputy Ruairí Quinn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the recommendations the senior officials working group has made to the interdepartmental committee on the national skills strategy in relation to the potential for prioritisation across overall education and training budgets to achieve greater efficiencies and quality of output in relation to a review of the apprenticeship scheme; the principles that should apply to State-funded education and training provision; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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77 Deputy Ruairí Quinn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a list of the membership of the upskilling co-ordination group; the date on which it was established; the number of times it has met to date in 2010; the reports it has made; the detail of those reports; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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76 Deputy Ruairí Quinn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a breakdown of successful applicants to the activation fund according to the funding granted; the number who will be trained; the type of education or training that will be provided; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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75 Deputy Ruairí Quinn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the total funding allocated to FÁS for training of persons seeking employment, broken down according to pay and non-pay funding; the funding allocated to FÁS for training of persons in employment, broken down according to type of programme; the number of training facilities owned by FÁS; the number of persons who have been directly trained by FÁS in 2009 and to date in 2010 respectively; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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74 Deputy Ruairí Quinn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the number of training and work experience activation places funded by her in 2010, broken down by type of course or work experience programme; the funding allocated to each type of course or programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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32 Deputy Ruairí Quinn asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the percentage of renewable biomass that should be burnt by an incineration plant in order for that plant to be considered fully renewable and qualify for priority dispatch alongside fully renewable plant such as wind; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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57 Deputy Ruairí Quinn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the percentage of primary school students in class sizes of 30 or more for the years 2005/2006 to 2010/11, inclusive; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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41 Deputy Ruairí Quinn asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the value of loans outstanding under the land aggregation scheme; the estimated volume of land to be acquired under the scheme; the number of local authorities involved in the scheme and if he will provide a breakdown of the scheme by each local authority.
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21 Deputy Ruairí Quinn asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when he will bring forward the White Paper on local Government which was promised for 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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40 Deputy Ruairí Quinn asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport if she has consulted any public art galleries on whether they have the ability to house and would like to acquire any artworks currently held by Irish banks that are entirely State owned or in nominally private institutions, the main shareholder and guarantor of which are the Irish people; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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111 Deputy Ruairí Quinn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she will establish a new primary school (details supplied) in County Kildare on the basis that there is a strong demand for multi-denominational education within the area and a large increase in the school-going population; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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110 Deputy Ruairí Quinn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the number of the 75 second level schools, mentioned in Building Ireland’s Smart Economy, published by the Government in December 2008 that have been equipped with 100Mb per second broadband to date; the name, address and roll number of all 75 schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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96 Deputy Ruairí Quinn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an outline of the leaving certificate applied programme; when it was established; the number of students partaking in it over the past five years; the number of schools that offer the programme; the sections of the student population it is intended to cater for; the usefulness it has for students who come from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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66 Deputy Ruairí Quinn asked the Minister for Social Protection the action he is taking to promote all welfare to work schemes among both employers and employees.
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63 Deputy Ruairí Quinn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills with regard to the process of establishing a new secondary school in Gorey, County Wexford, the measures that were taken to ensure objectivity in the process of assessment of the two applications for patronage of the proposed new post-primary school; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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62 Deputy Ruairí Quinn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills with regard to the process of establishing a new secondary school in Gorey, County Wexford, if she will confirm that all records, including survey forms, relating to the parental survey will be retained for the next three years and that detailed information from that survey will be made available to both applicants; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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51 Deputy Ruairí Quinn asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the actions that have flowed from the process known as the dialogue between civilisations, initiated by the UN some years ago.
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44 Deputy Ruairí Quinn asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the implications for the peace process of recent discoveries of explosives being found in public places in Northern Ireland.
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112 Deputy Ruairí Quinn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she has received correspondence from a group (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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90 Deputy Ruairí Quinn asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the action the Garda intend to take regarding the continued operation, especially in the Dublin area, of gaming arcades and other premises operating in breach of the Gaming and Lotteries Act, 1956, particularly in regard to the maximum permitted stake; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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86 Deputy Ruairí Quinn asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform if he will outline the position in respect of the Garda investigation into matters arising from the Report of the Commission of Investigation into the Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin; if he plans to establish a Commission of Investigation into other dioceses in the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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360 Deputy Ruairí Quinn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of farms eligible for the disadvantaged areas scheme in 2009; if he will provide this figure as a percentage of total farms; the average size of eligible farms in 2009; the average amount paid out to each farm under the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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299 Deputy Ruairí Quinn asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport if she will provide a breakdown of the capital projects financed under cultural development by her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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192 Deputy Ruairí Quinn asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of beds contracted by the Health Service Executive for the purpose of long-term residential care; if she could provide a breakdown of these contract beds by type of long-term residential care; if she will provide a breakdown of fees paid to providers of residential care under this scheme; the average annual cost of a bed under this scheme; the average length of stay in each contract bed broken down by type of long-term residential care service; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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120 Deputy Ruairí Quinn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 62 of 9 November 2010, if she will provide a list of the names of all the organisations that she met; the names of the principal representative of those organisations; the follow-up plan agreed between her and Enterprise Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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121 Deputy Ruairí Quinn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 78 of 9 November 2010, when she received the report; when she circulated it to her Cabinet colleagues; the timeframe, if any, she gave within which to send their written replies; when she expects to bring a memorandum to Government for agreement; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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98 Deputy Ruairí Quinn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she or her Department took legal advice in advance of issuing a circular to FÁS in January 2010 which restricted the eligibility for FÁS training allowances only to persons who have been receipt of jobseeker’s allowance or jobseeker’s benefit immediately prior to entering FÁS training courses; if she or her Department has taken legal advice since the implementation of this circular with regard to it constituting indirect discrimination to workers from other European Union countries; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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91 Deputy Ruairí Quinn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills when the trust fund for the survivors of residential institutions, first announced by the Government in 2009, will be put into place; if she will provide a breakdown of the sums of money transferred by the 18 religious teaching congregations to the State for the purpose of this trust fund to date; when she expects the fund to be formally established; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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59 Deputy Ruairí Quinn asked the Minister for Transport his plans to meet the transport needs of ocean energy providers along the Atlantic coast; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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139 Deputy Ruairí Quinn asked the Minister for Health and Children if her Department has entered into any formal or informal negotiations concerning the sale of buildings at St. Luke’s Hospital, Rathgar; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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138 Deputy Ruairí Quinn asked the Minister for Health and Children the specific services that will have moved to the new cancer unit in St. James’s Hospital from St. Luke’s Hospital, Rathgar by 31 December 2010; if St. Luke’s Hospital will not accept new patients from 1 January 2011; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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137 Deputy Ruairí Quinn asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of staff in St. Luke’s Hospital, Rathgar, Dublin 6, who have been offered and or accepted a voluntary redundancy package; if she will provide a breakdown by grade or category; the deadline for acceptance; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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97 Deputy Ruairí Quinn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she will issue a decision on a home tuition grant in respect of a person (details supplied); when this grant will be paid; if there are any impediments to proceeding with this grant; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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64 Deputy Ruairí Quinn asked the Minister for Finance his views on the introduction of a new fiscal framework for Ireland; if he plans to make an announcement regarding same, on budget day; his plans to propose legislation regarding same; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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263 Deputy Ruairí Quinn asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform, further to Parliamentary Question No. 156 of 24 June 2010, if he will confirm that visa officials are not qualified to carry out their own English tests by phone or interview; the reason the discretion for acceptance of a student on an educational course has been removed from education institutions and now rests solely with the deciding officer; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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262 Deputy Ruairí Quinn asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the percentage of visa decisions, excluding appeals, reviewed each month either by a senior official in his Department or by senior management in the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service; how these visa decisions are chosen for review; of those reviewed in the past 12 months, the percentage found to be unreasonable and subsequently overturned; the actions taken if an official’s decision in the first instance is found to be unreasonable; if he will provide a copy of the regulations concerning the review procedure of visa decisions; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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143 Deputy Ruairí Quinn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills with regard to the labour market activation fund administered by her Department, if one of the projects under this fund (details supplied) employs a substantial proportion of staff from the United Kingdom for the purpose of administrating this scheme here; if her Department is satisfied that these staff are qualified in line with her Department’s policies concerning the delivery of career guidance services here; if she is satisfied that this is a worthy use of scarce public moneys; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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107 Deputy Ruairí Quinn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the restructuring of FÁS; when the board of FÁS is expected to present a new blueprint for the future direction of the agency to her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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53 Deputy Ruairí Quinn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide both the estimated immediate and long-term savings that will arise from the rationalisation of vocational education committees from 33 to 16; if she will provide a copy of the analysis conducted by her Department in advance of this decision being taken; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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114 Deputy Ruairí Quinn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if the funding for a building project for a school (details supplied) in Dublin 8 has been approved; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that this school operates out of prefabricated classrooms which are no longer fit for purpose; when she expects construction to commence; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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