193 Deputy Tom Barry asked the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of funding distributed among vocational and voluntary sector second level schools in Fermoy and Mallow, County Cork, between 2000 and 2012.
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54 Deputy Tom Barry asked the Minister for Social Protection if steps can be taken to ensure that social welfare recipients who are required to transfer from one payment to another are notified on time in order that there is no period between their renewed claim and payment of the second benefit (details supplied).
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11 Deputy Tom Barry asked the Minister for Education and Skills if it is his policy to concentrate second-level funding in vocational education committee schools rather than voluntary schools; and in relation to the additional funding that is being provided, the population growth projections on which the funding allocations are based. [10017/12]
429 Deputy Tom Barry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if attempts can or will be made to access the remaining processors’ fund finances to assist with the re-establishment of sugar production here.
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428 Deputy Tom Barry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a company (details supplied) received €50 million specifically for the provision of former workers’ pensions upon the cessation of sugar production at the Mallow plant.
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54 Deputy Tom Barry asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his position regarding the future of the travel tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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753 Deputy Tom Barry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a commitment will be given that maps digitised this year and last will not need to be re-digitised in 2012.
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61 Deputy Tom Barry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the effects budget 2012 will have on the agrifood industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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37 Deputy Tom Barry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the current projections for Irish agri-exports in view of the fact that his annual report showed them to have increased 11% from 2009; the effect the recent budget announcements will have on exports; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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485 Deputy Tom Barry asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will clarify the position in regard to the M20 and, in particular, the situation with regard to communications with relevant landowners in the area.
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333 Deputy Tom Barry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the European Parliament’s decision to ban the prophylactic use of antibiotics in livestock farming will affect the sale of dry cow and milking cow mastitis tubes here.
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572 Deputy Tom Barry asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will confirm the funding available to complete repairs to Lower Aghada pier, County Cork; and if there is a timescale for the commencement of work.
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17 Deputy Tom Barry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will provide additional resources for agricultural colleges in view of the Food Harvest 2020 report and the push to increase production.
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39 Deputy Tom Barry asked the Minister for Education and Skills if the closed school rule as applied under the school transport scheme was, and is, a legally binding contract between the schools and his Department; if an evaluation study has been carried out to see if school transport can be provided more efficiently; the schools that were involved in the value for money review of the scheme and if any of those schools were closed schools; and if he will consider using the model already in use by an organisation (details supplied) to appoint one transport company to cover the entire school transport contract.
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273 Deputy Tom Barry asked the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an appeal for a non contributory State pension in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork.
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81 Deputy Tom Barry asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the current waiting time for processing a passport application.
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371 Deputy Tom Barry asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if, in view of Germany’s intention to move away from nuclear power, which could lead to an increase in its draw from the UK, there are any plans in place to examine future energy requirements and production from renewable resources from within our own country, such as wind and wave technology.
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34 Deputy Tom Barry asked the Minister for Social Protection the costs involved in funding Pobal per annum; the cost of Pobal’s administrative services since its establishment and if the work being sub-contracted out to Pobal could be withdrawn and brought back into the public services, thereby saving considerable amounts of money.
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288 Deputy Tom Barry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will endeavour to move payments under the agri-environment options scheme forward from August as persons who are anxious to join the scheme are put off by the late payments because they find themselves in a situation of very tight finances.
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112 Deputy Tom Barry asked the Minister for Finance if, in view of the 50,000 visitors per annum who come to Doneraile Court, County Cork, he will consider opening a facility that could capitalise on and increase those visitor numbers, such as an interpretative or visitors’ centre or café.
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73 Deputy Tom Barry asked the Minister for Finance if he will seek to appoint a Minister of State with specific responsibility for the National Asset Management Agency.
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29 Deputy Tom Barry asked the Minister for Finance if he will consider the establishment of an agricultural review board within the National Asset Management Agency, in view of the fact that it is shutting down viable agricultural industries and forcing the unnecessary slaughter of animals.
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140 Deputy Tom Barry asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will allocate an additional English language teaching provision as a matter of urgency for a school (details supplied) in County Cork.
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160 Deputy Tom Barry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will provide the following detail in relation to a company (details supplied): if there was a tendering process prior to its appointment to its role in the monitoring of the use of farm saved seed and the collection of royalties for same; the reason a private limited company is named in an official statutory instrument when the State has no shareholding in that company and if there is a new tendering process due for the contract to carry out the monitoring of the use of farm saved seed and the collection for royalties for same.
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82 Deputy Tom Barry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food his plans to visit China to further assist the opening up of food markets in the world’s fastest growing major economy.
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50 Deputy Tom Barry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will consider forming a delegation to travel to Europe to discuss the possibility of acquiring additional milk quota for Ireland to lessen the potential imposition and impact of a super-levy situation for 2011; if he will further consider this in view of Europe-wide under-production in the dairy industry and the potential for Ireland to increase its exports, which could only improve our hopes of honouring our debt commitments to Europe, thereby contributing to the ongoing stability of the Euro; and his plans for assisting or financing the provision of additional processing facilities in advance of the removal of milk quotas in 2015.
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62 Deputy Tom Barry asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will ensure that the distribution of Garda resources will adequately reflect changing criminal patterns, when travelling gangs of criminals are making the short journey to rural towns and communities and contributing to escalated burglary rates; and if he will ensure that the allocation of Garda resources now and in the future will take cognisance of this development.
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449 Deputy Tom Barry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if his Department has a shareholding in a company (details supplied); if so, the percentage of same; if there was a tendering process prior to the appointment of the company to its role in the monitoring of the use of farm-saved seed and the collection of royalties for same; if there is a cost to the State associated with the operation of the company; and if there is, the cost of same annually.
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54 Deputy Tom Barry asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will address restrictions under the rural development programme which preclude hub towns from accessing certain funding streams because of their status under the national development plan.
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25 Deputy Tom Barry asked the Minister for Education and Skills if adult literacy programmes are restricted by staff embargos and funding restrictions from answering the mushrooming demand for their services.
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152 Deputy Tom Barry asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on any potential national funding streams for sporting and community organisations in 2011.
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97 Deputy Tom Barry asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the cost of flood hazard maps, produced by a company for Cork County Council and incorporated in Cork’s draft local area plans; if the requirement for these maps can be reviewed, in view of inaccuracies that have been highlighted.
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