478 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Health if he will investigate the delay in processing an application in respect of persons (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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464 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Health if he will investigate the delay in processing a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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434 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a REPS 4 payment will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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303 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will address the situation whereby planning applications for an extension of time are being refused following on from previous grant of full planning permission due to a change in environmental guidelines; if he will amend the 2010 Planning Act to resolve this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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287 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will issue on a disability allowance claim in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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286 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will clearly clarify the cuts to one-parent family payments announced in the December budget; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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268 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite a jobseeker’s allowance appeal review in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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152 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Education and Skills as a result of successive bank bailouts, with the average amount of money now owed by every man, woman and child in this country exceeding €30,000, the reason our schools do not teach our youth about money management; his plans to introduce compulsory financial education, money management education and personal budgeting in our schools; his views on the development and introduction of mandatory financial education for our youth; the way he hopes to progress this; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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227 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a REP scheme 4 payment will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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225 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers in County Kerry who have not yet received their 2011 REP scheme payments; the number who have been paid; the total amount owed; the total amount paid; when the balance will be paid; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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224 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers in County Kerry who have not yet received their 2011 disadvantaged area aid payments; the number who have been paid; the total amount owed; the total amount paid; when the balance will be paid; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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223 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers in County Kerry who have not yet received their 2011 single farm payments; the number who have been paid; the total amount owed; the total amount paid; when the balance will be paid; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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197 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Health when the extension of free general practitioner care to all claimants of medicines under the long-term illness scheme will be introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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176 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Health the implications of the further reductions in staffing levels due to take place between now and the end of February 2012 on the provision of services at St. Columbanus Home, Killarney, County Kerry; the number of staff involved; if there will be bed closures; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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172 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Health the implications of the further reductions in staffing levels due to take place between now and the end of February 2012 on the provision of services at Kerry General Hospital; the number of staff involved; if there will be bed closures; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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659 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will reconsider his decision to withdraw funding for local improvement schemes or at the very least the hardship and emergency element of this scheme — that is, for those roads beside which there is a person with a serious illness living or where there is a person in a wheelchair living; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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593 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Health if he will enter into discussions with Killarney Town Council in regard to the future of St. Finan’s hospital and lands, Killarney, County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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578 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Health if he will investigate the delay in processing a medical card application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry.
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545 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will issue all outstanding REP scheme payments, single farm payments and disadvantaged area aid payments owed to farmers in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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544 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when REP scheme 4 payment will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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533 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to improve milk prices for suppliers in 2012 in view of the fact that prices paid in 2011 were close to the bottom of the EU milk price league; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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529 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a REP scheme 4 payment will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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527 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will introduce an agri-environment options scheme 3 at the earliest possible date to enable farmers who are finished with the REP scheme to have a scheme available to them; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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523 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will ensure that there are no further cuts to the suckler cow welfare scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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522 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will ensure that there are no further cuts to the disadvantaged area aid scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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521 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will ensure that Ireland secures adequate EU funding for rural development programmes in the negotiations for the common agricultural policy post-2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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289 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will request the Industrial Development Agency to increase its efforts and promote vigorously all that is good about County Kerry as a region for industry, business and companies to which to locate; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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116 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Finance if he will clarify the relative importance of the divergence that now exists in the projected growth rate for this year between the December budget figure of 1.3% and the troika’s new estimate of 0.5%, in terms of any mid-term adjustment being considered for 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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115 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Finance if the terms of reference being used by the troika as it works towards producing a common paper on a possible alternative to the IBRC promissory notes, include the possibility of proposing some form of new substitute financial instruments as opposed to merely adjusting the interest rate and/or the duration of repayment of the existing promissory notes; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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134 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the properties that are exempt from the property tax; and if he will clarify what constitutes a ghost estate.
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111 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will issue on an illness benefit appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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235 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the recent survey findings by Lonely Planet, which established that Irish pubs are the number one attraction for visitors to Ireland; if he will prepare a strategy and plan in conjunction with other relevant Ministers, that will halt the continuing demise and closure of many of these pubs, which as well as being tourist attractions, are in rural areas one of the last venues remaining as a social outlet and meeting place for many persons, especially those living alone in isolated areas.
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226 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Health in view of the recent termination from their job of a mental health patient advocate (details supplied) who brought to light the problems at Grangegorman, Dublin before Christmas, his plans to review the operation of quality auditing in the health sector.
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217 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Health when a decision will issue on a medical card application in respect of persons (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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215 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Health the position regarding speculation about closure of public community hospitals in County Kerry and St. Columbanus nursing home, Killarney, County Kerry; and the steps he will take to maintain the existing bed complement or at least ensure minimum reduction of beds in these institutions.
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213 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Health if he will ensure the future of Valentia Community Hospital, County Kerry; if he will elaborate on the recent statement regarding potential for more community involvement in district hospitals, which may be a solution to the continuation of the vital nursing care provided at Valentia, as the community involvement structure is already there and can be enhanced.
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191 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will review an appeal for single farm payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will examine the appeal in a fair manner.
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190 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will investigate the delay in the REP scheme payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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634 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Health if he will investigate the long delay in processing a medical card application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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633 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Health if she will investigate the delay in processing a medical card application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry.
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601 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Health if he will investigate the long delay in processing a medical card application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry.
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599 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Health if he will investigate the delay in the processing of a medical card application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry.
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510 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Justice and Equality when he will issue a decision on an application for certificate of naturalisation in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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417 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will amend the 2009 Broadcasting Act whereby licence fee money has been allocated solely to RTE and leaving the 34 independent, national, multicity, regional and local stations, which command the majority of radio listenership, totally dependent on advertising revenue; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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383 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will issue on a jobseeker’s allowance appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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341 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will acknowledge the important role played by community employment schemes in communities throughout the country, particularly the help that has been given to disadvantaged areas, the less well off, the elderly and the disabled, community groups, sports clubs, tidy towns committees and so on and in the provision of training and progression for unemployed persons into full employment, by immediately reversing the decision to cut the funding for these schemes by 66% in budget 2012; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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340 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will urgently process a jobseeker’s appeal review application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry.
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240 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Education and Skills if there is any financial assistance available for students attending the Irish College of Humanities and Applied Sciences, Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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301 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount it will cost the taxpayer to host the 2012 Irish Open in Royal Portrush, County Derry; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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294 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Health since the formation of the primary care reimbursement service for medical card administration, the number of new medical card applications nationally that have been received; if he will provide a breakdown of the number of applicants aged under 70 and over 70; the number of medical card renewals applied for and statistics regarding grants and refusals and the breakdown of full medical card and general practitioner visit cards granted; the average time to process each category of medical card; and if he is satisfied that the new centralised system is working satisfactorily.
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