636 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Health if he will provide the capital funding for the replacement facilities necessary to complete the closure of St Finan’s Hospital, Killarney, County Kerry (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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358 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the take-up by subscribers to the national broadband scheme in view of the fact that the anticipated number countrywide was 126,000; the anticipated number of subscribers for County Kerry; the number that have joined to date in 2011; the percentage of the country that is now provided with adequate coverage; and due to numerous broadband blackspots in Kerry, his views on whether it is essential that this scheme be urgently rolled out to all parts of County Kerry.
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95 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will investigate the Collawa river, Rathmore, County Kerry, a tributary of the River Blackwater, as it is subject to intermittent flooding affecting adjacent landowners on its banks and households on the Railway Road; and if he will make emergency funding available to dredge the section of river from the Bridge Bar to where it enters the Blackwater.
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554 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Health the average waiting times for all procedures or treatments in Kerry General Hospital; and the measures he proposes to address same.
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103 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will extend the 31 October deadline for the spreading of farm slurry, due to the continuation of extremely high rainfall, which prohibited slurry disposal on land from mid-October in many areas and especially in the south west.
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221 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will review a jobseeker’s allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry.
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153 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Social Protection to allow a theatre company (details supplied) in County Kerry to retain an allocation of €373 surplus, full-time equivalent at the end of 2011, due to the reduction of PRSI rate to 4.25 from July 2011.
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514 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider reintroducing the reforestation grants; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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237 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Health the steps he will take to address the long waiting lists for MRI scans in County Kerry, which are currently at a standstill, as a result of the withdrawal of the National Treatment Purchase Fund and the implications this withdrawal has for the contract between Kerry General Hospital and the Bon Secours Hospital in Tralee.
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3 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will ensure that next generation uncongested broadband is rolled out in County Kerry.
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535 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Health the waiting time for audiology services in County Kerry; if the current temporary services will be upgraded to a five-day-week service; and if he will arrange that the clinic at Edward Street, Tralee, County Kerry, be re-located to a more accessible location.
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401 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will review a decision of the Legal Aid Board to refuse a legal aid certificate to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry.
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389 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will refrain from closing any rural Garda station; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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356 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to restructure Ireland’s waste market to restrict side by side competition; and his views on a document (details supplied).
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79 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a disability allowance application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry.
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170 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Health if he will acknowledge the tremendous fund raising efforts of the Kerry based charity Build 4 Life which has already fund raised €2 million, €450,000 of which was paid in VAT, towards the cost of opening a dedicated cystic fibrosis unit at Cork University Hospital, by allocating €300,000 from the national lottery fund in order to complete this facility.
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169 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Health if he will provide as a matter of urgency a dedicated fully equipped stroke unit at Kerry General Hospital, as evidence from the national clinical programme points to improved outcomes for patients who attend such units.
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125 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the current complement of workers at Killarney National Park, County Kerry; the vacancies that have arisen due to retirements in 2010 and 2011; his plans for replacement workers; and his intentions regarding the filling of these vacancies in the short term.
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124 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will investigate the use of Larsen traps for the purpose of capturing birds in view of the incidents of misuse of these traps that have emerged recently in which acts of cruelty are reported in a number of incidents in County Kerry; and the action being prepared to address this issue.
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73 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an application for co-financing support from the European Globalisation Fund for retraining and upskilling tradespeople and building workers; the amount of funding to be made available; the number of workers who will be catered for; the number of places that will be available in County Kerry; and the envisaged commencement date.
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517 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Health if he will expedite the provision of requested appliances in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry.
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425 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will arrange for payment of REP scheme in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry.
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101 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will assign a special needs assistant to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry.
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3 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Finance the nature and content of contracts for or employment which the National Asset Management Agency has given to individual developers to run their former companies which are now in NAMA; the remuneration details of every developer currently in receipt of such remuneration; and if details will be published on the NAMA website.
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137 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will allocate additional funds to County Kerry for the housing aid for older people scheme, to allow for essential repairs and improvement works to be carried out to the homes of the elderly.
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94 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding future business for a site.
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92 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Social Protection her plans to ensure that the major delays that occurred in 2011 in the payment of the back to school allowance will not happen in the future and that an adequate number of staff be put in place with processing of applications.
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985 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Health if he will address the waiting lists and waiting times in audiology services in County Kerry.
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953 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Health if he will alleviate the fears of the local population of the Caherciveen Iveragh Peninsula area, County Kerry, by ensuring that 24-hour ambulance cover remains in place.
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775 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will examine the single farm payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry with a view to expediting payment in view of the fact that there is a delay in processing this application.
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740 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will ensure that farmers will not have to go through a long process of having to seek and obtain planning permission and also through the expense of carrying out an environmental impact assessment for land reclamation works, drainage works, ditch removals and so on as proposed by the EU Commission.
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610 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will review the delay in processing of Garda vetting of persons seeking work in some professions in which Garda clearance is required; and if his attention has been drawn to the fact that it is prohibiting and delaying many persons acquiring work regarding both temporary and full time jobs.
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531 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will ensure that farmers will not have to go through a long process of having to seek and obtain planning permission and also through the expense of carrying out an environmental impact assessment for land reclamation works, drainage works, ditch removals and so on as proposed by the EU Commission.
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334 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will improve access to County Kerry by providing the necessary funding to upgrade the Cork to Kerry road and the Limerick to Kerry road, and also provide additional flights from Dublin to Kerry as this is vital to such a peripheral county as Kerry.
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279 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when the staff in the Bord Iascaigh Mhara training school in Castletownbere, County Cork, will be replaced, in order that applicants can undertake the skipper full certificate course; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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277 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will appoint temporary staff to the Bord Iascaigh Mhara, BIM, training school in Castletownbere, County Cork, to allow applicants complete the full skipper ticket.
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155 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will find the €55 million of savings elsewhere in her departmental budget rather than eroding the progress made for our senior citizens over the past 40 years due to the fact that the proposed reductions will have health implications for people who have insufficient fuel for their needs over the winter period.
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58 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will review a matter in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry.
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17 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Social Protection the way in which she will reform the systems of payments from her Department, through the provision of part pensions to persons nearing retirement age; the contacts that she has had with other Government Departments in attempting to draw up such schemes in an effort to reduce the numbers claiming social welfare; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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452 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will investigate the reason it is difficult for Irish couples to adopt UK children when the UK authorities are advertising the need for additional adoptive couples; the blockages within the system; her plans to assist Irish couples who wish to adopt from the UK; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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226 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Justice and Equality when an application for a certificate of naturalisation will be processed in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry.
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155 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will be awarded rent allowance.
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189 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Health the number of beds in community hospitals in County Kerry that are currently closed; his plans to reopen additional beds; if he will give assurances that no further bed closures will take place; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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188 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Health the number of beds in Kerry General Hospital, County Kerry, that are currently closed; his plans to reopen additional beds; if he will give assurances that no further bed closures will take place; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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183 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Health if he will renew a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry.
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163 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if the coastal management plan for Castlemaine Harbour, County Kerry has been finalised; if he will now open the harbour to the sourcing of mussel seed, before the seed is destroyed by predators; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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159 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when REP scheme will be paid in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry.
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107 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the plans or proposals the Industrial Development Agency has to replace the jobs lost in County Kerry to date in 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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106 Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of new jobs the Industrial Development Agency created in County Kerry in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and to date in 2011; if he is satisfied with the IDA’s performance; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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