6 Deputy Tom Kitt asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the number of the 895 rejected applications to the Residential Institutions Redress Board that were refused because the institution in which the applicant was resident was not listed on Schedule A of the governing legislation; if this information is available; if she will provide a break-down of the annual figures and the number of applications that were rejected each year for this same reason
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133 Deputy Tom Kitt asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will intervene through our diplomatic channels, to raise at international level the case of persons (details supplied) who have been sentenced to 14 years imprisonment in Malawi for being gay.
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381 Deputy Tom Kitt asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide details of her intended response to a letter from an association (details supplied); if she will commit to progressing the issues detailed in this letter and work to encourage a formal response to their calls for an official apology and the establishment of a redress scheme.
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628 Deputy Tom Kitt asked the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if she will ensure that the National Theatre of Ireland is made accessible for people with disabilities.
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205 Deputy Tom Kitt asked the Minister for Health and Children her views on examining the possibility of legislation providing a framework for access to community mental health services; the position regarding the examination within her Department; the reason there has been no progress on this for more than a decade; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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204 Deputy Tom Kitt asked the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the recommendations, in both the 1992 Green Paper on Mental Health and the 1996 White Paper A New Mental Health Act, that the new legislation should include a framework for the provision of community mental health services.
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696 Deputy Tom Kitt asked the Minister for Education and Science if he will enter into dialogue with the four religious congregations involved with the Magdalene laundries in order that they will make available their records for all women and children entering Magdalene laundries after 1 January 1900.
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695 Deputy Tom Kitt asked the Minister for Education and Science the number of children who were transferred to a Magdalene laundry from a State-regulated institution; the number of survivors that have applied to the Residential Institutions Redress Board on the basis of section 1(3) of the Residential Institutions Redress Act 2002.
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196 Deputy Tom Kitt asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on the current Anti-Homosexuality Bill in the Parliament of Uganda; if he has expressed his concerns abut this Bill to the Ugandan Government; the implications the passing of the Bill will have; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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254 Deputy Tom Kitt asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding an application for a vesting certificate in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; the next stage of the process; the length of time same will take.
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1136 Deputy Tom Kitt asked the Minister for Education and Science if in view of correspondence (details supplied), he will establish a distinct redress scheme for the survivors of the Magdalene laundries.
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109 Deputy Tom Kitt asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will supply information (details supplied) in respect of each Health Service Executive local office area in 2008 and the first quarter of 2009.
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173 Deputy Tom Kitt asked the Minister for Health and Children the position with regarding the report by a person (details supplied) of the independent review of the national audit of human organs stored in hospitals and institutions here; when this report will be published; and if it will be published in full and not redacted.
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500 Deputy Tom Kitt asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will endeavour to ensure that international peacekeepers, from the AU initially, will be deployed in Zimbabwe.
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499 Deputy Tom Kitt asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the extent the Government or any government within the European Union has been working with the SADC country government to ensure that the numbers of SADC election observers are scaled up considerably, that they will be present to monitor the pre-election environment and that they will remain until the election results have been released.
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498 Deputy Tom Kitt asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if election results in Zimbabwe will again be posted outside polling stations; if licences have been granted to domestic election observers; and if the police and army will be banned from entering polling stations.
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497 Deputy Tom Kitt asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the role he is playing in the region and internationally to assist Zimbabweans to end the violence and intimidation and ensure that Zimbabwe abides by the SADC principles and guidelines governing democratic elections (details supplied).
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496 Deputy Tom Kitt asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on the current situation in Zimbabwe in view of the recent detention and illegal arrest of Mr. Tsvangirai on 4 June 2008 and other MDC leaders during June 2008, the beating, intimidation and murder of MDC activists and voters and domestic election observers and the displacement of thousands of people through a campaign by militia groups aligned to the ruling party to bring about the election of President Mugabe by undemocratic means.
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5 Mr. T. Kitt asked the Minister for Enterprise and Employment the action, if any, he is taking in response to the recent report by SIPTU entitled Case for a Minimum Wage for Hotel and Catering Workers.
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15 Mr. T. Kitt asked the Minister for Enterprise and Employment his views on employers who seek to defer implementation of agreed elements of the Programme for Competitiveness and Work into any forthcoming national agreement; and the measures, if any, he will take to ensure that State and semi-State companies will implement, in full, the agreed term of the outgoing Programme for Competitiveness and Work.
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4 Mr. T. Kitt asked the Minister for Enterprise and Employment his views on the prospects for a new national agreement to succeed the Programme for Competitiveness and Work; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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1 Mr. T. Kitt asked the Taoiseach if he will make a statement on his proposed meeting with the Irish National Organisation of the Unemployed on 28 May 1996.
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12 Mr. T. Kitt asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will report on his negotiations with the British Government concerning the form of elective process for Northern Ireland which should lead to all-party negotiations beginning on 10 June 1996.
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22 Mr. T. Kitt asked the Minister for Enterprise and Employment the current position regarding the redundancy agreement at Packard Electric, Tallaght, Dublin 24.
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22 Mr. T. Kitt asked the Minister for Enterprise and Employment the current position regarding the redundancy agreement at Packard Electric, Tallaght, Dublin 24.
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29 Mr. T. Kitt asked the Minister for Education if she will consider the development of a new system and operation for the production of brailled books and the provision of a comprehensive brailling service for braille dependent students.
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29 Mr. T. Kitt asked the Minister for Education if she will consider the development of a new system and operation for the production of brailled books and the provision of a comprehensive brailling service for braille dependent students.
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6 Mr. T. Kitt asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his Department's communicating Europe initiative; if he has satisfied himself that a balanced approach is being pursued in raising the awareness of students concerning key European issues; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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64 Mr. T. Kitt asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if the Government will impose economic and trade sanctions against the current oppressive regime in Nigeria following the murders of Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight Ogoni campaigners who had led peaceful protests in defence of their people's human rights.
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64 Mr. T. Kitt asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if the Government will impose economic and trade sanctions against the current oppressive regime in Nigeria following the murders of Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight Ogoni campaigners who had led peaceful protests in defence of their people's human rights.
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26 Mr. T. Kitt asked the Minister for Transport, Energy and Communications if he will report on the ESB's restructuring talks; and the implications, if any, for the company's employees.
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23 Mr. T. Kitt asked the Minister for Enterprise and Employment the reason the Government failed to attract a Taiwanese electronic company (details supplied) to Ireland which would have resulted in 3,500 new jobs.
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32 Mr. T. Kitt asked the Minister for Enterprise and Employment the Government's position regarding the implementation of the EU Directive on working hours which requires statutory holiday leave being extended to four weeks by 1999.
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32 Mr. T. Kitt asked the Minister for Enterprise and Employment the Government's position regarding the implementation of the EU Directive on working hours which requires statutory holiday leave being extended to four weeks by 1999.
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24 Mr. T. Kitt asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the initiatives, if any, he is undertaking in relation to the abuse of human rights in East Timor.
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24 Mr. T. Kitt asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the initiatives, if any, he is undertaking in relation to the abuse of human rights in East Timor.
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120 Mr. T. Kitt asked the Minister for Education her response to the motions passed at the three teachers' unions conferences regarding the issue of early retirement.
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120 Mr. T. Kitt asked the Minister for Education her response to the motions passed at the three teachers' unions conferences regarding the issue of early retirement.
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5 Mr. T. Kitt asked the Taoiseach the role of his Department in the implementation of the EU-funded local development initiative: and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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6 Mr. T. Kitt asked the Minister for Enterprise and Employment if he will make a statement on the impact of EU employment and labour laws on the competitiveness of Irish companies.
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20 Mr. T. Kitt asked the Minister for Enterprise and Employment the measures, if any, which have been taken by him to establish a special unit in his Department to assist the social partners in developing new ways of working, increasing labour management co-operation and strengthening economic and social partnership at enterprise level, as promised in the policy document A Government of Renewal.
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20 Mr. T. Kitt asked the Minister for Enterprise and Employment the measures, if any, which have been taken by him to establish a special unit in his Department to assist the social partners in developing new ways of working, increasing labour management co-operation and strengthening economic and social partnership at enterprise level, as promised in the policy document A Government of Renewal.
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114 Mr. T. Kitt asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will outline the Government's efforts at EC and United Nations levels to ensure that the western world takes immediate, co-ordinated and effective action to save the lives of the Iraqi refugees and to further ensure their safe return to their homes.