69 Deputy Ulick Burke asked the Minister for Social Protection if he has conducted a review of the one-parent family payment; the details on the recommendations of this review; if he will publish this review; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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137 Deputy Ulick Burke asked the Minister for Health and Children if progress has been made in the provision of a school dentist for the Loughrea-Portumna district of County Galway which has been without service for the past two years; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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86 Deputy Ulick Burke asked the Minister for Health and Children her views on the fact that a significant number of ambulances are out of service for several hours at a time due to their trolleys being used for patients in accident and emergency; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that on 25 May 2010 eight Dublin fire brigade ambulances were detained at the Mater Hospital, Dublin 1, one of which was tied up for more than seven hours; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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25 Deputy Ulick Burke asked the Minister for Transport if he will confirm that phase 1 of the western rail corridor rebuilt from Ennis, County Clare to Athenry, County Galway, has come in under budget; if he will further confirm the areas in which the balance of moneys out of the €106.5 million allocated are to expended; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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24 Deputy Ulick Burke asked the Minister for Transport the costs incurred between Ennis, County Clare, and Athenry, County Galway, on public road and level crossing improvements; the number of national road crossings improved; the cost of national road crossing improvements; the number of regional, county and local road crossing improved; the cost involved in each of the above; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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105 Deputy Ulick Burke asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of children placed in mental health institutions in the Health Service Executive West in each county within the health area; the number in each case who are in need of special needs support, and the numbers taken from these institutions during the past five years.
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303 Deputy Ulick Burke asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason for the delay in processing a citizenship application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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32 Deputy Ulick Burke asked the Minister for Agriculture; Fisheries and Food the discussions he has had at EU level regarding reform of the Common Agricultural Policy reform; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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55 Deputy Ulick Burke asked the Minister for Social Protection if he has conducted a review of the one-parent family payment; the details of the recommendations of this review; if he will publish this review; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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245 Deputy Ulick Burke asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding and the reason for the delay in finalising the acquisition of land from a school (details supplied) in County Galway for the development of a children’s play area in view of the fact that the funding grants being made available to the local group by Galway County Council is in danger of being withdrawn due to the delay in carrying out the development works involved; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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222 Deputy Ulick Burke asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food his role in the issuing of aquaculture licences; the names and number of applications for renewal and or new aquaculture licences to grow oysters in the State; the reason that there is a four year waiting time for these licences to be processed; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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221 Deputy Ulick Burke asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of staff employed at the Dockage Street offices of his Department and associated staff; the number of staff that have agreed to transfer from the Galway office to Athenry, County Galway; the number of staff that have refused to relocate or retire; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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220 Deputy Ulick Burke asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the progress made to date on the move by his Department of staff at Dockgate Office Galway, Tuam and Loughrea to the relocation site at Mellows College Complex, Athenry, County Galway; when the staff will move to the new location; the expenditure to date in fitting out and upgrading of the new facility; the expected cost of the move; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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176 Deputy Ulick Burke asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport the position regarding the provision of a swimming pool at Loughrea, County Galway in co-operation with Galway County Council, the local swimming pool committee and a private developer; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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154 Deputy Ulick Burke asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason for the delay in processing an application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway who applied for citizenship in 2007 and whose application has not yet been approved; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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521 Deputy Ulick Burke asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she will clarify the position in which students who had applied for a higher education maintenance grant who already have a primary degree and higher diploma in education and want to progress to further studies by undertaking a careers guidance diploma and have been informed by their local authority that they are not eligible for a grant in view of the fact that these two courses are classified at the same level while the National Qualifications Authority’s opinion differs; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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81 Deputy Ulick Burke asked the Minister for Health and Children if, during her visit to New Zealand she examined their no-fault compensation scheme for injury as a result of medical negligence or treatment; her views on whether parents of children with cerebral palsy must fight for years to get compensation for injuries at birth; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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21 Deputy Ulick Burke asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of bench warrants that are outstanding; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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238 Deputy Ulick Burke asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food further to Parliamentary Question No. 356 of 5 May 2010, if he will reply to the question that was asked, conscious of the facts relating to the floods in South Galway in November and December 2009; if he will provide assistance to those farmers whose lands have been rendered useless for the forth coming with loss of 2010 fodder and not 2009 fodder; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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290 Deputy Ulick Burke asked the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Galway will receive their rent subsidy; the rate of payment that will be made; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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245 Deputy Ulick Burke asked the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the funding made available through the RAPID programme in Ballinasloe, County Galway from 2007 to 2009; the list of projects benefiting from these funds; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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83 Deputy Ulick Burke asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason for the delay in processing a citizenship application (details supplied) in County Galway who applied for naturalisation in 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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82 Deputy Ulick Burke asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason for the delay in processing an application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick who applied for naturalisation in 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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5 Deputy Ulick Burke asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills when she will allow a school (details supplied) in County Galway to go to construction in view of the fact that it has been waiting for ten years, without progress, to replace appalling conditions such as over-crowding and a lack of facilities; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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356 Deputy Ulick Burke asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food his plans to assist farmers in the flooded regions of south Galway who have had their lands rendered useless for the past six months due to the flooding and who have lost all spring grass growth and have had to re-seed their fields only for it to be again destroyed due to recent flooding; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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301 Deputy Ulick Burke asked the Minister for Social Protection if he will ask the Health Service Executive to reconsider the restrictive criteria imposed on the community welfare officers who are administering the humanitarian funds to flood victims in South Galway and Ballinasloe recognising that to date only €1.1million of the €10 million originally allocated has been given to support households affected; if the outstanding remainder will not be returned unspent to the Exchequer while hardship still exists; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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243 Deputy Ulick Burke asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason for the delay in granting citizenship in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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120 Deputy Ulick Burke asked the Minister for Finance if he will consider a re-location scheme for five persons, who have had their properties destroyed due to the November 2009 flooding and who have no remedy to prevent repeated flooding due to their location; his plans to have a special report on these cases to prevent the need for reoccurring compensation as these floods reoccur; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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358 Deputy Ulick Burke asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of persons in County Galway who applied for compensation under the crop damage compensation scheme to date; when these applications will be processed; the estimated amount of compensation to be paid; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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354 Deputy Ulick Burke asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the total amount of money returned to the Exchequer by Teagasc for each of the years 2007, 2008 and 2009, following the sale of property in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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16 Deputy Ulick Burke asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when he expects to have an election for a directly elected mayor of Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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905 Deputy Ulick Burke asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Science if the current trustees of a college (details supplied) have agreed to the lease of existing school buildings at this site; if new trustees have been appointed; if a new patron has been identified for the school; if his Department has indicated progress on enrolment policy for the school from September 2010; and if it will from the start of the 2010-11 school year be a co-educational school; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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885 Deputy Ulick Burke asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Science the progress made to date at a school (details supplied) in County Galway regarding the building project listed for this school; when it will be allowed to go to tender and construction following the delay of this project; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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602 Deputy Ulick Burke asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will provide a passport office similar to that available in Cork in Galway in order to avoid the constant overloading at the existing Dublin centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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82 Deputy Ulick Burke asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he has conducted a review of the one-parent family payment; the details on the recommendations of this review; and if he will publish this review
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407 Deputy Ulick Burke asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Science the reason her predecessor had announced that no further gaelscoileanna will open in 2010; if this action is a U-turn by her Department on policy in this area; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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124 Deputy Ulick Burke asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the disappearance of a Chinese human rights lawyer (details supplied); his views regarding same; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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12 Deputy Ulick Burke asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he is satisfied that correct procedures were followed when a 13 year old Eurocopter AS355N helicopter was sold by the Garda Síochána to a private company for €400,000 in January 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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67 Deputy Ulick Burke asked the Minister for Transport the discussion he has had with Irish Rail over failed safety monitoring systems prior to the collapse of the viaduct at Malahide, County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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696 Deputy Ulick Burke asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the reason a person (details supplied) in County Galway will be awarded single payment scheme for 2005 under the force majeure and exceptional circumstances which were outlined to his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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32 Deputy Ulick Burke asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if there are plans for the newly appointed Agriculture Commissioner to visit Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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84 Deputy Ulick Burke asked the Minister for Finance if shareholders have been identified for the special purpose vehicles to be established by the National Asset Management Agency.
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9 Deputy Ulick Burke asked the Minister for Education and Science if, in the case of a school (details supplied) in Dublin 24, he will confirm that no further teachers and special needs assistants will be lost at that school; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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505 Deputy Ulick Burke asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the reason a person (details supplied) has not received a 2009 REP scheme and other schemes payments and only 75% of 2008 payments; when they will receive these entitlements; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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385 Deputy Ulick Burke asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reasons an application for a non-contributory pension in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway which was submitted in April 2009 and mislaid by her Department and subsequently resubmitted in November 2009 has not yet been processed; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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384 Deputy Ulick Burke asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of applicants currently in receipt of Family Income Supplement for each of the years 2007, 2008 and 2009 in County Galway, County Mayo and County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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383 Deputy Ulick Burke asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason so many applicants for disability allowance which is means tested are being refused this allowance without medical officers having first assessed these applicants in person and the reason for the delay encountered by these applicants when they appeal these distant assessments; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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382 Deputy Ulick Burke asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the cost in 2009 and to date in 2010 of assistance to the flood victims in County Galway that is south Galway and Ballinasloe; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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381 Deputy Ulick Burke asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of persons on the back to education allowance for each of the years 2007, 2008 and 2009; the cost for each of these years; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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