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Wed, 6 May 2015
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Construction Contracts
Mary Lou McDonald
197. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when he expects a chairperson for the panel of adjudicators to be appointed under the Construction Contracts Act 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17776/15]
Wed, 6 May 2015
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After-School Support Services
Mary Lou McDonald
272. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if persons leaving community employment schemes to take up employment, qualify for the after-school child care scheme; if not, the reason why not; and if consideration will be given to revising the scheme, to allow this category of person to avail of the scheme. [17366/15]
Wed, 6 May 2015
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Hospital Services
Mary Lou McDonald
375. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in County Dublin was refused treatment in Tallaght Hospital, Dublin 24 [17730/15]
Wed, 6 May 2015
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Special Educational Needs Service Provision
Mary Lou McDonald
452. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Education and Skills the supports in place for children with autism in schools in the Clondalkin, Newcastle, Rathcoole, Lucan, and Palmerstown areas of County Dublin; her views that the current level of support provided in these schools is meeting the needs of young pupils with autism in these areas; her plans to increase investment in these supports. [17294/15]
Wed, 6 May 2015
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Special Educational Needs Service Provision
Mary Lou McDonald
453. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Education and Skills the supports in place for children with autism in a school (details supplied) in Dublin 22; her views that the current level of support provided in this school is meeting the needs of young pupils with autism in catchment areas served by this school; and her plans to increase investment in these supports. [17295/15]
Wed, 6 May 2015
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Special Educational Needs Service Provision
Mary Lou McDonald
454. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Education and Skills her plans for increasing the number of school places for children with autism in the Lucan and Clondalkin areas in County Dublin; the number of such places currently available in schools in these areas; the number of young persons living in these areas on waiting lists for such places; and her plans for meeting the needs of those young persons who currently do not have access to such places. [17311/15]
Wed, 6 May 2015
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Waste Management Regulations
Mary Lou McDonald
526. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to implement the programme for Government commitment (details supplied) to place a public service obligation on private waste collectors, including a fee waiver scheme for low-income households; and if he does not plan to honour this commitment, the reason for same, and when this decision was taken. [17293/15]
Wed, 29 Apr 2015
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IBRC Operations
Mary Lou McDonald
52. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Finance if he will provide a list of the shareholders who benefitted from the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation 2012 Siteserv transaction, when €5 million was provided in dividends. [16870/15]
Tue, 28 Apr 2015
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Inter-Country Adoptions
Mary Lou McDonald
232. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 425 of 15 April 2015, the reason the five children adopted from the United States of America to Ireland in 2014 could not be timely placed with suitable adoptive parents there; and the steps taken to support this finding, considering that 7,092 children were adopted in the United States of America from overseas in 2013. [16493/15]
Tue, 28 Apr 2015
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Hospital Waiting Lists
Mary Lou McDonald
246. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Health if he will confirm that Tallaght Hospital, Dublin 24, is unable to provide surgery in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 22, as the hospital does not have the appropriate medical equipment; that the waiting list for the relevant specialist in Tallaght Hospital has increased from 50 patients to 250 patients, due to reduced staff numbers; the length of time the patient has been waiting for the relevant surgery; and when the patient concerned will receive this treatment. [16327/15]
Tue, 21 Apr 2015
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Jobseeker's Allowance
Mary Lou McDonald
273. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the reason persons (details supplied) in Dublin 22, participating in a beauty therapy community training course funded by Foras Áiseanna Saothair, the Irish National Training and Employment Authority, at the Ronanstown Training and Education Centre, Balgaddy, Lucan, County Dublin, received no social welfare payments from 2 July 2012 to 21 September 2012. [15579/15]
Tue, 21 Apr 2015
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Inter-Country Adoptions
Mary Lou McDonald
427. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of inter-country adoption placements that have broken down, considering that Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, now includes this option on the Meitheal request form (details supplied). [15814/15]
Tue, 21 Apr 2015
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Inter-Country Adoptions
Mary Lou McDonald
428. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if his Department or Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, maintain statistics on the number of inter-country adoption placements that have broken down; if not, the reason why; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15815/15]
Tue, 21 Apr 2015
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Adoption Records Provision
Mary Lou McDonald
429. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of historic adoption files that have been transferred to Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, and previously to the Health Service Executive since each of the former adoption agencies closed down; and if these records included files on illegal adoptions, adoptions to the United States of America, vaccine trials, and persons adopted prior to 1952. [15816/15]
Tue, 21 Apr 2015
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Illegal Adoptions
Mary Lou McDonald
430. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason his Department continues to refer to illegal adoptions as illegal birth registrations. [15817/15]
Thu, 16 Apr 2015
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Defence Forces Personnel
Mary Lou McDonald
109. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Defence the reason the upper age limit for entry into the Defence Forces is 25 years; the way this compares to the practice in other European Union and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries; and if he will review the age limit and consider raising it to 30 years of age. [14993/15]
Wed, 15 Apr 2015
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Departmental Staff Recruitment
Mary Lou McDonald
185. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Finance if there are impediments to temporary staff who are employed by outsourced companies on behalf of the Revenue Commissioners when they seek to apply for permanent jobs which are identical to the jobs they been performing on a temporary basis prior to the advertising of the new jobs. [14867/15]
Wed, 15 Apr 2015
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Inter-Country Adoptions
Mary Lou McDonald
425. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the subsidiary principle of the Hague Convention for the Protection of Children in Intercountry Adoption was implemented in the adoption of five children from the United States of America to Ireland in 2014, considering that 7,092 children were adopted into the United States of America from overseas in 2013. [14230/15]
Thu, 2 Apr 2015
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Legislative Process
Mary Lou McDonald
88. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when the Construction Contracts Bill will be enacted; the reason for the delay of over a year and a half in giving effect to this legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13616/15]
Thu, 2 Apr 2015
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Education and Training Boards Expenditure
Mary Lou McDonald
214. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Education and Skills to outline her plans for the provision of mainstream funding for the Bawnogue Youth and Community Centre, either directly by her Department or indirectly via the education and training board; and if either her Department or the board do not have such plans whether she will consider the provision of mainstream funding for this service. [13621/15]