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Tue, 16 Oct 2012
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Tax Yield
Patrick Nulty
206. Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Minister for Finance if he will provide in tabular form the total VAT on jewels and furs yielded here in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and the expected or most recent figure for 2012; if he will also provide an estimate of the amount of additional revenue that the State would have received in 2010 and 2011 of the VAT rate on these items was 25%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44538/12]
Tue, 16 Oct 2012
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Apprenticeship Programmes
Patrick Nulty
246. Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline and publish the criteria and rationale for the decision to select Dun Laoghaire Vocational Education Committee, Dundalk Institute of Technology and Carlow Institute of Technology for the delivery of carpentry training; if he will outline in detail the reason the Institute of Technology Blanchardstown was not selected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44320/12]
Tue, 16 Oct 2012
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Disadvantaged Status
Patrick Nulty
247. Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will reverse the decision made with regard to the integration of guidance counselling hours specifically in DEIS schools in view of their particular needs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44323/12]
Tue, 16 Oct 2012
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Supplementary Welfare Allowance Payments
Patrick Nulty
305. Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Minister for Social Protection if he will outline specifically the circumstances under which community welfare officers may provide a deposit to rent supplement applicants; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44325/12]
Tue, 16 Oct 2012
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Rent Supplement Scheme Payments
Patrick Nulty
306. Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Minister for Social Protection the steps she is taking to support tenants in receipt of rent supplement, whose rent cap is reduced in the middle of a tenancy agreement, in order to prevent them from becoming homeless; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44326/12]
Tue, 16 Oct 2012
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Pyrite Panel Report Implementation
Patrick Nulty
409. Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the action he is taking to ensure the implementation of the report of the Pyrite Panel in view of the fact that the September deadline for a construction industry based solution has passed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44321/12]
Tue, 16 Oct 2012
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Planning Issues
Patrick Nulty
430. Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No.1066 of 18 September 2012, if he will consider instigating a process whereby such information will be collected and collated by his Department on both a retrospective basis and into the future; if not, the reason for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44608/12]
Tue, 16 Oct 2012
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Home Help Service Provision
Patrick Nulty
630. Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Minister for Health the number of home help hours cut by the Health Service Executive by region until the end of 2012; if he will outline the way it is intended to provide full-time care to all citizens who require help in this context; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44322/12]
Tue, 16 Oct 2012
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Primary Care Centres Provision
Patrick Nulty
631. Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Minister for Health if funding is in place for the eight primary care centres nominated by the Health Service Executive for full Exchequer capital funding; when construction is likely to commence in each case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44324/12]
Tue, 16 Oct 2012
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EU Directives
Patrick Nulty
632. Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Minister for Health if he will publish the advice he stated on 3 July 2012 in reply to a previous Parliamentary Question by this Deputy, that he has received from the Department of Health Bioethics Unit regarding transportation of Directive 2010/63/EU relating to animal experimentation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44327/12]
Tue, 16 Oct 2012
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Mental Health Services Provision
Patrick Nulty
645. Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 448 of 25 September 2012, which stated that information is not collected by his Department on the type of accommodation to which persons who have been discharged from psychiatric hospitals are discharged; if he will consider instigating a process whereby such information will be collected and collated by his Department on both a retrospective basis and into the future; if not, the reason for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44384/12]
Tue, 16 Oct 2012
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Medical Card Applications
Patrick Nulty
658. Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Minister for Health if he will expedite an application for a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44527/12]
Thu, 11 Oct 2012
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Mobile Telephony
Patrick Nulty
119. Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Minister for Communications; Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide an update on the progress made in ensuring that the mobile phone industry supplies chargers common to all mobile phone devices; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43998/12]
Wed, 10 Oct 2012
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Hospital Services
Patrick Nulty
237. Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Minister for Health if he will investigate the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9 who has been attending Beaumont Hospital, Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43565/12]
Tue, 9 Oct 2012
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Departmental Strategies
Patrick Nulty
333. Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will publish the findings of the advisory group on tax and social welfare commissioned by her Department. [42854/12]
Tue, 9 Oct 2012
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Budget 2013
Patrick Nulty
334. Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Minister for Social Protection if existing rates of child benefit will be maintained in Budget 2013. [42855/12]
Tue, 9 Oct 2012
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Voluntary Housing Sector
Patrick Nulty
418. Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Minister for the Environment; Community and Local Government if he intends to bring forward legislation to allow tenants in voluntary housing associations to be able to avail of tenant purchase as is the case with local authority housing. [42856/12]
Thu, 4 Oct 2012
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Promissory Note Negotiations
Patrick Nulty
18. Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Minister for Finance when Ireland will receive a write down of its debt burden as indicated by EU leaders following the July 2012 summit. [41267/12]
Thu, 4 Oct 2012
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Promissory Note Negotiations
Patrick Nulty
19. Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Minister for Finance the steps he is taking to renegotiate the promissory note which the State must pay in relation to Irish Bank Resolution Corporation formerly Anglo Irish Bank. [41266/12]
Wed, 3 Oct 2012
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Tax Code
Patrick Nulty
94. Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Minister for Finance the position regarding the establishment of a financial transaction tax within the Eurozone; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34337/12]