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Thu, 11 Jul 2013
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Tax Collection
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
84. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Finance if he will identify the amount of tax revenue to the Exchequer foregone as a result of the current scheme for the taxation of stallion profits and gains introduced on 1 August 2008. [34166/13]
Thu, 11 Jul 2013
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Tax Collection
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
85. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Finance the reason the Revenue Commissioners do not specifically identify tax collected under the current scheme for the taxation of stallion profits and gains introduced on 1 August 2008, which has enabled many stallion owners to shelter tax and, as a result, pay no tax or very little tax to the Exchequer. [34167/13]
Thu, 11 Jul 2013
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Tax Collection
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
86. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Finance the reason he has no visibility of the amount of tax collected and foregone under the current scheme for the taxation of stallion profits or gains introduced on 1 August 2008. [34168/13]
Thu, 11 Jul 2013
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Tax Collection
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
87. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Finance if he will request the Revenue Commissioners to provide a report with an analysis of the tax paid by corporate and individual stallion owners for the duration of the current scheme for the taxation of stallion profits or gains introduced on 1 August 2008. [34169/13]
Thu, 11 Jul 2013
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Tax Collection
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
88. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Finance the reason he has no visibility whatsoever of the contribution of revenues to the Exchequer as a result of taxation legislation covering stallion profits and gains, particularly in view of the scale of the horse breeding sector here. [34170/13]
Thu, 11 Jul 2013
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School Staffing
Ciaran Lynch
89. Deputy Ciarán Lynch asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review the employment conditions of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33955/13]
Thu, 11 Jul 2013
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School Transport Eligibility
John McGuinness
90. Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Education and Skills if the school transport needs of persons (details supplied) in County Kilkenny will be examined with a view to granting them a place on the school transport scheme; and if he will expedite a response. [33959/13]
Thu, 11 Jul 2013
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Student Grant Scheme Applications
Denis Naughten
91. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Education and Skills when Student Universal Support Ireland will make a final determination on a grant application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33977/13]
Thu, 11 Jul 2013
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Schools Refurbishment
Noel Coonan
92. Deputy Noel Coonan asked the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a refurbishment project for a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary; the timeframe for completion of works; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33978/13]
Thu, 11 Jul 2013
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Schools Building Projects Status
Seán Ó Fearghaíl
93. Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl asked the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the provision of permanent accommodation for a school (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34020/13]
Thu, 11 Jul 2013
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Special Educational Needs Services Provision
Andrew Doyle
94. Deputy Andrew Doyle asked the Minister for Education and Skills the supports available to school leavers with disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34034/13]
Thu, 11 Jul 2013
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Student Grant Scheme Payments
Charlie McConalogue
95. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a Student Universal Support Ireland grant has still not been paid to a college in respect of a student (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34053/13]
Thu, 11 Jul 2013
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Special Educational Needs Staffing
Eoghan Murphy
96. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he is considering restructuring the current process of allocating resource teaching posts in favour of a ratio system (details supplied) that would allocate a resource teacher based on the number of mainstream teachers employed in a school. [34054/13]
Thu, 11 Jul 2013
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Special Educational Needs Staffing
Eoghan Murphy
97. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he is considering putting in place measures that will ensure that resource teachers and special needs assistants are not assigned to more than one school; and the reason special needs assistants are paid on a 32 hour basis when the primary school week is approximately 26 hours long. [34055/13]
Thu, 11 Jul 2013
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Third Level Facilities
Michael Healy-Rae
98. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Education and Skills the statutory limitations on what he describes as the statutory autonomy of publicly funded universities. [34056/13]
Thu, 11 Jul 2013
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Third Level Facilities
Michael Healy-Rae
99. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the exclusion of the public from the libraries of publicly funded universities. [34057/13]
Thu, 11 Jul 2013
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Third Level Facilities
Michael Healy-Rae
100. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Education and Skills if there are reasonable grounds for contending that the functions of a university were being performed in a manner which prima facie constitutes a breach of the laws, statutes, or ordinances applicable to the university; if he has ever been of that opinion; the university or universities on which he has had that opinion. [34058/13]
Thu, 11 Jul 2013
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Third Level Facilities
Michael Healy-Rae
101. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Education and Skills the reason he maintains that the publicly funded universities are at liberty to exclude as a rule the public from their libraries; his views on what is meant by promoting learning in society generally, one of the statutory objects of universities, according to section 12 of the Universities Act 1997, if not the admission and use of the public of the libraries of publicly funded universities. [34059/13]
Thu, 11 Jul 2013
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Site Acquisitions
Andrew Doyle
102. Deputy Andrew Doyle asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update in tabular form of all school sites purchased by his Department in 2012 and to date in 2013; the price paid for each site; the size of each site; the address of each site; the name of the vendor of each site; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34087/13]
Thu, 11 Jul 2013
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Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
Martin Heydon
103. Deputy Martin Heydon asked the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the eligibility of PhD students for grant assistance beyond four years in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34100/13]