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Tue, 31 May 2016
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Drug Treatment Programmes
Jonathan O'Brien
760. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Health the number of methadone users here during each year since 2012. [13550/16]
Tue, 31 May 2016
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Drug Treatment Programmes
Jonathan O'Brien
761. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Health the number of persons who entered drug treatment during each year since 2012. [13551/16]
Tue, 31 May 2016
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Drug Treatment Programmes
Jonathan O'Brien
762. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Health for details on the availability of naloxone to at-risk injecting drug users here. [13552/16]
Tue, 31 May 2016
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Drug Treatment Programmes
Jonathan O'Brien
763. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Health The details of family-based treatments available for adolescent drug users. [13553/16]
Tue, 31 May 2016
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Drug Treatment Programmes
Jonathan O'Brien
764. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Health his Department’s guidelines on urine testing for methadone users; his plans to end this practice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13554/16]
Tue, 31 May 2016
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National Drugs Strategy
Jonathan O'Brien
765. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Health if there has been any evaluation by his Department of the outcome of the policy approach taken to banning head shops and the drugs that were sold in them. [13555/16]
Tue, 31 May 2016
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Departmental Funding
Jonathan O'Brien
911. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reduction in funding to anti-domestic violence support organisations and refuges for women and their children in each of the years 2009 to 2016 to date. [12566/16]
Tue, 31 May 2016
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Departmental Funding
Jonathan O'Brien
912. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the funding she has allocated to anti-domestic violence support organisations and refuges for women and their children; and the names of the organisations that have received funding. [12567/16]
Tue, 31 May 2016
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Departmental Funding
Jonathan O'Brien
913. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the cost of restoring funding to Rape Crisis Centres to 2005, 2007, 2011 and 2015 levels. [12568/16]
Tue, 31 May 2016
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Departmental Funding
Jonathan O'Brien
914. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the cost of restoring funding to Women’s Aid to 2005, 2007, 2011 and 2015 levels. [12569/16]
Tue, 31 May 2016
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Bail Law
Jonathan O'Brien
915. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to resource age-appropriate bail programmes and effective bail supports. [12652/16]
Tue, 31 May 2016
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Detention Centres Data
Jonathan O'Brien
916. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the guidelines in place for the single separation of children in detention. [12653/16]
Tue, 31 May 2016
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Rape Crisis Network Funding
Jonathan O'Brien
917. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the cost of reinstating core funding to the Rape Crisis Network Ireland. [12921/16]
Tue, 31 May 2016
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Domestic Violence Services Funding
Jonathan O'Brien
918. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the cost of increasing anti-domestic violence services so they can meet demand and ensure Ireland meets international standards for refuge provision. [12570/16]
Tue, 31 May 2016
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Domestic Violence Services Funding
Jonathan O'Brien
919. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the cost of increasing Womens Aid to fund the extension of the national freephone helpline to become a 24 hour, seven day a week service. [12571/16]
Tue, 31 May 2016
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Domestic Violence Services Funding
Jonathan O'Brien
925. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to ring-fence domestic and sexual violence funds within Tusla. [12922/16]
Wed, 25 May 2016
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Council of Europe
Jonathan O'Brien
76. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the procedures she will follow in appointing Irish nominees to committees of the Council of Europe; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12004/16]
Tue, 24 May 2016
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Domestic Violence Policy
Jonathan O'Brien
65. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the funding and resources she will ring-fence in budget 2017 to ensure the full implementation of the Istanbul Convention, the second national strategy on gender-based violence and the victims' directive, as promised in the programme for Government. [11175/16]
Tue, 24 May 2016
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Garda Operations
Jonathan O'Brien
75. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to ensure that all ranks in An Garda Síochána are diligent in taking proper units, and that unit sergeants regularly monitor the performance of their unit members in this regard, as set out in the recommendations of the Commission of Investigation (Certain Matters relative to the Cavan/Monaghan Division of the Garda Síochána) Final Report. [11383/16]
Tue, 24 May 2016
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Legislative Measures
Jonathan O'Brien
390. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Health when he will commence sections 20 to 23, inclusive, of the Children and Family Relationships Act 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11852/16]
Tue, 17 May 2016
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Garda Reports
Jonathan O'Brien
2. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to implement the recommendations of the O'Higgins report. [10196/16]
Tue, 17 May 2016
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National Drugs Strategy
Jonathan O'Brien
5. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if taking a harm-reduction approach to drug law reform has a role in tackling organised crime. [10197/16]
Tue, 17 May 2016
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Visa Applications
Jonathan O'Brien
42. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the processing times for European Union treaty rights visa applications for qualifying family members; and the steps she is taking to ensure compliance with the requirement to process such applications on the basis of an accelerated procedure. [10157/16]
Tue, 17 May 2016
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Criminal Assets Bureau
Jonathan O'Brien
45. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to introduce legislative provisions in the forthcoming legislation amending the powers of the Criminal Assets Bureau to direct moneys seized by the bureau back to the communities that are worst affected by crime. [10156/16]
Tue, 17 May 2016
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Bail Law
Jonathan O'Brien
132. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to amend bail conditions. [10376/16]
Tue, 17 May 2016
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Legal Services Regulation
Jonathan O'Brien
133. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to introduce a public defender system; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10377/16]
Tue, 17 May 2016
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Teaching Council of Ireland
Jonathan O'Brien
249. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills to set out the status of the Teaching Council's review of the Teaching Council (Registration) Regulations 2009 under the Teaching Council Acts; if draft regulations have been submitted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9382/16]
Tue, 17 May 2016
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Educational Disadvantage
Jonathan O'Brien
268. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills to set out the status of the review of the delivering equality of opportunity in schools scheme. [9697/16]
Tue, 17 May 2016
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Special Educational Needs Service Provision
Jonathan O'Brien
278. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills to review procedures for parents to access teachers under the July provision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9718/16]
Tue, 17 May 2016
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State Examinations
Jonathan O'Brien
296. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he is aware that a person (details supplied) is being refused a reader for the leaving certificate examination in June 2016, despite having had a reader for the junior certificate; and to reverse this decision. [10118/16]
Tue, 17 May 2016
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State Examinations
Jonathan O'Brien
297. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills to change the policy under the reasonable accommodations scheme given the recent court decision on this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10119/16]
Tue, 17 May 2016
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Departmental Bodies
Jonathan O'Brien
626. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Health the status of the work of the Drugs Advisory Group. [9805/16]
Tue, 17 May 2016
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Adoption Records Provision
Jonathan O'Brien
1199. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, can fast-track applications by elderly persons who were adopted in childhood and who are seeking to access information regarding their birth family; and if she has examined the potential for this process to be put in place. [9627/16]
Tue, 26 Apr 2016
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Quality and Qualifications Ireland
Jonathan O'Brien
376. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware that Quality and Qualifications Ireland, QQI, has been holding briefings on the new engagement process for validating new and existing awards; that all programmes must be renewed within five years of initial validation; that the fee for re-engagement is €5,000 per centre, with a possibility of a change to €2,000 thereafter; that these fees are due again in full if the original presentation is not found to be acceptable; if QQI examined the potential for a sliding scale for centres engaged in non-profit work; the total remuneration QQI is expected to receive from this process in 2016; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8058/16]
Tue, 26 Apr 2016
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Private Rented Accommodation Standards
Jonathan O'Brien
440. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his views on the policy recommended in a report by a company (details supplied) that all rented accommodations should be certified. [8217/16]
Tue, 26 Apr 2016
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Private Rented Accommodation Standards
Jonathan O'Brien
441. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to amend legislation to compel private landlords to be responsible for the certification of compliance for each of their rental properties. [8218/16]
Tue, 26 Apr 2016
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Private Rented Accommodation Standards
Jonathan O'Brien
442. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his views on the introduction of a policy where landlords would provide a certificate confirming their compliance with rental accommodation standards, before registering with the Private Residencial Tenancies Board; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8219/16]
Wed, 6 Apr 2016
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State Examinations
Jonathan O'Brien
647. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of the decision of the State Examinations Commission regarding a person (details supplied) in County Cork; why the commission delivers decisions on the closing date for appeals; if she will ensure this decision is reviewed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5508/16]