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Thu, 23 Jun 2016
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Statute of Limitations
Martin Kenny
35. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Finance if he will act to remove the blanket six-year Statute of Limitations on financial complaints, which reportedly may hinder persons whose tracker mortgages were wrongly removed from them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17510/16]
Wed, 22 Jun 2016
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Special Educational Needs Service Provision
Martin Kenny
129. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Education and Skills to approve the July provision for a person (details supplied). [17567/16]
Tue, 21 Jun 2016
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Agri-Environment Options Scheme Conditions
Martin Kenny
484. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is aware that contracts are being terminated where soil sample analyses are late even by a few days, even though soil sample analysis can take ten days to complete and weather conditions can cause delay under the agri-environment options scheme. [17024/16]
Tue, 21 Jun 2016
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Agri-Environment Options Scheme Conditions
Martin Kenny
485. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will apply a period of grace on the deadline for submission of soil analyses under the agri-environment options scheme or under the basic payment scheme. [17025/16]
Wed, 15 Jun 2016
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Library Services Provision
Martin Kenny
114. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the rationale for the amalgamation of library services in counties Leitrim, Sligo and Roscommon, which implies a drastic reduction in library services for those counties; the cost savings of this amalgamation; and the cost of necessary new builds to compensate for the closure of small local libraries. [16332/16]
Tue, 14 Jun 2016
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Agriculture Scheme Payments
Martin Kenny
502. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to outline the reason a person (details supplied) did not receive pig sector crisis funding. [15497/16]
Tue, 14 Jun 2016
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Basic Payment Scheme Applications
Martin Kenny
503. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason he has fined a person (details supplied) and reduced the person's payment under the basic payment scheme. [15498/16]
Thu, 9 Jun 2016
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Garda Youth Diversion Projects
Martin Kenny
17. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she has considered advocating for the services of the Garda youth diversion projects to be extended in north inner city Dublin, as part of a long-term plan to stem the flow of young persons becoming involved in crime; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14850/16]
Thu, 9 Jun 2016
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Youth Services Funding
Martin Kenny
19. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to increase the funding to youth services nationally; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14851/16]
Wed, 8 Jun 2016
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Mortgage Book Sales
Martin Kenny
47. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the consequences for Irish farming of the sale by a bank (details supplied) of €100 million of agricultural loans to vulture funds, thereby removing this land from the control of Irish farmers; if he has met the bank to discuss this situation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14833/16]
Wed, 8 Jun 2016
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Fisheries Offences
Martin Kenny
54. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to annul SI No. 125 of 2016, which imposes penalty points on sea fishery licences. [14502/16]
Wed, 8 Jun 2016
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Milk Quota
Martin Kenny
63. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he plans to intercede and have the EU postpone superlevy fines and increase the intervention price to at least the cost of production, given that Irish farmers are experiencing a severe cashflow crisis due to the ongoing crisis in the dairy sector. [14501/16]
Wed, 8 Jun 2016
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Home Help Service Provision
Martin Kenny
468. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Health the number of persons on priority waiting lists for home help hours in the north Leitrim area; the number of hours which would be necessary to provide home help to these persons; the number of home helps employed by the HSE in the area; and the number of hours of home help they are providing now. [14756/16]
Wed, 8 Jun 2016
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Home Help Service Provision
Martin Kenny
469. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Health if the allocation of home help hours in the north Leitrim area is based on need and not on budgetary constraints. [14757/16]
Tue, 31 May 2016
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Forestry Sector
Martin Kenny
806. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the percentage of County Leitrim under forestry. [13212/16]
Tue, 31 May 2016
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Forestry Sector
Martin Kenny
807. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the target for forestry planting in County Leitrim; and if his Department has a county by county or regional target for afforestation. [13213/16]
Wed, 25 May 2016
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Rural Social Scheme
Martin Kenny
180. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Social Protection the cost of an additional 500 places on the rural social scheme. [12233/16]
Wed, 25 May 2016
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Farm Assist Scheme
Martin Kenny
213. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Social Protection the cost of restoring farm assist to pre-2013 conditions of payment based on current numbers and allowances. [12229/16]
Wed, 25 May 2016
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Grassland Sheep Scheme Expenditure
Martin Kenny
333. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the cost of paying a ewe premium of €10 per head where stocking density is over six ewes per hectare and €20 where there is a stocking density of five ewes or fewer per hectare. [12225/16]
Wed, 25 May 2016
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Grassland Sheep Scheme Expenditure
Martin Kenny
334. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the cost to the Exchequer of the sheep grassland scheme in 2012, 2013 and 2014. [12226/16]