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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (28 May 2014)

Luke Flanagan: 57. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason his Department has failed to cater for the increased demand at a school (details supplied) in County Sligo for places at infants class, when the stated aim of this Government is to promote the active usage of the Irish language; his views on whether such a failure is a missed opportunity to have more Irish persons begin their...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Weight of Schoolbags (27 May 2014)

Luke Flanagan: 249. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in reference to the report by a working group in 1998, which recommended that no child carry over 10% of their body weight, yet children are carrying books and backpacks three times their weight, the reason this is not implemented in practice in all educational institutions here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22658/14]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Cable Licensing (27 May 2014)

Luke Flanagan: 496. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if commercial cable companies need a licence to place cables on private property, including private residential properties; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22753/14]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Funding (15 May 2014)

Luke Flanagan: 135. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if a percentage of the funding being made available for the development of water treatment in Castlerea, County Roscommon, is being set aside for the arts (details supplied); and if so, the process for disbursing any such funds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22119/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Services Funding (15 May 2014)

Luke Flanagan: 158. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if a percentage of the funding being made available for the development of water treatment facilities in Castlerea, County Roscommon, is being set aside for the arts (details supplied); if so, the process for disbursing any such funds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22118/14]

Leaders' Questions (13 May 2014)

Luke Flanagan: The small farmers who are productive and who have to work twice as hard as the people on the big payments will be kind of insulted by what the Taoiseach just said. One can also be on a small payment and be productive. If one is getting €500,000 one does not have to try quite so hard to be productive. Under the last round of Common Agricultural Policy payments, according to George...

Leaders' Questions (13 May 2014)

Luke Flanagan: One of the biggest feathers in the cap of europhiles when they tell me the wonderful benefits of being a member of the EU is that farmers in the country got much money through the Common Agricultural Policy but the average and ordinary citizen knows who got this, as it was the rancher rather than the ordinary farmer. Under the old Common Agricultural Policy, which is still in place, the top...

Leaders' Questions (13 May 2014)

Luke Flanagan: There will not be equal pay for equal work under this system. Why is the Taoiseach not supporting the small farmer in Mayo and why is the farmer in Kilkenny being subsidised. Why are the Larry Goodmans of the world being subsidised before the people of the Taoiseach's county?

Leaders' Questions (13 May 2014)

Luke Flanagan: That is in the north.

Leaders' Questions (13 May 2014)

Luke Flanagan: Yes, teacher.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Motor Insurance Regulation (13 May 2014)

Luke Flanagan: 189. To ask the Minister for Finance what part of Government is responsible for regulating car insurance companies; if a financial-insurance company is incorporated in another jurisdiction, what powers the Central Bank or Financial Regulator have in overseeing what they do, in particular accessing their solvency; if any measures have been put in place to prevent another insurance company from...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Administration (13 May 2014)

Luke Flanagan: 259. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in view of the statement on page 174 of the FGS report (details supplied) and the fact that his answer to Parliamentary Question No. 55 of 10 April 2014 states that the FGS report did not identify any such services where Bus Éireann was paid sums in excess of those amounts, the action he will take in respect of the officials who withheld...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Environmental Regulations (13 May 2014)

Luke Flanagan: 450. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason an Irish company attempting to develop a concrete sceptic treatment tank has to send their product to Germany for EN standards approval at a cost of over €30,000 for tanks in their range of products; if he will consider setting up an accredited testing facility here as some universities are already in a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (13 May 2014)

Luke Flanagan: 592. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm the number of H1N1 swine flu cases here; the steps his Department have taken to monitor swine flu in our hospitals; if nursing and medical staff have been trained to diagnose swine flu; if he will examine a case admitted to NUIG hospital (details supplied) and the reason the patient spent three and a half hours waiting for an ambulance...

Leaders' Questions (8 May 2014)

Luke Flanagan: The Government has been in power for three years but urgency and three years do not really go together. If the former Minister had been a reforming Minister, he would have taken on board Deputy Wallace's policing Bill last July. The reality, however, is that the Government is not taking it seriously. There have been circumstances in this country requiring the introduction of legislation...

Leaders' Questions (8 May 2014)

Luke Flanagan: I was wondering if the Minister, Deputy Quinn, had said anything positive about former Minister, Deputy Shatter. While in this regard there was not much information around the old Twitter machine tells me that in the past hour the Minister, Deputy Quinn, said that former Minister, Deputy Shatter, was a reforming Minister, whose record will stand for many years to come. How true."I'll tell...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prisoner Privacy (7 May 2014)

Luke Flanagan: 155. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his views on alleged interception of prisoners' phone calls; the role the Prison Service played in these alleged interceptions; if he was aware of the alleged interceptions; if so, the actions he took; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20510/14]

Order of Business (6 May 2014)

Luke Flanagan: It is a pity nobody told them that.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Recruitment (6 May 2014)

Luke Flanagan: 207. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on whether an anomaly has been created by the recent temporary clerical officer 2014 competition, in that it impacts on the already successful candidates from the existing established clerical officer panel created by civil service clerical officer competition number 07/089/10; this anomaly arises because of the Government...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Funding (6 May 2014)

Luke Flanagan: 446. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the €80,000 granted to a club (details supplied) in 2007 can still be drawn down; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20193/14]