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  • Kathy Forde: Thank you Deputy McGrath for bringing up the topic of Lyme disease. I as a parent of a child clinically diagnosed in Sep 2013 with Lyme disease after being sick for 18mths, we had met several... (5 February 2016)
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  • Ann Maher: Thank you Deputy McGrath for again asking questions about the HSE Awareness Campaign in relation to Lyme disease .We Patients seem to be waiting a long time for the Report from this Sub... (3 February 2016)
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  • frances horgan: Dear Minister, I have a stage 1 approved stallion and intented to present him for stage 2 inspection. Quote "HSI have informed me that in the interim new applicants for stallion inspection for... (28 January 2016)
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  • Astrid Martini-Facio: If home tutors are under a contract of service and are therefore employees, why is it that their prsi class is still S (ie self-employed) and not A? Under class A tutors would be able to avail... (28 January 2016)
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  • Helen Russell: Hi, As middle income earners our gross family income falls marginally above the hear and susi grant levels.We have one child just finished college and 1 in college and 1 doing leaving cert.We... (27 January 2016)
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  • John Higgins: What resources or services have Ireland put on the "Negative List" in these negotiations? (24 January 2016)
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  • PJ Coleman: Exactly! And yet you want student to stay pigeon-holed based on their CAO points. (23 January 2016)
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  • PJ Coleman: So instead at the moment you have people who are stuck into courses they don't want and who have been selected on their ability to quote Shakespeare rather than their ability in Chemistry. (23 January 2016)
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  • PJ Coleman: Generic entries into large 1st years, where lectures are indeed taking place in large theatres but supplemented with many small tutorials and practicals is what is done on 90% the continent. ... (23 January 2016)
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  • PJ Coleman: "the academic community will actually be at the heart of any bottom-up process around the design and implementation of technological university" what is the time scale for this? It has not... (21 January 2016)
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  • Mary Caffrey: The Department of Education fund and are therefor responsible for School Transport. It is not acceptable to secure savings at the cost of safety standards on School Transport. How can it be... (19 January 2016)
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  • PJ Coleman: Who on earth would want to merge public institutions without the consent of staff? Can you imagine the mess if staff withdrew their goodwill? (16 January 2016)
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  • PJ Coleman: Well they are forced mergers: merge or otherwise... is coercion. (16 January 2016)
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  • PJ Coleman: Please don't give up on this one. Anybody should be able to criticise the government and its policies full stop. (16 January 2016)
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  • PJ Coleman: Well yes, except that the main competency in a higher level institution comes from academics: it is they who teach, research and administrate. (16 January 2016)
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  • PJ Coleman: Extensive consultation? Certainly none with actual academics. (16 January 2016)
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  • Asylum Seeker: Number of adult asylum seekers in direct provision approximately 2990 Number of child asylum seekers in direct provision Approximately 1100 Weekly allowance €19.10 per adult for 52... (12 December 2015)
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  • Asylum Seeker: Have the weekly allowances increased for asylum seekers? If so, would like to know when exactly it has been increased? If not, why the Government spent €3.5 million on direct provision... (12 December 2015)
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  • Mary Phelan: Did the population go down due to people moving away or something ? (6 December 2015)
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  • TONY ROCHFORD: NSAI who set the standards and guidelines have admitted that there is no one qualified to understand the issue ie. micro biologists sitting on building committee . There are also huge problems... (5 December 2015)
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  • TONY ROCHFORD: The petition Petition No. 40/14, disease rates linked to central heating systems is from Mr. Tony Rochford. Since 2000, a large percentage of plumbers started to use single check non-return... (4 December 2015)
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  • Mike O'Meara: Minister Donohoe confirms that the Department of Transport have a clear anti-rail policy in place. Only in Ireland would we not consider the Wider Economic Benefits of passenger rail services as... (2 December 2015)
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  • Mike O'Meara: Minister Donohoe clearly does not understand the extent of the rail network as Kilcock and Enfield are already on the rail network and have stations! What Deputy Durkan was asking for was the... (2 December 2015)
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  • PJ Coleman: It is easy to imagine: lecturers have no time to keep up with technology especially in fast changing areas such as computing. Quality of teaching is going down. Stop the box ticking check... (2 December 2015)
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  • TJ McIntyre: This answer fails to address the fact that there is very little information on the prevalence of cybercrime in Ireland. Because Irish law generally treats cybercrime as a variant of "ordinary"... (1 December 2015)
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