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Written Answers — Child Welfare and Protection: Child Welfare and Protection (24 Jan 2012)

Jonathan O'Brien: Question 573: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children who have slept in Garda stations during the past two years due to lack of access to out-of-hours social services; the number of nights they spent in Garda stations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3550/12]

Written Answers — Adoption Services: Adoption Services (24 Jan 2012)

Jonathan O'Brien: Question 577: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of bilateral adoption agreements Ireland has with other states; and the names of those states. [3452/12]

Written Answers — Adoption Services: Adoption Services (24 Jan 2012)

Jonathan O'Brien: Question 578: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the bilateral adoption agreements that Ireland holds with other states; and the dates on which they will lapse. [3462/12]

Written Answers — Adoption Services: Adoption Services (24 Jan 2012)

Jonathan O'Brien: Question 582: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to authorise the Adoption Authority to commence negotiations with the Ethiopian authorities regarding the prospect of establishing a bilateral adoption agreement. [3476/12]

Written Answers — Adoption Services: Adoption Services (24 Jan 2012)

Jonathan O'Brien: Question 583: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if section 73 of the Adoption Act has ever been utilised to allow the Adoption Authority, with her consent and having regard to the principles of the Hague Convention, to enter discussions with a non-contracting state to the convention for the purposes of entering a bilateral agreement with that state. [3477/12]

Written Answers — Adoption Services: Adoption Services (24 Jan 2012)

Jonathan O'Brien: Question 584: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the countries which are open, closed or under review for the purposes of inter-country adoption. [3478/12]

Written Answers — National Drugs Strategy: National Drugs Strategy (24 Jan 2012)

Jonathan O'Brien: Question 600: To ask the Minister for Health the way he will ensure the continuation of the service provided by dial to stop drug dealing within his proposed plans to change it. [3483/12]

Written Answers — Nursing Homes Support Scheme: Nursing Homes Support Scheme (24 Jan 2012)

Jonathan O'Brien: Question 613: To ask the Minister for Health the schedule for the review of the nursing homes support scheme in 2012; the way civil society may engage with the review and provide feedback on its experiences with the scheme; and the factors which he intends to review. [3364/12]

Written Answers — Care of the Elderly: Care of the Elderly (24 Jan 2012)

Jonathan O'Brien: Question 614: To ask the Minister for Health the way he intends to fund long-term care for older persons within his plans for universal health care as contained within the Programme for Government. [3365/12]

Disadvantaged Status (19 Jan 2012)

Jonathan O'Brien: The Minister tells us the troika insists we have to cut our public sector numbers. The troika, however, is not responsible for ensuring our children get the best possible education. It is the Minister who is responsible for this. The buck stops with him. Who is carrying out the review and what are its terms of reference? Once he receives it, how long will it take for him to make a...

Disadvantaged Status (19 Jan 2012)

Jonathan O'Brien: What criteria will the Department use in this review? If it is the same criteria used in formulating the budget, then there will be no different outcome. The Minister has taken a divide-and-conquer approach in allowing each school to make its own representations. This is unacceptable. The schools and parents are asking for no cuts to DEIS, full stop. Parents of schools who may be saved...

Disadvantaged Status (19 Jan 2012)

Jonathan O'Brien: What criteria will be used?

Written Answers — Literacy and Numeracy Strategy: Literacy and Numeracy Strategy (19 Jan 2012)

Jonathan O'Brien: Question 15: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if public libraries will be integrated into the development of the literacy and strategy programme. [2975/12]

Written Answers — Prisoner Transfers: Prisoner Transfers (19 Jan 2012)

Jonathan O'Brien: Question 201: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide clarification regarding the status of the proposed transfer of a prisoner (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3152/12]

Written Answers — Citizenship Applications: Citizenship Applications (19 Jan 2012)

Jonathan O'Brien: Question 202: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when a person (details supplied) in Dublin 13 will have their application for Irish citizenship processed. [3159/12]

Written Answers — Foreign Conflicts: Foreign Conflicts (17 Jan 2012)

Jonathan O'Brien: Question 63: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will call on the Turkish authorities to investigate immediately the death of at least 35 civilians in a military airstrike near the Iraqi border in south-eastern Turkey last December, when no military targets were reported to have been hit in the attack, but which caused the death of so many innocent...

Written Answers — International Agreements: International Agreements (17 Jan 2012)

Jonathan O'Brien: Question 378: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the names of any agreements he has signed with any third party Government or foreign body since taking office; and the dates on which each of these were signed. [2553/12]

Human Rights Issues (17 Jan 2012)

Jonathan O'Brien: Question 50: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the recent deportation from Bahrain of Dr Richard Sollum, Deputy Director of Physicians for Human Rights, as he attempted to witness the trial of, among others, Irish trained surgeons Ali Al Ekri and Bassim Dahif; and the steps he is taking today to protect these doctors who were trained here. [2346/12]

Jobs Initiative (12 Jan 2012)

Jonathan O'Brien: Question 53: To ask the Minister for Transport; Tourism and Sport if he has carried out any studies into the effect of the VAT and PRSI reduction introduced in mid 2011 on tourism numbers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1550/12]

Written Answers — Cycle Facilities: Cycle Facilities (12 Jan 2012)

Jonathan O'Brien: Question 14: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to develop a strategy for the promotion of cycling as a mode of transport and to develop safer more accessible resources to support cyclists. [1578/12]