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Written Answers — Visa Applications: Visa Applications (23 Mar 2010)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 502: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if a review has taken place of Irish Embassies to ensure that they cater for the countries nearest them for the purposes of visa applications which do not have an Irish Embassy; and if there is any relaxing of the rule that the applicants must present themselves at an embassy when applying and when collecting their visa, in the case where...

Written Answers — Human Rights Issues: Human Rights Issues (23 Mar 2010)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 510: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied); if he will raise this case through diplomatic and European channels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12974/10].

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (23 Mar 2010)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 536: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she will use the Civil Partnership Bill 2009 as an opportunity to amend the Civil Registration Act 2004 to allow for the registration here of Irish citizens who have died abroad. [13064/10]

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (23 Mar 2010)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 580: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs from where the money necessary for the proposed once-off bonus payment relating to auto-enrolment pensions, as described by the recently launched national pensions framework, will come. [12624/10]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (23 Mar 2010)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 594: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs her views on the impact of her proposal to remove the lone parent payment from parents and guardians of children over 13 years on the number of children living in poverty; and the size of the likely increase in the number of children in poverty which in 2008 figures stood at 17.4%. [12753/10]

Written Answers — Overseas Missions: Overseas Missions (23 Mar 2010)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 612: To ask the Minister for Defence if joint training exercises have been undertaken by the Defence Forces with the other armies involved in the Nordic battle group since its inception; and if so the cost of same. [12339/10]

Written Answers — Defence Forces Equipment: Defence Forces Equipment (23 Mar 2010)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 614: To ask the Minister for Defence if the Defence Forces are in the process of procuring, or recently procured, ammunition; and if so, if any Israeli companies submitted tenders for the contract.. [12593/10]

Written Answers — Defence Forces Equipment: Defence Forces Equipment (23 Mar 2010)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 616: To ask the Minister for Defence the steps he will take to exclude all Israeli based companies from tendering for Defence Force procurement contracts. [12738/10]

Written Answers — Defence Forces Equipment: Defence Forces Equipment (23 Mar 2010)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 617: To ask the Minister for Defence if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the European Defence Agency code of conduct on defence procurement is explicitly a voluntary non-binding agreement which involves no legal commitment and which leaves the member State the authority to award its own contracts; and if in view of this, he will intervene to prevent the Defence Forces...

Written Answers — Post-Leaving Certificate Education: Post-Leaving Certificate Education (23 Mar 2010)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 718: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if, in view of the success of the Ballyfermot College of Further Education, Dublin 10, in having past pupils nominated for three Oscar awards recently and the fact that one won the much coveted Best Visual Effects Oscar in 2010, he will acknowledge the value of post-leaving certificate courses at this college; if he will increase...

Written Answers — Post-Leaving Certificate Education: Post-Leaving Certificate Education (23 Mar 2010)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 719: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of post-leaving certificate places available in each college; and the number of applicants for each college term 2009/2010. [12274/10]

Written Answers — Post-Leaving Certificate Education: Post-Leaving Certificate Education (23 Mar 2010)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 720: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the steps that he has taken to remove or change the cap of 13,000 on available post-leaving certificate places which is preventing thousands of young persons from gaining the education required to prepare for jobs as the recession abates. [12275/10]

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (23 Mar 2010)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 765: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he has considered the implications of his decision to reduce the number of post-primary special, personal and health education support staff by 50; his views on whether this risks undoing the advances made in local drugs task force areas in recent years in terms of reducing the numbers of children at risk of becoming addicted to...

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (23 Mar 2010)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 766: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will make a statement detailing the way in which he envisages that the prevention pillar of the national drugs strategy can be fully delivered upon following his decision to reduce the number of special, personal and health education support staff; and the way his Department will deliver on its responsibility to monitor the...

Written Answers — Garda Recruitment: Garda Recruitment (11 Mar 2010)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 139: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 257 and 259 of 2 March 2010, if the Intergovernmental Agreement on Police Co-operation will have to be confirmed with the Northern Ireland Assembly in the post-devolution context; and if he will consider using that as an opportunity to apply the agreement to ranks lower than...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (11 Mar 2010)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 161: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of recipients of the one parent family payment by the age of their youngest child. [12130/10]

Order of Business (11 Mar 2010)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: They were emerging for the last year.

Order of Business (11 Mar 2010)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Sun yourselves on the beach.

Written Answers — Financial Services Regulation: Financial Services Regulation (10 Mar 2010)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 58: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the announcement by a bank (details supplied) that it is considering an increase in mortgage interest rates. [11448/10]

Written Answers — Financial Services Regulation: Financial Services Regulation (10 Mar 2010)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 99: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will make a statement on the recent announcement by a bank (details supplied) that it has increased the interest rates it charges on some personal loans and overdrafts; and if his attention has been drawn to the strain that this increase in charges will have on struggling families. [11449/10]