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Written Answers — Common Agricultural Policy: Common Agricultural Policy (29 Apr 2010)

Martin Ferris: Question 33: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food his views on the future of the Common Agricultural Policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16699/10]

Written Answers — Common Fisheries Policy: Common Fisheries Policy (29 Apr 2010)

Martin Ferris: Question 43: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the position he will be taking during negotiations on the reform of the Common Fisheries Policy. [16698/10]

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (5 May 2010)

Martin Ferris: Question 104: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation when a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will receive their 60% reimbursement for redundancy payment. [18129/10]

Written Answers — School Curriculum: School Curriculum (6 May 2010)

Martin Ferris: Question 16: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the steps she will take in order to make science subjects more appealing to secondary school students in view of revelations that growing numbers of students are not taking any science subjects. [18316/10]

Written Answers — School Curriculum: School Curriculum (6 May 2010)

Martin Ferris: Question 26: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if, in view of the provisions available to Gaelscoileanna to practice early total immersion education, this practice will be replicated in Gaeltacht schools; if she has any objection to Gealtacht schools following suit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18315/10]

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32. (11 May 2010)

Martin Ferris: I seek to adjourn the House under Standing Order 32 in order to discuss the impact the budgetary cuts are having on the Brothers of Charity in County Limerick and their ability to provide much-needed facilities for people with special needs; and the negative impact the cuts will have on both the people receiving care from the Brothers of Charity and on their families and the need to reverse...

Energy (Biofuel Obligation and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2010 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 May 2010)

Martin Ferris: The fact that this Bill sets out the objective of achieving a 4% market penetration of transport fuel usage is in itself an admission that previous targets have not been met and is a less ambitious target than was referred to several years ago, with 2010 set as the target date. The figure of 5.75% was targeted as a staging post towards 10% by 2010, in line with EU targets. A figure of 2%...

Sea Fisheries and Maritime Jurisdiction (Fixed Penalty Notice) (Amendment) Bill 2009: Second Stage (11 May 2010)

Martin Ferris: Only by day.

Sea Fisheries and Maritime Jurisdiction (Fixed Penalty Notice) (Amendment) Bill 2009: Second Stage (11 May 2010)

Martin Ferris: I thank the Labour Party for allocating us time to contribute to the debate on this Bill, which Sinn Féin supports. As the explanatory memorandum states, there is an issue regarding fish stocks. Everyone involved in the fishing sector in this country recognises that. However, it is also the case, as stated, that the punitive measures that were introduced to penalise Irish fishermen are...

Sea Fisheries and Maritime Jurisdiction (Fixed Penalty Notice) (Amendment) Bill 2009: Second Stage (11 May 2010)

Martin Ferris: At that time we were fishing off the coast of Clare and Kerry and were refused licences, so we fished and made a living out of it. I assure the Deputy, as sure as night follows day, that under no circumstances were drift fishermen responsible for the decline in fish stock in rivers. It goes far deeper than that and is to do with the far greater power exercised by other sectors in our...

Sea Fisheries and Maritime Jurisdiction (Fixed Penalty Notice) (Amendment) Bill 2009: Second Stage (11 May 2010)

Martin Ferris: I assure Deputy Aylward, from my experience on the ground, that in the year salmon drift net fishing was outlawed, there was a huge run of salmon. Deputy Dooley would know from his contacts in west Clare - people who continue to do a small bit of fishing illegally, if that is the word one wants to use - that the salmon are running as well as they were back in the 1970s and 1980s. It is...

Written Answers — Employment Rights: Employment Rights (11 May 2010)

Martin Ferris: Question 104: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation his views on the fact that employers are allowed to claim an inability to pay agreed wage rates; and that the State will in effect be forced to subsidise them through the family income supplement. [19083/10]

Written Answers — Free Travel Scheme: Free Travel Scheme (11 May 2010)

Martin Ferris: Question 283: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason funding can not be made available to private transport providers in order to subsidise the cost of bus travel for persons attending cancer care treatment from the Kerry region. [18902/10]

Written Answers — Job Initiative: Job Initiative (12 May 2010)

Martin Ferris: Question 57: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the breakdown of the 2,600 applicants under the second round of the employment subsidy scheme by employee numbers; the further breakdown of the successful applicants under the scheme by employee number; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19065/10]

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (12 May 2010)

Martin Ferris: Question 113: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation when a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary may expect to receive their statutory redundancy payment. [19681/10]

Written Answers — National Drugs Strategy: National Drugs Strategy (13 May 2010)

Martin Ferris: Question 15: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding his response to head shops; and if the Bill he has discussed with the media will alter the currently very slow process by which drugs are banned. [19651/10]

Written Answers — Inquiries into Garda Activities: Inquiries into Garda Activities (13 May 2010)

Martin Ferris: Question 37: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he has read the report Breakdown of Trust - A Report on the Corrib Gas Dispute; and if he will accede to the earlier existing Garda Ombudsman Commission request to be allowed to conduct a general investigation into policing of the protest there. [19657/10]

Written Answers — School Services Staff: School Services Staff (13 May 2010)

Martin Ferris: Question 227: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she is satisfied that her Department is not breaching national legislation which expressly prohibits employers from making any deductions from wages without permission of the employee, in the case of a person (details supplied) who worked for her Department for ten years as a special needs assistant and whose pension...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (18 May 2010)

Martin Ferris: Question 82: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the discussions she has had with the Health Service Executive regarding proposed further cuts to the home help service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19993/10]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (18 May 2010)

Martin Ferris: Question 126: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the discussions she has had with the Health Service Executive regarding the cuts to dental services for medical card patients; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19992/10]