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Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: A Reflection on 15 Years of the Good Friday Agreement and Looking Towards the Future: Discussion (11 Apr 2013)

Joe McHugh: I am sure many civil servants in the Departments of transport on both of sides of the Border will have listened to that last contribution. The panellists are free to comment on it but they may not have an insight into it. I thank the members for their thought-provoking questions which provides a degree of insight for everybody. Before returning to the panellists for their responses, I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: A Reflection on 15 Years of the Good Friday Agreement and Looking Towards the Future: Discussion (11 Apr 2013)

Joe McHugh: I thank the delegates for a very enlightening and uplifting morning and early afternoon discussion. The committee appreciates their interventions. I acknowledge the more peripheral meetings which have taken place; two, in particular. The British Academy marked the 15th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement a couple of weeks ago with Mr. Paul Bew. At the meeting I heard similar...

Other Questions: Inter-Country Adoptions (16 Apr 2013)

Joe McHugh: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will update Dáil Éireann on her Department's engagements with Prospective Adoptive Parents of Ireland. [17246/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Cross-Border Projects (16 Apr 2013)

Joe McHugh: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will update Dáil Éireann on her Department's engagements with Northern Ireland agencies in developing youth cross-border and cross-community relationships. [17247/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (16 Apr 2013)

Joe McHugh: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline any plans that are being developed to revise Gaeltacht, Island and Secretary to Board of Management allowances that are provided for teachers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16100/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (16 Apr 2013)

Joe McHugh: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider including Down Syndrome under the low incidence disability classification for the purpose of allocation resource hours; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16424/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Non-Principal Private Residence Charge Exemptions (16 Apr 2013)

Joe McHugh: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government with reference to the non principal private residence charge, if he will advise a person (details supplied) who has moved to Great Britain where he is now working and who now faces a bill that includes arrears; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16758/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: UN Conventions Ratification (16 Apr 2013)

Joe McHugh: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will update Dáil Éireann on the ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities; his views on whether there is legal impediment to its immediate ratification; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16925/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Operations (16 Apr 2013)

Joe McHugh: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will clarify the availability of extra Garda patrolling hours with reference to the patrol car attrition rate; the number of extra patrolling hours; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17508/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services (16 Apr 2013)

Joe McHugh: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs with reference to the €2.75m fund for maintaining the upkeep of interior services, equipment and natural outdoor spaces for all children, if she will clarify which types of childcare settings are eligible for this funding; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16810/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mobility Allowance Decision (16 Apr 2013)

Joe McHugh: To ask the Minister for Health with reference to mobility allowances, motorised transport grants and the ringfencing of €10m funding for the scheme, if the renewed services structure will include a multiple approach scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17618/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (16 Apr 2013)

Joe McHugh: To ask the Minister for Health if he will request that the Health Service Executive consider a proposal that may shorten waiting lists; and if he will ask the HSE to contact this Deputy directly [16928/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (16 Apr 2013)

Joe McHugh: To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the proposal to make deep brain stimulation available here, through a North/South initiative; if he will consider the idea of allowing procedures to be carried out in Northern Ireland in order that patients could have pre and post -operative care managed in the Republic, instead of patients in the Republic of Ireland having to go overseas; and...

Other Questions: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (17 Apr 2013)

Joe McHugh: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the level of funding that is being provided for support services for children with autism; the numbers of people who are employed in associated programmes; if he will provide information on support services that are provided at regional levels to parents of children with autism; if he will outline the relationship with the primary and secondary...

Other Questions: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (17 Apr 2013)

Joe McHugh: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. He is correct in saying that autism-related services are a good-news story. In my own county at primary level, Scoil Íosagáin in Buncrana and Woodland national school in Letterkenny provide excellent autism-related services. Last September saw the opening of two more special classes with autism-related services in St. Patrick's...

Other Questions: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (17 Apr 2013)

Joe McHugh: I do not wish to anticipate what will happen in the meeting, as Buncrana campus development will be on the agenda on Monday. Could a delegation from the VEC meet the Minister, Minister of State or officials in the Department?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (17 Apr 2013)

Joe McHugh: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of funding that is being provided for support services for children with autism; the numbers of staff employed in associated programmes; if he will elaborate on support services that are provided to parents of children with autism at a regional level; if he will outline the relationship with the primary and secondary schools; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Performance Management Systems (18 Apr 2013)

Joe McHugh: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on his efforts to implement performance management methodologies within the public sectors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17735/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Strategic Management Initiative (18 Apr 2013)

Joe McHugh: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on the efficacy of the Strategic Management Initiative of 1994; the action that he has taken to promote greater systematic incentives for public service workers in this decade; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17736/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Farm Assist Scheme Payments (18 Apr 2013)

Joe McHugh: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons who are in receipt of a payment (details supplied); if she will publish this information in a county format; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18056/13]