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Written Answers — Employment Appeals Tribunal: Employment Appeals Tribunal (1 Mar 2012)

Joanna Tuffy: Question 111: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when a person (details supplied) in Dublin 22 may expect to receive notice of date in respect of their employment appeals tribunal hearing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11959/12]

Written Answers — Global Strategic Framework: Global Strategic Framework (1 Mar 2012)

Joanna Tuffy: Question 196: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will include small-scale farmers in developing countries in his submission to the UN Global Strategic Framework for Food Security and Nutrition in April 2012; if he has any plans to attend the meeting of the UN Committee on World Food Security in Rome in 2012 when the Global Strategic Framework for Food Security and...

Written Answers — Schools Inspectorate: Schools Inspectorate (6 Mar 2012)

Joanna Tuffy: Question 161: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide details of the number of education inspectors who have retired recently or taken up early retirement; his plans to fill the posts of inspector whose duties include evaluating newly qualified teachers when they take up their teaching posts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12290/12]

Written Answers — Commemorative Events: Commemorative Events (6 Mar 2012)

Joanna Tuffy: Question 377: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the preparations that have been made in respect of the 50th International Eucharistic Congress by the Government including in respect of the management of the influx of visitors to this country and to the congress; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12202/12]

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (6 Mar 2012)

Joanna Tuffy: Question 380: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding the Immigration, Residence and Protection Bill 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12209/12]

Written Answers — Citizenship Applications: Citizenship Applications (6 Mar 2012)

Joanna Tuffy: Question 382: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applications for Irish citizenship currently being processed; the length of time it is taking to process applications and reach a decision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12278/12]

Written Answers — Family Law: Family Law (6 Mar 2012)

Joanna Tuffy: Question 391: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he intends to implement the recommendations of the Law Reform Commission outlined in its 2010 report Legal Aspects of Family Relationships in respect of parental responsibility; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12426/12]

Human Rights Issues (7 Mar 2012)

Joanna Tuffy: I raise the matter of the need for reform of the blasphemy laws in Pakistan on the first anniversary of the murder of Mr. Shabaz Bhatti, a former Pakistani Federal Minister for Minorities who was an outspoken critic of these laws. He also supported the case of Mrs. Asia Bibi who was imprisoned under these laws and whose case is on appeal. The matter is being raised on a cross-party basis...

Human Rights Issues (7 Mar 2012)

Joanna Tuffy: I welcome the Government's efforts to date in respect of this matter. I hope pressure will continue to be exerted in any bilateral discussions involving the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade and both the Government of Pakistan and that county's embassy here. I also hope that what the Minister for Social Protection stated in her reply will be conveyed to the Pakistani...

Euro Area Loan Facility (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2012)

Joanna Tuffy: I must call the Minister for Finance at 7 p.m.

Euro Area Loan Facility (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2012)

Joanna Tuffy: The Deputy has only one minute of speaking time remaining.

Euro Area Loan Facility (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2012)

Joanna Tuffy: Deputy Ó Cuív, without interruption.

Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (7 Mar 2012)

Joanna Tuffy: Question 164: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the substantial subsidy given to private waste collectors that collect household waste door to door that comes from the packaging levies that are collected by a company (details supplied) to be then paid out to waste collectors, public and private, depending on the number...

Written Answers — Citizenship Applications: Citizenship Applications (7 Mar 2012)

Joanna Tuffy: Question 194: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if there is a procedure that allows submissions to be made by third parties in respect of applications in respect of persons for immigration status (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13149/12]

Written Answers — Universal Social Charge: Universal Social Charge (8 Mar 2012)

Joanna Tuffy: Question 62: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update on whether the numbers of lone parents who were taken out of the net for the universal social charge in budget 2012 is available to his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13278/12]

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (8 Mar 2012)

Joanna Tuffy: Question 151: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding the Environmental Liability Bill; if he will provide an update on any action taken by the EU Commission against Ireland for failing to enact the legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13418/12]

Written Answers — Employment Support Services: Employment Support Services (13 Mar 2012)

Joanna Tuffy: Question 262: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an update on schemes that lone parents may access to gain training, education and work experience; her plans to extend eligibility to lone parents to any schemes to which they are currently not eligible; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13723/12]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (13 Mar 2012)

Joanna Tuffy: Question 268: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding plans to improve supports available to lone parents in tandem with the changes scheduled in respect of how long a parent can qualify for the one parent family payment, and reductions in the income disregards; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13808/12]

Written Answers — Local Authority Charges: Local Authority Charges (13 Mar 2012)

Joanna Tuffy: Question 382: To ask the Minister for the Environment; Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that persons who are acting as executors of estates will be liable to pay the household charges out of their own personal finances on properties owned by the deceased person; if it is possible for these charges to be deferred until such time as the sale of the...

Banking Sector Regulation: Motion (Resumed) (14 Mar 2012)

Joanna Tuffy: With the agreement of the House I will share some of Deputy Dowds's time. The issue of negative equity is raised at my clinics and in constituency queries to me and to other Deputies. A number of Deputies have tabled parliamentary questions to the Minister for Finance requesting updates on what action is being taken to help people in negative equity. Not all people in negative equity will...