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Written Answers — Nursing Home Services: Nursing Home Services (19 Jun 2012)

Michael Moynihan: Question 150: To ask the Minister for Health if the reduction in community care and community nursing home beds is resulting in an increase in delayed discharges; the actions he will take to address same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29468/12]

Written Answers — Voluntary Housing Sector: Voluntary Housing Sector (19 Jun 2012)

Michael Moynihan: Question 435: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government when applications for voluntary and sheltered housing will be opened this year; if there is capital funding available; when a decision will be made on a foundation (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29091/12]

Written Answers — Military Archives: Military Archives (21 Jun 2012)

Michael Moynihan: Question 17: To ask the Minister for Defence the progress he has made in furthering plans to develop the military archives; his plans to digitise the off line records of the archive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29963/12]

Written Answers — Third Level Grants: Third Level Grants (26 Jun 2012)

Michael Moynihan: Question 236: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he has taken to address the concerns regarding changes to the assessment of third level grant aid to students from a farming background; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28516/12]

Written Answers — Research Centres Programme: Research Centres Programme (27 Jun 2012)

Michael Moynihan: Question 28: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline his views on the proposal that an education research and policy institute should be established; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30962/12]

Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (27 Jun 2012)

Michael Moynihan: Question 120: To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to her announcement that she will initiate a review of community employment schemes, when the details of this review will be available; and when the promised seminars on CE schemes will take place. [31193/12]

Written Answers — Nitrates Action Programme: Nitrates Action Programme (27 Jun 2012)

Michael Moynihan: Question 144: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the timeframe for the review of the Nitrates Action Plan; his plans to change this plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23278/12]

Written Answers — Sugar Industry: Sugar Industry (28 Jun 2012)

Michael Moynihan: Question 229: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he has taken in re-opening the Irish sugar beet industry; the communications he has had with other EU member States on this issue; the support he has received from other EU member States; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31523/12]

Written Answers — Agri-Environment Options Scheme: Agri-Environment Options Scheme (28 Jun 2012)

Michael Moynihan: Question 230: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the plans he has for the re-opening of an agri-environment option scheme in 2012; the timeframe for his decision and implementation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31524/12]

Written Answers — Ministerial Expenditure: Ministerial Expenditure (28 Jun 2012)

Michael Moynihan: Question 231: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will outline his total photography costs at home and abroad from March 2011 to June 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31525/12]

Written Answers — Advertising Standards: Advertising Standards (28 Jun 2012)

Michael Moynihan: Question 232: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he has taken to ensure that certain cheeses are not banned from television advertising; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31526/12]

Written Answers — Disadvantaged Areas Scheme: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme (28 Jun 2012)

Michael Moynihan: Question 233: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the time-frame in which he expects the EU Commission to make a decision on the changes to disadvantaged areas scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31527/12]

Written Answers — Appointments to State Boards: Appointments to State Boards (28 Jun 2012)

Michael Moynihan: Question 234: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of positions on State boards he has nominated since March 2011; if those individuals went in front of the relevant Oireachtas Committee for questioning by the committee members; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31528/12]

Written Answers — Penalty Points System: Penalty Points System (3 Jul 2012)

Michael Moynihan: Question 114: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he expects to implement in full the recommendations of the report of the review of the Irish penalty point system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32155/12]

Written Answers — European Banking Sector: European Banking Sector (5 Jul 2012)

Michael Moynihan: Question 18: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the potential benefits to Ireland of common bank supervision across the Eurozone; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32701/12]

Written Answers — Inter-Country Adoptions: Inter-Country Adoptions (10 Jul 2012)

Michael Moynihan: Question 46: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of adoptions registered with the Adoption Authority of Ireland since its establishment to adopters who were issued with their declarations of eligibility and suitability; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33380/12]

Veterinary Practice (Amendment) Bill 2011: Amendments from the Seanad (11 Jul 2012)

Michael Moynihan: I have no objection to the amendment. The Bill regulates the procedures that can be performed by veterinarians and veterinary nurses. As animal medicine evolves, it is important that regulations can be revised by means of secondary legislation rather than primary legislation.

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2012)

Michael Moynihan: Last week, we asked the Government to act on the flooded Shannon region as farmers in this particular region have been badly hit. Farmers and agricultural contractors throughout Ireland are extremely concerned about their livelihoods as a result of the persistent bad weather. Silage has not been cut, cattle cannot graze, production costs have increased, milk production has dramatically...

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2012)

Michael Moynihan: It took farmers almost three years to trade out of the disastrous year of 2009. The response from the Government has been shamefully inadequate. The only response last week from the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Deputy Coveney, was to bring the single farm payment forward to October. Every Deputy in this House knows that the single farm payment has since inception been...

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2012)

Michael Moynihan: While the smoke screen in terms of the Government bringing forward to October the single farm payment may appear a good activation measure it does not cod any member of the farming community. It is taken as a given every year that the first tranche of single farm payments will be made in October. We cannot continue to allow this sector to be hampered in this way. All farmers want to do is...