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Written Answers — Employment Support Services: Employment Support Services (6 Jun 2012)

Robert Dowds: Question 406: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if there is any evidence of companies abusing internships that is, keeping persons on as interns rather than filling the vacancy with a real employee; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27082/12]

Written Answers — Employment Support Services: Employment Support Services (6 Jun 2012)

Robert Dowds: Question 407: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she has, or intends to have, a system of spot checks to ensure that the internship system is working satisfactorily for current interns. [27083/12]

Written Answers — Ambulance Service: Ambulance Service (6 Jun 2012)

Robert Dowds: Question 831: To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the numbers of ambulances being held up for significant lengths of time that is greater than half an hour at each of the Dublin hospitals (details supplied) because the ambulances are waiting for their trolleys to be returned; the figures for the first three months of 2012; and the length of time each ambulance has been...

Private Members' Business. Building Control Regulations: Motion (Resumed) (7 Jun 2012)

Robert Dowds: I concur with the sentiments expressed by Deputy Brendan Ryan. I am appalled by the problems facing a large number of people as a result of faulty construction. Regrettably, the Priory Hall and Belmayne developments are not the only estates affected by these problems. We must do everything in our power to ensure faulty and inadequate housing is not built in the future. I refer...

Advance Healthcare Decisions Bill 2012: Second Stage (8 Jun 2012)

Robert Dowds: I commend Deputy Liam Twomey for introducing this important Bill and not shying away from something that is morally difficult. While my wife was a student, an Anglican chaplain told students that, when they were old, it would be their duty to decide on when they should die. It was a shocking comment to make. When I first heard such remarks, they sounded incredible, given that they had come...

Written Answers — Credit Availability: Credit Availability (12 Jun 2012)

Robert Dowds: Question 301: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the sources of finance available to small businesses; and his views on the action the banking institutions are taking to make such finance available to small businesses.. [27973/12]

Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (12 Jun 2012)

Robert Dowds: Question 422: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the access interested parties have to the submissions made by third parties to An Bord Pleanála in the course of planning appeals; if he will ensure that all submissions to An Bord Pleanála are fully accessible to the public on the internet; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27921/12]

Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (12 Jun 2012)

Robert Dowds: Question 423: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he has been briefed by the Environmental Protection Agency regarding if a company (details supplied) has removed the 3,000 tonnes of waste it has been storing on a farm in County Kildare; and if the EPA has any information regarding the location of which the company has disposed of this waste. [27922/12]

Written Answers — Asylum Seeker Accommodation: Asylum Seeker Accommodation (12 Jun 2012)

Robert Dowds: Question 487: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will report on the Clondalkin Towers Refugee Centre, on the Ninth Lock Road, Clondalkin, Dublin 22, with information provided on the following, the total number of persons currently residing there; the number of families residing there; the number of rooms in the Clondalkin Towers Refugee Centre; the average number of persons...

Written Answers — Asylum Applications: Asylum Applications (12 Jun 2012)

Robert Dowds: Question 488: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the average length of time which an asylum seeker waits for a decision on whether or not they will be granted asylum. [27961/12]

Written Answers — Asylum Applications: Asylum Applications (12 Jun 2012)

Robert Dowds: Question 489: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons granted asylum here in the years 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 respectively. [27962/12]

Written Answers — Legal Services: Legal Services (12 Jun 2012)

Robert Dowds: Question 502: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to transfer the current staff of the complaints section of the law society to the new legal services oversight authority proposed in the Legal Services Regulation Bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28204/12]

Written Answers — Legal Services: Legal Services (12 Jun 2012)

Robert Dowds: Question 503: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the way it is intended to staff the new legal services oversight authority proposed in the Legal Services Regulation Bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28205/12]

Written Answers — Bus Services: Bus Services (12 Jun 2012)

Robert Dowds: Question 637: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total number of quality bus corridors, which are not currently being used by Dublin Bus as part of a scheduled route; the total length of roadway which these unused quality bus corridors are taking up; and if he has any plans to direct the relevant authorities to open up unused quality bus corridors to motorists while...

Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Jun 2012)

Robert Dowds: Hear, hear.

Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2012)

Robert Dowds: I entirely agree with my colleague, Deputy Joanna Tuffy. She and I have the distinction - if that is the right word to use - of living in the area which has probably been most adversely affected by bad planning decisions in the State. We have what was meant to be a town centre for Lucan-Clondalkin, which is not in the centre but very much off-centre. I am referring to the Liffey Valley...

Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2012)

Robert Dowds: On a point of information, only one member of the Labour Party-----

Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2012)

Robert Dowds: In 1993.

Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2012)

Robert Dowds: It was 20 years too late.

Independent Inquiries into Planning Irregularities: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jun 2012)

Robert Dowds: They were doing huge damage.