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Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Tourism Data (1 Oct 2013)

Sandra McLellan: 149. To ask the Taoiseach the numbers of visitors to Ireland from emerging tourism markets, in particular China, India, Brazil, Russia and south-east Asia; and if there has been any noticeable increase in visitors from these countries in recent years. [40892/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (1 Oct 2013)

Sandra McLellan: 280. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review the distance from college for students to be considered eligible for the non-adjacent grant to cover a distance less than 45km (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40966/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (1 Oct 2013)

Sandra McLellan: 281. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reasons persons earning less than the income allowed for the special college grant rate are penalised and ineligible for that rate if they are not in receipt of a social welfare payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40979/13]

Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2013)

Sandra McLellan: A couple of hundred only.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid Provision (2 Oct 2013)

Sandra McLellan: 33. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide further details on his Department’s recent pledge of €3 million in funding to mother and child nutrition; the person who will receive the funding; the way it will it be spent. [41156/13]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Humanitarian Aid (2 Oct 2013)

Sandra McLellan: 39. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide further details on his Department’s recent pledge of €2 million in emergency assistance for Sudan and South Sudan; the person who will receive the funding; and the way it will be spent. [41165/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Services Provision (2 Oct 2013)

Sandra McLellan: 210. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 383 of 24 September 2013, if a house owner or the local authority is responsible for leaks or sewerage blockages outside of a home owner's boundary located on a public footpath or road in view of information from Cork County Council (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Services Provision (2 Oct 2013)

Sandra McLellan: 211. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 384 of 24 September 2013, if there are grants available to assist home owners to replace leaking pipes or collapsed sewers where the problem occurs outside their boundary under a public footpath or road in view of information provided by Cork County Council (details supplied); and if...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (2 Oct 2013)

Sandra McLellan: 245. To ask the Minister for Health the reasons persons who have life threatening serious illnesses are not granted a medical card for life (details supplied). [41239/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Appeals (2 Oct 2013)

Sandra McLellan: 254. To ask the Minister for Health the actions being taken to address the backlog in the medical card appeals office; the actions being taken to speed up the length of time it takes the appeals office to inform persons of the appeal allowing them to reactivate a person's medical card for the duration of the appeal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41281/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Investigations (3 Oct 2013)

Sandra McLellan: 32. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will release the report on Irish Nationwide of 2009; and if this report will be made available to any banking inquiry. [41521/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Arrears Proposals (3 Oct 2013)

Sandra McLellan: 36. To ask the Minister for Finance if will work with the Central Bank of Ireland to agree a definition of a strategic defaulter in relation to mortgages. [41507/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Vetting of Personnel (3 Oct 2013)

Sandra McLellan: 172. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will expedite Garda clearance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41656/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Vetting Application Numbers (3 Oct 2013)

Sandra McLellan: 173. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the measures he is taking to alleviate the back log of persons seeking Garda clearance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41657/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Seeker Accommodation (3 Oct 2013)

Sandra McLellan: 197. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his views on whether it is acceptable that asylum seekers and their children are housed in reception centres which lack adequate facilities for any meaningful recreational activity; his views on whether it is imperative that children and young persons have access to open space and sports areas irrespective of their parents' status; and if he...

Discretionary Medical Cards: Motion [Private Members] (8 Oct 2013)

Sandra McLellan: Anyone who knocked on doors over the summer months while canvassing or who held regular clinics will have met a substantial number of people who had either lost their medical card in recent weeks or who are likely to do so. Anecdotally, it was clear that there was a massive change in how medical cards, and in particular discretionary cards, were being allocated. The motion, which I am glad...

Discretionary Medical Cards: Motion [Private Members] (8 Oct 2013)

Sandra McLellan: There are many.

Discretionary Medical Cards: Motion [Private Members] (8 Oct 2013)

Sandra McLellan: Hear, hear.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (8 Oct 2013)

Sandra McLellan: 99. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to his recent comments that there is no scope for more education cuts, and that he does not know where he can make savings, the efforts his Department has made to force the religious institutions to meet their obligations to compensate the survivors of residential abuse. [42209/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (8 Oct 2013)

Sandra McLellan: 105. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will respond to concerns that a possible union ban on training for the new English syllabus will delay plans for the implementation of a new style junior certificate next September. [42208/13]