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Other Questions: Third Level Admissions Entry Requirements (28 May 2013)

Brian Stanley: 48. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will list, in tabular form, the accredited A Level qualifications that have been obtained at post-primary level in the six counties in the past three years whose status has not been recognised by third level colleges when students have applied for a degree course here. [25405/13]

Other Questions: Third Level Admissions Entry Requirements (28 May 2013)

Brian Stanley: 76. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the basis on which NUI Galway refuse to recognise the status of moving images arts as a suitable qualification for students from Northern Ireland who are applying to its drama degree course despite it being an accredited A Level qualification that is studied at post-primary in Northern Ireland; if the NQAI have a similar position to NUI Galway;...

Topical Issue Debate: Road Network (28 May 2013)

Brian Stanley: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for allowing this important question. The bypass of the N80 on the eastern and western sides of the town of Portlaoise would mean that traffic, of which there is a high volume on this route from the south east, across the midlands and to the west, would not have to pass through the town of Portlaoise as it does at present. It is very important for Portlaoise, for...

Topical Issue Debate: Road Network (28 May 2013)

Brian Stanley: It is in the national spatial strategy and the regional planning guidelines.

Topical Issue Debate: Road Network (28 May 2013)

Brian Stanley: I recognise that funding for these projects has fallen from over €600 million to €350 million in the current year. Leaving that aside, the point I would make to the Minister of State is that during the boom years Laois County Council did not come looking for funding for this orbital route from central Government. It used local resources and used them well. I take on board...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (28 May 2013)

Brian Stanley: 661. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Laois may expect to be called for surgery for implantation of a spinal stimulator at St. Vincent's Hospital, Dublin. [25584/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (29 May 2013)

Brian Stanley: 30. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons currently receiving rent supplement; the length of time for which the rent supplement is intended to be supplied; the number of persons who have been in receipt of rent supplement for one year, two years, three years, four years and five years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25710/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (29 May 2013)

Brian Stanley: 35. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an update in relation to the proposal to transfer from rent supplement to housing assistance payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25711/13]

Other Questions: Special Areas of Conservation (30 May 2013)

Brian Stanley: 7. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will outline in detail the bogs where turf cutting has traditionally taken place will be preserved this year as National Habitat Areas; if he will outline the engagement that has taken place with turf cutters from these bogs, what flexibility his Department has regarding the NHAs; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Irish Language Issues (30 May 2013)

Brian Stanley: 25. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht his views on the latest Annual Report of the Coimisinéir Teanga his assertion that there is no secure stable basis to the system for confirming language schemes, on the widespread failure of Public Bodies who fall under the Official Languages Act to bring in and implement new language schemes; and his plans to ensure that more...

Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (11 Jun 2013)

Brian Stanley: That is inflation.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Renewable Energy Projects (11 Jun 2013)

Brian Stanley: 61. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will give details of the State investment in the Mount Lucas wind farm project, County Offaly; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26706/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Government Reform (11 Jun 2013)

Brian Stanley: 553. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the progress that has been made in establishing social economic committees; their terms of reference and what the make up of these committees will be. [27162/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Funding (11 Jun 2013)

Brian Stanley: 554. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will review the cut to funding that has been imposed on a project (details supplied) in Dublin 10; and the reason he now believes that it is no longer a core responsibility of his Department to fund this project. [27163/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local and Community Development Programme Expenditure (11 Jun 2013)

Brian Stanley: 555. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans for funding local development programmes from 1 January 2014. [27164/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Expenditure (11 Jun 2013)

Brian Stanley: 560. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form the amount of money that was spent on reports commissioned by his Department for 2010, 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013; the purpose of each report and the person commissioned to carry out the reports. [27178/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Meters Installation (11 Jun 2013)

Brian Stanley: 624. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when installing water meters if he will confirm that the meters will be installed on the footpaths outside homes and that where there are no paths the meters will be installed on the road; and if the costs of these installations will be covered by the householder through the payment of the domestic water rates. [27694/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Meters Installation (11 Jun 2013)

Brian Stanley: 625. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the allowance of free water be to each household once meters and domestic water rates have been introduced; and the way the quota will be agreed. [27695/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Fire Service Issues (11 Jun 2013)

Brian Stanley: 633. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of 999 calls for the Fire Brigade service that were put through to Dublin control from County Laois in the first quqrter of 2013. [27778/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Properties (11 Jun 2013)

Brian Stanley: 935. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will ensure that any moneys raised through the sale of the Ballyfermot health centre site, Dublin, will be ring fenced and used solely to fund Health Service Executive community based projects in the Ballyfermot area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26824/13]