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Written Answers — Taxi Regulations: Taxi Regulations (18 Jul 2012)

Derek Nolan: Question 383: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if consideration has been given to using funds recently transferred to the National Transport Authority from the taxi regulator to reducing the number of taxi drivers through a licence buy back scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35649/12]

Written Answers — Taxi Regulations: Taxi Regulations (18 Jul 2012)

Derek Nolan: Question 384: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is satisfied that his proposal to prevent the transferring of taxi licences from one owner to another is legally sound; if there is an issue to do with legitimate expectation in view of the fact that purchasers are expected to be able to resell the licences when they purchased; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Taxi Regulations (18 Sep 2012)

Derek Nolan: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she has ever operated a scheme that provided lump sums to taxi drivers towards the purchase of licences or the operation of taxi business; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37220/12]

Topical Issue Debate: Child Protection (19 Sep 2012)

Derek Nolan: I wish to raise the matter of the report produced this week by the Irish Refugee Council, entitled State Sanctioned Child Poverty and Exclusion, which deals with children of asylum seekers in direct provision centres. The report was written by Samantha Arnold and is valuable because it provides an analysis of the difficulties faced by these children and their families. It is particularly...

Topical Issue Debate: Child Protection (19 Sep 2012)

Derek Nolan: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. I welcome the commitment to examine the report comprehensively and to deal immediately with issues relating to children. To follow on from my initial statement, I thank the Minister for his intervention in the case to which I referred to suspend the transfer of families from the accommodation centre in Galway. With regard to the first...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (19 Sep 2012)

Derek Nolan: To ask the Minister for Health the conditions that a person needs to satisfy to qualify for a discretionary medical card; if a person with Fibromyalgia whose income is in excess of the standard income guidelines could qualify in view of difficult personal circumstances; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39532/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (19 Sep 2012)

Derek Nolan: To ask the Minister for Health the conditions that a person needs to satisfy to qualify for a discretionary medical card; if a person with Fibromyalgia whose income is in excess of the standard income guidelines could qualify in view of difficult personal circumstances; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39532/12]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Mortgage Resolution Processes (25 Sep 2012)

Derek Nolan: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason the new mortgage advisory service is confined to accountants; her plans to open up the service to financial brokers in view of the fact that they are specifically qualified to provide financial advice and are open to scrutiny by the Central Bank of Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40759/12]

An Bille um an Aonú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Leanaí) 2012: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) - Thirty-First Amendment of the Constitution (Children) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Sep 2012)

Derek Nolan: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this Bill, which will, I believe, be one of the most important to be passed in the Government's lifetime. I also commend the Government, and indeed the Minister, for producing a Bill the wording of which is widely lauded by political society and civil society alike. Currently, children's rights are lacking, and the Constitution as it stands is failing...

Magdalene Laundries: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (26 Sep 2012)

Derek Nolan: I wish to share time with Deputies Paul Connaughton, Joe O'Reilly, Regina Doherty, Seán Kenny, Seán Kyne and Marcella Corcoran Kennedy.

Magdalene Laundries: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (26 Sep 2012)

Derek Nolan: As a public representative I am often required to speak and debate on matters on which I might not hold a professional qualification or even have personal experience. No one is capable of being an expert on every topic. I feel comfortable informing myself to the best of my ability and forming a judgment, yet there are some topics, regardless of how much I read or how much research I do,...

An Bille um an Aonú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Leanaí) 2012: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) - Thirty-First Amendment of the Constitution (Children) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Sep 2012)

Derek Nolan: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this Bill, which will, I believe, be one of the most important to be passed in the Government's lifetime. I also commend the Government, and indeed the Minister, for producing a Bill the wording of which is widely lauded by political society and civil society alike. Currently, children's rights are lacking, and the Constitution as it stands is failing...

Magdalene Laundries: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (26 Sep 2012)

Derek Nolan: I wish to share time with Deputies Paul Connaughton, Joe O'Reilly, Regina Doherty, Seán Kenny, Seán Kyne and Marcella Corcoran Kennedy.

Magdalene Laundries: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (26 Sep 2012)

Derek Nolan: As a public representative I am often required to speak and debate on matters on which I might not hold a professional qualification or even have personal experience. No one is capable of being an expert on every topic. I feel comfortable informing myself to the best of my ability and forming a judgment, yet there are some topics, regardless of how much I read or how much research I do,...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Proposed Legislation (26 Sep 2012)

Derek Nolan: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if financial brokers will be able to act as personal insolvency practitioners when the forthcoming Personal Insolvency Bill is enacted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40761/12]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2012)

Derek Nolan: The minutes state it was agreed that the committee would examine the issue of allowance payments as part of its examination of the accounts of public bodies in 2012 and 2013. It was stated requests would be made to all Accounting Officers and accountable persons for details of payments. I have read in newspapers and other forums something to the contrary - that we would have speeded-up...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (27 Sep 2012)

Derek Nolan: I welcome the university and institute of technology heads and thank them for coming. Before I start the questioning, I acknowledge that the environment in which they all operate has changed dramatically in recent years. According to the figures, their budgets and staff levels have reduced dramatically, while their student numbers have risen significantly. They are to be commended,...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (27 Sep 2012)

Derek Nolan: The employment control framework was due to expire at the end of 2010 and we are talking about a period in the middle of 2010. The employment control framework was brought in to deal with significant issues in the State finances. Surely, in the middle of 2010, when the State finances were deteriorating further and the economic crisis was on everyone's mind, it was not unforeseeable that...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (27 Sep 2012)

Derek Nolan: It is a back-and-forth process. According to the Comptroller and Auditor General's report, there were meetings between representatives of Trinity and the HEA, with correspondence in July 2010 from the HEA to the university stating that the operation of internal promotion schemes was not permissible under the framework, and the monitoring committee considered that the university would be...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits (27 Sep 2012)

Derek Nolan: What is that resolution?