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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Reform (7 Mar 2013)

Martin Ferris: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on proposals to include productive assets, such as farmland, as part of the assessment for third level grant eligibility; and if he will respond to the views expressed by the Irish Farmers’ Association who have described the methodology for inputting additional household income based on asset values of...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic Violence Policy (6 Mar 2013)

Martin Ferris: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to ensure that there are targeted campaigns to raise awareness of violence against women amongst a wide audience, including the general public, service providers and all agencies within the criminal justice system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11558/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic Violence Policy (6 Mar 2013)

Martin Ferris: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to provide funding for the development, operation and ongoing monitoring of effective intervention programmes for perpetrators of domestic violence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11559/13]

Other Questions: After School Support Services (5 Mar 2013)

Martin Ferris: To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 135 of 29 January 2013, when and where the pilot scheme be rolled out and when is it expected that the 6000 after school childcare places announced in Budget 2013 will become available. [11382/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: National Internship Scheme Placements (5 Mar 2013)

Martin Ferris: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of jobbridge interns that have gone on to employment directly related to the internships in which they had been involved. [11387/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (5 Mar 2013)

Martin Ferris: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will reconsider a decision to remove a resource teaching post for 2013/2014 from a primary school (details supplied) in County Kerry in view of the extenuating circumstances; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11115/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Staff (5 Mar 2013)

Martin Ferris: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if the current vacancy of information officer in Tralee Social Welfare Office, County Kerry, has been filled. [11413/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Dormant Accounts Fund Grants (5 Mar 2013)

Martin Ferris: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will make funding available from dormant accounts for the purchase of a premises for the Tralee branch of the Irish Red Cross, County Kerry. [11414/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Air Pollution (5 Mar 2013)

Martin Ferris: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding the banning of smoky coal and its likely impact on fuel poverty; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11700/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Diseases of Animals Act 1966: Motion (28 Feb 2013)

Martin Ferris: I have no problem with that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Business of Joint Committee (28 Feb 2013)

Martin Ferris: I requested that the Minister or some of his officials respond to the horse meat situation. I understand that he cannot do so today.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Business of Joint Committee (28 Feb 2013)

Martin Ferris: Perhaps the Minister and his officials will return to discuss it.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Resolution Processes (28 Feb 2013)

Martin Ferris: To ask the Minister for Finance if has considered the impact of Irish Banking Federation’s Protocol of 31 January 2013 on the Credit Union movement. [10569/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Resolution Processes (28 Feb 2013)

Martin Ferris: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has had contact with the Governor of the Central Bank on the issue of the Irish Banking Federation’s Protocol of 31January 2013; and his views on whether the Protocol will contribute to the ending of the mortgage crisis. [10568/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (28 Feb 2013)

Martin Ferris: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has yet replied to correspondence from a school (details supplied) in County Kerry in relation to the withdrawal of a prefab grant and if not, when a reply will issue. [10846/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Small and Medium Enterprises Supports (27 Feb 2013)

Martin Ferris: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is encouraging small and medium enterprises to form consortiums when bidding for larger public procurement contracts; and in such instances the monetary value of a large contract. [10435/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (27 Feb 2013)

Martin Ferris: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will ensure that a grant for prefab rental to a school (details supplied) in County Kerry is not withdrawn in Summer 2013. [10454/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticulture Sector (27 Feb 2013)

Martin Ferris: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there will be a grant scheme for horticulture, including mushrooms, for 2014 following the close of the NDP funded scheme. [10473/13]

State Forestry: Motion [Private Members] (26 Feb 2013)

Martin Ferris: I welcome this motion as it is a timely opportunity to highlight a potentially disastrous decision to go ahead with the sale of harvesting rights in State-owned forests. This is an issue that has caught the public attention and the highlighting by people like the Woodland League, Deputies, myself and others in recent years of the likely move on Coillte has had the positive effect of holding...

Topical Issue Debate: Site Acquisitions (26 Feb 2013)

Martin Ferris: In looking for a suitable site for a new building, Kerry Education Service and the board of management of Gaelcholáiste Chiarraí were offered a site by Tralee Town Council as part of the regeneration project in Tralee in 2012. Based on the offer and the preliminary consultation with all parties at executive, school and local levels, Kerry Education Service brought the offer to the...