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Written Answers — Higher Education Grants: Higher Education Grants (15 Jun 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 247: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the date on which the student grant application forms for 2011-12 will be available; his views on whether the delay in publishing the application form for 2011-12 will cause unacceptable additional delays in the processing of applications and thus create additional financial hardship for students and their families; and if he will...

Written Answers — Departmental Funding: Departmental Funding (15 Jun 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 248: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he intends to decrease the current funding stream to Pobal now or during his term in office. [15617/11]

Written Answers — Magdalene Laundries: Magdalene Laundries (15 Jun 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 433: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he has contacted the Attorney General since taking office to request a date by which the latter will conclude his review of the Irish Human Rights Commission assessment on Magdalene laundries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15697/11]

Written Answers — Magdalene Laundries: Magdalene Laundries (15 Jun 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 434: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the State was aware of the nature and function of the Magdalene laundries during the period from 1922 and as recently as 1996. [15698/11]

Written Answers — Magdalene Laundries: Magdalene Laundries (15 Jun 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 435: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the State was aware that there was no statutory basis for the Irish Courts use of the Magdalene laundries. [15699/11]

Written Answers — Magdalene Laundries: Magdalene Laundries (15 Jun 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 436: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the State was aware that it had enacted legislation to enable the use of one Magdalene laundry as a remand home. [15700/11]

Written Answers — Magdalene Laundries: Magdalene Laundries (15 Jun 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 437: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the state was aware that children and adolescent girls were confined in the Magdalene laundries as late as 1970. [15701/11]

Written Answers — Magdalene Laundries: Magdalene Laundries (15 Jun 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 438: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the State maintained a special provision whereby women giving birth to a second child outside marriage at a mother and baby home could be transferred directly to a Magdalene laundry. [15702/11]

Written Answers — Magdalene Laundries: Magdalene Laundries (15 Jun 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 443: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the measures his Department has taken to protect the constitutional rights of the women and children held in the Magdalene laundries. [15723/11]

Written Answers — Magdalene Laundries: Magdalene Laundries (15 Jun 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 439: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the State paid capitation grants to Magdalene laundries for the confinement of problem girls. [15703/11]

Written Answers — Magdalene Laundries: Magdalene Laundries (15 Jun 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 440: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason the State never inspected, licensed or certified the Magdalene laundries as approved institutions despite providing public moneys in the form of capitation grants to the institutions. [15704/11]

Written Answers — Magdalene Laundries: Magdalene Laundries (15 Jun 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 441: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason the State has yet to produce records for the women it referred to the Magdalene laundries. [15705/11]

Written Answers — Magdalene Laundries: Magdalene Laundries (15 Jun 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 442: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the State's role in referring women and children to the Magdalene laundries. [15706/11]

Written Answers — Magdalene Laundries: Magdalene Laundries (15 Jun 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 444: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if it is his view that the State's refusal to apologise for its role in referring women to the Magdalene laundries has impeded restorative justice for survivors of the laundries. [15727/11]

Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (15 Jun 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 558: To ask the Minister for Health if the signed service level agreement 2010 for an organisation (details supplied) included a value for money audit; and the date on which he expects to receive the requested report on the chief executive's remuneration package. [15819/11]

Order of Business (15 Jun 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: I welcome the announcement by Government of the setting up of an interdepartmental committee to deal with the issue of the Magdalene laundries. I also understand the Cabinet is to consider the United Nations report in respect of the victims of those institutions. Will the Taoiseach indicate when the Cabinet review will be made public and brought before the House? I also seek an assurance...

Written Answers — Wage-setting Mechanisms: Wage-setting Mechanisms (9 Jun 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 21: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide a detailed account of his or his officials' discussions with Commissioner Olli Rehn and his officials on the issue of the reform of joint labour committees and registered employment agreements. [14716/11]

Business Regulation (9 Jun 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 40: To ask the Minister for Jobs; Enterprise and Innovation if any final proposals for joint labour commission and registered employment agreements reform require the approval of the EU, ECB and or IMF before being enacted. [14717/11]

Written Answers — Traveller Community: Traveller Community (8 Jun 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 46: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the statistics which show that only one in every ten children from the Traveller community who enrols in school goes on to complete his or her post-primary education; and, in view of these statistics, his plans to address this crisis. [14459/11]

Written Answers — State Examinations: State Examinations (8 Jun 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: Question 62: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the additional measures he intends to introduce to tackle the increasing numbers of second level students attaining low grades in mathematics, science and technology, as detailed by a European Commission report published in April 2011. [14460/11]