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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention (9 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We will all still be voting the same way on the budget.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention (9 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the latest arrangements for the Constitutional Convention; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41632/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (9 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for restructuring teachers' pay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43086/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (9 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans he has to facilitate teachers without degrees who have been working for the vocational education committee for many years in view of new Teaching Council regulations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43085/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (9 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the detailed plan for school construction, expected in late 2012, will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43118/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Tax Collection (9 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason UCD paid the Revenue Commissioners €400,000 in unpaid tax for Student Union staff without anyone being held to account and without any investigation into where the deducted tax has gone; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43119/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Contracts (9 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has any concerns that the cuts on newly qualified teachers will have a detrimental effect on both their morale and the willingness of young people to enter such a low paid profession; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43120/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (9 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the resources that are being put in place to ensure that every child in the State, regardless of ability, can access education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33339/12]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (9 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of dismissals there have been in the civil and public service in the past 10 years and in which Departments/sections; the number of these dismissals that were challenged in the courts or at the Employment Appeals Tribunal; and the outcome of these challenges. [43222/12]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (9 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount of public money that was spent defending unfair dismissal cases in the civil and public service in the past 10 years and the persons who make decisions to defend such cases. [43223/12]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Household Charge Collection (9 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will supply the most recent and up-to-date national registration figures for those who have paid the €100 household charge; if he will supply these figures on a county basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43125/12]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harbours and Piers Funding (9 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide funds for Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council in order to make necessary repairs to Coliemore Harbour, to ensure the restoration of the traditional Coliemore Harbour to Dalkey Island ferry trips; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42037/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres Provision (9 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a full list of the locations and addresses of the primary care centres on the list of 35 primary care centres in the stimulus plan and detailed information on the criterion and weightings used for the selection of the most recent 15; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43121/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (9 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the full facts and figures of the costs involved in supporting elderly and disabled people and children with life-limiting illnesses to live independently in their own homes through the public provision of home help/home care services; if he will also provide a similar cost breakdown in relation to caring for elderly and disabled people and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (9 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Health the number of voluntary/and not-for-profit home help/home care organisations are there currently operating in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43123/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (9 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of the location of and to whom the new home help/home care service tenders are being given/or have been for the past 12 months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43124/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Redundancies (9 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to concerns being raised by home helps with regards to their lack of contracts and conditions of employment; his plans to take action regarding same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41675/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Redundancies (9 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Health his plans to ensure that there are standard contracts with detailed terms and conditions for workers in the home help sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41674/12]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Harbour Authorities Appointments (9 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will outline all plans for the Diaspora Centre, Dun Laoghaire, Dublin; the stage they are at including origin of all funding; if any staff have been appointed at this stage; and the pay scale of same. [43179/12]

Other Questions: Tax Code (4 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I strongly disagree with the Minister. Ireland has become Europe's version of the Cayman Islands. It is part of an international architecture for tax avoidance in multinationals. This system of tax avoidance, of which we form a critical part in Europe, is destabilising the global economy. As multinationals are increasingly not paying tax across the world - an act we facilitate - there is...