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Written Answers — Architectural Heritage: Architectural Heritage (6 Jun 2012)

Martin Ferris: Question 32: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the availability of funding for restoration works on protected buildings throughout Ireland. [27103/12]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (6 Jun 2012)

Martin Ferris: Question 372: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision on carer's allowance will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry and if same will be expedited. [26815/12]

Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (6 Jun 2012)

Martin Ferris: Question 683: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding a residency application in respect of a person (details supplied). [26808/12]

Special Educational Needs (24 May 2012)

Martin Ferris: Question 7: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will ensure that in the review of the school funding due to be carried out by the National Council for Special Education that no further cuts will be applied that will reduce the number of special needs assistants at schools (details supplied) in County Wexford. [25798/12]

Written Answers — Departmental Funding: Departmental Funding (24 May 2012)

Martin Ferris: Question 18: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will commit to ring-fencing the moneys allocated by FÁS for the refurbishment of Lourdes Youth and Community Services until such time as the ownership of the property has been resolved. [25799/12]

Written Answers — Medical Aids and Appliances: Medical Aids and Appliances (24 May 2012)

Martin Ferris: Question 171: To ask the Minister for Health when orthopaedic shoes will be available in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry [25962/12]

Electricity Regulation (Carbon Revenue Levy) (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second and Subsequent Stages (24 May 2012)

Martin Ferris: Sinn Féin will not oppose the Bill nor will it table any amendments to it. We welcome the opportunity to have it passed speedily, in the interests of everybody concerned. Given that the purpose of the Bill is to forestall a situation in which electricity suppliers can include the "opportunity" cost of the carbon allowances and the CER levy in the prices they charge to customers, there is...

Written Answers — Fiscal Policy: Fiscal Policy (23 May 2012)

Martin Ferris: Question 22: To ask the Minister for Finance if the State has met the targets set out in the Memorandum of Understanding with respect to the Fiscal Advisory Council and the reform of the legal, medical and accounting professions. [25640/12]

Written Answers — EU-IMF Agreement: EU-IMF Agreement (23 May 2012)

Martin Ferris: Question 43: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of the targets set out in the original Memorandum of Understanding signed in December 2010 that have been fully met; the number of targets to date that have been deferred; and the number of targets that have been missed. [25639/12]

Private Members' Business. National Monuments: Motion (22 May 2012)

Martin Ferris: I welcome the relatives of the men and women of 1916 here tonight. The fact that the buildings at Nos. 14 to 17 Moore Street are under renewed threat due to deterioration, despite the 2007 preservation order, is a cause for concern. For that reason, it is important that the broad support in this motion for both the building and the surrounding district to be preserved in a fitting manner is...

Private Members' Business. National Monuments: Motion (22 May 2012)

Martin Ferris: He is a man I commemorate every year along with Eddie Carmody, who was also from Ballylongford. It would be an awful indictment of the Minister and his Government if they failed in their responsibility to protect the great legacy of the men and women of 1916 and their courageous and determined efforts to bring about a real Republic that would do justice of all the people of Ireland, cherish...

Written Answers — Defence Forces Expenditure: Defence Forces Expenditure (17 May 2012)

Martin Ferris: Question 14: To ask the Minister for Defence the average cost of deploying the Explosive Ordnance Disposal Team on a single occasion. [24531/12]

Written Answers — Defence Forces Training: Defence Forces Training (17 May 2012)

Martin Ferris: Question 15: To ask the Minister for Defence his plans to increase training on military vehicle safety in view of the high level of compensation paid out by his Department arising from accidents involving Defence Force vehicles. [24530/12]

British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly: Statements (17 May 2012)

Martin Ferris: In 1990, the year of the setting-up of the then British-Irish Inter-Parliamentary Body, we lived in a different place in so far as circumstances prevailing at that time meant there was conflict, there were people being killed, there were bombings, there was state violence, and there were arrests, detentions and imprisonments. There was, around that time and maybe a few years earlier, the...

British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly: Statements (17 May 2012)

Martin Ferris: Some 34 people were killed on 17 May 1974 and, as yet, they have not received justice. Neither have their families received the support of or a commitment from the Garda or the British authorities in the context of a resolution of the outstanding problems. Those of us who are members of the Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement have met the victims' families on...

British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly: Statements (17 May 2012)

Martin Ferris: Through that involvement, both I and those to whom I refer learned the benefit of negotiation and dialogue. Having being in involved in the struggle, I can state absolutely we are now in a much better place. I give credit to those who were responsible for instigating the process under discussion. I refer, in particular, to very courageous people such as Deputy Adams and John Hume, who were...

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (16 May 2012)

Martin Ferris: Question 31: To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that a FETAC level 5 qualification is not required for long-standing care staff including multi-task assistants and or carers on night duty in community hospitals or otherwise; the qualifications required for such staff; if such standards are applied consistently across the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (16 May 2012)

Martin Ferris: Question 63: To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure continuing and adequate funding for the established organisations for those women whose health has been damaged by infected blood products; the meetings he has held to address the funding issue and their outcome; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24216/12]

Written Answers — Financial Services Regulation: Financial Services Regulation (16 May 2012)

Martin Ferris: Question 87: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will undertake to legislate in the area of debt collection in line with the Fine Gael Private Members Motion of 30 March 2009, which inter alia pointed out that unlike many other EU countries, Ireland has no system of regulation of debt collectors and called on the then Government to introduce legislation to regulate debt collection and to...

Written Answers — Deportation Orders: Deportation Orders (16 May 2012)

Martin Ferris: Question 148: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the options open to a person who has been deported in the past but now has residency in Ireland to prevent them from being questioned at airports because of the deportation on their passport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24412/12]