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- Order of Business. (2 Jun 2010)
Joe Costello: I was giving some basic reasons as to why a debate is necessary so we can be prepared for this decade of commemorations.
- Order of Business. (2 Jun 2010)
Joe Costello: Will the Taoiseach respond and seek to facilitate a debate in this House and perhaps the other House so we can discuss the issues?
- Order of Business. (2 Jun 2010)
Joe Costello: We should debate issues of concern with regard to the decade of commemoration.
- Written Answers — Energy Saving Schemes: Energy Saving Schemes (1 Jun 2010)
Joe Costello: Question 65: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when the national energy efficiency retrofit programme will be launched in view of the difficulties that there has been with expenditure running behind profile in 2009 according to the Department of Finance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23018/10]
- Written Answers — Work Permits: Work Permits (1 Jun 2010)
Joe Costello: Question 94: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation if he will amend the Employment Permit Act 2006 to allow immigrants who have employment permits to work with Irish employers to register with new employers here when they are made redundant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22776/10]
- Written Answers — Asylum Support Services: Asylum Support Services (1 Jun 2010)
Joe Costello: Question 186: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will allow a person (details supplied) to remain in Dublin in order to complete the last year of their second level studies; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22779/10]
- Written Answers — Rent Reviews: Rent Reviews (1 Jun 2010)
Joe Costello: Question 295: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when the working group on transparency in commercial rent reviews will issue its report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22777/10]
- Written Answers — Swimming Pool Projects: Swimming Pool Projects (1 Jun 2010)
Joe Costello: Question 345: To ask the Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport the number of swimming pools which were funded under the last round of the local authority swimming pools programme in Dublin city; their locations; the amount in each case; when the new programme will be launched; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22778/10]
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (1 Jun 2010)
Joe Costello: Question 362: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will grant rent supplement to a person (details supplied) in Dublin 7; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23271/10]
- Order of Business. (27 May 2010)
Joe Costello: I await the next missive from the Ceann Comhairle on this matter as well. On the Tánaiste's Department of Education and Science brief, yesterday there was a ceremony by the survivors of Bethany Home, which was a residential institution for children, at an unmarked grave for 40 children who died, 27 of them in the space of a single year, in Bethany Home. The Department of Health and Children...
- Order of Business. (27 May 2010)
Joe Costello: Can she state whether that requires any further order by the Minister?
- Order of Business. (27 May 2010)
Joe Costello: Considering that there were 27 deaths of infants in a single year, which we know about only because the legislation-----
- Order of Business. (27 May 2010)
Joe Costello: No, this is relevant. We know of that only because of the 1934 legislation that required notification of infant deaths. The following year we got it, but we do not have it for any of the other years. Will the Minister, because it is her area of responsibility, conduct an investigation into all of the deaths that took place in Bethany Home? Twenty seven deaths is close to 15% of the child...
- Order of Business. (27 May 2010)
Joe Costello: I am raising two points:-----
- Order of Business. (27 May 2010)
Joe Costello: -----first, if Bethany Home can be added to the list; and second, if an investigation will take place because this is a matter on a par with what we are seeking from the HSE on deaths of children in its care over the past ten years.
- Order of Business. (27 May 2010)
Joe Costello: Is it or is it not?
- Order of Business. (27 May 2010)
Joe Costello: That is a disgrace.
- Written Answers — Food Industry: Food Industry (26 May 2010)
Joe Costello: Question 63: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the measures that he is taking to ensure the viability of the artisan farmhouse cheese sector; if he acknowledges that there are about 60 farmhouse cheese manufacturers here, producing about 1,250 tonnes of cheese with a value of about â¬9 million; if there is further growth potential in this sector; and if he will make a...
- Written Answers — EU Funding: EU Funding (26 May 2010)
Joe Costello: Question 114: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food his views on the â¬50 billion research programme known as Framework Programme 7 and Ireland's receipt of â¬152 million since it started in 2007 and in particular in the area of food, agriculture, fisheries and biotechnology attracting more than â¬8.5 million of EU funding; if this funding will be guaranteed in the...
- Written Answers — Deportation Orders: Deportation Orders (26 May 2010)
Joe Costello: Question 200: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will reconsider his decision to issue a deportation order in respect of a person (details supplied) in view of his outstanding record and achievements during the past eight years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22291/10]