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Inter-Country Adoption: Statements (Resumed) (21 Feb 2012)

Michael McCarthy: I welcome the fact we are debating this important issue in the House, and I welcome the Minister's commitment to this area. I have been championing this issue, in particular, the need to establish a bilateral agreement between Ireland and Ethiopia due to the latter country's inability to ratify the Hague convention. On the back of these efforts, the Minister, Deputy Fitzgerald, wrote to the...

Written Answers — Enterprise Support Services: Enterprise Support Services (16 Feb 2012)

Michael McCarthy: Question 74: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if funding can be released under the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund for start-up businesses; the ways in which start-up business may be able to access the funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8991/12]

Written Answers — Job Initiative: Job Initiative (16 Feb 2012)

Michael McCarthy: Question 195: To ask the Minister for Defence when a decision will issue on the successful applicant for a vacancy within his Department (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8939/12]

Leaders' Questions (16 Feb 2012)

Michael McCarthy: Who was the developer?

Leaders' Questions (16 Feb 2012)

Michael McCarthy: What about Sinn Féin fund-raising?

Leaders' Questions (16 Feb 2012)

Michael McCarthy: Disgraceful.

Written Answers — Departmental Programmes: Departmental Programmes (14 Feb 2012)

Michael McCarthy: Question 217: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of applications that have been received to date for the 17 new graduate skills conversion programmes across the country; if he is expecting over-subscription to the programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7842/12]

Written Answers — Information and Communications Technology: Information and Communications Technology (14 Feb 2012)

Michael McCarthy: Question 392: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide an update on the status of metropolitan area network infrastructure projects in Dunmanway, Bantry, Skibbereen and Kinsale separately; the stage of each project; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that each network is lying dormant since 2005; if he will take this into consideration;...

Written Answers — Inter-Country Adoptions: Inter-Country Adoptions (14 Feb 2012)

Michael McCarthy: Question 599: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will explain her views on the possibility of establishing a strong administrative agreement as an alternative to a bilateral agreement in respect of inter-country adoptions as per her statement in Dáil Éireann on 26 January; if she will elaborate on same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7660/12]

Written Answers — Health Service Executive: Health Service Executive (14 Feb 2012)

Michael McCarthy: Question 676: To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm and elaborate on his plans to abolish the Health Service Executive by the end of this year; if he will clarify specifically the functional areas of responsibility and authority that will reside with his Department following the abolition of the entity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7899/12]

Written Answers — Health Service Executive: Health Service Executive (14 Feb 2012)

Michael McCarthy: Question 677: To ask the Minister for Health his plans for Health Service Executive employees following the planned abolition of the body at the end of this year, specifically in relation to issues of employee retention, redundancy pacakages, or any requirement there might be to re-apply to a new organisation which may replace the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7900/12]

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (14 Feb 2012)

Michael McCarthy: Question 696: To ask the Minister for Health if he will advise the reason for the delay in dealing with an application for a change of doctor under the medical card scheme in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7996/12]

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (14 Feb 2012)

Michael McCarthy: Question 697: To ask the Minister for Health if he will advise the reason correspondence sent to the primary care reimbursement service by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry in September 2011 in respect of their medical card application has been requested again by that Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7997/12]

Written Answers — Driving Test: Driving Test (14 Feb 2012)

Michael McCarthy: Question 757: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when a national review of driver test centres involving him, the Road Safety Authority and the Office of Public Works will be completed; the aim of the review; the criteria that will be considered in terms of assessing the feasibility of each centre; the number of centres that he envisages will close as a result of the...

Written Answers — Driving Test: Driving Test (14 Feb 2012)

Michael McCarthy: Question 758: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the value and contribution of the Skibbereen driving test centre to the community of west Cork; if he will take into consideration in the context of the ongoing national review of test centres by him, the Road Safety Authority and the Office of Public Works; the way the centre compares to...

Written Answers — Tax Reliefs: Tax Reliefs (9 Feb 2012)

Michael McCarthy: Question 66: To ask the Minister for Finance the total number of mortgageholders to who the increased rate of mortgage interest relief has been passed on to since it came into effect on 1 January; the banks that have passed on the relief; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7506/12]

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (9 Feb 2012)

Michael McCarthy: Question 79: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a teaching post at a school (details supplied) in County Cork; if the current base arrangement will be maintained following the review of learning support teachers due to be published shortly; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7382/12]

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (9 Feb 2012)

Michael McCarthy: Question 104: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a company (details supplied) in County Cork will receive its employer rebate of statutory redundancy payments; the reason for the delay in processing same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7274/12]

Telecommunications Services (9 Feb 2012)

Michael McCarthy: In case the Acting Chairman thinks my matter has something to do with the number of bachelors in west Cork, Dunmanway, Kinsale or Skibbereen, MAN is short for metropolitan area network. I thank the Acting Chairman for giving me the opportunity to raise this matter regarding fibre optic infrastructure and the creation of jobs and the provision of investment in rural Ireland. The metropolitan...

Telecommunications Services (9 Feb 2012)

Michael McCarthy: I acknowledge the sentiments in the reply. One of the proposals put to me locally is that one can establish a resilient circle connecting the metropolitan area networks from the Bishopstown roundabout going to Dunmanway, Bantry, Skibbereen, Kinsale and back into Carrigaline and make it part of the Cork city metropolitan area network because that has global connectivity. We are all well...