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Written Answers — EU Funding: EU Funding (11 Jan 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Question 233: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 166 of 29 November 2011, the reason he can state that 4,500 interventions have been commenced for some of the redundant construction workers eligible for European globalisation fund support when at the time of replying to the Parliamentary Question none of the eligible construction workers had...

Written Answers — EU Funding: EU Funding (11 Jan 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Question 236: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, with respect to the EU regulations governing the operation of the European globalisation fund, he has an operational definition of the requirement for EGF funded interventions to be complimentary to actions of member states at national, regional and local level as detailed in Article 6 of the regulations; his views that active...

Written Answers — European Globalisation Fund: European Globalisation Fund (11 Jan 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Question 235: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Questions No 110 and 111 of 14 December 2011, if he has home addresses for these workers; if these workers have been contacted by him since the replies to these Parliamentary Questions were issued; the date on which contact was made; the number of replies received by him; the number of persons as of the end...

Written Answers — European Globalisation Fund: European Globalisation Fund (11 Jan 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Question 237: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of redundant construction workers eligible for support under the European Globalisation Fund funding programme that have contacted the EGF website since it went live in December 2011; the number of these workers who have accessed personalised services designed to re-integrate them into the labour market since the date of...

Written Answers — Oireachtas Officeholders' Remuneration: Oireachtas Officeholders' Remuneration (11 Jan 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Question 264: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the Oireachtas office holders who took a voluntary pay cut in March 2011; the value of these pay cuts and the salaries paid after the reduction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41240/11]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (11 Jan 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Question 345: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) in County Donegal is still waiting for their appeal decision even though it was first registered in July 2010; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40795/11]

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (11 Jan 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Question 351: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of social welfare deciding officers and administrative staff working in the Donegal Town and Ballybofey offices in County Donegal; and the training facilities in place for staff members. [40866/11]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (11 Jan 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Question 355: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of claimants currently in receipt of rent supplement, mortgage interest supplement and the household benefit package benefits in County Donegal, in nominal terms and as a percentage of persons on the live register in County Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40922/11]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (11 Jan 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Question 356: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons currently on the live register in County Donegal who receive less than the maximum personal weekly rate, who receive no payment at all, who receive payment for part of the week and who receive jobseeker's allowance or jobseeker's benefit at less than the maximum personal rate, and to detail these figures in nominal...

Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (11 Jan 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Question 549: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if, with respect to the 2,000 housing units to be made available for social housing by name, this number represents actually identified units or a target to be reached; the local authority areas in which these units are located; the dates upon which the corresponding 2,000 tenancies are due to commence; the...

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (11 Jan 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Question 668: To ask the Minister for Defence the reason a person (details supplied) did not receive an Army pension or financial support for psychological difficulties following time served in the Irish Army; if he will reconsider the position of the provision of an army pension to the person; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1236/12]

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (11 Jan 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Question 708: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for the delay in paying the single farm payment for 2011 to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41196/11]

Written Answers — Turbary Rights: Turbary Rights (11 Jan 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Question 719: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the conditions that existed in the Q3 agreement entered in respect of a folio (details supplied) that was sold by the Land Commission to a person in County Donegal in 1942; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41283/11]

Written Answers — Family Support Services: Family Support Services (11 Jan 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Question 767: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason a family (details supplied) in Dublin 22 has not had a social worker appointed to its case despite repeated requests from the family; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40958/11]

Written Answers — Youth Services: Youth Services (11 Jan 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Question 805: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide an explanation for the proposed closure of Foróige youth information centre in Donegal town; her views on the matter dealing with the impact on the young persons who currently access this service and the impact on the three persons who have lost their jobs; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Private Members' Business, Special Educational Needs: Motion (11 Jan 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Cuirim fáilte roimh an deis atá againn anocht an rún fíor-thábhachtach seo ar chúrsaí oideachais a phlé sa Dáil. Bhí sé iontach slítheánta an dóigh a thug an Rialtas agus an t-Aire na ciorruithe a chuir siad i bhfeidm i gcúrsaí oideachais. The Government introduced the education cuts in December's budget in a very sly way. We had the mantra from Government spokespersons,...

Leaders' Questions (11 Jan 2012)

Pearse Doherty: Bar the pensioners.

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

Pearse Doherty: Question 42: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount of funding allocated to the Guardian Ad Litem system each year since its inception; and the amount of funding allocated to it for the forthcoming year. [40374/11]

Written Answers — Juvenile Offenders: Juvenile Offenders (15 Dec 2011)

Pearse Doherty: Question 50: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she has met with the Department of Justice and Equality on the issue of extending the remit of the Children's Ombudsman to take complaints from children resident in St. Patrick's Institution, Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40373/11]

Written Answers — Fiscal Policy: Fiscal Policy (15 Dec 2011)

Pearse Doherty: Question 64: To ask the Minister for Finance the changes to table 2.1 from the mid term fiscal review November 2011 as a result of the downgrading by him of our growth rates as stated on budget day 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40475/11]