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Written Answers — Child Welfare and Protection: Child Welfare and Protection (14 Oct 2008)

Joan Burton: Question 62: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the specific actions she has taken on the basis of the statement by the Children's Ombudsman on 1 July 2008 that the State is falling short of its duty to protect vulnerable children; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34515/08]

Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (14 Oct 2008)

Joan Burton: Question 63: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on whether there is a lack of demographic and related information on special need prevalence, particularly in view of the broad definition of the Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act 2004; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34516/08]

Written Answers — Pre-School Services: Pre-School Services (14 Oct 2008)

Joan Burton: Question 64: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will implement the pre-school provision recommendation 5.2 from the Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act 2004, to support early intervention for all children with special educational needs; the timeline for this implementation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34517/08]

Written Answers — Pre-School Services: Pre-School Services (14 Oct 2008)

Joan Burton: Question 65: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will introduce a pilot scheme of pre-school classes for children with Down syndrome, metabolic disorders, and ADHD similar to the pilot project for children with autistic spectrum disorders; the timeline for this implementation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34518/08]

Written Answers — Schools Recognition: Schools Recognition (9 Oct 2008)

Joan Burton: Question 206: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when he expects to publish the review of procedures for recognising primary schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34270/08]

Written Answers — Schools Recognition: Schools Recognition (9 Oct 2008)

Joan Burton: Question 207: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason he refused an application by the founding committee of a school (details supplied) for the use of buildings located in Blanchardstown Hospital as temporary accommodation from September 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34271/08]

Northern Ireland Issues. (9 Oct 2008)

Joan Burton: Question 6: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the position in Northern Ireland; when the Northern Executive will be in a position to fully resume its work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34187/08]

European Council Meetings. (9 Oct 2008)

Joan Burton: Question 7: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the discussions that have taken place recently between members of the Government and the Presidency of the European Union; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34186/08]

Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)

Joan Burton: Is he on the naughty step?

Order of Business (9 Oct 2008)

Joan Burton: Fianna Fáil is smiling even more broadly.

Written Answers — Sports Funding: Sports Funding (8 Oct 2008)

Joan Burton: Question 149: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the way he is liaising with the office for integration; if he has developed a policy to ensure funding criteria, together with those of his Department's subsidiary bodies to actively promote integration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33767/08]

Written Answers — Departmental Bodies: Departmental Bodies (8 Oct 2008)

Joan Burton: Question 173: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the semi-State bodies, boards or agencies for which his Department has responsibility, which it is intended to abolish or merge; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33758/08]

Order of Business (8 Oct 2008)

Joan Burton: On the same issue, the net point is that as a State we have effectively given an unlimited guarantee with regard to a series of classes of debt, as outlined this morning by the leader of the Labour Party, some of it risky. At the weekend the Government was to a degree celebrating the fact that the Irish arrangement had resulted in massive inflows into the banks benefiting from the guarantee....

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Joan Burton: Those are precisely the questions I asked the Minister last Wednesday.

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Joan Burton: He said everything was fine.

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Joan Burton: Yesterday, the Financial Regulator announced that the Irish Nationwide Building Society had been fined €50,000 after one of its employees touted for business following the Government's guarantee.

Order of Business (8 Oct 2008)

Joan Burton: It is in the context of the mouse roaring.

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Joan Burton: Two Bills are promised, the financial services miscellaneous provisions Bill, which is to transfer the supervision of building societies from the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government to the Department——

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Joan Burton: This relates to billions of euro, some of it hot,——

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Joan Burton: ——going into Irish accounts.