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Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (2 May 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Question 72: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of community employment drug rehabilitation places were occupied on 31 March 2012 in the north inner city ward and in Dublin central constituency. [22218/12]

Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (2 May 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Question 73: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of new entrants that started on community employment places between 1 January to 31 March 2012 in the north inner city ward and in Dublin central constituency. [22219/12]

Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (2 May 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Question 74: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of new entrants that started on community employment drug rehabilitation places between 1 January to 31 March 2012 in the north inner city ward and in Dublin central constituency. [22220/12]

Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (2 May 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Question 75: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of new entrants starting on community employment drug rehabilitation places between 1 January to 31 March 2012 in the north inner city ward and in Dublin central constituency that were female.. [22221/12]

Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (2 May 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Question 76: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding community employment reviews and specifically the future of the drug rehabilitation places; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22222/12]

Written Answers — National Monuments: National Monuments (1 May 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Question 144: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the engagement there has been between Dublin City Council, the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Governement and his Department regarding the issue of the Easter Rising site in the environs of Moore Street, Dublin 1; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the local authority may dispose of the...

Written Answers — Travel Advice: Travel Advice (1 May 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Question 158: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is taking any special provisions or giving any special advice to persons travelling to the Eurovision song contest in Azerbaijan next month in view of the recent threats made against the event. [21510/12]

Written Answers — Dormant Accounts Fund: Dormant Accounts Fund (1 May 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Question 458: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government in relation to Dormant Account Inspection Reports, which have been completed by the Central Bank of Ireland, if he will agree that these reports have been undertaken under Sub-section 5(c)of section 33AK Central Bank Act 2003 which prescribes that the Central Bank may disclose information where the bank...

Written Answers — Dormant Accounts Fund: Dormant Accounts Fund (1 May 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Question 459: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will seek a report from the Central Bank of Ireland regarding its intentions in respect of future inspections of the sixty or so financial institutions that contribute to the Dormant Accounts Fund, only two of which, so far unnamed, have been inspected to date, with the inspection reports unpublished...

Written Answers — Human Rights Issues: Human Rights Issues (26 Apr 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Question 54: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the situation in Bahrain regarding the hunger striker Abdulhadi al-Khawaja who has been on hunger strike for 70 days; if he has made representations to the Danish Government in support of his extradition to Denmark; if any measures have been taken to urge the Bahraini authorities to find a humanitarian...

Written Answers — Offshore Exploration: Offshore Exploration (26 Apr 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Question 136: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if drilling in Dublin Bay will be done through the use of seismic detection for viable concentrations of liquid and gas pockets in the bedrock; if his attention has been drawn to the effects that seismic detection will have on the health and well-being of dolphin pods that frequent the Dublin Bay area and...

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (26 Apr 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Question 193: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will consider amending the draft provisions of Part 5 residence permissions of the Immigration Residence and Protection Bill 2010, or any future draft legislation; if he will introduce secondary regulations dealing with family reunification, including matters related to entry, residence and access to independent/permanent...

Written Answers — Export Controls: Export Controls (25 Apr 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Question 43: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to reports of a discovery of engine parts in a pilotless drone in the Nuba Mountains, Sudan, marked by an Irish Company (details supplied) which develops replacement carburettors and spare parts; if he has addressed the issue of Irish technology being used in the manufacturing of...

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (24 Apr 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Question 144: To ask the Taoiseach if he will publish a schedule of payments made from public funds to a multinational bracket investment banking and securities firm (details supplied) in the period from 1 September 2008 to date in 2012, with notes confirming the basis of each individual payment made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17595/12]

Written Answers — Fur Farming: Fur Farming (24 Apr 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Question 613: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the fate of the carcasses and manure of the five mink farms at which mink are killed; if his attention has been drawn to the environmental and health risks from disposing of carcasses of mink in landfills when mink are killed using barbiturates and that mink can be carriers of the transmissible encephalopathy; and if he...

Written Answers — Irish Horseracing Industry: Irish Horseracing Industry (24 Apr 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Question 642: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views regarding the welfare of race horses that will be exported to China in view of China's animal welfare record and continuous reports of cruelty to horses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20189/12]

Burial and Cremation Regulation 2011: Second Stage (20 Apr 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Deputy Broughan does a considerable service in bringing forward this Bill. Until I read the Bill and received other information, I was unaware there is no legislation to regulate the establishment and operation of crematoria and some graveyards. It was a particular inappropriate planning application for a private burial ground and crematorium on the grounds of a nursing home in his own...

Written Answers — Educational Tours: Educational Tours (19 Apr 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Question 89: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will address concerns regarding the Irish Greyhound Board offering free school tour outings of the greyhound stadia around the country for students and teachers; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that this may encourage the culture of gambling and betting to children as well as the culture of blood sports through the...

Thirtieth Amendment of the Constitution (Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Apr 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I will go back a number of years to refer to the very first decision to join the EEC. I was against that decision and over the years have been consistently opposed to that membership. Consequently, I have been against both the Nice treaty and the various varieties of the Lisbon treaty. I thought we were giving away too much of our identity and our sovereignty and that we were no longer...

Thirtieth Amendment of the Constitution (Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Apr 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I have just come from a meeting of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs on the Global Irish Economic Forum. It was addressed by the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, who made many points about what he is trying to do in respect of job creation, economic growth and so on. However, I am not convinced that continuing in the present manner will bring about those things,...