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Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointments) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (25 Sep 2013)

Seán Kyne: I thank the Acting Chairman. At the outset, I wish to recognise the important contribution public servants have made to restoring the nation's finances in recent years and in particular with regard to the most recent Haddington Road agreement. I compliment the Minister on his work in that area of reform. I am surprised this Bill has not attracted more attention as it concerns an issue that...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Textbooks (25 Sep 2013)

Seán Kyne: 89. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration is being given to the creation of a national book exchange policy to reduce costs on parents; and if he will report on the use of e-books accessed via tablet computers now being availed of in certain schools. [40026/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Voluntary Contributions (25 Sep 2013)

Seán Kyne: 90. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department issues guidelines on the imposition of voluntary contribution charges; and if it will be possible to encourage or mandate to provide a minimum time notice such as nine months in advance of changes to such contributions. [40027/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service Administration (25 Sep 2013)

Seán Kyne: 91. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of educational psychological reports carried out in 2012 and to date in 2013 which are necessary to receive certain additional educational supports. [40028/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: School Meals Programme (25 Sep 2013)

Seán Kyne: 100. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of breakfast clubs being operated nationally; her views on such clubs; and if her Department is encouraging the creation of more clubs of this nature. [40025/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Family Law Cases (25 Sep 2013)

Seán Kyne: 152. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if, in the context of the legislative efforts to modernise Irish Family Law, a provision may be included, especially when children are in care, to have grandparents made a party to the proceedings from the outset, and to allow for a quasi parental role being ascribed to, and acknowledged of, grandparents in circumstances where either parent is...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Aid Applications (25 Sep 2013)

Seán Kyne: 153. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if support to address the cost of legal fees is available or will be made available in cases where grandparents seek to become party to proceedings regarding children and State care. [40021/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Aid Service Reform (25 Sep 2013)

Seán Kyne: 154. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will report on the changes to the private practitioners scheme in respect of legal aid in the District Court. [40022/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Education Welfare Service Staff (25 Sep 2013)

Seán Kyne: 178. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number and location, by county, of education welfare officers; and if she will report on the efforts of her Department in addressing school absenteeism. [40024/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Provision (25 Sep 2013)

Seán Kyne: 179. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to extend the age to which the State provides care to children in State care from 17 to 18. [40023/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (25 Sep 2013)

Seán Kyne: 193. To ask the Minister for Health if the National Immunisation Advisory Committee has concluded its health technology assessment of the recently-licensed Meningitis B vaccine, Bexsero, and if he has received the group's recommendation [39979/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Equine Passports (24 Sep 2013)

Seán Kyne: 61. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the procedures and practices which have been enacted to safeguard against a repeat of the horse-meat controversy, with particular reference to horse passports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39511/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Exports to China (24 Sep 2013)

Seán Kyne: 97. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine following on from the visit of China's Vice President in 2012, his Department's progress in developing and increasing agri-business related trade and links with China. [39510/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Corporate Tax Regime Issues (24 Sep 2013)

Seán Kyne: 222. To ask the Minister for Finance the average effective rate of Ireland's corporation tax and the position of his Department on mechanisms being used to reduce the effective rate of corporation tax paid from the headline figure of 12.5%. [39798/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Job Initiatives (24 Sep 2013)

Seán Kyne: 354. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding the progress of Jobs Plus; the number of places employers have created and the number of citizens who have taken up a Jobs Plus position; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39797/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Welfare Services (24 Sep 2013)

Seán Kyne: 350. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on whether it is appropriate that citizens requiring social welfare assistance from the community welfare service in large parts of County Galway must now travel distances of over 60 kilometres; and her views on whether such an eventuality would be tolerated in Dublin constituencies. [39793/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Welfare Services (24 Sep 2013)

Seán Kyne: 353. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will publish the criteria upon which the decision to reorganise her Department's community welfare assistance structure was taken; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39796/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Teanga Gaeilge (24 Sep 2013)

Seán Kyne: 355. To ask the Minister for Social Protection an féidir léi a chinntiú go mbeidh na seirbhísí poiblí a sholáthraíonn an Roinn chomh maith leis an tSeirbhís Leasa Pobail ar fáil trí mheán na Gaeilge; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [39805/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payments Implementation (24 Sep 2013)

Seán Kyne: 415. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding the introduction of the housing assistance payment which provides citizens with support in the early stages of their return to the workforce. [39799/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Operations (24 Sep 2013)

Seán Kyne: 442. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the cost, following the necessary and well organised Garda operation on 18 September 2013 of policing a protest in Dublin city centre; the number of Gardaí involved and from which divisions said Gardaí were drawn; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39786/13]