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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]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Programme (24 Sep 2013)

Seán Kyne: 443. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the progress made in reforming and modernising Ireland's family law with particular reference to families of citizens who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender regarding issues including, but not limited to, guardianship, custody, access, maintenance and inheritance. [39787/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare Issues (24 Sep 2013)

Seán Kyne: 450. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider encouraging the take-up of drag coursing as an alternative to live hare coursing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39801/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Forthcoming General Affairs Council: Discussion (19 Sep 2013)

Seán Kyne: I thank the Chairman and welcome the Minister of State to the meeting. In respect of the priorities he highlighted, I very much agree with him regarding the understanding of people's views of Europe and what Europe is about. I am not sure whether this has been adequately done over the years by members of the European Parliament. In many cases, they are more involved in many local issues...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Forthcoming General Affairs Council: Discussion (19 Sep 2013)

Seán Kyne: Regional funding relating to the European territorial co-operation objective. It is part of the RDF and relates to the development of economic and social cross-border activities. The Minister of State might have a few comments on that.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Reports (19 Sep 2013)

Seán Kyne: 20. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the fact that childcare facility inspection reports are compiled in long hand and then stored for scanning and online publication by another staff member is contributing to a delay in publicising reports; and if consideration will be given to providing inspectors with tablet computers to enable a speedier and more efficient process....

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Inspections (19 Sep 2013)

Seán Kyne: 31. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if it is the case that certain child care facilities in Dublin and in other locations have not been subject to an inspection by the Health Service Executive or its equivalent prior to that organisation's establishment for over a decade or more; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38607/13]