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Written Answers — Local Authority Remuneration: Local Authority Remuneration (17 Nov 2011)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Question 41: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will consider implementing a system to collate within his Department the annual pay and pension payments to local authority employees. [35188/11]

Written Answers — School Curriculum: School Curriculum (16 Nov 2011)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Question 51: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in view of his endorsement of the proposals contained in Towards A Framework for Junior Cycle and his statement that he has asked officials in his Department to begin discussions on their implementation with the partners in education, when these discussions will begin and if they will include engagement with schools and classroom...

School Staffing (16 Nov 2011)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Question 7: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will clarify his reference to upward pressures on teacher numbers due primarily to higher retention levels at post-primary level when explaining the reasons behind cuts to part-time language support teachers to a school (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34855/11]

Written Answers — Economic Forecasts: Economic Forecasts (15 Nov 2011)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Question 47: To ask the Minister for Finance the nominal GDP assumptions for Q3 and Q4 2011 that are used in the mid-term financial statement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34448/11]

Written Answers — Economic Forecasts: Economic Forecasts (15 Nov 2011)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Question 60: To ask the Minister for Finance the real GDP assumptions for Q3 and Q4 2011 that are used in the mid-term financial statement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34447/11]

Written Answers — International Agreements: International Agreements (15 Nov 2011)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Question 134: To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of Ireland's financial contribution to the World Bank's International Financial Corporation; and the basis on which the contribution is based. [33716/11]

Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (15 Nov 2011)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Question 572: To ask the Minister for Health the level of consultation with actual parents or children on the design or, more important, the location of the proposed national children's hospital; and if he considered this consultation to be adequate. [34139/11]

Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (15 Nov 2011)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Question 573: To ask the Minister for Health the way he can ignore the weight of public opinion here that does not consider the Mater Hospital site, Dublin, to be suitable as the location for the national children's hospital as evidenced by the overwhelming opposition in two polls (details supplied) on the subject. [34140/11]

Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (15 Nov 2011)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Question 574: To ask the Minister for Health the way he can defend the fact that the independent review of the national children's hospital project carried out earlier this year did not include a full review of the decision to locate the hospital at the Mater Hospital site, Dublin. [34141/11]

Written Answers — Departmental Properties: Departmental Properties (15 Nov 2011)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Question 599: To ask the Minister for Health the valuation the Health Service Executive put on the primary health care centre in Buncrana, County Donegal, currently for sale on the open market; and the investment of the HSE and previously the North Western Health Board in the location from site acquisition up to the present day. [34344/11]

Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (15 Nov 2011)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Question 633: To ask the Minister for Health in view of the fact that there is to be 972 car parking spaces allocated to the proposed national paediatric hospital at the Mater site in Dublin, whether he expects this to be enough to accommodate approximately 6,000 persons, including staff, patients and visitors, who will use the hospital every day; and if he will bear in mind that parents...

Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (15 Nov 2011)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Question 634: To ask the Minister for Health the action that will be taken to accommodate those persons attending the proposed national paediatric hospital at the Mater site, Dublin, especially with tertiary level children, who cannot find a parking space; and whether they will be obliged to take the chance of being clamped, as is the case at present. [34714/11]

Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (15 Nov 2011)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Question 635: To ask the Minister for Health in view of the views of the European Association for Children in Hospital Charter, whether parents should not need to incur additional costs or suffer loss of income while their child is in hospital; how he will ensure that parking costs will not be an issue for parents whose children are in hospital at the proposed national paediatric hospital at...

Human Rights Issues (10 Nov 2011)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Two issues arise, the first of which the Israeli labelling after the 2000 agreement between the EU and Israel, and the deal in recent years where products from the Palestinian territories are labelled as from West Bank to allow the Palestinian territories to develop economic activities. In the middle, produce from illegal settlements that are against various UN resolutions and which Ireland...

Human Rights Issues (10 Nov 2011)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: They will be in the supplementary contribution.

Human Rights Issues (10 Nov 2011)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Is the Government satisfied there is no settlement produce being circulated in the Irish economy? Is the Government considering a ban on produce from these illegal settlements, in order to be absolutely clear on the matter?

Foreign Conflicts (10 Nov 2011)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The report I have seen from the organisation Defence for Children International makes for harrowing reading. It includes pictures of children who were shot and injured by the Israeli defence forces in the region. I thank the Tánaiste's officials at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and in the Irish Embassy to Israel for their assistance in recent days in dealing with the 14 Irish...

Foreign Conflicts (10 Nov 2011)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I am taking the opportunity to discuss the situation in Gaza and the fact that 1 million people are in an open-air prison. There is no doubt that there are fundamental issues-----

Foreign Conflicts (10 Nov 2011)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: What is the international community doing? What can Ireland do?

Foreign Conflicts (10 Nov 2011)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Ceann Comhairle will appreciate that it is difficult to summarise the profound issues involved in a couple of minutes.