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Order of Business (10 Nov 2010)

Kathleen Lynch: This is not the first time the Taoiseach has heard about it.

Written Answers — Residential Institutions Redress Board: Residential Institutions Redress Board (9 Nov 2010)

Kathleen Lynch: Question 109: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No 104 of 27 October 2010, the date and publications in the UK in which the Residential Institutions Redress Board placed advertisements; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41069/10]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (9 Nov 2010)

Kathleen Lynch: Question 315: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons currently waiting for appeals against decisions of social welfare officers; the average length of time an appeal takes to be processed; the extra resources that have been allocated to the appeals office to deal with the increased workload; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41427/10]

Reform of Structures of Government: Motion (9 Nov 2010)

Kathleen Lynch: Is that agreed? Agreed. How is the time to be divided?

Report on Magdalene Laundries (9 Nov 2010)

Kathleen Lynch: If I were voiceless, I could ask for no better champion than Dr. James Smith, who is in the Visitors Gallery tonight. None of the three Deputies involved is saying this just because he is present, and we have said it in private to those who would listen. He is a man who took on a story that has shamed us as a nation. If anything cries to the heaven for revenge and to be put right, this...

Report on Magdalene Laundries (9 Nov 2010)

Kathleen Lynch: The Minister of State's script was obviously written by officials in the Department of Justice and Law Reform.

Reform of Structures of Government: Motion (9 Nov 2010)

Kathleen Lynch: Is that agreed? Agreed.

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (9 Nov 2010)

Kathleen Lynch: It will be worth money in the future.

Order of Business (9 Nov 2010)

Kathleen Lynch: While all of us are horrified at the prospect of a statutory inquiry, in the case of the Magdalene laundries most of the work has been done. The evidence is irrefutable and the State must apologise to the women in question.

Order of Business (9 Nov 2010)

Kathleen Lynch: The difference, however, is that the Taoiseach will not be in the House to respond to us tonight.

Written Answers — Crop Losses: Crop Losses (4 Nov 2010)

Kathleen Lynch: Question 24: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the amount paid under the crop damage compensation scheme to potato and field vegetable growers in 2010 as a result of frost damage in winter 2009/2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40651/10]

Written Answers — On-farm Investment Schemes: On-farm Investment Schemes (4 Nov 2010)

Kathleen Lynch: Question 69: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when the dairy hygiene and water harvesting schemes will be introduced under the targeted agricultural modernisation scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40632/10]

Written Answers — Security of the Elderly: Security of the Elderly (3 Nov 2010)

Kathleen Lynch: Question 72: To ask the Minister for Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs the number of groups in County Kildare registered under the senior alerts scheme; the location of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39285/10]

Written Answers — National Drugs Strategy: National Drugs Strategy (3 Nov 2010)

Kathleen Lynch: Question 73: To ask the Minister for Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs if, under the national drugs strategy, his Department has any views on the number of juvenile diversion programmes as operated by the Garda; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39286/10]

Local Government (Mayor and Regional Authority of Dublin) Bill 2010: Second Stage (3 Nov 2010)

Kathleen Lynch: The Deputy has one minute left.

Issue of Writs (3 Nov 2010)

Kathleen Lynch: On the basis that the judgment holds the Government guilty of a dereliction of duty in terms of the time by which by-elections should be held, when the Cabinet meets tonight and makes a decision will it issue a statement to tell us the decision? In terms of the Constitution and ministerial responsibility, is the decision to hold a by-election solely the prerogative of the line Minister?...

Issue of Writs (3 Nov 2010)

Kathleen Lynch: This is a case where the Government knows the figures.

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (2 Nov 2010)

Kathleen Lynch: Question 84: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the action he is taking to ensure a greater transfer of rent supplement claimants to the rental accommodation scheme. [40046/10]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (2 Nov 2010)

Kathleen Lynch: Question 71: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason he has not yet adopted measures to compensate the poor for the increase in fuel costs arising from the introduction of the carbon levy in May 2010. [40032/10]

Written Answers — Residential Institutions Redress Scheme: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (28 Oct 2010)

Kathleen Lynch: Question 12: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills further to parliamentary Question No. 141 of 19 October 2010, the number of persons who were refused redress by the Residential Institution Redress Board each year for the past seven years because they were not residents of institutions listed under Schedule A of the governing legislation; and if she will make a...