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Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (16 Nov 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 43: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will confirm whether there is a requirement on the National Council for Special Education to ensure that places identified by special education needs organisers are appropriate for children with autism; and if this is a requirement, who precisely makes the final decision as to whether the placement identified is appropriate for...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (16 Nov 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 176: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide adequate financial and HR support to organisations in situations where cuts that he makes to funding of community and voluntary groups results in redundancies. [35097/11]

Written Answers — Youth Services: Youth Services (16 Nov 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 230: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will indicate to an organisation (details supplied) the way she is measuring value for money; and if reductions in funding are being imposed will she articulate a clear rationale for the reductions and for the level of reductions being imposed. [35094/11]

Written Answers — Community Development: Community Development (16 Nov 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 231: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide adequate financial and HR support to organisations in situations where cuts that she makes to funding of community and voluntary groups results in redundancies. [35096/11]

National Drugs Strategy (16 Nov 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Amidst the discourse on the economic crisis the drugs crisis has been forgotten. It would be wrong for that to happen given the new report from the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction. It is a stark reminder of how serious Ireland's drug problem is and the horrific consequences of the failures of successive Governments to make sufficient funding available. The report...

National Drugs Strategy (16 Nov 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I am surprised by the Minister's response. Is he denying that cuts are being imposed which are affecting people in the communities worst affected by the drugs scourge? Is he denying the death rate? As I said, that figure is most likely an underestimation. For instance, it tends only to include those who die of overdoses, while excluding deaths arising more indirectly from drug misuse,...

Written Answers — Debt Statistics: Debt Statistics (15 Nov 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 56: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide figures combining the nation debt, household debt and commercial debt for 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 in monetary terms and as a percentage of GDP; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34445/11]

Written Answers — Tax Yield: Tax Yield (15 Nov 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 65: To ask the Minister for Finance if there was a difference between the projected income from the universal social charge and the actual received income from the charge based on the most recent figures available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34446/11]

Written Answers — Customs and Excise Operations: Customs and Excise Operations (15 Nov 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 121: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has been informed by customs and excise authorities as to the number of raids by their officers on properties suspected of being involved in the sale and supply of substances covered under the Criminal Justice (Psychoactive Substances) Act 2010; the amount and type of substances confiscated in those raids; and the number of seizures in...

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (15 Nov 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 148: To ask the Minister for Finance if a disability extension on a home qualifies for a VAT refund under the tax return regulations or has their been a change in the criteria in recent years. [34634/11]

Written Answers — Redundancy Payments: Redundancy Payments (15 Nov 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 399: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the reason persons (details supplied) in Dublin have been waiting for more than a year to receive their redundancy payments; and the steps he will take to ensure they receive their redundancy payments without further delay. [34556/11]

Written Answers — Crime Statistics: Crime Statistics (15 Nov 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 443: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of arrests and prosecutions of proprietors of premises selling psychoactive products, head shops, have been taken in the past year since the passage of the Criminal Justice (psychoactive substances) Act 2010. [34284/11]

Written Answers — Crime Statistics: Crime Statistics (15 Nov 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 444: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he has been informed by An Garda Síochána authorities as to the number of raids on properties suspected of being involved in the sale and supply of substances covered under the Criminal Justice (Psychoactive Substances) Act 2010.; and the amount and type of substances confiscated in those raids. [34285/11]

Written Answers — Defence Forces Reserve: Defence Forces Reserve (15 Nov 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 469: To ask the Minister for Defence if his attention has been drawn to the delays in clearing applicants for the Reserve Defence Force; the reason for such a delay; and when will new applicants for the reserve be allowed join the force. [34329/11]

Written Answers — Defence Forces Reserve: Defence Forces Reserve (15 Nov 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 470: To ask the Minister for Defence when recruitment for the Reserve Defence Force will recommence; the numbers currently in the reserve; and the limit on its numbers. [34330/11]

Written Answers — Defence Forces Reserve: Defence Forces Reserve (15 Nov 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 471: To ask the Minister for Defence the funding for each of the past five years for the Reserve Defence Forces. [34331/11]

Written Answers — Human Rights Issues: Human Rights Issues (10 Nov 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 27: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his policy on both the Cambodian and Malaysian governments' failure to regulate recruiters and employers which leaves Cambodian migrant domestic workers exposed to a wide range of abuses, in which tens of thousands of Cambodian women and girls who migrate to Malaysia have little protection against forced confinement...

Written Answers — Human Rights Issues: Human Rights Issues (10 Nov 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 34: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the deteriorating situation in Zambia in which Chinese-run copper mines are dangerously unsafe and owners routinely flout the rights of workers, when miners routinely work 12 to 18 hour shifts often in fume-filled tunnels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33712/11]

Written Answers — Information and Communications Technology: Information and Communications Technology (9 Nov 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 27: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to improve the tourist experience here through the use of mobile Internet devices and applications similar to and including the Culture Fox application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33416/11]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (9 Nov 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 117: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the fact that rent supplement recipients have had their rent supplement withdrawn or decreased on the grounds that they have refused an offer of social housing despite a policy being in place across local authorities which allows for a person to make two refusals without negative repercussions; her...