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Written Answers — Employment Rights: Employment Rights (5 Feb 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 412: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the fact that persons, employed by some foreign embassies located here are not being treated for wage and tax purposes similar to PAYE workers employed by foreign companies based here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3348/08]

Written Answers — Ministerial Appointments: Ministerial Appointments (5 Feb 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 532: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when she will appoint two student representatives onto the Higher Education Authority and the National Qualifications Authority of Ireland, as promised in the Programme for Government; if she will include this as part of the Student Support Bill; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3366/08]

Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (5 Feb 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 533: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if, arising from the section on school buses in the Programme for Government, her Department conducted a review of the school transport system; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3367/08]

Written Answers — Youth Services: Youth Services (5 Feb 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 534: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when she will outline the objectives and timetable for the Youth Work Development Plan, for the period 2008 to 2012, as promised in the Programme for Government; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3368/08]

Written Answers — School Management: School Management (5 Feb 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 535: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when she will publish the manual to support school boards of management as promised in the Programme for Government; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3369/08]

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (5 Feb 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 536: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her Department recruited extra staff to the Educational Welfare Board and the National Educational Psychological Service as promised in the Programme for Government; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3370/08]

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (5 Feb 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 537: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when she will implement the Educate for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act 2004 as promised in the programme for Government; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3371/08]

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (5 Feb 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 538: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will make provisions to expand primary teaching colleges here in order to meet the increasing demand for teachers in primary schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3372/08]

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (5 Feb 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 539: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the maximum amount of students that are expected to graduate from all of the primary teaching colleges here in 2008; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3373/08]

Written Answers — National Treatment Purchase Fund: National Treatment Purchase Fund (31 Jan 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 23: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the role that will be assigned to the National Treatment Purchase Fund in the implementation of the fair deal proposals; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2711/08]

Written Answers — Cancer Screening Programme: Cancer Screening Programme (31 Jan 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 66: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she plans to establish a national cancer screening register; if so, when; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2710/08]

Written Answers — Medical Education: Medical Education (31 Jan 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 114: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the new graduate medical programme at the University of Limerick, leading to the degrees of Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery, entitles a graduate to automatic registration as a registered medical practitioner under the Medical Practitioners Act (details supplied) in the same way as those with such degrees from the NUI...

Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (31 Jan 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 115: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she proposes to introduce changes to the current statutory and contractual definition of hospital consultant as meaning a registered medical practitioner who, by reason of their training, skill and experience in a designated speciality, is consulted by other registered medical practitioners and undertakes full clinical...

Written Answers — Medical Education: Medical Education (31 Jan 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 116: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she proposes to introduce legislation to remove from the Irish Medical Council its power to prescribe the standards of education and training for specialist medical qualifications; if she proposes in this or some other way to reduce the current lengthy training process for higher and specialist medical qualifications; if she...

Written Answers — Medical Education: Medical Education (31 Jan 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 199: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if the new graduate medical programme at the University of Limerick, leading to the degrees of Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery, entitles a graduate to automatic registration as a registered medical practitioner under the Medical Practitioners Act (details supplied) in the same way as those with such degrees from the NUI...

Written Answers — Social Finance Foundation: Social Finance Foundation (30 Jan 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 122: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance when the social finance fund, announced in Budget 2006, will start to issue loans to voluntary projects; the person who will be in charge of the fund; the number of staff members it will have and their responsibilities and salaries; the criteria they will use for assessing loan applications; the penalties that will be imposed on...

Written Answers — Tax Collection: Tax Collection (30 Jan 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 151: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the amount of outstanding uncollected taxes; the proportion of same the Revenue Commissioners expect to recover; if new measures are planned to assist in the collection of outstanding taxes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2324/08]

Written Answers — Data Protection: Data Protection (30 Jan 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 165: To ask the Taoiseach the number of Department owned computer desktops or laptops or other data devices, such as blackberries and memory keys, reported lost, missing or stolen from his Department in each year from 2002 to 2007; the number of these that were later recovered or found; the number still missing; if any sensitive or private data was compromised; the measures in place...

Written Answers — Departmental Properties: Departmental Properties (30 Jan 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 221: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the number of Department owned computer desktops or laptops or other data devices, such as blackberries and memory keys, reported lost, missing or stolen from his Department in each year from 2002 to 2007; the number of these that were later recovered or found; the number still missing; if any sensitive or private data was...

Written Answers — Nursing Home Subventions: Nursing Home Subventions (30 Jan 2008)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 275: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that an organisation (details supplied) and eight other organisations issued a joint statement on 27 November 2007 outlining their concerns regarding the proposed fair deal legislation and their desire to be consulted on the proposals; the consultations that have taken place since she...