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Written Answers — Schools Recognition: Schools Recognition (17 Feb 2004)

Joe Higgins: Question 276: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if his Department will immediately sanction funding for the CABAS south Dublin project in Shankill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4527/04]

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (17 Feb 2004)

Joe Higgins: Question 312: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of special needs assistants employed on a full-time and part-time basis. [4953/04]

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (17 Feb 2004)

Joe Higgins: Question 318: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the budget allocated to the provision of special needs assistants for the school year June 2002 to June 2003; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4960/04]

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (17 Feb 2004)

Joe Higgins: Question 319: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the budget allocated to the provision of special needs assistants for the school year June 2003 to June 2004; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4961/04]

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (17 Feb 2004)

Joe Higgins: Question 320: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the budget allocated to the provision of special needs assistants for the school year June 2004 to June 2005; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4962/04]

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (17 Feb 2004)

Joe Higgins: Question 313: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the criteria currently being employed in the evaluation of the necessity for the provision of a special needs assistant to a school student; if his Department has plans to change these criteria; and if so, when. [4954/04]

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (17 Feb 2004)

Joe Higgins: Question 314: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the changes in the criteria used for the assessment of the need to provide a special needs assistant to a school student since 1 June 2002; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4956/04]

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (17 Feb 2004)

Joe Higgins: Question 315: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the changes his Department intends to make in the criteria being used for the assessment of the need to provide a special needs assistant over the next 18 months. [4957/04]

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (17 Feb 2004)

Joe Higgins: Question 316: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if his Department has plans to expand the provision of special needs supports to ensure children with special needs achieve their full educational potential; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4958/04]

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (17 Feb 2004)

Joe Higgins: Question 317: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if his Department has plans to allocate special needs assistants on a school by school basis, based on the number of students attending each school, as is currently the case with the allocation of teaching posts; when this will be implemented; and the ratio of special needs assistants to students that will exist. [4959/04]

Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (30 Mar 2004)

Joe Higgins: Question 232: To ask the Minister for Finance the measures he intends to take as a matter of urgency to help parents with the excessive burden of child care costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9596/04]

Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (30 Mar 2004)

Joe Higgins: Question 351: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if he will seek the introduction as a matter of urgency legislation to compel all large companies and State bodies to provide free or subsidised child care facilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9607/04]

Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (30 Mar 2004)

Joe Higgins: Question 429: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will seek the introduction, as a matter of urgency, of legislation to compel all large companies and State bodies to provide free or subsidised child care facilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9615/04]

Written Answers — State Airports: State Airports (4 May 2004)

Joe Higgins: Question 59: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will report on his recent contacts with SIPTU regarding strike action at the airports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9090/04]

Written Answers — Transport of Dangerous Goods: Transport of Dangerous Goods (4 May 2004)

Joe Higgins: Question 135: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if Ireland will sign up as a contracting party to the ADR agreement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12449/04]

Written Answers — Transport of Dangerous Goods: Transport of Dangerous Goods (4 May 2004)

Joe Higgins: Question 136: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment her views on the opinion of the Dangerous Goods Safety Advisors Association of Ireland that its members should not have to repeat their examinations every five years but instead should be obliged to take refresher courses every two years when they would be granted an extension to practice for the following...

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (4 May 2004)

Joe Higgins: Question 151: To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that injured children awarded money by the courts pay DIRT on the interest on the capital sum that is invested on their behalf by the courts, even when their income is below the threshold for paying tax, and that they are not entitled to a refund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12475/04]

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (4 May 2004)

Joe Higgins: Question 152: To ask the Minister for Finance if he intends to change the situation whereby injured children awarded money by the courts pay DIRT on the interest on the capital sum that is invested on their behalf and are not entitled to a refund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12476/04]

Written Answers — Vaccination Programme: Vaccination Programme (4 May 2004)

Joe Higgins: Question 190: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if his Department will put in place immediately a compensation scheme for all persons who were brain damaged by vaccines administered in this State as recommended by the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health and Children as a matter of urgency in its July 2001 report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12452/04]

Written Answers — Vaccination Programme: Vaccination Programme (4 May 2004)

Joe Higgins: Question 191: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason a period of two years has elapsed since the Irish Vaccine Injury Campaign was promised that a compensation scheme for all persons who were brain damaged by vaccines administered in this State would be set up without indication of such a scheme being set up in the immediate future; and if he will make a statement on the...