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Written Answers — Commission on Credit Unions: Commission on Credit Unions (12 May 2011)

Robert Dowds: Question 44: To ask the Minister for Finance the remit which will be given to the Commission on Credit Unions. [11034/11]

Written Answers — Commission on Credit Unions: Commission on Credit Unions (12 May 2011)

Robert Dowds: Question 45: To ask the Minister for Finance if he expects that legislation regarding credit unions may be necessary after the Commission on Credit Unions completes its work. [11035/11]

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (17 May 2011)

Robert Dowds: Question 208: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if primary schools will be given a little flexibility in terms of retaining excellent temporary teachers who may not be on the redeployment panel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11729/11]

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (17 May 2011)

Robert Dowds: Question 209: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will examine the case of a school (details supplied) in County Dublin, which is due to lose two posts due to the suppression of resource teachers for traveller pupils; and the action that can be taken to save these posts for the school. [11731/11]

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (17 May 2011)

Robert Dowds: Question 210: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the request from a school (details supplied) in County Dublin for an English teacher as an additional language support post will be granted. [11732/11]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (17 May 2011)

Robert Dowds: Question 471: To ask the Minister for Health and Children his plans for the reorganisation of paediatric diabetes services currently provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11286/11]

Written Answers — Business Regulation: Business Regulation (25 May 2011)

Robert Dowds: Question 107: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation his views on the alleged practice of car insurance companies giving glass replacement contracts to a small number of companies; if such an arrangement is regarded as a cartel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12857/11]

Written Answers — Motor Taxation: Motor Taxation (25 May 2011)

Robert Dowds: Question 130: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the extent to which the facility to declare non-use of vehicles for taxation purposes is used; and the amount of revenue lost from the practice. [12865/11]

Written Answers — Motor Taxation: Motor Taxation (25 May 2011)

Robert Dowds: Question 131: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if vehicle owners are making declarations of non-use of vehicles after the time of supposed non-use has elapsed and in some cases when they in fact used the vehicle during that period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12866/11]

Written Answers — Taxi Regulations: Taxi Regulations (26 May 2011)

Robert Dowds: Question 118: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his response to a television programme (details supplied) on the taxi industry. [13149/11]

Written Answers — National Car Test: National Car Test (26 May 2011)

Robert Dowds: Question 119: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the operation of the national car testing service at a facility (details supplied) in Clondalkin, Dublin 22; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13150/11]

Written Answers — Taxi Regulations: Taxi Regulations (26 May 2011)

Robert Dowds: Question 120: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the role of An Garda Síochána in regulating the taxi industry. [13151/11]

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (1 Jun 2011)

Robert Dowds: Question 89: To ask the Minister for Finance if there is prospective legislation in progress which will give pension schemes the authority to reduce payments to people who are already in receipt of a pension. [13800/11]

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (1 Jun 2011)

Robert Dowds: Question 117: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) in Dublin 22 will be approved for two new classrooms in view of the fact that pupil numbers are projected to increase from 375 to 426 over the next two years; when a decision will issue, and his views on whether it would be more logical to build the two classrooms at the same time in view of the fact...

Written Answers — Tax Collection: Tax Collection (7 Jun 2011)

Robert Dowds: Question 113: To ask the Minister for Finance if there is evidence of tax being collected from a car repair and sales business operating at a location (details supplied) in Dublin 22 since the 1970s; and what, if any, is the evidence. [14336/11]

Written Answers — Third Level Staff: Third Level Staff (7 Jun 2011)

Robert Dowds: Question 145: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an audit has ever been conducted to ascertain the average number of contact hours per week lecturers in publicly funded third level institutions are engaging in; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14344/11]

Written Answers — Third Level Staff: Third Level Staff (7 Jun 2011)

Robert Dowds: Question 146: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills, if there has never been an audit to ascertain the average number of contact hours per week lecturers in publicly funded third level institutions are engaging in, if he will give an explanation; and his plans to carry out any such audit. [14345/11]

Written Answers — EU Directives: EU Directives (7 Jun 2011)

Robert Dowds: Question 165: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when he will publish legislation to effect the transposition of the EU directive on the establishment of a European works council or a procedure in Community-scale undertakings and Community-scale groups of undertakings for the purposes of informing and consulting employees (2009/38/EC) into Irish law. [14252/11]

Written Answers — Alternative Energy Projects: Alternative Energy Projects (7 Jun 2011)

Robert Dowds: Question 212: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if ESB Electric Ireland plans to offer the same terms for microgeneration of wind energy North and South of the Border; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that microgeneration of energy could be of value as an enterprise for small farmers and landowners; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — School Absenteeism: School Absenteeism (7 Jun 2011)

Robert Dowds: Question 296: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide a breakdown of the absentee rate of 20 days or more per annum for the past three school years for each of the first-level schools in the Dublin Mid-West constituency. [14294/11]