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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (26 Feb 2013)

Michelle Mulherin: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children who were no more than four years old when they first enrolled and attended primary school in each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9898/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Early Childhood Education (26 Feb 2013)

Michelle Mulherin: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason an apparent policy is being pursued of facilitating public primary schools for extensions for early childhood care and education rooms in view of the consequent displacement of a significant number of community and private childcare facilities which exist many of which have been funded under EOCP; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Design (26 Feb 2013)

Michelle Mulherin: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider changing the student grant scheme so that mortgage repayments are considered in the means test for grant eligibility due to there being an increasing number of families that have suffered drastic reductions in means under the burden of substantial home mortgage payments that have not reduced or that may have increased as a...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: EU Funding (26 Feb 2013)

Michelle Mulherin: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the way the European Regional Development Fund is operated; the number of companies here that have availed of direct aid to investment in companies in the last five years; the percentage of funding that can be availed of over and above any State funding particularly in the area of manufacturers developing or making more environmentally...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Electricity Generation (26 Feb 2013)

Michelle Mulherin: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will extend the REFIT scheme to accommodate electricity generators who are disadvantaged by slow grid development; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10034/13]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Alternative Energy Projects (26 Feb 2013)

Michelle Mulherin: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources in view of the recent signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with the British Government for the support of electricity generated by wind energy from the State, the plans that are in place to attract wind turbines manufacturing companies here to set up new operations; the progress that has been made in this regard; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Commercial Rates Exemptions (26 Feb 2013)

Michelle Mulherin: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if all community childcare groups have their premises exempt from payment of commercial rates and if so on what basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9895/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Commercial Rates Exemptions (26 Feb 2013)

Michelle Mulherin: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government If he will consider exempting registered private childcare facilities from commercial rates on the basis of their educational function; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9896/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Prevention (26 Feb 2013)

Michelle Mulherin: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will consider extending the pilot community text alert scheme to all rural areas where a Garda station has closed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9625/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Aid Service Reform (26 Feb 2013)

Michelle Mulherin: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to the topical debate issue of 15 December 2011, the need to tackle growing waiting list for persons requiring free civil legal services from law centres and to consider charging recipients of criminal legal aid, and considering the report of the Task Force on Cost Reductions on Criminal Legal Aid, the status of the examination of the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Road Traffic Offences (26 Feb 2013)

Michelle Mulherin: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of holders of category W driving licences that have been convicted for towing a trailer on a work vehicle or land tractor in each of the years 2010, 2011 and 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10043/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Education (26 Feb 2013)

Michelle Mulherin: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will examine the operation of the early childhood care and education scheme which allows payment for three hours a day for tuition but nothing for planning the practical detail and implementation of the curriculum for the children; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9899/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Education (26 Feb 2013)

Michelle Mulherin: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will consider re-instating the choice for parents of extending the early childhood care and education scheme to 50 weeks; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9901/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (26 Feb 2013)

Michelle Mulherin: To ask the Minister for Health the cost to the State per client resident in boarding out houses operating under the jurisdiction of Health Service Executive Mayo for each year over the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9577/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (26 Feb 2013)

Michelle Mulherin: To ask the Minister for Health the number of boarding out houses that operate under the jurisdiction of Health Service Executive Mayo and the number of clients that are resident in these facilities for each year over the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9578/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (26 Feb 2013)

Michelle Mulherin: To ask the Minister for Health the hourly rate paid to home help workers that are directly employed by the Health Service Executive in County Mayo; the number of home help hours currently provided by these directly employed workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9864/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driving Licences (26 Feb 2013)

Michelle Mulherin: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the maximum size or weight of a trailer that may be towed on a work vehicle or land tractor by the holder of a category W driving licence who has no other category of licence; if there are restrictions that apply to holders of such licences based on their age; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10042/13]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Energy Schemes (27 Feb 2013)

Michelle Mulherin: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if the energy efficiency fund can potentially be accessed by local authorities to allow them secure alternative sustainable energy supplies for their operations including from micro-generation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10679/13]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Energy Schemes (27 Feb 2013)

Michelle Mulherin: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the way the energy efficiency fund, recently established by Government, will operate; the agency that will be charged with administering the fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10680/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (27 Feb 2013)

Michelle Mulherin: To ask the Minister for Health the amount per year that has been allocated by the special delivery unit in each year since it was set up; the amount that remains to be allocated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10484/13]