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Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (17 Jan 2012)

Seán Kyne: Question 193: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the practice of recruiting substitute teachers to fill temporary vacancies of those employed to operate the oral examination components of the various language subjects at leaving certificate level can be reviewed with the aim of ensuring both experience gaining and employment opportunities are made available for young, graduate...

Written Answers — Freedom of Information: Freedom of Information (17 Jan 2012)

Seán Kyne: Question 207: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if consideration will be given to amending section 46 (1) of the Freedom of Information Acts in order to make available to the public, records created by participants in judicial proceedings on matters of public importance such as a road development for example. [2610/12]

Written Answers — Money Advice and Budgeting Service: Money Advice and Budgeting Service (17 Jan 2012)

Seán Kyne: Question 226: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if the role of the Money Advice and Budgeting Service will be enhanced with corresponding additional resources for assisting over indebted citizens in view of the preparation of the reformed personal insolvency legislation. [2588/12]

Written Answers — Funeral Industry: Funeral Industry (17 Jan 2012)

Seán Kyne: Question 351: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if there are any plans to regulate the funeral industry here, thereby ensuring minimum standards for the industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2571/12]

Written Answers — Personal Debt: Personal Debt (17 Jan 2012)

Seán Kyne: Question 379: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to regulate or licence private debt management companies which operate their scheme for a fee or charge unlike the non-profit State supported Money Advice and Budgeting Service. [2591/12]

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (31 Jan 2012)

Seán Kyne: Question 147: To ask the Minister for Finance if he is considering rebalancing the excise tax structure on cigarettes by reducing the [i]ad valorem[/i] element significantly and increasing the specific element of excise tax, thereby removing the tax discount for cheap cigarettes; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that 12 EU member states have rebalanced their tax structures by...

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (31 Jan 2012)

Seán Kyne: Question 405: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, further to Parliamentary Question No. 487 of 11 January 2012, if he will provide a breakdown of the current expenditure figures, detailing the funding from him to Inishbofin Island for the years 2002 through to 2011. [5549/12]

Written Answers — Local Authority Charges: Local Authority Charges (31 Jan 2012)

Seán Kyne: Question 468: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the retrospective element of the exemption to the household charge for persons who, owing to illness, have moved out of their homes to be cared for by relatives or in a nursing home, is resulting in those citizens who left their homes in 2011 being liable for...

Written Answers — Seafood Industry: Seafood Industry (31 Jan 2012)

Seán Kyne: Question 548: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will be continuing with all recommendations of the Irish Seafood National Programme 2007-2013 with particular reference to its exclusion of financial assistance to marine salmon aquaculture licence holders in view of concerns over sea lice. [5483/12]

Written Answers — Aquaculture Licences: Aquaculture Licences (31 Jan 2012)

Seán Kyne: Question 549: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when it is intended that a licence available for an offshore salmon farm, with particular reference to proposals for such a site off the coast of the Aran Islands, will be advertised. [5484/12]

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (31 Jan 2012)

Seán Kyne: Question 639: To ask the Minister for Health if he will indicate when the measure to extend medical card provision to persons on the long term illness scheme, as announced by budget 2012, will be introduced. [5488/12]

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (1 Feb 2012)

Seán Kyne: Question 175: To ask the Minister for Health if consideration can be given to enabling hospitals and their constituent parts such as laboratories to offer internships as part of the JobBridge scheme, which would provide students from medical science backgrounds, such as biochemistry, an opportunity to gain experience. [5727/12]

Written Answers — Constitutional Convention: Constitutional Convention (7 Feb 2012)

Seán Kyne: Question 107: To ask the Taoiseach if he would indicate when the constitutional convention will take place; and the form he envisages it will take. [6908/12]

Written Answers — Constitutional Convention: Constitutional Convention (7 Feb 2012)

Seán Kyne: Question 108: To ask the Taoiseach the issues which will be examined and debated through the constitutional convention; and if civil marriage for citizens who are gay or lesbian will be on the agenda for debate and subsequent introduction to ensure equality among citizens. [6909/12]

Written Answers — Commemorative Events: Commemorative Events (7 Feb 2012)

Seán Kyne: Question 291: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he would report on the progress of the committee tasked with planning centenary celebrations for a range of historically significant events, including the Easter 1916 Rising. [6907/12]

Written Answers — Civil Partnership: Civil Partnership (7 Feb 2012)

Seán Kyne: Question 397: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if and when the legislative shortcomings of the Civil Partnership Act, which although a vitally important step in introducing equality and recognising the diverse composition of family units here, will be remedied to vindicate and realise the rights of non-biological parents and the children of families with same gender parents....

Written Answers — EU Directives: EU Directives (7 Feb 2012)

Seán Kyne: Question 551: To ask the Minister for Health the progress made on the transposition of directive 2010/63/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council on the protection of animals used for scientific purposes; if he views primary legislation as the best method of implementing the directive, particularly as such a method stimulates and facilitates debate on topics of significant public...

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (14 Feb 2012)

Seán Kyne: Question 181: To ask the Minister for Finance in view of the financial difficulties arising from the extraordinary economic and financial situation being experienced by persons who purchased a second residential property as a means of securing funds for retirement and so forth, if he will consider increasing the amount claimable of mortgage interest against tax from 75% to 100%, particularly...

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (14 Feb 2012)

Seán Kyne: Question 359: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if consideration has been given to her Department seeking insurance quotes collectively for all FÁS schemes nationwide or within each county as a means of achieving more competitive quotes and thus achieving savings within FÁS companies. [8415/12]

Written Answers — Commonage Plans: Commonage Plans (14 Feb 2012)

Seán Kyne: Question 383: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if all commonage framework plans are to be reviewed in 2012 and subsequent years in view of the age of existing plans; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8407/12]