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Wed, 20 Jul 2016
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Special Educational Needs Service Provision
Anne Rabbitte
376. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Health the way special educational needs organisers who are neither medical nor educational professionals can adjudicate on the veracity or otherwise of such professionals' recommendations as to the needs of children (details supplied). [23358/16]
Wed, 20 Jul 2016
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Special Educational Needs Service Provision
Anne Rabbitte
377. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Health his views on proposals that two special needs assistants, for example, can adequately tend to the acute care needs of six children simultaneously (details supplied). [23361/16]
Wed, 20 Jul 2016
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Special Educational Needs Service Provision
Anne Rabbitte
378. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Health his views on where Children First and health and safety legislation implies two adults must hoist, toilet, change and clean a child, as in any clinical setting, yet the National Council for Special Education reports that the Department of Education and Skills has no such ruling in place for school teachers or special needs assistants; the reason one adult and one child would be compromised in an educational and special needs setting (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23364/16]
Wed, 20 Jul 2016
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Special Educational Needs Service Provision
Anne Rabbitte
379. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Health his views on whether the administration of medicines by medically untrained teachers and special needs assistants in primary schools is a potentially dangerous situation (details supplied). [23367/16]
Tue, 19 Jul 2016
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Flood Risk Management
Anne Rabbitte
499. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total number of meetings held by the Shannon river basin management co-ordination group to date; the details and agencies of those who have attended; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22376/16]
Tue, 19 Jul 2016
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Flood Risk Management
Anne Rabbitte
500. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the Shannon river basin management co-ordination group has reported to the Cabinet committee on climate change; if the group has put forward any legislative and policy proposals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22377/16]
Tue, 19 Jul 2016
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Legislative Measures
Anne Rabbitte
807. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources to outline the legislative framework regarding the ESB regulation of the River Shannon; his plans to amend that framework; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22375/16]
Tue, 19 Jul 2016
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Proposed Legislation
Anne Rabbitte
919. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the way her Department estimated the annual running costs of the proposed au pair council to be €500,000, as she mentioned in her contribution on Second Stage of the Au Pair Placement Bill 2016; the source of the figure she mentioned that less than 1% of child care is undertaken by au pairs; and the total number of households using au pairs to which this equates. [22828/16]
Tue, 19 Jul 2016
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Proposed Legislation
Anne Rabbitte
920. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs to substantiate the claim made in her contribution on Second Stage of the Au Pair Placement Bill 2016 that 98% of au pairs are women aged in their 30s and half of these are from South America; and the research undertaken by Pobal and the Department of Justice and Equality to which she refers. [22829/16]
Tue, 19 Jul 2016
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Proposed Legislation
Anne Rabbitte
921. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs to which Workplace Relations Commission ruling she was referring when she stated in her contribution on Second Stage of the Au Pair Placement Bill 2016 that the proposal to exempt au pairs from employment law runs contrary to the ruling of the Workplace Relations Commission. [22830/16]
Thu, 14 Jul 2016
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Public Sector Pensions
Anne Rabbitte
147. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason Ability West, Galway County Association is not a member of the Public Sector Transfer Network despite giving financial recognition and increments for years of service (details supplied). [21742/16]
Thu, 14 Jul 2016
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Heritage Council Staff
Anne Rabbitte
152. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of the 70 full time jobs announced for 2016 supported by the Heritage Council that will be allocated to the west to support the range of heritage programmes in County Galway. [21741/16]
Wed, 13 Jul 2016
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School Transport Availability
Anne Rabbitte
119. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Education and Skills the status of awarding a concessionary bus pass to a person; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21490/16]
Wed, 13 Jul 2016
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Child and Family Agency Funding
Anne Rabbitte
280. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount of the €38 million additional funding to Tusla, the Child and Family Agency in budget 2016 that is being allocated to cover the agency's new statutory functions of after-care planning under the Child Care (Amendment) Act 2015; if he will provide additional funding to the agency in budget 2017 to cover its new after-care planning function. [21393/16]
Wed, 13 Jul 2016
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Child Care Services Funding
Anne Rabbitte
281. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her Department or a body under its aegis reviewed the additional costs arising from the provision in the Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2015 giving legal entitlement to after-care services for all young persons leaving care prior to preparation of the Bill; the cost of extending the eligibility to a full legal entitlement to an after-care plan to young persons who have been taken into State care at 17 years of age but who have not been in care for 12 months or over. [21394/16]
Wed, 13 Jul 2016
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Child Care Services
Anne Rabbitte
282. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the Child Care (Amendment) Act 2015 will include in the implementation of the Act a specified age at which after-care planning will begin; and how far this will be in advance of the young person turning 18 years of age. [21395/16]
Tue, 12 Jul 2016
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Hospital Waiting Lists
Anne Rabbitte
53. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Health the reason for the substantial increase between December 2015 and May 2016 in the number of outpatients waiting more than a year for a consultation in University Hospital Galway. [20971/16]
Tue, 12 Jul 2016
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Childhood Obesity
Anne Rabbitte
87. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Health his Department's plans for addressing levels of childhood obesity; and the measures his Department is taking to promote better nutrition, healthy eating and increased levels of physical activity among children and young persons. [15261/16]
Tue, 12 Jul 2016
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Perinatal Data
Anne Rabbitte
551. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Health the action being taken to address the low rate of breastfeeding here. [20972/16]
Tue, 12 Jul 2016
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Electricity Generation
Anne Rabbitte
740. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the legislation that governs the water level of the Shannon as controlled by the ESB; and if the ESB has discretion over the water level on the River Shannon between September and December, or if this is determined by legislation. [21134/16]