187 Mr. Morgan asked the Minister for Finance when he will act on the interdepartmental report which was completed in 2003 into the review of the disabled drivers and disabled passengers (tax concessions) scheme.
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137 Mr. Morgan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in County Louth is not being taken on to the national treatment purchase fund; and when this person will receive the necessary urgent surgical procedure.
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136 Mr. Morgan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the practice of dispatching ambulances and their crews on to frosty, dangerous roads at 3 a.m. to collect employee time-sheets from various locations in County Louth is considered best practice; the reason for such misuse or this most valuable resource rather than using fax machines or other electronic methods of gathering this material; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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119 Mr. Morgan asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the 20 key North-South actions being promoted by the IBEC-CBI Joint Business Council; the measures his Department is taking to advance the key actions identified by the IBEC-CBI Joint Business Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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46 Mr. Morgan asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason the new construction regulations approved by the HSA and its construction advisory committee, which included representatives of trade unions and professional bodies, have still not been introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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8 Mr. Morgan asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if, in order to prevent exploitation of migrant workers, the Employment Permits Bill which is due for publication, will include provisions to allow permits to be held by workers instead of employers.
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3 Mr. Morgan asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason the Government has failed to ensure the enforcement of the Competition Authority’s ruling that a company (details supplied) must divest itself of its 24.9% shareholding in another company.
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123 Mr. Morgan asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will report on the criteria which guide the denial of benefit of unemployment assistance to persons particularly the phrase not actively seeking work; and if he will report on the guidelines concerning the proofs needed by his Department from clients.
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382 Mr. Morgan asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his Department has set a social rent housing stock per population target; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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375 Mr. Morgan asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his Department has set a housing stock per population target; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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360 Mr. Morgan asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the house completions in each of the past five years; the percentage of these each year which were second homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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359 Mr. Morgan asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the house completions in each of the past five years; the percentage of these each year which were social housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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358 Mr. Morgan asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the average cost per unit of delivery of social housing in the State.
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150 Mr. Morgan asked the Minister for Finance his views on the recommendation contained in the NESC report on housing that consideration should be given to a separate tax on second homes; if the Government is considering introducing such a tax; if so, the rate of such tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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167 Mr. Morgan asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he is considering the introduction of a levy on car tyres to cover the cost of recycling them at end-of-life; the levy he considering; when such a levy scheme is likely to commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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108 Mr. Morgan asked the Minister for Transport when revised guidelines in respect of speed limits will issue to local authorities; the reason for the delay in issuing these guidelines; and if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the delay is causing problems for both local authorities and communities.
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127 Mr. Morgan asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views on whether the introduction of paid parental leave would be a significant step forward in attempts to create work-life balance for workers.
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120 Mr. Morgan asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when his attention was drawn to the fact that the Government is precluded from selling the former Shanganagh open prison due to a restrictive covenant.
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59 Mr. Morgan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her Department is monitoring compliance with her directive to health boards of December 2004 that charges do not apply to qualifying elderly persons in residential care; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that charges continue to be imposed; if her directive applies until such time as the Supreme Court rules on the constitutionality of the Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2004; her contingency if the Bill is struck down; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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43 Mr. Morgan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the timetable for the introduction of the general practitioner only medical cards; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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98 Mr. Morgan asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the further regulations he intends to introduce under sections 28 and 29 of the Waste Management Act 1996 to bring about waste prevention and minimisation; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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151 Mr. Morgan asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if it is his intention to implement the recommendations contained in the NESC report on housing, particularly the recommendations on increasing the stock of social rental housing.
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515 Mr. Morgan asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the breakdown of all moneys collected from the environmental levy since its introduction, along with a detailed account of the areas to which the money has been allocated.
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514 Mr. Morgan asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government concerning waste management, the amount of revenue allocated to prevention and minimisation of waste, to reusing, to recycling, to composting and to the landfilling of waste in each of the past five years.
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352 Mr. Morgan asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if all local authorities in the State poverty proof their differential rents schemes; and if not, the local authorities which have not done so.
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162 Mr. Morgan asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the basis on which the Taoiseach supports ending the EU ban on arms exports to China; the basis on which the Taoiseach is impressed with China’s commitment to change its human rights record; and if there is any other country for which he accepts the argument that progress on human rights must be gradual.
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137 Mr. Morgan asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on the human rights standards that should apply to trading relationships; and his further views on whether Ireland should trade with persistent human rights violators and thus profit from them and prop up their economies.
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345 Mr. Morgan asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has data on the extent to which tyres are being burnt illegally on farms in the State.
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344 Mr. Morgan asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that, according to the IFA, silage pits no longer constitute best practise as a farming technique; and if this has any implications for his Department’s policy on the placing of tyres on farms.
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343 Mr. Morgan asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the place on the waste management hierarchy on which his Department categorises the placing of tyres on farms.
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183 Mr. Morgan asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on the demand from the Irish Congress of Trade Unions for a €1.75 increase in the national minimum wage from 1 May 2005.
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1388 Mr. Morgan asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the ratio of playgrounds to population in the State; and the ratio of playgrounds to population in each local authority area.
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1359 Mr. Morgan asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when his Department will give approval for the Gweedore sewerage scheme in County Donegal to go out to tender.
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1358 Mr. Morgan asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his Department’s policy regarding the provision of houses, both SI and scheme houses, for single male applicants.
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512 Mr. Morgan asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the measures he has instructed the job creation agencies to undertake to prepare the ground to ensure that workers who lose their jobs at a company (details supplied) are in a strong position to re-enter the workforce in as short a timeframe as possible, in view of the fact that the company has announced that the remaining 630 jobs at its plants in Buncrana and Campsie will be phased out over the next four to five years; if workers at this company will be able to take up courses and training with full FÁS funding and support, even though they are still in employment, in order that the existing workforce at the company has a wide-ranging bases of skills in order to attract sustainable employment to the Inishowen area; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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60 Mr. Morgan asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when new construction regulations approved by the HSA and its construction advisory committee, which included representatives of trade unions and professional bodies, will be introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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33 Mr. Morgan asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the studies being undertaken by the Competition Authority to deal with issues of regulation; when each study is due to be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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63 Mr. Morgan asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when maternity benefit will be increased to 80% of reckonable earnings in line with the commitment made in the review of Sustaining Progress.
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32 Mr. Morgan asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if, in view of the Government’s position that child benefit remains the best way to help parents with child care costs, consideration has been given by him to the inclusion of a child care supplement for children under five years of age as a top-up to child benefit.
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165 Mr. Morgan asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the criteria his Department applied when establishing priorities for coastal protection projects; if there is a priority regime in place which promotes the protection of county roads over the protection of individual homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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231 Mr. Morgan asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the percentage growth in the number of households on local authority waiting lists since 1997; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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44 Mr. Morgan asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on the fact that an estimated 120,000 landlords failed to register with the Private Residential Tenancies Board by the deadline of 1 December 2004.
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21 Mr. Morgan asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the EU directives in respect of a requirement for consultation with neighbouring states in development projects which may adversely effect residents in an adjoining state; and if these directives are being adhered to in this State generally.
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5 Mr. Morgan asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his Department has initiated an investigation into the reason local authorities failed to proceed with all council house starts which were approved by his Department since 1993; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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263 Mr. Morgan asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason a person (details supplied) in County Louth was refused a certificate of naturalisation, in view of the fact that he has refugee status in this State and has been resident here for almost four years; if a certificate of naturalisation will be issued; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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156 Mr. Morgan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when medical files in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Louth will be produced; the reason these files went missing following surgical procedures at the hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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155 Mr. Morgan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when medical files in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Louth will be produced; the reason these files went missing following surgical procedures at the hospital in 1961; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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