6 Mr. B. Ahern asked the Taoiseach if the co-ordinating committee on islands has examined the feasibility of connecting certain islands by means of cable car, where there is a demand.
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7 Mr. B. Ahern asked the Taoiseach the total staff numbers employed in the office of each of the Ministers of State in his Department; and the total annual cost of each Minister of State and his staff.
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3 Mr. B. Ahern asked the Taoiseach if the Government intends to implement all legislative commitments in the programme, A Government of Renewal; if he has satisfied himself that all legislation promised in this programme will be passed before the end of 1996; and the items, if any, that have effectively been dropped or are not being favoured.
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1 Mr. B. Ahern asked the Taoiseach the work recently completed and currently on hand by the Law Reform Commission; and the new tasks, if any, that the commission has been charged with by the current Government.
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8 Mr. B. Ahern asked the Minister for Education the funds from the EU and other sources available for the southern Border counties; the funds that are additional or consequent on the peace process; and the purposes for which they have been or will be used in each of the years from 1994 to 1996.
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11 Mr. B. Ahern asked the Taoiseach the proposals, if any, he has to enlarge the number of social partners involved in the Central Review Committee.
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10 Mr. B. Ahern asked the Taoiseach the proposals, if any, he has to attend in the near future a meeting of the Central Review Committee; when he met the social partners both together as a body and individually; and the preparations, if any, he has made to start negotiation of a new national programme when the Programme for Competitiveness and Work expires.
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2 Mr. B. Ahern asked the Taoiseach if he will make a statement on the results of the Middle East Conference on anti-terrorism and the bilateral meetings he attended.
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15 Mr. B. Ahern asked the Taoiseach the plans, if any, he has to conduct all-party consultations in this State before a decision is made on the terms of any referendum to be held affirming the people's commitment to peace and democracy.
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10 Mr. B. Ahern asked the Taoiseach the discussions, if any, he had in the United States regarding the appointment of an independent chairman for all-party talks; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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9 Mr. B. Ahern asked the Taoiseach if he will make available the full text of his remarks as spoken at the American-Ireland fund dinner on Thursday, 14 March 1996.
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8 Mr. B. Ahern asked the Taoiseach if he will make a statement on his meetings with President Clinton and any other political engagements he had recently in North America.
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3 Mr. B. Ahern asked the Taoiseach if he will consider establishing a single agency or authority to co-ordinate the provision of State services, including local services, to the islands.
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3 Mr. B. Ahern asked the Taoiseach the number of meetings that have been held between Government officials and Sinn Féin since 8 February 1996.
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1 Mr. B. Ahern asked the Taoiseach if he will make a statement on the EU/Asean Summit, which he attended; and the bilateral meetings, if any, he has had with other leaders.
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2 Mr. B. Ahern asked the Taoiseach whether subsidies and grants related to island produce will take account of the additional costs of transport.
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11 Mr. B. Ahern asked the Taoiseach if he will ensure that any referendum on peace will be couched in terms that can be put to the people, both North and South, and not be open to differing and divisive interpretations.
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5 Mr. B. Ahern asked the Taoiseach the number of joint statements he has issued with Mr. Gerry Adams since taking office; and whether he considered at the time that Mr. Adams was giving commitments on behalf of the republican movement as a whole.
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4 Mr. B. Ahern asked the Taoiseach whether he will propose at his forthcoming meeting with the British Prime Minister that the unionist parties should join the British-Irish Inter-Parliamentary Body.
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8 Mr. B. Ahern asked the Taoiseach the funds from the EU and other sources available for the southern Border counties; the funds that are additional or consequent on the peace process; and the purposes for which they have been or will be used in each of the years from 1994 to 1996.
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5 Mr. B. Ahern asked the Taoiseach the membership and frequency of meetings of the European Co-Ordination Committee; and the role, if any, this committee is playing in the co-ordination of Ireland's forthcoming EU Presidency.
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4 Mr. B. Ahern asked the Taoiseach the areas of policy, if any, that are being discussed in the Interdepartmental Policy Committee on Local Development, chaired by his Department.
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21 Mr. B. Ahern asked the Taoiseach his views on whether the six principles and the idea of phased decommissioning is the essential basis for all-party peace negotiations.
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20 Mr. B. Ahern asked the Taoiseach if the Government have formally proposed to the British Government the adoption of John Hume's proposal for a referendum on peace and all-party talks in both jurisdictions and throughout the island.
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19 Mr. B. Ahern asked the Taoiseach the progress, if any, of discussions between the British and Irish Governments with a view to starting all-party talks and preparatory to a summit.
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18 Mr. B. Ahern asked the Taoiseach the contact, if any, he has had or intends to have with Senator Mitchell; and the consideration, if any, he has given to the possibility of requesting his appointment as a peace envoy.
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6 Mr. B. Ahern asked the Taoiseach the GNDI per capita for each of the years 1973, 1980, 1986 and 1990 to 1995 as the most accurate measure of Ireland's national income; and the percentage of the EU average GDP per capita that this would represent.
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4 Mr. B. Ahern asked the Taoiseach the annual inflation rate in Ireland at the end of 1995 compared with 1994; and the way in which this compares with other countries in the EU.
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1 Mr. B. Ahern asked the Taoiseach the number of parliamentary draftsmen currently employed in the Office of the Attorney General; and the way in which this compares with the situation in December 1994 and 1995.
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4 Mr. B. Ahern asked the Taoiseach the number of EU Heads of Government he has met bilaterally since September 1995, with a view to the preparation of Ireland's EU Presidency.
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1 Mr. B. Ahern asked the Taoiseach the progress, if any, that has been made in the Interdepartmental Group, chaired by his Department, on the Development of a National Anti-Poverty Strategy.
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