589 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the details of all cycle equipment provided to the Garda stations in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown since January 2003; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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588 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his plans to allocate cycle equipment to Shankill Garda Station; if he will give details of such an application; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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470 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Transport his plans to ensure the availability of child restraints in taxis and hackneys; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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360 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps he is taking to address gender pay inequality; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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358 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of labour inspectors who are currently employed by the State; his plans to increase their number; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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316 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs when he expects the ratification of the optional protocol to the UN Convention Against Torture; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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286 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if his Department has conducted studies on the costs and potential capacity of domestic renewable energy power generation; his plans to introduce a grants scheme, similar to the greener homes scheme for renewable heat generation, for those wishing to invest in domestic wind and solar power generation technologies; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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282 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources his plans to progress the draft Coastal Zone Management Plan from 1998; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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281 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if his Department has conducted studies on potential financial and environmental benefit of increased insulation in the domestic property sector; and his views on implementing a grants scheme, similar to the greener homes operated by Sustainable Energy Ireland, aimed at subsidising those homeowners who invest in increased insulation levels for their homes.
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247 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Finance his plans for the future conservation, restoration or re-use of a fort (details supplied) in Dublin 8; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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12 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if the expenditure review of the current swimming pool programme will be completed at the end of July 2006, as expected; and if so, when will the issue of whether to re-open the programme be looked at, in view of the demand for swimming pools across the country, including for example Lucan, which has recently had a pool sanctioned by the local authority, which is committed to funding it, but for which a part-grant from his Department would be put to good use and may even speed up the delivery process.
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367 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food the location, area, parties involved, reasons and terms of any lands exchanged by Coillte in the past three years under Section 39 of the Forestry Act 1988; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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366 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if, in regard to the consultation process regarding the Forestry Review and the basis on which the decision to exclude the Forestry Act 1988 from this review was made, she will provide the Houses of the Oireachtas with the record by which this decision was made and include all correspondence with the Department, which is the main shareholder on behalf of the public in this semi-State body, and all correspondence with Coillte regarding the review; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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95 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Education and Science if she will commit to a review of school bus catchment areas and boundaries as part of the last year’s programme of work.
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62 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding plans to provide a school site for a school (details supplied) in County Dublin.
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93 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the circumstances surrounding the transporting of a handcuffed US Marine through Shannon Airport without the necessary permission being obtained by the US from the authorities here; the subsequent discussions he has had with the US Authorities regarding this incident; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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7 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on instituting inspections of certain flights passing through airports here; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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88 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Finance his views on the findings of the ten year review of the housing market based on data from ESRI and Permanent TSB house price index which highlights the Government’s decision to abolish higher stamp duty rates for investors and to restore interest relief on rental properties as associated factors for the significant increase of, on average, 15 per cent per annum.
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70 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Finance if he has examined the possibility of extending the guidelines for regulatory impact analysis of new regulations to the Financial Regulator as it has delegated responsibility for regulating businesses and has had to develop its own methodology of RIA which in turn may not have led to maximum objectivity in regard to the introduction of its regulations.
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112 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she will ensure that food imports into Ireland can be stood up as having the same high standards of traceability, hormone use limitations, country of origin labelling and so on particularly following forthcoming World Trade Organisation agreement.
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100 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the Agriculture Commissioner, Ms Bohl, reportedly intends to go beyond her mandate in signing off an agreement for the EU at the World Trade Organisation negotiations; and if she and the Government will request that no signing of an agreement takes place before the Council of Ministers has considered and decided on details and implications of draft proposals from the WTO talks in Geneva.
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63 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Defence the changes which will occur in the level of Ireland’s participation in NATO’s Partnership for Peace if the legislative impediments to Irish troops training and exercising abroad are removed; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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29 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Defence the details of the newly agreed EU code of conduct on defence procurement which comes into force on 1 July 2006; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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74 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if a decision has been reached on the application by Irish Ferries for a redundancy rebate to fund the voluntary severance package offered to staff in 2006; and if so, the reason for and details of said decision.
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67 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of offices and agencies operating within his Department; the functions with which they are charged; and the budgetary allocation afforded to each.
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122 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the controls which he intends to introduce to ensure that the child benefit payments only go to those migrant workers who are entitled to them.
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88 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs his views on the low take-up of the rural social scheme in the southern and eastern regions; and the action he intends to take to promote the scheme further amongst farmers in the regions.
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84 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will elaborate on the difficulties which have been encountered in securing funding for certain types of projects, particularly in relation to education, training and employment, despite these areas of activity representing a key means by which lasting solutions can be found to issues of social exclusion in RAPID communities, as was noted in the independent evaluation of the RAPID programme.
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417 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the details of all of the social housing schemes for which his Department made funding level adjustments in order to eliminate duplication where funding was provided by Sustainable Energy Ireland for energy efficiency measures, detailing in all cases, the scheme name, proposed scheme funding and scheme funding after Sustainable Energy Ireland grants were accounted for.
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138 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of the 10,000 affordable houses which were part of the Government commitments under sustaining progress that are completed; and the number expected to be completed by the end of the period covered by the sustaining progress agreement.
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88 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on reports (details supplied) that major housing developments in the Greater Dublin area could face delays of several years due to inadequate water supplies; and if he will comment on the issue.
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54 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on whether Ireland’s nuclear policy as presented by his Department’s submission (details supplied) to the British energy review is compatible with Ireland’s membership of and part-financing of EURATOM and if the credibility of that policy would be strengthened if Ireland withdrew from EURATOM.
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75 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will carry out a review of the register of sex offenders in order to bring it in line with the register maintained in Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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22 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will implement a system that would ensure that both his Department and the Attorney General’s Office are fully briefed on potentially unconstitutional legislation on regular basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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112 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Transport the principle engineering measures that are being pursued to reduce road deaths and injuries in view of the fact that a road safety strategy requires education, engineering and enforcement measures to prove successful.
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182 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the details of the European legislation that obliges Ireland to criminalise the possession of hard drugs, to which he referred to in the Dáil Éireann on 24 May 2006; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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134 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources when he intends to re-sign the Bass by-laws; and the restrictions he will be placing on them.
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82 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the support contracts he has re-allocated from projects in the AER 5 and AER 6 schemes which have not been progressed in sufficient time; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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24 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Education and Science the number of posts of responsibility currently being held by teachers at primary and post-primary level; the cost of these posts collectively and on average individually; if an analysis has been carried out on the efficacy of such positions; if new posts are proposed; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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151 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he has raised the question of the Kyoto Protocol and global warming in discussions with his counterparts from other countries; when and the context in which he raised these issues; his views on whether this is the biggest challenge facing humanity; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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140 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on the state of Afghanistan; his further views on whether the Taliban has re-emerged as a force in many areas of the country; if he is satisfied regarding the rate of progress in relation to human rights reform; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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524 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will provide a full listing of the contents of his Department’s wine cellar giving the vintages, quantity of bottles, dates acquired, prices paid and supplier; and if he will make a statement on the Department’s policy in this regard.
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514 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Defence if he will provide a full listing of the contents of his Department’s wine cellar giving the vintages, quantity of bottles, dates acquired, prices paid and supplier; and if he will make a statement on the Department’s policy in this regard.
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476 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Education and Science if she will provide a full listing of the contents of her Department’s wine cellar giving the vintages, quantity of bottles, dates acquired, prices paid and supplier; and if she will make a statement on the Department’s policy in this regard.
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427 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will provide a full listing of the contents of his Department’s wine cellar giving the vintages, quantity of bottles, dates acquired, prices paid and supplier; and if he will make a statement on the Department’s policy in this regard.
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380 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she will provide a full listing of the contents of her Department’s wine cellar giving the vintages, quantity of bottles, dates acquired, prices paid and supplier; and if she will make a statement on the Department’s policy in this regard.
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369 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will provide a full listing of the contents of his Department’s wine cellar giving the vintages, quantity of bottles, dates acquired, prices paid and supplier; and if he make a statement on the Department’s policy in this regard.
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356 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Transport if he will provide a full listing of the contents of his Department’s wine cellar giving the vintages, quantity of bottles, dates acquired, prices paid and supplier; and if he will make a statement on the Department’s policy in this regard.
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337 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will provide a full listing of the contents of his Department’s wine cellar giving the vintages, quantity of bottles, dates acquired, prices paid and supplier; and if he will make a statement on the Department’s policy in this regard.
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326 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide a full listing of the contents of his Department’s wine cellar giving the vintages, quantity of bottles, dates acquired, prices paid and supplier; and if he will make a statement on the Department’s policy in this regard.
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