327 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if a full child care facility will be established in the vicinity of Loughlinstown to cater for the growing young population of the area.
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261 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Health and Children if the Shankill Community Association will be granted similar representation on the proposed implementation body as it currently holds on the monitoring committee of the methadone clinic at St. Columcille’s Hospital, Loughlinstown, County Dublin.
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260 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Health and Children if he will take steps to ensure that the scanning facility in St. Columcille’s Hospital, Loughlinstown, County Dublin, will be fully operational seven days a week; if a full paediatric and geriatric service is provided; and if the situation whereby patients are been held on trollies will be ended shortly.
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259 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Health and Children if the €50 million promised to St. Colmcille’s Hospital, Loughlinstown, County Dublin, prior to the general election of 2002 is being spent to ensure that the hospital is brought up to date within three years.
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258 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Health and Children if he intends to ensure that St. Columcille’s Hospital, Loughlinstown, County Dublin continues as a 24-hour consultant-led accident and emergency hospital.
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71 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Defence the progress in the development of the EU’s common defence policy under the Irish Presidency; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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51 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Defence if he will report on the development of EU rapid reaction battle groups by 2007 agreed at the April 2004 EU Defence Ministers’ meeting; if Ireland will be participating in such battle groups; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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193 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will consider honouring the commitment made in the report, Making it home: An action plan on homelessness in Dublin 2004-2006 vision, to eliminate homelessness in Dublin by 2010; and if he will provide sufficient funding to SONAS housing association for its proposed additional 48 beds.
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181 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of unaccompanied minors who have arrived in the State in the past 12 months and have been assessed as being over 18 years by the Office of the Refugee Applications Commissioner; and the expertise that is employed in making these assessments.
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180 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if gardaí are required to wear seat belts in the course of their duties.
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175 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the person who is on the high level working group on Travellers; the remit of the group; and if there are Travellers or Travellers’ representatives on this group.
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162 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Health and Children if his Department has carried out, or intends to carry out an investigation into the health and safety of Traveller children.
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161 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Health and Children the reason for the apparent cuts in financial provision for the national Traveller health strategy in 2004; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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129 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Education and Science the specific actions that have been taken, and staff and funding allocated, to implement the recommendations of the McIver Consulting report commissioned by his Department.
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122 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will make representations to the Israeli authorities for the release of persons (details supplied) on humanitarian grounds.
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121 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the case of five persons (details supplied), who have offered to do community instead of military service, has been recognised both by Amnesty International and the working group on arbitrary detention established by the UN.
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120 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the fact that five Israeli conscientious objectors are serving the second year of confinement in Israeli jails due to their refusal to serve the Israeli occupation in the Palestinian territories.
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119 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he intends to support the call of a person (details supplied) for an inquiry into the case of two persons that was dropped by the Crown in the Belfast Laganside court on 28 November 2003.
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27 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Finance the reasons the Government supported the recent selection of a new managing director for the International Monetary Fund.
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66 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he intends granting additional rights to cohabiting and unmarried couples; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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4 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will consider changing the Garda Síochána Bill 2004 to ensure that community festivals and non-profit organisations are not charged for the costs of policing provided by the Garda at events hosted by them; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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1 Mr. Cuffe asked the Taoiseach the number of births to foreign nationals in the State in the past five years for which figures are available; the breakdown by births to United Kingdom nationals, European economic area nationals, United States nationals and nationals from elsewhere; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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231 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the efforts the Garda Síochána has made to meet with and negotiate with those planning to protest or demonstrate over the May Day bank holiday weekend 2004 in order to reduce the negative impact such protest may have.
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54 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Transport the predicted annual passenger numbers of each of the Sandyford and Tallaght Luas lines; and the predicted annual passenger numbers for the initial Luas proposal which was designed in order that the Luas trams ran from Tallaght to Sandyford on one continuous route.
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68 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Transport the measures he intends to introduce to reverse the increase in road fatalities over the past six months.
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47 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the steps he intends taking to improve planning enforcement (details supplied) following a programme which detailed serious failings in the Irish planning system principally in the area of planning enforcement; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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22 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he intends reviewing the position of An Taisce under the Planning Acts; if he intends to provide sufficient funding for the organisation to carry out its remit adequately under the Planning Acts; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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109 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the plans she has to make free phone allowance available to all medical card holders, especially those with disability and not assessed on income means.
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101 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs her views on the details and the recommendations of the report, “Young Men on the Margins”, as published by her Department.
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890 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs her proposal to charge 300,000 pensioners 47 cent for telephone rental; and the rationale behind her decision.
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855 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs about her proposal to charge 300,000 pensioners 47 cent for telephone rental; and the rationale behind her decision.
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303 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the steps he has taken to raise with the Chinese Government the serious persecution experienced by followers of Falun Gong in China; and if he has taken any action to raise the cases of Feng Liu and Fang Yang, former students of Dún Laoghaire College of Further Education and Dún Laoghaire Senior College respectively.
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121 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will report on negotiations he has had with the Irish League of Credit Unions on providing alternative banking facilities in isolated areas.
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152 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs his views on the findings of the drug prevalence survey, commissioned jointly by the National Advisory Committee on Drugs and the Drug and Alcohol Information and Research Unit in Northern Ireland.
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40 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Health and Children if the Government intends to carry out checks on fluoride levels in the blood of Irish persons; the reason this has not been done to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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9 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Health and Children the person he intends to appoint to the expert group on water fluoridation; when he expects it to report to him; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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339 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of secret agents that will accompany President Bush to Ireland in June 2004; the person who will have operational control of the agents during the visit; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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33 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he is supportive of the proposals enclosed in the draft children’s advertising code that has been published by the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that RTÉ’s submission to the commission on the code included a proposal to further strengthen its own voluntary code and allow for the actual restriction of the advertising of certain food products; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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21 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the countries that were supportive of his initiative in the recent Council of Ministers meeting to allow national authorities to regulate the advertising that satellite broadcasters specifically insert into programming that is broadcast to that national country; the Commission’s position with regard to such a proposal; and the strategy he believes should now be adopted to ensure it is introduced.
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94 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the extent to which the Government is pushing other EU member states to decommission their nuclear weapons in advance of a conference on nuclear disarmament to be held at the United Nations in New York in April 2004; and if it is the policy of the Government to work towards making Europe a nuclear free zone.
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60 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will report on his statement in Ottawa in March 2004 concerning the use of Shannon Airport by US troops; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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176 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Education and Science if he intends to consult the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government with a view to amending legislation in order that designated serviced school sites and possibly buildings are provided free of charge to the State as part of the granting of planning permission for all housing developments over a certain cumulative number of units in a given geographical area.
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79 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the steps which have been taken by the Government to ameliorate the situation in Zimbabwe concerning the repression of its citizens; and if the Government has had contact with the opposition MDC party.
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78 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the matters on the agenda for the meeting taking place on 2 April 2004 in Dublin between the EU and South Africa; and if the Government will encourage the South African Government to distance itself from the Harare administration.
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77 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the person who will be representing the African Union at the next meeting of the EU and the African Union on 1 April 2004 at Farmleigh House; and if human rights in Zimbabwe will be on the agenda.
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41 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Defence if he will report on the meetings of defence directors, which have taken place under Ireland’s EU Presidency; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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