276 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if there is an onus on statutory authorities to inform local residents or farmers on the issues of groundwater pollution, which affect water quality to local farms and local water supplies.
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178 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if the recent publication of the names of recipients of EU agricultural subsidies in the United Kingdom will be replicated here.
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131 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the policy which exists regarding the retention of important art work here; and if his attention has been drawn to the imminent private sale of works (details supplied).
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102 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Finance his views on whether Ministers in his Department should be seen supporting businesses, for example, being photographed at the opening of buildings erected without planning permission or in contravention of other licensing requirements, and compromising important aspects of their portfolio such as the protection of national monuments.
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101 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Finance the regulations which exist preventing Government Ministers from supporting businesses, for example, being photographed at the opening of buildings erected without planning permission or in contravention of other licensing requirements.
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25 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Defence the position regarding Ireland’s participation in the proposed EU battlegroups; if the short timeframe for deployment of these forces will prevent Ireland from participating in view of the need for Ireland’s armed forces to have a UN mandate; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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12 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Defence if he will report on the request from UN to provide peacekeeping forces in southern Sudan; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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94 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department has studied the likely effects of the new rules on cross-border banking, which are due to come into effect in 2008, on competition in the banking sector here; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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69 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he plans to make flexible working hours a statutory right for all workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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310 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason it is necessary for him to use taxpayers’ moneys to employ a press adviser and run a separate press office in his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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309 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he has plans to encourage the use of public transport by officials in the course of departmental business; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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148 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the way in which he will develop policy proposals for persons in poverty to have access to quality health and education services and housing, as set out in the Combat Poverty Agency’s strategic plan; if his Department plans to lead an interdepartmental strategy to combat poverty; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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162 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will elaborate on his plans to bring together FIS and the child dependant allowance; if the move will be complemented by a focussed information campaign in order that families in need are aware of their entitlements; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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46 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs his views on the recent Teagasc report undertaken with assistance from Údarás na Gaeltachta, Galway Rural Development Company, Galway County Council and the partnership group, Cumas, on five rural communities in County Galway.
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27 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the details of the most recent meeting that occurred between his Department and the Community Workers Co-operative.
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113 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the way in which he proposes to act upon the Law Reform Commission’s recent recommendations concerning charitable trusts.
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5 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he was correctly quoted in a publication (details supplied) of 11 February 2005 in which it was reported that walkers using mountain walkways could possibly be charged a fee; and his views on whether a statement of this type compromises the work of bodies he has established to deal with the issue.
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92 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on the disparity between the energy performance criteria for domestic heating installations in the UK, which now require in most cases that high performance condensing boilers are used, and the situation in this country in which lower energy performance criteria still appear to apply; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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89 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when he expects to publish new guidelines for determining planning applications for the use of planning authorities to replace the 1981 regulations; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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1109 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the annual fees paid to each chairperson and director in each statutory board under the remit of his Department.
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1108 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the measures which are being put in place to ensure that Seanad electoral rolls of the National University and Dublin University are being kept up to date, in view of the continuing presence of several dozen names on each register of those who graduated from as long ago as 1920.
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1092 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the reason officials of his Department are required to inspect for and produce floor area compliance, when similar work is already undertaken by local authority officials in assessing compliance with building regulations.
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1048 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Defence the annual fees paid to each chairperson and director in each statutory board under the remit of his Department.
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944 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Education and Science the annual fees paid to each chairperson and director in each statutory board under the remit of her Department.
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741 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the annual fees paid to each chairperson and director in each statutory board under the remit of his Department.
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649 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food the annual fees paid to each chairperson and director in each statutory board under the remit of her Department.
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601 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the annual fees paid to each chairperson and director in each statutory board under the remit of his Department.
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583 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Transport the annual fees paid to each chairperson and director in each statutory board under the remit of his Department.
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544 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the annual fees paid to each chairperson and director in each statutory board under the remit of his Department.
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502 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the annual fees paid to each chairperson and director in each statutory board under the remit of his Department.
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496 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason Dublin and not Cork, the region with the highest concentration of pharmaceutical plants in the country, has been chosen as the location for the development of a national institute for bioprocessing research and training.
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478 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the annual fees paid to each chairperson and director in each statutory board under the remit of his Department.
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460 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the annual fees paid to each chairperson and director in each statutory board under the remit of his Department.
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423 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the annual fees paid to each chairperson and director in each statutory board under the remit of his Department.
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378 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Finance the annual fees paid to each chairperson and director in each statutory board under the remit of his Department.
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290 Mr. Boyle asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the annual fees paid to each chairperson and director in each statutory board under the remit of her Department.
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231 Mr. Boyle asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if and when the report on the national expert group on domiciliary births will be published; and if she intends to act upon its recommendations.
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148 Mr. Boyle asked the Taoiseach the annual fees paid to each chairperson and director in each statutory board under the remit of his Department.
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127 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the company which was contracted to undertake charter flights for deportees out of Ireland prior to the appointment of a company (details supplied) in March 2005; the number of flights since May 2002; the costs for the charter of aeroplanes and the number of deportees; the breakdown by nationality of those deported; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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112 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views on the criteria used for the appointment of members to the Refugee Appeals Tribunal; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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76 Mr.Boyle asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she has received correspondence from the Children’s Leukaemia Association outlining concern at the imminent retirement of a consultant haematologist, specialising in child haematology, and the lack of an appropriate response from the outgoing Southern Health Board or the newly established Health Service Executive, southern region, to ensure a direct and immediate replacement for this position; if she has responded to this correspondence; and the action she will take to ensure that there is not a diminution of service in this area.
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63 Mr. Boyle asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the level or degree of consultation her predecessors entered into with the National Council on Ageing and Older People or with previous statutory bodies such as the National Council for the Elderly and the National Council for the Aged.
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62 Mr. Boyle asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the level or degree of consultation which she has entered into with the National Council on Ageing and Older People on the content and issues surrounding the Health (Amendment)(No. 2) Bill 2004 and the Health (Amendment) Bill 2005.
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45 Mr. Boyle asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on the recent turning away of many patients from the accident and emergency department of Cork University Hospital, in conditions that the senior accident and emergency consultant described as the walking wounded; and when new accident and emergency facilities will be resourced and come fully into use.
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114 Mr. Boyle asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on the resignation of a consultant oncologist from the staff of Cork University Hospital, ostensibly due to the failure to establish a dedicated cancer ward at the hospital; and if she has satisfied herself that cancer care facilities in the southern region are properly resourced.
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669 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the reason local authorities will levy and have levied waste charges against community and voluntary groups; and if he will have such charges re-examined as being counterproductive and against the public interest.
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602 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Education and Science if she has satisfied herself that refugee and asylum seekers who have been granted residency status are gaining appropriate access to education, in view of the existence of restrictive criteria that hinder such access.
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586 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Education and Science the length of time it will take to produce a new school development in Ballygarvan, County Cork should a site be immediately available.
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341 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Transport the measures he is taking to meet the Aer Lingus and the Aer Rianta pensioners’ claim for restructuring of the airlines pension fund to include the consumer price index and salary related indexation.
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299 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason refugee and asylum seekers granted residency status are required to serve a further period of at least six months before they can avail of other benefits such as the back to education scheme, despite the length of time they have already spent in the country being prohibited from gaining employment.
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