198 Mr. Boyle asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of full time civil servants within her Department who first entered the service as political advisers; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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188 Mr. Boyle asked the Taoiseach the number of full time civil servants in his Department who first entered the service as political advisers; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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186 Mr. Boyle asked the Taoiseach the anticipated increases in telephone costs to his Department after the recent telephone rental price rises.
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180 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he intends to examine the possible effects on local lakes and rivers of the transfer of peat material from the proposed Bellanaboy gas terminal in County Mayo.
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133 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the licensing arrangements that will apply to the pipelines from the shore to the proposed gas terminal in Bellanaboy, County Mayo; and if he will give other international examples of cases in which there is a similar distance between the landfall for such a pipeline and such a terminal.
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238 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the anticipated increases in phone costs to her Department after recent phone rental price rises.
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235 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the anticipated increases in phone costs to his Department after recent phone rental price rises.
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227 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the anticipated increases in phone costs to his Department after recent phone rental price rises.
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208 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the anticipated increases in phone costs to his Department after recent phone rental price rises.
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194 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Transport the anticipated increases in phone costs to his Department after recent phone rental price rises.
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185 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Health and Children the anticipated increases in phone costs to his Department after recent phone rental price rises.
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167 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the anticipated increases in telephone costs to his Department after recent telephone rental price rises.
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164 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the anticipated increases in telephone costs to his Department after recent telephone rental price increases.
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144 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Education and Science the anticipated increases in telephone costs to his Department after recent rental price increases.
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136 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Education and Science if his attention has been drawn to the difficulties being experienced by asylum seekers undertaking courses in the further education sector, who cannot avail of the work experience component of their courses due to the uncertainty of their status; and the action he will take to clarify this situation.
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127 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the anticipated increases in phone costs to his Department after recent phone rental price rises.
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123 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Finance the anticipate increases in phone costs to his Department after recent phone rental price rises.
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113 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food the anticipated increases in phone costs to his Department after recent phone rental price rises.
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110 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Defence the anticipated increases in phone costs to his Department after recent phone rental price rises.
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108 Mr. Boyle asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the anticipated increases in phone costs to her Department after recent phone rental price rises.
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36 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Education and Science his views on the views expressed at a recent seminar in Cork that the present method of education for tackling drug abuse is proving counterproductive.
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15 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Education and Science if his Department has received correspondence in relation to the guidelines issued to NEPS psychologists for the assessment of children with special needs; if the reasoning behind such guidelines is wholly financially based; if it intentionally or unintentionally compromises the professional standing of educational psychologists; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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240 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Education and Science if his attention has been drawn to the difficulties being experienced by asylum seekers undertaking courses in the further education sector, who cannot avail of the work experience component of their courses because of the uncertainty of their status; and the steps he intends to take to clarify this situation.
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99 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food his views on the description of his Department's tuberculosis eradication scheme as a cruel slaughter of badgers masquerading as science; if he will review the policy in favour of more scientific and more compassionate methods to prevent the spread of tuberculosis; and his views on the Krebs experiment in the UK which has seen a suspension of reactive culling of badgers.
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263 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Finance the basis of his decision to include the amendments to section 13 of the Finance Act 2002 which allowed for existing ESOT to benefit in cases in which a takeover company had insufficient share capital available to do a full ordinary share for share exchange.
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262 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Finance if his undertaking to introduce amendments in the Finance Act 2002 relating to the tax treatment of the ESOT shareholding following the Valentia takeover of the company was a necessary requirement for the successful completion of the Valentia bid.
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166 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Finance the details of the most recent ECOFIN meeting at which discussions concerning the Stability and Growth Pact were had.
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150 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Finance the number of full-time civil servants within his Department, who first entered the service as political advisers; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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98 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Finance if the amendments contained in section 13 of the Finance Act 2002 were drafted in response to requests from Eircom ESOT for retrospective changes to the tax treatment of the income and capital gains from the preference share offering that the Valentia consortium issued to help secure the takeover of the company; and the estimate of the revenue forgone by the State from tax on income or capital gained from these Eircom preference shares due to the amendment.
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142 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Health and Children if he intends to allow for regional offices of the national poisons centre to be established.
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114 Mr. Boyle asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if she will request that the Health and Safety Authority conducts a report on the use and effects of chemicals in the workplace.
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115 Mr. Boyle asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if she sees value in a media campaign raising awareness of the dangers of household chemicals.
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113 Mr. Boyle asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the proposal she has to increase the size of hazardous warning labels on domestic use products.
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112 Mr. Boyle asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the plans she has to strengthen regulations on placing child resistant tops on all containers with chemical substances.
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133 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the actions the Government is taking to secure the adoption of an international arms trade treaty at the UN arms conference to be held in 2006.
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132 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the position the Government has taken on the control arms campaign as promoted by organisations (details supplied).
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25 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the report of the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (details supplied) outlining the killing of Palestinian civilians, the razing of Palestinian agricultural lands and the indiscriminate shelling of Palestinian residential areas; his views on whether these actions are consistent with the obligations of the Israeli Government in relation to human rights under Article 2 of the association agreement between Israel and the European Union; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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36 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if Ireland is associated with a European Union submission to the International Court of Justice regarding the wall being constructed by Israel in the occupied territories; the submissions Ireland has made independently; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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132 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if the introduction of PRSAs has been accompanied by the creation of a subsidy to employers who see their PRSI contributions reduced, even if they do not contribute to an employee's PRSA.
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85 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the degree of consultation entered into by her Department with the Departmentof the Environment, Heritage and Local Government prior to her decision to alter criteria for the payment of supplementary welfare allowance.
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115 Mr. Boyle asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the agenda, specific papers and reports being presented to the Agenda 133 meetings which are to be held under the Irish Presidency will be available to the public or to Members of the Houses of the Oireachtas; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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113 Mr. Boyle asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if there are particular industries or areas in which compliance with the minimum wage regulations has been below the national average; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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135 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the reason no official record exists of all results of elections to local authorities that have occurred in the State since 1922; and if his Department intends to compile such a record and make such a record publicly available.
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26 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Defence if a survey of staff has taken place in his Department regarding decentralisation; the impact decentralisation will have on his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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12 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Defence if he intends to improve Ireland's military capacity as required under the new European constitution; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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217 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the measures his Department has put in place to help develop and maintain volunteer bureaux in the country.
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