168 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the cost of the digital television pilot service over the next two years; the criteria to be applied to programming and advertising content of the seven successful applicants; if he expects to meet the European Union’s desired deadline of 2012 for the phasing out of analogue television system; and the measures he will take to meet that target date.
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102 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the body to be charged with overseeing the implementation of the new salmon regime; the legislative powers the body will be vested with; and the resources to be allocated for the additional monitoring of salmon numbers and for the introduction of new river management schemes to improve the spawning conditions and water quality for salmon.
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244 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the statutory processes involved in the appointment of chairs and members of non-Departmental public bodies under the remit of his Department and their legislative origin.
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225 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Defence the statutory processes involved in the appointment of chairs and members of non-Departmental public bodies under the remit of his Department and their legislative origin.
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162 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Education and Science the statutory processes involved in the appointment of chairs and members of non-departmental public bodies under the remit of her Department and their legislative origin.
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145 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food the statutory processes involved in the appointment of chairs and members of non-Departmental public bodies under the remit of her Department and their legislative origin.
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144 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the statutory processes involved in the appointment of chairs and members of non-Departmental public bodies under the remit of his Department and their legislative origin.
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138 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Transport the statutory processes involved in the appointment of chairs and members of non-Departmental public bodies under the remit of his Department and their legislative origin.
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133 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the statutory processes involved in the appointment of chairs and members of non-Departmental public bodies under the remit of his Department and their legislative origin.
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128 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the statutory processes involved in the appointment of chairs and members of non-Departmental public bodies under the remit of his Department and their legislative origin.
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125 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the statutory processes involved in the appointment of chairs and members of non-departmental public bodies under the remit of his Department and their legislative origin.
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122 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the statutory processes involved in the appointment of chairs and members of non-departmental public bodies under the remit of his Department and their legislative origin.
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118 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the statutory processes involved in the appointment of chairs and members of non-departmental public bodies under the remit of his Department and their legislative origin.
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114 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Health and Children the statutory processes involved in the appointment of chairs and members of non-departmental public bodies under the remit of her Department and their legislative origin.
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113 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Health and Children if it is the responsibility of the Health Service Executive south east to pay for people from the Cork and Kerry area to avail of private care, that is, psychotherapy or a bed on a private eating disorders programme in St. Patrick’s Hospital, Dublin or St. John of God Hospital, Stillorgan; the extent to which such expenditure occurs; and the way persons can apply for this funding.
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112 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Health and Children if a policy is being pursued and resources are provided by her Department to allow family therapy services to be made available to sufferers of eating disorders.
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110 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Health and Children the policy of her Department on providing health care and support services to sufferers of eating disorders; and the eating disorders services offered to children and adolescents in the Cork and Kerry area.
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102 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Finance the statutory processes involved in the appointment of chairs and members of non-Departmental public bodies under the remit of his Department and their legislative origin.
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83 Mr. Boyle asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the statutory processes involved in the appointment of chairs and members of non-Departmental public bodies under the remit of his Department and their legislative origin.
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62 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Defence the position regarding the case of a person (details supplied) and their complaints regarding unjust retirement from the Defence Forces; if he has reviewed the issues raised by the recently published book in connection with the case; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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70 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Defence the progress in Ireland joining the Nordic EU Battle group; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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99 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the amount of money spent by Enterprise Ireland in each year of the advanced technology research programme; the number of projects funded under the programme; the number of the said projects converted to start-up companies or licensing income; and the amount of State investment in the start-up companies that were established.
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87 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the objectives set out under the FP7 framework; the measures he will take to achieve the said objectives; and the budgetary allocation made for the project.
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395 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his views on criticisms made at the recent budgetary perspectives conference organised by the ESRI that the present system of combating child poverty and the lack of control exercised in paying disability payments are failures of the budgetary system here.
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179 Mr. Boyle asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he has received correspondence from a person (details supplied) in County Cork; if his attention has been drawn to the contents of this letter; and if a response will be forthcoming.
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375 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will explain his decision not to challenge the findings of the Equality Authority in relation to an initial decision of his Department to refuse payment to a homosexual man caring for an ill partner; and the reason this does not constitute a precedent.
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162 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason for his decision not to challenge the findings of the Equality Authority in relation to an initial decision of his Department to refuse payment to a homosexual man caring for an ill partner; and the reason this does not constitute a precedent.
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94 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if legislation is not imminent in relation to the Money Advice and Budgeting Service; the immediate measures he will put in place that would allow the service to operate more effectively.
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87 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if his Department has responded, or intends to respond, to the Make Room campaign (details supplied) to end homelessness by 2010; and if he will respond to critiques made of programmes run by his Department that are meant to assist those who are homeless and in general seeking access to housing.
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176 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs his views on the claim made by the chief executive of Merchant’s Quay Ireland that the national drugs strategy is failing.
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89 Mr. Boyle asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason for the ongoing delay in deciding the citizenship naturalisation application of a person (details supplied).
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48 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if his Department will be involved in sourcing alternative economic activity for coastal communities in view of the Government’s decision to ban the drift net fishing of salmon.
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13 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs his views on the claim made by the chief executive of Merchants Quay Ireland that the national drugs strategy is failing.
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121 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the steps his Department has taken to ensure cooperation with environmental agencies in Northern Ireland could be enhanced, in view of environmental NGO and OECD recommendations that, where possible, environmental issues should be dealt with by cross-Border mechanisms.
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73 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the communications and meetings his Department have had recently with representatives of the newspaper industry in relation to the establishment of a producer responsibility recycling scheme (details supplied).
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154 Mr. Boyle asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the conclusions reached at the recent international conference on gambling which he attended; the action that will be taken to address the growing risks posed by on-line gambling; his views on whether the refusal of the US authorities to attend was damaging to the conference; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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126 Mr. Boyle asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason a financial discrepancy exists between the cost of applying for Irish citizenship as the spouse of an Irish citizen and as an EU citizen who has been resident here for five years (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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66 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Transport when he expects to join the two existing Luas lines in Dublin City centre; and the preferred route option for such a connection.
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48 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Transport when he expects the proposed metro to go to tender; and the cost benefit analysis of the project that has taken place internally within his Department and within the Department of Finance.
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163 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Health and Children the studies her Department has carried out on the possible introduction of universal health insurance; the overall cost of such a scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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120 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Health and Children if her Department has calculated the cost of introducing free medical cards for both persons under six and 18 years old; the cost in both cases; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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100 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Finance the number of private pension plans, with a value of €5 million and more, that have been granted tax relief since 1 January 2005 until the coming into being of the Finance Act 2006, giving details of the granting of such reliefs on a monthly basis.
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133 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the efforts he, his Department and the EU have made to ameliorate the suffering of the Palestinian people since the EU cut off financial aid to the Hamas led Government in 2006; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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97 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the progress made in the decentralisation of his Department’s overseas aid division, Irish Aid, to Limerick; if he is satisfied that the staff levels, expertise, and resources available to Irish Aid will be adequate to administer the aid programme effectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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48 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources his Department’s policy in relation to the future of the post office network; the estimated number and geographical distribution of post offices closures that will be undertaken; the steps he intends to take to secure agreement for an exit package for the Irish Postmasters’ Union; and the estimated budgetary allocation to fund the said package.
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94 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he has satisfied himself with the legality of Eircom’s actions at the time of the disconnection of Smart Telecom services, including its waiver of the five to seven day cooling period that entitles new customers to cancel a contract; if he intends to reform the legislation providing for customer protection in this regard; if he further intends introducing a mandatory notice period in the event of the withdrawal of services by a wholesale service provider; and if so, the details of the notice period.
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168 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Finance the end figure costs of implementing the National Development Plan 2000 to 2006; and the variations in costs that have occurred since the original publication of the plan.
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87 Mr. Boyle asked the Minister for Finance the role played by his Department in the IPO sale of Aer Lingus shares or in the subsequent sale of 7% of the over-allotted share option; and the role currently played in conjunction with other Departments in making arguments to the European Commission protecting competition in Irish aviation.
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