69 Mr. Gilmore asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on the prospect of 100% debt cancellation for the poorest countries in the world; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that at a recent meeting of the G7, Ministers moved to support this initiative; his views on this stance; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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494 Mr. Gilmore asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the arrangements which are in place to facilitate householders who do not have private transport with the disposal of or composting of garden waste; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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149 Mr. Gilmore asked the Minister for Education and Science her plans to ensure that children have access to play and physical education facilities in inclement weather conditions; if there is a timeframe in which her Department will ensure that all schools have such facilities, particularly in view of their importance in combating childhood obesity; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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116 Mr. Gilmore asked the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the recent closure of a national school (details supplied) in Limerick which had to close as a result of rodent activity; her views on whether it is acceptable that schools should be forced to close for such reasons; the steps she is taking to bring all such schools up to an acceptable condition; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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39 Mr. Gilmore asked the Minister for Defence if, following his Dáil response of 1 March 2005 he has reviewed the regulations in this regard; his plans to change the regulations to address this anomaly; the action he has taken following his Dáil response; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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114 Mr. Gilmore asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he intends to publish the report of the review group on the employment rights bodies; the main recommendations in the report; when he intends to publish the Government’s response to the report; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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98 Mr. Gilmore asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is satisfied that there are sufficient legal safeguards in place to ensure the right of all employees to be represented by a trade union; if he intends to legislate for collective bargaining arrangements in accordance with the principles of the ILO and enshrined in the European Convention on Human Rights and the proposed EU constitution; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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474 Mr. Gilmore asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will publish all the archaeological and historical advice which he has received and considered in regard to the M3 at Tara-Skyrne; the source and authority for such advice; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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299 Mr. Gilmore asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if a labour inspector was transferred from his Department to the Employment Appeals Tribunal in May 2003; if the inspector concerned disputed the transfer; if the Civil Service mediator recommended this person’s return to the labour inspectorate in August 2004; the reason for the delay in returning the inspector concerned to the labour inspectorate in view of the acknowledged shortage of labour inspectors; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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145 Mr. Gilmore asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his views on the recently published three year strategy from the Combat Poverty Agency to address poverty here; the steps he intends to take to deal with the issues highlighted in the strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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155 Mr. Gilmore asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his proposals for the replacement of the current lone parent’s allowance with a family friendly child benefit scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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156 Mr. Gilmore asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when he intends to implement the EU directive on the energy performance of buildings; the progress which has been made in making the necessary regulations or preparing legislation; the correspondence he has had with the EU Commission on possible derogation from the directive; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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76 Mr. Gilmore asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the basis for the changes in the retail planning guidelines announced by his Department on 5 January 2005; the names of those retail concerns that made representations to his Department to have the guidelines changed; if his attention has been drawn to the serious concerns expressed about the possible impact of the change on existing retailers; if applications for developments under the new guidelines have yet been received; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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57 Mr. Gilmore asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when he intends to decide on the application submitted to him from the roads authority for carrying out a programme of archaeological works and mitigation measures along the proposed route of the M3 through the Tara-Skryne valley; if he has received a letter from the director of the National Museum setting out his serious concerns on the implications of the proposed route; if he has responded to the letter; if he intends to publish the letter; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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1088 Mr. Gilmore asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the progress being made on an application for budget cost approval for phase 1 of a scheme (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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1087 Mr. Gilmore asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the delay in approving the funding for a group (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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1072 Mr. Gilmore asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his plans to introduce a scheme of assistance for householders who are removing asbestos from their homes.
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1066 Mr. Gilmore asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of housing units made available in west Cork under Part V of the Planning and Development Act 2000 since the Act was introduced.
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686 Mr. Gilmore asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the consideration he gave to correspondence which he received (details supplied); if he will give a more substantive reply than that which he issued on 19 January 2005; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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562 Mr. Gilmore asked the Minister for Transport if he has received correspondence from a person (details supplied) in County Dublin concerning the need for a pedestrian bridge on the new N11 at Loughlinstown, County Dublin; if he will agree to meet with this person; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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471 Mr. Gilmore asked the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the consideration he is giving to the application from a tennis club (details supplied) in Dublin 18 for funding under the sports capital programme 2005; his views on the merits of the application; when he will make a decision; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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431 Mr. Gilmore asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he has sought the advice of the Attorney General on the constitutionality of granting, by SI 517/2001, to a private company (details supplied) powers of compulsory acquisition over private property in order to construct an unprecedented high-pressure upstream gas pipeline; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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430 Mr. Gilmore asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he has satisfied himself that the handing over to a private company (details supplied) of the responsibility for the health and safety of residents of Rossport in north County Mayo, who are being forced to live perilously close to an unprecedented high-pressure gas pipeline, does not constitute a derogation of sovereignty and therefore is not repugnant to the Constitution; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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429 Mr. Gilmore asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if, in view of recent Supreme Court rulings, he has satisfied himself that the constitutional rights of the residents of Rossport in north County Mayo are not being violated by their being compulsorily obliged to live perilously close to a high-pressure upstream gas pipeline which has no precedent in this State; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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428 Mr. Gilmore asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if his officials briefed the Minister of State at his Department on the contents of the quantified risk assessment carried out on the onshore section of the unprecedented high-pressure upstream gas pipeline between landfall and the proposed refinery at Ballinaboy in north County Mayo; and if so, if this briefing took place before the Minister granted the consent to Enterprise Energy Ireland to proceed with the construction of the pipeline.
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427 Mr. Gilmore asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if officials of his Department briefed his predecessor, the Minister, Deputy Dermot Ahern, on the contents of the qualified risk assessment commissioned and carried out on behalf of the developers of the Corrib gas project in County Mayo; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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425 Mr. Gilmore asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if his attention has been drawn to the contents of the quantified risk assessment commissioned by and carried out on behalf of the developers of the Corrib gas project concerning the onshore section of the unprecedented high-pressure upstream gas pipeline between landfall and the proposed refinery at Ballinaboy in north County Mayo; the way in which he justifies, based on the contents of that report, the imposition of a risk environment on the residents of Rossport; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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432 Mr. Gilmore asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he will move to clarify the legal limbo that appears to exist along the 9 km onshore section of the proposed upstream gas pipeline in Rossport in north County Mayo along which no State body is prepared to take responsibility for the health and safety of the residents who are compulsorily obliged to live along the pipeline route; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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424 Mr. Gilmore asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the reason and the way in which the onshore section of the high-pressure upstream gas pipeline between landfall and the proposed refinery at Ballinaboy in north County Mayo, which is above high water mark, was subsumed by his Department under the former Minister of State, Deputy Fahey; the further reason the pipeline was exempted from the normal planning process; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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409 Mr. Gilmore asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the reason the Corrib gas refinery will not be treating and cleaning gas offshore, as is being done in Kinsale and elsewhere throughout the world; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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408 Mr. Gilmore asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if the Government will guarantee the safety of the Corrib gas refinery project in north Mayo; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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114 Mr. Gilmore asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of persons committed to prisons during 2004 for alleged breaches of immigration laws without having been charged with a specific offence; if his attention has been drawn to concerns expressed by the Irish Refugee Council that in some cases such persons were being held for weeks or months; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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95 Mr. Gilmore asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views on his reported statement that the immigration system could not be run on arbitrary sentimentality; his policy in ensuring that the immigration policy, especially in regard to deportation, is informed by a humane and compassionate approach; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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35 Mr. Gilmore asked the Minister for Transport the position with regard to the height of the Dublin Port tunnel; if he has plans to re-examine the height limits of the tunnel; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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48 Mr. Gilmore asked the Minister for Transport the position regarding the proposals for the construction of a metro system for Dublin; if new proposals on this matter have come before Cabinet; when a final decision on the metro will be made; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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93 Mr. Gilmore asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to recent figures produced by the Central Statistics Office showing that hospital charges have risen by 59.9% in three years, more than six times the rate of inflation; her views on whether such a level of increase is justified; if her attention has been drawn to the hardship that such a level of increase has created; the action she intends to take to address this situation; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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21 Mr. Gilmore asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the progress made with regard to the recruitment of a chief executive officer for the Health Service Executive; when it is expected that an appointment will be made; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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665 Mr. Gilmore asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the plans he has to provide suitable accommodation for persons being released from prison in order to avoid those persons having immediately to become homeless on their release; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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643 Mr. Gilmore asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the breakdown of the house completion figures in each of the private, local authority, voluntary and co-operative categories as outlined in his Department’s statement issued on 7 March 2005; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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539 Mr. Gilmore asked the Minister for Education and Science if she has plans to change the criteria for admission to VTOS and for the back to education allowance for persons under the age of 21; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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538 Mr. Gilmore asked the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the fact that students participating in post leaving certificate courses and who do not qualify for VTOS are liable to pay fees for student services, college registration, examinations and equipment; if she has plans to change this; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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77 Mr. Gilmore asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he will make a statement on the decision of the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland to issue a revised licensing policy statement in coming months which it is reported may lead to the issue of a significant number of new radio licences, including a new national licence; if he intends to issue a directive to the BCI to examine competition in the radio sector; if he has satisfied himself that the Exchequer is receiving value from the national resource of the radio spectrum and additional spectrum which may become available; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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58 Mr. Gilmore asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if his Department has been in contact with the EU Commission with regard to the Commission’s statement that it may examine the electricity and gas markets throughout the EU to evaluate the levels of competition; if he will make a statement on the process of hiring consultants and the timetable for his own Department’s review of the ESB and the electricity market here; and when he expects the report from CER on the profitability and return on capital of the ESB.
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115 Mr. Gilmore asked the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the difficulties experienced by school principals in obtaining fully qualified substitute teachers; if she has proposals to address this problem; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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95 Mr. Gilmore asked the Minister for Education and Science if she has satisfied herself that there is a sufficient educational and awareness programme in schools regarding depression and suicide; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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140 Mr. Gilmore asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the outcome of his meeting with the sisters of Robert McCartney in Dublin on 23 February 2005; the efforts the Government has been making to assist the investigation into his murder; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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101 Mr. Gilmore asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the nature of his discussions with the British Secretary of State for Northern Ireland at the British-Irish Intergovernmental Conference in Dublin on 2 March 2005; his views on the prospects for political progress in the North ahead of the Westminster elections; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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170 Mr. Gilmore asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the arrangement which he has made to protect, manage and secure the buildings of the former prison at Shanganagh Castle, Shankill; if the buildings have been damaged or have deteriorated in any way since the closure of the prison; the cost of maintaining and managing the buildings since the closure; his plans for the future of these buildings; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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169 Mr. Gilmore asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will facilitate the transfer from Limerick to Dublin of a person (details supplied).
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