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Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 6 December 2005
277 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his plans to regulate the operation of housing management companies. [38082/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 6 December 2005
133 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the nature of the over-claim of Ireland’s European Social Fund; and the person who was responsible for the irregularities that led to the withdrawal of €15.6 million by the European Commission. [37922/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 6 December 2005
104 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if a submission has been made to the Competition Authority with regard to the proposed purchase of the Meteor mobile phone company and NTL cable company; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34537/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 6 December 2005
276 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on proposals to ban energy efficient labels on the ground of non-tariff-barriers as part of the non-agricultural market access talks at the sixth WTO ministerial meeting in Hong Kong from 13 to 18 December 2005. [37939/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 6 December 2005
13 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Taoiseach the role he is taking regarding the proposed withdrawal from social partnership by SIPTU and other trade unions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31593/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 1 December 2005
193 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the grounds on which he has awarded the Garda Síochána the general supervisory role in the management of the calibration and accuracy of privatised speeding cameras; and the reason the NSAI, which is legally mandated to carry out such a role, has been overlooked. [37415/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 1 December 2005
42 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will provide a description of the projects that are being funded under the €6.85 million increase in ICT infrastructure spending announced in the 2006 Estimate for his Department. [37129/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 1 December 2005
39 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if the service delivery modernisation provision of €4.5 million which is included in his Department’s Estimates under the consultancy heading is an ongoing project or if same has an expected completion date. [37130/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 30 November 2005
68 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he intends to introduce reforms to facilitate small voluntary groups that find it difficult to fulfil the local fund-raising requirement, which is often imposed on groups before they are able to draw down national funding allocations. [36768/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 29 November 2005
366 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the grounds on which he has awarded the Garda Síochána the general supervisory role in the management of the calibration and accuracy of privatized speeding cameras; and the reason the NSAI, which is legally mandated to carry out such a role, has been overlooked. [36058/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 29 November 2005
98 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on whether the requirements for all local authorities to purchase certain proportions of their energy supply from renewable sources would be appropriate in view of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council’s decision to purchase 62% of its energy supply from renewable sources; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36680/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 29 November 2005
57 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has satisfied himself that the practice of local authorities is that in their environment impact assessments of transport and other major projects that contributions to climate change of comparative project options is included; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36679/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 November 2005
65 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Transport when the appointment of an inspector to hold the public inquiry required under the Transport (Railway Infrastructure) Act 2001 can be expected (details supplied). [36053/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 November 2005
98 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Transport the reason, contrary to EU policy, his Department is actively overseeing the transfer of container traffic from rail to road, of which the closure of the western rail corridor between Limerick and Sligo is symptomatic. [36054/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 November 2005
Bill entitled an Act to safeguard the fulfillment of our obligations to meet climate change targets
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 November 2005
112 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the aims of the Garda schools programme at both primary and secondary level; the level of staffing for this programme in each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35767/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 November 2005
103 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the action he intends to take following the suggestion from the Northern Ireland Police Ombudsman, Ms Nuala O’Loan, for co-operation between her office and the soon to be established Garda Ombudsman office to be put on a statutory footing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35768/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 November 2005
418 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Transport when he intends to completely ban the use of mobile phones when driving; and if he intends to make same a specific finable offence. [35125/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 November 2005
417 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Transport the reason behind his decision to suspend the testing of drivers of articulated vehicles in Letterkenny; and when he intends to identify a suitable alternative location in Donegal for reversing manoeuvres in order to restore articulated lorry driving testing in the area. [35123/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 November 2005
393 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when he expects to appoint a new Government chief scientific adviser; and if he intends such a appointment process to be carried out via a process of open advertising and interviewing of candidates. [35753/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 November 2005
392 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when the current employment contract for the director general of Science Foundation Ireland is due to expire; if the director general has agreed to a renewal of that contract; and his plans to vacate his position at the end of that contract. [35752/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 November 2005
367 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the policy within his Department regarding the need for open advertising and interviewing for new employment positions under the remit of his Department; if new positions which will be filled in the proposed energy research council will be subject to such a competitive process; and the reason the appointment of Mr. Barry McSweeney to work on the establishment of the council was not subject to such an open process. [35750/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 November 2005
366 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the reason the work to be carried out by the proposed energy research council has not been incorporated within the remit of either Sustainable Energy Ireland or Science Foundation Ireland both of which have the necessary research expertise and administrative systems and statutory regulations to allow them oversee the work to be undertaken by such a council. [35749/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 November 2005
365 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the proposed role for Mr. Barry McSweeney with regard to the proposed new energy research council; the proposed structure and function of the new council; the statutory authority, budget, staffing and board structures of the council; and if it is envisaged that Mr. McSweeney’s position within the new council will be an administrative or policy-making one. [35748/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 November 2005
357 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the criteria for traders seeking to obtain a stall in the new market in Howth harbour; and his decision to refuse the request of a local well-established grocery shop which sought a stall for trading organic vegetables. [35118/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 November 2005
356 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if there is a limit on the number of coffee trading licences issued for Howth harbour; the reason, in August 2005, when a coffee trading licence for Howth harbour was put out for tender, the licence was granted to a limited company (details supplied) in preference to a sole trader. [35117/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 November 2005
106 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she has received correspondence from the Irish Heart Foundation or National Heart Alliance regarding the Nutrition and Health Foundation; if the letter was critical of this new organisation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35441/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 November 2005
99 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the nature of the relationship between her Department and the Nutrition and Health Foundation; if taxpayers’ money is going to this organisation; if her Department fully endorsed this new organisation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35442/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 November 2005
134 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the performance of local authorities subject to instructions issued by his Department in carrying out landscape character studies in order to create zones amenable to wind energy; the progress which has been made to date in 2005 locating suitable sites; and the additional steps taken in order to make the said sites operational. [34993/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 November 2005
31 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the sports that are constituted on an all-Ireland basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34812/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 16 November 2005
341 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Transport further to his recent announcement that his Department is in discussion with an international open access freight operator, the measures which have been put in place to allow the issue of operators licences and for the allocation track access in a fair and unbiased manner. [34923/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 16 November 2005
243 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Finance the procedure which has to be followed to allow the transfer of title to a local authority for public open space lands which are in his possession as a result of the liquidation of a private development company; if he holds title to a section of public open lands (details supplied) as a result of the liquidation of a company (details supplied) which had been the original developer of the houses on the road in question; if proceedings have commenced to allow the transfer of the title for the lands to South Dublin County Council; if impediments exist to the possible transfer of this title; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34976/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 16 November 2005
177 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the annual cost to the State of the provision of monitoring, inspection and enforcement of the fishery management system; the most recent estimated annual gross revenue of fish landed in ports here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34533/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 16 November 2005
95 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources his role in the proposed separation of the ESB and EirGrid; the person who has responsibility for negotiation of the contract conditions for staff transferring from ESB to EirGrid; and the action which can be taken should such a negotiation procedure prove inconclusive. [34534/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 November 2005
147 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she will report on organic week and the lessons learned to improve on promotion of organic growing and marketing. [34235/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 10 November 2005
168 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Transport the implications for the stopovers of US aircraft carrying US troops at Shannon Airport once the transatlantic stopover has been phased out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33702/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 10 November 2005
135 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the specific reservation which has prevented the Government from declaring its support to date in 2005 for the Arms Trade Treaty. [33715/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 10 November 2005
73 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on the recently published UN report on the oil for food programme scandal in Iraq. [33570/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 10 November 2005
43 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on the US Administration regarding reports in The Washington Post that two east European countries are providing covert jail facilities to the CIA for the illegal internment of al-Qaeda suspects; if this issue has been officially raised in the EU; if he is assured that al-Qaeda suspects are not being transported to such clandestine facilities via Shannon Airport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33571/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 November 2005
318 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Transport the cost to the State of the production of the video material used in the launch of the Transport 21 plan; the companies which were involved in that work; and if a tendering process was used in the allocation of such contracts. [33518/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 November 2005
317 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Transport the cost to the State for the use of consultants in public relations and design work carried out in conjunction with the launch of the Transport 21 plan; the companies which were involved in that work; and if a tendering process was used in the allocation of such contracts. [33517/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 November 2005
247 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources when he will respond to the EU Commission formal notice that the system of managing drift net catches for salmon may be in breach of the European Union habitats directive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33519/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 November 2005
185 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Finance his views on the establishment of an independent investigation into the costs of decentralisation in view of the estimate made by the trade union IMPACT that decentralisation will result in €65 million additional costs on a annual basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32945/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 November 2005
139 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Finance if progress reports for the period December 2004 to June 2005 concerning the southern and eastern regional operational programme of the national development plan have been presented to the monitoring committee; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32946/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 November 2005
357 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Finance if he will consider extending the duty exemption on biofuels; and when such an expansion of the current system might be introduced. [27831/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 November 2005
120 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if the section of welded pipe in the vicinity of the proposed gas terminal building in Bellanaboy corresponds to the pipelines details as contained in the original application for such a pipeline in 2001. [32084/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 November 2005
119 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the services available on the Irish market which comply with the directive issued by him in February 2003 to ComReg requiring that retail flat rate dial up internet access services be made available to the Irish public. [32067/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 November 2005
62 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Defence the section of the Irish Defence forces which will provide the 120 Irish troops being considered for deployment to any future involvement in EU battlegroups; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32047/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 November 2005
25 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Defence if a significant increase in defence spending is required for the Irish Defence Forces to ensure the preparedness of troops serving on overseas missions as expressed by PDFORRA; if significant expenditure is required on equipment such as small tanks and armoured personnel carriers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32046/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 2 November 2005
353 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the measures he has taken to meet the €15 million reduction from the European Social Fund; and the steps he has taken to redress the departmental irregularities that led to the decrease. [32017/05]