85 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on whether Ireland is on track with the goals set under the Kyoto agreement.
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165 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the analysis he has carried out on the possible transport implications of a lifting of the cap on the size of retail outlets and if he has asked for an analysis of the implications of the introduction of a possible furniture store (details supplied) adjacent to the M50 motorway.
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152 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Education and Science when she expects that physical education facilities will be provided in a school (details supplied) in County Dublin; her views on whether the lack of such facilities in the school is acceptable; and if her attention has been drawn to the length of time it has taken to provide funding for this application.
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104 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Transport his future development plans for the rural transport initiative bus services; the overall patronage on the bus services provided by the initiative in 2003; and the funding sources available for the continuation and development of these services.
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114 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Transport if he will consider asking the National Roads Authority to investigate the possibility of incorporating a future new rail corridor running either alongside or in the central margin of the proposed new 15 road realignment between Sligo and Bunduff bridge.
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46 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the level of remuneration and expenses for those on the board of the new Health Services Executive; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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36 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will co-operate with the Department of Transport to ensure that more school children have safe ways to walk and cycle to school in order to reduce the levels of childhood obesity; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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71 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the funding that has been provided in the Estimates to develop sport among young persons and particularly in schools.
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247 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the future plans for the development of a company (details supplied) in the centre of Dublin.
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246 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the procedures in place to record the direct landing of fish stocks caught on Irish registered vessels in British and Norwegian ports; and the figures for the landings of mackerel in this regard over the past five years in both these countries.
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100 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the procedures in place to record the direct landing of fish stocks caught on Irish registered vessels in British and Norwegian ports; and the figures for the landings of mackerel in this regard over the past five years in both these countries.
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133 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the future plans for the development of an institute (details supplied) in the centre of Dublin.
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69 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the implications for the Government of the decision of the European Court of Justice on 18 November 2004 regarding our failure as a member state to fulfil obligations under the Community system for fisheries regulations regarding the exceeding of fishing quotas.
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75 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Education and Science the levels of investment in the field of research and development in indigenous renewable energy production; the plans that exist, in the context of the Estimates and budget 2005, to increase this investment in strategic research and development; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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78 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will report on his meeting in Dublin with the Chinese Vice-Premier, Huang Ju; the issues discussed; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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69 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the actions he has taken to ensure that the worsening situation in Darfur is placed high up on the agenda of both the EU Foreign Ministers meeting and of the EU Council in December 2004; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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142 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Finance if he will report on the use that has been made to date of research and development tax relief; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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125 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Finance if he has considered the views of the chambers of commerce here on the suitability of a site value tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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64 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she will report on the progress on the development of an audit protocol which will facilitate sustainable forest management and certification of compliance with existing forest service guidelines and standards; the number of times the committee charged with this work has met; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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8 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she intends to make publicly available the audit of forestry and afforestation measures (details supplied) signed off in October 2004 by the European Court of Auditors; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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223 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources when the condition 1 commencement of commercial production operations in January 2004 (details supplied) was amended with regard to the development of the Corrib gas field.
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222 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he will provide him with a copy of the environmental management plan for the upstream pipeline for the proposed Corrib gas terminal in Bellanaboy including agreed programmes, construction methodology and the construction constraints schedule; and if he will provide a copy of the detailed construction method statements as agreed between EEI and Dúchas, copies of all agreed monitoring programmes and the traffic management plan approved by Mayo County Council relating to the development.
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95 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Defence if he will report on the situation of Irish troops in Liberia; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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88 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the statistics for the length of the average working week for persons in full-time employment in the economy here; the similar statistics for the same category of workers ten and 20 years ago; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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77 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the policies he intends pursuing to ensure the achievement of the employment participation targets set out in Lisbon Agenda as signed by the Lisbon European Council.
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74 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has carried out an analysis of the implications for capital investment here of the US corporate tax amnesty proposed in the American Jobs Creation Act which was signed into law by President Bush in the last week of October 2004.
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123 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his views on the disappointment expressed by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions on the lack of progress on the special initiative in the Sustaining Progress agreement on tackling the care needs of children, persons with disability and older persons.
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77 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if consideration is being given to have payments being made by other Government Departments to be more readily made by his Department.
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83 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the way in which he has responded to the call by an association (details supplied) that his Department should become more involved in supports for Inishowen, in the aftermath of several recent factory closures.
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78 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will drop the €20 fee for persons to comment on planning applications.
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74 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the Aarhus Convention provides for the right to challenge in a court of law public decisions that have been made without respecting environmental law (details supplied); his views on whether the system here by which challenges to public decisions may incur huge legal costs is contrary to the Aarhus Convention; and if he will implement a public interest law mechanism whereby important points of environmental law can be dealt with quickly and without the threat of costs being awarded against citizens attempting to do their civic duty by ensuring Ireland’s environment is afforded the highest level of protection.
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124 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if a protocol has been put in place between his Department and the Department of Health and Children to ensure that there is an effective and appropriate transfer of information.
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80 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his Department recorded contact details for the parents of Irish children who have remained here following the deportations of their non-Irish national parents.
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139 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Transport if the Government will carry out a review of the ratio of spending in the capital budget between investment in public transport and roads in view of the recent 75% increase in the cost of oil.
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197 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Transport if he will consider joining the two new Luas lines via an overground rail section through the city centre; and his views on whether such an overground section is merited regardless of whether approval is given for the first stage of the Dublin metro as proposed in the Platform for Change document or the city centre rail interconnector between Heuston Station and Spencer Dock also proposed in the same document.
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71 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on the latest ESRI report by a person (details supplied) which suggests that Ireland is still spending below the EU average on health; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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20 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on whether an interdepartmental approach is necessary to deal with the problem of obesity; the steps she has taken to ensure an interdepartmental approach; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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171 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Education and Science if she will commission a cost benefit analysis in terms of the investment required to keep a child from a disadvantaged area within the school system up to leaving certificate level, the tax revenues arising from better paid employment balanced against the costs of educating the child, the loss of earnings of a child that leaves school early and the possible social welfare cost and the possible costs of imprisonment in view of the fact that children who leave school early are more likely to become engaged in criminal activity; if such a cost benefit analysis has been carried out extensively before; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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121 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the plans his Department has for the introduction of a tracing system for the sale of fresh sea-fish to give the retail customer here details on the fishing vessel involved and the date the fish was caught and landed.
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100 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the role his Department has in monitoring the activity of fishing vessels operating out of Killybegs Harbour.
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23 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources when he will issue the contracts for the additional 140 MW of onshore wind power, 50 MW of offshore wind power and 28 MW of biomass combined CHP; and if special conditions will apply to such contracts.
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3 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the analysis the Government has undertaken to investigate when global oil production is likely to peak; and the implications of such a peak for future energy prices.
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183 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism his views on the latest CSO figures which suggest that while domestic holiday trips were up 10%,, nights spent in guest houses and bed and breakfasts fell by 9.4% and self catering and rented houses fell by 16%; his further views on whether these figures are related to high prices charged for stays, or high costs for the tourist industry here; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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408 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Transport if his Department’s review of the National Roads Authority’s internal restructuring which is due to go to the Cabinet early in the autumn will include a possible re-organisation of the authority’s remit to include broader transport and environmental considerations.
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407 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Transport if the report that was due to be completed by Iarnród Éireann on the future of rail freight business here promised in April 2003 has been completed; and if he will provide a copy of the same.
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406 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Transport if an aircraft citation jet with a call sign N379P has been given permission for landing and take-off at Shannon Airport within the past four years.
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346 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the details of the reserve list for onshore wind farm bidders who failed to gain a public supply contract under the recent AER VI programme; when he intends to allocate the additional 140 MW of public service contracts that he is now providing under the programme; and the criteria he will use to allocate those additional contracts.
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342 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the procedures he intends to follow regarding the review of the successful bidders for electricity generation from biomass anaerobic digestion under the AER VI scheme; and the procedures that will be put in place to transfer the public purchase agreement to other unsuccessful bidders if it is clear that the winning contracts will not be built within the timeframe expected.
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341 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he intends to allocate some of the additional public purchase contract capacity that has been approved by the European Union for biomass projects such as the one proposed by a company (details supplied); and the way in which the application made by this company under the AER VI scheme stands in the reserve lists of projects which bid above those successful bidders already granted contracts under the scheme.
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