151 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the sections of his Department that have already been relocated outside Dublin to date; and the extent to which the workers transferred were the original workers attached to his Department.
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146 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the sections of his Department that have already been relocated outside Dublin to date; and the extent to which the workers transferred were the original workers attached to his Department.
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139 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the sections of his Department that have already been relocated outside of Dublin to date; and the extent to which the workers transferred were the original workers attached to his Department.
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123 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Transport the sections of his Department that have already been relocated outside of Dublin to date; and the extent to which the workers transferred were the original workers attached to his Department.
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112 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Health and Children the sections of his Department that have already been relocated outside of Dublin to date; and how many workers transferred were the originally attached to his Department.
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100 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the sections of his Department that have already been relocated outside of Dublin to date; and the extent to which the workers transferred were the original workers attached to his Department.
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91 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Education and Science the sections of his Department that have already been relocated outside of Dublin to date; and the extent to which the workers transferred were the original workers attached to his Department.
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81 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the sections of his Department that have already been relocated outside of Dublin to date; and the extent to which the workers transferred were the original workers attached to his Department.
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68 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food the sections of his Department that have already been relocated outside of Dublin to date; and the extent to which the workers transferred were the original workers attached to his Department.
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51 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Defence the sections of his Department that have already been relocated outside of Dublin to date; and the extent to which the workers transferred were the original workers attached to his Department.
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48 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the sections of her Department that have already been relocated outside of Dublin to date; and the extent to which the workers transferred were the original workers attached to her Department.
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44 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Defence the way in which the decentralisation plans are proceeding for his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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17 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Defence if the heightened security situation following the Madrid bombing will require additional spending by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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15 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if he will be discussing the broiler directive at any meeting of the EU Agriculture Council; and if he will be advocating the early implementation of this directive.
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330 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Health and Children if a moratorium on the importation of genetically modified foods is still in existence here; the regulations governing the actions of retailers importing foods from the United States or other countries in this regard; and the regulations that are required for the labelling of foods, which may contain genetically modified ingredients from genetically modified plants.
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44 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Finance the investigations being pursued by his Department in relation to the collapse of a company (details supplied).
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20 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Finance the sections of Government Departments that have already been relocated outside of Dublin to date; and the extent to which the workers transferred were the original workers attached to each Department concerned.
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50 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if she will elaborate on her statement at the National Forum on Europe that the Government is in favour of retaining the unanimity requirement on international trade in health education and cultural-AV services; and her views on whether the necessity of maintaining a unanimity requirement on national taxation matters may require a concession on certain issues in relation to the opening up of trade in health, education and cultural-AV services.
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12 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the way in which the Government intends to meet the targets set out in the Lisbon agenda for increased female participation in the workplace; the current level of full-time and part-time female participation in the workplace here; the way in which this compares with the European average; and the expected increase in participation within the next five years.
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131 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if persistent poverty rates are a useful indicator and should be included in comparison reports produced by her Department.
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106 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if time restrictions on the use of free travel passes in Dublin and Cork can and are being addressed.
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279 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he intends imposing a condition that community groups making applications for the funding of new rural broadband group schemes do so in conjunction with recognised Internet service providers or authorised operators; the purpose of such a condition should it be proposed; and his views on whether it could potentially lead to the cherry-picking of more populated and economically viable schemes over more isolated community proposals.
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184 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the progress he has made on his proposal to establish a body to be known as Chomhairle na Tuaithe.
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171 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the progress that has been made in relation to the rural social scheme.
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69 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the measures to be undertaken in his role as president of the Council of Ministers to ensure that the natural heritage of the countries joining the EU on 1 May 2004 is to be protected through the correct and full implementation of EU nature conservation legislation and effective policy integration.
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44 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if, in his role as president of the Council of Ministers, he will ecologically audit the trans-European transport networks guidelines, reject those that would spell disaster for candidate Natura 2000 sites in the accession countries and require that strategic environmental assessment be incorporated into the revised guidelines on the corridor and priority project level.
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133 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Health and Children the precise costs to date of the fluoridation forum; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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129 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) who attended the fluoridation forum has not yet received answers to the questions he raised there; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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345 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Transport when he expects the business case proposal for the first stage of the Dublin metro to go to Cabinet for a decision; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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186 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Transport if his Department will enter into discussions with cycling campaign groups to discuss their concerns with regard to current regulations regarding the mandatory use of certain cycle lanes; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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130 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Transport when he expects the business case proposal for the first stage of the Dublin metro to go to Cabinet for a decision; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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110 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Transport if his Department will review national transport policy in view of the publication of the 2002 census travel statistics which showed a dramatic increase in car use for adults going to work and children going to school; if such a review is to be carried out, the form it will take and the timetable for the resulting review of investment priorities within his Department.
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43 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the measures his Department are considering taking to reduce the level of bike theft in Ireland given the increases in this reported crime over the last year.
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37 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the way in which a person can assess whether unlawful discrimination has occurred or the likelihood of success of an action based on the condition set out in section 28 in regard to the Equality Bill 2004.
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103 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he will report on the outcome of his meeting with the community games organisation in 2003 and the assistance his Department will be providing to ensure that the community games will have a permanent home for the national annual games; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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125 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the original cost projects for plans to develop and manage information technology to support the delivery of his Department’s mission and objectives, as outlined in its mission statement, including a review of IT strategies of former Departments and the new departmental IT strategy for 2003; the projected monetary and percentage increase envisaged as a result of the decentralisation programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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155 Mr. Éamon Ryan asked the Minister for Education and Science the support mechanisms available within his Department for the establishment and operation of environmental educational centres in association with urban city farms; the grant assistance or other support mechanisms currently provided by his Department to the Airfield Trust in Dundrum (details supplied); and the section within his Department that the Airfield Trust should liaise with in seeking State assistance for their planned introduction of new educational programmes.
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128 Mr. Éamon Ryan asked the Minister for Education and Science the support mechanisms that are available from his Department for the establishment and operation of environmental education facilities in association with urban city farms such as the Airfield Trust; the grant assistance or other support mechanisms currently provided by his Department to this trust (details supplied); and the section within his department that the Airfield Trust should liaise with, in seeking State assistance, for their planned introduction of new environmental technology demonstration projects on the farm.
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115 Mr. Éamon Ryan asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food the support mechanisms available within his Department for the establishment and operation of city farms which provide demonstration models of agricultural practices to the local city populations; the grant assistance, or training support programmes, currently provided by his Department to the Airfield Trust which operates such a city farm and an environmental educational and community facility on 33 acres close to the centre of Dundrum Village in south Dublin; and the section within his Department that the Airfield Trust should liaise with in relation to the assistance they can receive for their proposed development of the farm.
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65 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Education and Science if he will report on the progress being made to fast track the start-up of Griffeen Valley Educate Together school for September 2004.
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16 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Education and Science if he will investigate the need to set up and fund a research and development task force from within the existing third level institutions to investigate the way in which the implementation of leading edge renewable energy solutions and energy conservation can enable Ireland to properly manage the transition to a sustainable, lower energy usage society following the inevitable peak in oil production over the next two to ten years, the huge price rises, the fuel shortages, the related economic meltdown and possible civil unrest that will follow; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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195 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if the Government supports the call from the European Parliament for the inclusion of a national veto on the liberalisation of trade in services in the areas of culture, health and education in the proposed new European constitution; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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116 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if his attention has been drawn to the large majority that supports agriculture which does not depend on GMOs or involve GMOs in any form; and if he will act with countries of a similar disposition to maintain Ireland as a GM free food producer.
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139 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Finance the details of the most recent meeting of eurozone Finance Ministers with the European Central Bank.
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114 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Finance the consideration he is giving to changing the way the annual budget is presented and is considered by Dáil Éireann.
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48 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the draft of the proposed EU constitution which the Government is using for negotiations; if the opt out clause from a mutual defence commitment that the neutrals secured in early December 2003 is part of the draft constitution under negotiation or if it will have to be agreed again; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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305 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the input her Department will have in the international conference planned for 13 and 14 May 2004 with regard to the international day of the family; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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108 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the measures discussed and agreed at the recent EU Presidency meeting in Galway.
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92 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when it is envisaged that consultation on policy on the family will finish and a report be presented.
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165 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the information which will be publicly available from the Agenda 133 meetings which are to be held under the Irish Presidency; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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