98 Deputy Emmet Stagg asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if, in view of the report of the Comptroller and Auditor General that €45 million in tax revenue accruing from business owners or the self-employed had been written off over the 2002 to 2006 period, he will review the recovery mechanisms used to recoup such tax revenue; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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393 Deputy Emmet Stagg asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has provided funding in 2008 for the implementation of noise action plans as required under the Environmental Noise Regulations 2006, with particular reference to identifying capital works to adapt the noise nuisance.
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309 Deputy Emmet Stagg asked the Minister for Education and Science if the contracts for the appointment of the design team for a new school (details supplied) in County Kildare are signed and the design team in place.
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137 Deputy Emmet Stagg asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 121 of 28 November 2007, if the contracts have been signed and the site is now in State ownership.
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88 Deputy Emmet Stagg asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the way he envisages TG4 will be financed in the long-term; the timeframe for implementation of appropriate corporate governance arrangements; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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82 Deputy Emmet Stagg asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position he took at the 1 and 2 October 2007 Telecommunications Council discussions on the provision of a free postal service for blind and partially sighted persons; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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29 Deputy Emmet Stagg asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views on the findings in the report on Ireland by the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture; if it is his intention to implement its recommendations; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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26 Deputy Emmet Stagg asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the Government has decided to opt out from a new EU directive which makes it a criminal offence for employers to employ illegal migrants; the reason for this decision; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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81 Deputy Emmet Stagg asked the Minister for Education and Science the number of primary school inspectors currently employed by her Department; the number of vacancies; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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65 Deputy Emmet Stagg asked the Minister for Education and Science the duties and responsibilities of primary school inspectors; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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68 Deputy Emmet Stagg asked the Minister for Transport when Cork and Shannon Airports will become fully independent; the issues that have still to be resolved in statutorily separating Cork and Shannon Airports from the DAA; the position on the burden of debt on Cork Airport; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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6 Deputy Emmet Stagg asked the Minister for Transport if he plans to reform the Commission for Aviation Regulation; the changes he is considering for the Commission for Aviation Regulation; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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83 Deputy Emmet Stagg asked the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the plans he has to increase the amount of support offered to volunteers to €5 million per annum; if he has begun to identify stakeholders within the community; the contact he has had with these stakeholders; the means he has identified as the most appropriate way to use this funding to further promote and develop volunteering here; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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121 Deputy Emmet Stagg asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when he will extend free travel here to Irish citizens residing in the UK; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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87 Deputy Emmet Stagg asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the progress on each of the three reviews of the Combat Poverty Agency that are currently underway; and the action he will take on foot of these reviews.
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171 Deputy Emmet Stagg asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of vacant council houses throughout the State on dates (details supplied); the average waiting time for each local authority in reallocating same to tenants; if he has satisfied himself that houses are being reallocated in a timely fashion; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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170 Deputy Emmet Stagg asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has given further consideration to the establishment of full time fire services in areas with a population in excess of 10,000 people.
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38 Deputy Emmet Stagg asked the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism his views on the performance of the British market for tourism in 2007; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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284 Deputy Emmet Stagg asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if further to Parliamentary Question No. 1161 of 26 September 2007 he anticipates that there will be elections to any new town councils in place for the local elections due in 2009.
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283 Deputy Emmet Stagg asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if further to Parliamentary Questions no. 1159 of 26 September 2007 he has had any success.
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267 Deputy Emmet Stagg asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he has received the 2008 annual policing plan from the Garda Commissioner and when it will be laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas.
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266 Deputy Emmet Stagg asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he is aware that headline crime increased by 6% in the Carlow Kildare division in the first three quarters of 2007 compared with the same period in 2006, whilst nationally there was no change and given this increase whether he will increase garda numbers in the division.
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265 Deputy Emmet Stagg asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of gardaí assigned to each Garda division in the State and the population of each division as determined in the 2006 Census.
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245 Deputy Emmet Stagg asked the Minister for Education and Science the position in regard to the provision of a new permanent school (details supplied) in County Kildare.
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244 Deputy Emmet Stagg asked the Minister for Education and Science the present position in regard to the provision of a new permanent school for a school (details supplied) in County Kildare.
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243 Deputy Emmet Stagg asked the Minister for Education and Science if a design team has been appointed for the new national school for Ardclough County Kildare; and the timeframe in which it must complete its work.
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242 Deputy Emmet Stagg asked the Minister for Education and Science if she has sanctioned the tender process for the required extension to a school (details supplied) in County Kildare.
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241 Deputy Emmet Stagg asked the Minister for Education and Science if she has concluded her examination of the National Council for Special Education implementation report in regard to the Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act 2004.
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240 Deputy Emmet Stagg asked the Minister for Education and Science the total number of national school children in County Kildare in 2007/2008; the number of same in classes of less than 20; and the number of pupils of each age in such classes.
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239 Deputy Emmet Stagg asked the Minister for Education and Science if the stage three submission has been received in her Department in regard to the required extension to a school (details supplied) in County Kildare.
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238 Deputy Emmet Stagg asked the Minister for Education and Science if her Department has finalised the allocation of the additional 31 educational psychologists to different counties; the schools to which they have been assigned; and the actual numbers of additional educational psychologists being appointed.
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237 Deputy Emmet Stagg asked the Minister for Education and Science if a design team has been appointed for the required extension to a school (details supplied) in County Kildare.
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236 Deputy Emmet Stagg asked the Minister for Education and Science if the design team has been appointed for the new Kill national school in County Kildare.
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235 Deputy Emmet Stagg asked the Minister for Education and Science the number of pupils presently attending a school (details supplied) in County Dublin; the numbers expected to enrol in the school in each of the next five years from the feeder gaelscoils; the numbers expected to complete their education in each of the same five years; and if the capacity of the school is sufficient for the next five years to meet these pupil numbers or will she agree that a secondary all Irish school is required in north Kildare.
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234 Deputy Emmet Stagg asked the Minister for Education and Science if the new prefabricated school (details supplied) in County Kildare will be in place to move students from the present school for the opening of the new school term in January, 2008.
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233 Deputy Emmet Stagg asked the Minister for Education and Science if there has been any successful outcome in relation to the purchase of a site for a permanent school (details supplied) in County Kildare given the indication by officials that a potential site was identified which was being pursued.
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204 Deputy Emmet Stagg asked the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if the expenditure review of the local authority swimming pool programme is completed and when does he expect to announce a new round of the local authority swimming pool programme.
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175 Deputy Emmet Stagg asked the Minister for Transport if he has made a decision in relation to the application by Kildare County Council for a specific grant to improve safety at Firmount Crossroads, Clane, County Kildare.
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174 Deputy Emmet Stagg asked the Minister for Transport if he intends to amend Part V of the Roads Act 1993 as amended by the Planning and Development Act 2000 with a view to lifting the toll barriers on the M50 toll bridge in view of the fact that the bridge is now in State ownership; and if he could give a clear response as to his intentions.
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173 Deputy Emmet Stagg asked the Minister for Transport when additional services will be put in place on the Maynooth suburban rail line serving the new Docklands station.
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172 Deputy Emmet Stagg asked the Minister for Transport when is it expected that the doubling of trains serving the Maynooth suburban line from four rail cars to eight will be completed.
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161 Deputy Emmet Stagg asked the Minister for Health and Children when she intends to provide additional public nursing homes in County Kildare similar to the excellent facility located at the Harbour in Maynooth.
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160 Deputy Emmet Stagg asked the Minister for Health and Children if she is aware that there are 114 people in County Kildare awaiting placement in public nursing homes in County Kildare; and if she will acquire public spaces in private nursing homes in the interim to reduce this backlog.
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159 Deputy Emmet Stagg asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will sanction additional funding for home care packages in County Kildare in view of the fact that there are 130 people awaiting approval for same because of financial constraints.
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158 Deputy Emmet Stagg asked the Minister for Health and Children when a response will issue to Parliamentary Question No. 444 of 26 September 2007.
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157 Deputy Emmet Stagg asked the Minister for Health and Children if she is aware that the waiting times for hearing tests for children in Newbridge health centre in County Kildare and Tallaght health centre in Dublin have risen from three to four weeks in June, 2006 to three to six months now; and if she will arrange for the provision of additional clinics to reduce these unacceptable waiting times.
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156 Deputy Emmet Stagg asked the Minister for Health and Children if the three additional speech and language therapists recruited for the Kildare/west Wicklow Service are now in place permanently and not on temporary contracts; and if they are on temporary contracts if she could outline why this is so.
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155 Deputy Emmet Stagg asked the Minister for Health and Children if she is aware that waiting times for eye tests for children at Maynooth health centre and Naas health centre, County Kildare have increased from eight months to 15 months and seven months to 12 months respectively in each health centre since April 2007; and if she will immediately sanction the provision of additional optical clinics at each health centre to reduce waiting times.
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121 Deputy Emmet Stagg asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if the contract has been signed for the purchase of the site for the new national school for Kill in view of the fact that the matters subject to planning permission have been resolved satisfactorily.
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