18 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if a provisional preferred tenderer has been designated for the award of the contract for delivery of the new national conference centre; when the issue of the award of the contract will be brought to Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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1516 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if the staffing issues referred to in Parliamentary Question No. 665 of 15 November 2005 have been resolved.
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1515 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on the cap on local authority staff numbers (details supplied); if this matter will be discussed with the Minister for Finance; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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1514 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if approval has been given to the contract documents for the lower Liffey Valley sewerage scheme.
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1513 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he intends to issue regulations under the Local Government Act 2001 to allow, by order, the establishment of new town councils; and if there is resistance to the provision of new town councils from local government officials.
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1512 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amount of funding allocated to the disabled persons and essential repairs grant scheme in 2005 to each local authority; the amount spent by each; and the position regarding funds which remained unspent at 31 December 2005.
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1399 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Education and Science if the summer works scheme project for a school (details supplied) in County Kildare will be sanctioned; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
[2425/06]
1398 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Education and Science if the provision of a covered walkway between the old Confey College building and the new school, in Leixlip, County Kildare, will be funded under the summer works scheme.
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1397 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Education and Science if, further to Parliamentary Question No. 526 of 2 November 2005, there has been further progress with the application for approval under the summer works scheme 2006; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
[2423/06]
1396 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Education and Science if the architectural planning for a new school (details supplied) in County Kildare is completed within the first six months of 2006; and if capital funding is available to enable construction to commence in 2006.
[2416/06]
1395 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Education and Science if capital funds will be made available in 2006 to commence construction of a new school (details supplied) in County Kildare, once the architectural planning is completed.
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1394 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Education and Science if funding is included in the 2006 capital budget to fund the required extension to a school (details supplied) in County Kildare.
[2412/06]
1393 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Education and Science the position in relation to the progress of the required extension to a school (details supplied) in County Kildare.
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1392 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Education and Science if the tender report has been received in relation to a new school (details supplied) in County Kildare; if a tender has been awarded; the cost approved and the construction timetable.
[2407/06]
1390 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Education and Science if stage three submission in relation to the required extension to a school (details supplied) in County Kildare has been approved; the remaining stages which will be completed in relation to this project; and when the project will go to tender.
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1389 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Education and Science the number of educational psychologists working in Kildare national schools; the number of schools which have no direct service in the county; the number of educational psychologist here at the end of 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005; and the projected numbers for 2006.
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1387 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Education and Science if stage two submission in connection with the required phase two extension to a school (details supplied) in County Kildare has been received; and if further progress on this project will be sanctioned.
[2395/06]
1391 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Education and Science if the contract documents for the purchase of a site for new national school in Ardclough, County Kildare have been signed; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
[2400/06]
1388 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Education and Science the progress to date in acquiring a site for a new national school for Kill, County Kildare; if a site has been identified in conjunction with officials from Kildare County Council following the meeting between the Office of Public Works and Kildare County Council officials; if negotiations are underway to purchase same; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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1204 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if guidelines have been issued to the Garda Commissioner regarding the deployment of additional gardaí; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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899 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Transport the amount of funding available in 2006 for park and ride facilities in County Kildare; and the details of proposals he has received.
[2427/06]
898 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Transport if he has received the Dublin Bus review of its network; and if he will sanction the purchase of additional buses as promised under Transport 21.
[2422/06]
897 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Transport further to Parliamentary Question No. 232 of 15 December 2005 if Iarnród Éireann has been requested to outsource the work whereby the completion date of the resignalling work will be brought forward.
[2406/06]
720 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the position regarding the provision of a replacement swimming pool in Naas, County Kildare.
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569 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Finance, further to Parliamentary Question No. 535 of 28 September 2005, if there has been a successful conclusion to the acquisition of the lands.
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568 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Finance if the Office of Public Works have completed its examination of the Leixlip flood relief study; and if funding will be provided for the required alleviation works.
[2408/06]
567 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Finance when planning permission will be sought for the repairs to the roof of a school (details supplied) in County Kildare; and when tenders will be sought for same.
[2404/06]
566 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Finance the number of submissions received to date in connection with the public consultation process for the new Leixlip Garda station in County Kildare; the estimated time it will take the commissioners to examine same and make a final decision regarding the design of the station; if funding is in place to commence the building project in 2006; and when construction will commence.
[2401/06]
513 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Finance when Castletown House, Celbridge, County Kildare, opened to visitors; the number of visitors to the house each year since then; and the publicity which is used to attract visitors to the house.
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500 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Finance when proposals on the restoration of the entrance to Castletown House, Celbridge, from Main Street, Celbridge, will be put on display for public consultation.
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480 Mr. Stagg asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that staffing levels for speech and language therapists in County Kildare remain at 1998 levels; if her attention has further been drawn to the fact that prior to the public service embargo on recruitment, the service had sanction for 11 additional therapists; if her attention has further been drawn to the fact that for every €1 spent on early intervention, a person will save €7 at a later stage; and if the Health Service Executive’s personnel section will look at this issue with a view to sanctioning additional therapists.
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479 Mr. Stagg asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children, further to Question No. 146 of 15 December 2005 to the Health Service Executive, the number in receipt of home help in 2003, 2004 and 2005; and the number of hours in 2003, 2004 and 2005 in the Kildare and west Wicklow area.
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478 Mr. Stagg asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason a response has not issued in relation to Question No. 145 of 15 December 2005; and if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the service has effectively collapsed.
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477 Mr. Stagg asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if a programme for the provision of State nursing homes throughout the country similar to the one built in 2002 in Maynooth, County Kildare, at a cost of €5.4 million will be implemented (details supplied).
[2419/06]
476 Mr. Stagg asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason no response has issued to Question No. 143 of 15 December 2005.
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475 Mr. Stagg asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason for the delay in issuing a response to Question No. 243 of 8 November 2005.
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474 Mr. Stagg asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if there has been further progress in arriving at the costings requested under Question No. 140 of 15 December 2005.
[2403/06]
183 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if, further to his reply to Parliamentary Question No. 115 of 16 November 2005 he has further examined the issue of broadcasting RTE television programmes to Britain; his views on including in the proposed Broadcasting Bill measures to facilitate same; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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153 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the measures in place to promote clean energy technologies; the measures he has brought forward to support energy conservation here at both the supply and demand sides; his views on the level of savings through greater energy efficiency which are achievable in the medium to long term; the measures which are in place to advance combined heat and power technologies; the contribution of combined heat and power to Ireland’s current and possible future energy needs; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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450 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will review the constraints of the cap on local authority staffing levels for local authorities in the greater Dublin area in view of he enormous population increase these local authorities have had to cater for since December 2002; if he will sanction the increase in staffing levels required to enable Kildare County Council to staff adequately the new library in Leixlip, County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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449 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has approved the contract documents for the lower Liffey Valley sewerage scheme.
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448 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he intends to continue the pilot community warden service in Naas, County Kildare in 2006.
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447 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, further to Question No. 653 of 15 November 2005, the groups, including local government interests, with whom he has consulted on this issue.
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446 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, further to the €18 million unspent on the disabled persons grant scheme nationally in 2004, if he has put in place a monitoring system throughout the local authorities which will enable him to reallocate funds from authorities who will not use up their allocation in 2005 to authorities who at present have spent their budgets; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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445 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of times compulsory purchase orders have been used in the past 20 years to acquire sites for national schools and the details of same.
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336 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Education and Science if the summer works scheme project will be sanctioned for a school (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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335 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Education and Science if funding will be made available for the provision of a covered walkway between the old Confey College building and the new school in Leixlip, County Kildare.
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334 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Education and Science if, further to Parliamentary Question No. 526 of 2 November 2005, there has been further progress with the application for approval under the summer works scheme 2006; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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333 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the provision of a permanent building for a school (details supplied) in County Kildare.
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