320 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Finance if he has given final consideration to the proposal put to him by this Deputy on 10 July 2003, in relation to the purchase of parklands around Castletown House, Celbridge, County Kildare.
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278 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Finance the number of days Maynooth Castle, Maynooth, County Kildare was open to the public during the summer of 2004; the average number of persons who visited the tourist attraction per day; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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319 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Finance if the revised sketch scheme for the new Garda station at Leixlip, County Kildare has been submitted to the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform for approval; if said approval has issued from that Department; if so, when construction will start on the new Garda station following the public consultation process; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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277 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Finance if he has received the revised sketch scheme for the new Garda station at Leixlip, County Kildare; if same has been approved by the Garda authorities; if the approval has reissued to the Department of Finance; when he expects construction of the new Garda station to commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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339 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the reason for the delay in issuing grants for 2004 to an association (details supplied) in County Kildare, in respect of the provision of security for the elderly; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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188 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if his attention has been drawn to the fact that persons receiving a pension from Bord na Móna have not been awarded a cost of living increase for the past two years; if he will raise this matter with the company and its pension scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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31 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention was drawn to the call from the National Disability Authority for improved quality in services for persons with disabilities, greater accessibility to public services and a national survey of needs of the disabled; and if he intends to act on these suggestions.
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28 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when he expects that all prisons here will have in-cell sanitation; if his attention has been drawn to reports that legal action seeking financial compensation is being planned on behalf of prisoners who have had to endure slopping out; if such actions have been lodged; his views on this situation; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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157 Mr. Stagg asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the amount of all State or European Union assistance granted to companies (details supplied) on their location here; the date payments were made; if further or subsequent payments were made in each case; if so, the amounts of such payments in each case; the agency involved in assessing and payment of the grant in each case; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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71 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Transport when a final decision will be made on the height of the Dublin Port tunnel; the reason for the long delay in finalising this matter; when he expects that the tunnel will be completed and functioning; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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39 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Transport the position with regard to his plans to bring forward to Cabinet proposals for the construction of a metro system in Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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117 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food his views on the new European Commission action plan to promote organic farming in the EU; and if will encourage more organic farms here.
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83 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Health and Children the reason for the delay in reopening the supplementary welfare allowance office in Naas, County Kildare; when the office will be opened so that the public will be able to meet with community welfare officers directly to discuss their cases; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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57 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Education and Science if he will sanction the provision of a special needs assistant and resource hours for a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will indicate when a decision will be made.
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58 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Education and Science his views on the fact that the use of general purpose rooms for classroom space is unacceptable; if his national school planning section will not recommend the use of general purpose rooms for classrooms; if he will re-examine the application for temporary accommodation by a school (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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56 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Education and Science his views on whether the use of general purpose rooms for classroom space is unacceptable; if his national school planning section will not recommend the use of general purpose rooms for classrooms; if he will re-examine the application for temporary accommodation by a school (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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13 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if the report to the chairman of the national conference centre steering group by the assessment panel considering the four submissions for the provision of the national conference centre is complete; if he has received a copy of this report; the latest situation with regard to the development of the conference centre in view of this report; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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60 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Health and Children if the number of the promised 850 community nursing units now available in regard to his announcement of July 2002; the hospitals in which they are available; the number in each case; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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35 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Health and Children the progress made to date by the Dunne inquiry into the retention of organs of deceased children; the date a report will be published; and the steps being taken to address the concerns of the families affected.
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65 Mr. Stagg asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the details of any survey that has been undertaken in regard to proposals for decentralisation to establish the number of persons employed in her Department and in boards or agencies operating under the aegis of her Department who are willing to move to the new locations announced in budget 2004; the results of any such survey; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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36 Mr. Stagg asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the total costs incurred by the State, at the latest date for which figures are available, arising from the various inquiries instigated by or on behalf of her Department; the element of those costs that have been recovered from any of the other parties involved; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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404 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in County Kildare who is awaiting an operation has been continually postponed since January 2004; his views on whether that is unacceptable; and when the operation will be carried out.
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278 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Education and Science if his attention has been drawn to the fact that pupils in a school (details supplied) in County Kildare, comprising junior and senior infants classes, will be taught in the same classroom with the same teacher due to the school having an insufficient number of teachers; and if he will increase the number of teaching staff for the school.
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152 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if funding is still available under the neighbour-wood scheme; the number of applications on hand; when a decision will be made in regard to the application from Prosperous village, County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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97 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of persons currently in receipt of a State pension; her Department’s assessment of the numbers of persons likely to be in receipt of State pensions over the next decade and the provisions which are being made in that regard; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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106 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Education and Science if he will sanction the provision of a special needs assistant for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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20 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he has plans to establish a national policy on volunteering to be housed within his Department and to co-operate with other relevant Government Departments, agencies and the social partners; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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271 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he knows that the disabled person’s grant system in County Kildare has effectively closed operation; if officers from his Department will meet officers from the Kildare County Council to resolve the issue; and if he will commit further funding to the council for the scheme in 2004.
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184 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Health and Children the reason for the delay in arranging transport for a person (details supplied) in County Kildare to attend the Genic training centre in Maynooth, County Kildare; and if the required transport will be put in place.
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179 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Health and Children if his attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; when this person can expect to be treated; the reason the person has not been put forward for the treatment purchase scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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134 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Education and Science if, in view of the health problems identified in children’s health nationally, he will review the instruction issued to St Condan’s primary school, Naas, County Kildare, to use its physical education hall for classroom space; if he will grant-aid the provision of temporary accommodation for purchase or rent; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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56 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position in regard to his request to the British authorities to allow Irish experts to inspect the Sellafield nuclear plant; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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40 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he intends to provide funding for the radon remediation grant scheme in view of the threat to householders identified in the recent survey of the Radiological Protection Institute of Ireland which found some of the highest concentrations of radon gas ever found in a number of houses surveyed in Castleisland, County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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386 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason a person (details supplied) in County Kildare on disability allowance who has recently been diagnosed as a diabetic has been refused the dietary allowance; if she will grant the allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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271 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in County Kildare who had a stroke cannot be transported to rehabilitation in Dún Laoghaire for speech therapy owing to the fact that transport is not provided by the health board in the afternoons; his views on whether that is fair to the person, who has now missed their first appointment owing to that rule; if he will investigate the matter with a view to providing transport for the person; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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270 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Health and Children the reason the SWAHB refuses to award a grant in respect of a special needs bed (details supplied); and if the grant will be issued now without delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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269 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Health and Children the reason special tricycles for children with moderate or severe learning difficulties are subsidised by health boards in some parts of the country but are not subsidised in the SWAHB region; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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211 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Education and Science if he intends to assist Montessori schools with pre-school education grants to assist them with ongoing costs and developmental costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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210 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Education and Science the reason parents participating in a home study of applied behavioural analysis are not assisted through subsidising the fees (details supplied); if he will include parents in the categories for which subsidies will be awarded; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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74 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress made to date in regard to his consultations on whether to establish an inquiry into events surrounding the murder of two persons in Grangegorman, Dublin 7, in March 1997 and subsequent Garda investigation, as sought by relatives of one of the murdered persons; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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62 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress made in regard to his consideration of the draft proposals for a new prison drugs policy prepared by Irish Prison Service management; if it is intended to publish the proposals; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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100 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Health and Children , in regard to his announcement of July 2002, the number of the promised 850 community nursing units now available; the hospitals in which they are available; the number in each case; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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48 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding his discussions with the Irish Hospital Consultants Association regarding the proposed new system of medical insurance; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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407 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she will consider extending the free travel to Irish pensioners who have worked and live in Britain and who are in receipt of Irish old age pensions for the duration of any stay or visit to Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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405 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she will inquire into the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare who is seriously ill and whose dietary allowance has been reduced from €60 per month to €20 per month with a view to restoring the allowance due to the hardship caused by the reduction; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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294 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Health and Children, further to Question No. 319 of 6 April, if the full complement of beds are in use in Maynooth community care unit.
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293 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Health and Children the reason a speech therapist has not been assigned to a centre (details supplied) of the Irish Wheelchair Association in Clane, County Kildare; the reason the services of a physiotherapist have been withdrawn from it; and if he will reinstate the service.
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202 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Education and Science if national schools in the State, which have been grant aided by the State in various ways, can refuse the enrolment of a person who has never been baptised; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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187 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Education and Science the reason a special needs assistant has not been sanctioned to date for a person (details supplied) in County Kildare in view of the fact that this person is beginning their education in a mainstream setting and NEPS have recommended same; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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130 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Finance the reason for the delay in issuing a refund of tax due to unemployment to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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