582 Mr. J. Breen asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position in relation to the Doolin and Liscannon sewerage schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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338 Mr. J. Breen asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will clarify her statement and name the 26 hospitals that will lose there doctor led accident and emergency services in June 2007; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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278 Mr. J. Breen asked the Minister for Health and Children when the health care assistants working at St. Joseph’s Hospital, Ennis, County Clare who have passed their full examinations will be appointed to full time positions; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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119 Mr. J. Breen asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if the recommendations of the All-Party Committee on Mobile Phone Masts and their proximity to residential areas and facilities will be implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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101 Mr. J. Breen asked the Minister for Finance if, farmers who purchased suckler cow quotas under the CAP premium system up to 2004 and who now find that these quotas are worthless due to reforms of the common agricultural policy which abolished those quotas, will be allowed to offset the purchase of the suckler cow quotas against their income tax liability; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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266 Mr. J. Breen asked the Minister for Education and Science when the application for approval to extend a school (details supplied) in County Clare will be approved by her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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139 Mr. J. Breen asked the Minister for Health and Children the actions she will take in relation to the rheumatology service in the Mid-Western Hospital, Ennis which has been without a rheumatologist since March 2006; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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110 Mr. J. Breen asked the Minister for Finance if there is a capital gains tax or capital acquisitions tax liability for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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85 Mr. J. Breen asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 236 of 16 February 2006 if the application for the revocation of the deportation of this person (details supplied) has been decided upon; if such a decision will be forwarded to his legal representatives as per his answer on 16 February 2006; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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256 Mr. J. Breen asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she will provide grant aid for machinery to harvest wood fuel thus ensuring better timber quality in crops which might increase the wood energy sector; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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255 Mr. J. Breen asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she will increase the premium paid to farmers currently involved in forest plantation in view of the fact that there has not been an increase in this premium over the past six years; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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254 Mr. J. Breen asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she will produce a user friendly guide on the requirements of farmers under the revised nitrates and phosphates regulations; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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253 Mr. J. Breen asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food the reason a person (details supplied) in County Clare failed to receive an allocation for the 2005 national reserve in view of the fact that €11 was returned unused.
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229 Mr. J. Breen asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will request that farm income will be allowed to be disregarded on the same basis as PAYE farmers income, which has a disregard of €100 per week in assessing eligibility for State non-contributory pensions; if he will stop discrimination against farmers in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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195 Mr. J. Breen asked the Minister for Health and Children her plans to introduce specialist services and treatment facilities for 16 to 18 year olds with mental illness to bring Ireland into line with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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194 Mr. J. Breen asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of young people currently in adult units of the mental health services.
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418 Mr. J. Breen asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food the enforcement measures taken to ensure compulsory country of origin labelling of beef is taking place in hotels, restaurants and pubs; the number of inspections, enforcement teams have carried out; the results of such inspections; if the labelling process will extend to other meats; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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417 Mr. J. Breen asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food the measures she is taking to encourage farmers to enter the biofuels production market; the incentives she will put in place; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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416 Mr. J. Breen asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food the status of the sheep strategy report; if she will provide funding for the implementation of same; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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364 Mr. J. Breen asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if an organisation (details supplied) can increase the retirement age of its members without first seeking the approval of his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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254 Mr. J. Breen asked the Minister for Finance if he will remove the liability for VAT on medical aids for the visually impaired and the handicapped; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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266 Mr. J. Breen asked the Minister for Education and Science the number of teachers who are Members of Dáil Éireann who have not resigned their teaching position and have substitute teachers working in those positions; if those substitute teachers are earning pension accreditation; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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243 Mr. J. Breen asked the Minister for Transport if, in view of the lack of public transport in the area he will allow people required to travel from Labasheeda and Liscannor, County Clare to neighbouring bigger towns, to collect pension and social welfare allowances, due to the closure of the post offices in those areas to claim back the cost of taxi fares which they are incurring; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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242 Mr. J. Breen asked the Minister for Transport further to Parliamentary Question No. 1102 of 27 September 2006, if negotiations have been entered into with the landowner of the current site with a view to securing an alternative site or if negotiations have started with another landowner with view to securing a permanent site for the Doolin Coastguard; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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155 Mr. J. Breen asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 646 of 25 April 2006, when the radio system in Ennis Garda Station will be replaced; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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521 Mr. J. Breen asked the Minister for Transport the state of negotiations to establish an extension of the US customs and borders protection facility at Shannon Airport; when they might expect to be included; the date such a facility might be opened; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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520 Mr. J. Breen asked the Minister for Transport if he will provide funding from the Exchequer in the amount of €9 million to a route support fund for Shannon Airport to part balance the heavy funding provided to Dublin Airport at the seeming expense of Shannon Airport; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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403 Mr. J. Breen asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will make arrangements to put an end to the situation whereby both male and female elderly patients in Ennis General Hospital currently share the same ward thus compromising the integrity and privacy of the patients and distressing their families; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
[34301/06]
385 Mr. J. Breen asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will provide an air ambulance to cover Loop Head peninsula and the greater west Clare area; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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136 Mr. J. Breen asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will appoint a director of hygiene control to help combat the spread of hospital infection and diseases; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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342 Mr. J. Breen asked the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Clare who is currently on the waiting list for a bed in St. Joseph’s Hospital will be facilitated with same; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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111 Mr. J. Breen asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if in view of the fact that the network designed and approved under the preliminary report for the Scarriff, Feakle, Quilty and Mullagh sewerage schemes and also the pricing policy report submitted by Clare County Council continue to be under discussion with his Department with a view to extensive rationalisation of the network, he will provide the housing figures and commercial margins used for each area to determine the figure of €8.8 million allocated; the way this amount was sanctioned without prior approval of the pricing policy report for the combined design, building and operation scheme; when he expects the capital allocation to be drawn down and used for the actual construction of the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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1510 Mr. J. Breen asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the stage of the application for an upgrade of a system (details supplied) which was submitted to his Department in 2002; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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1330 Mr. J. Breen asked the Minister for Education and Science the improvements which have been made to lower the teacher pupil ratio in classrooms in view of the ratio here being above EU recommendation levels; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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1102 Mr. J. Breen asked the Minister for Transport further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 314 of 15 November 2005, 352 of 7 February 2006 and 515 of 21 March 2006, if progress has been made in the acquisition of a site for the proposed new station house for the Doolin Coastal Unit; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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709 Mr. J. Breen asked the Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No. 200 of 3 May 2006, the number of people who have contracted clostridium difficile; the number of cases which have proven to be fatal as a result of this superbug; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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708 Mr. J. Breen asked the Minister for Health and Children her plans, in view of the large catchment area of north Clare, to extend the opening hours of a day care centre (details supplied) from its existing two day week to cater for the ever increasing population base of that area; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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707 Mr. J. Breen asked the Minister for Health and Children the status of plans to extend Ennis General Hospital; if plans have been lodged with the appropriate authority; if the value for money examination stage has been completed; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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306 Mr. J. Breen asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if Garda numbers will be increased in County Clare in view of the significant increase in vandalism, assaults, illegal drug activity and public order offences in the county; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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710 Mr. J. Breen asked the Minister for Health and Children if funding promised in 2005 to the Irish Osteoporosis Society will be paid; if a commitment will be given to the society to provide funding on an annual basis (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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646 Mr. J. Breen asked the Minister for Education and Science if she will provide funding for a sapling ABA school in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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576 Mr. J. Breen asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the measures he will put in place to ensure correct accountability and transparency will apply with regard to public water services and its funding particularly as from 1 January 2007 local authorities will introduce metering charges on all non-domestic water use; if he will introduce an office of regulator armed with appropriate powers to ensure efficient monitoring and administration of this charge system; where the previous water pricing framework will stand following the introduction of the new metering policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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232 Mr. J. Breen asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason a 24 hour 7 day ambulance service is still not available in the Scariff area in County Clare in view of the fact that it is included in the Ambulance Service Development Plan 2005/2006; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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101 Mr. J. Breen asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the status of the sewerage scheme for O’Brien’s Bridge, County Clare, in view of the proximity of O’Brien’s Bridge to the River Shannon; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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49 Mr. J. Breen asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food the reason a person (details supplied) in County Clare did not receive permission to plant 26 acres of land at Ballyoughtra Tulla, County Clare.
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20 Mr. J. Breen asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he will provide further funding towards the redevelopment of Doonbeg pier which is expected to cost €1 million, three quarters of which has to be raised locally; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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436 Mr. J. Breen asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position on Cooralcare Labasheeda, Carrigaholt sewerage schemes; the prospective timescale for the start of the aforementioned; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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271 Mr. J. Breen asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will instigate an investigation into the management and operation of a construction site (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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190 Mr. J. Breen asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will supply, as a matter of urgency, a defibrillator machine to a centre (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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335 Mr. J. Breen asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will expedite a residency application for a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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