535 Mr. Costello asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when he will make a decision regarding the application for naturalisation of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 7; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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489 Mr. Costello asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when he will make a decision regarding the status of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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441 Mr. Costello asked the Minister for Transport the reason Iarnród Éireann are refusing to put in place facilities for passengers to use their debit or credit cards to purchase tickets at many local stations throughout the system; when he expects this to stop; when he intends to put in place proper facilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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174 Mr. Costello asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he will provide details of his recent meeting with representatives of the sea-fishing industry; his proposals for a comprehensive strategy for the sea-fishing sector; the challenges it faces; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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167 Mr. Costello asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the Government’s position, in view of rising fuel prices, on the recent EU proposal at the Agriculture and Fisheries Council for €4 billion to be spent over 2007 to 2013 on the installation of more efficient engines on boats of less than 12 metres in length; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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99 Mr. Costello asked the Minister for Education and Science her views on including a representative of students of Dublin Institute of Technology on the Grangegorman Development Agency; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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84 Mr. Costello asked the Minister for Education and Science when she will implement the recommendations of the McIver Report on Further Education; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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129 Mr. Costello asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will report on the most recent EU Council of Ministers meeting; the contribution which Ireland made; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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72 Mr. Costello asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the discussions being held at European Union level as to the further expansion of the EU25; the position in relation to the admittance of new entrants, with reference, particularly, to Romania and Bulgaria; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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276 Mr. Costello asked the Minister for Finance the proposals drawn up by the Office of Public Works for traffic management in the Phoenix Park; the discussions held with Dublin City Council; if he will meet representatives of associations (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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154 Mr. Costello asked the Minister for Finance his views on forecasts for economic and population growth in the report 2020 Vision, Ireland’s Demographic Dividend published by NCB stockbrokers in April 2006; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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125 Mr. Costello asked the Minister for Finance the number of special savings investment scheme accounts opened at the latest date for which figures are available; the average amount of savings per investor per month; if, on the basis of such figures, his Department will provide a figure for the likely cost to the Exchequer of the special savings investment scheme, when the first payments will become due; the amount expected to be paid out by the Exchequer in each of the first 12 months after the SSIA matures; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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190 Mr. Costello asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he has made a decision regarding the application of a person (details supplied) to remain here; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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30 Mr. Costello asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food her views on developing countries’ demands in World Trade Organisation negotiations for a special safeguard mechanism and special products mechanism to be inserted into future WTO agreements; and if she will make a statement on the matter of demanding concessions by such developing countries in return for acceding to their demands.
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16 Mr. Costello asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if the consultation process on the possibility of moving to a more open market system for transferring milk quota has been concluded; if not, when it will be; the way in which the consultation process was carried out; the persons or the organisations it involved; if it has concluded, the outcome of same; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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132 Mr. Costello asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number, in respect of EU directives for which his Department has responsibility, remaining to be implemented; the directives that are overdue; the number of warnings received from the EU Commission since 1997 regarding delays or non-implementation of such directives; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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64 Mr. Costello asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the work programme of the unit established to monitor and evaluate EU programmes; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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538 Mr. Costello asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will ensure that number 16 Moore Street is protected from further deterioration pending the development of the O’Connell Street project; the reason for the failure to make progress on the development for the past seven years; the terms of the compulsory purchase order agreement entered into between the City Council and a property developer; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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406 Mr. Costello asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he has made a decision regarding the application of a person (details supplied) for leave to remain here on humanitarian grounds; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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391 Mr. Costello asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of deportation orders signed in each year since May 2002; the number of persons who have been deported in each year; the action which has been taken regarding those who have not been deported in each year; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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257 Mr. Costello asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the ongoing military deployment against the ethnic Kurdish population of Turkey; if the Government have protested against abuse of human rights by the Turkish authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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152 Mr. Costello asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will provide a statutory insurance scheme for persons infected by contaminated blood products due to State negligence; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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D'fhiafraigh Mr. Costello den Aire Gnóthaí Pobail, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta an raibh aon agallamh aige leis an Roinn Oideachais agus Eolaíochta faoin moladh atá aige go ndéanfaí dhá ábhar den Ghaeilge san Ardteist; agus an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas ina leith.
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D'fhiafraigh Mr. Costello den Aire Gnóthaí Pobail, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta cathain a fhoilseoidh an Rialtas an ráiteas atá geallta aige ar an nGaeilge; agus an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas ina leith.
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52 Mr. Costello asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the fact that up to one third of landlords advertising on the internet state that rent allowance will not be accepted; the action he intends to take arising from the increasing refusal of landlords to rent property to persons in receipt of rent allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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24 Mr. Costello asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the views on the recent submission made by the Combat Poverty Agency to the social partners on a new partnership agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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69 Mr. Costello asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he has made a decision on the asylum application of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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343 Mr. Costello asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position the Irish delegation in the council has taken on the proposal for a council framework decision on combating racism and xenophobia, specifically in the Working Part on Substantive Criminal Law.
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312 Mr. Costello asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views on a recent European Court of Justice ruling (details supplied) and the stance of the EU Commission on EU competence to introduce measures requiring the creation of criminal offences and the imposition of criminal penalties in the domestic laws of Member States; if the issue has been considered by the Government and a formal Government position adopted; if the issue will fall to be considered in the context of future EU treaty changes; if he will report on domestic implications for the State; if an informed public debate is proposed on the issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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458 Mr. Costello asked the Minister for Defence if the Government has proposals for the GPO, O’Connell Street, and No. 16 Moore Street, Dublin 1, in the context of the commemoration of the events of 1916; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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133 Mr. Costello asked the Minister for Defence the reason the coastguard station leased by his Department has been sold to the Dún Laoghaire Harbour Commission thus depriving the local Battalion of the Reserve Defence Forces of their training centre; if this development is contrary to the criteria under which the reserve was established in 2005; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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61 Mr. Costello asked the Minister for Defence if his attention has been drawn to the concerns expressed by the survivors of the Niemba ambush in the Congo in 1960 regarding their treatment by the authorities in the intervening years; if he will meet them and discuss their concerns; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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113 Mr. Costello asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the way in which he intends to ensure that social integration of housing is achieved and that the ghettoisation effect that was prevalent in earlier decades is not repeated in an environment where developers are allowed to buy their way out of their social housing obligations; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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81 Mr. Costello asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he intends to amend the Building Control Bill 2005 to allow for the setting up of an independent architects council following the recommendation of the Competition Authority that such a body is needed; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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462 Mr. Costello asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his plans to increase the number of Gardaí attached to the drug squad nationally; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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461 Mr. Costello asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the Garda resources which are designated to the drug squad in Sligo; the number of Gardaí attached to the Sligo section and to the drug squad; the rank of same; if the drug squad has a female Garda attached to it; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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344 Mr. Costello asked the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will fund the extension of a project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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168 Mr. Costello asked the Minister for Transport the way in which he intends to deal with the difficulties presented by Directive 2004/54/EC in respect of the Jack Lynch Tunnel.
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123 Mr. Costello asked the Minister for Transport the regulatory reforms he is proposing in connection with the introduction of a heavy goods vehicle ban and permit system in Dublin City.
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36 Mr. Costello asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of cases of murder in which firearms were used from 1998 to 2005 and to date in 2006; the number of such cases in which prosecutions for murder were initiated; the number of such cases where convictions were secured; if he is satisfied with the level of detection and conviction in such cases; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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13 Mr. Costello asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress made with regard to the Garda investigation into the murder of Ms Donna Cleary in Coolock on 5 March 2006; if a file has been sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions; if persons have been charged in connection with the murder; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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114 Mr. Costello asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on the threat by the entire neurological team at Beaumont Hospital that they may have to resign due to conditions in the hospital; if her attention has been drawn to the claim that the neurosurgery service here is in a worse state now than 30 years ago; if she will publish the report given to her that recommends a significant increase in the number of posts in the service; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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76 Mr. Costello asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if, in view of recent reports that the decision on where the State’s new national children’s hospital will be located will not be made for several more weeks, she will provide the reasons for this delay and the exact timeframe for a decision; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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687 Mr. Costello asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason a person (details supplied) has not had his or her application for repatriation expedited; if it is true that the Home Office forwarded the necessary papers to his Department in September 2005; when the decision to repatriate will be made; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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686 Mr. Costello asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the circumstances under which he attended a conference on special policing in Chester on the weekend of 1 April 2006; the person who accompanied him on the trip; the reason no person from the GRA or AGSI was invited to attend; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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685 Mr. Costello asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the home of the head of the Criminal Assets Bureau was burgled; if documents relating to the activities of the Criminal Assets Bureau were stolen; if documents or material have been recovered; if criminal investigation or prosecution may be compromised as a result of the robbery; the reason sensitive material should be kept in the home of a Garda official; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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684 Mr. Costello asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the security firms involved in the three recent robberies of cash in transit had licences issued by the Private Security Authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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683 Mr. Costello asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when the strategic plan required under section 9 of the Private Security Services Act 2004 will be published by the Private Security Authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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473 Mr. Costello asked the Minister for Transport the average waiting time at each driving test centre throughout the country; the number of testers employed at each centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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447 Mr. Costello asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if the financial discrepancy that exists between the orphan and foster allowance will be addressed; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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