234 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will increase the number of speech and language therapy posts for Beechpark Services to meet the needs of the approximately 500 children requiring SLT intervention, in view of the fact that there are only 5.5 posts for the entire service.
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14 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the implementation of the decentralisation programme as it affects his Department.
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3 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Taoiseach his Department’s legislative programme for the current Dáil session; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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778 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the policy of his Department concerning some local authorities requiring that estate management companies in new housing estates are required to fund services normally provided by local authorities from homeowners’ fees.
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777 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will report on his inquiries with local authorities regarding the operation of estate management companies where new home-buyers are being billed for services normally provided by local authorities.
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475 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she will designate a specific agency to take overall responsibility for monitoring the health database of animals living near a plant (details supplied) in County Limerick.
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221 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will designate a specific agency to take overall responsibility for monitoring the health database of persons living near a plant (details supplied) in County Limerick.
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626 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Education and Science if each of the 20 one-teacher schools here will be authorised to employ another adult to guarantee the health and safety of the pupils in these schools.
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219 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the location at which angina sufferers can avail of enhanced external counter pulsation treatment due to the fact that this service has been discontinued at Beaumont Hospital.
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218 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason enhanced external counter pulsation treatment has been discontinued at Beaumont Hospital.
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217 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that Beaumont Hospital has discontinued enhanced external counter pulsation treatment.
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3 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Taoiseach the costs to his Department during 2005 in relation to the Moriarty tribunal; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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289 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Education and Science if legislation will be brought forward to establish a redress board in respect of compensation for victims of non-residential institutions, that is, day school pupils.
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193 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the way in which Irish Ferries qualifies for redundancy grants with respect to workers on the MV Normandy passenger ferry.
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192 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the amount paid to Irish Ferries in redundancy grants with respect to workers on the MV Normandy passenger ferry.
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470 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason an explosives licence can be approved for a quarry in County Monaghan operated by a person (details supplied) which is not operating under any planning permission and does not have any pre-1964 status from the date before the current planning system came into force.
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469 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the measures he will take to end the discrimination encountered by tenants in the private rented sector in receipt of rent allowance who despite having references are refused accommodation by landlords solely due to their status as persons in receipt of rent allowance.
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341 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he will meet with representatives of the SIPTU docks, marine and transport branch to discuss the policing of the Dublin Port Company and the implementation of the ISPS code.
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340 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources his views on the request of SIPTU docks, marine and transport branch for a full hearing by the Labour Court into conditions of employment and the status of harbour police.
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339 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he is aware that Dublin Port Company is attempting to change the status of the harbour police as a statute police force.
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338 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he is aware that the harbour police have no powers under the road traffic Acts or Dublin Port by-laws to enforce road traffic management within the environs of Dublin Port and therefore to prevent speeding, dangerous driving and road traffic accidents.
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337 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if Dublin Port Company is negligent in its responsibilities to its workforce, port tenants and surrounding communities by not providing 24-hour cover by the ports fire protection unit.
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336 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if Dublin Port Company is obliged to have 24-hour fire protection cover as required by legislation.
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335 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he received an outline of Dublin Port Company’s emergency response plan since the Shell FOB fire incident which occurred on 27 June 2004.
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195 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Education and Science her Department’s provision and timetable to cater for primary education for the massive new development on the site of the former Phoenix Park racecourse.
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194 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Education and Science if she will make available to Educate Together the finances it has requested to underpin the need for such schools in the State and if the development of multi-denominational education will be put on a statutory footing.
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193 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Education and Science if the necessary funds will be made available to carry out the necessary structural and refurbishment works at a school (details supplied) in Dublin.
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192 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Education and Science if the necessary funding will be made available for a sports hall in a school (details supplied) in Dublin which has been approved since 2000.
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5 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the progress to date in implementing the recommendations of the OECD Report on Regulatory Reform.
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12 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Taoiseach the progress made by the interdepartmental team on infrastructure and public-private partnerships; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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5 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Taoiseach if his Government intends to propose any amendments to the Constitution during the current Dáil session.
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543 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the importation of oilseed rape seed (details supplied) will make it difficult if not impossible to grow genetically modified free brassica crops including broccoli, brussel sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, collards, kale kohlrabi, mustard, oilseed rape and turnip due to irreversible genetically modified contamination of farmland here.
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542 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will immediately implement a ban on the importation of oilseed rape seed (details supplied) under Directive 2001/18/EC and under the biosafety protocol to the convention on biodiversity to protect farming and biodiversity against live genetically modified organism seeds inevitably contaminating related crops through seed dispersal, transportation, processing, horizontal gene transfer and pollen.
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352 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will replace the national steering committee on violence against women with a statutory independent body with responsibility for monitoring and progressing the implementation of measures combating violence against women and for developing and monitoring national research and data collection, guidelines, policies, training and awareness-raising.
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351 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will take steps to develop and adopt a national strategy on violence against women that would provide a framework for monitoring and evaluating the progress of measures combating violence against women.
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117 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if, in view of the briefing note on funding to voluntary dedicated frontline service responses to violence against women, in which frontline services described their current level of funding as severely inadequate to meet the current needs of women and their children, she will sanction a funding increase of at least €7 million to meet the running costs of these services.
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116 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will increase funding to frontline services dealing with violence against women as their core operational funding remained fixed at the 2003 level of €12 million.
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115 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will make emergency funding available to address the €400,000 shortfall in funding facing the Rape Crisis Centre.
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43 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he had the opportunity to raise the relationship between the EU and the Pakistani Government at the discussion on external affairs at the EU Council summit meeting.
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165 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the role he envisions the Referendum Commission playing in regard to the proposed new EU constitution; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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14 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Taoiseach the studies currently being carried out by the National Economic and Social Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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12 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting in July 2005 with the social partners; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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225 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15 will begin the speech and language therapy and the occupational therapy recommended for them.
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224 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15 is still waiting for speech and language therapy.
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