236 Mr. J. Bruton asked the Minister for Education and Science if additional funds for a school (details supplied) will be provided to improve the quality of the drinking water in the school; if funding will be available for insulation in the school building to provide the installation of a trip switch in the electrical mains in the school and to allow the roof to be repaired and the ceiling replaced; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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61 Mr. J. Bruton asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if Turkey fulfils the Copenhagen criteria for membership of the European Union; and if not, the respects in which it is deficient.
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9 Mr. J. Bruton asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if Croatia fulfils the Copenhagen criteria for membership of the European Union; and if not, the respect in which it is deficient.
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1 Mr. J. Bruton asked the Taoiseach his views on whether the Central Statistics Office should develop a parallel periodic measure of domestic progress, alongside GDP and GNP, to provide a more reliable, if less easily quantifiable measure of real progress, leaving out spending to offset social and environmental costs arising from GDP growth, subtracting damage to the environment, taking account of charges in the degree of income inequality and including unpaid household and voluntary labour not included in GNP and GDP.
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136 Mr. J. Bruton asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will give an outline of the responsibilities of newcomers to Ireland, which it is his intention the Reception and Integration Agency will assist newcomers to Ireland to take on board as part of their participation in the economic, social and cultural aspects of Irish society, as referred to by him in his response to Question No. 16 of 26 February 2004.
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564 Mr. J. Bruton asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if Garda identification allocated to asylum seekers will be sufficient proof of identity to give to returning officers in polling stations, should asylum seekers wish to vote in the upcoming European and local elections, as they do not hold Irish passports or Irish drivers’ licences; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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267 Mr. J. Bruton asked the Minister for Education and Science if, in regard to Parliamentary Question No. 252 of 9 March 2004 (details supplied), his Department has received the 18 psychological reports sent in by parents of autistic children, all of whom wish to attend the proposed CABAS school in south county Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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220 Mr. J. Bruton asked the Minister for Education and Science the initiatives his Department has put in place to provide additional second level schools in the Navan area for the increasing number of students who will have left primary schools in Navan and require access to second level education; the information his Department has received regarding the increasing numbers of students; if a report has been published regarding an analysis of population increase in Navan, which gives an indication of the increased numbers of second level schools required in the Navan area over the coming years; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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104 Mr. J. Bruton asked the Minister for Defence the plans for Defence Forces families living in Gormanston Camp now that Gormanston lands will be among the State lands released under the Sustaining Progress affordable housing initiatives; the location the families of the Defence Forces will be deployed to; if compensation will be afforded to them to meet the costs of moving house if this is necessary; the time scale for the redeployments; the notice that the families will receive before the move takes place; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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59 Mr. J. Bruton asked the Minister for Finance his views on whether the failure to apply indexation in the capital gains code will result in taxes on paper gains.
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201 Mr. J. Bruton asked the Minister for Transport the position in regard to his announced plans for a new authority to govern land use and transport in the greater Dublin area; the effect that these plans will have for Dáil Éireann; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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410 Mr. J. Bruton asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if Ireland has, under the first paragraph of Article 226 of the treaty establishing the European Community, failed to comply with its obligations under Articles 6 and 8, Directive 85/337/EEC, on the assessment of the effects of certain public and private projects on the environment as amended by Directive 97/11/EEC- Commission of the European Communities, Brussels, 21/01/2003, 2000/4078/C (2003) 352; if he is considering abolishing the requirement of paying planning or participation fees here to reconcile legislation with EU directives; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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409 Mr. J. Bruton asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amount each planning authority has been paid in planning or participation fees for 2003; the total figure paid to local authorities for 2003; the amount An Bord Pleanála has received in planning or participation fees in 2003; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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330 Mr. J. Bruton asked the Minister for Health and Children when he plans to implement the index of orthodontic treatment needs which is to be used to determine patients eligibility with the health boards; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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252 Mr. J. Bruton asked the Minister for Education and Science the reason for the delay in approving south County Dublin CABAS in view of the fact that the parents themselves have a site, the CABAS expertise is available, a comprehensive submission was sent to him some time ago and that the required 18 pupils have had psychological reports stating that CABAS is appropriate for them; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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154 Mr. J. Bruton asked the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the amount of money which has been allocated to the young people’s facilities and services fund in 2004; when the next round of funding allocations will begin; the number of groups it is anticipated will be funded; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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25 Mr. J. Bruton asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will make a statement on the implications for public policy in regard to school provision, transport provision and hospital and health care provision of the decline in population on large parts of Dublin city; and if the Government intends to take further policy initiatives to encourage the settlement of young families within those parts of Dublin city, the population of which is in decline, in order to make best use of existing educational, transport and health infrastructure.
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269 Mr. J. Bruton asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if the on-line payment facility for car tax will be enhanced and amended to ensure that verification must be received of the car owner having a verifiable traceable car insurance when logging on to pay their car tax through the Internet system recently established by him; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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254 Mr. J. Bruton asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he has initiated an investigation into the number of car crashes in which the vehicle driver has no insurance and no tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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251 Mr. J. Bruton asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the breakdown of data regarding the 15 offences for speeding that had taken place on the Drumree Road, Dunshaughlin, County Meath, west of a public house (details supplied) in Dunshaughlin, that were outlined in the reply to Question No. 1186 of 30 September 2003; when the speeding offences occurred; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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243 Mr. J. Bruton asked the Minister for Transport his plans to implement legislation in the immediate future to assist drivers of insured vehicles who are hit by cars that are neither taxed nor insured because the insured driver must bear the brunt of all car repair costs when he or she cannot make an insurance claim against another insurance company; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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257 Mr. J. Bruton asked the Minister for Education and Science the additional resources he intends to provide for primary schools in Navan to alleviate the serious over-crowding and lack of spaces for students living in the Navan area; if he is allocating further teachers or prefab classrooms to the schools in the area due to the increased number of families moving to Navan over the past number of years which has now resulted in students on waiting lists for schools in the area not being granted places for September 2004 in junior infants; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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134 Mr. J. Bruton asked the Minister for Transport if he intends to abolish provisional driving licences; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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126 Mr. J. Bruton asked the Minister for Transport the plans he has to address the driving test backlog; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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18 Mr. J. Bruton asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the implementation of the programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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35 Mr. J. Bruton asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will initiate an inquiry into the murder by the IRA of a person (details supplied) in view of a newspaper report which suggested that the Garda did not give adequate advice on their personal protection to this person in view of the risks involved in the valuable and patriotic services this person was providing to the State, and which also suggested that the British authorities knew this person was to be murdered by the IRA but took no steps to warn the Garda or protect them in any other way.
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16 Mr. J. Bruton asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he intends to take interdepartmental initiatives to promote the integration of long-stay immigrant groups here as part of an overall Irish and EU approach to migration; and the core elements of the Irish political, democratic and social identity which he wishes for immigrants to take on board as part of a process of integration into Irish political, democratic and social structures.
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481 Mr. J. Bruton asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the name of the person who was licensed to conduct each one of the 1,514 licensed archaeological excavations conducted between 1997 and 2002 in respect of which a report is not, at this stage, lodged and available for inspection in the files available to the public of reports of licensed excavations; the date of the licences in respect of each of the 1,514 licences; the location of the excavation; the purpose for which the excavation in question was licensed; if the excavation is complete; the action taken in respect of the non-lodgement of the report in question; and if licences were issued for archaeological excavations to the person in question on the matter.
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357 Mr. J. Bruton asked the Minister for Health and Children the funds he allocated to the North Eastern Health Board to provide counselling and support services for the families of drug abusers, for the period 2002 to 2004, inclusive; if he can confirm the drug initiatives he will launch in the board’s area in 2004; if the board received the same funding as the Eastern Regional Health Authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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143 Mr. J. Bruton asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he has plans to lift the ban on religious advertising.
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68 Mr. J. Bruton asked the Minister for Education and Science his Department’s position regarding the continued funding of CABAS schools in Dublin, Drogheda and Cork beyond the 2004-2005 term; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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59 Mr. J. Bruton asked the Minister for Education and Science if he will be bringing forward changes to the home-school liaison service in 2004; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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264 Mr. J. Bruton asked the Minister for Transport if he will be introducing legislation to facilitate the provision of an outer orbital road route around Dublin; and if he will introduce legislation to make special arrangements for accountability to Dáil Éireann for the strategic thinking with regard to, and spatial planning implications of the decision to have such a route.
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194 Mr. J. Bruton asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he examined a report in a newspaper by an American academic (details supplied) which shows that inspections by UN weapons inspectors in pre-war Iraq were substantially more accurate than the data published by western intelligence agencies; and if he will initiate a debate in the United Nation's structures with a view to obtaining greater trust in, and support for, UN inspectors in the task of curbing proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
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122 Mr. J. Bruton asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food the estimated cost to the agricultural industry of the implementation in its current form of the draft directive on nitrates; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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107 Mr. J. Bruton asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if his Department has made a submission to the Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government with respect to the nitrates directive; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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441 Mr. J. Bruton asked the Minister for Transport the funds that have been allocated by his Department under the accessible transport scheme in 2002, 2003 and 2004 to allow subsidised accessible transport agencies to operate throughout the country to facilitate the elderly and those living in rural areas not serviced by public transport; and if he will make a statement on the matter regarding the continuation of the funds provided.
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241 Mr. J. Bruton asked the Minister for Finance the statutory time allowed for the transfer of a tax deduction card for an employee from one employer to another employer, to ensure that they are on emergency taxation for as short a period as possible when each of the employer's records are on-line and are accessible via computer link; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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236 Mr. J. Bruton asked the Minister for Finance if he will allocate sufficient funds to allow long term works to commence to provide a solution to the flooding at Mornington when the consultants report has been presented to Meath County Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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232 Mr. J. Bruton asked the Minister for Finance when the final report by consultants (details supplied) on flood alleviation works to be initiated along the Tolka River will be published; the meeting he has had with representatives from these consultants with regard to the final publication of their report on works to alleviate the flooding of the River Tolka in the Meath and Fingal County Council areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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180 Mr. J. Bruton asked the Taoiseach the age dependency ratio (details supplied) here in 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990 and 2000; his projection for 2010, 2020, 2030, 2040 and 2050; and if he will give details of the definitions used in these calculations.
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179 Mr. J. Bruton asked the Minister for Finance his views on a report (details supplied) to the effect that a disproportionate share of €600 million worth of EU peace and reconciliation moneys for the Border counties and Northern Ireland went to bodies associated with provisional republicanism; and if he intends to take steps in this matter.
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178 Mr. J. Bruton asked the Minister for Finance his views on whether and on the way in which the Stability and Growth Pact and the subsequent EU regulations to give it legal effect, ought to be reformed.
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141 Mr. J. Bruton asked the Minister for Finance if he has adopted a view in regard to the financial envelope for the EU budget and the role of the European Parliament in joint decision making in this regard.
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186 Mr. J. Bruton asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his plans to minimise non-agricultural development on best quality soils here in order to retain the nation's capacity to feed itself in an emergency which inhibits supplies from abroad.
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185 Mr. J. Bruton asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has received proposals for an upgrade to the sewerage scheme serving the town of Ashbourne, County Meath, which is regarded by the regional authority as essential to its spatial strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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184 Mr. J. Bruton asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on the imposition of development levies in the use of their powers by local authorities under the Planning and Development Act 2000 on pollution statement measures (details supplied) and works on listed buildings which are necessary for the upkeep and preservation of those buildings.
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172 Mr. J. Bruton asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the steps he proposes to take as president of the Council of Justice and Home Affairs Ministers, to encourage France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Greece, the Netherlands and Luxembourg to fulfil their obligation to transpose into their domestic law the provisions of the European arrest warrant; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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163 Mr. J. Bruton asked the Minister for Transport his plans for the provision of a rail tunnel between Heuston station and Dublin city centre; and the length of time it would take to complete it.
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