247 Mr. Gormley asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the increase in the number of break-ins around the Northumberland Place area of Dublin; the steps the Gardaí have taken to deal with this issue; if there are any closed circuit television cameras located in the area; if there are plans to locate CCTV cameras there; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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202 Mr. Gormley asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food her Department’s role in the implementation of the recommendations of the Taskforce on Obesity; if she has satisfied herself in relation to progress in implementing these recommendations; if she is further satisfied regarding the results to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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155 Mr. Gormley asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food the forestry planting rates for the past 15 years; if these are meeting existing targets; the reason for the fall-off in planting in recent years; her plans to ensure that the Government’s existing target is met and exceeded; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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100 Mr. Gormley asked the Minister for Health and Children when the request for a treatment centre and after care service for the greater Drogheda area made by the Drogheda Community Drugs and Alcohol Forum will be granted; her views on whether a treatment centre such as the one requested is vital and essential, in view of the alarming increase in drug and alcohol abuse in the community in general and the increase in population in the greater Drogheda area; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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66 Mr. Gormley asked the Minister for Defence if he will report on the assumption by Irish troops of the lead role in the UN task force in Kosovo; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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59 Mr. Gormley asked the Minister for Defence the further developments in Ireland’s involvement with EU battle groups; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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5 Mr. Gormley asked the Minister for Defence the situation regarding the mission of Irish soldiers to be deployed to Lebanon; the number of troops involved; their duties; the locations where they will be stationed; if the overall mission is required to disarm Hizbollah; if this deployment will require the approval of Dáil Éireann; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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242 Mr. Gormley asked the Minister for Defence if he will report on the informal meeting of EU Defence Ministers in Finland in early October 2006; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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58 Mr. Gormley asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason Ireland’s share of EU exports have fallen from 9.5% in 2001 to 7.5% in 2005.
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20 Mr. Gormley asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when a decision on the legal questions regarding the Irish Ferries application for a rebate of the statutory redundancy payments will be made; and the overall cost to the Exchequer should the rebate be granted.
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184 Mr. Gormley asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his views on the revelation of the St. Vincent de Paul organisation that it will in 2006 spend a record €34 million on helping people afford basic necessities such as food, clothing, electricity and heat.
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111 Mr. Gormley asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his views on the record 79,000 people who have asked his Department in 2006 for assistance with the costs of sending their children back to school.
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54 Mr. Gormley asked the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the allocations received form the European Agriculture Rural Development Fund.
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14 Mr. Gormley asked the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will expand on his views on artisan food production expressed at a recent conference.
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192 Mr. Gormley asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on whether it is desirable to introduce a constitutional change to ensure that water cannot be privatised.
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181 Mr. Gormley asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will provide figures for the amount of greenhouse gases produced from the combustion of a tonne of domestic waste in the type of incinerators that he hopes to build here; the net amount of electricity that he hopes will be provided from the same amount of waste; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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180 Mr. Gormley asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the measures taken to date by his Department and the Irish Prison Service to ameliorate the unacceptable conditions and overcrowding at Mountjoy Prison which led to a number of violent attacks during the summer of 2006, culminating in the death of an inmate; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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177 Mr. Gormley asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the measures taken by his Department and the Garda Commissioner in view of the third, fourth and fifth reports of the Morris Tribunal; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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60 Mr. Gormley asked the Minister for Transport if development levies will be collected for developments situated adjacent to proposed new Metro lines; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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7 Mr. Gormley asked the Minister for Transport the role his Department played in the development of the new Government Green Paper on energy policy; and the long-term forecasts his Department has for the use of energy in the transport sector to the year 2030.
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1501 Mr. Gormley asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the steps he proposes to undertake in order to reduce the number of charity bags that are currently being put through people’s doors; if these charities need a licence to do same; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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1136 Mr. Gormley asked the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the fact that tourists on the Shannon (details supplied) are asked to flush their toilets straight into the river; his views on this practice; the steps he will take to deal with same; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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1100 Mr. Gormley asked the Minister for Transport the length of time the situation will continue to exist whereby bicycles are not allowed to be carried on the majority of trains; the reason our trains here (details supplied) cannot have similar policies regarding the carrying of bicycles as other EU countries; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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929 Mr. Gormley asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason work permits are currently freely available to non-EU trained physiotherapists when Irish trained physiotherapists have difficulty in finding appropriate employment here; the number of work permits which were issued to non-EU physiotherapists during 2005 and in the first eight months of 2006; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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881 Mr. Gormley asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources to report on the progress of the interdepartmental committee on the Health Effects of Mobile Phones; when he expects to receive the committee’s report; when the report will be publicly released; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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766 Mr. Gormley asked the Minister for Health and Children the cost of ankle injuries to the state annually; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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765 Mr. Gormley asked the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the discovery of a venomous snake in Kerry in August; the facilities that are in place in this country to deal with snake bites; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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764 Mr. Gormley asked the Minister for Health and Children the reason a co-ordinator post for the arts programme provided by Women’s Aid was reduced by the Health Service Executive from a full-time post to a two day a week in 2003; her plans to review the situation with a view to increasing it to a four day a week post, in view of the difficulties currently experienced by Women’s Aid in maintaining this very important programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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703 Mr. Gormley asked the Minister for Health and Children the reason a new physiotherapy training school was opened in the University of Limerick in 2002 with 25 places when graduates of existing schools were finding it difficult to find appropriate employment here; if, in view of the shortage of doctors, she will consider an upgrade course for physiotherapists to doctor, with free fees and grants in return for a commitment to work in the Irish health service for a specified number of years; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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702 Mr. Gormley asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of physiotherapists qualifying here in 2005 and 2006 who are employed in the Irish health service; the number of vacancies for newly qualified physiotherapists in the health service; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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648 Mr. Gormley asked the Minister for Health and Children the statistics in relation to the incidence of Lyme disease here; her views on whether awareness of the fact that this disease can be transmitted to humans via tick bites needs to be increased and that it should be a notifiable disease; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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630 Mr. Gormley asked the Minister for Health and Children when she intends to implement the twenty recommendations which were made in June 2006 by the working group set up by her to advise her on the action necessary to address the problems caused by haemochromatosis; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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262 Mr. Gormley asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the steps he will take in relation to complaints regarding full litter bins being taken from their standards along the southside of the Grand Canal between Leeson Street and Baggot Street in the early hours of the morning and subsequently thrown into the canal; his views on whether closed circuit television should be installed to help the Gardaí identify and bring the culprits to justice; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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221 Mr. Gormley asked the Taoiseach the number of people currently employed in the drafting section of the Attorney General’s Office; the plans to recruit more staff; his views on whether more permanent staff are required and that the only way to acquire experienced parliamentary draftspersons is to give them the necessary experience; his further views on whether the outsourcing of this work means that staff are not getting this experience; his plans to deal with this staff shortage; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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164 Mr. Gormley asked the Minister for Health and Children the status of the PPARS project, the cost to date, what has been delivered; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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629 Mr. Gormley asked the Minister for Health and Children the action which has been taken to create public awareness of osteoporosis; the further action which has been taken to lessen the burden of osteoporosis on the Irish taxpayer; the action which has been taken to help the Irish Osteoporosis Society to continue its operation; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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131 Mr. Gormley asked the Minister for Health and Children her views on a recent Health Service Executive report which showed a 16.3 per cent increase in antibiotic consumption; the steps she will take to ensure the full implementation of the recommendation of the SARI national committee; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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109 Mr. Gormley asked the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the background of companies involved in public private partnerships; and if she issatisfied that the taxpayer will receive valuefor money from the co-location projects.
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319 Mr. Gormley asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the issues the Government raised with the Israeli authorities; the response it has received; the action the Government has taken to ensure that Israel complies with the right of a person (details supplied) to a fair trial; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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311 Mr. Gormley asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on the report undertaken by the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and the accompanying resolutions on the case of persons (details supplied); if he has considered this report; if so, his further views on its resolutions.
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310 Mr. Gormley asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on the resolution passed by the Cortes in March 2006, calling for the release of a person (details supplied); and his further views on the part of the resolution which urged the Government to take the necessary formalities and steps in relation to same.
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154 Mr. Gormley asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if an inspector from her Department last made a visit to a register user establishment licensed for animal experiment; the report of such an inspector; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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153 Mr. Gormley asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she has received correspondence from a person (details supplied) in relation to the employment for physiotherapists; if she intends to address the issues raised therein; the way in which she intends to proceed with these concerns; if an outcome will be soon; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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111 Mr. Gormley asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she has recently met representatives of a group (details supplied) in County Cork; or if she has plans to do so.
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58 Mr. Gormley asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the number of major incidents that have been declared in hospitals between 30 June 2005 and 30 June 2006; and the reasons for same, in each case.
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56 Mr. Gormley asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the measures that she is taking to slow the growth in type two diabetes.
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113 Mr. Gormley asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her Department collected data on regional disparities in diabetes services; and the information that this shows.
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112 Mr. Gormley asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will report on diabetes services in Cork, recent improvements and planned improvements in the next six months.
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57 Mr. Gormley asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the estimated figure and percentage of national health expenditure that is spent on diabetes care and care of diabetes related illness.
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55 Mr. Gormley asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will make a commitment to establishing a National Diabetes Strategy.
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