231 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the percentage of people living in consistent poverty in 2006 in Counties Kerry, Cork, Clare, Galway, Roscommon, Mayo, Sligo, Leitrim and Donegal.
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230 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the percentage of people living in poverty in 2006 in Counties Kerry, Cork, Clare, Galway, Roscommon, Mayo, Sligo, Leitrim and Donegal.
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141 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Transport the number of car schemes operating under the rural transport programme in counties (details supplied).
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140 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Transport the number of rural transport programmes operating on county boundaries in counties (details supplied).
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139 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Transport the natural catchment areas of the rural transport programmes operating in counties (details supplied).
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132 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Transport the number of programmes which include wider target groups, such as commuters and unemployed, as recommended in the 2006 discussion paper, Progressing Rural Public Transport in Ireland, in counties (details supplied).
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3 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Taoiseach the gross value added in 2006 for Counties Kerry, Cork, Clare, Galway, Roscommon, Mayo, Sligo, Leitrim and Donegal.
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2 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Taoiseach the total work force for 2006 in Counties Kerry, Cork, Clare, Galway, Roscommon, Mayo, Sligo, Leitrim and Donegal.
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1 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Taoiseach the growth in employment between 2000 and 2006 in Counties Kerry, Cork, Clare, Galway, Roscommon, Mayo, Sligo, Leitrim and Donegal.
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331 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will propose, as part of the review of the Common Fisheries Policy, that states take primary responsibility for determining management rules within their own 200-mile limit.
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330 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food his views on the claim that access by EU member states to the fishing waters of other member states, as embodied in Regulation 2141/70, was without legal basis as none of the relevant sections of the accession treaty actually refer to fisheries and that this situation was only rectified in Article 3 of the Maastricht treaty.
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241 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Transport the progress that has been made regarding the renovation of Ballinagare Bridge, Lixnaw, County Kerry.
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503 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Education and Science if he will reassess the application for a grant by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry.
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431 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the lowest and highest payment received in County Kerry under the single farm payment.
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401 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will make a statement on the use of intelligent lighting as an energy saving device; and his views on whether it is incumbent on all public bodies to use them.
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388 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that planning permission for a waste treatment plant has been applied for at Tara; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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149 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if his attention has been drawn to reports of crystal meth finds; if he will fund a report to ascertain the extent of the problem and organise an awareness campaign; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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44 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if additional funding will be made available to ensure the effective operation of the joint policing committees in view of the fact that they are increasing in number from 29 to 114.
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194 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the basis on which the Danish quota for the ICES VI and ICES VII zones was established.
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193 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food his views on farmers in receipt of REP scheme payments being allowed to use their land to grow energy crops.
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187 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the period of time Danish vessels have fished off the Irish coast.
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186 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food his views on farmers in receipt of REP scheme and set aside payments being allowed to use their land to grow energy crops.
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184 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will provide a list detailing the origin and nature of seafood imports into Ireland in 2007.
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623 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Education and Science if he will ensure that the recommendations of his Department’s inspectors with regard to an upgrading of accommodation at a school (details supplied) in County Kerry are met.
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555 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food his views on proposals to abolish milk quota; and its possible effects on the dairy sector here.
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545 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the proportion of the retail price for milk, lamb, beef, potatoes and eggs that is paid to farmers.
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544 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the proportion of the retail price for milk, lamb, beef, potatoes and eggs that was paid to farmers in 2000.
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543 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the highest amount and the lowest amount paid to a single farmer in single farm payment.
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542 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the average single farm payment for each of the 26 counties.
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536 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will provide a breakdown for milk quota in each county; and the average size of quota for each county and region.
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487 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he is satisfied that a local authority can, through the waste permit, allow a private waste collector scrap the proven and successful tag for bin service and replace it with a fixed annual fee which is not deemed adequate under a region’s own waste management plan.
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486 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if there are legal reasons prohibiting a tag for bin requirement being placed on waste collection permits in the north-east region in view of the fact that the north east waste management plan states that a fixed annual fee is not deemed adequate as it does not provide sufficient incentive to minimise waste, and the tag for bin system is recognised as one of the options under the pay by use system as being a proven incentive to minimise waste and encourage recycling.
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485 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if a local authority can place a condition on the waste permits it issues obliging private waste operators to provide a tag for bin service as one of two options it offers to their customers as part of the pay by use system in operation.
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395 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views on the broken windows theory of crime prevention; and if the Garda has given it consideration or planned to implement it on a trial basis.
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182 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of home help hours which have been cut since October 2007; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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122 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Health and Children the stage of development at each of the hospital sites designated for the private hospital co-location scheme; and the projected number of beds to be provided in the private hospitals at each site.
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45 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Finance if his Department has examined whether there are essential everyday items subject to 21% VAT that should be more correctly subjected to 13.5% VAT.
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21 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Finance his view on the proposal that, as part of an anti-inflationary package, user fees and charges for public services should be frozen or reduced in 2009 in order to lessen the cost of living pressures on those with low and average incomes.
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1783 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Education and Science if he will deliver on the commitment given to the staff at a school (details supplied) in County Kerry to provide funding under the school building programme to allow them proceed with their much needed new school.
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1632 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if there is data available on the way Irish farmers feel their situation has improved or disimproved since the introduction of the single farm payment.
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1621 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if his Department has ever argued for Ireland to be awarded an equivalent quota in ICES divisions IV, VIII and IX comparable to that which other EU States have in the ICES zones VI and VII closest to Ireland’s coast.
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1618 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the volume and value of aquaculture production here in 2007.
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1601 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of farmers involved in growing energy crops with a break down among different counties.
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1600 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food his views on allowing farmers to grow energy crops such as willow on set aside land.
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1581 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if the Common Fisheries Policy has benefitted the fishing sector here.
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1579 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of the 3,614 inspections of fishing vessels in 2007 by the Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority and the Naval Service that were of Irish owned boats.
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1559 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the entitlements of Irish vessels to quota in the Kattegat and Skaggerak fishing zones; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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