68 Mrs. Barnes asked the Minister for Health and Children the reason the pharmacy regulations, 1996, were revoked before the pharmacy review group had completed its work; and the steps he intends to take to ensure a continued spread of community pharmacies in centres large and small throughout the country.
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68 Mrs. Barnes asked the Minister for Health and Children the reason the pharmacy regulations, 1996, were revoked before the pharmacy review group had completed its work; and the steps he intends to take to ensure a continued spread of community pharmacies in centres large and small throughout the country.
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10 Mrs. Barnes asked the Minister for the Environment and Local Government his proposals for dealing with sludge from waste water treatment plants; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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103 Mrs. Barnes asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and Rural Development the reason extra payments under the REP scheme made to farmers whose land is traversed by walkways have been terminated; his proposals to reintroduce these or analogous payments; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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103 Mrs. Barnes asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and Rural Development the reason extra payments under the REP scheme made to farmers whose land is traversed by walkways have been terminated; his proposals to reintroduce these or analogous payments; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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32 Mrs. Barnes asked the Minister for Social, Community and Family Affairs his plans to amend the existing rules in respect of supplementary welfare allowance rent supplement in order to allow lone parents and other low income families obtain work in the labour force without a loss of their rent supplement from the relevant health board.
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32 Mrs. Barnes asked the Minister for Social, Community and Family Affairs his plans to amend the existing rules in respect of supplementary welfare allowance rent supplement in order to allow lone parents and other low income families obtain work in the labour force without a loss of their rent supplement from the relevant health board.
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69 Mrs. Barnes asked the Minister for the Environment and Local Government if he will make weekend voting a feature of future elections; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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69 Mrs. Barnes asked the Minister for the Environment and Local Government if he will make weekend voting a feature of future elections; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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7 Mrs. Barnes asked the Minister for Public Enterprise the plans the Government has to develop Gormanston airfield, County Meath as a commercial airport or for flight training purposes; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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56 Mrs. Barnes asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the plans he has to visit Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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56 Mrs. Barnes asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the plans he has to visit Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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77 Mrs. Barnes asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the discussions which have taken place between her Department and the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform in relation to allowing refugees to be employed while their applications for asylum are being processed.
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77 Mrs. Barnes asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the discussions which have taken place between her Department and the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform in relation to allowing refugees to be employed while their applications for asylum are being processed.
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12 Mrs. Barnes asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will make a statement on the new common foreign and security policy structures in the EU.
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79 Mrs. Barnes asked the Minister for Defence the situation in South Lebanon; if there have been further incidents such as those which resulted in a fatality earlier in 1999; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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79 Mrs. Barnes asked the Minister for Defence the situation in South Lebanon; if there have been further incidents such as those which resulted in a fatality earlier in 1999; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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52 Mrs. Barnes asked the Minister for Defence the situation on the establishment of a compensation scheme to deal with deafness compensation cases in the Defence Forces.
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52 Mrs. Barnes asked the Minister for Defence the situation on the establishment of a compensation scheme to deal with deafness compensation cases in the Defence Forces.
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15 Mrs. Barnes asked the Minister for Defence the consultations, if any, his Department has had with experts in the fields of medicine and statistics regarding the modified assessment methodology developed in the Hanley court judgment; if a decision has been made in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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14 Mrs. Barnes asked the Minister for Defence the number of cases in relation to deafness compensation settled in each of the months January, February, March and April 1999; the cost of the legal fees in these cases; the awards made; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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7 Mrs. Barnes asked the Minister for Defence the progress, if any, which has been made in the disposal of Magee Barracks, Kildare; the uses planned for the site and buildings; the financial or other contribution which will be made from the proceeds of the disposal towards local development initiatives; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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71 Mrs. Barnes asked the Minister for Defence the type of working and living accommodation to be provided for the personnel of the Air Corps unit who will be relocated from Gormanston to Baldonnel.
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71 Mrs. Barnes asked the Minister for Defence the type of working and living accommodation to be provided for the personnel of the Air Corps unit who will be relocated from Gormanston to Baldonnel.
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80 Mrs. Barnes asked the Minister for the Environment and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to a difference of opinion between his Department and the Association of Electrical Contractors (Ireland) in relation to proposed terms for fixed price tendering; if his attention has further been drawn to the fact that these differences could seriously delay work on many important infrastructural projects funded through his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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80 Mrs. Barnes asked the Minister for the Environment and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to a difference of opinion between his Department and the Association of Electrical Contractors (Ireland) in relation to proposed terms for fixed price tendering; if his attention has further been drawn to the fact that these differences could seriously delay work on many important infrastructural projects funded through his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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7 Mrs. Barnes asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of peri-natal deaths in Tralee General Hospital, County Kerry, for each of the years from 1995 to date; and the investigation, if any, undertaken into the weight of the babies concerned, the age of the mother, social status and pregnancy history in each instance.
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55 Mrs. Barnes asked the Minister for Defence the number of deafness compensation claims being received per week; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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41 Mrs. Barnes asked the Minister for Defence the number of deafness compensation claims being received per week; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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55 Mrs. Barnes asked the Minister for Defence the number of deafness compensation claims being received per week; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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41 Mrs. Barnes asked the Minister for Defence the number of deafness compensation claims being received per week; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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35 Mrs. Barnes asked the Minister for Tourism, Sport and Recreation the steps, if any, he is taking to prevent the abolition of duty free sales; the discussions, if any, he has had with his European counterparts on this issue; and, if so, where these discussions took place and with whom.
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33 Mrs. Barnes asked the Minister for Tourism, Sport and Recreation the steps, if any, he is taking to prevent the abolition of duty free sales; the discussions, if any, he has had with his European counterparts on this issue; and, if so, where these discussions took place and with whom.
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35 Mrs. Barnes asked the Minister for Tourism, Sport and Recreation the steps, if any, he is taking to prevent the abolition of duty free sales; the discussions, if any, he has had with his European counterparts on this issue; and, if so, where these discussions took place and with whom.
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33 Mrs. Barnes asked the Minister for Tourism, Sport and Recreation the steps, if any, he is taking to prevent the abolition of duty free sales; the discussions, if any, he has had with his European counterparts on this issue; and, if so, where these discussions took place and with whom.
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34 Mrs. Barnes asked the Minister for the Marine if, in view of conflicting reports and conclusions regarding the declining sea trout stocks, he will organise an independent assessment by calling on a number of international experts to review the information available.
12 Mrs. Barnes asked the Minister for the Marine if he will outline the action he will take to ensure that section 15 of the Fisheries Act, 1959, will not be used to deny citizens and communities their opportunity to defend their rights as highlighted in the recent High Court decision regarding Ballyvaughan Bay; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
34 Mrs. Barnes asked the Minister for the Marine if, in view of conflicting reports and conclusions regarding the declining sea trout stocks, he will organise an independent assessment by calling on a number of international experts to review the information available.
4 Mrs. Barnes asked the Minister for the Marine if, in view of the fact that the majority of fishing vessels are, on average, 30 years old and not capable of fishing as effectively as they should, he will make early funding available to renew and update the fishing fleet; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
2 Mrs. Barnes asked the Minister for the Marine if he will initiate an inquiry into the near sinking of the lighthouse tender Granuaile off the Antrim coast on 26 June 1992; if a replacement tender will be necessary during the repair of the Granuaile; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
51 Mrs. Barnes asked the Minister for Defence if he will confirm who gave the instruction to the Naval Service to redeploy the LE Ciara from a proposed mission to the north-east on 14 June; the reason for issuing such an instruction; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
51 Mrs. Barnes asked the Minister for Defence if he will confirm who gave the instruction to the Naval Service to redeploy the LE Ciara from a proposed mission to the north-east on 14 June; the reason for issuing such an instruction; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
16 Mrs. Barnes asked the Minister for Justice the current status of the legislative proposals for the confiscation of the proceeds of crime; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
9 Mrs. Barnes asked the Minister for the Marine if measures will be taken by the EC to establish a European environment commission which will promote conservation and provide measures at regional and international level to deal with member states which pollute the marine and fishing waters.
4 Mrs. Barnes asked the Minister for the Marine whether the Marine Research Institute have shown up an agenda of priority areas to be researched; if the focus will be on the development of the fishing industry or conservation and protection of threatened species; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
145 Mrs. Barnes asked the Minister for Health if he will introduce a system whereby health authorities would make patients aware of their rights to make complaints to the Ombudsman in respect of any aspect of the service they receive excluding only the clinical judgment of the doctor treating them.