881 Mr. N. O’Keeffe asked the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding an education grant application by a person (details supplied) in County Cork to Cork County VEC.
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880 Mr. N. O’Keeffe asked the Minister for Education and Science if she will grant permission to a post-primary school (details supplied) in County Cork to purchase a site for the development of its new school building; and if approval will be given for the stage one report.
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696 Mr. N. O’Keeffe asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the proposals in place to call new Garda recruits for training from the panel of those already interviewed.
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632 Mr. N. O’Keeffe asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food the position regarding pork and bacon in a chilled warehouse (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if her Department is considering re-exporting this meat.
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624 Mr. N. O’Keeffe asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if consideration will be given to an application under the single payment scheme 2005 national reserve for a person (details supplied) in County Cork.
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623 Mr. N. O’Keeffe asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food the entitlements a person (details supplied) in County Cork has under the single payment scheme.
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356 Mr. N. O’Keeffe asked the Minister for Finance if a person’s (details supplied) tax credit will be amended to include a widow’s tax credit; and if he will back-date this person with the allowance to 1999 when they were widowed.
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279 Mr. N. O’Keeffe asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his Department has been responsible for the delay in a sewerage scheme (details supplied) being put in place in County Cork; and if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the necessary capital allocation was approved for this project in 1999.
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267 Mr. N. O’Keeffe asked the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the serious delays in having higher education grant payments issued to students whose parents are dependent on social welfare payments and in cases in which extreme hardship is being experienced by these families; if her attention has further been drawn to the fact that in some cases the academic year has been completed by the student before the grant is awarded; if her attention has further been drawn to the case of persons (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will investigate the administration of this grant scheme by the authorities to ensure that the families most in need of their grants receive approval and payment as a priority.
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262 Mr. N. O’Keeffe asked the Minister for Education and Science if she will investigate an entitlement to payment of the top up maintenance grant under the higher education grant system in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork.
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228 Mr. N. O’Keeffe asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she will grant permission to a person (details supplied) to release their milk quota to a substitute transferee who meets all the conditions of the scheme; and if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the person who leased the milk quota for the past five years is no longer interested in releasing the quota.
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218 Mr. N. O’Keeffe asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food the position regarding an application submitted under the single payments entitlement scheme.
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182 Mr. N. O’Keeffe asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the position regarding the provision of the necessary funding to a local authority to complete urgent refurbishment works at a location (details supplied) in County Cork; and if his attention has been drawn to the fact that this matter has been ongoing for a considerable period of time.
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168 Mr. N. O’Keeffe asked the Minister for Finance when payment of moneys will be issued to business people (details supplied) in County Cork whose premises were damaged by flood waters and who have been waiting for a number of months for such payment.
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166 Mr. N. O’Keeffe asked the Minister for Finance the position regarding the flood relief plans to be put in place in two areas (details supplied) in County Cork.
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646 Mr. N. O’Keeffe asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amount of funding which has been approved in respect of a development (details supplied) in County Cork.
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645 Mr. N. O’Keeffe asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding an application for a thatched roof grant by a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will arrange for an inspection to take place.
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573 Mr. N. O’Keeffe asked the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the provision of additional permanent accommodation at a national school in County Cork.
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399 Mr. N. O’Keeffe asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food the position regarding an application by a person (details supplied) in County Cork for permission to lease their milk quota in 2005.
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382 Mr. N. O’Keeffe asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food when annuity payments in respect of a portion of land in County Cork are due to cease; and if the land can be transferred to their name (details supplied).
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257 Mr. N. O’Keeffe asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if grant aid will be available to an organisation (details supplied) who propose to employ full time staff.
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176 Mr. N. O’Keeffe asked the Minister for Finance when payment of moneys will issue to persons (details supplied) in County Cork whose premises were damaged by flood waters and who have been waiting for a number of months for such payment.
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125 Mr. N. O’Keeffe asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the statutory redundancy which is available to a person (details supplied) in County Cork.
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142 Mr. N. O’Keeffe asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if smoking by patients is permitted in geriatric-type hospitals in a designated smoking room; and if her attention has been drawn to the fact that concerns have been raised by patients in a geriatric hospital where such smoking is no longer permitted.
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444 Mr. N. O’Keeffe asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding the provision of funding for the development of a project (details supplied) in County Cork.
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275 Mr. N. O’Keeffe asked the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the amount of funding under the sports capital programme which was allocated to an organisation (details supplied) in 2003 and 2004; and for the purpose for which the funding was to be used.
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141 Mr. N. O’Keeffe asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she has reconsidered an application from a person (details supplied) in County Cork to lease their milk quota in 2005.
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226 Mr. N. O’Keeffe asked the Minister for Education and Science if she will recommend the inclusion of a specific area in a primary school bus route where five school going children reside (details supplied).
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221 Mr. N. O’Keeffe asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in relation to student visa applications in respect of ten students who are English speaking and have sworn affidavit’s that they will be returning to their country following training.
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154 Mr. N. O’Keeffe asked the Minister for Finance if the river banks of two rivers in County Cork (details supplied) will be built up or bridged; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the banks of these rivers collapsed in October or November 2004 following high winds and very heavy rainfall; if his attention has further been drawn to the fact that both are tidal rivers and the collapse of the banks has caused serious flooding of lands in the area; if his attention has further been drawn to the fact that it has been the responsibility of the Board of Works over the years to rebuild these river banks when damaged by high tides and heavy rainfall and that the residents and farmers of these areas claim that the Board of Works is obliged to carry out the work now required.
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121 Mr. N. O’Keeffe asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food the quantities of beef, pig-meat and poultry meat being imported from South America and other third countries; if some of the third country meats are coming into the EU and then being re-shipped here; the quantity of such meats; the quantities of Chilean or Brazilian pig meat that is being used by southern processors and sold under their brand names as Irish; the action she will take to have this product identified on the processors packaging; her views on whether this is misleading for the consumer and gives a bad image to Irish meat; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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274 Mr. N. O’Keeffe asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the motor taxation concessions which are available to a person (details supplied) in County Cork.
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273 Mr. N. O’Keeffe asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding the provision of a new facility at a town (details supplied) in County Cork.
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272 Mr. N. O’Keeffe asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding the provision of funding for a project (details supplied) in County Cork.
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260 Mr. N. O’Keeffe asked the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding an application for early retirement under strand three in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork.
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259 Mr. N. O’Keeffe asked the Minister for Education and Science when payment of arrears will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Waterford.
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258 Mr. N. O’Keeffe asked the Minister for Education and Science if consideration will be given to amending a school bus route to include an area (details supplied) in County Cork.
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209 Mr. N. O’Keeffe asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding an application for Irish citizenship by a person (detail supplied) in County Cork.
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179 Mr. N. O’Keeffe asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will reconsider an application for a person (details supplied) in County Cork under the back to education allowance.
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225 Mr. N. O’Keeffe asked the Minister for Education and Science if consideration will be given to increasing resource teaching hours in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork to five hours per week.
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193 Mr. N. O’Keeffe asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food the reason a person (details supplied) in County Cork has not been notified of their entitlements under the single payments scheme.
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488 Mr. N. O’Keeffe asked the Minister for Education and Science the additional financial support which is available to parents (details supplied) in County Cork who have three children in third level education.
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400 Mr. N. O’Keeffe asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food the position regarding an application by a person (details supplied) in County Cork for the early retirement pension.
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399 Mr. N. O’Keeffe asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if an application for a person (details supplied) in County Cork for the transfer of a milk quota will be expedited and approved.
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249 Mr. N. O’Keeffe asked the Minister for Finance if arrangements will be made for an application form to obtain a C2 certificate to issue to a person (details supplied) in County Cork.
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241 Mr. N. O’Keeffe asked the Minister for Finance the position regarding the carrying out of urgent flood relief measures in respect of properties (details supplied) in County Cork.
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339 Mr. N. O’Keeffe asked the Minister for Education and Science if she will make arrangements to have payment issued to a teacher in respect of salary rates and substitution rates (details supplied).
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335 Mr. N. O’Keeffe asked the Minister for Education and Science if she will arrange to have arrears of salary issued to a person (details supplied).
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346 Mr. N. O’Keeffe asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will make available a copy of the document or letter which he has received from the European Commission regarding Ireland’s application for a derogation from the nitrates directive; the reason the EU wants a scientific basis for a derogation based on a nutrient management plan for each farmer; if it has objected to the levels of storage being suggested; if they have queried the spreading periods of slurry or farm waste in different parts of the country; his views on whether, in certain areas, a period of 22 weeks would be the norm for spreading vis-à-vis other areas in which 12 to 14 weeks would be the norm; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there are 140,000 registered farmers here but only 20,000 real commercial farmers; if his attention has further been drawn to the fact that if these restrictions are imposed and no protection is put in place for intensive commercial farmers, Ireland will finish up with no pig industry, no poultry industry, no mushroom industry and intensive dairy farmers will disappear due to the exorbitant costs that farmers will be burdened with in putting these envisaged proposals in place; if his attention has further been drawn to the fact that with the present economic profitability of farming, it will not be possible for farmers to make ends meet; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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