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Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 25 January 2006
123 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources his proposals to encourage the production of energy from biomass; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2022/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 December 2005
228 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Transport the position regarding the recent fare increase application made to him by Irish Rail and Dublin Bus; if, in relation to Irish Rail’s application, he will consider withholding an increase on its services until Irish Rail’s review of fare structures is completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39689/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 December 2005
227 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Transport if Irish Rail were instructed to complete a review of rail fare structures by end 2004; if so, the outcome of this review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39688/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 December 2005
85 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Education and Science the number of PhD level students graduating from universities here and third level institutes on an annual basis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39563/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 December 2005
109 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Education and Science if all full and part-time teachers and other school staff will be vetted by the central vetting unit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39533/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 December 2005
310 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Education and Science if, in view of the fact that her Department has no plans to purchase the reserved site for a post-primary school in Stepaside, it is expected that in this, as in other cases, the land owners should bear the cost of holding land for a need that has not been determined, especially in view of the fact that the Stepaside local area plan, adopted in June 2000, notes that it would be unreasonable to expect the owners to have their land sterilised for a considerable period of time. [39426/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 December 2005
242 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Transport the passenger numbers and load factors of each of the routes funded under public service contracts on a monthly basis for the years 2003, 2004 and to date in 2005 on each of the six regional routes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39382/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 December 2005
241 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Transport the number of flights, as a percentage of the total number of flights, funded under public service obligation contracts for regional air services, which have been cancelled for reasons directly attributable to the air carrier for each of the six regional routes; the number of flights as a percentage of the total number of flights delayed by more than 30 minutes for similar reasons on each of the six regional routes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39381/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 December 2005
124 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the states that are not signatories to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39247/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 December 2005
42 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the Government’s position on the proposal that would allow Iran to operate a uranium conversion facility permanently if Tehran renounces the ability to enrich uranium on its own territory; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39184/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 13 December 2005
425 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Education and Science when funding will be provided for the construction of the Gaelscoil in Stepaside (details supplied). [38700/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 13 December 2005
395 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of gardaí appointed to the traffic corps in the past 12 months who are driving on chief’s permission. [38899/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 13 December 2005
394 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the capacity of the Garda driving and training school; and his plans to increase its capacity to take on the work of providing adequate driving training courses for the planned additional traffic corps appointees in 2006. [38898/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 13 December 2005
393 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of new gardaí who have been appointed to the traffic corps in the past 12 months. [38897/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 13 December 2005
392 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of gardaí appointed to the traffic corps in the past 12 months who have done the standard driving course for gardaí and the advanced driving course. [38896/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 13 December 2005
391 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of gardaí who will be appointed in 2006 and the number who will be appointed in 2007. [38895/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 13 December 2005
319 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Transport the Government’s decentralisation plans as they affect his Department. [39081/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 13 December 2005
313 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Transport if he will provide data on the number of persons directly and indirectly employed in the aviation industry here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38879/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 13 December 2005
312 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Transport if he will provide figures on the amount and value of air freight arriving into and out of Ireland’s State airports each year since 1995; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38878/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 13 December 2005
310 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Transport when a decision will be made on the two applications for bus operating licences submitted by South Dublin County Council. [38855/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 13 December 2005
303 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Transport the details of the proposal that the Department of Agriculture and Food staff would act as driver testers; the number of staff involved; the person who will provide the training to these staff to enable them to act as driver testers; the time period envisaged for this proposal, in terms of start and completion dates; the number of learner drivers they will be requested to test during this time period; the action he intends to pursue if there is insufficient take-up by the Department of Agriculture and Food officials; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38699/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 13 December 2005
302 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Transport his Department’s positions vis-à-vis the use of tinted glass in motor vehicles. [38688/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 13 December 2005
299 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason that where a spouse has contributed to an old age pension and the other spouse has contributed to the widow’s pension, a widow cannot receive payment under both categories; and the reason both contributions are deducted if no benefit is payable. [39070/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 13 December 2005
298 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will not consider the payment of all pensions for which contributions have been made; and if he will as an alternative, consider the return of the contributions plus interest made for one of those pensions. [39069/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 13 December 2005
297 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the surplus in the social insurance fund. [39068/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 13 December 2005
101 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Finance the way in which he will present to Dáil Éireann the detailed reports emerging from the present review of various aspects of the tax code. [38834/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 December 2005
83 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food the steps she is taking to ensure farmers are not at a financial loss as a result of the EU sugar reforms; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37730/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 December 2005
24 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food the discussions she has had with the EU Commission on the WTO talks; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37725/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 6 December 2005
498 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that some county councils are not compliant with the provisions of section 247 of the Planning and Development Act 2000 in that records of pre-application meetings are not kept in planning application files and that many councils are operating a system of informal meetings outside the provisions of section 247 thus creating a system of selective recording of pre-application meetings. [37771/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 6 December 2005
445 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Education and Science if she intends to acquire for use as an urgently needed secondary school lands reserved for that purpose in the Stepaside area action plan to cater, as envisaged in the plan, for the expanding population in the area. [37948/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 6 December 2005
329 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Transport his response to correspondence on the Bus Éireann airport service from a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [38068/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 6 December 2005
318 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Transport his views on recent media reports that he has sanctioned that responsibility for the delivery of integrated ticketing should pass to the proposed Dublin Transport Authority and in the interim to the person charged with setting out the remit of such an authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37683/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 6 December 2005
256 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the status of plans to relocate the staff of the Marine Emergency Co-ordination Centre in Dublin to Valentia or Malin; and his views on the advisability of such a course of action. [37586/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 6 December 2005
169 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will respond to a group (details supplied) in Dublin 7 for funding in the budget for 2006 in view of the increase in domestic violence in the home. [37567/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 6 December 2005
94 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when he expects to fill the vacancy in the Competition Authority caused by the resignation of a person (details supplied). [37862/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 1 December 2005
94 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the cross-departmental co-operation between his Department and the Department of Education and Science; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37256/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 1 December 2005
45 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the cross-departmental co-operation between his Department and the Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37257/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 30 November 2005
145 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Finance his plans to introduce tax relief, grant support or other financial assistance for persons with physical disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37313/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 29 November 2005
386 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the provisional crime statistics covered by Rathfarnham Garda station for the first three quarters of 2005. [36996/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 29 November 2005
221 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Finance if there have been changes to the tax code which would exempt long-term cohabiting couples from capital gains tax on the jointly owned family home in the event of the break up of the relationship or if such changes are being considered. [36799/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 29 November 2005
99 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on whether public procurement policies can play a role in halting climate change; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36604/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 November 2005
161 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Transport the reason the Rathfarnham Luas line, as included in the Platform for Change Transport Strategy, does not form part of Transport 21; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36083/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 November 2005
158 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Transport the financial evaluation which has been undertaken by the Department of Finance in relation to the costing of proposed metro north project; when this project will go to tender; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36202/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 November 2005
110 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the cutback in the funding to the Lucan Disability Action Group is withdrawn. [36103/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 November 2005
54 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Transport if his Department intends to fulfil its commitments under the national development plan to Dublin Bus in terms of the allocation of additional, as opposed to replacement buses, before the end of the lifetime of the national development plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35998/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 November 2005
18 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Transport the level of funding which has been secured for the provision of increased park and ride facilities nationally; the amounts and location of each individually proposed park and ride facility; the number of applications which his Department has received from parties interested in providing such facilities; if such projects will receive Exchequer capital grants; the number of increased park and ride facilities envisaged; when same will be announced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35997/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 November 2005
4 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Transport the progress made by his Department in developing a public transport commission; the date same will be operational; the functions and duties of the commission; if the introduction of competition into the Dublin bus market will be prioritised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36201/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 November 2005
1 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Transport his views on the impact of the reformed bilateral aviation agreement between Ireland and the US on Irish airlines and airports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36200/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 November 2005
536 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Education and Science if the temporary letting of the lands required for a school (details supplied) will be agreed to in view of the intractable problems of title which have prevented the long overdue permanent school construction. [35218/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 November 2005
436 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Transport if the driving tester recruitment examinations will be carried out in a number of centres around the country. [35520/05]