707 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the plans he has to extend the existing post office in the Knocklyon area or to open a second post office.
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454 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Education and Science if he will report on the status and progress of the new national primary school in the Sandyford parish to service the expanding Stepaside-Leopardstown population.
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361 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Education and Science if he will include in a high priority band of the new building programme the joint school project of St. Colmcille’s Junior and Senior School, Knocklyon, which is now absolutely critical.
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311 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Finance if he will report on the result of the recent assessment by the Commissioners of Public Works of the site for a new Garda station in Dundrum; and the status of negotiations.
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192 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment her plans to put in place a separate statutory body to deal with bullying in the workplace.
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191 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if consideration will be given to including bullying in any new health and safety Bill.
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249 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Health and Children if the expert group on fluoridation has implemented any of the recommendations of the Forum on Fluoridation; if so, the recommendations which have been implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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248 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Health and Children if he has the intention of reducing the level of fluoride in drinking water from 0.8 to 1.0 p.m. to between 0.6 and 0.8 p.m. as recommended by the Forum on Fluoridation; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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247 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Health and Children if the regulation amending the optimal level of fluoride in drinking water from 0.8 to 1.0 p.m. to between 0.6 and 0.8 p.m. as recommended by the Forum on Fluoridation has yet been implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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138 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Transport the average pass rate at each driving test centre; the action he is taking to address this variation; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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417 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 142 of 26 November 2003, when the decision in respect of the person (details supplied) in Dublin 16 will be made.
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328 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he will increase the value of the swimming pool grant in line with inflation to ensure that the grant is the equivalent of at least 80% of a pool which was the situation when the grant was first introduced; and if his attention has been drawn to the fact that with existing grant levels many old existing pools throughout the country will close.
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263 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Education and Science the status of the long promised new Sandyford parish school to serve the developing Stepaside and Leopardstown area.
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264 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Education and Science his plans to expand the funds allocated to youth work in order to roll out the provisions of the Youth Work Act 2001 and ensure the implementation of the national youth development plan.
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23 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the projected tourist numbers to Ireland from European Union states for the 2004 season; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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116 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Education and Science if the recent ruling of the High Court has resulted in the release of school inspectors’ reports to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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318 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Health and Children the reason for the doubling of the cost of the Dunne inquiry in the six months to June 2004.
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63 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will report on the situation in Liberia; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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18 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on the report of the European Round Table of Industrialists on the EU’s neighbourhood policy.
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127 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Health and Children the plans in place to ensure that children eligible for orthodontic treatment receive it within a reasonable timeframe.
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124 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Education and Science the request by a school (details supplied) to make adaptations to accommodate a four year old wheelchair user; the request for a personal assistant for a person (details supplied) in County Dublin who suffers from spina bifida as the absence of firm information about their future is causing great distress.
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26 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Finance if he has finalised discussions with the public service unions on the proposed centralised applications facility; if he has identified each of the locations at which an existing building is to be acquired; and the locations at which site purchase is proposed.
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276 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will grant annual core funding for the operation of Carmichael House in Brunswick Street; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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218 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Transport the arrangements that have been entered into with the Luas operator in respect of income from fares over and above the level of the contract price; if such income accrues to the State, to the operator or will be shared; and if so, the relevant proportion.
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199 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Health and Children the reason appropriate hospital based treatment is not available to a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12; if funding for private treatment can be given; if his attention has been drawn to the gross lack of services for children with anorexia; and his plans for improving the situation.
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181 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Health and Children the details of the membership of the Task Force on Alcohol; and when its report is expected.
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180 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Health and Children if he will confirm the reported grant of core funding for the continued operation of Carmichael House; and if this funding will be paid annually.
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44 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Health and Children the efforts made by his Department to establish the extent of the public waiting list of each consultant; if it is his intention to make such information available to patients and referring general practitioners; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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14 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Health and Children the amount of funding provided annually to the primary care strategy for each of the years 2001 to 2004, inclusive
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2 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Health and Children if each consultant has been requested to provide the national treatment purchase fund, NTPF, with the list of public patients awaiting surgical treatment; if so, if such requests have been universally refused; his views on whether the provision of the lists of public patients to a State agency providing health services breaches patient confidentiality considerations; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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126 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Health and Children if consideration will be given to the lottery application by the Charleville Sheltered Housing Services for essential equipment for their new central care unit.
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443 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Transport the number of new buses, including replacement and additional buses that are being added to the Dublin Bus fleet in 2004.
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442 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Transport the number of new buses, including replacement and additional buses that were added to the Dublin Bus fleet in 2003.
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391 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Health and Children the cost to date in 2004 of advertising to encourage take-up of the national treatment purchase fund and of the full-year cost in 2003.
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382 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in Dublin 16 has had their medical card withdrawn; and if the card will be restored to them.
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370 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Health and Children the details of the entitlement of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 8 to a judicial review of the decision to reject an application to be considered as an adopter; and if he will respond to that person’s letter to him.
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369 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Health and Children if he has received in recent weeks an interim or final report from the Dunne inquiry.
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368 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Health and Children if the judge and Senior Counsel investigating the organ retention issue are working on the Dunne inquiry full-time.
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367 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Health and Children if the possible sale of body parts either within or outside the country is the subject of investigation as part of the Dunne inquiry.
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365 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of members who have been assigned to the expert group on fluoridation; and the names of those members.
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228 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Education and Science if he will sanction with all haste the urgently required resource position requested jointly by schools (details supplied) as neither school can continue to function adequately without the resource post to which both are entitled.
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174 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Finance if he will consider granting a rates exemption to child care facilities similar to that which applies to schools in view of the high cost of child care and the burden which it places on families.
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144 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Defence if the newly purchased helicopters have night flight capability; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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212 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if, in the context of the next budget, payment of the respite grant could be made available to all carers caring for persons requiring some agreed minimum level of support; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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130 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Health and Children if he will immediately appoint at least one neurophysiologist to Beaumont Hospital as it is unacceptable that the national centre for neuroscience should be left without one for more than three years.
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55 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he envisages that larger projects will be funded through the RAPID programme in the near future; if he has received applications from larger project proposals; the type of projects he views will be funded in this scenario; and when he expects that this funding will begin.
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15 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the work that has been undertaken on improving the integration and co-ordination of service delivery of the RAPID programme; the way in which this initiative is expected to progress into the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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