78 Mr. P. Breen asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when a shower and toilet will be installed under the housing aid for the elderly scheme for a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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77 Mr. P. Breen asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when replacement windows will be installed under the housing aid for the elderly scheme for a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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358 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if her attention has been drawn to the serious problems facing the small mushroom growers here, where costs have gone extraordinarily high and where wholesale prices are being reduced by the multinational retailers; the measures she intends to put in place in order to deal with this crisis; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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327 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for Transport if, in relation to Parliamentary Question No. 1018 of 29 September 2004, officials of his Department have clarified the position with regard to the proposed new charter service to Orlando; if this will comply with the current bilateral agreement; if he will investigate the way in which the service is advertised on the Aer Lingus website (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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308 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the position regarding an appeal for a one parent family payment claim by a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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149 Mr. P. Breen asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding a mobility allowance for a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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137 Mr. P. Breen asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when post mortem results will be released to the family of a deceased person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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105 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for Defence if Ireland will participate in EU-led groups that can intervene in a rapid manner to prevent the loss of life; the circumstances under which such participation might take place; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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223 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she will carry out an investigation into the REP scheme appeal of a person (details enclosed) in County Clare to the director of the appeals office; her views on whether the delay in this case is totally unacceptable; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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222 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food the number of applications under the force majeure scheme for single farm payment which have been received to date from persons in County Clare; the number which have been successful, refused, appealed successfully or otherwise respectively; the number still awaiting a decision; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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221 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food the reason persons in REP scheme 2 who had opted to transfer to REP scheme 3 have not yet been processed for payment in any of her Department offices five months after the scheme was made available; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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220 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if the REP scheme will be in place until 2013 in view of the fact that the reforms in Agenda 2000 were changed after three years; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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134 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the role he sees for Shannon Development in view of the decision to decentralise Enterprise Ireland to the region; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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102 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the representations he has made to the Department of Finance prior to the budget for 2005 to alleviate the burden on small business; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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225 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food when a provisional entitlement statement will be issued to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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119 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the definition of long-term unemployed; the number of persons who come under this category; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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262 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for Transport further to Parliamentary Question No. 264 of 28 October 2004, if the airport development plan prepared by his Department for Dublin Airport on 11 March 1968 indicated that each of the proposed parallel runways would be 11,500 feet in length; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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261 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for Transport if a green belt for 2.5 miles around the airport was designated by the then Department of Industry and Commerce at Dublin Airport in or around the 1940s; if this green belt still exists; if it has been revoked; if so, the means by which such revocation took place; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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260 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for Transport if SI 92 of 1977 still exists; if such statutory instrument was revoked by him; if so, the date of revocation; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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259 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for Transport, further to Parliamentary Question No. 326 of 25 May 2004, if it was his Department or Aer Rianta that was responsible for initially giving the incorrect co-ordinates of the western threshold of proposed runway 10/28 to ERM; if he will confirm both the incorrect and amended co-ordinates as depicted respectively on the draft ERM report of June 2003 and the final version of the said report; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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151 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for Transport if London taxis will be the specification for wheelchair accessibility here; if it is possible to modify same; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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94 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the total underspend by the Government in 2003; the reasons for the underspend; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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48 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the cost of storing the electronic voting machines purchased; if maintenance is required to keep them in working order; and the cost of same.
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157 Mr. P. Breen asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in County Clare will not qualify for a companion pass; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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153 Mr. P. Breen asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding an application by the Clare branch of the Alzheimer Society of Ireland regarding the proposed dementia day care centre at a nursing house (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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439 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for Education and Science if consideration will be given to sanctioning an extra five hours a week to a special needs assistant at a school (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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438 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for Education and Science if consideration will be given to sanctioning an extra five hours a week to a special needs assistant at a school (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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390 Mr. Breen asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if the penalties for over claim which were imposed on a person (details supplied) in County Clare have been taken from his payments and if future payments will be free from penalties; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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231 Mr. P. Breen asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if a full-time radiologist will be appointed at Ennis General Hospital in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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188 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for Transport the progress to date to extend the two existing Luas lines at Cherrywood and at the Docklands; the progress that has been made in negotiating PPPs to fund these extensions; the nature of the difficulty in attracting private investment to fund these extensions; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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178 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for Transport when the publication of draft regulations to reintroduce a maximum height for vehicles will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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374 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for Defence the names of the applicants, with respect to all the planning applications to which his Department lodged objections and appeals at Casement Aerodrome; the address of each of the applicant sites; the stated reason for such objections and appeals; the applicable planning reference numbers and the final outcomes of such objections and appeals; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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335 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for Education and Science if construction in relation to the refurbishment and extension proposed for a school (details supplied) in County Clare has taken place; if not when it is proposed to take place; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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334 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for Education and Science if construction in relation to the two classrooms and ancillary facilities proposed for a school (details supplied) in County Clare has taken place; if not when it is proposed to take place; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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333 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for Education and Science when the application for the three classrooms and ancillary refurbishment proposed for a school (details supplied) in County Clare will go into advance architectural planning; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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332 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for Education and Science when the application for the refurbishment and extension proposed for a school (details supplied) in County Clare will go into advance architectural planning; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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331 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for Education and Science when the application for the new school building for a school (details supplied) in County Clare will go into advance architectural planning; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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330 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for Education and Science when construction for the resource room for a school (details supplied) in County Clare will take place; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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329 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for Education and Science when the application for the refurbishment and extension proposed for a school (details supplied) in County Clare will go into the next stage of architectural planning; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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328 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for Education and Science when the application for the refurbishment and extension proposed for a school (detail supplied) in County Clare will go into advance architectural planning; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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291 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food the outcome of a decision with regard to the force majeure exceptional circumstances on the establishment of entitlement under the single payment scheme under the farm review of Agenda 2000 for a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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268 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for Transport further to Parliamentary Question No. 43 of 13 February 2001, if it was stated that the essential purpose of the so-called red zones at airports is to control the erection of buildings within those zones which by their height may interfere with the safe take-off or landing of aircraft; if such purpose was the precise reason for the concept of protected areas as provided for by way of section 14 of the Air Navigation and Transport Act 1950; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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266 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for Transport if he will outline, in tabular form, the names of the applicants, the address of each of the applicant sites, the stated reason for such objections and appeals, the applicable planning reference numbers and the final outcomes of such objections and appeals with respect to all the planning applications to which his Department lodged objections and-or appeals at each of the State airports; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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265 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for Transport if he will outline in tabular form the name of the landowners with respect to all the plots of land acquired by his Department by means of compulsory purchase orders at each of the State airports from whom such lands were compulsorily acquired; the operative dates of such orders; the areas of land in question; the reason or reasons for such compulsory acquisition; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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267 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for Transport , further to Question No. 326 of 25 May 2004, if the western threshold of proposed runway 10/28, as depicted on the recently launched Dublin Airport Authority plan, still remains a distance of approximately 425 metres east of Kingston Crossroads; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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264 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for Transport if the existing north-east to south-west and north-west to south-east runways were shown extended to 8,500 and 8,250 feet, respectively, while two new parallel runways, each of which was 11,500 feet in length, were also shown with respect to the airport development plan prepared by his Department for Dublin Airport on 11 March 1968; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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234 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the precise difference between upper and lower tier establishments with respect to the EC COMAH Directive 96/82/EC; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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233 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when and the means by which he proposes to implement Directive 2003/105/EC; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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232 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the name and address of the applicant site and the name of the establishment in question in tabular form, with respect to each of the planning applications for which planning permission was refused arising from the location of the applicant site within the consultation zone of a Seveso establishment designated in accordance with the terms of EC COMAH Directive 96/82/EC; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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189 Mr. P. Breen asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason a CAT scanner has not been installed at Ennis General Hospital in view of the fact that funding has been provided for same; if the Mid-Western Health Board will install same in the interest of patients’ safety; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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