418 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for Transport further to his confirmation by way of reply to Parliamentary Question No. 222 of 9 March 2005 that a scheme was prepared in the late 1960s showing restrictions relating to runways 05/23 and 18/36 at Shannon Airport for the purposes of air safety, the date or dates on which runways 05/23 and 18/36 were later withdrawn from service; if his Department subsequently requested Clare County Council to remove the previously designated red zones from its county development plan; if the red zones still exist in their original state; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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417 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for Transport if he will reconsider his decision not to carry out an economic impact study on Shannon Airport and the wider region to assess the effects an Open Skies aviation policy would have on the area’s tourism and other industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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395 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reasons parents of children with cerebral palsy are means tested for carer’s allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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390 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when a decision will be made on a carer’s allowance application for persons (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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320 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will be facilitated with an occupational therapist; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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319 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will be facilitated with a bed in the National Rehabilitation Hospital, Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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318 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will be facilitated with a bed in the National Rehabilitation Hospital.
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317 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for Health and Children when an application for subvention will be processed for a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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263 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in County Clare was refused the special ceiling hoist; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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251 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for Health and Children if funding will be provided to extend hours at a centre (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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244 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will be facilitated with a replacement of a prosthesis; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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100 Mr. P. Breen asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, further to Parliamentary Question No. 319 of 31 January 2007, when an application for a residency visa will be processed for a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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261 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government further to the confirmation by way of reply to Parliamentary Question No. 358 of 7 February 2006 that there have been no aircraft accidents whatsoever or associated third party fatalities in any of the red zones at any of the State airports since their introduction in 1968, if he will explain the rationale for the replacement of such massive red zones with the proposed but even larger public safety zones with such fact perhaps best exemplified by the replacement of the approximately 230 hectares existing red zone at the eastern end of Runway 10/28 at Dublin Airport by an outer public safety zone having an area of approximately 1,073 hectares; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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255 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 495 of 29 November 2005, if he will confirm that the Snow Report in question at paragraph 4.7.2 unequivocally acknowledges that, on the sole basis of risk to either air navigation or to those on the ground, restriction of all development under the approach surfaces at Casement Aerodrome particularly to a wide area at a distance of 1,370 metres from the thresholds might seem logically unsustainable, particularly in view of the fact that there are no available data for a satisfactory risk analysis on Irish military aircraft during landing and take-off operations; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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216 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for Transport further to Parliamentary Question No. 314 of 13 December 2005 and bearing in mind that there are no two-dimensional public safety zones whatsoever at Changi Airport, Singapore that handled over 32 million passengers in 2005, if his Department approved of the designation of a 3,000 metre long red zone at Waterford Airport that by comparison handled a 74,357 passengers in the same year; his views on whether this latter red zone is totally unnecessary if not bizarre from a safety perspective and is a classic example of regulatory capture; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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205 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will accept that the implementation of the Seveso directive here through the designation of large safety zones over massive tracts of land, most of which are not owned by the operators of the plants in question, results in the diminution of third party property rights together with the de facto handing over of such rights to the owners of the said plants, and that such action is totally at odds with the polluter pays principle; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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194 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will be facilitated with a bed in the National Rehabilitation Hospital, Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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174 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for Finance the situation regarding the flood relief plan; the timeframe for the flood relief measures for persons (details supplied) following a meeting of the Office of Public Works officials, Clare County Council and other bodies; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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539 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when contract documents will be signed for Clonlara sewerage scheme, County Clare; and when the scheme will commence on the ground; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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422 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for Transport when implementation of the proposed economic and tourism development plan for Shannon Airport will begin; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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355 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will be facilitated with surgery; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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266 Mr. P. Breen asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status of an application for a residency visa for a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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122 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the reasoning behind the decision to move electronic voting machines to a central location; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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92 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if and when electronic voting will be used in elections here; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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212 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when the tender documents for the Quilty, Scariff, Feakle sewerage schemes will be ready; when the contract will be awarded; when the scheme will commence on the grounds; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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184 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food the reason an application to her Department under the milk quota trading scheme for 2007 and 2008 was not processed for a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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291 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for Education and Science if, in view of the recent announcement of the imminent closure of a school (details supplied) County Galway, changes have been proposed to north Clare catchment areas in a recent review of catchment areas for south Galway, if not, if there is a proposed review of catchment areas in north Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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285 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for Education and Science when an application for incremental credit will be processed for a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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279 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will receive the single payment for 2006; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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560 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if, in relation to exclusion zones for the spreading of organic fertiliser and for soiled water relating to a public water supply and abstraction sources of a lake source, the lake edge is the inner boundary of the buffer zone or if it is the physical extraction point in the lake; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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468 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food the number of farmers in County Clare who were applicants for the single payment scheme national reserve in 2005; the number who were successful; and the number who are awaiting for their applications to be processed; when her Department proposes to process these applications which are 21 months lodged with her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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439 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for Transport if the recent transfer of air traffic control staff from the Irish Aviation Authority in Shannon to Dublin will affect the IAA decentralisation programme; the progress of the decentralisation programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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418 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the plans of a company (details supplied) for regenerating its derelict units in the industrial estate at the Shannon free zone in order to attract new industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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400 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the estimate of the cost of completing the automation of the post office network; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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378 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources his plans to provide grant aid for householders in suitable locations wishing to install wind turbines or solar panels; his further plans to enable such people to sell excess electricity generated back into the grid; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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374 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for Health and Children the reason patients are not accompanied by a nurse in a Health Service Executive ambulance from nursing homes to attend clinics in HSE hospitals (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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129 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of full medical cards issued for each of the years from 1997 to 2006; the number of general practitioner visit only cards issued per year since the introduction of this card; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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117 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of parliamentary questions received by her Department during 2006; the number of these transferred to the Health Service Executive; the number of questions transferred to the HSE that remain unanswered; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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72 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will be assessed for orthodontic treatment; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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71 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will be taken off the waiting list for orthodontic services and receive treatment.
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65 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for Health and Children if her Department will provide funding to a centre (details supplied) in County Clare for a dementia unit; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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218 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for Health and Children the amount allocated to the elderly care services in the past year in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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115 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he will take initiatives, issue policy direction or otherwise intervene, directly with the service providers or through the regulator with a view to accelerating the availability of state of the art telecommunications facilities here; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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101 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he is satisfied that investment in the telecommunications industry is in keeping with the requirements of a modern expanding economy; if Government policy is being adhered to in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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618 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if it is currently the policy of his Department to designate buffer zones in the vicinity of proposed sewage treatment plants; if so, the procedural arrangements for the implementation of such policy with particular respect to notification of and consultation with affected landowners; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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617 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if, in view of the fact that notification, consultation and compensatory measures were enacted by the Houses of the Oireachtas in the matter of protected areas that were specifically designated to control the erection of buildings in the vicinity of State airports by way of section 14 of the Air Navigation and Transport Act 1950, similar arrangements will be put in place in respect of the proposed public safety zones that will be designated shortly for the same precise purpose; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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594 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 465 of 13 December 2005, if the permissible heights of proposed developments beneath the runway approach surfaces increase with distance from runway thresholds; if he will confirm, for example, that development up to a height of 20 metres is permissible beneath the 1:50 approach at a distance of 1,000 metres from the threshold and that similarly development up to a height of 60 metres is permissible at a distance of 3,000 metres; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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533 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for Education and Science the breakdown of primary school class sizes in County Clare for 2006 and 2007 showing in each case the number of pupils in classes of 19 and under, 20 to 29, 30 to 39 and 40 plus; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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531 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for Education and Science the number of children in County Clare currently receiving a pre-school education which is funded by her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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503 Mr. P. Breen asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food when an official from her Department will visit a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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