109 Deputy Pat Rabbitte asked the Minister for Finance the public private partnership projects which his Department has identified as being at risk from withdrawal by the private sector contractor; the extent of these perceived risks; the steps being taken to ensure these projects reach completion; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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184 Deputy Pat Rabbitte asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will close further Garda stations; if so, the stations involved; the timescale involved; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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194 Deputy Pat Rabbitte asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when it is intended to publish the report of the casino regulation committee, which was submitted to Government in April 2007; if it is intended to proceed with the plan to establish an informal committee of Houses of the Oireachtas Members to consider the report and related matters; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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85 Deputy Pat Rabbitte asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when he will extend the remit of the Freedom of Information Act 1997 to cover An Garda Síochána especially in view of repeated suggestions from the Information Commissioner that this should be done; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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83 Deputy Pat Rabbitte asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views on the sixth report of the Morris tribunal published on 8 May 2008; the action he will take arising from the report; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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417 Deputy Pat Rabbitte asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status of an application for leave to remain by a person (details supplied) in Dublin 24; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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363 Deputy Pat Rabbitte asked the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the new buildings sanction for a college (details supplied) in Dublin 24; when work will commence; when it is expected that the works concerned will be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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313 Deputy Pat Rabbitte asked the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the position regarding the construction of a football stadium at Tallaght, Dublin 24; the amount of funding that will be provided towards this project from central funding; when he expects the stadium to be functioning; if all matters relating to its operation are resolved; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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42 Deputy Pat Rabbitte asked the Minister for Defence the progress made in regard to the commitment given in the programme for Government to continue the ongoing policy of recruitment to the Reserve Defence Forces through regular and targeted recruitment campaigns.
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21 Deputy Pat Rabbitte asked the Minister for Defence the progress made in regard to the commitment given in the programme for Government to develop the role and contribution of the medical corps and expand its capacity to deliver a range of medical facilities on UN mandated missions.
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569 Deputy Pat Rabbitte asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when he will issue the building floor area certificate for an apartment (details supplied) in Dublin 24.
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538 Deputy Pat Rabbitte asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of gardaí allocated to a division (details supplied) in County Tipperary for each of the past three years; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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515 Deputy Pat Rabbitte asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress made in regard to the commitment given in the Programme for Government to ratify the UN convention for the suppression of the traffic in persons and of the exploitation of the prostitution of others.
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514 Deputy Pat Rabbitte asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress made in regard to the commitment given in the Programme for Government to introduce a Sexual Offences Bill which will consolidate and modernise all criminal law in the area of sexual offences.
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512 Deputy Pat Rabbitte asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress made in regard to the commitment given in the Programme for Government to provide for the forfeiture of all material gains from the production, sale and distribution of illegal pornography.
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511 Deputy Pat Rabbitte asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress made in regard to the commitment given in the Programme for Government to create a new offence of supplying and administering date rape drugs.
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510 Deputy Pat Rabbitte asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress made in regard to the commitment given in the Programme for Government to provide an entitlement to free full separate legal advice, assistance and representation to complainants in cases of sexual violence.
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509 Deputy Pat Rabbitte asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress made in regard to the commitment given in the Programme for Government to provide the Garda with the power to require individual sex offenders to provide specific information about their movements and activities.
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513 Deputy Pat Rabbitte asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress made in regard to the commitment given in the Programme for Government to ensure that all sexual offenders are assessed before their release from prison to identify the level of supervision and regulation needed.
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508 Deputy Pat Rabbitte asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress made in regard to the commitment given in the Programme for Government to expand the mechanism by which sexual offenders are monitored after their release from prison including the expansion of resources to the probation service and the Garda vetting unit.
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507 Deputy Pat Rabbitte asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress made in regard to the commitment given in the Programme for Government to provide that each Garda region will have a team extensively trained in the area of domestic violence.
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506 Deputy Pat Rabbitte asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress made in regard to the commitment given in the Programme for Government to set up a domestic violence fund under which there will be an increase in the number of refuge spaces.
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505 Deputy Pat Rabbitte asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress made in regard to the commitment given in the Programme for Government to establish a domestic violence prevention office.
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504 Deputy Pat Rabbitte asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress made in regard to the commitment given in the Programme for Government to ensure that an accused who can afford to defend themselves does not obtain legal aid by requiring those seeking legal aid to complete a statutory declaration prior to attending court.
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503 Deputy Pat Rabbitte asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress made in regard to the commitment given in the Programme for Government to introduce a right for the State to recover from the perpetrators of crime the amount paid out by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board in respect of that crime.
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502 Deputy Pat Rabbitte asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress made in regard to the commitment given in the Programme for Government to re-instate the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board.
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501 Deputy Pat Rabbitte asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress made in regard to the commitment given in the Programme for Government to protect the identities of witnesses and victims at identification parades through the installation of one-way glass in Garda stations.
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500 Deputy Pat Rabbitte asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress made in regard to the commitment given in the Programme for Government to establish a statutory victims support agency and set up a victims council to formulate victim policy.
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499 Deputy Pat Rabbitte asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress made in regard to the commitment given in the Programme for Government to introduce procedures in order that the defence should provide the prosecution with a list of intended witnesses and put structures in place to ensure that the prosecution is on notice of the points of defence to be raised by the defence in advance.
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498 Deputy Pat Rabbitte asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress made in regard to the commitment given in the Programme for Government to introduce new pre-trial procedures to deal with admissibility of evidence to save overtime, and the time of jurors and the court.
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497 Deputy Pat Rabbitte asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress made in regard to the commitment given in the Programme for Government to introduce means to ensure that criminal trials can no longer be collapsed because of legal technicalities and that this will include legislation and if necessary appropriate amendment to the Constitution.
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496 Deputy Pat Rabbitte asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress made in regard to the commitment given in the Programme for Government to provide for the Director of Public Prosecutions to appeal against lenient sentences in the District Court and allow the DPP to make submissions at sentencing stage.
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495 Deputy Pat Rabbitte asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress made in regard to the commitment given in the Programme for Government to introduce a formal annual review to assess the effect of the stringent new bail regime introduced in the Criminal Justice Act 2007.
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494 Deputy Pat Rabbitte asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress made in regard to the commitment given in the Programme for Government to introduce a formal review process on an annual basis, to assess the effect of the stringent new mandatory sentence regime for drug crime introduced in the Criminal Justice Act 2007.
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493 Deputy Pat Rabbitte asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress made in regard to the commitment given in the Programme for Government to establish a judicial sentencing commission under the auspices of the Courts Service.
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492 Deputy Pat Rabbitte asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress made in regard to the commitment given in the Programme for Government to introduce trusteeships that will allow the courts to empower trustees to run organisations where they are infiltrated or controlled by criminal elements.
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491 Deputy Pat Rabbitte asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress made in regard to the commitment given in the Programme for Government to introduce divestitures which require defendants to divest themselves of interests in tainted enterprises, impose restrictions on the future activities and investments of an individual and order the dissolution or reorganisation of any enterprise.
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490 Deputy Pat Rabbitte asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress made in regard to the commitment given in the Programme for Government to require all mobile phones to be registered with name, address and proof of identity in order to stop drug-pushers using untraceable, unregistered phones.
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489 Deputy Pat Rabbitte asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress made in regard to the commitment given in the Programme for Government to expand the Criminal Assets Bureau operational presence in each Garda division with the introduction of additional criminal assets profilers and CAB liaison officers in each Garda division.
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488 Deputy Pat Rabbitte asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress made in regard to the commitment given in the Programme for Government to support targeted Garda anti-drug use programmes in schools and third level institutions.
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487 Deputy Pat Rabbitte asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress made in regard to the commitment given in the Programme for Government to increase Garda search powers in relation to drug crime along the lines of the new random breath-testing model for drink driving to allow random searches at particular places, times and events.
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486 Deputy Pat Rabbitte asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress made in regard to the commitment given in the Programme for Government to expand the successful drug court programme and provide judges with the option of sentencing certain offenders to mandatory drug treatment programmes in addition to prison.
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485 Deputy Pat Rabbitte asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress made in regard to the commitment given in the Programme for Government to complete the implementation of the Barr tribunal recommendations and to implement the recommendations contained in the Garda Inspectorate report relating to barricade inspections.
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484 Deputy Pat Rabbitte asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress made in regard to the commitment given in the Programme for Government to introduce conditions governing the use by a suspect of the Garda interview video.
[19310/08]
483 Deputy Pat Rabbitte asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress made in regard to the commitment given in the Programme for Government to support the Garda Reserve and ensure that its strength reaches and is maintained at 10% of the Garda strength.
[19309/08]
482 Deputy Pat Rabbitte asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress made in regard to the commitment given in the Programme for Government to conduct regular detailed analyses of Garda to population ratios to ensure every region in the country has appropriate policing.
[19308/08]
481 Deputy Pat Rabbitte asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress made in regard to the commitment given in the Programme for Government to introduce a Garda charter setting out targeted Garda response times and levels of service which the public can expect.
[19307/08]
480 Deputy Pat Rabbitte asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress made in regard to the commitment given in the Programme for Government to further increase Garda numbers to 15,000 by 2010.
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479 Deputy Pat Rabbitte asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress made in regard to the commitment given in the Programme for Government to legislate for mandatory jail terms for violent unprovoked assaults and specifically criminalise the practice of so-called happy slapping.
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478 Deputy Pat Rabbitte asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress made in regard to the commitment given in the Programme for Government to establish special Garda units to deal with anti-social behaviour on public transport.
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