397 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for Education and Science if progress has been made on the proposal to swap sites in East Wall, Dublin 3 between his Department’s site on East Wall Road where a school (details supplied) is located and the privately owned site at Ravensdale Road in the centre of East Wall which would have much more potential for the development of a school for the docklands area; and if in view of the market changes, this proposal will be examined urgently.
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342 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the steps he is taking to ensure that the welfare of the potentially dioxin contaminated pigs held at present on restricted farms is fully protected; when these pigs will be slaughtered; if this slaughter will take place at a slaughterhouse or on the farms; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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572 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will recall for assessment aquaculture licenses which operations have been conclusively linked to mortalities of wild salmon by the sustainable management of interactions between aquaculture and wild salmonid fish project funded by the EU and partnered between Ireland, Scotland, and Norway and by the data obtained as part of the national fish stock assessment programme.
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570 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the reason Ireland no longer avails of European funding for the aquaculture industry, taking into consideration the requirement for Departments to reduce expenditure; and the cost to the Exchequer through the loss of this funding.
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569 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will provide details of monitoring of cross compliance to recipients of CAP since 2005 to date in 2008.
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568 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if his attention has been drawn to the recent report of the Court of Auditors on the failure of cross compliance; and if he will assure the Houses of the Oireachtas that Ireland is not one of the member states that have not implemented effective control and sanction systems which provide sufficient assurance on farmers’ compliance.
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567 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if his attention has been drawn to the recent report of the Court of Auditors on the failure of cross compliance (details supplied); and if he proposes to publish for farmers the precise obligations deriving from the relevant 19 directives and regulations and define a complete set of verifiable requirements and standards which are understandable for farmers, limited to the farmer’s responsibility, applicable and controllable and which take account of the specific characteristics of the areas and farming practices, as recommended in this report.
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566 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the reason Ireland no longer avails of European funding for the forestry programme here taking into consideration the requirement for Departments to reduce expenditure; and the cost to the Exchequer through the loss of this funding.
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565 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will identify the person permitting processes within his Department that are not in line with EU Directive 2003/35/EC on public participation in environmental decision making; and the action he will take to bring them into compliance with this Directive to enable Ireland to ratify the Aarhus Convention.
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571 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will report on the recommendations of the high level sea lice monitoring and control working group which was established by the then Department of Communications, Marine and Natural Resources in 2005 and comprised representatives of the Department, the Fisheries Boards, Marine Institute and Bord Iascaigh Mhara to examine and review the systems and processes for controlling sea lice levels at marine finfish farms.
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562 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if his attention has been drawn to the results of the data obtained by the sustainable management of interactions between aquaculture and wild salmonid fish funded by the EU and partnered between Ireland, Scotland, and Norway and the data obtained by the national fish stock assessment programme of the Central Fisheries Board in 2007 which demonstrated the increased mortalities in wild salmon as a result of marine salmon farms and their sea lice infestations; and the measures he plans to take to protect the Irish wild salmon as the competent authority under the Habitats Directive which list the salmon for protection.
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435 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will make available to the public and consult with it over the alternative proposals for the future of the toxic dump on Haulbowline Island before he brings a report to Government for decision on whatever actions are shown to be necessary.
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434 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the standards used to determine the safety levels at Haulbowline Island by a company (details supplied) in its recent report were in fact the threshold values for industrial use, not residential use; the way, in view of the fact that these levels exceed the internationally accepted limits for residential use by many multiples, it is appropriate to reassure persons working on the island as well as the residential inhabitants of Cork Harbour that there are no identified risks to the residents.
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161 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 161 of 19 November and 182 of 26 November 2008, if he will expedite a reply to question 182 from the Garda authorities in view of a recent murder (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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223 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for Education and Science the second level schools, community and comprehensive colleges and VEC schools with one or more teachers teaching the English language as a foreign language; the number of such teachers in the case of each school.
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222 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for Education and Science the number of second level schools, community and comprehensive colleges and VEC schools with an excess of two teachers teaching English as a foreign language.
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221 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for Education and Science the number of second level schools, community and comprehensive colleges and VEC schools with one of more teachers who teach the English language as a foreign language.
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220 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for Education and Science the number of teachers teaching the English language as a foreign language in second level schools, community and comprehensive colleges and VEC schools.
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506 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for Education and Science the legislative basis for the threatening letters sent to teachers who have not joined the Teaching Council telling them that they will not be paid their salaries.
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507 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for Education and Science the moneys spent to date by the Teaching Council; and the source of those moneys.
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505 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for Education and Science the number of teachers at primary and secondary level who have not joined the Teaching Council to date.
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373 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the basis of the decision to specify a five and a half month hunting season in the recent licence granted to a hunt (details supplied).
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296 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will request a report from the Garda authorities on the action they are taking against a company (details supplied) in Dublin 3 in view of the fact that there is a constant and daily offending in relation to illegal parking on footpaths and so on; and the number of prosecutions they have instituted to date in 2008 against this company for parking offences.
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182 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for Education and Science the progress that has been made with granting permanent recognition to a school (details supplied) in Dublin 9; the reasons for the delay in dealing with this request; and the timescale for the provision of a modern school building to replace the prefabricated accommodation in which the school is located.
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182 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, further to Parliamentary Question No. 161 of 19 November 2008, if he will ask the Garda authorities to state the location and date of the meetings attended by the local senior Garda management and the assistant commissioner which he referred to were held in East Wall, Dublin 3 to date in 2008; and if the Garda authorities are confusing this with meetings of the north inner city community policing forum held in Store Street Garda station in Dublin 1 with which the East Wall area is not directly involved.
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392 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the main items funded in 2006 and 2007 under the horse and greyhound racing fund and funded from the approximate €74 million budgetary grant in each of those years.
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316 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of requests received from the Garda authorities in each of the past five years for permission to place taps on the telephones of individuals believed to be involved in criminal activity; and the number of orders granted.
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161 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will request a detailed report from the Garda authorities regarding the level of policing in the East Wall area of Dublin 3 specifying the number of foot patrols in East Wall and their approximate times so involved; if the report will respond to complaints from an association (details supplied) that Garda visibility in East Wall is minimalist at best; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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593 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for Education and Science when his Department officials will meet the school authorities from a school (details supplied) in Dublin 1 regarding the proposed new school; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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463 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if the reports from wildlife officers at coursing meetings will be made available to a group (details supplied) and other interested bodies; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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368 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the reason for the ongoing delay which is holding up a €200,000 grant to a community development centre (details supplied); and when he will have the matter expedited.
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194 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for Health and Children if he will agree to the request from a partnership (details supplied) to meet with them regarding the findings of their study of the community child care subvention scheme and its negative effects; if he will give full consideration to their findings; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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371 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 254 of 5 November 2008 and his reference to the newspaper cutting which was one part of more detailed research carried out by the Oireachtas Library, the documentation on which he has based his decision.
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277 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for Health and Children her views on queries (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter relating to the provision of mental health services in budget 2009.
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272 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for Education and Science the number of private fee-paying second levels schools here; and cost of State funding including salaries of staff to these fee paying schools.
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232 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of hares killed or which subsequently died at coursing meetings (details supplied) during October and November 2008; and if this represents an increase on the average at these meetings.
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254 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 165 of 2 October 2008 if he will ask his Department officials to review his reply in the context of the research document provided by the Library of the Houses of the Oireachtas (details supplied) which links the two organisations in question.
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446 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he plans to continue to allow Coillte Teo to treat seedlings for use here and for export to the United Kingdom with a combination of flexcoat and cypermethrin despite the fact that this combination has not been approved by the Pesticide Safety Directorate in the United Kingdom and that in the United Kingdom, Coillte’s competitors are required to apply flexcoat as a separate application in the interest of the safety of workers.
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445 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if his attention has been drawn to the fact that, contrary to what he states, Coillte Teo informed him and he in turn informed this Deputy in his response to a written parliamentary question on 10 July 2008, that the Pesticide Safety Directorate in the United Kingdom has not approved the use of flexcoat when added to cypermethrin.
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409 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will detail and enumerate the planning applications and consents in which Ireland will be required to disapply relevant national planning law as a result of the judgment of the European Court against Ireland on 3 July 2008 (details supplied); and the action taken to ensure compliance with this judgment.
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408 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he is satisfied with the arrangements for ensuring the orderly enforcement of conditions of quarries registered under Section 261 of the Planning and Development Act, 2000.
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407 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will ensure in future that the broad range of housing statistics compiled by his Department will include the number of houses for which development consent has been given by local authorities outside of areas zoned for development; the number of these which have been completed; the number of permissions which remain outstanding.
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155 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, further to Parliamentary Question No. 837 of 17 June 2008, if the issues in this case have been resolved; and when a decision will be made on the application.
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174 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for Defence the dates on which firearms and ammunition stored at Clancy Barracks were destroyed on behalf of the Garda technical bureau between 1 July 2000 and 31 August 2000; the nature and quantities destroyed; and the date on which tenders were invited for the destruction of firearms and munitions at Clancy Barracks during the years 2000 and 2001.
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169 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs her views on the question raised in correspondence (details supplied) regarding EU Directive 2006/54/EC; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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134 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the dates on which firearms and ammunition stored at Clancy Barracks were destroyed on behalf of the Garda Technical Bureau between 1 July 2000 and 31 August 2000; the nature and quantities destroyed; and the date on which tenders were invited for the destruction of firearms and munitions at Clancy Barracks during the years 2000 and 2001.
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73 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if the conservation status of the Irish hare is listed as poor or bad in the context of the EU habitats directive following a ruling of the European Court of Justice in 2007; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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165 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 981 of 24 of September 2008, if a group (details supplied) was a splinter group of the IRA.
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387 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a decision will be made on the visa application of a person (details supplied); and if he accepts responsibility for the loss of a passport sent to his Department by registered post on 19 March 2008 by the person’s legal representative.
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262 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for Health and Children her views on the issues raised in correspondence (details supplied); if she will have this reviewed; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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