1187 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he has received an application from an association (details supplied) requesting a grant from the dormant accounts fund in respect of work to assist older people in the community; and, if so, his views on this application.
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981 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the group (details supplied) is regarded as formally disbanded; if it has ceased all paramilitary activities; if its origin was a splinter group of the IRA; and if the group was listed in his Department as a paramilitary republican anti-partition group.
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418 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for Health and Children the plans she has to establish or develop a national diabetic retinopathy detection programme for all people with diabetes; if improvements will be made to the existing services in the Dun Laoghaire area; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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899 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the remaining obstacles to Ireland’s signature of the Aarhus Convention; and when it can be expected that Ireland will end the position whereby it is the only one of 27 European Member States that has not done so.
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898 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when he will complete the work necessary to draw all the relevant permitting processes under his Department into line with EU Directive 2003/35/EC providing for public participation in respect of the drawing up of certain plans and programmes relating to the environment and amending with regard to public participation and access to Justice Council Directives 85/337/EEC and 96/61/EC.
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897 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when, in view of the fact that public consultation on the regulatory impact analysis of the European Environmental Liability Directive ended in September 2007, this directive will be transposed into national legislation; and if he will make operator's insurance against such liability compulsory.
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896 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amount by county of waste farm plastic collected under the scheme introduced in May 2006 to clear backlogs of waste plastic that had arisen on farms.
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895 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of one-off houses outside areas zoned for development in county development plans 2000 to 2005.
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894 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his plans to introduce the registration and inspection of the indirect discharges into groundwater of effluents from the septic tanks and waste water treatment units of various rural settlements and agglomerations which are in breach of the conditions laid down in the Groundwater Directive and referred to in the recent European Court judgment against Ireland but for which insufficient evidence was provided by the Commission to the Court.
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893 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the annual programmes of testing and monitoring of individual wastewater treatment and disposal systems have taken place of developments given consent since the guidelines were issued in 2003 in view of the fact that the sustainable rural housing guidelines state in section 4.5, Protecting Water Quality, that critical elements of Circular Letter SP 5-03 issued to planning authorities gave guidance on development control and enforcement standards and practices to ensure protection of groundwater quality.
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892 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his plans to introduce registration and monitoring of the indirect discharges into ground water of domestic effluents from the septic tanks of more than 300,000 isolated dwellings in view of the comments by the chairman of An Bord Pleanála regarding the fact that they must be accounting for some of the decline in ground water standards reported by the Environmental Protection Agency.
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883 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on the submission from the Dublin inner city partnership regarding the need for his Department to make an urgent intervention and provide the necessary direct funding to construct social housing for the residents of a complex (details supplied) in Dublin city and other similarly affected complexes where residents are living in unacceptable conditions; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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793 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of bullying and harassment appeals that proceeded in the past five years without written agreement as in section 8.1 of the policy document A Positive Working Environment (details supplied); if there has been written agreement; if so, if it is possible to obtain a copy of each agreement.
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792 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of assistant secretaries and principal officers his Department used in the past five years for bullying and harassment appeals; the number of appeals each of them adjudicated on; the outcome of the appeal in each case.
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791 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of the cases within his Department that went to appeal that had the original decisions overturned.
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790 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of bullying and harassment cases within his Department that went to appeal.
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789 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of bullying and harassment cases that have been taken within his Department in the past five years; and the number that were upheld or not upheld.
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478 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will assure this Deputy that forestry workers are not in danger from the use by the State Forestry Board, Coillte Teo, in Ireland and for export, of flexicoat impregnated with insecticides used to treat trees and seedlings and that chemicals in use have been fully tested and have formal approval here and in the country of export.
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477 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the measures taken by the authorities here to implement the policies contained in COM [207] 136 FINAL of 28 March 2007 on the policy to reduce unwanted by-catches and eliminate discards in fisheries here.
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476 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the measures taken by him to inform stakeholders and to assist them to contribute to the development of the regulations recommended in the European Commission’s COM [207] 136 to reduce unwanted by-catches and eliminate discards in fisheries here which was finalised on 28 March 2007.
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475 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will provide a list of the aquaculture areas closed, the period of their closure, and the reason for their closure in the past five years.
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474 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will provide a list of aquaculture licences issued for shellfish production outside areas designated for aquaculture in the past five years.
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473 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the reason an analysis to establish the constraints and impacts at a high level for areas designated for the freshwater pearl mussel and to construct the principles through which new afforestation must proceed was absent from the strategic environmental assessment undertaken by his Department for the rural development plan 2006-2011; and his plans to address this issue.
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472 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the status of the draft forestry and freshwater pearl mussel requirements and the moratorium on felling in the areas hosting the species; the number of hectares involved in each of the catchments; and the number and extent of suspended or pending forestry felling licenses involved.
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471 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the strategic environmental assessments undertaken since the strategic environmental assessments directive came into force.
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470 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he is satisfied that the strategic environment assessment undertaken of the forestry and agricultural plan as part of the rural development plan meets the requirement of the strategic environment assessment directive.
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469 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food his plans to ensure that no fishery activity is undertaken in areas designated for the protection of birds and their habitats under the birds directive without an appropriate assessment.
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122 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will ensure that the necessary budgets for social work and related child protection services are ring fenced within her Department’s overall budget; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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121 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for Health and Children the action she will take to provide the necessary social work supports to children and families on waiting lists in view of the State’s responsibility to protect children and families at risk.
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120 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of children at ongoing risk without social work support; and the number of families in need but without the necessary social work support.
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119 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of children on waiting lists in the Dublin’s north east inner city Dublin in need of immediate assessment and families unallocated to the social work service but identified as being in need of long term social work support; the criteria by which cases are being prioritised in view of the staffing crisis; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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118 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of social workers employed by the Health Service Executive in Dublin’s north east inner city; the number of vacancies that exist for same; the plans in train in view of the HSE embargo on recruitment to employ sufficient social workers to fulfil the role for the protection of children at most risk and in need of state intervention; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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307 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if it is permissible for a person (details supplied) to apply for a passport in respect of their son.
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908 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will request the relevant officials in his Department to arrange a local meeting with officials from Dublin City Council and with local residents and public representatives regarding the redevelopment of a building (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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207 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will respond to the correspondence from a service (details supplied) in Dublin 1; if she will review whether the level of funding was miscalculated; if she will take steps to ensure that the child-care service is properly funded; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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194 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for Finance the value of moneys, adjusted to present values, received by the State in transfers from the European Union since Ireland joined the EEC in 1973.
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193 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for Finance the amount received in corporate taxation each year for the past ten years; and the estimate, based on those figures, of what the receipts would amount to for each year since the rate was reduced had that reduction not taken place.
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192 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for Finance the amount received in capital gains tax each year for the past ten years; the estimate, based on those figures, of what the receipts would amount to for each year since the rate was reduced had that reduction not taken place.
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136 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Taoiseach the amount of profits, adjusted to present values, repatriated by multinational corporations from this State for each year since 1973 to date in 2008; and the breakdown of the proportion going to EU based corporations.
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362 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for Defence, further to Parliamentary Question No. 775 of 17 June 2008, if he will list all of the weaponry decommissioned and so on during the period referred to.
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295 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the provision of a new school (details supplied) in Dublin 1; if correspondence has been received from the board of management of the school; the reason that correspondence has not being replied to; if he will have arrangements made to have all correspondence from the school replied to forthwith; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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142 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for Health and Children her views on the concerns raised in correspondence (details supplied) regarding the proposed reduction of ingredients in vitamins and minerals; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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934 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his response to the request from Dublin City Council for the demolition and redevelopment of a flats complex (details supplied) in Dublin 1; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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930 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will investigate complaints that illegal traps are being offered for sale by a company (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if appropriate action will be taken.
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838 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a decision will be made on the application for a green card by a person (details supplied) in Dublin 1.
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837 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform further to the reply to Parliamentary Question No. 264 of 21 May 2008, if the requested documentation has been received.
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775 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for Defence the details of the decommissioning of weapons at Clancy Barracks, Baile Átha Cliath around 2000-2001; the name of the private company involved; the cost involved; the weapons concerned; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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391 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for Health and Children if her Department will confirm its ownership or otherwise of the property referred to in correspondence (details supplied) where the adjoining owner wishes to incorporate it into their garden and the local authority is having difficulty establishing title.
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204 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform further to his reply to Parliamentary Question No. 136 of 29 May 2008, if he is satisfied himself that all long-term prisoners who present with indicators that they are becoming institutionalised psychologically are in receipt of the support that he has referred to; the steps that are taken to ensure that all such prisoners have these supports explained and offered to them; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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203 Deputy Tony Gregory asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform further to his reply to Parliamentary Question No. 135 of 29 May 2008, the specific length of sentence already served by each of the four prisoners referred to.
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