477 Mr. Gregory asked the Minister for Education and Science if the difficulty experienced by pupils of a school (details supplied) in Dublin 1 in obtaining places in a second level Irish speaking school have been resolved; if her Department has been able to assist; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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300 Mr. Gregory asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his Department will assist persons (details supplied) by making representations to the Mongolian authorities as to the whereabouts of a child who is an Irish citizen; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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260 Mr. Gregory asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will request a report from the Health Service Executive stating the reason a person (details supplied) in Dublin 11 who has asperger syndrome is four years waiting on an occupational therapist service in the Child and Family Guidance Centre, Castleknock; when this service will be provided; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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188 Mr. Gregory asked the Minister for Finance if his Department will assist a person (details supplied) in Dublin 3 who requires a tax clearance certificate to return to work and who cannot clear their relatively minor tax arrears before returning to work.
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170 Mr. Gregory asked the Minister for Finance if the Office of Public Works has responsibility for the river wall (details supplied) in Dublin 3; if the OPW has responsibility for the now collapsing railings set in the river wall; if the OPW has agreed to replace these railings at the rear of just four houses; and if this matter will be reinvestigated and the work carried out.
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107 Mr. Gregory asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if a car sales business has been investigated for the sale of an unregistered 01 van; if they are in breach of legal requirements; if the Gardaí will be of assistance to a person (details supplied) in Dublin 7 who purchased the van and who reported the matter to Mountjoy Garda Station, Dublin 7.
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260 Mr. Gregory asked the Minister for Health and Children the funding sought by a service (details supplied) in Dublin 1; the reason this funding has not been provided since it was applied for in November 2006; if it will be provided; if it will be established that €60,000 and not €49,000 is required to sustain the crèche as a viable concern; if the remaining funding will be made available in order that the fees from the disadvantaged parents will not have to be raised for a second time in 12 months; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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585 Mr. Gregory asked the Minister for Education and Science if arrangements can be made to lease the available site for a new school building (details supplied) in Dublin 7; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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475 Mr. Gregory asked the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will review the request of a club (details supplied) in Dublin 1 for funding under the dormant accounts programme in view of the marvellous youth work undertaken voluntarily by this club in a most disadvantaged area of Dublin’s inner city.
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209 Mr. Gregory asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of break-ins in Cabra Dublin 7 in 2007; the number during the same period in 2006 as compiled by the Cabra Garda station, community policing unit; the number of detections to date in 2007; and the number of charges brought.
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208 Mr. Gregory asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of incidents of vandalism to property and vehicles in the Oxmanstown area of Dublin 7 during January, February and March 2007 already complied by the Bridewell Community Policing Unit; the number of detections each month; and the number of charges brought.
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158 Mr. Gregory asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will initiate an epidemiological study of brain injury here as requested by the Headway organisation; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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115 Mr. Gregory asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views on the concerns of local communities when a convicted paedophile is reported to be living very close to a national school (details supplied) in Dublin 7; if he will initiate procedures to respond to such concerns; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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930 Mr. Gregory asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has granted an extension of licences to cover March 2007 to beagling clubs; and the names of the hunts covered by the licence.
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929 Mr. Gregory asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of hares killed during March 2006 by hunts licenced under Licence No. 1/2006 (Licence To Hunt With Pack of Beagles).
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950 Mr. Gregory asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the status and ownership of the protected properties related to the 1916 Rising in Moore Street, Dublin 1; and if there are steps his Department can take to prevent their further deterioration.
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917 Mr. Gregory asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will take steps to prevent further deterioration of the protected properties in Moore Street, Dublin 1 related to the 1916 Rising; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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680 Mr. Gregory asked the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if his attention has been drawn to a matter (details supplied); if he will instruct Waterways Ireland to take effective steps to prevent a recurrence of these problems in 2007; if he will raise the responsibility of the gardaí to enforce the law in such situations with the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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492 Mr. Gregory asked the Minister for Health and Children if she has acted on her commitment to make additional resources available to the Health Service Executive to speed up the process for applicants for international adoption; if it now takes four and a half years to process an international adoption application; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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297 Mr. Gregory asked the Minister for Finance if there is a second charge on persons who cancel credit cards; and if he will review this inequitable double taxation in the one year.
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266 Mr. Gregory asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to a matter (details supplied); if he will ask the Garda Commissioner to ensure that no repetition of these events is allowed to happen in 2007 or in future years; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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221 Mr. Gregory asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 142 of 29 November 2006, if the Garda authorities will report on the untaxed and uninsured vehicles at a location (details supplied) in Dublin 9; and if they belong to the garage owner referred to.
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237 Mr. Gregory asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food the minimum age at which calves can be exported from the Republic of Ireland to continental Europe; the number of calves under six weeks old that were exported from the Republic of Ireland to continental Europe in 2006; and the number of calves under six weeks old that travelled from the Republic of Ireland to the continent in 2006 by ferry and road via Britain using the UK land-bridge route.
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236 Mr. Gregory asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food the number of cattle and calves exported from the Republic of Ireland to continental Europe in 2006 by direct roll-on, roll-off ferry from Ireland to the Continent, by ferry and road via Britain using the UK land-bridge route and by other means.
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113 Mr. Gregory asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 618 of 21 March 2006, the number of graffiti related charges brought in Dublin City in 2006; the progress made with the anti-graffiti campaign; if the action programme referred to has taken place with Dublin City Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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237 Mr. Gregory asked the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if the two tenders received for the Cape Clear ferry were both unsatisfactory; if so, the reason negotiations were then opened with only one of the tenderers; if his attention has been drawn to the widespread concern among the islanders on the manner in which the winning tender was selected; his views on the concerns of the islanders; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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171 Mr. Gregory asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if a decision has been made to close Mountjoy Garda Station; if such a decision will be reviewed in view of the rapidly increasing population trends throughout the north city areas of Dublin City; if steps will be initiated to obtain a new site or building for a Garda station to replace Mountjoy before a move is made to close this strategically important Garda station; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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84 Mr. Gregory asked the Minister for Defence if he will meet the two survivors of the Niemba ambush and attempt to resolve the remaining outstanding issues of concern to them.
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508 Mr. Gregory asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will consider the acquisition of a protected building (details supplied).
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210 Mr. Gregory asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will request a report from the Garda authorities on the issues raised in the correspondence (details supplied); and the action the Garda Síochána are taking to give protection to the residents concerned to curtail the intimidation, malicious damage and anti-social behaviour; the reason this policing issue is unresolved; and the reason Gardaí referred residents to this Deputy on a policing issue.
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163 Mr. Gregory asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if arrests have been made arising from vandalism and damage to property carried out in an area (details supplied) in Dublin 7 by a gang of youths; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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162 Mr. Gregory asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will ask the Garda authorities to report on the action they are taking to provide adequate protection to the residents of an area (details supplied) in Dublin 7 who are the victims of nightly anti-social behaviour and vandalism by groups of youths; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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451 Mr. Gregory asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food the number of snares laid by her Department officials to snare badgers in 2006; if her Department has received complaints that other wildlife and domestic animals are being caught or injured in these snares; if she will review this practice; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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442 Mr. Gregory asked the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he has received an application from areas (details supplied) for a pilot closed circuit television project; and when the funding will be made available in order that the project may proceed.
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418 Mr. Gregory asked the Minister for Transport the progress made on the request from residents in the Croke Park area for the introduction of residents only parking; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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312 Mr. Gregory asked the Minister for Health and Children the membership of the working group set up to examine the links between drug and alcohol policies; and if she will appoint a representative from the community and voluntary sector to the group in view of the fact that it was that sector that called for the establishment of the group.
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278 Mr. Gregory asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he has received an application from areas (details supplied) for a pilot closed circuit television project; and when the funding will be made available in order that the project may proceed.
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191 Mr. Gregory asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his response to the call from the ISPCA for the introduction of a ban on pit-bull terriers (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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126 Mr. Gregory asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if arrangements can be made for the renewal of the green card and Garda immigration card for a person (details supplied) in Dublin 1.
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3 Mr. Gregory asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the expansion and localisation of the activities of the Criminal Assets Bureau to target the assets of persons or gangs involved in drug crime in the communities hardest hit by drugs would be a significant measure to curtail the growth of drug gangs and drug crime; his plans to re-organise CAB to take on drug crime at local level; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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298 Mr. Gregory asked the Minister for Education and Science the circumstances in which her Department would lease land as a site for a school building; if there are schools built on leased land; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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204 Mr. Gregory asked the Minister for Finance if he will request the Office of Public Works to arrange the meeting with local residents in the Phibsboro area (details supplied).
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556 Mr. Gregory asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his Department has received submissions from Dublin City Council planning department to amend the current grant scheme to include grants for the restoration of buildings in the new pilot architectural conservation areas in Dublin City; if he will expedite consideration of this request to provide an incentive to residents to support the new ACA projects; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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538 Mr. Gregory asked the Minister for Defence the number of applicants to join the Defence Forces on the most recent occasion advertised; the number who were selected for interview; the number who were unsuccessful; if unsuccessful applicants may reapply on the next occasion; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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341 Mr. Gregory asked the Minister for Health and Children the criteria or limitations in place in terms of the respite carers accepted for children with autism.
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340 Mr. Gregory asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of families to whom payments for respite care for children with autism were made during 2005 and 2006.
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268 Mr. Gregory asked the Minister for Finance if he will request the Office of Public Works to provide a detailed report explaining their refusal to carry out dredging of the River Tolka between the Luke Kelly Bridge and the bridge at Alfie Byrne Road, Dublin 3 in view of the fact that this section has been a source of major flooding in the past; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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91 Mr. Gregory asked the Minister for Health and Children the reason she has not taken urgent action to ensure that nurses are treated equitably in hospitals here as regards their working week and their remuneration; her views on the fact that there is a 75% drain of nurses out of Ireland post graduation who are lost to this State due to the working conditions pertaining for them and who cost the State at least €80,000 to qualify; and her views on the fact that dialogue is urgently needed for a resolution of the situation.
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353 Mr. Gregory asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the information available to his Department regarding the EU requirement for the introduction of water meters into residential homes and the imposition of water charges on householders; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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523 Mr. Gregory asked the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding the application of a school (details supplied) in Dublin 7 for a new school building on a site at its present location; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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