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Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 March 2006
46 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the full cost to the State of the recent deportation by air of 13 Chinese nationals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9791/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 March 2006
40 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the steps taken by the 26 Garda officers and four Garda sergeants who accompanied the 13 Chinese deportees on 21 February 2006 to ensure their fair treatment by Chinese authorities on arrival in Beijing; if he is satisfied that these people will not be subjected to cruel or unfair treatment in the aftermath of their deportation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9792/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 March 2006
210 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his plans to address the predicted local authority funding shortfall identified by the Indecon report. [9774/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 March 2006
82 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the action he intends to take on the working group recommendations on regulating breeding establishments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9533/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 March 2006
68 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on using his power under section 19(3) of the Planning and Development Act 2001 to draft regulations which would ensure that all major developments in a designated area of a local area plan be subjected to environmental impact assessments in accordance with Strategic Environmental Assessment Regulations 2004 including those developments that had been considered in previous local area plans which pre-dated the strategic environmental assessment regulations 2004 and therefore were not subjected to environmental impact assessments. [9534/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 March 2006
7 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will report on the implementation of the national climate change strategy in view of the comments by the EU Environment Commissioner, Mr. Stavros Dimas, in Dublin on 2 March 2006 that climate change, not terrorism, is the biggest threat facing humanity. [9773/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 7 March 2006
62 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Transport his views on whether the current system of reporting road accidents does not provide people with the information necessary to ascertain the causes of accidents and that there is an urgent need to implement a new system of detailed categorisation to tackle the ever-growing tragedy of road accidents. [9211/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 7 March 2006
9 Mr. Sargent asked the Taoiseach if he has received an agenda for the European Council’s March 2006 meeting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6400/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 2 March 2006
92 Mr. Sargent asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the progress made to date on the implementation of the recommendations of the task force on obesity; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8601/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 2 March 2006
13 Mr. Sargent asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the cost to the State of the elimination of the 2% health levy for the new over-70s medical card; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8602/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 1 March 2006
15 Mr. Sargent asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet sub-committee on drugs and social inclusion last met. [6399/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 1 March 2006
10 Mr. Sargent asked the Taoiseach when the task force on active citizenship last met; if he will report on the progress of the task force; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6398/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 1 March 2006
2 Mr. Sargent asked the Taoiseach his Department’s legislative priorities for the remainder of the 29th Dáil; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1234/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 28 February 2006
364 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food the source of her information regarding the New Zealand flatworm (details supplied) that indicated that the feared effects of flatworm populations had not occurred; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7806/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 28 February 2006
115 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Finance if his Department instructs the Commissioner of Public Works to consult local authorities to ensure that they can obtain requisite planning permission before buying property for State projects; if this happened in the case of a hotel (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7940/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 28 February 2006
52 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Finance the public bodies which remain excluded from the freedom of information legislation; his plans to extend the remit of the legislation to include them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7941/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 28 February 2006
11 Mr. Sargent asked the Taoiseach the implications of decentralisation for his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1241/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 28 February 2006
8 Mr. Sargent asked the Taoiseach the cost to date in 2006 to his Department of the Moriarty tribunal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3417/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 28 February 2006
3 Mr. Sargent asked the Taoiseach the appointments made by him to State boards and agencies under his aegis since June 2002; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3416/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 February 2006
18 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Defence if his attention has been drawn to criticism by Comhairle Fo-Thuinn, the Irish Underwater Council, of the Naval Service’s diving capability following the Rising Sun , Wexford fishing tragedy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7487/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 February 2006
158 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the Government’s view as to whether it has a responsibility under international law to ensure Ireland does not serve indirectly as a link in US extraordinary renditions where planes transit through Irish territory en route to or returning from such missions; the Government’s view of the likely implication for Ireland’s duties under international law of the arrival at Shannon Airport of a plane (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7114/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 February 2006
70 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the occasions on which he has raised the issue of human rights violations at the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay with the US Administration; if he will be raising with the US Administration the recent UN Commission on Human Rights report which calls for the closure of Guantanamo highlighting the human rights abuses at Guantanamo, including torture; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7113/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 February 2006
13 Mr. Sargent asked the Taoiseach if he will report on progress to date in 2006 in implementing the recommendation of the OECD report Regulatory Reform in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3415/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 February 2006
5 Mr. Sargent asked the Taoiseach the files which were released recently by his Department under the National Archives Act 1986; the files pertaining to 1975 which were withheld by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3414/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 February 2006
458 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Transport if he envisages that in accordance with the guidelines he has issued in respect of the application of a special speed limit of 30 km/h, local authorities can properly designate 30 km/h speed limits in new areas, to take effect as soon as the area is opened to the public or taken in charge or declared a public road, or if the guidelines are intended to prevent such decisions to designate in advance of construction. [6558/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 February 2006
402 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his Department has been contacted by the Council of Europe’s Commissioner for Human Rights, Mr. Alvaro Gil-Robles, or other representatives of the Council of Europe, regarding the illegal transportation of prisoners through Shannon Airport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1232/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 February 2006
152 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if there will be reduction in the mackerel quota available to the fleet here in 2006 as a result of the alleged under reporting of mackerel landings by Irish vessels at the Scottish port of Peterhead in recent years. [6750/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 February 2006
121 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he was able to raise concerns at the recent European Council meeting regarding the lack of effective quota information in relation to foreign sea fishing boats being available to naval services in the policing of the Common Fisheries Policy; and if he received a commitment to a change in Common Fisheries Policy regulations in this regard. [6749/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 February 2006
6 Mr. Sargent asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the progress made by the cross-departmental team on infrastructure and public-private partnerships; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6397/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 February 2006
2 Mr. Sargent asked the Taoiseach the duties and responsibilities of special political advisers appointed by him; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6396/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 16 February 2006
284 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the month in which the draft management plan for the Burren National Park will be published, as part of the programme of publishing draft management plans for the State’s national parks; and if progress has been made in identifying visitor facilities for the national park. [6232/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 16 February 2006
240 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the annual operating costs over each of the past five years of the Government-run direct provision centre at Knockalisheen and the initial capital outlay; the number of asylum seekers who have been accommodated at the centre to date in 2006; the number currently being accommodated; and the average daily numbers accommodated in 2004 and 2005. [6230/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 16 February 2006
239 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of privately-run direct provision centres for asylum seekers in the mid-west; and if he will provide a table of the number of asylum seekers who are housed in each centre and the amount paid to each operator of the centres over each of the past five years. [6229/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 16 February 2006
182 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food the reason guidelines have not been made available to the farmers affected in view of the fact that the nitrates directive is now law; the position of farmers in relation to the law; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6241/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 16 February 2006
171 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Transport if he will elaborate on his reply to Question No. 872 of 25 of January 2006 on honouring the commitment that Shannon and Cork Airports will not be burdened by debt when they become independent; the accumulated debts of Shannon and Cork Airports; if he will clarify what he means in stating that the capital structures of each of the State airports is subject to determining the optimum mechanisms for allocating airport assets among the three airports, having regard to the capital maintenance rules and other provisions of the Companies Acts. [6244/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 16 February 2006
170 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Transport the progress on reopening the Ennis to Athenry rail line; if Iarnród Éireann or the competent body responsible will be requested to provide a schedule of work with deadlines to ensure the 2008 opening date; if a regular scheduled train link will be running between Limerick and Athenry on that date; if not when; the other stops including Ennis which will be opened on the route; if provision is being made to provide a link with Shannon Airport; the arrangement which will be in place to allow connection to Galway prior to the opening of the new Athenry-Galway link in 2009. [6227/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 16 February 2006
149 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when the implementation of his new mandate for Shannon Development will commence; if talks are complete between Shannon Development trade unions and his Department regarding clarification of the new mandate; if the company will still have a role in the promotion of the Shannon Free Zone; if the company has lodged its corporate plan with his Department; and if he will make same available. [6243/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 16 February 2006
141 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if his Department has received correspondence from promoters of the new Cliffs of Moher visitor centre, Clare County Council, regarding the €4 million shortfall that has emerged in the €32 million project; his plans to assist in meeting the shortfall in view of the strategic importance of the project to the Irish tourism market; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6231/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 16 February 2006
63 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food the reason guidelines are not being made available to the farmers affected in view of the fact that the nitrates directive is now law; if an explanation will be given to farmers as to their position in law; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5968/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 16 February 2006
54 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food the reason there is a delay in grants for farmers to equip themselves with slurry storage and other necessary means to prevent pollution in view of the fact that the nitrates directive is now law; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5969/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 16 February 2006
5 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food the value of the potato seed industry here, including separately domestic sales and export sales; if her Department has carried out a study to assess the impact of the proposed genetically modified potato trial on consumer confidence in view of the fact that cross-contamination with genetically modified pollen would not be detected until after an affected non-genetically modified potato crop has been put on the market; and her views on the BASF plan to test genetically modified potatoes in County Meath. [6240/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 February 2006
260 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Education and Science her views on the current levels of commercial sponsorship in schools, such as highlighted by the commercial free education campaign; her plans to ban such schemes; the steps she will take to ensure that schools do not feel obliged to participate in such schemes out of financial necessity; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5846/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 February 2006
69 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Education and Science her views on the need for new residential areas to have locally-based school capacity in tandem with new housing; and if she will work with local authorities such as Fingal County Council to arrange for the simultaneous provision of housing and educational facilities in a way which allows for maximum community use of such facilities to the benefit of schools involved and the wider communities they serve. [5845/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 February 2006
7 Mr. Sargent asked the Taoiseach if there are constitutional referenda envisaged in 2006; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3413/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 February 2006
6 Mr. Sargent asked the Taoiseach the Government’s response to the Report of the All-Party Oireachtas Committee on the Constitution on the family; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3412/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 February 2006
610 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the progress being made in putting an end to the financial burden being placed on residents in new housing developments facing large fees from management companies when such developments ought to be taken in charge by local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4965/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 February 2006
371 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the grants available to householders to install renewable energies; and his plans in this regard. [5388/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 February 2006
217 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when his Department will publish a review of the national climate change strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5351/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 February 2006
196 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his Department will implement a code of conduct to recommend the principles to which local authorities should adhere in their purchasing and selling of property. [5352/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 February 2006
34 Mr. Sargent asked the Taoiseach when he next expects to meet the US President Mr. George W Bush; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3411/06]