200 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Transport if he will sanction the €53 million spend over five years in the economic plan put forward by the Mid-Western Regional Authority and other interests in the mid-west.
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145 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Finance if customs officials employ a sniffer dog at Shannon Airport; if so, the number of drug seizures and their total value the dog has been involved in; the length of time the dog has been employed by customs at Shannon; if no dog is employed at Shannon, when was the last time a sniffer dog was employed; the reason it was removed from duties; and the running costs associated with employing a sniffer dog on an annual basis.
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114 Mr. Sargent asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if Garda pensions are reduced by €60 per week for Gardaí who retired before 1993; if so, the reason for this; and if he has plans to alter same.
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75 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the warning issued by the Environmental Health Officers Association regarding the risk of skin cancer from sun beds; her plans to introduce legislation to have agreed age restrictions for sun bed use; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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70 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Health and Children the value of the land approximately to be given to private individuals to build private hospitals on public land; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the steps he will take to release the funds to Galway City and County Councils to upgrade their water treatment facilities; and if he will lift the staff embargo on local authority recruitment in the Galway area, Galway city having the lowest staffing per capita in the country, to ensure work is carried out urgently to avoid further damage to the health of people and to the economy of the region.
269 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the languages in which his Department’s telephone messages are recorded; and if his Department’s messages include a version in the Irish language.
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263 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Defence the languages in which his Department’s telephone messages are recorded; and if his Department’s messages include a version in the Irish language.
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241 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Education and Science the languages in which her Department’s telephone messages are recorded; and if her Department’s messages include a version in the Irish language.
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231 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food the languages in which her Department’s telephone messages are recorded; and if her Department’s messages include a version in the Irish language.
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227 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the languages in which his Department’s telephone messages are recorded; and if his Department’s messages include a version in the Irish language.
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223 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Transport the languages in which his Department’s telephone messages are recorded; and if his Department’s messages include a version in the Irish language.
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215 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the languages in which his Department’s telephone messages are recorded; and if his Department’s messages include a version in the Irish language.
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207 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the languages in which his Department’s telephone messages are recorded; and if his Department’s messages include a version in the Irish language.
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196 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the languages in which his Department’s telephone messages are recorded; and if his Department’s messages include a version in the Irish language.
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184 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the languages in which his Department’s telephone messages are recorded; and if his Department’s messages include a version in the Irish language.
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182 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the languages in which his Department’s telephone messages are recorded; and if his Department’s messages include a version in the Irish language.
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178 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Health and Children the training required by officials who inspect laboratories used for animal experiments; the number of tests carried out to date in 2007; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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177 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Health and Children if she will report on compliance with the requirement for restaurants and catering outlets to display the origin of meat sold; the numbers of businesses that have been found to infringe this requirement; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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162 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Health and Children the languages in which her Department’s telephone messages are recorded; and if her Department’s messages include a version in the Irish language.
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150 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Finance the languages in which his Department’s telephone messages are recorded; and if his Department’s messages include a version in the Irish language.
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143 Mr. Sargent asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the languages in which his Department’s telephone messages are recorded; and if his Department’s messages include a version in the Irish language.
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105 Mr. Sargent asked the Taoiseach the languages in which his Department’s telephone messages are recorded; and if his Department’s messages include a version in the Irish language.
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22 Mr. Sargent asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the costs incurred by himself and by Ministers of State at his Department on St. Patrick’s Day trips in 2007, including the cost for car or limousine hire; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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4 Mr. Sargent asked the Taoiseach if he will report on recent contacts with the British Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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613 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the reason Ireland has not alone failed, refused and neglected to ratify the Aarhus Convention in domestic law but has, in addition failed to implement the terms of the European Directive which seeks to impose the terms of the convention on countries of the EU and grant the benefit of the directive to those citizens and bodies of the general populace of the EU who might seek to invoke the terms of the convention against their native Governments, State bodies, provincial and regional bodies and companies across the territory of the EU.
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612 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the person he will be sending to represent Ireland at the seventh meeting of the parties to the Aarhus Convention in Geneva in May 2007, to which Ireland has signed up but not ratified; and the instructions he will give to the representative.
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430 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources his plans to include wind energy for grant aid under the greener homes scheme.
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227 Mr. Sargent asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason he issued a directive to bar secondary school students who are non-EU nationals from State funded schools in view of the small number of students involved; and if he will reconsider this decision and allow students currently attending State funded schools such as a school (details supplied) in County Dublin to finish their leaving certificate exams as the people affected cannot afford private schooling.
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98 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the mechanism he will use to arrange for the transfer of the transmission grid assets to Eirgrid; and the tripartite agreements that may have been in place between the Government, the ESB and the ESB unions regarding the future ownership of such assets.
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85 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the percentage of biofuel crops that have been supplied to date under Government support schemes which have been produced from raw materials sourced here; the percentage that have been imported from abroad; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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11 Mr. Sargent asked the Taoiseach if his Department is providing financial support for the planned Famine commemoration in Dublin on 27 May 2007 and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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178 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Transport the estimated deficit there will be each year on the Ennis to Athenry rail line according to the business case submitted to his Department by Irish Rail; his views on whether arising from the business case the new rail link will be loss making; and if his Department will provide the necessary funding to cover Irish Rail’s annual expenditure on the new route.
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43 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Education and Science if there are plans to implement the proposals by the Educate Together patron body for service level agreements to be drawn up by her Department and patron bodies as a means of ensuring adequate funding for setting up new schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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165 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on the objections by the EU to a US suggestion to push for speedy action on Burma at the United Nations Human Rights Council; the Government’s position on the issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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133 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will report on his recent meeting with Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Mr. Peter Hain.
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8 Mr. Sargent asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the European Council of 8 and 9 March 2007; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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949 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will report on gender balance at each grade in his Department and in agencies that come under the aegis of his Department.
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912 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Defence if he will report on gender balance at each grade in his Department and in agencies that come under the aegis of his Department.
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818 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Education and Science if she will report on gender balance at each grade in her Department and in agencies that come under the aegis of her Department.
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773 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Education and Science her views on allowing older and retired persons a role in the educational system, including teaching English as a second language, in exchange for pensions bonuses, where appropriate.
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714 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she will afford cats the same protection in law as dogs and require incidents of cruelty to be recorded and humane neutering of feral cats to be undertaken in the interest of animal welfare.
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712 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she will report on gender balance at each grade in her Department and in agencies that come under the aegis of her Department.
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668 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will report on gender balance at each grade in his Department and in agencies that come under the aegis of his Department.
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637 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Transport if he will report on gender balance at each grade in his Department and in agencies that come under the aegis of his Department.
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602 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will report on gender balance at each grade in his Department and in agencies that come under the aegis of his Department.
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592 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his plans for further raising the limit on earnings permitted by persons in receipt of the State pension.
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580 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will report on gender balance at each grade in his Department and in agencies that come under the aegis of his Department.
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559 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he will report on gender balance at each grade in his Department and in agencies that come under the aegis of his Department.
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