119 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs Ireland’s and the EU’s role in election observation in view of the fact that the Zimbabwean Government has silenced another independent voice (details supplied) on 1 March 2005 and that this represents further evidence that the 31 March 2004 elections can be neither free nor fair; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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107 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the way in which Ireland will respond to the likely eventuality that the elections on 31 March 2005 in Zimbabwe will not be in accordance with international and SADC principles for the holding of free and fair elections; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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8 Mr. Sargent asked the Taoiseach if he has raised the issue of the British Government’s failure to co-operate with the Barron inquiry into the Dublin and Monaghan bombings in his recent meetings with the British Prime Minister; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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5 Mr. Sargent asked the Taoiseach when the last meeting of the high level group on terrorism under his Department last met; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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167 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his views on whether Irish citizens without individual means, property or pension but who are now elderly having been home-makers in the 1950s and not in a position to accumulate stamps should be entitled to a State pension in accordance with the unequivocal intent of Article 42.2.1 of the Constitution; the plans he has to ensure that the hundreds of elderly Irish mothers who now find themselves without pension or individual means or property are to be given a fair pension.
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178 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she will report on the development of the bio-fuel sector in agriculture here and the potential for replacement employment following the decision of company (details supplied) to close the Carlow sugar factory.
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137 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she will report on the development of the bio-fuel sector in agriculture here and the potential for replacement employment following the decision of a company (details supplied) to close the Carlow sugar factory.
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68 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if her attention has been drawn to the fact that digestate from anaerobic digestion may be spread on land under certain conditions but that a statutory instrument here still prevents spreading of digestate; and if she will consider the case being put by farmers such as a person (details supplied) in County Waterford who wrote to her Department on this matter in early January 2005.
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66 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she will report on the acreage of potatoes grown here in 1970, 1980, 1990, 2000 and in the latest year for which figures are available, and if she will take action in the breach of contract between a company (details supplied) and growers in north County Dublin which has put the sale of 4,500 tonnes of stored potatoes in doubt.
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11 Mr. Sargent asked the Taoiseach the progress made by the cross-departmental group on infrastructure and public private partnership; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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1 Mr. Sargent asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with the Border, Midlands and Western Regional Assembly in December 2004; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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428 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when he intends to appoint a chairperson for Comhar, the National Sustainable Development Partnership; and the procedure he intends to use for selection of the chairperson.
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278 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if any grantee has been or is likely to be requested to refund forestry grants or premium payments arising out of the investigations which led to the deductions by the European Commission on the closure of a programme in respect of which there were alleged irregularities in implementing forestry measures in the programming period 1994 to 1999.
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277 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if any member of staff was reprimanded or is likely to be reprimanded in any way due to the deductions made by the European Commission on the closure of a programme in respect of which there were alleged irregularities in implementing forestry measures in the programming period 1994 to 1999.
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276 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food the amount deducted by the European Commission on the closure of a programme in respect of which there were alleged irregularities in implementing forestry measures in the programming period 1994 to 1999; if she will provide details of the allegations and the cases to which they refer; if the Commission imposed penalties; the amount deducted from the final payment partly as a result of allegations of irregularities brought to the attention of the Commission by a private citizen; and the reason for other deductions.
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275 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food when, the way in which and the person by whom her Department was advised that a person (details supplied) and their spouse had withdrawn their pre-planting grant application.
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274 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if, when processing the planting grant application of a person (details supplied), her Department used records created in the processing of a pre-planting grant application of another person and their spouse or any other person or party acting on their behalf; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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273 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if the registered folio and folio maps, title deeds and registered lease documents showed that a person (details supplied) was the registered owner of the lands prior to the award of the forestry planting grant.
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272 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food the date and amount of the forestry planting grant awarded to a person (details supplied).
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271 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food the date on which her Department received the registered folio and folio maps, title deeds and registered lease documents as required for the processing of the award of the forestry planting grant to a person (details supplied).
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261 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Transport if the DTO advisory committee is waiting for him to appoint members to the committee; if so, when he intends to make such appointments; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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260 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Transport when the DTO advisory committee last met; when it is next expected to meet; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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259 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Transport if his attention has been drawn to proposals for alterations to the 31 and 31B bus services to Howth; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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258 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Transport if his attention has been drawn to the proposals for alterations to the DART service to Howth; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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127 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Defence his plans for the part development or sale of Cathal Brugha Barracks in Rathmines; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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124 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Defence if the latest public statement by a female recruit of Army bullying is accurate; his Department’s policy on bullying; 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 the findings of the recent report he commissioned by Mr. Dermot Quigley; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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133 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will report on the actual number of women aged 70 and over who have no independent means, property or pension; if he will consider in view of this unacceptable situation, the introduction of a guaranteed basic income which would be an entitlement on the basis of being a citizen of the State, as recommended by the Conference of Religious of Ireland.
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83 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on whether there are benefits in bringing in proposals requiring transparency of the levels of executive pay within State owned or publically quoted companies; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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52 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department has plans to employ more labour inspectors and to give labour inspectors greater powers; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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88 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he has progressed his plan for part of the rent supplement budget to be used for the purchase of housing.
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101 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the way in which additional social welfare payments were made to 47,000 pensioners; and his views on whether the method of repayment sought was properly handled.
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14 Mr. Sargent asked the Taoiseach the number of his staff who have applied to relocate outside Dublin under the decentralisation programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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8 Mr. Sargent asked the Taoiseach the number of files withheld by his Department from the National Archives in respect of 1974; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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4 Mr. Sargent asked the Taoiseach the costs to his Department during 2004 in relation to the Moriarty tribunal; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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286 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if her Department has found a lacuna in the Freedom of Information Acts; if she will provide a copy of the record of the manner in which any such lacuna has been brought to the attention of the Department of Finance and the Attorney General.
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285 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she will provide a copy of the guidelines received by her Department from the FOI central policy unit of the Department of Finance advising all decision-makers to consult any third parties informally when deliberating over the release of records involving these parties.
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284 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if, in addition to the informal third party observations sought by telephone on 7 October 2004, there was other informal oral or written contact with a person (details supplied), her spouse or any other party concerning FOI/04/176; the reason for any such contact and the outcome thereof.
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283 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if, in view of evidence given by persons (details supplied) at the Mahon tribunal, she will re-examine the entitlement of a person to farmer forestry premium payments; and if she will suspend the payment of further premiums pending the outcome of such review.
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272
D’fhiafraigh Mr. Sargent den Aire Gnóthaí Pobail, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta cén dul chun cinn atá déanta ag a Roinn maidir le treoirlínte a aontú leis an Roinn Comhshaoil, Oidhreachta agus Rialtais Áitiúil i dtaobh chosaint na Gaeilge sa Ghaeltacht faoin gcóras pleanála agus an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas ina thaobh.
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271
D’fhiafraigh Mr. Sargent den Aire Gnóthaí Pobail, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta cur síos ar an mbaint shonrach a bhí aige le dréachtú litreach, a cuireadh chuig Comhairle Chontae na Gaillimhe in éindí leis an iarratas pleanála (04/5509), ag iarraidh nach mbeadh ar an bhforbróir ráiteas tionchair teanga a sholáthar maidir le hiarratas ar óstán a thógáil sa Spidéal, mar gur ‘commercial development’ a bhí i gceist agus an bhfuil an dearcadh faoin ngá atá le ráiteas tionchair teanga a sholáthar maidir le hiarratais pleanála, mar atá léirithe sa litir thuasluaite, ag teacht le polasaí an Rialtais agus a Roinne maidir le cosaint na Gaeilge sa Ghaeltacht ar fhorbairtí a d’fhéadfadh tionchar diúltach a bheith acu ar sheasamh na Gaeilge sa Ghaeltacht.
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270
D’fhiafraigh Mr. Sargent den Aire Gnóthaí Pobail, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta céard é dearcadh a Roinne maidir le soláthar ráiteas tionchair teanga do na húdaráis phleanála i gcás iarratas pleanála ina bhfuil le forbairtí ar nós Óstáin, Ionaid Siopadóireachta, Ionaid Siamsaíochta etc. a thógáil sa Ghaeltacht.
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269
D’fhiafraigh Mr. Sargent den Aire Gnóthaí Pobail, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta céard é polasaí an Aire agus cur chuige a Roinne maidir le haighneachtaí a chur faoi bhráid na n-údarás pleanála i gcás iarratais a d’fhéadfadh tionchar a imirt ar an nGaeilge mar theanga phobail sa Ghaeltacht.
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268
D’fhiafraigh Mr. Sargent den Aire Gnóthaí Pobail, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta céard iad na hiarratais phleanála a bhfuil aighneachtaí ina leith curtha ag a Roinn faoi bhráid nan-údarás pleanála maidir le cosaint na Gaeilge sa Ghaeltacht mar theanga phobail ó tháinig an tAcht um Pleanáil agus Forbairt 2000 i bhfeidhm.
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267
D’fhiafraigh Mr. Sargent den Aire Gnóthaí Pobail, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta céard iad na hiarratais pleanála a fuair a Roinn óúdaráis phleanála, a bhfuil ceantracha Gaeltachta faoina gcúram, ó tháinig Ionstraim Reachtúil Uimh. 600 de 2001 i bhfeidhm.
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D’fhiafraigh Mr. Sargent den Aire Gnóthaí Pobail, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta an ndéanfaidh sé cur síos ar thionchar na rialachán a rinne sé a bhaineann le comharthaí bóithre, fógairtí béil, stáiseanóireacht agus le fógraí i gcoitinne, agus an bhfuil feabhas suntasach ar mhéid agus ar chaighdeán na Gaeilge a bhíonn le feiscint mar a raibh sé ag súil leis.
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D’fhiafraigh Mr. Sargent den Aire Gnóthaí Pobail, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta an ndéanfaidh sé cur síos ar an easaontas atá ar siúl, de réir nuachtán, idir Foras na Gaeilge agus roinnt eagras Gaeilge, agus an nglacfaidh sé ról cabhrach chun réiteach a fháil ar an aighneas seo gan mhoill.
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