5 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if submissions have been received from South Dublin County Council regarding a swimming pool in Lucan since a previous parliamentary question from this Deputy of November 2004; the funding stream which exists for new swimming pool applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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131 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the proposed volunteer members of the Garda Síochána will receive full training before they commence their duties.
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92 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of gardaí in active service at the latest date for which figures are available.
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6 Mr. Sargent asked the Taoiseach if he will report on progress to date in implementing An Agreed Programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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386 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if persons (details supplied) or any party acting on its behalf submitted a forestry grant, premium application or any type of documentation in respect of the land or part thereof.
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385 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food the number of forestry grant applications approved for Údaras na Gaeltachta and in respect of each application to date of approval, area planted, planting grants, maintenance grants, premiums paid to date and an estimate of premiums payable in future years.
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159 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Transport when he intends to introduce legislation which will allow for the use of electronic tolling; if it will be possible to convert all existing toll plazas to such an electronic system; and the contracts for new tolling arrangements which are being designed on the basis that they will be collected electronically.
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30 Mr. Sargent asked the Taoiseach if he will elaborate on media reports that he has encouraged the Independent Monitoring Commission not to recommend penalties against Sinn Féin in its report; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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14 Mr. Sargent asked the Taoiseach if he will report on recent developments in the Northern Ireland peace process; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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154 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Finance his plans to provide tax relief to parents on payment of crèche fees in cases in which one child alone can cost €953.33 per month for crèche fees and parents are being forced out of the workforce as a result, particularly if they have a second child.
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45 Mr. Sargent asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will launch a public information campaign on the issue of the indoor environment and indoor pollution and the need to keep houses well ventilated; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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22 Mr. Sargent asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will examine the case of a person (details supplied); if she will review the procedures to prevent this traumatic situation being repeated in other circumstances; and if she will investigate whether action needs to be taken against those responsible for denying this person access to their child when the infant was alive.
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147 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the burden on growers resulting from development levies on plastic poly-tunnels which apply in some counties but not, for example, in County Kildare.
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120 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has plans to improve the collection and recycling of plastic in view of the large amount of plastic litter which is to be found in ditches around fields in which silage bale wrap has been used.
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9 Mr. Sargent asked the Taoiseach the details of the likely agenda for his next meeting with the social partners; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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404 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if the forestry grant application form will be altered to ensure that any sites which may impact on a view protected in the relevant county development plan is identified and so avoided.
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403 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she has performed any checks to assess the level of accuracy of the forestry grant applications in relation to the question which requires applicants to state whether it is within an area recorded by the county district development plans or the inventory of outstanding landscape; and if he will perform such checks in a representative number of cases.
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402 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food the number and extent of forestry grant applications approved in the past five years; the percentage of all approved applications this represents; in cases in which the application form states that the site is within an area recorded by the county or district development plans or the inventory of outstanding landscape; and if the information is not readily available, if she will analyse the application forms in order to answer this question.
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160 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the timetable he has for a solution to be put in place to the pollution that is coming from a tailing pond (details supplied); the analysis he has carried out to come to the view that the proposed solution from the mining company involved is conceptually acceptable to him; the projected cost of this solution; and the entity which will pay that cost.
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104 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources when he expects his proposed full-scale review of the energy market and the future structure of the ESB to be completed; the person who will carry out the review; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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9 Mr. Sargent asked the Taoiseach the discussions he had with the Chinese authorities during his recent visit to China on the issue of lifting the EU arms embargo; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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8 Mr. Sargent asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his discussions on human rights with the Chinese authorities during his recent visit to China; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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5 Mr. Sargent asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the outcome of the European Union summit of 16 and 17 December 2004; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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18 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Education and Science if a hands on approach is needed from her Department in relation to basic first aid for schools, in view of specifically the high risk environment that exists there and the dangers that inappropriate practices might be carried out if the matter is left up to the Health and Safety Authority without any circulars issued by her Department; if basic first aid training will be incorporated into benchmarking; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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9 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Education and Science the analysis which has been carried out regarding the impact on the ethos and language integrity of a school (details supplied) of trebling the number of classrooms in the school; the consultation which has taken place with the school in this regard; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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114 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the implications for his Department of the establishment of the new European external action service; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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110 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on whether the Government should apologise for the action of Taoiseach, Éamon de Valera, in offering his condolences on the death of Adolf Hitler at the German Embassy; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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239 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will report on his meeting with aid agencies on 4 January 2005 to discuss the aftermath of the tsunami in Asia; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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20 Mr. Sargent asked the Taoiseach if he will convene a meeting of the Ireland-America Economic Advisory Board when he next visits the United States; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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351 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will confirm that he had no prior knowledge of the recent eight EU infringement proceedings against Ireland and only learned of them through the Commission press release, as he stated to the media; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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347 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his plans for the management of the Burren National Park; and if there are plans for park and ride visitor facilities.
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335 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if there will be a consultation period for the draft of the statutory instrument implementing EEC 2002/4 before implementation of same.
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334 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the date on which he intends to publish the statutory instrument implementing EEC 2002/4, Access to Information on the Environment.
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333 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will establish a 24-hour manned freefone service similar to that established in Northern Ireland for members of the public to report environmental damaging activities, many of which occur outside normal business hours.
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332 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has taken steps to implement the recommendation of the European Commission following its examination of the environmental impact assessment of the Carrickmines M50 motorway; that when a project involves possible multiple archaeological impacts, there be an assessment of the relative significance of the sites affected so that decision-makers are alerted to likely hot spots.
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331 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has taken steps to implement the recommendation of the European Commission following its examination of the environmental impact assessment of the Carrickmines M50 motorway; that an adequate risk management and contingency approach to all impacts, including when appropriate, provision for further proactive investigation, such as trial trenching be adopted during the environmental impact assessment process to reduce uncertainties and to allow for design flexibility.
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330 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has taken steps to implement the recommendation of the European Commission following its examination of the environmental impact assessment of the Carrickmines M50 motorway; that to ensure the fullest involvement possible of the wider archaeological community in environmental impact assessment procedures, all environmental impact assessments be made available on the internet and if so the date of implementation.
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329 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his policy on the issue of giving development consent to projects which will cause new or continuing breaches of the urban wastewater treatment directive.
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238 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if P1230873 is a valid herd number; if it was allocated to a person (details supplied) or any other person; and the reason the number P1230873 and the phrase containing this person’s name appears on a record.
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237 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food the reference number of the forestry-related FOI appeals in respect of which her Department is awaiting receipt from the Department of Communications, Marine and Natural Resources of two sets of records.
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236 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food the reference number, date and a summary of each of the five outstanding forestry-related appeals with the Office of the Information Commissioner; and the date on which the commissioner first sought information from her Department or the Department of Communications, Marine and Natural Resources.
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235 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food the number of times in 2002, 2003 and 2004, respectively, on which her Department sought informal third-party observations by phone in respect of FOI requests or FOI internal reviews.
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234 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she will provide a copy of the record of the telephone conversation and any observations and reports sought by phone on 7 October 2004 in a case (details supplied) by the officer involved or any other officer; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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233 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food the basis on which the seeking of the informal third party observations are conducted under the Freedom of Information Acts, such as that sought by phone on 7 October 2004 in a case (details supplied).
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184 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to an apparent deficiency in the administrative processes of the Employment Appeals Tribunal (details supplied); if, in view of the fact that the Office of the Ombudsman has no powers to investigate or make recommendations in relation to this apparent deficiency, he will take steps to rectify it; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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73 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Finance the anticipated inflationary effect of price increases approved by the Government since the start of 2005.
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