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Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 1 February 2005
21 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Finance the status of review talks on the growth and stability pact. [2596/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 January 2005
182 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the amendments to the Firearms Acts which he intends to introduce via the Criminal Justice Bill 2004, including those amendments to be announced on Committee Stage, will not render illegal or unlicenceable those pistols needed to compete in the Olympic Games that is, air pistols and .22 calibre pistols, in view of his statement in Dáil Éireann on 26 February 2004 that competitive target shooters are not a threat to the public safety. [2323/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 January 2005
181 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of serious crimes (details supplied) using firearms which took place during 2003 or during the latest year for which figures are available; the number of these which were carried out with legally held firearms; the number with previously legally held firearms which had been stolen from their owners; and the number carried out with firearms which were not legally held at any time here. [2322/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 January 2005
71 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she will report on the work of the working group to develop a national strategy for the co-existence of genetically modified food and other crops; and if she will identify interested parties which made submissions to the working group. [1934/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 January 2005
41 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if her attention has been drawn to the statement by the European Food Safety Authority that it saw no risk to health from the use in food production of correctly processed category 2 and 3 animal by-products; if she will re-examine the basis on which her Department informed all organic waste recycling plants that processed products may not be used as a fertiliser for the production of food products; and her views on the need to take on board principles of sustainability and the need to avoid compostable organic waste going to landfill or incineration. [1933/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 January 2005
1233 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Education and Science if she has plans to avert the closure of Dunsink Observatory; her views on whether the important buildings will be liable to vandalism when it is not occupied full time; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1898/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 January 2005
1232 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the fact that it is common practice for schools to direct that no first aid be applied in the event of an injury to children, that schools are refusing to administer the very basic application of antiseptic and sterile dressing due to litigation fears and that in a great many cases no first aid kits are kept or maintained; and if she has plans to give teachers the basics in first aid training and to ensure that first aid kits are maintained and accessible in every classroom in the country. [1897/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 January 2005
822 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Education and Science if she will reconsider the financial burden being put on schools which are now required to pay for collection of bins by local authorities; and if this cost will be offset by making it refundable from her Department to avoid adding to the financial burden which requires extensive fund raising on behalf of many schools in the country. [34307/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 January 2005
619 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if a company (details supplied) that owns a quarry at a location (details supplied), which received grants from Údarás na Gaeltachta despite not being in the Gaeltacht, will be asked to repay the grant money, even if it was granted in error by An tÚdarás, in the same way that social welfare recipients who recently received double payments in error were asked to pay the money back and in view of the fact that no other State body would have granted money due to the fact that it is not policy to grant money to quarries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1908/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 January 2005
593 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Transport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a new hydrogen refuelling plant for buses is being built in Hornchurch, England, as part of an EU initiative for buses; if there are plans for a similar plant here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1896/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 January 2005
416 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if it is Government policy to support the view of the energy regulator on wind energy development; if he is aware that the largest wind energy company here has decided not to build any more wind farms; if he will allow a situation to develop whereby Ireland is the only country in Europe with no Government support for wind energy projects; the Government’s views on the regulator’s comments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1435/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 January 2005
308 Mr. Sargent asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the results of a study in New Zealand on a breathing method (details supplied) as a treatment for asthma; her plans to investigate the merits of the treatment and its application here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1895/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 January 2005
111 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Defence the new major military equipment which will be acquired by the Defence Forces in 2005; the estimated costs and purposes of these investments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1527/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 January 2005
130 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Defence his views on an item in the Defence Estimates for 2005, that is, costs arising directly from Ireland’s participation in the EU’s European Security and Defence Policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1528/05]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 January 2005
14 Mr. Sargent asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the procedures in his Department for the use of the Government jet and other Air Corps aircraft; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34607/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 January 2005
12 Mr. Sargent asked the Taoiseach the number of freedom of information requests received by his Department during 2004; the way in which this compares with 2003; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34606/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 January 2005
6 Mr. Sargent asked the Taoiseach if he will make a statement on the recent work of the National Economic and Social Development Office. [34605/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 January 2005
5 Mr. Sargent asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the National Centre for Partnership and Performance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34604/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 16 December 2004
7 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to Irish companies that have traded in dual-use goods with organisations that are based in states that have been the subject of resolutions by the UN Commission on Human Rights in the course of the past ten years; and if he will supply details of such transactions. [33855/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 December 2004
66 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he has recently met the Human Rights Commission on the expectation of that group that it should vet Government legislation. [33474/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 December 2004
81 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the measures which have been provided in budget 2005 in relation to carers. [33475/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 December 2004
10 Mr. Sargent asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the meeting of the cross-departmental team on infrastructure and public private partnership in November 2004; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33157/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 December 2004
6 Mr. Sargent asked the Taoiseach if his Department has made arrangements to provide assistance to certain members of Dáil Éireann; the nature of that assistance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33156/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 December 2004
3 Mr. Sargent asked the Taoiseach the appointments he has made to boards of State agencies since May 2002; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32415/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 December 2004
268 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food the changes in policy since the publication in 1996 of Growing for the Future: a Strategic Plan for the Development of the Forestry Sector in Ireland, which will form the basis of Ireland’s application for forestry funding 2006-2012. [33328/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 December 2004
267 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she can give an assurance that the review and appraisal of Ireland’s forestry development strategy by a company (details supplied) commissioned by her predecessor and presented in September 2004 will inform the negations with the European Commission for forestry funding under CAP 2006 — 2012; and the implications of any changes for the forestry sector. [33327/04]]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 December 2004
266 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she will make available to the public the statistical breakdown distinguishing between afforestation on peat soils and those planted on mineral soils according to the grant application forms as per her recent reply to this Deputy. [33326/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 December 2004
78 D’fhiafraigh Mr. Sargent den Aire Gnóthaí Pobail, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta cad é polasaí a Roinne i leith nuachtán laethúil Gaeilge a chur ar fáil; agus cad a dhéanfaidh sé i gcomhthéacs na hagóide ó pholaiteoirí frith-Ghaeilge atá ag iarraidh deireadh a chur le maoiniú an nuachtáin Lá a chaill dhá oibrí agus lá foilsitheoireachta le déanaí dá bharr seo. [33276/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 December 2004
77 D’fhiafraigh Mr. Sargent den Aire Gnóthaí Pobail, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta cén dul chun cinn atá déanta maidir le rialacháin a ullmhú i dtaobh úsáid agus caighdeán na Gaeilge ar chomharthaíocht bóthair, ar stáiseannóireacht agus i bhfógairtí ó bhéal. [33277/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 December 2004
40 D’fhiafraigh Mr. Sargent den Aire Gnóthaí Pobail, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta an bhfuil sé ar an eolas faoi chairéal i mBaile na hAille, Contae na Gaillimhe (sonraí tugtha); comhlacht a fuair deontais ó Údarás na Gaeltachta in ainneoin nach bhfuil sé sa Ghaeltacht agus in ainneoin go bhfuair An Bord Pleanála amach go raibh sé ag feidhmiú i gcoinne dlí pleanála; gur chuir Comhairle Chontae na Gaillimhe fógra dlí chuige i mí Feabhra 2003 agus an bhfuil sé i gceist ag an Aire an t-airgead Stáit a tugadh don chomhlacht seo a fháil ar ais de bharr na neamhrialtachtaí seo. [33487/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 December 2004
12 Mr. Sargent asked the Taoiseach the number of meetings there have been of the Cabinet sub-committee examining the future of Aer Lingus. [32414/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 December 2004
6 Mr. Sargent asked the Taoiseach if he will make a statement on the Barron report into the bombings and killings in 1972 and 1973 in Dublin, Cavan and Donegal. [30930/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 December 2004
3 Mr. Sargent asked the Taoiseach the issues to be addressed in the new open dialogue announced between the Government and the churches and faith communities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32446/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 December 2004
42 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has plans to introduce a returnable deposit on beverage containers. [32802/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 December 2004
30 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has proposals to introduce the right to vote for prisoners. [32803/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 December 2004
169 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has satisfied himself that the regional planning guidelines will ensure that new development will accord with the principles of sustainable development. [32804/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 December 2004
167 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will consider the threat of myopathy for the hare species, which is a stress induced condition; and if he will end licences for hare coursing to minimise the threat. [29372/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 December 2004
166 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will report on the criteria and methods used in licensing the taking of frogs from the wild to be used in vivisection; and if he will revoke this licence. [29380/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 December 2004
37 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if same sex relationships will be recognised for the purposes of allowing partners living outside the State to enter for the purpose of family reunification; and if he will examine the situation in the UK in order to improve the situation here. [32586/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 December 2004
27 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the details of the evidence to which he referred on a television programme (details supplied) regarding the effectiveness of mandatory minimum sentencing in reducing crime; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32587/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 December 2004
1 Mr. Sargent asked the Taoiseach the reason the CSO no longer publishes figures for electricity generating station output; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30927/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 7 December 2004
95 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Transport the involvement he has taken in the preparation of the report of the national task force on obesity, due to be published in January 2005; and his views on the notion that policy should be obesity proofed to ensure that decisions taken by separate Departments do not contribute to weight problems in society. [32401/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 7 December 2004
60 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Transport the guidelines he provides to local authorities on the standard of pedestrian crossing facilities; his views on the fact that certain pedestrian crossing signals in Dublin city have a four minute waiting time between the pressing of the pedestrian crossing button and a resulting change in the lights and that the average maximum waiting time for pedestrian lights to turn green is close to two minutes; and the standards which apply with regard to the distances that pedestrians have to travel from recognised bus stops on roads such as the N11 before having a safe facility to cross the road. [32400/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 7 December 2004
17 Mr. Sargent asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32413/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 7 December 2004
10 Mr. Sargent asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent contacts with the British Prime Minister in relation to the peace process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30932/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 7 December 2004
9 Mr. Sargent asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent contacts with the political parties in Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30931/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 2 December 2004
208 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food the dates on which a person (details supplied) in County Mayo, applied for a herd number. [31943/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 2 December 2004
207 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she has received all records from other Departments in order that forestry related appeals to the Office of the Information Commissioner can be concluded shortly; if the records have not been received, the most recent date on which they were requested; and the response to date. [31942/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 2 December 2004
206 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food the dates on and the means by which her Department sought third party observations in respect of FOI/04/176. [31941/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 2 December 2004
205 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if the Forest Service will refuse grant applications for afforestation on peatbogs, in view of the fact that the recent European Environmental Agency report states that 98,519 hectares have been planted on them between 1990 and 2000. [31940/04]