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Written Answers — Heritage Sites: Heritage Sites (29 Nov 2011)

Luke Flanagan: Question 314: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason the excavated foundations of the Swan Gate, Athenry, County Galway, have not been either moved to a new location at which they can be displayed, covered over as they had been for centuries or covered with toughened glass in order that they are visible [i]in situ[/i]; and the reason the roundabout which, while...

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (30 Nov 2011)

Luke Flanagan: Question 27: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will consider amending the Building Control Act 2007 by removing Part 3; whether he agrees that the term "architect" should not be applied exclusively to university-qualified architects, and that since architecture is a creative art form the term "architect" should not be exclusive to any one group,...

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (30 Nov 2011)

Luke Flanagan: Question 208: To ask the Minister for Health how persons with long-term illnesses such as epilepsy will be affected by the proposed charges for medical cards and the proposed increase in the charge for prescriptions from 50 cent to €2; the person who will eventually pay for such medicines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37802/11]

Written Answers — Telecommunications Services: Telecommunications Services (18 Jan 2012)

Luke Flanagan: Question 20: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will resolve the lack of broadband provision in the Moheraven area, Aughamore, County Leitrim; if he will make clear the reason persons of this area have been neglected by the national broadband scheme, forcing them to pay for a satellite broadband service which costs €100 to install and €300 per year...

Written Answers — Local Authority Staff: Local Authority Staff (24 Jan 2012)

Luke Flanagan: Question 419: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the reason a traffic warden (details supplied) in New Ross, County Wexford, was forced to retire from their position; the reason that position was then filled by a Garda who retired just one week earlier; the reason the position was not advertised; if this position was not subject to the employment embargo...

Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (26 Jan 2012)

Luke Flanagan: Question 26: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she is sincere in saying that budget 2012 protects the most vulnerable in our society when the cuts in the materials grant to the community employment scheme will imperil those schemes and those who depend on them for some income and as a way to engage with society. [4325/12]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (26 Jan 2012)

Luke Flanagan: Question 43: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider removing compensation awarded for damages from means assessment; if she will look into the case of a person (details supplied) who has been severely disabled from birth and who had damages awarded to them, for their future medical care and special needs care, assessed as means thus depriving them of their disability...

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (31 Jan 2012)

Luke Flanagan: Question 277: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will consider extending a career break for an employee of a local authority from three years to five years (details supplied) on the basis that it will save the Exchequer funds. [5535/12]

Written Answers — Rural Development: Rural Development (2 Feb 2012)

Luke Flanagan: Question 41: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will disclose the percentage of the €12.8 million made available to Roscommon Integrated Development Company that has been given out in grant aid to companies in its catchment area; and the number of jobs created by companies funded by the RIDC. [4107/12]

Written Answers — Disadvantaged Areas Scheme: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme (9 Feb 2012)

Luke Flanagan: Question 29: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views that the use of last years stocking rates as criteria for eligibility for entry to this years disadvantage areas scheme, DAS, is inequitable and a deliberate attempt to eradicate so called non-productive farmers; his further views that a farmers circumstances can change and that their stocking density may have...

Written Answers — Disadvantaged Areas Scheme: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme (9 Feb 2012)

Luke Flanagan: Question 31: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason he has removed horses from the criteria for disadvantaged area scheme; his views that this will impact the smaller farmer disproportionately and also that in the longer term the exclusion of horses from DAS assessment will reduce the size of the national horse herd and weaken our position as a renowned horse...

Written Answers — Medicinal Products: Medicinal Products (15 Feb 2012)

Luke Flanagan: Question 46: To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider making Sativex available on prescription through chemists here [8285/12]

Written Answers — Departmental Funding: Departmental Funding (21 Feb 2012)

Luke Flanagan: Question 294: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if, under sections 39 and 43 of the Competition Act 2002, he will increase the funding of the Competition Authority in view of the recent debate in Dáil Éireann whereby it emerged that due to lack of funding, the Competition Authority's ability to carry out its statutory and other functions is compromised; his views on...

Written Answers — Credit Availability: Credit Availability (22 Feb 2012)

Luke Flanagan: Question 19: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will clarify the categories of lending that have been included by AIB and Bank of Ireland in meeting the lending targets of €3.56 bn to small and medium enterprises demanded of them by him; if he will acknowledge that the banks have included farming stocking loans as new lending even though in the vast majority of cases those stocking...

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (22 Feb 2012)

Luke Flanagan: Question 23: To ask the Minister for Finance if a copy of the draft Central Bank (Regulation of Credit Unions) Bill has been sent to the EU, ECB or the IMF; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9850/12]

Written Answers — Motor Taxation: Motor Taxation (28 Feb 2012)

Luke Flanagan: Question 462: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will introduce a monthly instalment payment option for motor taxation, thus affording those who wish to tax their car for a year can do so by monthly instalments and can gain the benefit of the lower tax charge applied to the purchase of a full years car tax.; his views that the difference between the...

Written Answers — International Agreements: International Agreements (8 Mar 2012)

Luke Flanagan: Question 41: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government when the Aarhaus Convention will be brought into Irish law; if he will consider putting on hold all major projects until the convention is brought into Irish law, in view of the fact that this convention radically changes the environment under which citizens can contribute to debates on such projects; and if...

Written Answers — Ambulance Service: Ambulance Service (27 Mar 2012)

Luke Flanagan: Question 22: To ask the Minister for Health if he will instruct the Health Service Executive to develop a national transfer pool for paramedic staff which will enable the movement of paramedic staff between ambulance regions in view of the fact that, currently, such staff must resign their positions if they wish to apply to a vacancy in a region other than their own (details supplied); and...

Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (18 Apr 2012)

Luke Flanagan: Question 852: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will immediately move to halt the excavation of sand and gravel from the Esker at Raheenmore, Tyrrellspass, County Westmeath (details supplied); if he will explain the reason Westmeath County Council has failed to stop this activity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18504/12]

Written Answers — Tobacco Industry: Tobacco Industry (25 Apr 2012)

Luke Flanagan: Question 226: To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine the possibility of compelling manufacturers and importers of tobacco products to fulfil their duties under Article 6 Section 1 of the Tobacco Products Directive 2001/37/EC, transposed into Irish Law via the European Communities (Manufacture, Presentation and Sale of Tobacco Products) Regulations 2003 that is, submit the...