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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Conditions (6 Nov 2012)

Luke Flanagan: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if farmers in special areas of conservation designated lands have any priority in accessing the agri-environmental options scheme; if so, the weighting that SAC status is given in assessing applicants; in view of the restrictions placed on farm activities in SAC designated lands and the high degree of investment that farmers had to make...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (6 Nov 2012)

Luke Flanagan: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way we arrived at a situation where Bus Éireann no longer has to live up to a Public Service Requirement; the reason expressway bus routes were designated as commercial in the first instance and now that they are being abandoned on commercially criteria; what he will instruct Bus Éireann and the National Transport Authority to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Care Funding (14 Nov 2012)

Luke Flanagan: To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in County Galway has no allocated funding under the health care system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50333/12]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Payments (20 Nov 2012)

Luke Flanagan: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there are funds within his Department to make single farm payments; if he will confirm that he has had hundreds of calls to the disadvantaged payments section of his Department regarding the delay in payments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51380/12]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Domestic Violence (20 Nov 2012)

Luke Flanagan: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason abused men who deal with an organisation (details supplied) are forced to deal with women when the women's refuge do not even let men near their building; her views on whether men with trust issues with women should have to endure this; her further views on whether the stigma attached to reporting is bad enough without this...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (27 Nov 2012)

Luke Flanagan: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the decision to cut bus routes is taken by the National Transport Authority, Bus Éireann or his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49429/12]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (27 Nov 2012)

Luke Flanagan: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in view of the fact that Bus Éireann is no longer adhering to it's social charter and continues to cut bus routes in lower population areas, if he will consider selling it off; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49428/12]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Ombudsman Commission (28 Nov 2012)

Luke Flanagan: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will enquire into the case of the Garda Ombudsman appointing a Ballinasloe based Garda to investigate a Gort based Garda; the reason an appeal for the same investigation has not made progress (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53354/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Vehicle Registration Tax (4 Dec 2012)

Luke Flanagan: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether vehicle registration tax is in compliance with the Treaty of Rome; in particular if he will consider Article 25 of the Treaty to be fully complied with as it states that an excise or custom duty cannot be redesignated as a tax; and if he will accept that this may be the case as Ireland was given a derogation under Article 14 on import duty...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Sale of State Assets (4 Dec 2012)

Luke Flanagan: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a breakdown of where the funds from the sale of Coillte assets will go; the sums that will go to bridge the €135m deficit in the Coillte employees’ pension fund and the Coillte €170m debt mentioned in their 2011 annual accounts, the sum that is currently the target price for the Coillte assets; and...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (4 Dec 2012)

Luke Flanagan: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason local authorities do not have to make the details of their own planning applications available online as it the case with other planning applications; if he will agree that they should be available for viewing on line and that quite often such applications are of great public interest as they often relate to public...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sale of State Assets (4 Dec 2012)

Luke Flanagan: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a clause can be built into any sale of Coillte forests to guarantee the current supply of round logs to the sawmilling industry here; if a similar clause is being put in place to protect and guarantee the supply of timber to the Coillte board plants at Waterford and Clonmel; if he will instruct New Era to establish a guarantee within...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (4 Dec 2012)

Luke Flanagan: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason Coillte failed to correctly predict the future supply of round logs that was to be available to the saw milling industry here from the forests that they manage; his views on whether the prediction of a rising future supply of round logs encouraged sawmillers to invest in plant, and thus creating a competitive saw milling...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (4 Dec 2012)

Luke Flanagan: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the threat that the sale of Coillte forests will have on the future of the sawmilling industry here and the thousands of jobs therein and that the sale of such national assets will also threaten the future of downstream processing of timber as timber will be exported in the round to other countries; if his attention has...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug Treatment Programmes (19 Dec 2012)

Luke Flanagan: To ask the Minister for Health if he will allocate €100,000 to the mother and child facility at Coolmine Therapeutic Community, Dublin, in order that 20 young women, who have overcome their addiction and urgently need therapeutic care, can enter the residential therapy with their babies; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that if they cannot get the therapy the majority of...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Household Charge Exemptions (19 Dec 2012)

Luke Flanagan: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will consider removing executors of wills from the Local Government (Household Charge) Act 2011 [57176/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (16 Jan 2013)

Luke Flanagan: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will make known the costs of engaging a private bus contractor to bring children to school in Glenamaddy and Glinsk in County Galway; the reason this contractor is still engaged, when the original reason for hiring the contractor was to ensure that all passengers had a seat with a seat belt, Bus Éireann now having installed seat belts on...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Disposal (16 Jan 2013)

Luke Flanagan: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a waste disposal company in the Dublin area is now charging €9 for six plastic bags for households to segregate their recyclable waste; his views on whether this will discourage persons from recycling; the provision, if any, that has been made for a waiver for those on...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Investigations (16 Jan 2013)

Luke Flanagan: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if any investigation is ongoing into the matter of alleged fraudulent milk metering at a co-op (details supplied) between the years of 1986 and 2000; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58115/12]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Teoranta Lands (16 Jan 2013)

Luke Flanagan: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding mineral rights and the sale of Coillte assets via the new era project; if the mineral rights in the grounds beneath the forests form part of the sale; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57972/12]