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Written Answers — Driving Tests: Driving Tests (6 Apr 2006)

Róisín Shortall: Question 275: To ask the Minister for Transport the number of driving testers employed by the State in each of the past ten years. [14115/06]

Written Answers — Driving Tests: Driving Tests (6 Apr 2006)

Róisín Shortall: Question 276: To ask the Minister for Transport if discussions have taken place between him or his officials and the Commission or Council, in the context of the revision of the 1991 driving licence directive — 91/439/EEC — regarding the compatibility with Community law of the issue by Ireland of provisional driving licences that authorise the driving of vehicles on public roads by...

Written Answers — Criminal Prosecutions: Criminal Prosecutions (6 Apr 2006)

Róisín Shortall: Question 332: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of provisional drivers prosecuted and the number convicted in each of the years since and including 2000 for driving unaccompanied; and the level of Garda enforcement of this aspect of road traffic law. [14106/06]

Written Answers — Taxi Regulations: Taxi Regulations (6 Apr 2006)

Róisín Shortall: Question 335: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he is now in a position to provide the information requested in Question No. 304 of 22 February 2006; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14134/06]

Written Answers — Garda Equipment: Garda Equipment (6 Apr 2006)

Róisín Shortall: Question 336: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of breathalysers currently in use by the Garda with a breakdown for each individual Garda station. [14135/06]

Written Answers — Garda Training: Garda Training (6 Apr 2006)

Róisín Shortall: Question 337: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of gardaí trained in the use of the hand-held laser speed gun with a breakdown by Garda division. [14136/06]

Written Answers — Garda Training: Garda Training (6 Apr 2006)

Róisín Shortall: Question 338: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of gardaí trained in the use of the roadside breathalyser, and the number of gardaí trained in the use of the evidential breath testing machine. [14137/06]

Written Answers — Garda Training: Garda Training (6 Apr 2006)

Róisín Shortall: Question 339: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the level of Garda in-service training on road traffic issues; the courses covered in this area; and the throughput in each course in a typical year. [14138/06]

Written Answers — Road Traffic Offences: Road Traffic Offences (6 Apr 2006)

Róisín Shortall: Question 340: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the statistics that are available on the number of speed detections by gardaí by detection instrument used and to provide a breakdown of these for the past five years for which figures are available. [14139/06]

Written Answers — Road Traffic Offences: Road Traffic Offences (6 Apr 2006)

Róisín Shortall: Question 341: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if statistics are available on the number of prosecutions of speeding offences taken by speed detection device and the corresponding number of failed prosecutions to provide a breakdown of these for the past five years for which figures are available. [14140/06]

Written Answers — Garda Strength: Garda Strength (6 Apr 2006)

Róisín Shortall: Question 342: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he is now in a position to provide the information requested in Question No. 179 of 1 March 2006; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14141/06]

Written Answers — Garda Training: Garda Training (6 Apr 2006)

Róisín Shortall: Question 347: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the training that is provided to gardaí to prepare them as a witness in drink driving prosecutions; the extent of legal support that is currently offered to gardaí in preparing for such cases; if his attention has been drawn to the view of some individual gardaí that under-training and poor legal support as a witness...

Written Answers — Sports Anti-Doping Programme: Sports Anti-Doping Programme (25 Apr 2006)

Róisín Shortall: Question 80: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if his attention has been drawn to the Irish Sports Council's anti-doping report 2005; his views on the fact that, despite the fact that no Irish sportsperson tested positive for a banned substance in 2005, the battle against doping in sport must be intensified; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15147/06]

Written Answers — Television Licence Fee: Television Licence Fee (25 Apr 2006)

Róisín Shortall: Question 343: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if a television licence must be paid where a person owns no television set but where they receive broadcasts by downloading from the internet; if so, the statutory basis for same including the statutory reference; when he last reviewed the definition of a television set used in legislation; when he intends...

Written Answers — Television Licence Fee: Television Licence Fee (25 Apr 2006)

Róisín Shortall: Question 344: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources his strategy for future television licence fee revenues for RTE in view of technological advances which continue to expand the range of devices capable of receiving broadcasts but for which no fee is collected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14816/06]

Written Answers — Sports Capital Programme: Sports Capital Programme (25 Apr 2006)

Róisín Shortall: Question 382: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the amount the Government will spend on investing in community based sporting facilities and in grants to sporting organisation in 2006; the percentage of the budget for the years this will represent; the way in which the Government's level of spending in this regard compares with the EU 15 average; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Road Safety: Road Safety (25 Apr 2006)

Róisín Shortall: Question 509: To ask the Minister for Transport further to Parliamentary Question No. 335 of 28 February 2006, the reason for the continued delay in publishing the cross-departmental review of road safety expenditure; and when it will be published. [14996/06]

Written Answers — Road Safety: Road Safety (25 Apr 2006)

Róisín Shortall: Question 511: To ask the Minister for Transport when and by what legislative means he intends transposing EU Directive 2005/66/EC. [15191/06]

Written Answers — Road Safety: Road Safety (25 Apr 2006)

Róisín Shortall: Question 512: To ask the Minister for Transport the way in which he has exploited Article 8 of EU Directive 2005/66/EC to set down regulations for the protection of vulnerable road users; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15192/06]

Written Answers — Public Transport: Public Transport (25 Apr 2006)

Róisín Shortall: Question 513: To ask the Minister for Transport the steps that are in place to co-ordinate new and existing bus routes with proposed metro stops; and the reason this does not form part of the public consultation on the metro north route. [15193/06]