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Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (4 May 2006)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 211: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will consider appointing representatives from the DIT Students' Union to the Grangegorman Development Agency. [16712/06]

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (9 May 2006)

Olivia Mitchell: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter: following the events involving a bus on the Naas Road on Sunday last which resulted in a tragic death, injuries and dangerous general mayhem, the urgent need for a review of the criteria for the granting of a D and a D1 licence for use of high capacity passenger buses, and the monitoring of...

Energy Sector: Motion. (9 May 2006)

Olivia Mitchell: I support this very timely motion. Global warming and practices such as climate change are slow impacting, difficult to identify and hard to detect, so it is very easy for us to bury our heads in the sand, as we have done for far too long. We could all look the other way, when there was no clear and immediate catastrophic impact on our way of life and no result of our indifference to our...

Written Answers — Defence Forces Investigations: Defence Forces Investigations (9 May 2006)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 98: To ask the Minister for Defence the situation in relation to the investigation into the death of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17105/06]

Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (9 May 2006)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 262: To ask the Minister for Transport if his attention has been drawn to whether all Bus Éireann bus stations are fully accessible to people with disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16881/06]

Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (9 May 2006)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 263: To ask the Minister for Transport if all inter-city and DART trains are wheelchair accessible; if not, when same will happen; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16882/06]

Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (9 May 2006)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 264: To ask the Minister for Transport if all Bus Éireann buses are wheelchair accessible; if not, the percentage which are; when the full fleet will be accessible; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16883/06]

Written Answers — Garda Investigations: Garda Investigations (9 May 2006)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 330: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the details of the death of a person (details supplied); if his attention has further been drawn to the serious concerns of the person's family have regarding the Garda investigation and the Director of Public Prosecution's consideration of the case; if, in view of the fact that a...

Written Answers — Site Acquisitions: Site Acquisitions (9 May 2006)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 446: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she intends to acquire for use, as an urgently needed secondary school, lands reserved for that purpose in the Stepaside area action plan to cater, as envisaged in the plan, for the expanding population in the Stepaside area. [17330/06]

Written Answers — Import Controls: Import Controls (10 May 2006)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 65: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if, in view of recent reports of the use of ports here to import pit-bull terriers with Northern Ireland destinations, importation of such animals into the Republic is in fact legal; and his plans to ensure that this practice of importing such dangerous animals is stopped. [17600/06]

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (11 May 2006)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 54: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the situation regarding women's access to pensions; the figures for female pension coverage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17676/06]

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (11 May 2006)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 73: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the situation regarding pension coverage for part-time workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17677/06]

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (16 May 2006)

Olivia Mitchell: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter: the increasing number of incidents involving mechanical and other failures in the school bus fleet, including apparently spontaneous fires; and the need for an end to the system of annual in-house bus testing by Bus Éireann and for a switch to an objective, independent and rigorous testing...

Written Answers — National Drugs Strategy: National Drugs Strategy (16 May 2006)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 128: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he intends to advocate for an increase in the range and type of drug treatment programmes and places available to drug misusers under the National Drugs Strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18151/06]

Written Answers — Motor Vehicle Registration: Motor Vehicle Registration (16 May 2006)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 214: To ask the Minister for Finance the penalties in place for failure by a non national to register an imported car by close of business on the day following importation; if there is a monitoring mechanism in place to confirm compliance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18332/06]

Written Answers — Motor Vehicle Registration: Motor Vehicle Registration (16 May 2006)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 210: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of foreign cars registered here each year from 2002 to date in 2006; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17972/06]

Written Answers — Tax Repayments: Tax Repayments (16 May 2006)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 231: To ask the Minister for Finance if fuel rebate payments were made to Bus Éireann prior to 1997 under SI 307 of 1975; and if rebate payment made related to work which was subcontracted by Bus Éireann to private operators. [18446/06]

Written Answers — Taxi Regulations: Taxi Regulations (16 May 2006)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 310: To ask the Minister for Transport the procedures which are in place to ensure that taxi drivers do not abuse the taxi licensing system; if his attention has been drawn to the number of taxi drivers convicted of abuses of the licensing system since 2002; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17859/06]

Written Answers — Driver Education: Driver Education (16 May 2006)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 311: To ask the Minister for Transport if his attention has been drawn to the driver education programme, driver for life programme, which is currently being piloted in County Carlow; his views on this programme; his further views on whether it should be expanded nationwide; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17868/06]

Written Answers — Rail Services: Rail Services (16 May 2006)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 313: To ask the Minister for Transport if the Irish Rail facility at North Esk will be included in the re-signalling works to be completed by the company in preparation of its re-opening of the Midleton rail line; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17934/06]