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Written Answers — Airport Safety Zones: Airport Safety Zones (13 Feb 2007)

Pat Breen: Question 594: To ask the Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 465 of 13 December 2005, if the permissible heights of proposed developments beneath the runway approach surfaces increase with distance from runway thresholds; if he will confirm, for example, that development up to a height of 20 metres is permissible beneath the 1:50 approach at a distance of 1,000 metres...

Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (13 Feb 2007)

Pat Breen: Question 617: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if, in view of the fact that notification, consultation and compensatory measures were enacted by the Houses of the Oireachtas in the matter of protected areas that were specifically designated to control the erection of buildings in the vicinity of State airports by way of section 14 of the Air Navigation...

Written Answers — Water and Sewerage Schemes: Water and Sewerage Schemes (13 Feb 2007)

Pat Breen: Question 618: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if it is currently the policy of his Department to designate buffer zones in the vicinity of proposed sewage treatment plants; if so, the procedural arrangements for the implementation of such policy with particular respect to notification of and consultation with affected landowners; and if he will make a...

Biofuels (Blended Motor Fuels) Bill 2007: Second Stage (Resumed). (14 Feb 2007)

Pat Breen: I commend Deputy Naughten on introducing this Bill. The issue of global warming is threatening to become the most pressing one internationally in this century but, sadly, the Government has failed to come to grips with it. There is a tendency for the Government to wash its hands of the problem, to leave it to others and to wait on the sidelines until it is embarrassed into doing something...

Written Answers — Telecommunications Services: Telecommunications Services (14 Feb 2007)

Pat Breen: Question 101: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he is satisfied that investment in the telecommunications industry is in keeping with the requirements of a modern expanding economy; if Government policy is being adhered to in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5453/07]

Written Answers — Telecommunications Services: Telecommunications Services (14 Feb 2007)

Pat Breen: Question 115: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he will take initiatives, issue policy direction or otherwise intervene, directly with the service providers or through the regulator with a view to accelerating the availability of state of the art telecommunications facilities here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5454/07]

Written Answers — Care of the Elderly: Care of the Elderly (14 Feb 2007)

Pat Breen: Question 218: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the amount allocated to the elderly care services in the past year in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5568/07]

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31 (15 Feb 2007)

Pat Breen: I wish to seek the Adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to discuss a matter of extreme importance, namely, that the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources immediately intervene with the management of An Post to stop the policy of closing and downgrading rural post officers, such as the recent downgrading of Kilmaley post office in County Clare to post point...

Written Answers — Care of the Elderly: Care of the Elderly (15 Feb 2007)

Pat Breen: Question 65: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her Department will provide funding to a centre (details supplied) in County Clare for a dementia unit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5766/07]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (15 Feb 2007)

Pat Breen: Question 71: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will be taken off the waiting list for orthodontic services and receive treatment. [5834/07]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (15 Feb 2007)

Pat Breen: Question 72: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will be assessed for orthodontic treatment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5835/07]

Written Answers — Parliamentary Questions: Parliamentary Questions (20 Feb 2007)

Pat Breen: Question 117: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of parliamentary questions received by her Department during 2006; the number of these transferred to the Health Service Executive; the number of questions transferred to the HSE that remain unanswered; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6230/07]

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (20 Feb 2007)

Pat Breen: Question 129: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of full medical cards issued for each of the years from 1997 to 2006; the number of general practitioner visit only cards issued per year since the introduction of this card; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6229/07]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (20 Feb 2007)

Pat Breen: Question 374: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason patients are not accompanied by a nurse in a Health Service Executive ambulance from nursing homes to attend clinics in HSE hospitals (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6648/07]

Written Answers — Alternative Energy Projects: Alternative Energy Projects (20 Feb 2007)

Pat Breen: Question 378: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources his plans to provide grant aid for householders in suitable locations wishing to install wind turbines or solar panels; his further plans to enable such people to sell excess electricity generated back into the grid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6316/07]

Written Answers — Post Office Network: Post Office Network (20 Feb 2007)

Pat Breen: Question 400: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the estimate of the cost of completing the automation of the post office network; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6353/07]

Written Answers — Industrial Development: Industrial Development (20 Feb 2007)

Pat Breen: Question 418: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the plans of a company (details supplied) for regenerating its derelict units in the industrial estate at the Shannon free zone in order to attract new industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6015/07]

Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (20 Feb 2007)

Pat Breen: Question 439: To ask the Minister for Transport if the recent transfer of air traffic control staff from the Irish Aviation Authority in Shannon to Dublin will affect the IAA decentralisation programme; the progress of the decentralisation programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6061/07]

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (20 Feb 2007)

Pat Breen: Question 468: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the number of farmers in County Clare who were applicants for the single payment scheme national reserve in 2005; the number who were successful; and the number who are awaiting for their applications to be processed; when her Department proposes to process these applications which are 21 months lodged with her Department; and if she...

Written Answers — EU Directives: EU Directives (20 Feb 2007)

Pat Breen: Question 560: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if, in relation to exclusion zones for the spreading of organic fertiliser and for soiled water relating to a public water supply and abstraction sources of a lake source, the lake edge is the inner boundary of the buffer zone or if it is the physical extraction point in the lake; and if he will make a...