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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ministerial Travel (3 Apr 2014)

Luke Flanagan: 24. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will make known the full costs of sending Ministers and Ministers of State to foreign lands to mark St Patrick's Day; if he will point to any other nation that does similar; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10352/14]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Franchises (3 Apr 2014)

Luke Flanagan: 94. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason the national lottery franchises are being closed down in rural areas; if this is a purely economic decision; if so, his views on whether this decision will disenfranchise citizens who live in remote areas; if he agrees that where a national lottery franchise is lost that the loss in itself will lead to even further erosion...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fish Landings (3 Apr 2014)

Luke Flanagan: 203. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will confirm the figures given by a person (details supplied) to the Committee of Public Accounts stating that the value of fish stocks taken from Irish waters between 1975 and 2010 by all member states of the EU was €201 billion, only €17 billion worth of which was caught and processed by Irish fishermen and...

Wind Turbine Regulation Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Apr 2014)

Luke Flanagan: When I heard the Bill was coming before the House my first thought was that the Government would not oppose it even if it did not believe in it, because that is now the tactic of the Government. Prior to an election it does not tell people what it really thinks and then after the election it can ram things down their throats and tell them they are criminals if they try to do something about...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Legal Matters (8 Apr 2014)

Luke Flanagan: 51. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide in tabular form the number of judicial review cases issued in past four years handled by the Office of the Chief State Solicitor; the number of cases where the Office of the Chief State Solicitor directed the entity to assist affected members of the public obtain reasons for decisions by assisting or offering to assist them make a section 18 of the...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Legal Matters (8 Apr 2014)

Luke Flanagan: 52. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide in tabular form the number of judicial review cases issued in past four years handled by the Office of the Chief State Solicitor and the number of cases where the public entity assisted affected members of the public obtain reasons for decisions by assisting or offering to assist them make a section 18 of the Freedom of Information Act application...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Legal Matters (8 Apr 2014)

Luke Flanagan: 53. To ask the Taoiseach if the Office of the Chief State Solicitor has with regard to the Prevention of Corruption Act a Code of guidance in place for its solicitors to disclose information to the Garda Síochána who are the proper authorities to investigate crime about public officials under section 19 of the Criminal Justice Act 2011 who have improperly withheld information; and...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Legal Matters (8 Apr 2014)

Luke Flanagan: 54. To ask the Taoiseach if the Chief State Solicitor is aware that the EU Commission state aid investigation C31/07 was told that Bus Éireann operated the school transport scheme under contract; if this is the case if he will ask the Chief State Solicitor the reason this information was not disclosed to the Garda Síochána by virtue of the Prevention of Corruption Act and...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: EU Issues (8 Apr 2014)

Luke Flanagan: 57. To ask the Taoiseach the amount the blue star programme costs; the percentage of this cost borne by the Irish taxpayer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16270/14]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Correspondence (8 Apr 2014)

Luke Flanagan: 58. To ask the Taoiseach if he will ensure that when a communication in relation to wrongdoing is received in his Department that the communication will be deemed to have come to his attention; if he will confirm that, while he is not expected to personally exercise the function of dealing with wrongdoing, he is responsible for ensuring that the function is exercised; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Correspondence (8 Apr 2014)

Luke Flanagan: 73. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will ensure that when a communication in relation to wrongdoing is received in his Department that the communication will be deemed to have come to his attention; if he will confirm that, while he is not expected to personally exercise the function of dealing with wrongdoing, he is responsible for ensuring that the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Central Bank of Ireland (8 Apr 2014)

Luke Flanagan: 99. To ask the Minister for Finance if the first bond has been sold yet by the Central Bank this year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16222/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Central Bank of Ireland (8 Apr 2014)

Luke Flanagan: 100. To ask the Minister for Finance if the €3.06 billion bond to cover the 2012 promissory note has been sold yet; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16223/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: State Debt (8 Apr 2014)

Luke Flanagan: 101. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of interest the €25 billion we borrowed to buy off the promissory notes is costing us this year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16236/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: State Debt (8 Apr 2014)

Luke Flanagan: 102. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of interest the €25 billion we borrowed to buy off the promissory notes cost us in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16237/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: State Debt (8 Apr 2014)

Luke Flanagan: 103. To ask the Minister for Finance as the new sovereign bonds from the €25 billion in bonds that were issued to the Central Bank on 8 February 2013 are sold off, the amount in interest projected to be paid on an annual basis, for as far into the future as those projections have been made, to the EU fund from which the €25 billion was borrowed and as coupon to the private...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Central Bank of Ireland (8 Apr 2014)

Luke Flanagan: 104. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will clarify what will happen to the €500 million that will be taken in by the Central Bank of Ireland when the first bond is sold this year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16239/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Central Bank of Ireland (8 Apr 2014)

Luke Flanagan: 105. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will clarify what will happen to the subsequent €24.5 billion taken in by the Central Bank of Ireland as the remaining bonds are sold; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16240/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Ministerial Responsibilities (8 Apr 2014)

Luke Flanagan: 174. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will ensure that when a communication in relation to wrongdoing is received in his Department, it will be deemed to have come to his attention; if he will confirm that, while he is not expected personally to exercise the function of dealing with wrongdoing, he is responsible for ensuring the function is exercised; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technology in Schools (8 Apr 2014)

Luke Flanagan: 225. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 102 of 27 February 2014, the reason the professional development service for teachers is sanctioning the use and purchase of iPads by students, when a much cheaper and more useful tablet is available on which one can use Microsoft Office applications and study for ECDL and many other computer courses,...