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Written Answers — Foreshore Licences: Foreshore Licences (2 Apr 2008)

Richard Bruton: Question 620: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if she is satisfied that the Foreshore Act 1933 is an adequate legal framework for allowing appropriate public participation in the scrutiny of applications for development on the foreshore, particularly in cases where the part of the foreshore in question is not in public ownership; and her views on reforming this 75-year...

Written Answers — School Curriculum: School Curriculum (2 Apr 2008)

Richard Bruton: Question 736: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she proposes to provide recognition to Irish sign language within the national curriculum to support teaching and other learning aids and promote it as an accepted language for communication. [11600/08]

Written Answers — Departmental Correspondence: Departmental Correspondence (2 Apr 2008)

Richard Bruton: Question 903: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his Department has a system for logging communications from members of the public and responding to the queries raised; and if it has broken down in the case of correspondence from a person (details supplied). [12074/08]

Written Answers — Stardust Inquiry: Stardust Inquiry (2 Apr 2008)

Richard Bruton: Question 926: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the concerns raised by the families of victims of the Stardust tragedy regarding a potential conflict of interest of the investigating officers appointed by the Government to review evidence about the causes of the fire that led to the loss of life; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Asylum Applications: Asylum Applications (2 Apr 2008)

Richard Bruton: Question 927: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will review the case of a person (details supplied) who is appealing the order for their deportation. [12440/08]

Written Answers — Criminal Prosecutions: Criminal Prosecutions (2 Apr 2008)

Richard Bruton: Question 928: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the details of the headline offences recorded and detected for each of the 18 districts in the Dublin metropolitan areas, in Dublin as a whole and nationally for the year 2002. [12497/08]

Written Answers — Criminal Prosecutions: Criminal Prosecutions (2 Apr 2008)

Richard Bruton: Question 929: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the details of the headline offences recorded and detected in the Balbriggan District in each year since 2000 to date in 2008. [12498/08]

Written Answers — Road Network: Road Network (2 Apr 2008)

Richard Bruton: Question 938: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on establishing a national standard on the quality and standard of roads and footpaths in urban environment here against which councils should report local performance in the same way as national standards have been set in respect of other aspects of council business [11231/08]

Written Answers — Vehicle Registration: Vehicle Registration (13 Mar 2008)

Richard Bruton: Question 99: To ask the Minister for Transport the number of vehicles registered for use on roads in Dublin, Wicklow, Meath and Kildare in 2007, distinguishing cars, motorcycles and goods vehicles and classifying them by broad engine capacity categories. [11119/08]

Written Answers — Public Transport: Public Transport (13 Mar 2008)

Richard Bruton: Question 100: To ask the Minister for Transport the details of the Exchequer subvention towards the cost of transport services in each year 2000 to 2007 inclusive, distinguishing the subvention to Dublin Bus, DART, LUAS, other Dublin suburban rail, Irish Rail and to Bus Éireann, and indicating the passengers carried by each service in each year. [11187/08]

Written Answers — Public Transport: Public Transport (13 Mar 2008)

Richard Bruton: Question 101: To ask the Minister for Transport the details of the investment in bus priority measures in Dublin in each of the past five years; and the length of route with bus priority at the end of each year. [11188/08]

Written Answers — Traffic Management: Traffic Management (13 Mar 2008)

Richard Bruton: Question 102: To ask the Minister for Transport the details of the canal cordon counts of journeys by different travel modes in each year since 2000 to date in 2008. [11189/08]

Written Answers — Environmental Policy: Environmental Policy (13 Mar 2008)

Richard Bruton: Question 193: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he is undertaking a fresh review of evidence surrounding the alleged negative environmental and health defects of aerials, particularly in sensitive residential areas; if this review is complete; if he has plans to publish the findings; and if he plans changes in either the planning or monitoring of such...

Order of Business (13 Mar 2008)

Richard Bruton: While I do not intend to divide the House on this issue, yesterday 20 Ministers were already abroad on so-called St. Patrick's Day duty and today 27 Ministers are already abroad. This is not a question of taking a brief recess to attend functions. We are now seeing Ministers leaving their Dáil duties for three weeks at a stretch. This is not the way business should be done here. We all...

Order of Business (13 Mar 2008)

Richard Bruton: While I have heard of downsizing government, to see two small Ministers, Deputies Brennan and O'Dea, running the Government for the next two weeks is a positive development and I am all in favour of it.

Order of Business (13 Mar 2008)

Richard Bruton: I note that much of the justification for 34 Ministers travelling abroad is to promote tourism. Is this a case of successful delegation on the part of the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism, Deputy Brennan, or, having lived like a Saudi prince last year, has his welcome been outlived?

Order of Business (13 Mar 2008)

Richard Bruton: On a more serious issue, we have heard the Chief Whip and Minister of State, Deputy Tom Kitt, and the Taoiseach thinking aloud on legislation. The Minister of State indicated that changes were possible on penalty points. On the relevant legislation, of the 88,000 who ignored penalty points issued to them last year, only 17% were successfully prosecuted. The vast majority of this group are...

Order of Business (13 Mar 2008)

Richard Bruton: What role will the Dáil play in this matter? Will Supplementary Estimates be introduced withdrawing funds or veering them from——

Order of Business (13 Mar 2008)

Richard Bruton: On another issue, the Government has indicated that annual reductions in carbon emissions of 3% form part of the programme for Government. Today, we learn that the Taoiseach is fighting against the European Commission's proposal to implement less than half this figure by 2020.

Order of Business (13 Mar 2008)

Richard Bruton: Will we see legislative proposals, as advocated by certain Ministers, to give legal effect to the Government's intentions on energy emissions?