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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]

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...

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...

Written Answers — Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (4 May 2006)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 26: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will enter into discussions to direct and encourage in every possible way local authorities to set targets for the reduction of their CO2 emissions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16607/06]

Written Answers — Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (4 May 2006)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 32: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will meet with local authorities to encourage the use of low emission and environmentally friendly vehicles; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16608/06]

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]

Written Answers — Air Services: Air Services (3 May 2006)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 88: To ask the Minister for Transport if, in relation to the two recent incidents in which two Irish-registered aircraft were grounded at Prestwick Airport resulting from a bomb scare, he has satisfied himself with the decision taken to keep passengers on board for a prolonged period; if this unsatisfactory practice will not be repeated on any Irish aircraft; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Road Safety: Road Safety (3 May 2006)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 326: To ask the Minister for Transport if the report into the mid-term review of the national car test has been published; if not, his plans to publish this report; the main recommendations contained in this report; the way in which he intends to proceed in relation to this report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16539/06]

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (3 May 2006)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 314: To ask the Minister for Transport when the Dublin Transport Authority will be established; if he will fast-track its establishment in view of its important role in the delivery of Transport 21; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16528/06]

Written Answers — Rail Services: Rail Services (3 May 2006)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 134: To ask the Minister for Transport if new carriages have been introduced by Irish Rail on the Dublin-Cork route during 2005; if not, the reason therefor; the date by which such carriages will be introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16255/06]

Written Answers — Irish Language: Irish Language (3 May 2006)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 323: To ask the Minister for Transport if the Road Traffic Acts are available in Irish; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16434/06]

Written Answers — Driving Tests: Driving Tests (3 May 2006)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 327: To ask the Minister for Transport the number of driving test centres which are currently not operating; the number of motorists awaiting tests affected by such closures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16540/06]

Written Answers — Public Transport: Public Transport (3 May 2006)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 341: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has actively sought applications from local authorities in relation to applying to his Department for funding for park and ride facilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16582/06]

Written Answers — Road Traffic Offences: Road Traffic Offences (3 May 2006)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 420: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the number of cars seized and impounded by the Gardaí for legal violations in each year from 2000 to date in 2006; the storage capacity held by the Gardaí for such vehicles in each Garda division; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16002/06]

Written Answers — Control of Dogs: Control of Dogs (3 May 2006)

Olivia Mitchell: Question 552: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the urgent need to introduce dog control by-laws for Office of Public Works properties; and his plans in this regard (details supplied). [16335/06]

Public Transport. (3 May 2006)

Olivia Mitchell: I welcome that if it happens as the Minister outlines. On the detail of the review, and understanding why Dublin Bus will concentrate on high capacity routes that have quality bus corridors, it will be at the expense of many new residential areas around Dublin. In my constituency there are areas where thousands of houses have been built without a single bus route. They do not have a quality...

Air Services. (3 May 2006)

Olivia Mitchell: On the open skies agreement, today, I read in the International Herald Tribunethat the US Government is responding to the demands of Congress and the agreement cannot go ahead. We do not know for how long this will be the case but the agreement will definitely be delayed. Previously, the Minister mentioned that there would be an interim agreement if that occurred. Is the interim agreement...