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Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (18 Feb 2010)

Frank Feighan: Question 169: To ask the Minister for Defence his policy regarding staff who donate blood during normal working hours; if staff are required to clock out when giving blood; the measures that are in place to encourage staff to donate blood; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8511/10]

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (18 Feb 2010)

Frank Feighan: Question 175: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his policy regarding staff who donate blood during normal working hours; if staff are required to clock out when giving blood; the measures that are in place to encourage staff to donate blood; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8514/10]

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (18 Feb 2010)

Frank Feighan: Question 184: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his policy regarding staff who donate blood during normal working hours; if staff are required to clock out when giving blood; the measures that are in place to encourage staff to donate blood; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8509/10]

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (18 Feb 2010)

Frank Feighan: Question 187: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food his policy regarding staff who donate blood during normal working hours; if staff are required to clock out when giving blood; the measures that are in place to encourage staff to donate blood; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8507/10]

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (18 Feb 2010)

Frank Feighan: Question 200: To ask the Minister for Education and Science his policy regarding staff who donate blood during normal working hours; if staff are required to clock out when giving blood; the measures that are in place to encourage staff to donate blood; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8512/10]

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (18 Feb 2010)

Frank Feighan: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to discuss an issue of national importance, namely, the fact that tens of thousands of workers, especially those in many local authorities, cannot avail of the cycle to work scheme introduced by the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government last year. The local authorities, although they are under the direction of...

Written Answers — Adoption Services: Adoption Services (17 Feb 2010)

Frank Feighan: Question 119: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will replace the secretary of the adoption agency at the Health Service Executive, Sligo where files have been increasing for some time and where adoptive parents are having their applications and documentation delayed after all the work they have put into the process; and if she will alleviate their stress by having this...

Written Answers — Alternative Energy Projects: Alternative Energy Projects (17 Feb 2010)

Frank Feighan: Question 195: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on whether, if in haste to avail of the environmental benefits of wind farms, we are ignoring the ecological damage that turbines can do (details supplied). [8443/10]

Written Answers — Alternative Energy Projects: Alternative Energy Projects (17 Feb 2010)

Frank Feighan: Question 196: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on whether peat bogs store three times as much carbon as is held in tropical rain-forests (details supplied); if he will commission another study to examine the consequence of the impact of wind farms on areas such as Corry Mountain, County Leitrim. [8445/10]

Written Answers — Alternative Energy Projects: Alternative Energy Projects (17 Feb 2010)

Frank Feighan: Question 197: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on whether the grouse habitat is destroyed in the natural heritage area - Corry Mountain Bog, NHA 002321, Order 2005 - due to a wind farm project; and if he proposes through the national parks and wildlife service to restore the grouse habitat. [8451/10]

Written Answers — Alternative Energy Projects: Alternative Energy Projects (17 Feb 2010)

Frank Feighan: Question 198: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if the national parks and wildlife service is responsible for the enforcement of national heritage area 473/2005 plans to prosecute the promoters of the wind farm for the damage to the upland bog. [8452/10]

Written Answers — Alternative Energy Projects: Alternative Energy Projects (17 Feb 2010)

Frank Feighan: Question 205: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on whether, if in haste to avail of the environmental benefits of wind farms, we are ignoring the ecological damage that turbines can do (details supplied). [8444/10]

Written Answers — Alternative Energy Projects: Alternative Energy Projects (17 Feb 2010)

Frank Feighan: Question 208: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the grant aid package to promoters of the wind farm and a breakdown by project on Corry Mountain in counties Leitrim and Roscommon (details supplied). [8449/10]

Written Answers — Fisheries Protection: Fisheries Protection (17 Feb 2010)

Frank Feighan: Question 206: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if the ESB fishery division or any employee or agent hold an eel dealers licence now or in the past. [8447/10]

Written Answers — Fisheries Protection: Fisheries Protection (17 Feb 2010)

Frank Feighan: Question 207: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he proposes to have the indemnity from prosecution given to ESB under section 11 of the Electricity Amendment Act 1945 Section 11 removed for example in the case of a landslide which destroys a river and fish stocks. [8448/10]

Written Answers — Fisheries Protection: Fisheries Protection (17 Feb 2010)

Frank Feighan: Question 209: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on whether the impact of hydropower was a factor in the destruction of eels on the Shannon and Erne systems. [8450/10]

Written Answers — Environmental Legislation: Environmental Legislation (17 Feb 2010)

Frank Feighan: Question 210: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he proposes to have the indemnity from prosecution given to Bord Na Móna under section 27 of the Turf Development Act 1946 removed in the interest of the environment in view of the fact that private landowners may be prosecuted for similar breaches; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8454/10]

Written Answers — Environmental Legislation: Environmental Legislation (17 Feb 2010)

Frank Feighan: Question 211: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if Bord Na Mona may have damaged bogland development or water systems here and have been protected from prosecution under section 27 of the Turf Development Act 1946; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8455/10]

Written Answers — Natural Heritage Areas: Natural Heritage Areas (17 Feb 2010)

Frank Feighan: Question 212: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on whether the Owengar River habitat was destroyed on foot of the Natural Heritage Area (Corry Mountain Bog NHA 002321) Order 2005; his plans to restore the river ecosystem; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8457/10]

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (17 Feb 2010)

Frank Feighan: I seek the suspension of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to address a matter of national importance, namely, the lack of urgency in setting up a single management authority for the River Shannon. As the House knows, many farm families, businesses and householders have been badly affected and the lack of progress on and investigation into this very serious matter is damning. I ask the...