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Written Answers — Legal Aid Service: Legal Aid Service (20 May 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 510: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress made in regard to the commitment given in the Programme for Government to provide an entitlement to free full separate legal advice, assistance and representation to complainants in cases of sexual violence. [19338/08]

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (20 May 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 511: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress made in regard to the commitment given in the Programme for Government to create a new offence of supplying and administering date rape drugs. [19340/08]

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (20 May 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 512: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress made in regard to the commitment given in the Programme for Government to provide for the forfeiture of all material gains from the production, sale and distribution of illegal pornography. [19341/08]

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (20 May 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 514: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress made in regard to the commitment given in the Programme for Government to introduce a Sexual Offences Bill which will consolidate and modernise all criminal law in the area of sexual offences. [19343/08]

Written Answers — International Agreements: International Agreements (20 May 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 515: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress made in regard to the commitment given in the Programme for Government to ratify the UN convention for the suppression of the traffic in persons and of the exploitation of the prostitution of others. [19344/08]

Written Answers — Garda Deployment: Garda Deployment (20 May 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 538: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of gardaí allocated to a division (details supplied) in County Tipperary for each of the past three years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19866/08]

Written Answers — Building Regulations: Building Regulations (20 May 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 569: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when he will issue the building floor area certificate for an apartment (details supplied) in Dublin 24. [19408/08]

Written Answers — National Drugs Strategy: National Drugs Strategy (15 May 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 34: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the number of meetings he has had with the national sports organisations in relation to drug misuse; the results of the meetings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18829/08]

Written Answers — Drugs Classification: Drugs Classification (15 May 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 46: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the concerns raised by health agencies with him in relation to the compelling evidence that cannabis can create serious illness such as schizophrenia; the action he has taken to highlight such effects; the meetings he has had with the Department of Health and Children to determine the action that will be taken to...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (14 May 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 124: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she is satisfied that the increases in welfare and pension payments in 2008 are sufficient to meet the growing cost of living for low income individuals and families and retired people; and her intentions to seek a supplementary estimate to support her Department's clients with these rising costs. [18625/08]

Defamation Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 May 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: I am glad to have the opportunity to speak on this long-awaited Bill. The Bill has had a very rocky gestation, going back more than 15 years, for reasons that are well known to the Minister. The arrangements that it now facilitates deserve the opportunity to be monitored in practice to determine how they work out. The Bill before the House is decoupled from the privacy Bill, which had...

Order of Business (14 May 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: What priority is the Government according to the necessity to bring forward legislation to regulate the conduct of management companies?

Written Answers — Arts Funding: Arts Funding (13 May 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 87: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the support he provides towards newly established youth art projects; if his Department supplies advice on best practice for developing youth art initiatives; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17674/08]

Written Answers — Road Safety: Road Safety (8 May 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 57: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has plans to increase the level of funding for the Medical Bureau of Road Safety; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17328/08]

Written Answers — Road Safety: Road Safety (8 May 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 60: To ask the Minister for Transport if he is invigilating the rollout of the Road Safety Strategy 2007 to 2012 on a continuous basis; the number of deadlines for the implementation of specific actions within the Road Safety Strategy 2007 to 2012 that have already been missed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17327/08]

Written Answers — Liquor Licensing Laws: Liquor Licensing Laws (8 May 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 74: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of off-licences that have been authorised in the postal district of Dublin 24; the number that have been licensed in each of the past three years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17174/08]

Written Answers — Asylum Applications: Asylum Applications (8 May 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 500: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason the application for political asylum made on 3 December 2001 by a person (details supplied) has not been decided; when it will be decided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17173/08]

Written Answers — Consumer Protection: Consumer Protection (8 May 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: Question 531: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the anticipated benefits for house purchasers arising from the application of consumer protection law to real property transactions, as a result of the Consumer Protection Act 2007; if, in particular, a reduction in conveyancing costs for intending purchasers is anticipated; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Order of Business (8 May 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: I wish to raise a matter of justice legislation and, in doing so, I wish to congratulate the former Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform on his elevation to the position of Minister for Finance and thank him for his courtesy in the past 11 months. On 29 November I published a Garda Síochána (Powers of Surveillance) Bill that would permit evidence gathered by surveillance in...

Order of Business (8 May 2008)

Pat Rabbitte: He told the Garda Representative Association that he would publish such a Bill. Given his closeness to the Tánaiste, I wonder if the Tánaiste can tell me when we will see it.