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Written Answers — Common Agricultural Policy: Common Agricultural Policy (24 Mar 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 53: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if a decision has been made on the allocation of additional funds in 2009 and €29 million in subsequent years from the National Reserve; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12005/09]

Written Answers — Common Agricultural Policy: Common Agricultural Policy (24 Mar 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 56: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of submissions that were received on the proposed usage of the €120 million in additional modulation funds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12006/09]

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (24 Mar 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 169: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has held meetings with representatives from a group (details supplied) in recent months; the commitments he entered into with the group; when he expects these commitments to be put into effect; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10860/09]

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (24 Mar 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 852: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his Department has taken action, either by way of circular or letter, to request county managers or their planning units at local government level, to co-operate with the forward planning unit or school building unit of the Department of Education and Science in Tullamore, County Offaly in order to ensure...

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (24 Mar 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 853: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will direct the planning authorities to require that land, rezoned from agricultural to residential use, will impose an obligation upon developers who apply for mixed residential development planning permission to include provision of lands for a school or schools free of charge in order to provide for...

Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (24 Mar 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 891: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his Department has been contacted by the European Court of Justice and the European Commission on the weakness of planning laws; if he plans to contest the case lodged by the European Commission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12116/09]

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (24 Mar 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 1037: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when a school (details supplied) in County Wicklow will have a new building to operate in, in view of the fact that it has been five years since the school was first promised a new building; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11140/09]

Leaders' Questions (24 Mar 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: There is no denying that.

Order of Business (24 Mar 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: At the next general election.

Order of Business (24 Mar 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: The Taoiseach no doubt met Senator George Mitchell during his visit to the United States and the White House last week. The George Mitchell Scholarship Fund Act 1998 (Amendment) Bill is No. 49 in section C of the Government legislation programme. We are beginning to become seriously financially embarrassed in respect of the fund which was established in 1998. The credibility of the...

Written Answers — Broadcasting Services: Broadcasting Services (12 Mar 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 20: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the cost of the digital set top box required for the digital terrestrial television switch over; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10513/09]

Written Answers — Mobile Telephony: Mobile Telephony (12 Mar 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 35: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the way he will regulate the costs of mobile phone calls and texts of persons who are flying; if he will be working with his European counterparts on this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10512/09]

Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (12 Mar 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 245: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if it is his intention to extend a school (details supplied) in County Louth in view of the overcrowding experienced at the school; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10583/09]

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (12 Mar 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 251: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the amount spent by his Department on early childhood education in 2006, 2007 and 2008 with a breakdown of that expenditure; the number of children attending preschool education in those years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10642/09]

Written Answers — Local Government Reform: Local Government Reform (11 Mar 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 74: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when he will publish the White Paper on Local Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10169/09]

Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (11 Mar 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 91: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the progress his Department has made with regard to producing a legislative framework with regard to the sale of local authority flats; and if he will bring forward an amendment to the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008 regarding this matter. [10168/09]

Written Answers — Road Network: Road Network (10 Mar 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 249: To ask the Minister for Transport when his Department received the National Roads Authority's report on the eastern by-pass; when the city manager of Dublin City Council, the councillors of Dublin City Council and the general public will be allowed to see the report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9837/09]

Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (10 Mar 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 371: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his Department has agreed to permit Dublin City Council to enter into a contract with a third party to design, build and operate a 650,000 tonne incinerator located on the Poolbeg Peninsula whose cost is estimated at many hundreds of millions of euro without his Department having sight of the contract...

Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (10 Mar 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 387: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, further to Parliamentary Question No. 397 of 17 February 2009, and in view of the fact that he or his representatives on the Project Procurement Board for the Dublin Bay waste management incinerator have not had sight of the contract for the public private partnership, if he will confirm that he is unable...

Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (10 Mar 2009)

Ruairi Quinn: Question 522: To ask the Minister for Education and Science, further to Parliamentary Question No. 20 of 26 February 2009, if he will ensure at departmental level that FÁS will, at his intervention, in the first instance open up discussions with the institutes of technology and the vocational educational committees to ensure contracts for the provision of relevant courses for recently...