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Written Answers — Traffic Management: Traffic Management (7 Mar 2006)

Ciarán Cuffe: Question 143: To ask the Minister for Transport if he, or his Department has made representations to Dublin City Council with regard to the proposed new heavy goods vehicles management strategy which is due to be introduced following the opening of the Dublin Port tunnel; and his views on the contention of the consultants hired by Dublin City Council that following the opening of the tunnel...

Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (7 Mar 2006)

Ciarán Cuffe: Question 591: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will introduce appropriate regulatory framework to ensure that where local authority services are contracted to the private sector, the interests of consumers and not private monopolies are served, as recommended by the Indecon report. [9535/06]

Written Answers — Local Government Funding: Local Government Funding (7 Mar 2006)

Ciarán Cuffe: Question 592: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the Government policy to which the revenue generating options identified by the Indecon report ran counter. [9536/06]

Written Answers — Local Government Funding: Local Government Funding (7 Mar 2006)

Ciarán Cuffe: Question 594: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the research commissioned or carried out by his Department into the use of site or land value tax. [9538/06]

Written Answers — Local Government Funding: Local Government Funding (7 Mar 2006)

Ciarán Cuffe: Question 595: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the research commissioned or carried out by his Department into replacing or supplementing the system of commercial rates. [9539/06]

Written Answers — Local Authority Staff: Local Authority Staff (7 Mar 2006)

Ciarán Cuffe: Question 593: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his plans to introduce legislation allowing for directly elected mayors for local authorities and town councils. [9537/06]

Written Answers — EU Directives: EU Directives (7 Mar 2006)

Ciarán Cuffe: Question 596: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will make a statement concerning reports that the EU Commission is threatening legal proceedings against the Government for failing to comply with environmental directives regarding the forestry programme. [9540/06]

Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (7 Mar 2006)

Ciarán Cuffe: Question 597: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the research conducted on the costs and expected future costs of a flood defence works for the draft guidelines for planning authorities on the preparation of development plans to be published shortly on dealing with risk from flooding (details supplied). [9541/06]

Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (2 Mar 2006)

Ciarán Cuffe: Question 94: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the large number of children who enter here unaccompanied and subsequently disappear; the measures she intends to take to safeguard against such disappearances; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3569/06]

Vaccination Programme. (2 Mar 2006)

Ciarán Cuffe: Question 9: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the cost to the State of introducing a free flu vaccine; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8608/06]

Written Answers — Forestry Sector: Forestry Sector (1 Mar 2006)

Ciarán Cuffe: Question 168: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the number of hectares of hardwoods which were harvested and sold by Coillte in the past five years. [8473/06]

Written Answers — Forestry Sector: Forestry Sector (1 Mar 2006)

Ciarán Cuffe: Question 169: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the number of hectares of hardwoods which were planted by Coillte in the past five years; the areas in which they were planted; and the native trees which were sown. [8474/06]

Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (28 Feb 2006)

Ciarán Cuffe: Question 111: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the implications of the Labour Court decision regarding FÁS's breach of agreed industrial relations procedures on the Government's decentralisation programme; the Departments and divisions in which applications have been withdrawn in the past six months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7931/06]

Written Answers — Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (28 Feb 2006)

Ciarán Cuffe: Question 514: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if Ireland will advocate the inclusion in the EU submission to the UNFCC on Article 3.9 of the Kyoto Protocol, currently being drafted by the Austrian Presidency, the proposal that industrialised countries consider emissions cuts of 60-80% by 2050 as proposed by him and his counterparts at their Council...

Public Order Offences: Statements. (28 Feb 2006)

Ciarán Cuffe: I intend to share my time with Deputies Crowe, Joe Higgins and Gregory. I compliment members of an Garda Síochána on their courage in the front line on Saturday and applaud the work they carried out. However, it must be asked whether the organisers of the Love Ulster parade really believed that marching through the streets of Dublin would further the peace process on this island. On a...

Public Order Offences: Statements. (28 Feb 2006)

Ciarán Cuffe: Deputy Mulcahy thinks he knows everything. I am glad to see the intelligence of Government Deputies revealed.

Public Order Offences: Statements. (28 Feb 2006)

Ciarán Cuffe: The underbelly of the Celtic tiger was exposed last Saturday. I urge the Minister to address the exclusion, as well as the criminality, that gave rise to the violence. Racism, bigotry and evil stalked the streets of Dublin, but there was also evidence that the State must increase its efforts to tackle social exclusion in 21st century Ireland.

National Emergency Plan. (23 Feb 2006)

Ciarán Cuffe: Question 8: To ask the Minister for Defence if he will report on the February 2006 meeting of the task force on emergency planning that he chairs. [7482/06]

Written Answers — Defence Forces Personnel: Defence Forces Personnel (23 Feb 2006)

Ciarán Cuffe: Question 37: To ask the Minister for Defence if he will report on the investigation of the Defence Forces and the report subsequently produced, into the alleged participation of Irish Defence Forces personnel while on career breaks in armed forces or other paid employment in Iraq; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7481/06]

Written Answers — International Agreements: International Agreements (22 Feb 2006)

Ciarán Cuffe: Question 150: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the agreements reached between Ireland and the United States and only recently revealed to Dáil Éireann; if the trawl of departmental records he subsequently ordered has revealed additional agreements or treaties negotiated in recent years but not placed before the Houses of the Oireachtas; and if he will make a statement on the matter....