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Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (5 Apr 2007)

Dan Boyle: Question 342: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the restrictions that exist in qualifications for employees stamps paid by persons who had worked in the 1940s and 1950s; and his plans to remove these restrictions. [13655/07]

Written Answers — Road Safety: Road Safety (5 Apr 2007)

Dan Boyle: Question 367: To ask the Minister for Transport if he is satisfied with testing arrangements for the safety of buses operated by Bus Éireann and Dublin Bus; if similar testing standards apply in each company; and his views on whether such testing should be carried out by an independent agency. [13651/07]

Written Answers — Departmental Funding: Departmental Funding (5 Apr 2007)

Dan Boyle: Question 381: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if funding or grant aid for the development of a golf course (details supplied) in County Kerry was arranged through his Department or related bodies or projects, for example, CLÁR funding; if so when and the grounds on which it was granted; and the amount in relation to same. [13644/07]

Written Answers — Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (5 Apr 2007)

Dan Boyle: Question 512: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on following the example of the British Government and putting in place carbon offsetting measures to counteract travel undertaken by Government officials and civil servants when travelling on behalf of State. [10149/07]

Written Answers — Special Areas of Conservation: Special Areas of Conservation (5 Apr 2007)

Dan Boyle: Question 523: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if a golf course (details supplied) in County Kerry, or parts of it, have been designated an area of national beauty or special area of conservation; if so, the conservation steps being taken to ensure the continuing status and beauty of this area during the construction and operation of this golf course; if...

Written Answers — Special Areas of Conservation: Special Areas of Conservation (5 Apr 2007)

Dan Boyle: Question 524: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the steps being taken to ensure the conservation of the protected Gallauns on a golf course (details supplied) in County Kerry in view of the fact that the protective steps required by the planning permission seem not to have been taken. [13629/07]

Order of Business (5 Apr 2007)

Dan Boyle: Instinctively my party opposes the idea of a two-week break at Easter when there is still so much business to deal with. Coming near the end of the fifth year of the 29th Dáil, the argument is rather why we should bother coming back after the Easter recess. This Dáil has reached the end of its natural life. It is time to go to the people and on those grounds I will not be opposing the...

Order of Business (5 Apr 2007)

Dan Boyle: My party supports the call for a debate on the MacEntee report, which has been long-awaited and much delayed. In the time remaining to it, the Dáil should take the earliest possible opportunity to have such a debate because the report reveals important issues which require discussion in the House.

Order of Business (5 Apr 2007)

Dan Boyle: I wish to ask about a number of Bills and the prioritisation that might be given by Government in the short time we have available. Is the Tánaiste confident sufficient time will be made available for all Stages of Bills such as the Defamation Bill and the Ethics in Public Office Bill? Will the Child Care (Amendment) Bill come back for its Final Stages? I understand the long-awaited...

Order of Business (5 Apr 2007)

Dan Boyle: Yet we are off for two weeks.

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31 (5 Apr 2007)

Dan Boyle: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to discuss a matter of urgent and public importance, namely, to allow the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government to make a statement on the continued illegal dumping of animal carcasses at an unapproved site in Glanmire, County Cork.

Written Answers — International Agreements: International Agreements (4 Apr 2007)

Dan Boyle: Question 14: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when, in view of the Government's decision to sign the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on 30 March 2007, the Government will ratify the Convention in order that it can enter into force; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12989/07]

Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (4 Apr 2007)

Dan Boyle: Question 29: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the facility for access by persons with disabilities to his Department Headquarters on St Stephen's Green; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12990/07]

Price Inflation. (4 Apr 2007)

Dan Boyle: Given the Minister of State's admission and the information he provided indicating that the proportion of expenditure on tobacco is declining, what would be the effect of removing tobacco from the CPI calculation? He referred to the approach taken in Belgium and France of producing a sub-index of their consumer price indices. Is it not the case that the state is the retailer of tobacco...

Written Answers — Airport Development Projects: Airport Development Projects (3 Apr 2007)

Dan Boyle: Question 124: To ask the Minister for Transport the cost benefit analysis his Department has received on the proposed Terminal 2 development at Dublin airport; the way funding will be provided for the project; the return expected on the development; the way charges at Dublin Airport will be raised to cover the cost of this project; and the powers that exist to compel airline operators to use...

Written Answers — Taxi Regulations: Taxi Regulations (3 Apr 2007)

Dan Boyle: Question 115: To ask the Minister for Transport the level of accessibility of wheelchair accessible taxis in Dublin; the measures he will take to improve such availability; and the reason the Government has failed to live up to the commitment that was made by the Government at the moment of liberalisation of the Dublin taxi market that by the end of 2003 all taxis in the capital would be...

National Development Finance Agency (Amendment) Bill 2006: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Apr 2007)

Dan Boyle: Regardless of the fact that the Department or the Minister will respond to the report of the Committee of Public Accounts by way of a minute, there is an opportunity in this Bill to insert certain principles in respect of PPPs. The report of the Committee of Public Accounts was clear that there are three reasons that consideration should be given to using a PPP. One would be to use it as an...

National Development Finance Agency (Amendment) Bill 2006: Report Stage (3 Apr 2007)

Dan Boyle: It seems I am the only party finance spokesperson present for this debate. If it continues after 8.30 p.m., however, perhaps other spokespersons will also have an opportunity to contribute. I fully support Deputy Bruton's amendment. The principle of the legislation has been accepted as a requirement for an oversight mechanism for the use of PPPs by the State and its agencies. Deputy...

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31 (3 Apr 2007)

Dan Boyle: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil to discuss a matter of national importance, namely, that the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment make a statement on the decision of the Amgen Corporation to delay by two years the start of its operations in Carrigtwohill, County Cork, and the implications of this on the employment situation in the greater Cork area, particularly in the light of...

Leaders' Questions (3 Apr 2007)

Dan Boyle: Doing a marvellous job.