Results 481-500 of 2,550 for speaker:Paul Gogarty

Written Answers — Horticulture Sector: Horticulture Sector (15 Nov 2005)

Paul Gogarty: Question 154: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if her attention has been drawn to the issues facing landscape gardeners; if she will liaise with the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government to facilitate the development of composting collection points and facilities in view of the growing importance of the amenity sector for horticulturists. [34237/05]

Written Answers — Alternative Energy Projects: Alternative Energy Projects (15 Nov 2005)

Paul Gogarty: Question 299: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if a grant or other financial assistance is available to single residences for the installation of solar panels; his plans to introduce such a grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34022/05]

Housing Policy: Statements (Resumed). (16 Nov 2005)

Paul Gogarty: I very much welcome this opportunity to make a statement on the current housing crisis, although I would have preferred it if the time had been used more profitably to debate proper legislation on housing that might make it easier for people to afford a home and more difficult for investors to buy up seven, eight or nine houses, as they are doing in my constituency, essentially pricing the...

Written Answers — Alternative Energy Projects: Alternative Energy Projects (16 Nov 2005)

Paul Gogarty: Question 100: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the measures he intends to take to promote the development of micro scale renewable energy here, as is requested under EU Directive 2001/77/EC. [34539/05]

Written Answers — Alternative Energy Projects: Alternative Energy Projects (16 Nov 2005)

Paul Gogarty: Question 106: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if his Department intends to replicate the system of grants and credits for renewable energy that are available in Northern Ireland in view of the development of an all-Ireland energy market for electricity generation. [34540/05]

Departmental Programmes. (22 Nov 2005)

Paul Gogarty: Question 86: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the nature of the advice on alcohol policy provided by Target Health; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35439/05]

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (22 Nov 2005)

Paul Gogarty: Question 174: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the length of time she intends to allow the voluntary code for advertising to continue before she will introduce the alcohol products Bill; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35440/05]

Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy. (23 Nov 2005)

Paul Gogarty: I express my sympathy to Hazel, the boys, Ciara, Noel and other members of Liam Lawlor's family. Were it not for the dignity shown by the family in recent weeks, I would be tempted to use the Dáil privilege I am honoured to have to lambast every member of the media who so scurrilously and parasitically wrote about Liam Lawlor in the wake of his tragic death. However, given the dignity shown...

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (23 Nov 2005)

Paul Gogarty: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate a matter of national importance, namely, the increasing levels of obesity among our young people and the barriers to tackling them, including the successful marketing schemes run in schools by companies peddling unhealthy addictive foods due to a shortage of resources in our education system and the additional lack of...

Written Answers — Data Collection: Data Collection (23 Nov 2005)

Paul Gogarty: Question 57: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he intends to make legislative changes to provide for the recording of soft information regarding people who have been identified as a risk to children but who do not have a criminal conviction for child abuse; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35762/05]

Written Answers — Asylum Applications: Asylum Applications (23 Nov 2005)

Paul Gogarty: Question 107: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of persons refused leave to enter at the country's ports of entry from January 2005 to end October 2005; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35763/05]

Written Answers — Cycle Facilities: Cycle Facilities (24 Nov 2005)

Paul Gogarty: Question 38: To ask the Minister for Transport his plans to improve cycle facilities in Dublin in view of the high levels of informal cycle parking in the city centre indicating an insufficient number of cycle parking facilities and the correlative huge increase in bicycle thefts in 2005. [36060/05]

Written Answers — National Car Test: National Car Test (24 Nov 2005)

Paul Gogarty: Question 52: To ask the Minister for Transport if he could clarify that under the terms of the tender, the NCT is to operate under accreditation by the Irish National Accreditation Board within four years of the commencement of operation; and if so, the reason it is not currently the case. [36059/05]

Information Technology Programme. (29 Nov 2005)

Paul Gogarty: A total of 117 projects were announced under the e-inclusion fund but is the Minister of State aware that vocational education committees run many adult education courses? The cost of paying extra fees to these teachers has been passed directly to the people attending the courses, including senior citizens. The age limit for defining a senior citizen has been increased by ten years making it...

Tourism Revenue. (29 Nov 2005)

Paul Gogarty: Does the Minister of State acknowledge that irrespective of whether one calculates the figures using the consumer price index or, as I did, by making a rough estimate of the inflation rate in a given year, the result will show that tourism expenditure has not increased over the rate of inflation? Does he agree that this raises serious questions, particularly given the threat posed by the...

Tourism Revenue. (29 Nov 2005)

Paul Gogarty: Will the Minister of State, on behalf of the Taoiseach, acknowledge that expenditure by tourists has not increased, primarily due to a decline in the number of walking holidays, and that action is needed on this issue?

Tourism Revenue. (29 Nov 2005)

Paul Gogarty: I have two questions. The first relates to the cross-Border issue raised by Deputy Ó Caoláin. Is there any way, even anecdotally, of devising some form of analysis of the cross-Border figures to show how many people from overseas access the Republic via Northern Ireland as opposed to the many people resident there? They are different demographics and it would be interesting to view those...

Litter Pollution. (29 Nov 2005)

Paul Gogarty: Question 10: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on whether the distributors of free newspapers should be compelled to make arrangements for recollection and recycling of the paper. [36676/05]

Written Answers — State Agencies: State Agencies (29 Nov 2005)

Paul Gogarty: Question 28: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the reason the steering committee of the Irish Heritage Trust does not include representatives of kindred bodies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36675/05]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (29 Nov 2005)

Paul Gogarty: Question 151: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if and when eyesight and hearing testing will be carried out for senior infants at a school (details supplied) in County Dublin in the coming year. [36444/05]