Results 181-200 of 5,534 for speaker:Maureen O'Sullivan

Written Answers — Garda Stations: Garda Stations (29 Sep 2010)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Question 1144: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform further to Parliamentary Question No 175 of 6 July 2010, the position regarding Fitzgibbon Street Garda Station, Dublin; when will the station close for refurbishment; the length of time the refurbishment will take; if their is sufficient funding for the refurbishment to proceed. [33249/10]

Written Answers — Garda Resources: Garda Resources (29 Sep 2010)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Question 897: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the reason a Garda station (details supplied) in Dublin is under resourced regarding transport for the station. [31793/10]

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (29 Sep 2010)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Question 1145: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform his views on the way advanced directives will be formulated and to whom will they give authority and if this is being considered in new capacity legislation (details supplied); if he will be changing definitions in Article 3 of the Mental Health Act to bring them up to date. [33250/10]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (29 Sep 2010)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Question 1239: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding mortgage interest supplement for those in receipt of invalidity pension and not in mortgage arrears; if any provisions have been made for this group; if their mortgage interest supplement will be stopped completely; if this happens, and they sell their homes, may they apply to their local authority for housing;...

Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (29 Sep 2010)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Question 1413: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will provide details of the position of the European Commission in respect of the legal status and requirement for licensing of the parts of Haulbowline Island, County Cork, previously used for steel production storage and waste. [33424/10]

Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (29 Sep 2010)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Question 1440: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to any instances (details supplied) where the courts or local authorities have, following enforcement action, adjourned or reached settlement where the effect is to give the developer a defined period of tolerance; and if his attention has been drawn to any instances in which...

Written Answers — Animal Welfare: Animal Welfare (29 Sep 2010)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Question 1502: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the action he will take against coursing clubs who allegedly breached section 44 of the Wildlife Act by removing hares from islands without the permission of the landowners (details supplied); the steps that are being taken to prevent a recurrence. [33252/10]

Written Answers — Environmental Policy: Environmental Policy (29 Sep 2010)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Question 1506: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he is satisfied that the current failure of the Environmental Protection Agency to require an applicant to cease unlicensed operations while a licence application is under consideration meets with international best practice and legal requirements here for environmental protection. [33425/10]

Written Answers — Environmental Policy: Environmental Policy (29 Sep 2010)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Question 1523: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on whether the failure of the Environmental Protection Agency to require an applicant to cease unlicensed operations (details supplied) while a licence application is under consideration meets with international best practice and the Irish legal requirements for environmental protection. [33897/10]

Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (29 Sep 2010)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Question 1507: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has considered the possibility of administrative sanctions rather than criminal sanctions in relation to planning enforcement, allowing penalties to be imposed without a criminal record being created. [33426/10]

Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (29 Sep 2010)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Question 1509: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his plans he has to improve the enforcement of the Planning Acts; if he would consider a Statutory Instrument defining the purposes of the enforcement powers and the duties of local authorities, including the level of evidence required, to ensure that enforcement powers are not used as a method of...

Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (29 Sep 2010)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Question 1511: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if planning enforcement officials in the local authorities are part of a network enabling them to increase their abilities and share in their knowledge of their legal responsibilities; and if not if he has any plans to assist in the establishment of such a network. [33431/10]

Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (29 Sep 2010)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Question 1508: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if any instances have come to his attention of retention being permitted by a local authority for a project falling under the Environmental Impact Assessment Directive since his circular letter Circular PD 5/08 of 15 August 2008 detailing the illegality of such consents. [33427/10]

Written Answers — National Parks and Wildlife Service: National Parks and Wildlife Service (29 Sep 2010)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Question 1510: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if officials of the National Parks and Wildlife Service are part of a network enabling them to increase their abilities to ensure the implementation of European law and share in their knowledge of their legal responsibilities; and if not if he has any plans to assist in the establishment of such a network....

Written Answers — Environmental Policy: Environmental Policy (29 Sep 2010)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Question 1512: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the involvement he has in the training of the Judiciary to build their capacity to deal with environmental litigation and access to justice under European environmental law and the Aarhus Convention. [33432/10]

Written Answers — Alternative Energy Projects: Alternative Energy Projects (29 Sep 2010)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Question 1526: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he is addressing the competition for forestry thinnings between State subsidised biomass projects and private utilization. [33421/10]

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (29 Sep 2010)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Question 1542: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if his attention has been drawn to proposals to amalgamate part or all of Coillte Teo and Bord na Mona. [33434/10]

Written Answers — Afforestation Programme: Afforestation Programme (29 Sep 2010)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Question 1616: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he has considered, in the context of the ongoing review of afforestation, premia including areas of scrubland as eligible for such premia to allow the increase of the national forest estate without the need for payment of establishment grants and to reduce the number of wildfires used for controlled management of...

Written Answers — Afforestation Programme: Afforestation Programme (29 Sep 2010)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Question 1617: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the position regarding the proposed scheme in the Revised Programme for Government through which some of the moneys currently set aside to purchase carbon credits abroad will be diverted for forestry investment here. [33412/10]

Written Answers — Afforestation Programme: Afforestation Programme (29 Sep 2010)

Maureen O'Sullivan: Question 1618: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will provide a list of derogations from the obligation to replant forestry given in the past five years, distinguishing between those given on environmental grounds and those given for commercial purposes.. [33420/10]