Results 181-200 of 1,316 for in 'Written Answers' speaker:Mary Upton

Written Answers — Schools Refurbishment: Schools Refurbishment (19 Apr 2005)

Mary Upton: Question 451: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will review the funding approved for a school (details supplied) in Dublin 12 in order that laboratories can be upgraded in such a way as to avoid further additional wasteful disruption at a later date. [12006/05]

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (20 Apr 2005)

Mary Upton: Question 302: To ask the Minister for Education and Science further to Question No. 959 of 12 April 2005, if any complications arise with the school's application under the schools buildings and modernisation programme, for example, related to access to the school or the ownership of the ground. [12276/05]

Written Answers — Higher Education Grants: Higher Education Grants (26 Apr 2005)

Mary Upton: Question 397: To ask the Minister for Education and Science further to her reply to Parliamentary Question No. 149 of 14 April 2005, the terms of reference for the review mentioned in same. [12751/05]

Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (26 Apr 2005)

Mary Upton: Question 448: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding an application by a school (details supplied) in Dublin 10 for security fencing on the summer works scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13228/05]

Written Answers — Human Rights Issues: Human Rights Issues (28 Apr 2005)

Mary Upton: Question 15: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the Government's views on the conduct and outcome of the recent elections in Zimbabwe; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13560/05]

Written Answers — Overseas Development Aid: Overseas Development Aid (28 Apr 2005)

Mary Upton: Question 84: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on criticisms of Ireland's record on overseas development aid made by Mr. Bob Geldof at the launch of the report of the Africa Commission in London on 11 March 2005; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13559/05]

Written Answers — Disadvantaged Status: Disadvantaged Status (28 Apr 2005)

Mary Upton: Question 238: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will re-examine the need of a school (details supplied) in Dublin 6W to be given disadvantaged status; and the position regarding the school's application for additional resource teachers. [13844/05]

Written Answers — Third Level Education: Third Level Education (28 Apr 2005)

Mary Upton: Question 239: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the guidelines which are in place for third level colleges, including institutes of technology, for disciplinary procedures against students who behave inappropriately; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13845/05]

Written Answers — EU Directives: EU Directives (4 May 2005)

Mary Upton: Question 67: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the number of EU directives for which her Department has responsibility that are yet to be implemented; the number in respect of which the implementation date has passed; the steps being taken to ensure that all such directives are implemented; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14168/05]

Written Answers — Farmer Numbers: Farmer Numbers (4 May 2005)

Mary Upton: Question 72: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the number of farmers who have left full-time farming since 1997; her views on the fall in the number of full-time farmers; the steps she is taking to deal with the drift from the land; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14167/05]

Written Answers — Wheelchair Access: Wheelchair Access (4 May 2005)

Mary Upton: Question 214: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will review the accessibility of a Garda station (details supplied) in Dublin 12 to persons who are wheelchair-bound; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14126/05]

Written Answers — Economic Partnership Agreements: Economic Partnership Agreements (4 May 2005)

Mary Upton: Question 249: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if the Government will seek that the EU work with the 77 African, Caribbean and Pacific countries either to achieve at the WTO an extension of the Cotonou waiver or to change GATT Article XXIV in order that Europe can continue to give preferential access to poor countries; and his views on whether, in view of the fact that the EU 25 plus...

Written Answers — Economic Partnership Agreements: Economic Partnership Agreements (4 May 2005)

Mary Upton: Question 250: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the assessment which the Government has undertaken of the impact upon industrial and agricultural producers in Ireland's priority aid countries of the entry into force of EPAs which the EU proposes will include full liberalisation of 90% of trade with the poorest countries. [14154/05]

Written Answers — Economic Partnership Agreements: Economic Partnership Agreements (4 May 2005)

Mary Upton: Question 251: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the communications, meetings and other representations his Department has had with the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment regarding the EU requests for opening of markets under the proposed EPAs; the number and date of each; and if he will make documents from these meetings available to Dáil Éireann. [14155/05]

Written Answers — Economic Partnership Agreements: Economic Partnership Agreements (4 May 2005)

Mary Upton: Question 252: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the concerns his Department has raised with the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment in respect of the opening up of priority country markets to EU competition; and the areas of these markets which his Department has suggested be excluded from liberalisation. [14156/05]

Written Answers — Economic Partnership Agreements: Economic Partnership Agreements (4 May 2005)

Mary Upton: Question 253: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the representation his Department has had at EU 133 committee meetings considering liberalisation of trade with priority countries under EPAs in view of the fact that EPAs are being framed in the context of the Cotonou partnership for development co-operation. [14157/05]

Written Answers — Economic Partnership Agreements: Economic Partnership Agreements (4 May 2005)

Mary Upton: Question 254: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the consultations his Department has had with priority country Governments, the business community and civil society regarding their defensive interests in the EPA trade negotiations; the areas of concern which were highlighted through such consultations; the steps which have been taken by his Department to ensure that these interests are...

Written Answers — Economic Partnership Agreements: Economic Partnership Agreements (4 May 2005)

Mary Upton: Question 255: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the concerns his Department has regarding the regional groupings being established under EPAs; his views on whether Zambia, an Irish priority aid country, is forced by this process to decide between the two regional groups in which it has invested years of energy; his further views on whether it is appropriate for Europe, through EPAs, to...

Written Answers — Economic Partnership Agreements: Economic Partnership Agreements (4 May 2005)

Mary Upton: Question 256: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on whether there are parallels between, on one hand, the 19th century colonial exercise of the 1884 redivision of Africa and the simultaneous America for the Americans doctrine and, on the other, the contemporary redrawing of the economic map of Africa in EPAs and the parallel negotiation by the US of the free trade areas of the...

Written Answers — Economic Partnership Agreements: Economic Partnership Agreements (4 May 2005)

Mary Upton: Question 257: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his Department has made an assessment of industries in each of Ireland's priority countries which will most come under pressure through the liberalisation envisaged in EPAs; if he will identify these industries; the number of persons they employ; the capacity they have to adjust to competition from European exports inside the transition...