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Thu, 26 Mar 2015
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School Staff
Sean Conlan
231. Deputy Seán Conlan asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she will reverse her Department's decision to place a permanent teacher at a school (details supplied) in County Cavan onto the panel, in circumstances where the school has in excess of 25 hours allocated for resource and learning support, and has now lost two permeant teachers in one year. [12657/15]
Thu, 26 Mar 2015
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North-South Interconnector
Sean Conlan
260. Deputy Seán Conlan asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the reason the North South Interconnect Project did not have the same methodologies applied as grid west when considering viable underground route options, despite the fact that the independent expert panel had requested additional information in relation to underground options, and in particular the findings of the Tobin Report, which indicated that a trench of 1.1 metre wide and 1.35 metre in depth was required in comparison with the Parsons Brinckerhoff Power Report, which showed the necessity for a 20 to 22 metre working swathe, which meant that the local and regional roads were not wide enough; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12662/15]
Thu, 26 Mar 2015
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Departmental Funding
Sean Conlan
278. Deputy Seán Conlan asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht in view of the formal submission received, if she will provide funding for a World War One memorial at the Market House in Ballybay in County Monaghan; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12652/15]
Tue, 24 Mar 2015
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Departmental Offices
Sean Conlan
151. Deputy Seán Conlan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the directions given to locate offices in Ballybay, County Monaghan for the administrative arrangements for the public service card; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11267/15]
Tue, 24 Mar 2015
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Electricity Transmission Network
Sean Conlan
932. Deputy Seán Conlan asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if the Tobin report was within EirGrid's knowledge when the independent expert panel requested additional information regarding details of EirGrid's consideration of the suitability of public roads and disused railways lines for an underground cable route option; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11146/15]
Tue, 10 Mar 2015
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Departmental Offices
Sean Conlan
168. Deputy Seán Conlan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the reason her Department has failed and refused to engage in any meaningful process with the property owners (details supplied) in Ballybay, County Monaghan, who have made their town centre premises available to her Department as an alternative location for her departmental office, which is currently located at Main Street, Ballybay; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10117/15]
Tue, 10 Mar 2015
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Departmental Properties
Sean Conlan
228. Deputy Seán Conlan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason no proper consultation has taken place between the Office of Public Works, the Department of Social Protection and property owners in Ballybay, County Monaghan, to find an alternative premises to ensure that the Department of Social Protection jobs will be retained in Ballybay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10113/15]
Tue, 10 Mar 2015
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Departmental Properties
Sean Conlan
229. Deputy Seán Conlan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the steps that have been taken by his Department and the Office of Public Works to have an alternative premises in Ballybay, County Monaghan, made available to the Department of Social Protection; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10114/15]
Tue, 10 Mar 2015
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Departmental Properties
Sean Conlan
230. Deputy Seán Conlan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason, despite the fact that four property owners (details supplied) in Ballybay, County Monaghan, have offered their premises to the Office of Public Works, and have undertaken to do any upgrading works necessary at their own expense, his Department has failed and refused to engage with them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10115/15]
Tue, 10 Mar 2015
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Job Retention
Sean Conlan
260. Deputy Seán Conlan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will liaise with the Department of Social Protection and the Office of Public Works to ensure the social protection jobs are retained (details supplied) in Ballybay, County Monaghan; if he will ensure that Ballybay, as a rural town, does not suffer a wholly unnecessary blow with the loss of the second largest employer in the town; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10116/15]
Tue, 10 Mar 2015
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Health Services Staff Recruitment
Sean Conlan
405. Deputy Seán Conlan asked the Minister for Health if he will ensure that Health Service Executive districts implement the same policy as the executive has in place in County Galway in allowing interviews to take place via Skype for eligible applicants who were forced to emigrate (details supplied) and who wish to return home to work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10145/15]
Tue, 10 Mar 2015
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Hospital Facilities
Sean Conlan
410. Deputy Seán Conlan asked the Minister for Health the reason the on-site car park designated for the nursing staff of Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin, Dublin 12, has been reallocated by the Health Service Executive and provided to the doctors (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10266/15]
Tue, 10 Mar 2015
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Fuel Laundering
Sean Conlan
508. Deputy Seán Conlan asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the steps taken to stop pollution by toxic sludge from diesel laundering of the waterways in County Monaghan, in particular in the River Fane and Lough Muckno; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9993/15]
Tue, 10 Mar 2015
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Fuel Laundering
Sean Conlan
509. Deputy Seán Conlan asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will liaise with the Department for the Environment in Northern Ireland to set up a cross-Border task force to deal with the issue of pollution as a result of toxic sludge from diesel laundering in the Border areas of County Monaghan and south Armagh; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9994/15]
Tue, 10 Mar 2015
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Fuel Laundering
Sean Conlan
510. Deputy Seán Conlan asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if his Department will take water samples from the River Fane at Castleblayney, Inniskeen and Dundalk, and from various locations on Lough Muckno to have these samples properly analysed and to have the results of the testing made known to the persons in counties Monaghan and Louth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9995/15]
Tue, 10 Mar 2015
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Electricity Transmission Network
Sean Conlan
557. Deputy Seán Conlan asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if the Tobin report was used in assessing whether it was feasible to have the North-South interconnector project put underground; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10119/15]
Tue, 10 Mar 2015
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Departmental Funding
Sean Conlan
625. Deputy Seán Conlan asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide €7,675 in funding for a First World War memorial at the Market House, Ballybay, County Monaghan, for which funding has been requested by the Ballybay World War I committee; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10118/15]
Tue, 17 Feb 2015
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Live Register Data
Sean Conlan
161. Deputy Seán Conlan asked the Taoiseach the number of persons in County Monaghan and County Cavan who have signed off the live register since 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7134/15]
Tue, 17 Feb 2015
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Carbon Tax Implementation
Sean Conlan
211. Deputy Seán Conlan asked the Minister for Finance if he will review the carbon tax, in view of the competitive disadvantage suffered by suppliers in the southern Border counties, in comparison to their northern counterparts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6655/15]
Tue, 17 Feb 2015
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Departmental Funding
Sean Conlan
344. Deputy Seán Conlan asked the Minister for Health the funding his Department makes available to senior citizen community groups, in circumstances where it does not fall within the criteria for national lottery funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6652/15]