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Tue, 30 May 2017
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Physical Education Facilities
Catherine Martin
199. Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 115 of 18 May 2017, the steps which will be taken to ensure adequate playing pitches and space for a secondary school built on the Harold's Cross greyhound stadium site, in view of the fact that there are no such facilities in the local area. [25800/17]
Tue, 30 May 2017
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Graffiti Policy
Catherine Martin
246. Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will reinstate funding for local authorities to help clean up graffiti (details supplied). [25797/17]
Tue, 30 May 2017
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Planning Issues
Catherine Martin
247. Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the reason for his apparent intention not to provide for public participation in his plan to exempt large-scale peat extraction from the requirement to obtain planning permission; and the way in which this decision not to consult the public is consistent with Ireland's obligations under Article 8 of the Aarhus Convention. [25798/17]
Tue, 30 May 2017
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Departmental Schemes
Catherine Martin
381. Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs her plans to run an outdoor infrastructure recreation scheme again in 2018 in view of the tight timeframe for applications to the 2017 scheme. [25793/17]
Tue, 30 May 2017
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Action Plan for Jobs
Catherine Martin
643. Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when the competitive call for project applications under the €40 million regional action for jobs fund will be announced. [25796/17]
Thu, 25 May 2017
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Schools Building Projects Data
Catherine Martin
102. Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary and secondary schools announced as new builds in 2012 that are still in temporary accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25105/17]
Wed, 24 May 2017
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School Accommodation Provision
Catherine Martin
34. Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Education and Skills the communicative process, the system of review and the progressing and implementation strategy in place between himself and the forward planning section of the planning and building unit of his Department in relation to ministerial announcements of new schools and or major builds, especially in respect of the regularity, frequency, nature and duration of such meetings between him and the section; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24726/17]
Tue, 23 May 2017
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Bord na Móna
Catherine Martin
278. Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if the changes to the planning status of large-scale peat extraction will be designed to ensure that there is no effective retrospective legalisation of extraction undertaken without environmental impact assessment. [24059/17]
Tue, 23 May 2017
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Bord na Móna
Catherine Martin
281. Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if changes to the planning status of large-scale peat extraction will be designed to ensure that the carbon sequestration and storage functions of peatlands, important to achieving the goal of carbon neutrality for the land sector, will be promoted in a cost-effective manner. [24149/17]
Thu, 18 May 2017
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Site Acquisitions
Catherine Martin
115. Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider a mixed non-religious school for the site of Harold's Cross greyhound track recently purchased by his Department; if so, the timeframe for development; the general plans for the site; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23696/17]
Thu, 18 May 2017
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Local Authority Staff Data
Catherine Martin
144. Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the staffing levels of each local authority compared to 2012. [23698/17]
Thu, 18 May 2017
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Planning Issues
Catherine Martin
145. Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans to change the planning status of large-scale peat extraction; and the public consultation he plans to undertake on proposed changes. [23699/17]
Thu, 18 May 2017
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Greenways Development
Catherine Martin
187. Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if progress on the provision of a pedestrian and cyclist route along the railway across the Broadmeadow estuary is being delayed due to a lack of resources in the National Parks and Wildlife Service, NPWS; and the NPWS's response to the draft proposal and natural impact assessment. [23697/17]
Thu, 18 May 2017
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Coillte Teoranta Activities
Catherine Martin
245. Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason Coillte has stopped afforesting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23695/17]
Thu, 18 May 2017
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Planning Issues
Catherine Martin
277. Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has been consulted by the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government on proposed changes to the planning status of large-scale community extraction; and if he has provided his views in response regarding the impact such changes could have on the carbon sequestration and storage functions of peatlands. [23700/17]
Wed, 17 May 2017
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Health Reports
Catherine Martin
213. Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Health if he has received a report on the external evidence review to inform the parameters of a revision of A Vision for Change; if he will publish same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23417/17]
Thu, 11 May 2017
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Refugee Resettlement Programme
Catherine Martin
40. Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to seek a review of the UNCHR policy in relation to resettlements of refugees here and in other countries with respect to the policy of deprioritising of children with long-term illnesses for resettlement in view of a recent report (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22410/17]
Tue, 9 May 2017
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Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Catherine Martin
84. Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the economic analysis which underpins the climate targets he has set out. [21897/17]
Tue, 9 May 2017
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Tax Reliefs Data
Catherine Martin
156. Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Finance the number of persons claiming relief under the special assignment relief programme for each year it has been in operation, in tabular form; the total value of tax relief on income granted for each year it has been in operation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21790/17]
Tue, 9 May 2017
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Tax Reliefs Data
Catherine Martin
157. Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Finance the number of relevant employees entitled to make a claim for relief under the special assignment relief programme who have made a claim for tuition fees for each year of operation, in tabular form; and the total value of such claims for each year of operation. [21791/17]