Results 281-300 of 2,137 for speaker:Jerry Cowley

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (6 Feb 2007)

Jerry Cowley: Question 338: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the bed occupancy rate at Mayo General Hospital; the percentage of these beds occupied by elderly patients; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3976/07]

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (6 Feb 2007)

Jerry Cowley: Question 339: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of beds and the bed capacity available at the McBride Home, Westport, County Mayo; the number that were taken or closed at this facility for each of the past five years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3977/07]

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (6 Feb 2007)

Jerry Cowley: Question 340: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of beds and the bed capacity available at Áras Deirbhle, Belmullet, County Mayo; the number of beds that were taken or closed at this facility for each of the past five years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3978/07]

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (6 Feb 2007)

Jerry Cowley: Question 341: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of beds and the bed capacity available at the District Hospital, Belmullet, County Mayo; the number of beds that were taken or closed at this facility for each of the past five years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3979/07]

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (6 Feb 2007)

Jerry Cowley: Question 342: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of beds and the bed capacity available at the District Hospital, Swinford, County Mayo; the number of beds that were taken or closed at this facility for each of the past five years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3980/07]

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (6 Feb 2007)

Jerry Cowley: Question 343: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of beds and the bed capacity available at the Sacred Heart Home, Castlebar; the number of beds that were taken or closed at this facility for each of the past five years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3981/07]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (6 Feb 2007)

Jerry Cowley: Question 390: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if his Department is operating a policy of assisting in the closure of rural post offices in view of the changes of allowance payments to persons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3617/07]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (6 Feb 2007)

Jerry Cowley: Question 391: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason he has changed the payment method of allowances to widows and widowers from book format to swipe card format thus reducing the collections time of the allowance from three weeks to five days; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3620/07]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (6 Feb 2007)

Jerry Cowley: Question 396: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will review an anomaly which exists within the travel pass system (details supplied); his views on whether this is a flaw in the system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3986/07]

Written Answers — Milk Prices: Milk Prices (6 Feb 2007)

Jerry Cowley: Question 433: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she will intervene in the crisis situation which has arisen where a co-op (details supplied) is penalising farmers for low levels of lactose in the milk supplies and where some farmers are in a position that they have to pay the co-op instead of the other way around; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3514/07]

Written Answers — School Services Staff: School Services Staff (6 Feb 2007)

Jerry Cowley: Question 538: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will make a statement on the anomaly which exists regarding the payment of school secretaries, with some getting paid directly by her Department with proper salaries and pension entitlements while others doing the same work are reliant on the amount the school authorities decide to a pay them; and if she will make a statement...

Written Answers — School Services Staff: School Services Staff (6 Feb 2007)

Jerry Cowley: Question 539: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the fact that some school secretaries being paid directly by schools have not received the pay increase granted in July 2006 or the increase granted from January 2007, with schools pleading an inability to pay despite circulars sent from her Department to schools stating differently, her views on...

Finance Bill 2007: Second Stage (6 Feb 2007)

Jerry Cowley: I am more worried by what is not in this Bill. I was very pleased that the Minister for Finance looked after a number of constituencies, his own included, on the River Shannon. I welcome this. Since I entered the Dáil, I have been anxious to see such an initiative taken as regards my own area. I am speaking in particular about Ireland West Airport at Knock. This is a wonderful catalyst...

Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2007)

Jerry Cowley: What about cervical screening?

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31 (6 Feb 2007)

Jerry Cowley: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise a matter of major national and local importance, namely, the fact that while drift net fishermen in north-east England were given £70,000 a number of years ago as part of a buy-out agreed in the interests of salmon conservation, and £110,000 is being offered to the remaining drift net fishermen there as part of a further...

Written Answers — Ambulance Service: Ambulance Service (1 Feb 2007)

Jerry Cowley: Question 140: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if ambulance transport will be provided to enable a person (details supplied) in County Mayo living alone to travel from north Mayo to a hospital appointment in Galway; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3244/07]

Written Answers — Mental Health Services: Mental Health Services (1 Feb 2007)

Jerry Cowley: Question 141: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the action her Department will take regarding a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3246/07]

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (1 Feb 2007)

Jerry Cowley: Question 211: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the maximum grant aid amounts available to persons running a grocery shop in a rural, Gaeltacht area where the building urgently needs re-roofing and the installation of new windows; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3249/07]

Written Answers — Computerisation Programme: Computerisation Programme (1 Feb 2007)

Jerry Cowley: Question 240: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will issue a reply to a previous parliamentary question (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3247/07]

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (1 Feb 2007)

Jerry Cowley: Question 241: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason a person (details supplied) in County Mayo is not entitled to receive home tuition in view of the fact that their hearing has deteriorated to such an extent that it will make learning in a traditional teaching environment nearly impossible and their education is suffering badly as a result of same; and if she will make a...