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Written Answers — Food Industry: Food Industry (24 Apr 2007)

Paudge Connolly: Question 757: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food her plans to ensure that an accurate annual register of potato growers is put in place, which would provide the industry with accurate records of areas and locations of potato planting here each year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14515/07]

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (24 Apr 2007)

Paudge Connolly: Question 758: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food her plans to fund and implement a 40% grant scheme for on-farm grain storage and processing facilities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14516/07]

Written Answers — Food Industry: Food Industry (24 Apr 2007)

Paudge Connolly: Question 759: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food her plans to ensure that farmers and their representative associations be permitted to negotiate prices and conditions for their products against powerful big business interests; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14517/07]

Written Answers — Farm Inspections: Farm Inspections (24 Apr 2007)

Paudge Connolly: Question 760: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if, in relation to on-farm inspections, she will ensure that 14 days advance notice of inspections for all schemes will be given; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14518/07]

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31 (24 Apr 2007)

Paudge Connolly: I seek the adjournment of Dáil Éireann under Standing Order 31 to discuss the following matter of urgent public and national concern, namely, the external remedial works scheme at Mullaghmatt housing estate, Monaghan town, whereby residents of Mullaghmatt are being required to finance external painting and other remedial works within the front curtilage of privately-owned houses in the...

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31 (5 Apr 2007)

Paudge Connolly: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to discuss the following matter of urgent public and national concern, namely, the likely disenfranchisement of thousands of third level students in the forthcoming general election due to their inability to return to vote in their home constituencies on polling day, signalled by the Taoiseach to take place on a Thursday; the...

Kyoto Protocol: Motion (Resumed) (4 Apr 2007)

Paudge Connolly: I welcome and support the motion. There is more carbon dioxide in the air than ever before, not just in measurable parts per million, and the rise in CO2 levels is increasingly the subject of public controversy. Some people feel the rise in emissions is no less a threat than terrorism, avian influenza or rising oil prices. The planetary consequences of atmospheric carbon dioxide are what...

Nurses' Dispute: Statements (3 Apr 2007)

Paudge Connolly: I also take this opportunity to support the nurses' demands. There are seven or eight demands, but there are only three core demands, namely, the anomaly with other grades, the 35-hour week and the 10.5% pay lag behind equivalent grades. This has the hallmarks of becoming a very dirty dispute. Officials from the HSE stated that they had contingency plans, but I believe the contingency plans...

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31 (3 Apr 2007)

Paudge Connolly: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to discuss a matter of national and local importance, namely, the so-called EU third directive, which seeks to fully liberalise the postal service market in Europe by 2009; the potentially disastrous consequences of the directive's implementation, entailing extensive job losses in existing services to be replaced by temporary...

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (29 Mar 2007)

Paudge Connolly: Question 230: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason it is proposed to terminate the employment of the eighth assistant teacher in a school (details supplied) in County Monaghan from September 2007; if she has taken extenuating circumstances into account; if she has considered the class amalgamations that will ensue from the loss of the teacher resulting in several multiple...

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31 (29 Mar 2007)

Paudge Connolly: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil to discuss a matter of national importance, namely, the report of the Ombudsman for Children which has highlighted the lack of independent assessment of residential care services for children with disabilities; the fact that the Social Services Inspectorate has no responsibility for the inspection of these services; the significant increase in the number of...

Arts Funding. (28 Mar 2007)

Paudge Connolly: Question 63: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism his proposals to progress a new theatre in Monaghan town, which would be an invaluable asset to tourism in the county; the timeframe he envisages for the project; the funding that he will make available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11823/07]

Arts Funding. (28 Mar 2007)

Paudge Connolly: I note that ACCESS I was successful but I understand the ACCESS II programme of €23 million included 25%, or approximately €6 million, specifically for new theatres. I understand there was to be an announcement before the end of March, so when will the Minister make the announcement? The Minister has stated he is considering the report but will his announcement come before the end of...

Arts Funding. (28 Mar 2007)

Paudge Connolly: The Minister has stated the new project in Monaghan is costed at €10 million and €6 million is being allocated for new theatres. Does the Minister not consider the amount to be inadequate?

Written Answers — Ambulance Service: Ambulance Service (27 Mar 2007)

Paudge Connolly: Question 306: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to provide a helipad service for use in an emergency or any situation at St. James's Hospital, Dublin, where none exists at present; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11319/07]

Written Answers — Ambulance Service: Ambulance Service (27 Mar 2007)

Paudge Connolly: Question 307: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to provide a helipad service for use in an emergency or any situation at Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, where none exists at present; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11320/07]

Written Answers — Ambulance Service: Ambulance Service (27 Mar 2007)

Paudge Connolly: Question 310: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to provide a helipad service for use in an emergency or any situation at the Mater Hospital, Dublin, where none exists at present; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11323/07]

Written Answers — Sudden Cardiac Death: Sudden Cardiac Death (27 Mar 2007)

Paudge Connolly: Question 308: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to fund the training of persons to become proficient in the use of defibrillators which are available in many communities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11321/07]

Written Answers — Sudden Cardiac Death: Sudden Cardiac Death (27 Mar 2007)

Paudge Connolly: Question 314: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to provide and fund the advanced course for persons in the use of defibrillators in communities where defibrillators are provided; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11327/07]

Written Answers — Ambulance Service: Ambulance Service (27 Mar 2007)

Paudge Connolly: Question 309: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the provisions that are currently in place to ensure the safe transfer by emergency helicopter or emergency air ambulance to Beaumont Hospital, Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11322/07]