Results 41-60 of 1,319 for speaker:Paudge Connolly

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

Paudge Connolly: Question 311: 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 St. James's Hospital, Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11324/07]

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

Paudge Connolly: Question 312: 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 the Mater Hospital, Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11325/07]

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

Paudge Connolly: Question 313: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans for the introduction of the helicopter emergency medical service; the progress to date; when it is expected to come on stream; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11326/07]

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31 (27 Mar 2007)

Paudge Connolly: I wish to seek the adjournment of the Dáil to discuss a matter of national importance namely, the report of the National Cancer Registry; its implications for people living outside the eastern region whom the report reveals are less likely to receive radiotherapy for breast cancer or surgery for prostate cancer; the delay in the full national roll-out of both BreastCheck and the cervical...

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31 (22 Mar 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 recent unwarranted increases in baggage charges of multiples of the inflation rate by airlines Aer Lingus and Ryanair, further boosting their record profits at the expense of the travelling public; the scandalous 71% hike in baggage charges by...

European Council Meeting: Statements (21 Mar 2007)

Paudge Connolly: The March European Council meeting was dominated by the development of an energy policy for Europe. With climate change such a pressing and visible issue, it is no surprise that the question of renewable energy targets form the core of the Council's recommendations. The Council's plan encompasses the opening up of gas and electricity markets, security of supply, energy efficiency and...

Written Answers — Financial Services Regulation: Financial Services Regulation (20 Mar 2007)

Paudge Connolly: Question 329: To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to regulate the lifetime mortgage sector and equity release schemes under which vulnerable elderly persons are required to draft wills, and executors of elderly persons' estates are required to sign prior contracts of cooperation with banks in the event of the borrowers' deaths; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10378/07]

Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (20 Mar 2007)

Paudge Connolly: Question 430: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the way she will select the members of the public, with regard to her recent statement that a key element of the consultancy process on the location of the new North East Area Regional Hospital will involve the Health Service Executive inviting the public to make a submission on the hospital location; and if she will make a statement...

Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (20 Mar 2007)

Paudge Connolly: Question 431: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the way the Health Service Executive proposes to invite other interested parties to make a submission on the proposed new North East Regional Hospital location; the interested parties that will be invited; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9940/07]

Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (20 Mar 2007)

Paudge Connolly: Question 432: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if, having regard to her recent statement regarding the Health Service Executive's assurance to her that in progressing the reorganisation of services in the north east, there will be no discontinuation of existing services until suitable alternative arrangements have been put in place, this refers to the establishment of the new...

Written Answers — Infectious Diseases: Infectious Diseases (20 Mar 2007)

Paudge Connolly: Question 493: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on a leaked Health Service Executive report indicating that as many as 250 people annually die from MRSA contracted in Irish hospitals, despite virtually no such fatalities being properly attributable to the hospital acquired infection; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10367/07]

Written Answers — Infectious Diseases: Infectious Diseases (20 Mar 2007)

Paudge Connolly: Question 494: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on a leaked Health Service Executive report which indicates that the numbers of people contracting MRSA in hospitals is five times higher than the levels shown by official records; her proposals to address this critical situation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10368/07]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (20 Mar 2007)

Paudge Connolly: Question 596: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his plans to introduce an all-Ireland island-wide free travel for persons on a disability pension; his reasons for excluding same from the all-Ireland free travel scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9687/07]

Leaders' Questions (20 Mar 2007)

Paudge Connolly: Exposing them to greater risks.

Leaders' Questions (20 Mar 2007)

Paudge Connolly: Does the Taoiseach know that 25% of medical patients in Drogheda Hospital spend their entire stay in the accident and emergency unit? This is what he holds up as a world-class service. This is no world-class service.

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31 (8 Mar 2007)

Paudge Connolly: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise a matter of urgent national importance, namely, the urgent necessity to reduce primary school class sizes, which are currently the second-largest in the enlarged EU; the extreme difficulties experienced by teachers in endeavouring to effectively deliver the new primary school curriculum in overcrowded classrooms; the...

Rail Freight: Motion (Resumed) (7 Mar 2007)

Paudge Connolly: This motion is particularly timely in view of last week's report from the European Environment Agency, the EEA. The report stated that Ireland's transport sector has been responsible for an increase in greenhouse gas emissions six times the European average. This increase constitutes a major obstacle, albeit an avoidable one, to the EU's reaching its Kyoto climate change targets....

Written Answers — Human Rights Issues: Human Rights Issues (6 Mar 2007)

Paudge Connolly: Question 209: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when, as the sole EU Justice Minister without anti-trafficking legislation in place, he will bring forward legislation criminalising the trafficking of human beings for the purposes of labour or sexual exploitation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8788/07]

Written Answers — Accident and Emergency Services: Accident and Emergency Services (6 Mar 2007)

Paudge Connolly: Question 315: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to regulate visiting times in accident and emergency departments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8786/07]

Written Answers — Accident and Emergency Services: Accident and Emergency Services (6 Mar 2007)

Paudge Connolly: Question 316: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will have the nurse patient ratio checked and addressed in relation to accident and emergency departments in the interests of patient safety; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8787/07]