Results 141-160 of 16,492 for speaker:Ciarán Lynch

Schools Building Projects. (27 Nov 2007)

Ciarán Lynch: As the Minister of State, Deputy Wallace, is aware, Ballintemple national school on Crab Lane in Cork is full and therefore unable to cope with the increasing demand for school places within the parish. It is in the unenviable position of being unable to offer junior infant places to nine families from the parish for 2008. Furthermore, the 2009 and 2010 junior infant classes are greatly...

Schools Building Projects. (27 Nov 2007)

Ciarán Lynch: With the Leas-Cheann Comhairle's permission, I would like to get clarification on a key point. Will a design team be appointed immediately, especially as a timescale for the completion of this project needs to be set as a matter of urgency?

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (27 Nov 2007)

Ciarán Lynch: Question 264: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that acute orthopaedic services have been severely downgraded in the past 12 months in the Health Service Executive South Region (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31209/07]

Written Answers — Schools Refurbishment: Schools Refurbishment (27 Nov 2007)

Ciarán Lynch: Question 468: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason for the delay in advancing the refurbishment of a school (details supplied) in County Cork; the action she will take to advance this long standing matter; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30569/07]

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (27 Nov 2007)

Ciarán Lynch: Question 485: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when she will appoint a design team for the construction of a new national school in Ballintemple, County Cork, an area of rapid population growth; the completion date for same; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that nine families from the parish could not be offered junior infant places for 2008, that junior infant...

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (27 Nov 2007)

Ciarán Lynch: Question 500: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when her Department will complete the building of a new national school at Ballygarvan, County Cork; if her attention has been drawn to the overcrowded conditions in the existing school; if she will explain what is impeding progress; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30778/07]

Written Answers — Housing Grants: Housing Grants (27 Nov 2007)

Ciarán Lynch: Question 666: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if it is his intention that the allocation of funding for new house starts in 2008 will be sent to individual councils that is, town councils, borough councils, city councils and county councils or if it if his intention that the money be issued to the county councils to be disbursed by them; if the latter,...

Written Answers — Recycling Policy: Recycling Policy (27 Nov 2007)

Ciarán Lynch: Question 625: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will introduce legislation which will oblige businesses that deliver large household items such as white goods and furniture to private houses to remove the packaging for reuse or recycling; his views on whether payment into a packaging waste compliance scheme does not sufficiently encourage a...

Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2007)

Ciarán Lynch: The HSE is setting the prices.

Confidence in Minister for Health and Children: Motion (Resumed) (28 Nov 2007)

Ciarán Lynch: "I beheld the wretch — the miserable monster whom I had created." That is a quote from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein which goes to the centre of this debate and asks who is the villain of the piece, the entity created or the creator of the entity? The HSE is the creation of the Minister and like Shelley's Frankenstein it has grown completely and utterly beyond her control. The Minister told...

Confidence in Minister for Health and Children: Motion (Resumed) (28 Nov 2007)

Ciarán Lynch: It is seven years since the Government set out a plan to establish eight specialised centres of excellence to treat cancer. In that time of unprecedented prosperity, the Government has failed to provide the funding or leadership necessary to put these in place. I will give an example by quoting a letter which straddles that seven-year period. It states: Dear Patient. As a major research...

Written Answers — Employment Rights: Employment Rights (28 Nov 2007)

Ciarán Lynch: Question 68: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will report on progress made in the establishment of the Office of the Director of Employment Rights Compliance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31140/07]

Written Answers — Labour Inspectorate: Labour Inspectorate (28 Nov 2007)

Ciarán Lynch: Question 83: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of labour inspectors employed by the Labour Inspectorate of his Department; the number of labour inspectors available for assignment on normal duties; the number of labour inspectors in training following recruitment; the status of the recruitment campaign to increase the Labour Inspectorate to 90 inspectors;...

Written Answers — Tax Collection: Tax Collection (29 Nov 2007)

Ciarán Lynch: Question 41: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the number of tax payers in 2006 or the most recent year for which complete figures are available, who returned incomes of €38,000 or less; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31702/07]

Written Answers — Drug Seizures: Drug Seizures (29 Nov 2007)

Ciarán Lynch: Question 44: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the number of drug seizures, where the estimated value of the drugs seized has exceeded €100,000, since the year 2000; and the estimated value of drugs recovered in such seizures. [31793/07]

Written Answers — Drug Seizures: Drug Seizures (29 Nov 2007)

Ciarán Lynch: Question 45: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the estimated value of drugs seized and destroyed by the State since the year 2000. [31794/07]

Written Answers — Air Accident Investigations: Air Accident Investigations (29 Nov 2007)

Ciarán Lynch: Question 80: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has received a report of an incident on 17 October 2007 at Cork Airport in which an aircraft due to depart for the UK was pushed onto the taxi way without the correct procedures being followed, that the baggage hold was left unsecured and that the aircraft had to power down its engines to enable ground staff to secure the hold; and if he...

Written Answers — Irish Prison Service: Irish Prison Service (29 Nov 2007)

Ciarán Lynch: Question 155: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of dangerous weapons that have been seized in prisons in each of the past five years, broken down by year and by prison. [31788/07]

Written Answers — Prison Staff: Prison Staff (29 Nov 2007)

Ciarán Lynch: Question 156: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the amount the Irish Prison Service paid out in compensation claims to injured officers in each of the past seven years. [31789/07]

Written Answers — Sexual Offences: Sexual Offences (29 Nov 2007)

Ciarán Lynch: Question 157: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the numbers of offenders whose addresses are currently known to An Garda Síochána pursuant to notification under the Sex Offenders Act 2001 who are not in prison, and are under supervision by the probation and welfare service, broken down by year, nationality and Garda division. [31790/07]