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	<title>Cystic Fibrosis: Motion | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
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	<description>Ireland has the largest incidence of cystic fibrosis in the world.  Despite this fact, patients in Ireland have a ten year shorter life expectancy than their counterparts in Northern Ireland.  It...</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="360.1">Ireland has the largest incidence of cystic fibrosis in the world.  Despite this fact, patients in Ireland have a ten year shorter life expectancy than their counterparts in Northern Ireland.  It is a damning indictment of the Government and the Minister for Health and Children that this should be allowed to happen.  Cystic fibrosis sufferers have been ignored.  Their life-threatening condition has been swept under the carpet for far too long.  People living with cystic fibrosis have the ability to live full, active productive lives with normal life expectancies, provided the correct facilities and treatments are in place in our hospitals.</p><p pid="360.2">It is four years since the publication of the Pollock report and ten days ago the Minister made another attempt to long-finger the capital development works proposed for St. Vincent’s Hospital.  The provision of the promised 120-bed facility with 30 <i>en suite</i> rooms at St. Vincent’s Hospital is essential if this State is to adequately provide for cystic fibrosis sufferers.  In the last year alone, 25 cystic fibrosis sufferers have died.  For this reason the Minister must deliver on the political commitments she gave this House and the people of Ireland on the development of St. Vincent’s Hospital.</p><p pid="360.3">I want to draw attention to the plight of cystic fibrosis living in the mid-west, where sanction has been granted for two consultant positions based in Limerick Regional Hospital.  These positions will serve both adults and children suffering from cystic fibrosis.  For the first time the region will have respiratory consultants with specific skills in the treatment of cystic fibrosis.  These positions have been advertised and applications have been received, but this process has been ongoing since the original commitment was made two years ago.  I ask the Minister, Deputy Harney, to intervene with the Public Appointments Service, where this matter rests, and urge it to immediately move to interview stage and make these vital appointments as soon as possible.  The exact same position applies for the specialist nursing staff required.  Again, I insist that no barriers be placed in front of this process.  Advertising has commenced and applications have been received.</p><p pid="360.4">The other element of service provision in the mid-west is not as advanced.  I speak of the position of physiotherapists for adult sufferers of cystic fibrosis.  It is incomprehensible that there is not a cystic fibrosis physiotherapist in place for adult patients in Limerick.  I asked the Minister to expedite this process with the national employment monitoring unit of the HSE allowing the position to be advertised.  The Minister has identified the development of cystic fibrosis services as a policy priority of the HSE since 2006.  What has happened here over the last number of weeks is disgraceful.  How many times do cystic fibrosis sufferers have to use the media for the Minister and her Government to take the matter seriously and deliver on their commitments without trying to weasel their way out of them at the latter stage?</p><p pid="360.5">A shameful pattern is developing with the cervical cancer vaccine and cystic fibrosis.  The Minister and the HSE show an amazing ability to concentrate on the reneging of promises on health care delivery while sailing on regardless with more and more bureaucracy in clinical directorships, reviews of service provision and reinventing the HSE wheel on a more regional basis.  I ask the Minister to deliver on time for cystic fibrosis.</p>]]></content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2009-04-09T13:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
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	<title>Order of Business | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
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	<description>I am seeking an answer from the T&Atilde;&iexcl;naiste.</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="122.1">I am seeking an answer from the Tánaiste.</p>]]></content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2009-04-02T10:30:00+00:00</dc:date>
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	<title>Order of Business | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
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	<description>Will the T&Atilde;&iexcl;naiste intervene to prevent the implementation of this dangerous proposal on Monday?</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="119.1">Will the Tánaiste intervene to prevent the implementation of this dangerous proposal on Monday?</p>]]></content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2009-04-02T10:30:00+00:00</dc:date>
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	<title>Order of Business | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
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	<description>What legislation gives the Government the authority to close 24-hour accident and emergency services at Ennis General Hospital?</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="117.1">What legislation gives the Government the authority to close 24-hour accident and emergency services at Ennis General Hospital?</p>]]></content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2009-04-02T10:30:00+00:00</dc:date>
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	<title>Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
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	<description>Is it dealt with in that section? Fine Gael supports this Bill in principle and will table a number of amendments on Committee Stage, which I hope the Minister of State will take on board.</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="459.1">Is it dealt with in that section?</p><p pid="459.2">Fine Gael supports this Bill in principle and will table a number of amendments on Committee Stage, which I hope the Minister of State will take on board.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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	<title>Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
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	<description>I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Bill.  In the time that I have been a public representative, formerly as a member of Clare County Council and latterly as a member of the Oireachtas, I...</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="457.1">I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Bill.  In the time that I have been a public representative, formerly as a member of Clare County Council and latterly as a member of the Oireachtas, I can say without fear of contradiction that the provision of public homes and housing has been the single biggest issue I have encountered or will continue to encounter.  This fundamental issue has a profound influence on how people participate in, contribute to or engage with society.  It has been my experience as a public representative that once an individual or family’s housing needs are addressed and sorted out, their lives and how they contribute to the overall social and economic well-being of society changes dramatically.  It is for this reason a Bill such as this is so important.</p><p pid="457.2">Notwithstanding the enormous capital input into housing over the past 12 years by the Government, it is safe to say we have missed many targets.  The specific approach of the Government to the provision of housing in general has had an undue influence on where we find ourselves today.  It is interesting to note that Dr. Peter Bacon is back on the scene with regard to bad banks and such.  This time, I hope the Government chooses to listen to what he may say because in ignoring many of his earlier recommendations for the housing market, it has put us in a very weak economic position.</p><p pid="457.3">When presenting the Bill to the House, the Minister of State asked whether we are getting value for money from our investment, whether we are efficient and effective and, most important, whether we are protecting the most vulnerable sections of our society.  In order to answer the question on whether we are protecting the most vulnerable, the Minister of State must bring his proposals on homelessness before the House.  He must also consider providing for this on a statutory basis.  This issue was placed on the agenda during my first period as a member of Clare County Council and through the creation of the homeless forum all parties concerned sat down to work out a strategy for County Clare.  This was an interesting exercise and members such as the local authority, the HSE, the probation service and the voluntary sector came together to create their own plan.  That said, it was also interesting to see that some State agencies viewed it as an opportunity to absolve themselves of certain responsibilities, passing the buck, so to speak.  Placing the issue of providing for homelessness on a statutory basis could, possibly, alleviate this type of behaviour.</p><p pid="457.4">I take this opportunity to commend voluntary organisations such as the St. Vincent de Paul on its Trojan work on the issue of homelessness.  It was they, the representatives of the voluntary sector, who did most on this issue in Ennis in County Clare.  On the broader issue of homelessness, it is ridiculous that local authorities can invest large capital sums in building shelters and facilities for homeless people, but that these remain closed and unused because the HSE refuses to pay to staff them.  There must be a more integrated way to deal with the issue.</p><p pid="457.5">In response to the Minister of State’s question as to whether we are getting value for money from our investment, we need only look at what went on throughout local authorities over the boom years of the Celtic tiger.  It was quite common during the first six years of this century for county councils to buy back local authority housing which had been sold to tenants just ten or 15 years previously under the early tenant purchase schemes.  These houses were sold at a very competitive price initially, but the local authorities found themselves having to buy back stock they once owned at six to ten times what they sold it for.  This was ridiculous and is a prime example of just throwing money at a problem for the sake of it.  The practice is unsustainable and I welcome the provision in the Bill for the incremental purchase scheme.  This is a more natural approach to house ownership.  I understand and agree with the principle of Irish people owning their homes, but we cannot allow a repeat of what went on over the past ten years.  The State must have and maintain its own stock of housing that will allow people get on the path of home ownership.</p><p pid="457.6">This Bill is very much slanted towards local authorities, both executive and members, and the manner in which they go about their work.  The Minister of State asked about efficiency and effectiveness.  He need look no further than the voluntary housing sector and how it operates to find these.  In the past number of years there has been a significant and worthy contribution from this sector towards the provision of housing for their own communities through the voluntary housing scheme.  This housing provision works well.</p><p pid="457.7">In my constituency of County Clare, I have seen parallel housing provision from both the local authority and the voluntary sector.  However, the projects that come from and of the community are invariably more successful.  They do not seem to have the same problems as the local authority projects.  This is not to take from the fine work that local authorities do.  However, projects such as those provided at Kilmaley and Kilmihil in west Clare and, perhaps, the Áras Mhuire development in Tulla, are housing developments that have very strong roots in their communities.  These projects create a sense of empowerment for both the individuals who finish up with a home and the local committees who steward the project.  It is disappointing that this Bill does not reflect on this or provide any developments or improvements towards the concept of communities taking charge of their own housing needs.</p><p pid="457.8">The cost of the rental accommodation scheme, RAS, is no doubt one that will come under the budget microscope.  It cost the HSE some €441 million in 2008 and has increased by €91 million or 26% since its introduction.  This is, surely, an indication that some of our housing policies are not working as they should.  The Bill does not make provision to review the scheme.  This is a mistake.  The whole scheme should be more integrated into our local authority housing plans.  Two questions must be asked about RAS.  Does it provide the best value for money for the State?  What type of security of tenure does it provide for the participants?  If our housing policies were working correctly, we would see the aforementioned figure decrease year on year.  Without proper assessment and analysis of the RAS in the current economic climate, it could become a millstone around the Government’s neck.</p><p pid="457.9">I acknowledge the provisions within the Bill that extend more powers to local authorities to deal with anti-social behaviour.  The Minister of State should note the extreme difficulties created in some estates by a small number of people who have bought out their houses through the shared ownership scheme or the tenant purchase scheme.  The local authorities are left powerless in preventing them from engaging in anti-social behaviour.  This is a growing problem within local authority estates and needs to be addressed.  The local authorities should have the power to step in and deal with people who are creating absolute misery for their neighbours and the community at large.  Will the Minister of State re-examine this issue and introduce a section on Committee Stage to tackle it?</p>]]></content:encoded>
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	<title>Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
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	<description>I wish to share my time with Deputy Stanton.</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="455.1">I wish to share my time with Deputy Stanton.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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	<title>Social Welfare: Motion | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
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	<description>Exactly.</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="453.1">Exactly.</p>]]></content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2009-03-31T19:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
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	<title>Social Welfare: Motion | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
	<link>http://www.kildarestreet.com/debates/?id=2009-03-31.433.0&amp;m=146#g442.0</link>
	<description>The Private Members&acirc;�� motion tabled by Deputy Enright offers an opportunity to reflect on the more human aspect of the perilous financial situation in which the country finds itself.  It is an...</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="442.1">The Private Members’ motion tabled by Deputy Enright offers an opportunity to reflect on the more human aspect of the perilous financial situation in which the country finds itself.  It is an effort to provide practical support to people who are finding this period extremely difficult.</p><p pid="442.2">During the last significant recession in the 1980s, the critical issue was Ireland’s national debt which ultimately focused all minds on finding a solution.  This time round, the factors are significantly different.  Debt has in essence been transferred from the State to the citizen.  Personal debt in the form of credit card repayments, car loans, personal loans, hire purchase agreements and mortgages comes to hundreds of billions of euro.  The State, through its Government, must support its people to ultimately support itself.</p><p pid="442.3">Similarities in the treatment of customers can be drawn between how we purport to run our public service and what has happened with our banking system.  Historically, a bank manager was a community’s counterbalance, between those that had money to lodge and those that required a loan.  With the wisdom of Solomon, he adjudicated on what was put before him.  The system worked reasonably well for nearly 200 years, with the odd hiccup on occasion.</p><p pid="442.4">However, in the past ten years, when an individual’s car loan or a mortgage was approved, it was packaged up with many others to be sent off to Wall Street, London or the Docklands Financial Services Centre where somebody bet on the person’s ability to pay the loan back.  This dehumanising of the process has placed us in the current economic position in which we find ourselves.</p><p pid="442.5">With this in mind, it is only correct the Government should act by implementing this motion’s proposals in the redeployment of social welfare staff and the creation of legislation to address a matter that will become more prominent.  As a matter of urgency the Government must reallocate social welfare staff.  A Civil Service that is responsive to the needs of the people is required.  It is not acceptable for families to have to wait up to 16 weeks for welfare payments because of a shortage in staff to deal with claims.</p><p pid="442.6">More than 9,616 people in receipt of mortgage interest supplement, an increase of 134% over the number in receipt of this payment at the end of 2007, will become a time bomb for the Government.  Young couples and individuals are stretched on 25, 30 or 35-year mortgages with repayments of up to €2000 a month.  The loss of one job in such a household would have catastrophic consequences.  Any reduction in salary places an enormous strain.  Yet the new code on mortgage arrears does not sufficiently protect borrowers and fails to include any sanctions for breaches of the code.  The moratorium agreed by the banks and the Government must be monitored carefully in light of disagreements between the parties on its length.</p><p pid="442.7">The introduction on the website of the Department of Social and Family Affairs reads, “Our mission is to promote a caring society through income and other support services, enabling active participation in society, promoting social inclusion and supporting families”.  While such words are fine, it is the manner in which the mission is implemented that is key.  The modest proposals in this motion would go some way towards addressing the imbalances people are experiencing in this regard.</p>]]></content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2009-03-31T19:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
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	<title>Departmental Expenditure. | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
	<link>http://www.kildarestreet.com/debates/?id=2009-03-26.424.0&amp;m=146#g425.0</link>
	<description>Question 9: To ask the Minister for Finance  the Departments which have been reviewed to date by the McCarthy spending review group; if a series of options for expenditure savings in these...</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="425.0"><i>Question 9:</i> To ask the Minister for Finance  the Departments which have been reviewed to date by the McCarthy spending review group; if a series of options for expenditure savings in these Departments has been drawn up; and the form of evaluation of the options that is planned.  <b>[12532/09]</b></p>]]></content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2009-03-26T16:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
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	<title>Water Quality. | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
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	<description>Question 42: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government   the analysis his Department has conducted of municipal waste water treatment works; the effect those works...</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="342.0"><i>Question 42:</i> To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government   the analysis his Department has conducted of municipal waste water treatment works; the effect those works are having on water supplies; his plans to alter those works; and if he will make a statement on the matter.   <b>[10205/09]</b></p>]]></content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2009-03-11T13:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
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	<title>Order of Business | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
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	<description>Will the Taoiseach communicate further with me on the matter?</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="175.1">Will the Taoiseach communicate further with me on the matter?</p>]]></content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2009-03-11T11:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
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	<title>Order of Business | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
	<link>http://www.kildarestreet.com/debates/?id=2009-03-11.111.0&amp;m=146#g172.0</link>
	<description>Under the criminal justice (amendment) Bill, will the Taoiseach clarify the position on the new child detention facility in Lusk, County Dublin?  Given financial circumstances, will the new...</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="172.1">Under the criminal justice (amendment) Bill, will the Taoiseach clarify the position on the new child detention facility in Lusk, County Dublin?  Given financial circumstances, will the new facility go ahead or will it be parked like the Thornton Hall proposal?</p>]]></content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2009-03-11T11:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
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	<title>Schools Building Projects. | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
	<link>http://www.kildarestreet.com/debates/?id=2009-03-10.383.0&amp;m=146#g387.4</link>
	<description>Ennis CBS primary school is the standard bearer primary school in Ennis and has provided education for generations of families in County Clare.  The school educates 569 pupils and that figure is...</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="387.2">Ennis CBS primary school is the standard bearer primary school in Ennis and has provided education for generations of families in County Clare.  The school educates 569 pupils and that figure is set to grow to more than 590 students next September.  Last Friday Deputy Breen and I visited Ennis CBS and met the principal and representatives of the board of management and parents’ council.  In an Ireland of 2009 it is indefensible that the Minister for Education and Science has turned a blind eye to the fact that over 40% of the pupils of this school are being educated in a building that dates back to the 1930s.  Are we saying the 21st century student should be educated in early 20th century conditions?  It is a further scandal that another 30% of the population is being educated in temporary prefabs.</p><p pid="387.3">The principal, board of management and parents’ association have been very patient.  They have worked with Department of Education and Science officials on this project since initial talks dating back a decade to 1998.  Understandably that patience has turned to frustration and anger.  There is frustration at the delay in progressing the project to the tender and construction phase and anger at the Department’s complete failure to treat this school as a priority, given the number of students attending it.</p><p pid="387.4">It has been 20 years since the school, built to cater for 400 students, received a major upgrade.  It is worth pointing out what that means for staff and students.  The staff room has to double up as a part-time resource teaching room.  Parts of corridors have been converted into classrooms.  Cloakrooms have been converted into extra toilets and resource teaching space.  We are discussing an opportunity for the next generation of children.  We are discussing children having to cross the playground in all kinds of weather to access toilets.  If this were in a developing country we would be discussing it as a human rights issue.  That must stop.  I invite the Minister to Ennis CBS to see first hand the problems there.  It is appalling.  This school must go ahead in the very near future.</p>]]></content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2009-03-10T21:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
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	<title>Challenges facing the Health Service: Statements | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
	<link>http://www.kildarestreet.com/debates/?id=2009-03-10.244.0&amp;m=146#g330.0</link>
	<description>The team of reporters was stalled as well.</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="330.1">The team of reporters was stalled as well.</p>]]></content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2009-03-10T18:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.kildarestreet.com/debates/?id=2009-03-10.244.0&amp;m=146#g328.0">
	<title>Challenges facing the Health Service: Statements | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
	<link>http://www.kildarestreet.com/debates/?id=2009-03-10.244.0&amp;m=146#g328.0</link>
	<description>It was supposed to be published in January.</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="328.1">It was supposed to be published in January.</p>]]></content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2009-03-10T18:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.kildarestreet.com/debates/?id=2009-03-10.244.0&amp;m=146#g326.0">
	<title>Challenges facing the Health Service: Statements | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
	<link>http://www.kildarestreet.com/debates/?id=2009-03-10.244.0&amp;m=146#g326.0</link>
	<description>Will it be published prior to the local and European elections?</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="326.1">Will it be published prior to the local and European elections?</p>]]></content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2009-03-10T18:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.kildarestreet.com/debates/?id=2009-03-10.244.0&amp;m=146#g308.0">
	<title>Challenges facing the Health Service: Statements | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
	<link>http://www.kildarestreet.com/debates/?id=2009-03-10.244.0&amp;m=146#g308.0</link>
	<description>They have no facilities.</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="308.1">They have no facilities.</p>]]></content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2009-03-10T18:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.kildarestreet.com/debates/?id=2009-03-10.244.0&amp;m=146#g306.0">
	<title>Challenges facing the Health Service: Statements | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
	<link>http://www.kildarestreet.com/debates/?id=2009-03-10.244.0&amp;m=146#g306.0</link>
	<description>There are only three.</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="306.1">There are only three.</p>]]></content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2009-03-10T18:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.kildarestreet.com/debates/?id=2009-03-10.244.0&amp;m=146#g304.0">
	<title>Challenges facing the Health Service: Statements | D&amp;aacute;il debates</title>
	<link>http://www.kildarestreet.com/debates/?id=2009-03-10.244.0&amp;m=146#g304.0</link>
	<description>How many?</description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p pid="304.1">How many?</p>]]></content:encoded>
	<dc:date>2009-03-10T18:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
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