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Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (14 Jun 2005)

Séamus Healy: Question 698: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will restore the supernumerary allocation of 2.5 posts to south Tipperary VEC to alleviate the difficulty arising from the closure of a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19167/05]

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (14 Jun 2005)

Séamus Healy: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to discuss a matter of urgent national importance, namely, the rip-off of PAYE taxpayers by the cynical reduction of the amount of refuse charge payment allowable against income tax to €195 per annum when refuse charges now run at an average of €350 per annum and to allow the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local...

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (2 Jun 2005)

Séamus Healy: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter: the urgent need to suspend the process of ratification of the EU constitution given its rejection by French and Dutch voters in recent referenda and the stated objections to the process by Britain and the Czech Republic.

Driver Testing and Standards Authority Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed). (1 Jun 2005)

Séamus Healy: I am looking at the notice taken from the relevant website indicating the pass rates and waiting times at the various driver testing centres. There is a huge variation among the 48 centres. In my own county of Tipperary there is a pass rate of 51% and a waiting time of 53 weeks in Clonmel. There is a pass rate of 53% and a waiting time of 59 weeks in Nenagh. If I cross the border to the...

Requests to Move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (1 Jun 2005)

Séamus Healy: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise a matter of national importance, namely the urgent need for the Government to implement the Carers Association's national strategy for carers. Some 150,000 carers currently work more than 3 million hours each week, resulting in savings to the Exchequer of up to €2 billion annually.

Job Creation. (31 May 2005)

Séamus Healy: Question 32: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps he has taken and intends to take to address the serious unemployment levels in Carrick-on-Suir; the steps which have been taken by the industrial agencies to bring industry to the town, including the number of site visits to the town by these agencies for prospective industrialists; and if he will establish a jobs...

Job Creation. (31 May 2005)

Séamus Healy: It appears from the Minister's reply that he can tell us what is happening everywhere except in Carrick-on-Suir. He has told us the position in south Tipperary and in the south east generally. It seems the Minister will not accept that a persistently high level of unemployment in the town of Carrick-on-Suir is serious or indicates a crisis. Since the Government came to power in 1997, an...

Job Creation. (31 May 2005)

Séamus Healy: It has not had an impact.

Job Creation. (31 May 2005)

Séamus Healy: We must be factual and cannot bury our heads in the sand. When nearly 1,000 people are unemployed in a town of 5,000 people, that is a serious situation. Will the Minister meet a deputation from Carrick-on-Suir Town Council to discuss the matter?

Job Creation. (31 May 2005)

Séamus Healy: Will the Minister meet a deputation from Carrick-on-Suir?

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (25 May 2005)

Séamus Healy: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter: the funding problem affecting rape crisis centres due to the capping of funds since 2002, thereby undermining the ability of these centres to address the extensive, pervasive and ongoing evil effects of sexual violence.

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (24 May 2005)

Séamus Healy: Question 368: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if four resource teaching hours will be provided for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17253/05]

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (19 May 2005)

Séamus Healy: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to discuss the following matter of urgent importance: the need for the immediate location of emergency ambulance services in the town of Carrick-on-Suir in view of the failure of the ambulance services in Waterford and Clonmel to meet accepted response times, thereby putting patients' health and lives at risk.

Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (17 May 2005)

Séamus Healy: Question 56: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding decentralisation of sections of the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform to Tipperary town; the position regarding site acquisition; the number and category of staff involved and the number and category of staff who have applied to transfer to Tipperary town through the central applications...

Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (17 May 2005)

Séamus Healy: Question 71: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding the decentralisation of sections of the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform to Tipperary town; the position regarding site acquisition; the number and categories of staff involved; the number and category of staff who have applied to transfer to Tipperary town through the central...

Written Answers — Flood Relief: Flood Relief (17 May 2005)

Séamus Healy: Question 160: To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the Clonmel flood alleviation scheme; when his Department's proposals will be completed; when the promised statutory consultation process will commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16372/05]

Written Answers — Labour Inspectorate: Labour Inspectorate (17 May 2005)

Séamus Healy: Question 200: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when he intends to establish a properly resourced labour inspectorate including a substantially increased staff of at least 75 inspectors, increased powers for the inspectorate, provision of proper legal and other professional support for its inspectorate, statutory linkage with the trade union movement and substantially...

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (17 May 2005)

Séamus Healy: Question 370: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when she intends to approve resources, including a teacher and two special needs assistants, for a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary to enable the school to provide an educational service for one of its special needs students; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16374/05]

Written Answers — Waste Management: Waste Management (17 May 2005)

Séamus Healy: Question 401: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the details of the charging system for refuse collection and disposal for each local authority operating such a system; the changes in each case; when the consumer savings on the pay by volume or by weight system promised by the previous Minister will happen; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2005: Second Stage (Resumed). (12 May 2005)

Séamus Healy: I thank Deputies Cowley and Harkin for facilitating me. Many issues arise out of this Bill and I would like to address briefly the issues of the register of electors, voter turnout, polling days, electronic voting and the storage of electronic voting machines, the increase in the number of three-seat constituencies, the decrease in the number of five-seat constituencies and the diminution of...