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Order of Business. (21 Apr 2005)

Séamus Healy: During the debate on the Health Act 2004, the Tánaiste assured the House that we would not be presented with another white elephant like the National Roads Authority and that we would receive answers to questions from her and her Department. When will the Tánaiste reply to health questions which other Members and I have tabled? When will she approve the acute medical unit for South...

Order of Business. (21 Apr 2005)

Séamus Healy: The matter has been with her Department for 12 months. When will the High Court agreement to provide general hospital services in south Tipperary be implemented?

Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (20 Apr 2005)

Séamus Healy: Question 219: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will immediately reverse the cutbacks by his Department of FÁS community employment schemes and remove the lifetime capping on participants of these schemes. [12284/05]

Written Answers — Ambulance Service: Ambulance Service (20 Apr 2005)

Séamus Healy: Question 163: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when it is intended to approve the location of an ambulance in the town of Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12273/05]

Written Answers — Hospital Accommodation: Hospital Accommodation (20 Apr 2005)

Séamus Healy: Question 164: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the approval, funding and opening of the completed units on the grounds of Our Lady's Hospital, Cashel and the proposed general practitioners unit at the hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12274/05]

Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (20 Apr 2005)

Séamus Healy: Question 165: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the approval, funding and opening of the acute medical unit at the South Tipperary General Hospital, Clonmel. [12275/05]

Written Answers — Unemployment Levels: Unemployment Levels (20 Apr 2005)

Séamus Healy: Question 218: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps he has taken and the steps he intends to take to address the very serious unemployment levels in the town of Carrick-on-Suir; the steps which have been taken by the industrial promotion agencies to bring industry to the town, including the number of site visits arranged by those agencies, by prospective...

Social and Affordable Housing: Motion (Resumed). (20 Apr 2005)

Séamus Healy: There are 70,000 families on local authority housing lists. Is that demand?

Social and Affordable Housing: Motion (Resumed). (20 Apr 2005)

Séamus Healy: Government policy was to build 5,000 local authority houses while 70,000 families are on the waiting lists.

Social and Affordable Housing: Motion (Resumed). (20 Apr 2005)

Séamus Healy: What about the local authority lists?

Social and Affordable Housing: Motion (Resumed). (20 Apr 2005)

Séamus Healy: What about the housing waiting lists?

Social and Affordable Housing: Motion (Resumed). (20 Apr 2005)

Séamus Healy: The most important thing the Government could do in response to this motion is to accept that a housing crisis exists. The housing crisis is a damning indictment of the abject failure of the Government to deal with the housing situation. It is a crisis when 70,000 families are on local authority housing waiting lists. It is a crisis when one has, as is the case in south Tipperary, a 40%...

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (20 Apr 2005)

Séamus Healy: I wish to seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise a matter of importance, namely, the urgent need for the Minister for Health and Children and the Health Service Executive to implement the High Court agreement for the provision of general hospital services for south Tipperary, including the transfer of general surgical services to the South Tipperary General...

Leaders' Questions. (20 Apr 2005)

Séamus Healy: They are non-existent.

Leaders' Questions. (20 Apr 2005)

Séamus Healy: There are fewer gardaí in Clonmel now than ten years ago.

Community Employment Schemes. (14 Apr 2005)

Séamus Healy: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for giving me an opportunity to raise this issue on the Adjournment. On 5 April, I received a letter from FÁS, the training and employment authority, in response to a representation I made to the authority regarding employment for a worker as a book-keeper. Part of the reply read as follows: Furthermore, the FÁS budget for Community Employment has been reduced by...

Leaders' Questions. (12 Apr 2005)

Séamus Healy: Hear, hear.

Request to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (12 Apr 2005)

Séamus Healy: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter of national importance: the ongoing cutbacks in FÁS community employment schemes, involving the loss of jobs, the closure of schemes and damage to the fabric of community life. I urge the Minister to remove immediately the three-year cap on these schemes and to make a statement on the matter.

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (23 Mar 2005)

Séamus Healy: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise a matter of urgent national importance, namely, in view of the recent inhumane deportations, the need for the Government to reverse these decisions and to declare an amnesty for all asylum seekers already resident in the State, and to ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform to make a statement on the matter.

Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (22 Mar 2005)

Séamus Healy: Question 562: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when her Department will commence the urgent upgrading of a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary with a modern building; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8881/05]