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Airport Security. (12 May 2005)

Seán Crowe: I am glad to hear the delay has been reduced to 15 to 25 minutes. I was there on May Day weekend and it took me an hour to get through. Has the Minister visited the airport to examine the situation? One of the new security measures suggested is that people take their shoes off. Is there not a health and safety issue in regard to people taking their shoes off? Thousands of people go through...

Dormant Accounts (Amendment) Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (11 May 2005)

Seán Crowe: Everyone in the House would recognise that the decision to use dormant accounts for the public benefit was very positive. However, there were and are concerns regarding the Bill itself. The amount in question, some €200 million, means that new structures have had to be introduced, but the major concern is how that fund will be used. Will it be used as a slush fund? Genuine concerns and...

Dormant Accounts (Amendment) Bill 2004 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed). (11 May 2005)

Seán Crowe: What will the board do?

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (5 May 2005)

Seán Crowe: Question 275: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the difficulties experienced by students with special needs; and the new measures she proposes to introduce to create a system whereby a pupil's special needs supports will be seamless throughout their school life. [14594/05]

Suicide Levels: Motion. (4 May 2005)

Seán Crowe: An OECD study in 2002 placed Ireland second in the world's league table of people under 25 taking their own lives. As the motion states, it is the most common cause of death among young people between the ages of 15 and 24. Ireland has the highest suicide rate in the EU for this age group. The number of people killed on the roads has often been described as a national emergency, but suicide...

Consultancy Contracts. (4 May 2005)

Seán Crowe: Does the Taoiseach accept that lessons have been learned from the Quigley report? What were those lessons? Will there now be fewer contracts between Departments and public relations companies? Is the Taoiseach comfortable with the amounts spent on these lavish PR exercises? One company was paid more than——

Consultancy Contracts. (4 May 2005)

Seán Crowe: I am making the point that some companies have been paid a fortune for this. Is the Taoiseach comfortable with that?

Consultancy Contracts. (4 May 2005)

Seán Crowe: I am asking about the report itself and it is reasonable to ask about the amounts of money spent.

Consultancy Contracts. (4 May 2005)

Seán Crowe: Has the Taoiseach learned any lessons from the report, particularly in regard to many of the companies and the amount of money spent? I am sure he is aware of many projects in his own area where that money could be well spent.

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (4 May 2005)

Seán Crowe: I do not wish to raise a matter.

School Staffing. (28 Apr 2005)

Seán Crowe: I welcome the fact my colleague, Deputy O'Connor, has tabled a similar motion. We both live in the area — I in Raheen and he in Springfield. We are concerned that a school in which many in the area take great pride is under severe pressure and we seek to draw attention to its problems. The matter was raised last night during the debate on class sizes and it mirrors many of the problems...

Class Sizes: Motion (Resumed). (27 Apr 2005)

Seán Crowe: Last year, in the run up to the teachers' conferences, while the crisis in the education system bubbled and boiled to the surface, the former Minister for Education and Science, Deputy Noel Dempsey, hummed and hawed about whether he would attend. When he attended the teachers' conferences, John Carr of the INTO summed up the feeling of its delegates when he said "It's class size Minister"....

Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2005: Second Stage (Resumed). (27 Apr 2005)

Seán Crowe: It is not just politicians who are concerned by the proposed changes. People who live in the constituencies affected are also concerned. The impression might be given that it is just a matter of politicians looking after their own jobs, but there is a wider concern about many of the changes that are being proposed. It is important to put that on the record. We oppose the legislation because...

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (26 Apr 2005)

Seán Crowe: Question 449: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the anger and frustration at her decision to disband the advisory committee for the deaf and hard of hearing; and if there was any communication suggesting that the committee draw up a minority and majority report. [13233/05]

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (26 Apr 2005)

Seán Crowe: Question 450: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of persons on the NCSE tasked with advising her Department on policy matters and who come from a deaf or hard of hearing background in view of her decision to disband the advisory committee for the deaf and hard of hearing. [13234/05]

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (26 Apr 2005)

Seán Crowe: Question 451: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the effort she made as a newly appointed Minister to ensure that the advisory committee finalised its report in view of her decision to disband the committee; if her attention has been drawn to the two bodies of opinion shared by the committee; and if, in the absence of compromise, it was asked to come up with a majority and minority...

Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (26 Apr 2005)

Seán Crowe: Question 91: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the extra supports her Department plans to introduce in view of the long waiting list for parents looking to send their children to an all-Irish primary school in the Tallaght west area. [13123/05]

Written Answers — Schools Refurbishment: Schools Refurbishment (26 Apr 2005)

Seán Crowe: Question 121: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her Department sees a school (details supplied) in Dublin 1 playing any education role in future; and if funding will be made available for the refurbishment that is needed. [12749/05]

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (26 Apr 2005)

Seán Crowe: Question 197: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the ongoing crisis in public hospital accident and emergency departments as highlighted by the series of protests by the Irish Nurses Organisation, including the totally unacceptable situation in Tallaght Hospital (details supplied); and the measures that will be introduced in Tallaght...

Written Answers — Sports Funding: Sports Funding (26 Apr 2005)

Seán Crowe: Question 277: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism how much State funding has been made available for the building of a proposed stadium in Tallaght; and the position regarding the proposed future and finishing of this project. [13188/05]