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Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (13 Mar 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: Question 531: To ask the Minister for Health if it is his policy to means test medical cards. [13832/12]

Written Answers — Vaccination Programme: Vaccination Programme (13 Mar 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: Question 541: To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider a request to meet with members of the vaccine damage steering group to discuss the recommendations of the report published by him last summer. [13531/12]

Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (13 Mar 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: Question 637: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a number of bus stops are not compatible with the ramps needed to allow wheelchair access to wheelchair-enabled buses; and the steps being taken by him to resolve this matter. [13625/12]

Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (13 Mar 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: Question 638: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of stops that are not compatible with the ramps needed to allow wheelchair access to wheelchair-enabled buses. [13626/12]

Written Answers — Departmental Funding: Departmental Funding (13 Mar 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: Question 639: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the funding available for the Kells and District Motor Cycle Racing Club annual road race (details supplied). [13646/12]

Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (13 Mar 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: Question 648: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if it is the case that wheelchair-accessible intercity buses do not have the capacity to transport a wheelchair user and their wheelchair. [13829/12]

Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: An féidir leis an Taoiseach insint dúinn cathain a thiocfaidh an construction contracts Bill os comhair na Dala?

Leaders' Questions (13 Mar 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: No way.

Leaders' Questions (13 Mar 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: That is stating the obvious.

Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (8 Mar 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: Question 27: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the reason for the delays in dealing with applications from local authorities for funding in respect of housing schemes which are ready to go to construction stage. [13084/12]

Written Answers — Unfinished Housing Estates: Unfinished Housing Estates (8 Mar 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: Question 42: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will make allowances for the financial implications for the relevant local authority of taking unfinished housing estates in charge. [13077/12]

Public Sector Numbers: Statements (8 Mar 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: Last week in reply to an oral question put by my colleague, Deputy Mary Lou McDonald, the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Brendan Howlin, outlined his view of his job and priorities. He said: I am fixated with two things, namely, restoring the economic sovereignty of the State, which is a job I have been given, and reforming the public service. We will do both and are in...

Leaders' Questions (8 Mar 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: Last year 76,000 people emigrated from this State, which is roughly 1,400 a week. Some 210 people have emigrated every single day of this Administration so far. Some 12,000 were wrapped around the RDS in Dublin in a queue last weekend in a effort to leave this country to obtain work. We saw thousands of people queueing from early hours in Cork yesterday morning to do the same. The curse...

Leaders' Questions (8 Mar 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: Children are being pulled out of schools. Grandparents are not getting a chance to see their grandchildren.

Leaders' Questions (8 Mar 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: Families are currently fire-selling their houses and the GAA generation is being deleted from communities throughout this country. The Government has let go 9,000 people from the public service in the past six weeks and, as far as I can remember this is the largest private sector job losses ever to hit the country.

Leaders' Questions (8 Mar 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: As has been said, other banks are up back behind that at present. The majority of these people feel like they are falling off a cliff. If one contrasts this desperately sad situation with the back-slapping fest that went on yesterday within Government, it was unbelievable to see. Will the Tánaiste admit at this stage that in many way he has become the Minister for emigration and that...

Leaders' Questions (8 Mar 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: The edifice of spin comes falling down when one looks at the facts. The Government has decided to pay €3.1 billion into a promissory note at the end of this month-----

Leaders' Questions (8 Mar 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: -----into a bank that has no customers. This is a completely jobs-----

Leaders' Questions (8 Mar 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: This is a completely jobs free investment. The Government is spending seven times more money on this promissory note than all the money it will spend in the IDA, Enterprise Ireland, Shannon Development and the county enterprise boards for one year in total. That shows us directly where the priorities of the Government lie. It is time the Government started investing in and fixing the real...

Leaders' Questions (8 Mar 2012)

Peadar Tóibín: We need to find out why jobs and emigration are not the priority and why they are secondary.