Results 2,221-2,240 of 2,770 for speaker:Bernard Allen

Social Welfare Payments. (14 May 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 80: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if she will undertake an awareness campaign to assure people about the new social services card for collection of social welfare payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18708/08]

Written Answers — Common Agricultural Policy: Common Agricultural Policy (20 May 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 99: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he has received EU health check proposals due to be published shortly; the impact the proposals will have on Irish agriculture; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19601/08]

Written Answers — Farm Inspections: Farm Inspections (20 May 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 147: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the progress in the past 12 months in securing for farmers advance notice of cross compliance checks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19602/08]

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (20 May 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 395: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position regarding a school (details supplied); and when sanction will be given to proceed with the construction of the badly needed extension. [19424/08]

Overseas Missions. (22 May 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 23: To ask the Minister for Defence the arrangements that have been made for the supply of fresh food to the Irish troops in Chad; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20004/08]

Written Answers — Overseas Missions: Overseas Missions (22 May 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 20: To ask the Minister for Defence the amount of free telephone call time that will be available to each of the Irish troops in Chad per month in order to enable them to communicate with their families here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20005/08]

Dispute in Irish Rail. (27 May 2008)

Bernard Allen: I welcome the intervention of the Labour Relations Commission and I wish it well in its efforts to get the trains back on track. The Minister must agree that over the years CIE and Iarnród Éireann have been in an industrial backwater with archaic management and working practices. Even though we had the modernisation of the rolling stock in recent years, some of these archaic practices...

Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (27 May 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 228: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in County Cork had been told that they will receive a replacement mobility scooter to replace their present one which has been broken for almost four months but that there is a long waiting list and they could not get an indication as to when they would receive the replacement scooter. [20722/08]

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (27 May 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 246: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of agency nurses employed in the health services in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and to date in 2008; and the cost of the employment of agency workers in each year. [20925/08]

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (27 May 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 247: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of permanent non-agency nurses working in the health service in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and to date in 2008. [20926/08]

Written Answers — Infection Control Procedures: Infection Control Procedures (27 May 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 248: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when she proposes to publish draft infection prevention control standards. [20927/08]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (27 May 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 249: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on the reason a drug to treat multiple sclerosis (details supplied) is not properly available here despite receiving major backing from doctors after new research was published in the United States supporting its use. [20928/08]

Written Answers — Medical Education: Medical Education (27 May 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 250: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on a recent review of medical schools carried out by the Medical Council which states that interns are taking consent for procedures they do not fully understand and are being instructed to act above their grade; and her views on this recent finding. [20929/08]

Written Answers — Vaccination Programme: Vaccination Programme (27 May 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 251: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she proposes to advise Irish football fans planning to travel to the Euro 2008 tournament this summer to ensure that they are vaccinated against measles in view of the warning given by a public health specialist (details supplied) regarding major outbreaks of measles in Austria and Switzerland who are hosting the competition....

Written Answers — Human Rights Issues: Human Rights Issues (27 May 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 288: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will make known to the Iranian Government his deep concern for the worsening human rights situation in the Islamic Republic of Iran and particularly with reference to the Baha'i community whose leaders have been arrested in house raids and are being held in Tehran's Evin Prison. [20684/08]

Leaders' Questions (28 May 2008)

Bernard Allen: What has the Taoiseach to say?

Hospital Services. (28 May 2008)

Bernard Allen: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for the opportunity to speak on the closure of the Mercy University Hospital, Cork. I tabled a question to the Minister for Health and Children four weeks ago. She replied that it was a matter for the HSE. The HSE eventually sent a response but I decided to raise the matter on the Adjournment. Although it is no reflection on the Minister of State, Deputy...

Written Answers — Credit Union Regulation: Credit Union Regulation (4 Jun 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 99: To ask the Minister for Finance if he is satisfied with the progress being made to find a satisfactory system for deposit protection in credit unions. [21856/08]

Written Answers — Fiscal Policy: Fiscal Policy (4 Jun 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 151: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the implications of the shortfall in tax receipts to date in 2008 for public policy. [21855/08]

Written Answers — Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme: Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme (4 Jun 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 235: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason a person (details supplied) in County Cork has been refused a refund under the nursing home repayment scheme for their brother. [22104/08]