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- Written Answers — Climate Change Strategy: Climate Change Strategy (3 Dec 2008)
Willie Penrose: Question 91: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the steps his Department is taking to combat climate change; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43984/08]
- Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (4 Dec 2008)
Willie Penrose: Question 21: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if medical card holders are exempt from paying the recently increased school transport charges of â¬300; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44349/08]
- Written Answers — Departmental Statistics: Departmental Statistics (4 Dec 2008)
Willie Penrose: Question 39: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the statistics his Department collects with regard to primary schools; the way this data gathering operates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44348/08]
- Recall of Irish Pork and Bacon Products: Statements (9 Dec 2008)
Willie Penrose: I was here in the late 1990s and the early 2000s when matters of great significance and national importance, the foot and mouth disease and BSE crises, arose.It is important we are constructive, put all shoulders to the wheel and act in solidarity to ensure the pivotal role of the agricultural industries is secured. As a consumer I am reassured by what I am hearing, particularly regarding...
- Recall of Irish Pork and Bacon Products: Statements (9 Dec 2008)
Willie Penrose: I have two brief questions. How does the Government plan to dispose of the thousands of tonnes of contaminated products being returned in containers from abroad and the contaminated products in cold stores here? Second, is it time to consider a food supremo who will pull together all responsibilities of the multifarious number of agencies currently involved under the one person who would...
- Fisheries Council: Statements (9 Dec 2008)
Willie Penrose: Coming from a midlands county where the lakes and canals are important to its fishing industry, I have listened with great care to what Deputies Sheahan, Ferris and Sherlock have said about coastal fishing. In July I took an interest in developments in the fishing industry. I know the significance and the potential of the forthcoming Agriculture and Fisheries Council meeting will have on...
- Fisheries Council: Statements (9 Dec 2008)
Willie Penrose: Especially the impact on 1,000 jobs.
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (9 Dec 2008)
Willie Penrose: Question 219: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will take steps to have a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath admitted to St. James's Hospital, Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44854/08]
- Written Answers — Rail Network: Rail Network (9 Dec 2008)
Willie Penrose: Question 264: To ask the Minister for Transport when he will initiate the promised review of the Transport 21 programme for investment; the way the review will take place and the persons who will be involved in this review; if, in the context of this review, he will ensure that same is properly focused in order to include important projects from a cost benefit perspective such as the...
- Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (9 Dec 2008)
Willie Penrose: Question 429: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position in relation to the provision of a new school at a school (details supplied) in County Westmeath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44852/08]
- Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (9 Dec 2008)
Willie Penrose: Question 430: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position in relation to a school (details supplied) in County Westmeath; if same is ready to proceed; if tender has been approved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44853/08]
- County Enterprise Boards. (10 Dec 2008)
Willie Penrose: Question 65: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment her views on measures to strengthen the role of the county enterprise boards and, in particular, the removal of the limitation on the types of enterprise the boards can support by raising the limit on the number of jobs they can create to more than ten, as well as a significant increase in measure 1 funding...
- County Enterprise Boards. (10 Dec 2008)
Willie Penrose: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. I think I will be pushing an open door as far as he is concerned because he comes from a business background. Notwithstanding the 16% increase in capital funding, which I acknowledge is significant, is it not a fact that the CEBs' budgets for last year had been expended by last April, leaving them without a penny to give out in capital at a vital...
- County Enterprise Boards. (10 Dec 2008)
Willie Penrose: All right. I know this Minister of State and I think he is on my side.
- County Enterprise Boards. (10 Dec 2008)
Willie Penrose: I will certainly take up that suggestion and invite the Minister of State to the committee. I was given a reply to a parliamentary question which stated that seven boards did not have a penny after last April or May. Either that reply was right or I am wrong. However, we will leave that. Would the Minister agree that in these changed economic times, enterprise boards should be in a...
- County Enterprise Boards. (10 Dec 2008)
Willie Penrose: I know. That is why I want more.
- County Enterprise Boards. (10 Dec 2008)
Willie Penrose: I am greedy for more â I want to get to 70,000.
- Small and Medium Enterprise. (10 Dec 2008)
Willie Penrose: Question 67: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if her attention has been drawn to the difficulties facing many small and medium sized companies as a result of their inability to secure credit from financial institutions and the consequent loss of jobs in this sector; the steps she has taken to address this problem; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Small and Medium Enterprise. (10 Dec 2008)
Willie Penrose: The Minister of State is aware that up to 250,000 small and medium-sized enterprises provide 800,000 jobs. While foreign direct investment is important for Ireland, small and medium-sized enterprises are the lifeblood of most areas, particularly rural areas. Is the Minister of State aware of people's concerns of a significant drain on the retail sector that will take place after Christmas?...
- Small and Medium Enterprise. (10 Dec 2008)
Willie Penrose: I note there are four Ministers on that side of the House and four Fine Gael Members on this side, while I am on my own. I will take them on single-handedly anyway.