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Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (22 Apr 2009)

Paul Connaughton Snr: Question 630: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the reason a suckler cow payment has not been awarded to a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15407/09]

Social Welfare Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Apr 2009)

Paul Connaughton Snr: In my long experience in this House I have never seen a more vicious Social Welfare Bill. There are reasons for part of it because the Minister found herself in a difficult position. Some of the measures are most unfair. I refer to those trapped in social welfare and those who can be kept out of the social welfare net if a small amount of imagination is used in the Department of Social and...

Social Welfare Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Apr 2009)

Paul Connaughton Snr: It is very safe. Although I am not a betting man, I know I will win this one.

Social Welfare Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Apr 2009)

Paul Connaughton Snr: No, and there is not even any background music. The tragedy is, those over the age of 80 are trying to contact the office in Finglas. The process has just started and there will be much more about this in the next six months. We all saw the letter from the Department which indicated that if people over 70 believed they had more than €700 per week in income, the medical card would remain....

Social Welfare Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Apr 2009)

Paul Connaughton Snr: Of course they do not. This process was put in place in the full knowledge that such consequences would come about. What is going on is nothing short of pure skullduggery and it is only a matter of time before the majority of the 1.5 million people affected realise what is happening. It will then be too late. The Minister for Defence is present but they all sit around the same Cabinet...

Social Welfare Bill 2009: Committee Stage (28 Apr 2009)

Paul Connaughton Snr: I have no problem with pressure to do courses other than the balances that have been discussed here. Is it not ironic, at a time when there will be pressure, and rightly so, on people on jobseeker's assistance and benefit to do courses, that there is a cohort of people around the country who are on social welfare and do not want to be there but want to be on the CE schemes? The Minister's...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (28 Apr 2009)

Paul Connaughton Snr: Question 166: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason there are no neurosurgical facilities at University College Hospital Galway; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that such facilities would be of benefit to the population of Galway; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16158/09]

Written Answers — Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme: Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme (28 Apr 2009)

Paul Connaughton Snr: Question 167: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason an application for refund of nursing home charges on behalf of a person (details supplied) has not been processed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16160/09]

Written Answers — Security of the Elderly: Security of the Elderly (28 Apr 2009)

Paul Connaughton Snr: Question 331: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the reason the community support to older people has been discontinued; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16157/09]

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (28 Apr 2009)

Paul Connaughton Snr: Question 407: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the entitlements associated with the herd number of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16161/09]

Written Answers — Rural Environment Protection Scheme: Rural Environment Protection Scheme (28 Apr 2009)

Paul Connaughton Snr: Question 422: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of wrapped bales of silage that can be stacked in layers to comply with the REP scheme rules; if penalties have been applied to applicants of REP scheme four regarding the storage of silage bales with particular regard to the height they are stored at; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16548/09]

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (28 Apr 2009)

Paul Connaughton Snr: Question 424: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when the forestry grant will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16570/09]

Infrastructure Stimulus Package: Motion (Resumed) (29 Apr 2009)

Paul Connaughton Snr: Is it necessary to say so?

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (29 Apr 2009)

Paul Connaughton Snr: Question 140: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position of an application for an over 70 years medical card application in the name of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16878/09]

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (29 Apr 2009)

Paul Connaughton Snr: Question 141: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position of an over 70 years medical card review in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16879/09]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (29 Apr 2009)

Paul Connaughton Snr: Question 152: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a person (details supplied) in County Galway has been successful in their application for subsidised travel payment to the Western Ambulance Service, St. Mary's Hospital Complex, Castlebar, County Mayo; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16959/09]

Written Answers — Defence Forces Reserve: Defence Forces Reserve (29 Apr 2009)

Paul Connaughton Snr: Question 193: To ask the Minister for Defence if the FCA as an organisation is being stood down; if summer training camps are being discontinued; if recruitment has ended; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16877/09]

Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (29 Apr 2009)

Paul Connaughton Snr: Question 241: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason a person (details supplied) in County Galway is not entitled to free school transport even from a pick up point within the catchment area of Castleblayney; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there are difficult problems in this family; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16954/09]

Criminal Justice (Surveillance) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Apr 2009)

Paul Connaughton Snr: I would like to share time with Deputy Deenihan.

Criminal Justice (Surveillance) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Apr 2009)

Paul Connaughton Snr: Like previous speakers, I welcome this Bill. Fine Gael welcomes the introduction of measures to deal with some of society's most serious problems. Having listened to a good few Deputies speaking on this legislation, it appears that it is getting universal approval. The most shocking statistic I have heard is that the perpetrators of just 12% of the fatal shootings that have taken place over...