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Financial Resolution No. 3: Excise Duties (Mechanically Propelled Vehicles) (5 Dec 2007)

Liz McManus: How can the Minister stand over this?

Financial Resolution No. 3: Excise Duties (Mechanically Propelled Vehicles) (5 Dec 2007)

Liz McManus: I am sorry, a Cheann Comhairle, on a point of order, the Minister is misleading the House.

Written Answers — Community Development: Community Development (5 Dec 2007)

Liz McManus: Question 64: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs his proposals for changes to the development sector, in particular LEADER and partnership companies; the consultations there have been with the development sector in regard to the proposed changes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32602/07]

Written Answers — Community Development: Community Development (5 Dec 2007)

Liz McManus: Question 97: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs his proposal for a comprehensive analysis of recently published small areas population statistics with a view to ensuring that programmes and schemes administered by his Department are sufficiently targeted to meet the changing needs of communities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32601/07]

Written Answers — Ambulance Service: Ambulance Service (5 Dec 2007)

Liz McManus: Question 130: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on the inappropriate workplace conditions of the Health Service Executive ambulance service in Loughlinstown and the inadequate hygiene and storage facilities in the kitchen; if her attention has been drawn to a site visit and workplace inspection that took place by the HSE in March 2007 which had 22 recommendations; the...

Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2007)

Liz McManus: I am sorry to interrupt the Minister of State but is there any chance we could get a copy of his speech?

Written Answers — Environmental Policy: Environmental Policy (6 Dec 2007)

Liz McManus: Question 59: To ask the Minister for Transport the percentage of carbon emissions generated by transport; the target being set for 2008 to reduce carbon emissions from transport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29144/07]

Written Answers — Road Safety: Road Safety (6 Dec 2007)

Liz McManus: Question 69: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has plans to reform the penalty points system in view of recent statistics that up to two thirds of drivers who accumulate twelve penalty points are not voluntarily giving up their driving licenses as they are legally obliged to do; the legislative and other measures he is planning to introduce to ensure that all vehicles on Irish roads,...

Written Answers — Visa Applications: Visa Applications (11 Dec 2007)

Liz McManus: Question 85: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the steps she has taken since June 2007 to discuss with the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform and the Department of Foreign Affairs, to provide for coherence, transparency, efficiency and effectiveness in the system of allocating visas to foreign nationals outside the EEA, who seek to come here to pursue their studies in...

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (11 Dec 2007)

Liz McManus: Question 90: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will establish Education Ireland on a statutory basis as recommended in a recent report (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33432/07]

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (11 Dec 2007)

Liz McManus: Question 681: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when she will sanction the development for a school (details supplied) in County Wicklow in view of the demands on the school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33455/07]

Order of Business (12 Dec 2007)

Liz McManus: Yes, you have.

Overseas Missions. (12 Dec 2007)

Liz McManus: Question 90: To ask the Minister for Defence if he has received a full report on the loss of human life in the battles at Abongouleigne, eastern Chad on 26 November 2007; the implications for the planned Irish contingent in Chad; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34164/07]

Overseas Missions. (12 Dec 2007)

Liz McManus: Question 102: To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide a breakdown of the €57 million required for the Army's humanitarian mission to Chad; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34165/07]

Order of Business. (13 Dec 2007)

Liz McManus: We also oppose the taking of this Estimate. The Minister needs to be aware that it appears there is gross mismanagement in the funding of the health service and that questions raised legitimately by the Labour Party, and by Fine Gael, have simply not been answered by the Minister. For example, €9 million allocated to the southern health board was not spent and the Minister could not tell...

Order of Business. (13 Dec 2007)

Liz McManus: It does not go on all the time.

Written Answers — Crime Levels: Crime Levels (13 Dec 2007)

Liz McManus: Question 63: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of cases of murder in which firearms were used in respect of each year from 1998 to date in 2007; the number of such cases in which prosecutions for murder were initiated; the number of such cases where convictions were secured; if he is satisfied with the level of detection and conviction in such cases; and if...

Written Answers — Garda Investigations: Garda Investigations (13 Dec 2007)

Liz McManus: Question 78: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when he expects to have the results of efforts to establish the identity of the body of an unidentified female, washed ashore at Kilmuckridge, County Wexford on 12 December 1995 which was recently exhumed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34532/07]

Schools Building Projects. (18 Dec 2007)

Liz McManus: The matter I wish to raise is St. Mary's and St. Gerard's national school. This school is bursting at the seams and has now reached a critical stage in terms of the number of pupils. I ask the Minister to honour a commitment she made before the last general election and to ensure that the children attending the school are treated fairly. This school provides for the growing population of...

Schools Building Projects. (18 Dec 2007)

Liz McManus: When will the technical staff visit the school, as the Minister promised?