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Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (20 Nov 2012)

Michael Healy-Rae: To ask the Minister for Health if he will give an assurance that the 24 hour ambulance service that operates out of Kenmare Community Hospital, County Kerry, will be retained in its present form in the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51483/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (20 Nov 2012)

Michael Healy-Rae: To ask the Minister for Health if he will overhaul the current elder care budget and increase funding for home care packages to encourage persons to stay in their homes for as long as possible; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51491/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (20 Nov 2012)

Michael Healy-Rae: To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the way the Health Service Executive home help and home care resources are allocated and to open up the commissioning system, in view of the fact that this would enable all providers to compete on an equal footing to ensure the best patient outcome and value for money; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51498/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (20 Nov 2012)

Michael Healy-Rae: To ask the Minister for Health the number of person who have retired from the mental health services in County Kerry in the past five years; the number of persons that have been working in the mental health services in County Kerry for the following years, January 2008 to January 2009, January 2009 to January 2010, January 2010 to January 2011, January 2011 to January 2012 and January 2012 to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Research and Development (20 Nov 2012)

Michael Healy-Rae: To ask the Minister for Health his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding health research; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51528/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (20 Nov 2012)

Michael Healy-Rae: To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an operation in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51529/12]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Services (20 Nov 2012)

Michael Healy-Rae: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an assurance that the early morning train service and all other services by rail into County Kerry will not be cut during 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51480/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Sector Staff Redeployment (21 Nov 2012)

Michael Healy-Rae: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills regarding the additional staff working in the Student Universal Support Ireland, if they received the necessary training, the type of training they are undergoing and the number of days or weeks of training they will receive and the location at which they are being trained; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51692/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Sector Staff Redeployment (21 Nov 2012)

Michael Healy-Rae: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of additional staff that have been drafted in to deal with the debacle in the Student Universal Support Ireland grant processing section in the last two months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51695/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Support Schemes (21 Nov 2012)

Michael Healy-Rae: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding the student assistance fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51870/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Support Schemes (21 Nov 2012)

Michael Healy-Rae: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding student maintenance grants (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51871/12]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Homeless Persons (21 Nov 2012)

Michael Healy-Rae: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide the most up to date homelessness figures for Counties Limerick, Cork and Kerry, for the period of October 2011-October 2012, in tabular form highlighting the number of persons that had actually presented homeless or were deemed to be homeless during that period; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (21 Nov 2012)

Michael Healy-Rae: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if a full-time Garda will be assigned to the Waterville area as a matter of urgency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51760/12]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Commonage Division (21 Nov 2012)

Michael Healy-Rae: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will confirm that the proposals regarding the minimum and maximum stocking rates for sheep has now been deferred until there is proper consultation with the farming groups and proper thought and consideration is given to the matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51758/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Homeless Persons (21 Nov 2012)

Michael Healy-Rae: To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the most up to date homelessness figures for Counties Limerick, Cork and Kerry, for the period of October 2011-October 2012, in tabular form highlighting the number of persons that had actually presented homeless or were deemed to be homeless during that period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51765/12]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Operations: Discussion with An Garda Síochána (21 Nov 2012)

Michael Healy-Rae: I will be the same as everybody else.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Operations: Discussion with An Garda Síochána (21 Nov 2012)

Michael Healy-Rae: I welcome the Commissioner and his colleagues. I thank them for the excellent work they do. I acknowledge the great work every day of the week of rank and file gardaí up and down the country. I have listened very carefully to the argument put by the Commissioner for the closure of Garda stations. He has contradicted himself a number of times today. He states that this is not about...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Operations: Discussion with An Garda Síochána (21 Nov 2012)

Michael Healy-Rae: I have more questions. That is one question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Operations: Discussion with An Garda Síochána (21 Nov 2012)

Michael Healy-Rae: If that is the way the Chairman wants to conduct the matter, that is fine. This point is tied into the same question. The Commissioner has stated the reason is about being out and about and seeing what is happening. If gardaí spend the same hours in the community centre as they spent in the Garda station, where is the sense of that? When it comes to better policing on the ground, the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Operations: Discussion with An Garda Síochána (21 Nov 2012)

Michael Healy-Rae: I will.