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Written Answers — Schools Refurbishment: Schools Refurbishment (24 Mar 2009)

Pat Breen: Question 1062: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the situation regarding the provision of a class in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11252/09]

Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (24 Mar 2009)

Pat Breen: Question 1081: To ask the Minister for Education and Science, further to Parliamentary Question No. 476 of 17 February 2009, the expenditure by his Department on grants in respect of the purchase of prefabricated buildings in the past three years, per county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11797/09]

Written Answers — School Accommodation: School Accommodation (24 Mar 2009)

Pat Breen: Question 1082: To ask the Minister for Education and Science, further to Parliamentary Question No. 476 of 17 February 2009, the duration that these schools are renting prefabs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11798/09]

Departmental Expenditure. (25 Mar 2009)

Pat Breen: Question 44: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if officials from his Department have met with the Special Group on Public Service Numbers and Expenditure Programmes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12123/09]

Pre-Budget Statements (Resumed) (25 Mar 2009)

Pat Breen: I am delighted to have an opportunity to speak on this important matter. I have heard those statements from the Minister of State, Deputy Roche, and other members of the Government over and over but, unfortunately, they got it wrong last October. Over the weekend there were twin successes in the field of sport with the Grand Slam win in rugby and the win by our boxing star, Bernard Dunne....

Pre-Budget Statements (Resumed) (25 Mar 2009)

Pat Breen: We all know how the coffers were emptied and how the Celtic tiger became extinct. Today's edition of The Irish Times carries a survey on economic confidence in 19 countries across the eurozone. Some 39% of adults claim the Government is at fault for the ongoing crisis compared to the banking industry, 19%, the Central Bank, 12%, and corporate creed, 7%. The number of people blaming the...

Written Answers — Immigrant Support Services: Immigrant Support Services (25 Mar 2009)

Pat Breen: Question 82: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his discussions with the US President Mr. Barrack Obama in Washington in March 2009; if he discussed the case for the undocumented Irish in the US; if a possible solution was discussed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12410/09]

Written Answers — Tourism Industry: Tourism Industry (25 Mar 2009)

Pat Breen: Question 153: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism his views on the decline in tourism from the US to Ireland; the implications of this decline for the mid-west region; his plans to supplement the tourism budget to address this decline; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12411/09]

Financial Services Regulation. (26 Mar 2009)

Pat Breen: Question 6: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has requested a report from the regulator of credit unions on the ability of the sector and of individual unions to manage the problems thrown up by the crisis in financial institutions. [12523/09]

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (26 Mar 2009)

Pat Breen: Question 51: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of staff who will be released as a result of the rationalisation of 30 State agencies announced in budget 2009; and if new legislation is needed to allow staff to be assigned to work outside of the agencies being merged. [12524/09]

Written Answers — Ambulance Service: Ambulance Service (26 Mar 2009)

Pat Breen: Question 116: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the national spatial strategy for the ambulance service will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12652/09]

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (2 Apr 2009)

Pat Breen: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 on a matter of extreme importance, namely, the plans to press ahead with the ending of 24 hour accident and emergency services in Ennis General Hospital. There is chaos at Limerick Regional Hospital this week where there is a large number of patients on trolleys, 28 on Monday morning, 17 on Tuesday and 21 yesterday. Limerick...

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (2 Apr 2009)

Pat Breen: Question 88: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will report on whether vacancies currently advertised in the public sector will be adversely affected by a possible introduction of a recruitment ban; the position regarding the filling of two vacancies (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13886/09]

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (2 Apr 2009)

Pat Breen: Question 94: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the filling of vacancies (details supplied) will be proceeding as planned; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13888/09]

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (7 Apr 2009)

Pat Breen: Question 133: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the additional resources which have been put in place in view of the plans to close the 24 hour accident and emergency at Ennis General Hospital, County Clare going ahead from 6 April 2009; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14704/09]

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (7 Apr 2009)

Pat Breen: Question 335: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14290/09]

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (8 Apr 2009)

Pat Breen: Question 5: To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to develop and enhance a site (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14826/09]

Cystic Fibrosis: Motion (9 Apr 2009)

Pat Breen: The Government was embarrassed into a U-turn on the provision of isolation facilities at St. Vincent's hospital because of the courage of the cystic fibrosis patients and their families who were forced to take to the airwaves to make their cases heard. These people have enough to worry about without this Government adding to their woes. They have been forced to endure a week of unnecessary...

Financial Resolution No. 11: General (Resumed). (9 Apr 2009)

Pat Breen: I am delighted to be able to speak on the motion before the House this afternoon. I am disappointed, however, that the Minister of State, Deputy Finneran, is the only Member from the Government side in the Chamber. They cannot all have returned to their constituencies, because I am sure most of them would not be welcome there, following the most severe budget of all time. They must be...

Written Answers — Trafficking in Human Beings: Trafficking in Human Beings (22 Apr 2009)

Pat Breen: Question 141: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the measures that are being put in place at EU level to deal with the trafficking of human beings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15857/09]