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Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (31 Jan 2012)

Tom Hayes: Question 538: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment under the single farm payment scheme will issue in respect of persons (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5227/12]

Mental Health Services (1 Feb 2012)

Tom Hayes: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for allowing us to raise the important matter of the planned closure of the psychiatric unit at St. Michael's psychiatric unit, Clonmel. This matter, the subject of much debate over the past several years, is a great concern to the people of Clonmel and south Tipperary, the facility's patients, their families, staff and everyone else associated with it. The...

Mental Health Services (1 Feb 2012)

Tom Hayes: While the Minister stated she conveyed her commitment on this issue to the HSE, she must convey it to those HSE people who are driving ahead with the closure of the unit.

Mental Health Services (1 Feb 2012)

Tom Hayes: The problem is we have correspondence from service users and people working in the services which states there will be no admissions to the unit after 1 March.

Mental Health Services (1 Feb 2012)

Tom Hayes: These are the views of retired psychiatrists from the health service. The reality is that they are telling us the case on the ground and that was a week ago. That is where the breakdown of communications is occurring. I thank the Minister of State for giving her commitment but it needs to be brought to the people in south Tipperary who are extremely concerned about the matter. I ask her...

Primary Schools: Motion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2012)

Tom Hayes: I need to talk about schools in Tipperary, so Deputy McGrath should hold off.

Primary Schools: Motion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2012)

Tom Hayes: We are living in extremely challenging times. The most important element of this debate is not any one of us, the teachers or the schools but the children. Week in, week out young university educated people are leaving from Dublin, Knock, Shannon and Cork Airports and are going to Perth and the United States. Some of my nephews and niece and my sons have gone.

Primary Schools: Motion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2012)

Tom Hayes: It is sad to see them go but I am proud of our education system.

Primary Schools: Motion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2012)

Tom Hayes: I want to talk about four schools in my constituency of South Tipperary, whose representatives I met with tonight. They are at Cloheen, Burnport, Duhalla and Newtown Upper. They all know that it is hysteria talking about schools being closed.

Primary Schools: Motion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2012)

Tom Hayes: I did not interrupt the Deputy.

Primary Schools: Motion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2012)

Tom Hayes: Please allow me to make this point to the Minister. I understand from his speech last night that there is flexibility.

Primary Schools: Motion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2012)

Tom Hayes: I would implore that the enrolment date should be changed.

Primary Schools: Motion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2012)

Tom Hayes: If it is changed - that is the way to do it - it will solve the problem for a huge amount of those involved. It would give a sense of direction.

Primary Schools: Motion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2012)

Tom Hayes: No. It is good that we have been given the chance to discuss this tonight. I commend Fianna Fáil Deputies and admire the way they sit over there without cheer-leading and acting the clown like those fellows are doing in the corner. I am grateful for the opportunity to speak. I implore the Minister to take back to the Department that proposal to change the enrolment date, which would be a...

Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2012)

Tom Hayes: What decision does the Deputy not want reversed?

Written Answers — Departmental Schemes: Departmental Schemes (2 Feb 2012)

Tom Hayes: Question 242: To ask the Minister for Health if the long-term illness scheme can be reviewed to include lupus (systemic lupus erythematosus). [5944/12]

Written Answers — Tax Reliefs: Tax Reliefs (7 Feb 2012)

Tom Hayes: Question 126: To ask the Minister for Finance the reason a particular not for profit organisation might have its application for relief of taxes under the Disabled Drivers/Passengers Regulations 1994 refused by Revenue; his views on a particular case (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6441/12]

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (7 Feb 2012)

Tom Hayes: Question 430: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if payment has issued to a herdowner (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6435/12]

Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2012)

Tom Hayes: The Deputy will get his answer next week. There will be about ten of those Members opposite left over there. They will go like the PDs, and rightly so.

Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2012)

Tom Hayes: The Deputy's mouth is busier anyway.