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Order of Business (8 Oct 2008)

Joe Costello: The question is relevant to legislation. It gets a budget of €290,000 and provides services to the entire country.

Order of Business (8 Oct 2008)

Joe Costello: It has received no increase in the past two years.

Order of Business (8 Oct 2008)

Joe Costello: Yet it must bear the cost of any overspend and the HSE has a catch-22, whereby it is not providing it with funding and yet it is providing extra medical cards.

Order of Business (8 Oct 2008)

Joe Costello: The service being provided is aimed at young people, teenage pregnancies etc. and is now suspended entirely because——-

Order of Business (8 Oct 2008)

Joe Costello: ——while the extra medical cards are being put in place, there is no extra funding. Is the Taoiseach proposing to introduce another supplementary budget in relation to the HSE, which we are already producing on the Order Paper today?

Order of Business (8 Oct 2008)

Joe Costello: I am talking about the supplementary budget for salaries and expenses——

Unemployment: Motion (Resumed) (8 Oct 2008)

Joe Costello: I thank Deputy Penrose for tabling this important motion on unemployment and I am pleased to have the opportunity of addressing it. The financial crisis at home and abroad dominates the headlines, while the economic recession worsens. The Government put €400 billion of taxpayer's money, or twice our annual GDP, on the line to bail out the banks and in so doing was applauded by the...

Unemployment: Motion (Resumed) (8 Oct 2008)

Joe Costello: The Minister of State is doing well.

Unemployment: Motion (Resumed) (8 Oct 2008)

Joe Costello: The banks have stopped lending.

Unemployment: Motion (Resumed) (8 Oct 2008)

Joe Costello: The Minister of State does not know what is going on out there.

Unemployment: Motion (Resumed) (8 Oct 2008)

Joe Costello: Fianna Fáil just closed the tent in time.

Written Answers — Sports Funding: Sports Funding (8 Oct 2008)

Joe Costello: Question 138: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the amount of the funding to the horse and greyhound fund that was provided from the central Exchequer; the amount that was provided from the excise duty on off-course betting for each year since 2001; if he will make this information available in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33763/08]

Written Answers — Sports Funding: Sports Funding (8 Oct 2008)

Joe Costello: Question 176: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he will extend the horse and greyhound fund into the period beyond 2008; the amount of funding that has been paid from the central Exchequer to this fund since its inception; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33756/08]

Overseas Development Aid. (9 Oct 2008)

Joe Costello: It is a point of order. I was in the House at the time and it was by agreement with the Ceann Comhairle that the Whips would meet to arrange a time when a statement would be made. It was not as if it was a request from the person who was——

Overseas Development Aid. (9 Oct 2008)

Joe Costello: It was a decision of the House that there would be a meeting of the Whips and that at a suitable time——

Health Services. (9 Oct 2008)

Joe Costello: While I was hoping to have the opportunity to listen first to the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Deputy Gormley, this is an important issue that must be dealt with. I cannot see a relevant Minister on the other side of the House to do so.

Health Services. (9 Oct 2008)

Joe Costello: Very well. The issue is that the Irish Family Planning Association, IFPA, has been obliged to suspend all its family planning services for the remainder of the year. The Minister of State will be aware the Irish Family Planning Association provides a national service to medical card holders and the reason it has been obliged to suspend its service for the final quarter of the year is that...

Written Answers — Foreign Policy Issues: Foreign Policy Issues (9 Oct 2008)

Joe Costello: Question 9: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on the programme in foreign policy terms of the new President of Pakistan taking office; his views on the departure of the previous incumbent in that post; if contact has been made with the office of the new President; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34193/08]

Written Answers — Election Results: Election Results (9 Oct 2008)

Joe Costello: Question 62: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on the recent election results in Austria where the far right won 29% of the popular vote; if this has been discussed at European Union level; if he has done so with his fellow Foreign Ministers; the outcome of such deliberations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34192/08]

Order of Business (14 Oct 2008)

Joe Costello: We could amend it.