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Waste Management (19 Oct 2010)

Joanna Tuffy: Is the Minister suggesting that when his draft statement of waste policy is in place, the Poolbeg incinerator will be affected by it? What advice has the Minister received from his departmental officials on the likely cost to the local authority or the State generally if Covanta were not to proceed? A senior Covanta executive recently said that if the incinerator levies the Minister has...

Waste Management (19 Oct 2010)

Joanna Tuffy: The Minister seems to be suggesting that his new waste policy can stop the incinerator proceeding. Can the Minister confirm that is the case? When does the Minister hope to report the figures, which would be of interest to the taxpayers? If, as the Minister claims, it is not as bad as has been reported, that information should be published as quickly as possible. I do not understand why...

Waste Management (19 Oct 2010)

Joanna Tuffy: There was also a report about the Dublin City Council CPO decision to acquire lands from a various landowners one of which is the Department of Finance. Will the Minister intervene to stop the Department of Finance from giving the land to Dublin City Council?

Written Answers — Water and Sewerage Schemes: Water and Sewerage Schemes (19 Oct 2010)

Joanna Tuffy: Question 100: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the outstanding waste water treatment works that need to be carried out countrywide; when these works are due to commence and the amount being budgeted for these works; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37415/10]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (19 Oct 2010)

Joanna Tuffy: Question 294: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that there is a totally inadequate podiatry service available to persons suffering with diabetes in South Dublin city and county; that there is an urgent need for the setting up of a local service as part of a National Foot Screen Programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Telecommunications Services: Telecommunications Services (20 Oct 2010)

Joanna Tuffy: Question 81: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the progress of the Government's working group set up to ensure new buildings will have open-access fibre connections; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37798/10]

Written Answers — Telecommunications Services: Telecommunications Services (20 Oct 2010)

Joanna Tuffy: Question 99: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide an update on the national broadband scheme; the cost of the scheme to date and the overall expected cost; when the project is set for completion; the maximum and minimum speeds expected for this scheme; the way he is monitoring the speeds that are being achieved; and if he will make a...

Order of Business (21 Oct 2010)

Joanna Tuffy: I remember speaking on Second Stage of the Student Support Bill a few years ago, but it seems no progress has been made on it since then. I am sure many Deputies have had people call to their clinics who have not yet been paid their grants. There is a huge backlog of grant applications and the various authorities are stretched in terms of their ability to process them. Has the Tánaiste...

Community Employment Schemes (21 Oct 2010)

Joanna Tuffy: I wish to raise the perceived threat of cuts to community employment schemes and job initiative schemes in Clondalkin in the forthcoming budget. Along with other public representatives I recently attended a meeting in the Clondalkin, Education & Employment Development Services, CEEDS, centre in north Clondalkin. It is based in Áras Rualach. A number of people were present who were...

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (21 Oct 2010)

Joanna Tuffy: Question 69: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she will give details of the number of teachers who have received in-service teaching training in Meath in primary and post primary schools in the past five years; how often teachers receive this training on an annual basis; the schools built in Meath east in the past ten years; the annual breakdown of the figures;...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (21 Oct 2010)

Joanna Tuffy: Question 99: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when speech therapy services will be made available to a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38271/10]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (21 Oct 2010)

Joanna Tuffy: Question 100: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will reconsider her plans to close an organisation (details supplied) due to the severe impact that this will have on families who use this service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38272/10]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (21 Oct 2010)

Joanna Tuffy: Question 101: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the roll-out of the national diabetes programme in east Meath; the number of persons who have been treated in Meath for preventable diabetic foot complications in the past five years; the amount of money spent on treating preventable diabetic foot disease in Meath in the past five years; the current levels of...

Written Answers — Railway Stations: Railway Stations (21 Oct 2010)

Joanna Tuffy: Question 124: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform if there has been an increase in illegal parking in the area surrounding Dunboyne train station since its opening; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38307/10]

Written Answers — Motor Taxation: Motor Taxation (21 Oct 2010)

Joanna Tuffy: Question 185: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding the registration identity number required for the registration of commercial vehicles; if he will confirm that either a PPS number or a VAT number will be accepted as the revenue registration identity number for registration purposes; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Macro-Economic and Fiscal Outlook: Statements (27 Oct 2010)

Joanna Tuffy: Politics should be about progress; that is the whole point. Why are we here only to make things better than they are? For voters, politics is about hope. At least these are what politics should be about. Politics is about optimism and it is an incremental activity. One does not achieve progress overnight but builds on the progress that has been made by our predecessors in the Dáil,...

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (27 Oct 2010)

Joanna Tuffy: Question 171: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding funding for a school (details supplied) in County Meath; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39405/10]

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (27 Oct 2010)

Joanna Tuffy: Question 172: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an application for extension works to a school (details supplied) in County Meath; if she will give details of the amount of funding she intends to provide for the extension; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39406/10]

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (27 Oct 2010)

Joanna Tuffy: Question 173: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding plans to provide a new premises for a school (details supplied) in County Meath; if a site has been decided upon; the level of funding allocated for the new school; the time frame for the school to be completed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39407/10]

Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (27 Oct 2010)

Joanna Tuffy: Question 174: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide details of the amount of funding that has been allocated nationally, in tabular form, for all works done on primary and secondary schools from 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and to date in 2010; for this information to be provided on a county by county basis; and if she will make a statement on the...